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Archives for February 2026

Elon Musk is merging SpaceX and xAI to build data centers in space — or so he says

SpaceX is profitable, while xAI is burning about $1 billion a month. Is this another case of Musk bailing out himself?

Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 leak reveals a new design that looks less like AirPods.

Android Headlines has shared renders of the Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 and Galaxy Buds 4 Pro expected to be announced at the next Samsung Unpacked event. The new design features metal strips on the stems to help distinguish them from Apple’s AirPods, and they both now lie horizontally in their charging cases which carry forward transparent lids.

The Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 and Buds 4 Pro inside their charging cases.
The Galaxy Buds 4 (left) and Galaxy Buds 4 Pro (right) look less like Apple’s AirPods with a strip of brushed metal on their stems.
Image: Android Headlines
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Spain could block teens from social media with an Australia-style ban.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced plans for the ban on Tuesday, vowing to protect children “from the digital wild west,” the New York Times reports. The policy would bar users under 16 from social media platforms, mirroring Australia’s ban, and would require platforms to have “effective age-verification systems.”

Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
Elon Musk’s Boring Company is going to Dubai.

The tunnel-digging venture says it will build “a cutting-edge passenger transport tunnel project” that’s “4 miles (6.4km), comprising four stations, linking the Dubai International Financial Centre and Dubai Mall.”

The Boring Company opened its first “loop” in Las Vegas in 2021, where it uses a fleet of human-operated Tesla vehicles to transport people across the city’s convention center. Musk’s previous business dealings with Dubai include a $700 million investment from a secretive VC firm to fund his acquisition of Twitter.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
The Signal messaging app was down.

It’s a day of outages today. After Claude Code had a brief wobble, the Signal messaging app also experienced a major outage. Messages couldn’t be sent or received, leaving some messages stuck trying to send over and over. Signal recovered its service after around an hour of issues.

Update: Signal is now back online.

I didn’t expect to love Dyson’s PencilVac Fluffycones – but I did

It won’t clean your whole house, but it’s the perfect companion to your robot vacuum

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
The Windows Slack app is having notification problems this morning.

That’s according to a Slack status update published Tuesday morning at 9:38AM ET:

“We’ve identified an issue affecting Windows desktop notifications for some Slack users. After updating to the latest release, users may still hear notification sounds, but the notification pop-ups aren’t appearing on their screens. We’re working on rolling back the release to resolve the issue and will provide an update as soon as more information becomes available.”

Update: Slack lists the issue resolved as of 12:34PM ET.