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Samsung agrees to acquire Seattle-based Xealth, which helps healthcare providers manage digital health tools and has raised over $50M, for an undisclosed sum (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

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Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Samsung agrees to acquire Seattle-based Xealth, which helps healthcare providers manage digital health tools and has raised over $50M, for an undisclosed sum  —  GeekWire's startup coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene.  Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter …

Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90%+ of submitted notes are never published, with many notes "stuck in limbo" (DDIA)

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DDIA:
Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90%+ of submitted notes are never published, with many notes “stuck in limbo”  —  1. INTRODUCTION  —  As social media companies face the need to curb the spread of rapidly evolving online harms on their platforms …

With Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers (Kris Maher/Wall Street Journal)

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Kris Maher / Wall Street Journal:
With Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers  —  Two Trump visits span city's legacy industry, higher-tech pursuits  —  | Photographs and Videos by

Sources: SpaceX has agreed to invest $2B in xAI, as part of xAI's $5B equity fundraise announced by Morgan Stanley last month (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: SpaceX has agreed to invest $2B in xAI, as part of xAI's $5B equity fundraise announced by Morgan Stanley last month  —  The startup is leaning on Musk's business empire to play catch-up in the AI race  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI …

A look at US-backed NVD, as its parent org NIST scrambles to hire contractors to help clear a backlog of 25K+ vulnerabilities, ~10x the previous high in 2017 (Matthew King/MIT Technology Review)

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Matthew King / MIT Technology Review:
A look at US-backed NVD, as its parent org NIST scrambles to hire contractors to help clear a backlog of 25K+ vulnerabilities, ~10x the previous high in 2017  —  Every day, billions of people trust digital systems to run everything from communication to commerce to critical infrastructure.

New Apple TV Expected Later This Year With These New Features

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A new Apple TV is expected to be released later this year, and a handful of new features and changes have been rumored for the device.


Below, we recap what to expect from the next Apple TV, according to rumors.

Rumors

Faster Wi-Fi Support

OpenAI's failed Windsurf deal signals broader M&A challenges for OpenAI until it renegotiates its deal with Microsoft (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

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M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
OpenAI's failed Windsurf deal signals broader M&A challenges for OpenAI until it renegotiates its deal with Microsoft  —  In our current M&A environment in the AI space, there are but two types of deals: ‘hackquisitions’ and ‘hackquihires’.  At first, they seemed like they were the same deal …

Mathematical ‘random tree model’ reveals how we store and recall narratives

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A team from the Institute for Advanced Study, Emory University in the US, and the...

Tesla rolls out Grok to some vehicles with an AMD infotainment chip; Grok comes pre-installed on new vehicles and cannot issue commands to the vehicle itself (Simon Alvarez/Teslarati)

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Simon Alvarez / Teslarati:
Tesla rolls out Grok to some vehicles with an AMD infotainment chip; Grok comes pre-installed on new vehicles and cannot issue commands to the vehicle itself  —  All new Tesla vehicles delivered on or after July 12, 2025, will include Grok AI out of the box

This Week In Techdirt History: July 6th – 12th

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Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we looked at the encryption dilemma created by the EARN IT Act, while a federal case showed that cops already had plenty of options when dealing with device encryption. There was pushback against the Trump administration’s attempt to corrupt the Open Technology Fund, the FCC’s assault on a […]

Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks  —  Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup behind the popular Kimi chatbot, released an open-source language model on Friday …

ATLAS detects rare Higgs boson decays occurring once in every 5,000 events

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Imagine a particle so elusive, so rare, that it’s difficult even to catch a glimpse...

xAI apologizes for Grok's "horrific behavior" when it wrote antisemitic posts on July 8, and blames "an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
xAI apologizes for Grok's “horrific behavior” when it wrote antisemitic posts on July 8, and blames “an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot”  —  In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.”

London-bound Air India flight with 242 people onboard crashed after fuel cutoff: Report

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India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau has released its preliminary report into the June 12 Air...

Swedish firm’s battery simulator can boost EV, eVTOL’s range with real-world like testing

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A Swedish firm has recently demonstrated its battery cell simulator that can boost EV performance....

Pump.fun raised $500M via a sale of PUMP tokens, which sold out in 12 minutes; it offered 12.5% of its total token supply at a fully diluted valuation of $4B (Zack Abrams/The Block)

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Zack Abrams / The Block:
Pump.fun raised $500M via a sale of PUMP tokens, which sold out in 12 minutes; it offered 12.5% of its total token supply at a fully diluted valuation of $4B  —  - Memecoin launchpad Pump.fun raised $600 million through its public sale of PUMP tokens, which fully sold out in just 12 minutes.

4,500-year-old donkey burials mystery revealed via isotope analysis in new study

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Advanced technology has allowed archaeologists to trace the origins of four donkeys used in ritual...

Hono Shows the Way for Microframeworks in a Post-React World

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This week, a web framework called Hono announced on X that it had “finally” reached 25,000 GitHub stars. While 25,000

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No Code Is Dead

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Once again, the software development landscape is experiencing another big shift. After years of drag-and-drop, no-code platforms democratizing app creation,

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Belkin's move to brick Wemo devices highlights how little accountability IoT companies face when abandoning connected products customers paid for (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

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Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Belkin's move to brick Wemo devices highlights how little accountability IoT companies face when abandoning connected products customers paid for  —  In a somewhat anticipated move, Belkin is killing most of its smart home products.  On January 31, the company will stop supporting the majority …

Agentic AI Is Quietly Replacing Developers

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For decades, elegant code has been the hallmark of great software development — code that is streamlined, efficient, well-documented, reusable

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What Makes GNOME So Appealing?

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The Linux desktop offers so many options, ranging from the overly simple to the very complex. You could go with

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First-ever US SMR: Clinch River project advances with review for 300 MWe reactor

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The Tennessee Valley Authority’s application to build a BWRX-300 small modular reactor at its Clinch...

Stanford study: LLMs struggle to respond appropriately to questions about delusions, suicide, and OCD, but AI could play valuable supportive roles to therapists (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

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Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Stanford study: LLMs struggle to respond appropriately to questions about delusions, suicide, and OCD, but AI could play valuable supportive roles to therapists  —  When Stanford University researchers asked ChatGPT whether it would be willing to work closely with someone who had schizophrenia …

Wearable robot to help conduct military aircraft, satellite launch systems’ maintenance

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A wearable robot has entered into its commercial journey as it has been deployed for...

Warp Goes Agentic: A Developer Walk-Through of Warp 2.0

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After the enlightening question-and-answer session with Warp CEO Zach Lloyd, I was ready to try out Warp 2.0’s agentic large

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Top Stories: iPhone 17 Pro Rumors, iOS 26 Beta 3, and More

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The iOS 26 public beta release is quickly approaching, while developers have recently gotten their hands on a third round of betas that has seen Apple continue to tweak features, design, and functionality.


We're also continuing to hear rumors about the iPhone 17 lineup that is now just about right around the corner, while Apple's latest big-budget film appears to be taking off, so read on below for all the details on these stories and more!

Here's How the iPhone 17 Pro Max Will Compare to the iPhone 17 Pro

China’s BYD unveils Level-4 autonomous parking, promises full cover for losses

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Chinese auto giant and world’s leading producer of new energy vehicles BYD has unveiled the...

Chinese military’s self-propelled howitzers deliver high-precision fire at high-altitude

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Reports indicate that China recently conducted a live-fire artillery exercise at high altitude using the...

Studios like Do Big are buying Roblox games for $1M+ in a thriving secondary market; Naavik: seven of the 15 highest-earning games in June have been acquired (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

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Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Studios like Do Big are buying Roblox games for $1M+ in a thriving secondary market; Naavik: seven of the 15 highest-earning games in June have been acquired  —  Game service spawns a busy after market for the most-popular titles … It sold a few months later for more than $3 million.

China’s new cotton topping robot fully automates laborious task at 10x speed

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China has developed what is being touted as the ‘world’s first’ laser-based cotton topping machine....

A look at Meta's revamped GenAI strategy, as Mark Zuckerberg poaches top AI talent for the Superintelligence team with a typical offer of $200M over four years (SemiAnalysis)

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SemiAnalysis:
A look at Meta's revamped GenAI strategy, as Mark Zuckerberg poaches top AI talent for the Superintelligence team with a typical offer of $200M over four years  —  Meta's shocking purchase of 49% of Scale AI at a ~$30B valuation shows that money is of no concern for the $100B annual cashflow ad machine.

A New Hampshire court rejected TikTok's request to dismiss the state AG's suit accusing the company of using manipulative design features aimed at kids (Zach Vallese/CNBC)

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Zach Vallese / CNBC:
A New Hampshire court rejected TikTok's request to dismiss the state AG's suit accusing the company of using manipulative design features aimed at kids  —  A judge this week rejected TikTok's attempt to dismiss a lawsuit by the state of New Hampshire accusing it of using manipulative design features aimed at children and teens.

Oregon Appeals Court Says Bullet Cartridge Matching Is Just More Junk Science

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This isn’t the first state court to reach this conclusion, but so few courts bother to examine the science-y sounding stuff cops trot out as “evidence” that this decision is worth noting. There’s no shortage of junk science that has been (and continues to be) treated as actual science during testimony, ranging from the DNA […]

OpenAI’s $3 Billion Deal to Buy Windsurf Unravels, Google Nabs Company Execs, Licensing Rights

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Apple Smart Glasses: Everything We Know About Apple's Answer to Meta Ray-Bans

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Apple is working on a set of smart glasses that will rival Meta's popular AI-equipped Ray-Bans, offering many of the same features. Rumors about Apple's work on the glasses have been picking up, and we've gathered all of the information we've heard in the guide below.

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Prepare For A New Dodgy Trump-Era Tax On Netflix And Other Streaming Services

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Two weeks ago the Supreme Court rejected an effort by a dodgy right wing activists to destroy an $8 billion FCC program that connects poor and rural communities to the internet. The plaintiff in the case, a fake right wing “consumer group,” had tried to argue that the bipartisan subsidy (the Universal Service Fund, or […]

New Windows 11 build adds self-healing “quick machine recovery” feature

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New recovery mode lets Microsoft fix "widespread boot issues" affecting PCs.

The Magical Thinking That’s Killing Our Humanity

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There is an epidemic of magical thinking. An unwillingness to confront reality. Because reality is scary. This affliction cuts across all ideological lines, manifesting in different forms but serving the same function: allowing us to avoid the difficult truths about what it will actually take to preserve human dignity, meaning, and freedom in the face […]

iOS 26: Every Change to the Messages App

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The Messages app has the Liquid Glass redesign that's been introduced throughout iOS 26, but Apple also added several long-desired features that make for a better experience in both one-to-one and group chats, such as custom backgrounds and group typing indicators.

Message Backgrounds

America’s Measles Counts Surpass 2019 Outbreak, Highest In Over Three Decades

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We haven’t talked about the numbers in America’s measles outbreak in a couple of months, but that certainly doesn’t mean the problem has gone away. It was back in April that we wrote about how the numbers were on pace to eclipse the outbreak in 2019, which was largely driven by unvaccinated religious groups in […]

Measuring the actual impact of AI coding (Friends)

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Abi Noda from DX is back to share some cold, hard data on just how productive AI coding tools are actually making developers. Teaser: the productivity increase isn't as high as we expected. We also discuss Jevons paradox, AI agents as extensions of humans, which tools are winning in the enterprise, how development budgets are changing, and more.

Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers’ stuff

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There's no easy alternative, and IoT customers are paying the price.

Apple Released These Oddly Unique Products in the 1990s

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In the early to mid-1990s, Apple released a wide range of quirky and unique products, ranging from printers and digital cameras to a video game console and a PDA with a keyboard. Steve Jobs nixed the vast majority of these products upon his return to Apple in 1997, helping the company to regain its focus and avoid impending bankruptcy.


Many longtime MacRumors readers are likely already well informed about Apple's peculiar 1990s era, but for those who started following the company in the 2000s, it can be fascinating to look back at the products released in the older days.

Below, we reflect on five unique Apple products from the 1990s, including the QuickTake, Newton eMate 300, Studio Display, StyleWriter, and Pippin. There are of course many others, ranging from the Twentieth Anniversa [...]

How AWS is Working to Help Developers with AI Reality

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The rush to build AI agents has developers scrambling for the right tools and frameworks. In the latest episode of

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Crowd-Sourced ICE Tracking Alerts Aim To Provide Local Communities With Early Warning Of Immigration Raids

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Techdirt has just written about how people are using Ring doorbell cameras to warn others in the area about the presence of ICE agents and the risk of possible ICE raids. That’s a good example of using existing technology to monitor the increasingly widespread and brutal activities of ICE teams. But driven by a desire […]

Daily Deal: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022

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Visual Studio Professional 2022 is a fully featured development environment that developers around the world know and love. The 64-bit IDE makes it easier to work with even bigger projects and more complex workloads. Enhance your productivity, write high-quality code, and re-imagine collaboration with an advanced suite of tools and built-in integrations to tackle the […]

MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 16 From GRID Studio

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For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with GRID Studio to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win one of Apple's iPhone 16 models. If you're not familiar with GRID Studio, it's a company that takes old, discarded Apple products and turns them into art for Apple fans.


GRID Studio is hosting a sale this week, and there are special discounts on the iPhone 2G and the ‌iPhone‌ 5 pieces, along with a 15 percent discount on everything else. Just enter the promo code PD15 when checking out to get the deal.

The GRID 2G is available for $299, w [...]

Apple Adds Trash Can Mac Pro, AirPorts, and More to Vintage and Obsolete Products List

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Apple updated its vintage and obsolete products list to add several Macs, iPads, accessories, and more. The 2013 "Trash Can" Mac Pro was added to the vintage list, 12 years after it was first introduced.


Most products are added to the vintage list much earlier, but Apple sold the 2013 ‌Mac Pro‌ for so long that it wasn't eligible until now. A device is considered "vintage" five years after it was last distributed for sale.

The trash can ‌Mac Pro‌ wasn't discontinued until December 2019, when the redesigned "Cheese Grater" ‌Mac Pro‌ came out. The 2013 ‌Mac Pro‌ was the subject of Phil Schiller's infamous "Can' [...]

Creators of Nuxt.js and Nitro Join Vercel

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Daniel Roe, creator of full-stack, progressive web framework Nuxt.js, and three other members of the Nuxt core team are joining

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A mess of its own making: Google nerfs second Pixel phone battery this year

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People don't upgrade phones every year anymore—longevity matters.

Trump Administration Sends In The Marines… To Do Paperwork?

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Martial law still appears to be the plan. The rollout has been limited, but the wholly unnecessary deployment of military troops to California sent a message our performative president wanted to get across. Trump sent an even more explicit one days later, following up on DHS boss Kristi Noem’s quasi-declaration of war on this “democrat” […]

The MacRumors Show: Apple's Big Plan for 5 New Vision Products

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss Apple's roadmap for new Vision headsets and smart glasses over the next few years.

Here Are The Best Apple Deals You Can Still Get Before Amazon Prime Day Ends

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Amazon Prime Day is coming to a close later today, so we're quickly recapping all of the best Apple and Apple-related deals that are still live on Amazon right now. Since many of these products have been on sale for a few days, shipping may be delayed, but they're all at some of the lowest prices we've ever seen.

Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.

Amazon Prime Day requires you to have an Amazon Prime membership</a [...]

Why the Value of CVE Mitigation Outweighs the Costs

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Common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) used to be viewed solely as a technical risk, but today, they’ve become something more:

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Today's Your Last Chance to Get AirPods Pro 2 for $149 and AirPods 4 for $89 in Prime Day Sales

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We're in the final hours of Amazon Prime Day for 2025, and you can still find record low prices on nearly every AirPods model right now on Amazon.

Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.

The highlight of these deals include the AirPods Pro 2 for $149.00, down from $249.00, and the AirPods 4 for <a href="https://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?TSID=3088&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DGHMNQ5Z%3Ftag%3Dmacrumors-20%26 [...]

Google Brings the Lustre Parallel File System to Its Cloud

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Google Cloud now offers a fully managed version of the Lustre parallel file system. The Google Cloud Managed Lustre service went live

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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Ansible Automating Build Environment Setup for Windows and Linux

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How Unified Orchestration Helps Cut Cloud Costs by 40%

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Data isn’t what it used to be. A decade ago, organizations worked with static rows in warehouses. Now we’re dealing

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Grok 4 'Truth-Seeking' AI Consults Musk's Stance on Sensitive Topics

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xAI's latest Grok 4 large language model appears to search for owner Elon Musk's opinions before answering sensitive questions about topics like Israel-Palestine, abortion, and U.S. immigration policy.


Data scientist Jeremy Howard was first to document the concerning behavior, showing that 54 of 64 citations Grok provided for a question about Israel-Palestine referenced Musk's views. TechCrunch then successfully replicated the findings across multiple controversial topics.

The AI model's "chain of thought" reasoning process explicitly states it's "considering Elon Mu [...]

Comcast Forced To Retreat From Broadband Data Caps (Sort Of) Due To Competition From 5G Wireless And Community Fiber

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Techdirt has always made it very clear that broadband usage caps on fixed-line broadband are bullshit. The costly and confusing restrictions serve no legitimate technical function. They don’t help your ISP “manage congestion.” They exist simply as a way for giant companies like Comcast to nickel-and-dime captive customers in uncompetitive broadband markets. Market failure created […]

10 Insights from Integrating AI into My Coding Workflow

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Software development is full of competing pressures: We’re expected to move quickly, innovate constantly and still ship high-quality, maintainable code.

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Apple Studio Display Successor Now Expected Early Next Year

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Apple plans to release a next-generation Studio Display or equivalent replacement external monitor as soon as early next year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


In his latest report on Apple's product roadmap for 2026, Gurman said the company is planning to launch its first new Mac external monitor since debuting the Apple Studio Display in 2022.

The new version, internally code-named J427, "is currently slated for early 2026," alongside Macs with M5 chips, said Gurman.

Gurman in February reported that Apple was "ramping up" work on a new Studio Display that "sho [...]

OLED MacBook Pro May Not Launch Next Year After All

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Apple in October 2024 overhauled its 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, adding M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips, Thunderbolt 5 ports on higher-end models, display changes, and more. That's quite a lot of updates in one go, but there is another major refresh coming to the MacBook Pro – although when it will arrive has now been thrown into doubt.


According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is rethinking its original plan to minimally refresh the MacBook Pro lineup with M5 chips later this year. Instead, the refreshed M5 models, offering only a small performance boost, are now expected to arrive in the first half of 2026.

Gurman previously <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-11-03/apple-finally-finds-it [...]

Throwing AI at Developers Won’t Fix Their Problems

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If you ask engineers how much time they think they’re saving with AI, they’ll often give optimistic answers. But when

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Apple to Launch New Low-Cost 11-Inch iPad in the Spring

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Apple will launch a new 12th generation entry-level iPad in the spring of next year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Apple is said to have two versions of the entry-level 11-inch iPad in development, codenamed J581 and J582. These could refer to different storage capacities – in which case, Apple may be planning to drop the existing lowest capacity option. The current iPad 11 is available in 128, 256, and 512GB capacities.

Based on the report, the next-generation low-end iPad model will look like the current version but include a faster chip, but there is no word yet on which chip it will use. The iPad 11 features an A16 processor.

Apple is reportedly a [...]

iPhone 17 RAM: How Much to Expect for Each Model

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Apple is expected to introduce several notable hardware upgrades with the iPhone 17 lineup in 2025, and one of the most significant changes involves RAM. While all four iPhone 16 models feature 8GB of RAM, recent supply chain reports suggest that Apple plans to increase memory in several iPhone 17 models, potentially improving multitasking and gaming performance, as well as future-proofing the devices for upcoming Apple Intelligence and machine learning features.


According to a July 2025 report from industry sources in Asia, Apple's forthcoming iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max models will both be equipped with 12GB of RAM – a 50% increase over their predecessors. And for the first time, Apple is also expected to offer 12GB in a non-Pro device: the all-new ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air, which is rumored to rep [...]

Why Your Deployments Fail: A Deep Dive Into Misconfigured Pipelines

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SBOMs Are Not Enough

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iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air Rumored to Come in These 9 Colors

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The iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air will be available in a total of nine color options, according to new information coming out of Asia.

The ‌iPhone 17 Air‌'s expected color options.

iPhone 17 Pro Models With BOE Displays Will Be Sold in China Only

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iPhone 17 Pro and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max models with displays made by BOE will be sold exclusively in China, according to a new report.


Last week, it emerged that Chinese display manufacturer BOE was aggressively ramping up its OLED production capacity for future iPhone models as part of a plan to recapture a major role in Apple's supply chain.

Now, tech news aggregator Jukan Choi reports that Apple has approved BOE's latest displays for mass production. However, the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models with BOE displays will appare [...]

Could Agentic AI in DevOps Create New Security Flaws?

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The Hidden Imperative in the UK’s Software Security Code: Provable Readiness

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New Apple Watch AI Model Can Reveal Hidden Health Conditions

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A new Apple-backed AI model trained on Apple Watch behavioral data can now predict a wide range of health conditions more accurately than traditional sensor-based approaches, according to a recently published study.


The research paper, titled "Beyond Sensor Data: Foundation Models of Behavioral Data from Wearables Improve Health Predictions," introduces a machine learning model that analyzes user behavior to flag potential health issues. Unlike earlier methods that focus on real-time sensor outputs like heart rate or blood oxygen, the new model identifies patterns in how people move, sleep, and exercise over time.

At the center of the study is a foundation model that the researchers call the Wearable Behavior Model (WBM). It analyzes high-leve [...]

Apple Wins Dismissal in Payments Conspiracy Lawsuit

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Apple has successfully secured the dismissal of a federal lawsuit accusing it of conspiring with Visa and Mastercard to suppress competition in the payments network industry and inflate merchant transaction fees (via Reuters).


The Southern District of Illinois ruled in favor of Apple, Visa, and Mastercard in the case brought by Illinois-based beverage retailer Mirage Wine & Spirits and other merchants, which alleged that Apple had entered into anticompetitive agreements with the two major card networks. The plaintiffs claimed that Visa and Mastercard made ongoing payments to Apple, described as "a very large and ongoing cash bribe," to ensure Apple would n [...]

CA Sheriff Who Ran As A Reformer Now Facing Removal From Office

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Sheriff Christina Corpus is on the cusp of being an ex-sheriff and the first sheriff removed from office in San Mateo County via a county board vote. But her term as sheriff started a lot more promisingly. Running as a reformer, Corpus won the primary and the job, defeating Carlos Bolanos, who had definitely done […]

Apple's Low-Cost MacBook: Everything We Know So Far

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Apple is working on a more affordable version of the MacBook that's powered by an A-series iPhone chip rather than an M-series Apple silicon chip. We've rounded up all of the rumors about the new machine, which is expected next year.

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Netflix Tudum Architecture: from CQRS with Kafka to CQRS with RAW Hollow

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By Eugene Yemelyanau, Jake Grice

Introduction

Tudum.com is Netflix’s official fan destination, enabling fans to dive deeper into their favorite Netflix shows and movies. Tudum offers exclusive first-looks, behind-the-scenes content, talent interviews, live events, guides, and interactive experiences. “Tudum” is named after the sonic ID you hear when pressing play on a Netflix show or movie. Attracting over 20 million members each month, Tudum is designed to enrich the viewing experience by offering additional context and insights into the content available on Netflix.

Initial architecture

At the end of 2021, when we envisioned Tudum’s implementation, we considered architectural patterns that would be main

5 Underappreciated JavaScript Libraries To Try in 2025

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JavaScript isn’t just about frameworks anymore. While React, Vue and Svelte dominate headlines, the ecosystem quietly teems with small, sharp

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Making file encryption fast and secure for teams with advanced key management

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Deepgram Enables Developers to Issue Voice Commands to DevOps Tools

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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK

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Bluesky is adding age verification to its platform in the UK as part of efforts to comply with the country’s Online Safety Act. In an update on Thursday, the platform says it will let users verify their age by scanning their face, uploading an ID, or entering a payment card. Bluesky will perform age verification […]

Python Indexing vs. For Loops: What’s Really Faster?

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Known as the go-to language for tasks like data processing and analyzing large datasets, it is no surprise Python offers

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Jamsocket’s Session-Lived Infra Gets a New Home with Modal

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About a decade ago, Paul Butler and Taylor Baldwin met in the generative art world, talking about pen plotters. At

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OpenAI’s next big launch could be an AI web browser

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OpenAI is planning to launch an AI web browser in the “coming weeks,” according to a report from Reuters. Sources tell the outlet that OpenAI could build its Operator AI agent into the browser, allowing it to book reservations, fill out forms, and complete other tasks on a user’s behalf as it moves toward an […]

3 Strategies for Speeding Up AI Adoption Among Developers

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While AI has demonstrated significant potential for software development, numerous engineering leaders continue to face challenges in identifying optimal approaches

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Gemini can now turn your photos into video with Veo 3

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Google is making it easier to create videos with Gemini, but you only get a few shots per day.

INE Security Launches Enhanced eMAPT Certification

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DoorDash Fashions Snowflake Into Real-Time Financial Reporting System

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Food delivery service DoorDash embarked on a three-year journey to bring its internal accounting system into the real-time era using

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Inside the AI startup frenzy: ‘Everyone’s pivoting, then pivoting again’

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Welcome to Decoder! I’m Alex Heath, Deputy Editor at The Verge and author of the Command Line newsletter. This is the first in a series of Thursday Decoder episodes that I’ll be hosting while Nilay is out on parental leave. I’ve been covering AI a lot at The Verge, and I’m excited to start sharing […]

Quicksilver v2: evolution of a globally distributed key-value store (Part 1)

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This blog post is the first of a series, in which we share our journey in redesigning Quicksilver — Cloudflare’s distributed key-value store that serves over 3 billion keys per second globally.

Former Intel CEO’s New AI Benchmark Focuses on Human Flourishing

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After Intel replaced him as CEO last December, Pat Gelsinger posted a message on X saying he would pray and

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Lightspeed search built for devs (Interview)

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We talk with Don MacKinnon, Co-founder and CTO of Searchcraft—a lightspeed search engine built in Rust. We dig into the future of search, how it blends vector embeddings with classic ranking, and what it takes to build developer-friendly, production-grade search from the ground up.

ClickOps Is a Disgrace

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ClickOps is a disgrace. As a community, we should ban it. And that should be obvious to anyone who’s serious

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Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career

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I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pushing myself to write more lately because my co-authors and I have a whole fucking book to write between now and October. […]

Will LLMs and Vibe Coding Fuel a Developer Renaissance?

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Between companies increasingly using large language models (LLMs) in their development process, such as Microsoft writing up to 30% of

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Report: Apple M4, more comfortable strap will headline first major Vision Pro update

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Iterative update will supposedly be a bridge to a later, more extensive redesign.

Red Hat Woos Corporate Developers with Free Instances of RHEL

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Samsung’s 7th-gen foldables slim down, may finally fit in your pocket

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Samsung's new foldables are on sale today and will ship July 25.

Perplexity just launched an AI web browser

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Perplexity, the startup behind the AI “answer” engine, has just launched its own web browser. The browser, called Comet, incorporates Perplexity’s AI search tools and assistant in a way that CEO Aravind Srinivas says “transforms entire browsing sessions into single, seamless interactions.” Comet will only be available to users who subscribe to the $200 per […]