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February 20, 2026
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☰ slashdot
- Several Meta Employees Have Started Calling Themselves 'AI Builders'
- AMC Theatres Will Refuse To Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar
- How Streaming Became Cable TV's Unlikely Life Raft
- PayPal Discloses Data Breach That Exposed User Info For 6 Months
- HSBC To Investors: If India Couldn't Build an Enterprise Software Challenger, Neither Can AI
☰ cbc sports
- 2026 Olympic Games: Canada's Brendan Mackay wins bronze in men's freeski halfpipe
- As one star from Cole Harbour, N.S. is forced to only watch, another plays hero
- Canada's Brendan MacKay wins bronze in men's freeski halfpipe
- MacKinnon sends Canada to gold-medal game after sinking Finns with game winner in dying seconds
- Canadian speed skater Valérie Maltais takes surprising bronze in women's 1,500m
☰ espn
- Live updates: USA strikes first vs. Slovakia in men's hockey semifinal
- MacKinnon sends Canada to gold medal game
- Chiefs' Reid offers positive update on Kelce talks
- Source: Cignetti's deal now averaging $13.2M
- No. 1 Canada, U.S. fall in women's curling semis
☰ global
- Trump tariff ruling does not mean the end of U.S. trade wars. What to know
- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith defends referendum questions on immigration
- Trump’s global tariffs were struck down. Don’t expect price drops: experts
- Are Canadian jobs any safer than before Trump’s tariffs were struck down?
- Climber convicted of manslaughter after leaving girlfriend to die on mountain
☰ Ars Technica
- With NIH in chaos, its controversial director is taking over CDC, too
- Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
- Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its "lead platform"
- "Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
- It's outright war for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon S3 teaser
☰ reuters
- Trump furious after Supreme Court upends his global tariffs, vows new 10% levy - Reuters
- US economic growth slows sharply in the fourth quarter - Reuters
- Analysts say China less likely to buy US soy after Supreme Court decision - Reuters
- Market Talk: More ‘risk episodes’ ahead for private credit - Reuters
- Trump says he will sign order imposing a 10% global tariff - Reuters
☰ cbc
- Trump threatens new 10% global tariff after Supreme Court rules against 'liberation day' tariffs
- 2026 Olympic Games: Canada's Brendan Mackay wins bronze in men's freeski halfpipe
- Ryan Wedding's alleged money man who bought $13M Mercedes denied bail
- MacKinnon sends Canada to gold-medal game after sinking Finns with game winner in dying seconds
- Toronto police officers accused of GPS tracking victim, orchestrating insurance fraud: court docs
☰ space
- Small but mighty microplate reader could transform NASA research
- Flexible force fields can protect our return to the moon
- NASA moves forward with Artemis II tanking test that could set up moonshot mission
- SpaceX launch to feature rare booster landing in Bahamas
- NASA conducts second rocket fueling test that will decide when Artemis astronauts head to the moon
☰ science daily
- Air pollution linked to higher Alzheimer’s risk in 28 million older Americans
- Oxford breakthrough could make lithium-ion batteries charge faster and last much longer
- Scientists uncover oxygen-loving ancestor of all complex life
- Scientists find cancer-linked chemicals in popular hair extensions
- Doctors implant dopamine-producing stem cells in Parkinson’s patients
☰ new scientist
- Fish-based pet food may expose cats and dogs to forever chemicals
- Your BMI can't tell you much about your health – here's what can
- Nobel prizewinner Omar Yaghi says his invention will change the world
- Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why
- What if the idea of the autism spectrum is completely wrong?
☰ science blog
- Uranus Has Been Quietly Cooling For Decades And Now We Know Why It Matters
- Peeking Inside the Secret Lives of AI Chatbots
- Our Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios for a Warming Antarctica
- A Little Fish Looks in the Mirror and Recognises Itself — in Half an Hour
☰ Weather Forecast
Sat 21 Feb

high: -5°C
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pop: 40%
 Sun 22 Feb

high: -2°C
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pop: 40%
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high: -2°C
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pop: 30%
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high: -10°C
Sunny
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high: -4°C
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Sat 21 Feb

high: 4°C
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pop: 60%
 Sun 22 Feb

high: 1°C
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pop: 40%
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high: -3°C
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pop: 40%
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high: -5°C
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high: 1°C
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Sat 21 Feb

high: -5°C
Clearing
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high: -1°C
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pop: 60%
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high: 0°C
Cloudy
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high: -9°C
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high: -5°C
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pop: 60%
Sat 21 Feb

high: -5°C
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high: -1°C
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high: -3°C
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high: -9°C
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high: -7°C
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pop: 60%
Sat 21 Feb

high: -1°C
Mainly sunny
 Sun 22 Feb

high: -1°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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high: -4°C
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pop: 30%
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high: -2°C
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pop: 60%
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high: -5°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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high: -5°C
Mainly sunny
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high: -3°C
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high: -5°C
Sunny
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high: -9°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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high: -8°C
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Sat 21 Feb

high: 8°C
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pop: 60%
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high: 10°C
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high: 10°C
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high: -11°C
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high: -9°C
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high: 0°C
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high: 1°C
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high: 8°C
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AVGO 332.59 -1.33   -0.40%
IBM 257.48 +1.09   +0.43%
CSCO 78.95 +0.39   +0.50%
ORCL 148.19 -8.40   -5.36%
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☰ Word of the Day
encapsulate

verb (in-KAP-suh-layt)

Encapsulate literally means “to enclose in or as if in a capsule,” but the word is more often used figuratively as a synonym of summarize, to talk about showing or expressing a main idea or quality in a brief way.

☰ Thought of the Day
"Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go." - Nicole Kidman
☰ Born on this day
- William Carleton, Irish writer and novelist (Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry), born in Clogher, County Tyrone, Ireland (d. 1869)
- Chick Harbert, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1954), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1992)
- Frank Isola, American jazz drummer (Stan Getz; Gerry Mulligan; Mose Allison), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2004)
- Roy Face, American baseball relief pitcher (6 × MLB All-Star; World Series, 1960 - Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Stephentown, New York (d. 2026)
- Barbara Ellis, American pop vocalist (Fleetwoods - "Mr. Blue"; "Come Softly To Me"), born in Olympia, Washington
- Vladimir Kuzyutkin, Russian volleyball coach (Russia Women - World Cup gold 2010; Bulgaria Women), born in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (d. 2022)
- Gordon Brown, British Labour Prime Minister (2007–10), born in Giffnock, Scotland
- Charlie Adler, American voice actor (Tiny Toon Adventures), born in Paterson, New Jersey
☰ Weather News
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- Show seafood — and your heart — some love
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☰ Today in History
- Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
- British Naval Officer John Moresby is the first European to discover Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, claims it for the United Kingdom
- 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
- World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers
- Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
- Henry Walton Wessells, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Lietchfield, Connecticut (d. 1889)
- Shiga Naoya, Japanese novelist (Road Through Dark Night), born in Ishinomaki, Japan (d. 1971)
- Bobby Unser, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1968, 1975, 1981; USAC C'ship 1968, 1974), born in Colorado Springs (d. 2021)
- Julia Volkova, Russian pop singer (t.A.T.u. -single, "All the Things She Said"), born in Moscow
- Olivia Rodrigo, American actress and singer-songwriter ("Driver's License"), born in Temecula, California

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