Man threatening to leave NATO, and invade member states, demands NATO reciprocity in a war he started. 🤡

The Onion couldn't have done a better job.

"We care about your privacy!"

Us and our ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR "partners". Hah ha!

Also fuck off!

I hacked car charging to work with my electric bike!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6IyukCIia8

Really enjoyed this scoop from the Financial Times, where a team of reporters identified 48 seemingly independent companies working from different physical addresses that appear to be operating together to disguise the origin of Russian oil, particularly from Kremlin-controlled Rosneft. The kicker: The network was discovered because they all share a single private email server.

From the (paywalled) story:

"The FT was able to identify 442 web domains whose public registrations show they all use a single private server for their email, “mx.phoenixtrading.ltd”, showing that they share back-office functions."

"The FT was then able to identify companies by comparing the names in the domain to those of entities that appear in Russian and Indian customs records as involved in carrying Russian oil."

"For example, Foxton FZCO, a Dubai-based entity listed as the buyer of $5.6bn of oil in Russian export filings, matches “foxton-fzco.com”. Similarly, Advan Alliance, an entity listed in Indian filings as having sold $1.5bn of Russian oil into the country, can be linked to “advanalliance.ltd”. "

"Filings linked by the FT to the domain list show oil exports from Russia amounting to more than $90bn."

https://www.ft.com/content/4310f010-2b3c-493e-ba0a-26dc6d156b2e

In other news…

This was fun: a reader asked if aliens were in a galaxy 66 million light-years away, how big a telescope would they need to see dinosaurs on Earth?

Guess!

No; bigger. Try again. Nope, still bigger. Third try? Nope. Way, WAY bigger.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-aliens-in-another-galaxy-see-dinosaurs-on-earth/

There is no one I admire more than Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic ), an extraordinary author, activist, and person. In his 6th anniversary post at his Pluralistic blog, he gives you a sense of the hard work that goes into his work.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/

Nvidia and openAI are talking about building a 10GW data centre.

So. We gots a big number. Let's look at it.

How much is 10GW? Well the UK has a typical day time electricity consumption of ~40GW. Meaning that this one single data centre is looking to use the same amount of electricity as a quarter of the UK. In a single installation. A quarter of the electricity of the 6th largest economy in the world. A single data centre.

Or put another way. It needs power from 3x sizewell C nuclear plant.