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Eric KarabellFeb 13, 2026, 07:56 AM ETCloseEric Karabell is a senior writer for fantasy baseball, football and basketball at ESPN. Eric is a charter member of FSWA Hall of Fame and author of “The Best Philadelphia Sports Arguments”.Multiple AuthorsFantasy baseball season is back, perhaps with many lapsed fans and eager managers wondering what they missed over these long, cold winter months.Well, much has occurred since the final regular-season games of 2025 were played! Spring training has arrived, so now seems like a fine time to recap the big baseball stories since your last fantasy championships were decided. Let’s catch up!Start…

Sammy Azdoufal claims he wasn’t trying to hack every robot vacuum in the world. He just wanted to remote control his brand-new DJI Romo vacuum with a PS5 gamepad, he tells The Verge, because it sounded fun.But when his homegrown remote control app started talking to DJI’s servers, it wasn’t just one vacuum cleaner that replied. Roughly 7,000 of them, all around the world, began treating Azdoufal like their boss.He could remotely control them, and look and listen through their live camera feeds, he tells me, saying he tested that out with a friend. He could watch them map out…

The Alibaba stand at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Center in Shanghai, China, on July 5, 2024.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesWhile U.S. markets have been focused on the impact of Anthropic and Altruist’s tools on software and financial services, China’s tech giants have released AI models this week that have shown advancements in robotics and video generation.Alibaba, TikTok creator ByteDance and short-video platform Kuaishou, have all released new AI models that underscore how Chinese firms are keeping up with those in the U.S.It comes after Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis told CNBC that…

You can find a lot of good deals for Presidents’ Day, but to say it’s a tech-deal boon would be an overstatement. The best Presidents’ Day deals are usually on mattresses, appliances and furniture, but you can find some decent tech sales thrown in as well. This year, Presidents’ Day comes right after Valentine’s Day and Super Bowl 2026, which means there are even more chances to save as sales and discounts overlap. If you’re looking for a new streaming device, a fresh iPad or an upgraded vacuum so you can enter the spring-cleaning season properly, we have you covered.…

Richard Hughes’ excellent reputationIn winter he orchestrated the signing of Jeremy Jacquet – who will arrive on a deal worth up to £62m next summer.Add his excellent work with Bournemouth into the mix and you can see why Hughes would be in demand for any top teams considering a sporting director.AdvertisementThe likes of Antoine Semenyo, Illia Zabarnyi, Dango Ouattara, Milos Kerkez and others were signed by Hughes at the south coast – with those players going on to earn a fortune for the Cheries in the market.Now comes the news that Hughes is on the radar of Saudi giants Al-Hilal.Saudi…

States across the western US are facing record low snowpack levels in the middle of the winter season. The snowpack crisis, which could mean a drier, more wildfire-prone summer, is coming as states are racing unsuccessfully against a deadline to agree on terms to share water in the Colorado River Basin, the source of water for 40 million people across seven states in the West.“Barring a genuinely miraculous turnaround” in the remainder of the winter, says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, the low snowpack “has the potential to worsen both the…

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Life comes at you fast in the world of high-major college basketball. One minute you’re alone atop the SEC standings and the next you’re suddenly on the NCAA Tournament bubble. This is the situation Texas A&M (17-7, 7-4 SEC) finds itself in as it plays at No. 19 Vanderbilt on Saturday.The Aggies are on a three-game slide that includes losses against Alabama and Missouri that came by a combined four points. Looking at those results, you can easily play the “what if” game with Texas A&M. What if it hadn’t been forced to play at Alabama during Charles Bediako’s five-game…

A security lapse by one of India’s largest pharmacy chains allowed outsiders to gain full administrative control of its platform, exposing customer order data and sensitive drug-control functions, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The issue affected DavaIndia Pharmacy, the pharmacy arm of Zota Healthcare, which operates a large network of retail outlets across India. Security researcher Eaton Zveare told TechCrunch that he discovered the flaw after identifying insecure “super admin” application programming interfaces on DavaIndia’s website and privately shared details with Indian cybersecurity authorities. The bug is now fixed, and Zveare disclosed his findings. The exposure comes as Zota Healthcare rapidly…