GTA 5 Demake Shrinks Game Down from 120GB to a Measly 2.5GB, with Some Sacrifices GTA 5 typically requires around 120GB of space, however some modders have managed to reduce that figure to a mere 2.5GB. To be fair, you can still do almost everything you used to do, such as drive automobiles around…

Xiaohongshu Open-Sources FireRed-Image-Edit, Achieves SOTA Across Multiple Benchmarks February 12 — Xiaohongshu (RED) has open-sourced its new image editing foundation model, FireRed-Image-Edit, releasing code, a technical report, and demo pages on GitHub and Hugging Face. Model weights are…

GMC Hummer EV Makes Supercars Look Slow in Drag Racing Showdown Lots of people cruise past brand new GMC Hummer EVs every single day without even giving it a second glance. This massive electric pickup fits in with traffic; its boxy design and silent functioning barely raise an eyebrow on the…

NEXUS Bets on an Agentverse Strategy, Offering a New Signal to Korea’s Tech Market – KoreaTechDesk A public company that spent years bleeding cash rarely gets credit for experimentation. Markets prefer predictable earnings, not new theories. Yet NEXUS is doing something that founders and investors…

Robots that learn like babies; Capturing moments in motion Hello, Among other things, there’s one thing that is expected to take centre stage in India’s priorities at the Global AI Impact Summit later in the week: a global AI commons. According to India AI Mission CEO Abhishek Singh,…

Chattanooga secures grant for quantum workforce development The programme aims to prepare a highly skilled workforce to lead the quantum future and keep Chattanooga’s innovation ecosystem at the cutting edge The new EPB programme is designed to build a local quantum-ready workforce and support…

From Soyuz to the stars: A Roscosmos trivia quiz Roscosmos has always occupied a fascinating corner of the space world. Born from the legacy of the Soviet space program, it carries the weight of firsts that reshaped human history: the first satellite, the first human in orbit, the first…

Egypt Directs Social Protection Package to Support Citizens Ahead of Ramadan   Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has issued urgent directives for the implementation of a comprehensive new social protection package aimed at easing financial burdens on low-income families and vulnerable groups…

What to Know If You’re Looking to Get Into Commercial Real Estate Commercial real estate (CRE) is a dynamic and potentially lucrative field that appeals to entrepreneurs, investors, and industry professionals alike. Whether you’re eyeing retail spaces, industrial properties, office buildings, or…

Low-Code Development Platform Market to Reach US$ 107.3 Billion by 2030 | Key Drivers: Cloud Adoption, SME Empowerment, Rapid Application Development | Leading Players: OutSystems, Mendix, Appian, Microsoft Power Apps Low-Code Development Platform The Global Low-Code Development Platform Market…

Disc’s rare disease drug hit by FDA rejection The FDA has rejected a rare blood disease candidate from Disc Medicine, a compound that had been granted expedited review through a newly launched priority voucher program.  While the agency agreed that Disc’s bitopertin had hit the primary endpoint in…

In The UK, “Power To The People” Is Latest Clean Energy Trend Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Or support our Kickstarter campaign! We are all self-interested. When it comes to new ideas that affect our communities, the first thing we want to know is,…

Full Tutorial: The Most Underrated AI Agent for Coding and Product Work Dear subscribers, Today, I want to share a new episode with Eno Reyes. Eno is the co-founder of Factory and the most AI-native founder I know. He gave me a live demo of how he builds apps with AI agents, but what really blew…

Xiaomi Open-Sources 4.7B-Parameter Embodied AI Model With 80ms Latency February 12 — Xiaomi founder Lei Jun announced the open-source release of Xiaomi-Robotics-0, a 4.7-billion-parameter embodied Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model. Code, model weights, and technical documentation are now…

TransUnion’s Real Networks Deal Focuses on Robocall Blocking NEWS BRIEF TransUnion's announcement last week to acquire Real Networks' mobile division shows the credit reporting agency is focusing on enhanced voice and SMS fraud protection services for businesses.  As part of the acquisition,…

Windows 11 KB5077181 fixes boot failures linked to failed updates Microsoft says it has resolved a Windows 11 bug that caused some commercial systems to fail to boot with an "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error after installing recent security updates, with the fix delivered in the February 2026 Patch…

K-Fashion Finds a Capital-Light Export Path as Korean Brands Use Crowdfunding to Test Global Demand – KoreaTechDesk Korean consumer exports are rising again, but the more revealing shift is happening before products ever reach customs. Instead of shipping bulk inventory overseas and hoping for…

AI in India to drive productivity and quality: BCGX AI in India will drive productivity, quality, and role redesign in the near term rather than mass unemployment, but the country must pursue a "sovereign by design" approach, maintaining control over its data and capabilities while staying…

Moonshot AI Launches Kimi Claw: Native OpenClaw on Kimi.com with 5,000 Community Skills and 40GB Cloud Storage Now Moonshot AI has officially brought the power of OpenClaw framework directly to the browser. The newly rebranded Kimi Claw is now native to kimi.com, providing developers and data…

GameCube Ports Sneak Into the Switch 2 Dock Gamer Dorison Hugo has been working on a crazy concept for seven years: squeezing four GameCube controller ports onto a normal Nintendo Switch dock, and he’s finally done it. Players can now just plug in their hefty purple GameCube controllers without…

iFLYREC Surpasses 100 Million Users, Becomes iFLYTEK‘s Second 100M-Scale Core Product In early February — iFLYTEK’s intelligent speech product iFLYREC quietly surpassed 100 million users, becoming the company’s second core product to cross the 100-million threshold after its input method app.…

Maker Creates Robot That Looks Just Like a Spool of Filament for 3D Printers A spool of filament rests calmly on a shelf, looking exactly like the usual orange Prusament roll found in numerous 3D printers, yet it hides a little secret. Prusa wanted a one-of-a-kind gift and asked Matt Denton to…

India has all the ingredients to be a full-stack AI leader: Sam Altman India has "all the ingredients to be a full-stack AI leader", Sam Altman said ahead of his visit to the country for the Global AI Impact Summit, citing its tech talent, national strategy and optimism about the technology's…

Ryan Malhan tops BWF World Junior Rankings in landmark achievement for UAE Badminton Ryan Malhan has marked a historic milestone for UAE badminton by topping the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) youth rankings, following his impressive, well-deserved victory at the BWF-sanctioned Hungarian…

How Ubisoft and Konami brought Metal Gear’s Snake to Rainbow Six Siege X Over the past 10 years, Rainbow Six Siege X has accumulated a massive roster of 76 playable Operators. It’s an impressive feat, continuously adding greater depth and variety to the Ubisoft multiplayer shooter’s already tense…

ByteDance Launches Seedream 5.0 Lite Image Model With Real-Time Retrieval On February 13, ByteDance's Seed team released Seedream 5.0 Lite, an upgraded AI image-generation model, now available on the Volcano Engine Ark experience center . Compared with version 4.5, the new model delivers…

AI should be human centric and inclusive: IT Secretary Ahead of the AI Impact Summit, IT Secretary S Krishnan has said the key message India wants to send to the world is that artificial intelligence must remain human-centric and inclusive, with democratic access to AI resources. In an interview…

Île-de-France Mobilités launches bus rapid transit line An electric bus on the Tzen 4 line in Corbeil Essonnes. Photograph copyright: Sylvain Cambon A new generation electric bus will connect Viry-Châtillon to Corbeil-Essonnes in the Paris region and forms part of a larger urban redevelopment…

AI agents turned Super Bowl viewers into one high-IQ team — now imagine this in the enterprise The average Fortune 1000 company has more than 30,000 employees and engineering, sales and marketing teams with hundreds of members. Equally large teams exist in government, science and defense…

Reading After Work: Inside Cairo’s Most Unlikely Reading Community On a weekday evening in Cairo, when most are racing home, stuck in traffic, or squeezing in one last coffee, an unusually calm activity is happening at a café in the city. A group of strangers sits together with their books open…

Is safety ‘dead’ at xAI? Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged,” according to a former employee who spoke to The Verge about recent departures from Musk’s AI company. This week, following the announcement that Musk’s SpaceX is acquiring xAI (which previously…

Mobile Identity Management Market to Reach US$ 16.97 Billion by 2030 Growing at 26.8% CAGR Driven by Multi-Factor and Biometric Authentication with Cloud Deployment Leading 65% Share and Key Players Microsoft, IBM, Okta, Ping Identity, and Cisco Mobile Identity Management Market The Mobile…

Submersible for US military uses hydrogen to charge batteries LampreyMMAUV can attach itself to the hulls of ships or submarines, and recharge its own batteries (image credit: Lockheed Martin). A versatile submersible developed by US defence technology group Lockheed Martin provides the…

YouTube monetization update: What creators need to know as ‘AI slop’ overwhelms the platform As Google owner Alphabet invests heavily in AI, YouTube is discouraging “mass-produced” content enabled by those very same technologies. Elevate your perspective with NextTech News, where innovation meets…

Ant Group Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter Reasoning Model Ring-2.5-1T Also on February 13, Ant Group announced the open-source release of Ring-2.5-1T, the world's first trillion-parameter reasoning model built on a hybrid linear architecture, achieving open-source leading performance in long-text…

In Korea’s Gaming Sector, New Titles Decide Survival — and Global Markets Decide Scale – KoreaTechDesk Korea’s gaming industry is relearning a hard rule that glossy export narratives often hide. Product cycles, not brand legacy, decide who keeps strategic freedom. The 2025 results show a widening…

Hackers get hacked, as BreachForums database is leaked Have you ever stolen data, traded a hacking tool, or just lurked on a dark web forum believing that you are anonymous? If so, I might have some unsettling news for you - because, on January 9 2026, it was revealed that one of the world's most…

NASA Launches Crew-12 Team to ISS on SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon Capsule The understaffed International Space Station will soon have four new crew members to bring the team size back up to seven, thanks to the successful launch of a Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday. The rocket carried a SpaceX Dragon…

India spending on climate action is 5.6% of GDP: FM Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said India has hiked spending on climate action in the last six years to 5.6% of GDP, demonstrating the country's pursuit of meeting nationally determined goals on curbing carbon emission.…

Meet ‘Kani-TTS-2’: A 400M Param Open Source Text-to-Speech Model that Runs in 3GB VRAM with Voice Cloning Support The landscape of generative audio is shifting toward efficiency. A new open-source contender, Kani-TTS-2, has been released by the team at nineninesix.ai. This model marks a departure…

BBC’s Tomorrow’s World Segment from 2000 Shows When Mobile Phones Promised to Become Everything Mobile phones had long been an integral part of our daily lives when April 2000 arrived. People took them everywhere because they were a must-have for younger users. Reporter Lindsey Fallow looked…

Ant Group Extends Ant A-Fu New User Bonus Campaign On February 13, Ant Group also announced that its AI health app Ant A-Fu (English name: AQ) would extend its "RMB 16.8 ($2.33) registration bonus" campaign through Lunar New Year's Eve . Originally scheduled to run for two days, the promotion was…

Getting Started with OpenClaw and Connecting It with WhatsApp OpenClaw is a self-hosted personal AI assistant that runs on your own devices and communicates through the apps you already use—such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, and more. It can answer questions, automate tasks, interact with…

Origami-Inspired Mori3 Robot Boasts Modular Design That Can Shape-Shift Mori3, a modular robot developed by the bright minds at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, is made up of four triangular modules stacked in an origami-inspired pattern that is actually pretty ingenious. Each module communicates…

Korea’s Anti-Broker Reform Now Proceeds to Enforcement Mode – KoreaTechDesk Trust in public capital rarely collapses overnight. It erodes quietly — through shortcuts, intermediaries, and systems that reward familiarity over fairness. South Korea’s latest move signals that the clean-up phase of its…

Sixth Sense festival blends biological, industrial and digital art experiences Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 950 posts, we featured an art festival, cartoon gallery. world…

From Food Production to Content Creation: Ai Everything MEA Egypt Showcases How Intelligent Tech Is Being Put to Work Inaugural edition of Ai Everything MEA Egypt concluded today with milestone AI announcements, partnerships & cross-sector AI use-cases The all-AI summit and showcase set to take…

I’m not a Pokémon or Animal Crossing guy, but Pokopia has hooked me Last week, I wrote a feature breaking down Nintendo’s early 2026 games lineup, and I was pretty positive about it. From first-party fare like Mario Tennis Fever and Super Mario Bros. Wonder‘s Bellabel Park Switch 2 expansion to…

AgiBot Unveils Expedition A3 Humanoid Capable of High-Difficulty Aerial Moves On February 13, AgiBot introduced its latest full-size humanoid robot, the Expedition A3, with the goal of achieving commercial mass production . In a launch video themed "A Grandmaster Descends the Mountain," the robot…

Google AI Introduces the WebMCP to Enable Direct and Structured Website Interactions for New AI Agents Google is officially turning Chrome into a playground for AI agents. For years, AI ‘browsers’ have relied on a messy process: taking screenshots of websites, running them through vision models,…