Thursday Tech Headlines – 19FEB2026
Every Thursday, we share some recent tech headlines that we find interesting (or disturbing) and hope you will find them of interest too. You get to pick and choose which ones interest you the most. So, click on the titles that pique your curiosity! We hope you will like our new Thursday Tech Headlines feature. If you do, please let us know!
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Tech Headlines for Thursday, February 19, 2026
Windows 11 is adding a speed test, you can run it from the taskbar
Fake CAPTCHA Scam Tricks Windows Users Into Installing Malware
Windows Wrap: Microsoft starts fixing Windows 11 as its OpenAI ‘marriage’ hits the rocks
Stop Using Face ID Right Now. Here’s Why
Why you need a VPN if you’re using ChatGPT or other AI chatbots
Woman spends 48 hours on dark web to expose ‘disturbing’ reality
That’s it for our Thursday Tech Headlines for this week. Thank you so much for reading!
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As I was checking out things in this Tech Headlines the bottom one about the woman spending time on the Dark Web well as I was reading it up popped a thing saying my computer was infected with a virus. I just wanted you to know about it, it happened two times after I got to a certain point. I just closed the page and then went and scanned my computer with my virus protector and then went online and used Trend too no viruses were found.
You might want to check your browser for malware or bad extensions. I reviewed the page again and saw no malicious ads. I also ran the page through Virus Total and it came out clean.