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Archives for February 2026

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
SpaceX brings Starlink to the Super Bowl broadcast.

The first Super Bowl ad from SpaceX apparently didn’t have enough time left in production to mention its newly-joined X / xAI elements, but it is promoting the idea of global satellite internet.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Cardi B gave a robot a lapdance and it threw itself at her.

Cardi had a little fun with a pint-sized humanoid in San Francisco. She ran her hands over its tiny silver body, got a little flirty, and then seemingly was caught off guard by its weight. She put her arms around its neck, it tilted forward, and they both hit the pavement.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Watch an Amazon delivery drone crash into an apartment building in Texas.

Amazon’s drones have had a… let’s say, rocky history. On Wednesday, one hit the side of a building in Richardson, Texas, before falling to the ground in smoke. Thankfully, nobody was hurt, and damage to the building was minimal, according to Amazon.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Friendly reminder to back up your backups.

Threads user innneresting was archiving photos and videos backed up on CDs and DVDs, and encountered an alarming amount of failures. Many of the discs were Verbatim DataLifePlus discs from 2005, advertised to last up to 50 years, and well cared for. You can never have too much redundancy.

How I Built the Star Trek control panel of my dreams

I used ESPHome and LVGL to make my living room a little bit more like the USS Enterprise

Ursa Wright
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
A power outage is causing problems for some Microsoft customers.

The issue appears to be mostly affecting users on the West Coast, but certain services that rely on Azure, including the Microsoft Store, are experiencing outages and slowdowns after a data center suffered a partial power loss. Microsoft’s Azure Status Page is updating regularly:

Starting at 08:00 UTC on 07 February 2026, a subset of customers using Azure services in the West US region may experience intermittent service unavailability or delays in monitoring and log data for some resources hosted in the affected datacenter areas. Impacted customers may observe degraded performance or delayed telemetry as services continue to recover.

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

I need an OS, not another hobby.

Terrence O'Brien