Daily Tech News 7 February 2026

• A trillion here, a trillion there. Sooner or later, you're talking about fake money.
  
  The global semiconductor industry is on track to hit $1 trillion in sales for 2026. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's up from $800 billion in 2025.
  
  The report doesn't compare shipment volumes with total revenue, though the writer of the article has the sense to point out this limitation.
  
  
  
• US tech stocks lost an aggregate $1 trillion as a little air was let out of the AI bubble. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It definitely hasn't popped, but it's a trillion dollars smaller than it was.
  
  
  
• The Big Three cloud platforms - Amazon's AWS, Google's Cloud, and Microsoft's Azure - have a trillion dollars in back-orders. (Sherwood)
  
  Smaller cloud companies have similar backlogs, proportionally.
  
  And the hosting provider I use is temporarily out of the 9950X3D.

• The CIA World Factbook has been abruptly retired, after being around for more than 50 years in print, and nearly 30 years on the web. (CIA)
  
  No reason was given.
  
  
  
• The EU is planning massive fines for TikTok because, essentially, it works and people use it. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  A trillion here, a trillion there...
  
  
  
• Disney has disabled Dolby Video and HDR10 in Europe due to reasons. (Thurrott)
  
  The reasons being a patent dispute.
  
  The dispute is with Interdigital, a US company, but is taking place in German courts.
  
  
  
• Hollywoods big bet on AI is a bust. (Wired) (archive site)
  
  Whether used as a technology or as a plot line, human customers aren't buying it.
  
  
  
• Heroku isn't dead. (Heroku)
  
  It's just pining for the fnords.
  
  Heroku was an early platform used by people who had an app to deploy but lacked the technical skills to run their own server.
  
  
  
• OpenClaw, formerly MoltBot, formerly ClawdBot, is full of holes. (The Register)
  
  OpenClaw is an AI-generated AI agent that runs on Apple hardware and has found popularity among people who don't understand AI.
  
  Anyway, it leaks everything up to and including credit card numbers.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

| Access Comments