'Uber For Armed Guards' Rushes To Market [Slashdot.org]

Trump triggers Europe economic worries, defense problems [AXIOS]

xAI launches Grok-3 beta and Grok-3 mini, its latest AI models with reasoning, trained on 200K GPUs, or “10x” more compute than Grok-2, for X Premium+ users [TechMeme]

Elon Musk’s DOGE sends a chill through housing market [Quartz] note: This DOGE department in this article has nothing to do with DOGE the Cryptocurrency.

The fight over everyone’s private tax data, explained [Vox]

Exclusive: Tech mogul Mel Morris announces public launch of AI research engine Corpora.ai [TheNextWeb]

Cooking with Mayonnaise is the Most Convincing Appeal to Mayo Haters [Eater]

How Fandom Uses AI to Turn Your Obsessions Into Gold [Inc.]

INTC stock price: Intel jumps over 10% after report that Broadcom, TSMC bids could split the struggling chipmaker [Fast Company]

Musk Overruled Tesla Engineers, And Now They Are In Serious Trouble [Medium]

13 Side Hustles That Take Less Than An Hour Per Day [Entrepreneur]

Not Even DOGE Employees Know Who’s Legally Running DOGE [WIRED] note: this is the DOGE organization, not DOGE the cryptocurrency. Do I have to go ahead and say it? I think Elon Musk’s DOGE Agency is run by….an Artificial Intelligence…Elon Musk is pushing us closer to SKYNET.

This Week in Tech 1019 [TWIT]

The AI Action Summit: A golden age of innovation [Google Blog]

Mechanism design for large language models [Google Research]

To Delight and Surprise: Remembering Jim Cory [Poetry Foundation]

The Spike Nebula: How an educated artistic guess was fulfilled [Astronomy Magazine]

Agent Builder in Joule Studio | Demo [SAP] #SAP #IwantToWorkAtSAP #Neurodivergent

What’s up, everyboy! It’s Tuesday, February 18th, 2025. I added some new content curation for #GeeksNerdsOtakus. Please do not forget that there is a new episode of DiggNationReboot (EP #10), and Tim Ferriss’ podcast. TFerris’ show is like 3hrs long, so best to enjoy it on a long commute. JETLAG RADIO 2800 is always available. It’s a brand-new version with songs/tracks from the world, from many countries.

Until Next Time!