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**🎉 Today’s Tech & AI News Digest 🎉**

🚀 Firecrawl’s $1M AI Agent Hiring Initiative
Firecrawl, a Y Combinator startup, is offering $1M to hire three AI agents as employees to enhance their web crawling tool.

🔍 Coinbase Hacked: Personal Info Stolen
Coinbase faced a data breach where hackers stole customer information and demanded a $20 million ransom, which the company refused to pay.

💻 Xata’s New PostgreSQL Platform
Xata introduces a new PostgreSQL platform with copy-on-write branching and data anonymization features, designed for scalability and cloud-agnostic use.
https://xata.io/blog/xata-postgres-with-data-branching-and-pii-anonymization

🌌 Dead Stars Emit Hawking Radiation
A new study claims that even non-black hole heavy matter emits Hawking radiation, potentially causing the universe to fizzle out sooner than expected.

🖋️ Wacom Tablets’ Privacy Issues
Wacom drawing tablets have been found to track the names of every application users open, raising privacy concerns.
https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open/

🌐 Proton Threatens to Leave Switzerland
Proton threatens to leave Switzerland over new surveillance laws that would require VPNs and messaging apps to identify and retain user data.
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-would-be-less-confidential-than-google-proton-threatens-to-quit-switzerland-over-new-surveillance-law

🤖 MIT Disavows AI Productivity Paper
MIT disavows a high-profile paper on AI’s productivity benefits due to concerns about the integrity of its findings.

📱 Huawei’s Trifold Phone Review
Despite its innovative trifold design, Huawei’s Mate XT is deemed too expensive and lacks native support for Google apps, making it a tough sell.
https://www.theverge.com/huawei/667574/huawei-mate-xt-review-trifold-phone

⚛️ Laser-Powered Fusion Experiment Success
The National Ignition Facility’s laser-powered fusion experiment has more than doubled its power output, achieving significant milestones in energy production.

🧩 Pyrefly: New Python Type Checker
Pyrefly, a new open-source type checker and IDE extension for Python, offers static type checking and IDE integration to enhance coding accuracy.

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