The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year
News February 23, 2026
The US added a record-breaking amount of energy storage in 2025, according to a new solar industry report published Monday. The growth of battery storage across the US is a rare success story for clean energy during the renewables-hostile second Trump administration—and also a sign of how utilities may... Read more
Anthropic’s Claude Code Security is available now after finding 500+ vulnerabilities: how security leaders should respond
News February 23, 2026
Anthropic pointed its most advanced AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at production open-source codebases and found a plethora of security holes: more than 500 high-severity vulnerabilities that had survived decades of expert review and millions of hours of fuzzing, with each candidate vetted through internal and external security review... Read more
NCAA renews trademark fight with Kalshi over March Madness markets
News February 23, 2026
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is again turning up the pressure on prediction market operator Kalshi, this time tying its trademark concerns directly to March Madness, the association’s signature men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. The NCAA claims that Kalshi has used its name, marks and event branding in... Read more
Half of US Adults Who Use Social Media Want Better Labels on AI Posts, CNET Finds
News February 23, 2026
Anyone who’s scrolled social media lately knows that AI is everywhere. But we aren’t always great at spotting it when we see it. That’s a big problem, and our frustrations with AI are growing. AI slop has infected every platform, from soulless images to bizarre videos and superficially literate... Read more
Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible
News February 23, 2026
Sharks are innocent. Or at least they’re not eating the internet. As a family of cartilaginous fish, sharks are collectively not guilty of most, if not all, charges of biting, chomping, chewing, or otherwise attacking the underwater network of fiber-optic cables. The people who build and maintain the nearly 600... Read more
Federal judge blocks Tennessee from regulating Kalshi prediction market sports contracts
News February 23, 2026
A federal judge in Nashville has stepped in to stop Tennessee regulators from going after prediction market company Kalshi, at least for now, intensifying a broader clash over who gets to police this emerging corner of the betting world. In a 25-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Aleta A. Trauger... Read more
Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Feb. 23
News February 23, 2026
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? I had to read through some of the clues... Read more
Best Electric Toothbrush, Backed by Real-Life Testing (2026)
News February 23, 2026
Battery life is excellent—lasting about two weeks per charge in our tests—and unlike Oral-B, the 4100 shuts off after the two-minute timer. It’s also designed with BrushSync technology, which tracks how long you’ve been using your brush head and how much pressure you’re applying. A light on the handle... Read more
Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Feb. 23 #518
News February 23, 2026
Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a tough one. The purple category requires you to twist the spelling of certain... Read more
NASA Delays Launch of Artemis II Lunar Mission Once Again
News February 22, 2026
NASA has once again postponed the launch of Artemis II, the crewed lunar flyby mission, setting a new launch window for April. Although March 6 had been tentatively planned as the launch date, the US space agency revealed that a problem with the rocket has caused further delay. According... Read more










