av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 19, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads
The Trump administration has been bombing boats in the Caribbean, killing over 140 people in what it calls a war on drug trafficking. At the same time, it pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez — convicted by a U.S. jury of helping export more than 400 tons of cocaine into the country — and gave him a chauffeured ride to a five-star hotel. — Read the rest
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av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 19, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads
Actor Peter Greene, who died on December 12 aged 60, was found to have died from accidentally shooting himself in the left armpit, a medical examiner has found.
The actor was known for films such as Pulp Fiction, The Mask, and Training Day, enjoying a long career usually playing villainous roles. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York City confirmed to Deadline that Greene’s cause of death was a gunshot wound “of left axilla [armpit] with injury of brachial artery.”
Källa: Nme
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 19, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads
Between 12 and 17 February 2026, Europol supported law enforcement authorities in Ukraine, Poland, and Moldova in a joint operation against an international criminal network involved in the production and trafficking of synthetic drugs, primarily synthetic cathinones such as alpha-PVP. The action day saw the Ukrainian National Police and the Polish Police Central Bureau of Investigation conducting coordinated checks at approximately 510 locations. Law enforcement officers dismantled 36 illicit production sites and 74 storage facilities for ready-to-distribute drugs. A total of 129 persons faced criminal charges, 103 persons were taken into custody.
Källa: Europol Europa
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 19, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads
Declining electric vehicle sales caused US clean investment to experience its largest quarterly drop in nearly a decade, part of a larger pullback caused by the elimination of Inflation Reduction Act tax credits. Total investment — including in clean tech manufacturing facilities and retail spending on things like EVs and solar panels — reached a record annual high of $277 billion in 2025, according to the latest data from the Clean Investment Monitor, a joint project of MIT and the Rhodium Group. But that sum masks a sharp drop in the fourth quarter, which Hannah Hess, Rhodium’s associate director of climate and energy, attributed primarily to plunging EV sales.
Källa: Semafor
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 19, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads
Fourteen-year-old Carolina has been on Roblox since she was 10, chatting and playing with other gamers on the platform. When the site rolled out mandatory age checks at the start of the year, Carolina was afraid she would lose access to some of her friends and group chats. She needn’t have worried — the software determined she was 16 or 17.
“Without any makeup, I did what the app asked: turned my head this way and that for the photo,” Carolina, who lives in São Paulo, told Rest of World. “The app said I was 16 to 17 years old. I was able to go back to my chats.”
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av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 19, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads
Meta is set to release its first smartwatch this year featuring health-tracking and built-in Meta AI, reports The Information.
The smartwatch, which would compete directly with Apple Watch and other brands, is the result of a revived project that Meta canceled in 2022 amid broader spending cuts at its Reality Labs hardware division.
The original project involved plans to release three different camera-equipped watch models, but it doesn’t sound like they will be part of the company’s future product lineup. The new watch is code-named ”Malibu 2.”
Källa: Macrumors
