📰 AI Blog Daily Digest — 2026-02-17

AI-curated Top 10 from 92 leading tech blogs

Today’s Highlights

Today’s tech landscape highlights the rapid evolution of AI and its challenges, with debates around the limits of large language models and their role in automating skills or uncovering vulnerabilities in software. Tools and developer workflows remain a focus, from browser automation to crash reporting, as engineers seek smarter ways to optimize performance and user experience. Meanwhile, hardware and platform quirks, like those on M1 Macs or ergonomic keyboards, continue to shape how we interact with technology.

Editor’s Top Picks

🥇 Who fixes the zero-days AI finds in abandoned software?

Who fixes the zero-days AI finds in abandoned software? — martinalderson.com · 2026-02-17 · 🔒 Security

Anthropic’s red team found 500+ critical vulnerabilities with Claude. But they focused on maintained software. The scarier problem is the long tail that nobody will ever patch.

🏷️ AI, vulnerabilities, zero-day

🥈 Rumors of AGI’s arrival have been greatly exaggerated

Rumors of AGI’s arrival have been greatly exaggerated — garymarcus.substack.com · 6d ago · 🤖 AI / ML

Statistical approximation ≠ general intelligence

🏷️ AGI, intelligence, AI skepticism

🥉 Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6

Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6 — simonwillison.net · 6d ago · 🤖 AI / ML

Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6 Sonnet 4.6 is out today, and Anthropic claim it offers similar performance to November’s Opus 4.5 while maintaining the Sonnet pricing of $3/million input and $15/million

🏷️ Claude, LLM, Anthropic, Sonnet

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🛠 Tools / OSS

1. Rodney v0.4.0

Rodney v0.4.0 — simonwillison.net · 6d ago · ⭐ 21/30

Rodney v0.4.0 My Rodney CLI tool for browser automation attracted quite the flurry of PRs since I announced it last week. Here are the release notes for the just-released v0.4.0:

Errors now use exit

🏷️ CLI, browser automation, Rodney

2. [Sponsor] Hands-On Workshop: Fix It Faster — Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry

[Sponsor] Hands-On Workshop: Fix It Faster — Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry — daringfireball.net · 2026-02-17 · ⭐ 20/30

Learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app. This on-demand session covers how to:

Set up Sentry to surface high-priority mobile issues without

🏷️ Sentry, crash reporting, iOS

3. Gadget Review: Epomaker Split 70 Mechanical Keyboard ★★★★⯪

Gadget Review: Epomaker Split 70 Mechanical Keyboard ★★★★⯪ — shkspr.mobi · 2026-02-17 · ⭐ 20/30

The good folks at Epomaker know that I love an ergonomic keyboard, so they’ve sent me their new “Split 70” model to review. This isn’t your traditional ergonomic keyboard. Essentially, this is two se

🏷️ keyboard, ergonomic, hardware

4. Weekly Update 491

Weekly Update 491 — troyhunt.com · 2026-02-17 · ⭐ 19/30

Well, the ESP32 Bluetooth bridge experiment was a complete failure. Not the radios themselves, they’re actually pretty cool, but there’s just no way I could get the Yale locks to be reliably

🏷️ ESP32, Bluetooth, IoT

🤖 AI / ML

5. Rumors of AGI’s arrival have been greatly exaggerated

Rumors of AGI’s arrival have been greatly exaggerated — garymarcus.substack.com · 6d ago · ⭐ 26/30

Statistical approximation ≠ general intelligence

🏷️ AGI, intelligence, AI skepticism

6. Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6

Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6 — simonwillison.net · 6d ago · ⭐ 24/30

Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6 Sonnet 4.6 is out today, and Anthropic claim it offers similar performance to November’s Opus 4.5 while maintaining the Sonnet pricing of $3/million input and $15/million

🏷️ Claude, LLM, Anthropic, Sonnet

7. LLM-generated skills work, if you generate them afterwards

LLM-generated skills work, if you generate them afterwards — seangoedecke.com · 2026-02-17 · ⭐ 21/30

🏷️ LLM, skills, AI

🔒 Security

8. Who fixes the zero-days AI finds in abandoned software?

Who fixes the zero-days AI finds in abandoned software? — martinalderson.com · 2026-02-17 · ⭐ 28/30

Anthropic’s red team found 500+ critical vulnerabilities with Claude. But they focused on maintained software. The scarier problem is the long tail that nobody will ever patch.

🏷️ AI, vulnerabilities, zero-day

⚙️ Engineering

9. Platform Strings

Platform Strings — nesbitt.io · 2026-02-17 · ⭐ 18/30

An M1 Mac is aarch64-apple-darwin, arm64-darwin, darwin/arm64, or macosx_11_0_arm64 depending on which tool you ask.

🏷️ platform, architecture, macOS

📝 Other

10. ★ Apple Releases iOS 26 Adoption Rates, and They’re Pretty Much in Line With the Last Few Years

★ Apple Releases iOS 26 Adoption Rates, and They’re Pretty Much in Line With the Last Few Years — daringfireball.net · 6d ago · ⭐ 17/30

At least according to Apple’s own numbers from the App Store, iOS 26 adoption is pretty much exactly in line with the rates for iOS 18 and 17.

🏷️ iOS, adoption rates, Apple

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