February 2026

Backblaze data reveals that HDD models are quietly surviving data center chaos, while others are spiraling into double-digit failure territory

Seagate and Western Digital dominate reliability rankings across massive real-world datasets The annual failure rate drops to 1.36% across 344,196 drives Vibration emerges as the suspected cause behind the sudden reliability collapse Backblaze has released its 2025 drive reliability data, offering one of the clearest large-scale snapshots of HDD performance in active data centers. The […]

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Mubadala Investment Company and Al Warda increased IBIT stakes in the 4th quarter

Two of Abu Dhabi’s major investment firms increased their exposure to bitcoin BTC$67,583.09 in the fourth quarter of 2025, buying into BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF as the market fell, according to the latest regulatory filings. Mubadala Investment Company, a sovereign wealth fund backed by the government of Abu Dhabi, added nearly four million shares of

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Battlefield 6 gets gas reminiscent of Battlefield 1, but the game’s producer says it’s for strategic depth rather than harming players – ‘It plays with visibility. It also plays a bit with perception’

Battlefield 6 producer Phil Girette says the new Battlefield 1 stilgas does not harm players, but instead offers new tactical ways to play He adds that the team has made changes to how gas works and wants players to “be a little bit more technical and strategic” Associate producer Kit Eklof says the team wanted

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Bunnie XO recounts the discovery of Jelly Roll’s affair in a new memoir

The couple marked their nine-year anniversary last year Bunnie Xo opens up about the darkest chapter in her marriage to Jelly Roll. In her new memoir, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and unapologeticthe podcaster, 44, reveals she contemplated suicide in 2018 after discovering the country star, 41, was having an affair just two years after tying the

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French ice dancers defend controversial Olympic gold win over Team USA

NEWYou can now listen to Pakinomist articles! French Olympians Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron push back criticism surrounding their Winter Games gold. A French judge’s controversial decision gave the French duo an edge over Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates. French judge Jézabel Dabouis scored Beaudry and Cizeron nearly eight points higher than Chock

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Tether’s tokenized gold (XAUT) must be paid out for dividend payments

Elemental Royalty Corporation (ELE) is now offering shareholders something no other public gold company has before: the ability to receive dividends in blockchain-based tokens backed by gold. In a move announced Tuesday, the Canada-based royalty company said it will distribute shareholder returns using stablecoin issuer Tether’s tokenized gold, Tether Gold (XAUT). Shareholders who choose this

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Hackers ditch email to send physical letters with QR codes and trick crypto wallet owners into handing over money

Physical letters are replacing emails to deliver hardware wallet phishing campaigns QR codes in envelopes direct victims to fake credential collection sites Trezor and Ledger owners receive urgent messages requiring authentication checks Experts have warned that physical letters are being used in cryptocurrency theft campaigns, which rely on QR codes and urgent alerts to trick

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Tiffany Richardson calls out Tyra Banks for defending viral ‘ANTM’ meltdown

Tyra Banks’ ‘we were all rooting for you’ meltdown remains one of the show’s most memorable moments Tiffany Richardson sets record for being on the receiving end of Tyra Banks’ viral “we were all rooting for you” meltdown on America’s Next Top Model. More than 20 years after her explosive clash, the Cycle 4 alum

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Crypto VC firm Dragonfly raises $650 million despite ‘groom of a bear market’

Crypto venture firm Dragonfly Capital completed a fourth fund of $650 million, marking one of the biggest raises in the sector at a time when many blockchain-focused VCs are struggling, managing partner Haseeb Qureshi said. “It’s a strange time to celebrate,” Qureshi wrote in a social media post on Tuesday, describing low spirits and “the

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