Daily Tech News 19 February 2026

• Open source game engine Godot is getting overwhelmed with pull requests on GitHub. (PC Gamer)
  
  It's taken a surprising amount of time for AI to turn into an avalanche of spam like email and blog comments.
  
  But it's here now, and the spam filters need to catch up.
  
  Quickly.
  
  

• The CEO of SSD controller company Phison says many consumer electronics companies will be forced to close their doors because they can't buy the chips to continue operations. (Tom's Hardware)

  In the talk, he describes a meeting in China where he witnessed mobile and automotive companies (presumably major ones) pleading suppliers for flash memory. He concludes that smaller firms may not be able to secure any flash supply at all, stating that "consumer electronics are finished," and that the market "will see a lot of victims" in the second half of 2026.

  There is at least a light at the end of the tunnel.

  Later in the interview he says that he "[tells his clients] that if the first quarter of this year is painful, really painful, then by year-end, they'll definitely jump off a building."

  But it's an oncoming train.
  
  
  
• The Dutch defense secretary says you can jailbreak an F35 just like you can an iPhone, so pissant Eurocrats don't need to worry about the US. (The Register)
  
  First, you can't jailbreak iPhones.
  Second, you can't jailbreak F35s either. Unless you are prepared to somehow replace the avionics and the software yourself.
  Third, a supplicant threatening their own benefactor rarely turns out well.
  
  But then, the Netherlands - at least, the lower house in their parliament, it has yet to pass their senate - just approved a 36% annual tax on unrealised capital gains, so I think they are simply incapable of learning at this point.
  
  
  
• How many bits do you need to use to create a unique ID tag for everything in the universe, ever? (Jason Fantl)
  
  Less than 800 bits.
  
  For each subatomic particle, at each instant in time.
  
  Whether you attach the little tags with string or tape is left as an exercise for the student.
  
  
  

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