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Tel Aviv- and NYC-based Datafy, which offers an autonomous cloud storage optimization service, raised a $20M seed led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Tel Aviv- and NYC-based Datafy, which offers an autonomous cloud storage optimization service, raised a $20M seed led by Bessemer Venture Partners  —  The autonomous cloud storage optimization startup Datafy Inc. says it's ready to help enterprises pounce on some massive cost savings after closing on $20 million in seed funding.<

CA Sheriff Who Ran As A Reformer Now Facing An Indictment, Potential 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 […]

Bilt Rewards, which offers rewards points for rent payments, raised $250M led by General Catalyst and GID at a $10.75B valuation, up from $3.1B in January 2024 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

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Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
Bilt Rewards, which offers rewards points for rent payments, raised $250M led by General Catalyst and GID at a $10.75B valuation, up from $3.1B in January 2024  —  Bilt Rewards, the platform best known for doling out rewards points for rent payments, more than tripled its valuation …

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming the companies' AI chatbots are discriminating against President Trump (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming the companies' AI chatbots are discriminating against President Trump  —  Missouri's AG is barely even trying to pretend this isn't censorship. … Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is threatening Google …

Asked "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.", Grok 4 first consults Musk's views, but only when the word "you" is used (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Asked “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.”, Grok 4 first consults Musk's views, but only when the word “you” is used  —  If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find …

Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions  —  During xAI's launch of Grok 4 on Wednesday night, Elon Musk said — while live-streaming the event on his social media platform …

Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation. It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end. ZA 54 of 64 citations are about Elon. [video] (Jeremy Howard/@jeremyphoward)

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Jeremy Howard / @jeremyphoward:
Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation. It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end. ZA 54 of 64 citations are about Elon. [video]

Musk says Tesla to add Grok AI next week; robotaxis to hit San Francisco soon

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Less than 24 hours after Grok sparked outrage for antisemitic posts on X, Elon Musk...

EU drops sweeping AI rules, demands OpenAI, Google disclose training data and risks

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The European Union has introduced a voluntary code of practice for general-purpose artificial intelligence. The...

Sources: AWS is launching a marketplace for AI agents, with Anthropic as one of its partners, at the AWS Summit in NYC next week (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Sources: AWS is launching a marketplace for AI agents, with Anthropic as one of its partners, at the AWS Summit in NYC next week  —  Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching an AI agent marketplace next week and Anthropic is one of its partners, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

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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Belkin announces it is ending support for its Wemo devices and app on January 31, 2026; a limited number of devices will continue to function via HomeKit (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Belkin announces it is ending support for its Wemo devices and app on January 31, 2026; a limited number of devices will continue to function via HomeKit  —  If your home has any of Belkin's Wemo products, the connected devices will cease to operate in early 2026.

Paralyzed 8-year-old walks again after new treatment revives cell energy system

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An eight-year-old boy’s sudden loss of mobility became the first real-world test of a biochemical...

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Move Fast And Mistake Things

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]

M5 Chip Coming to iPad Pro This Fall

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Refreshed iPad Pro models will be the first device to get Apple's faster M5 chip, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple's high-end tablets could be refreshed as soon as October.


Apple last updated the ‌iPad Pro‌ line with the M4 chip and OLED display technology in May 2024, so there will be about 17 months between the M4 launch and the M5 launch.

Since the ‌iPad Pro‌ got a major design overhaul with OLED in 2024, the 2025 models aren't expected to feature design changes. They'll have the same slimmed down chassis and OLED display, but will b [...]

Florida AG's office launches an investigation into Robinhood for "falsely promoting" its trading platform as the "least expensive way to purchase crypto" (Kirk Ogunrinde/Bloomberg)

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Kirk Ogunrinde / Bloomberg:
Florida AG's office launches an investigation into Robinhood for “falsely promoting” its trading platform as the “least expensive way to purchase crypto”  —  The Menlo Park, California-based firm is “falsely promoting” its trading platform as the …

Single laser beam gives atomic spins 10x stability in breakthrough quantum test

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Researchers have discovered a powerful new way to shield atoms from losing quantum information, a...

Despite A Flood Of New State Laws, Most Industries Still Suck On ‘Right To Repair’

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Washington State recently became the eighth U.S. state to pass new right to repair legislation making it cheaper and easier to repair technology you own. At this point, roughly one-third of Americans now live in a state where some form of right to repair law has been passed, usually with broad, bipartisan, overwhelming public support. […]

Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or those opting out of verification will get limited access (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or those opting out of verification will get limited access  —  The UK's Online Safety Act requires platforms with adult content to implement age verification by July 25th.

LGND, which uses vector embeddings to analyze geospatial data and has an enterprise app to query it, raised a $9M seed led by Javelin Venture Partners (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)

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Tim De Chant / TechCrunch:
LGND, which uses vector embeddings to analyze geospatial data and has an enterprise app to query it, raised a $9M seed led by Javelin Venture Partners  —  The Earth is awash in data about itself.  Every day, satellites capture around 100 terabytes of imagery.  —  But making sense of it isn't always easy.

Belkin Ending Support for Most Wemo Devices

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Belkin today informed customers that it is ending technical support for older Wemo devices, with service set to end on January 31, 2026. When that date rolls around, some Wemo devices will no longer be accessible through the Wemo app.


Belkin says that any features that use cloud connectivity, such as remote access or voice assistant integrations, will stop working. Wemo products configured with HomeKit before January 31, 2026 will continue to function through ‌HomeKit‌ without needing Wemo cloud services or the Wemo app. Customers who have ‌HomeKit‌ can continue to use their devices as normal, but Amazon Alexa and Google Home users will not be able to continue to operate Wemo pro [...]

How much radiation is too much? Less than you think

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When we hear the word “radiation,” a certain image tends to pop up: toxic green...

M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025

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Apple does not plan to refresh any Macs with updated M5 chips in 2025, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Updated MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models are now planned for the first half of 2026.


Gurman previously said that Apple would debut the M5 ‌MacBook Pro‌ models in late 2025, but his newest report suggests that Apple is "considering" pushing them back to 2026. Apple is now said to be "internally targeting" a launch early next year.

The current M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max ‌MacBo [...]

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

These Apple Products Are Coming in Early 2026

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Apple has a long list of devices that it plans to launch during the first half of 2026, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said today. Apple is working on an iPhone 17e, along with several Macs and iPads.


Here's what's in the works for 2026:

• iPhone 17e - Updated A19 chip, could launch in February.


• MacBook Air - M5 chips.


• MacBook Pro - M5 chips.


• Updated Apple Display - A follow up to the <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/studio-display

iCapital, which makes tools for wealth managers to invest in alternative assets, raised $820M+ at a $7.5B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $1.5B+ (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:
iCapital, which makes tools for wealth managers to invest in alternative assets, raised $820M+ at a $7.5B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $1.5B+  —  iCapital, a fintech platform for alternative investments and investors, has raised more than $820 million in a funding round that takes …

Sources: Apple is planning M5 MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs, a new Mac external monitor, new low-end iPads and M4 iPad Airs, and an iPhone 17e for H1 2026 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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The US Senate confirms Jonathan Gould to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Gould was previously the chief legal officer at Bitfury (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

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Sarah Wynn / The Block:
The US Senate confirms Jonathan Gould to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Gould was previously the chief legal officer at Bitfury  —  - Jonathan Gould was previously chief legal officer at Bitfury and, before that, was senior deputy comptroller and chief counsel at the OCC.

Idaho AG Office Forces Schools To Take Down ‘Everyone Is Welcome’ Signs For Being ‘Political’

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It’s been interesting to watch the current administration and its GOP backers contort themselves into logical pretzels to explain to Americans why their policies, which are clearly either steeped or tinged with racist elements, are not in fact racist. Immigration policies and practices that are conducted without such annoyances as due process are waved off […]

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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Apple Releases New Beta Firmware for AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4

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Apple today introduced new beta firmware for the AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4, with an 8A5308b version number, up from 8A5293c. The firmware is only available to developers at the current time, and a device running iOS 26, iPadOS 26, or macOS 26 is required to install the update. Apple has seeded three beta updates so far.


The new firmware adds several features that Apple is debuting alongside ‌iOS 26‌, ‌iPadOS 26‌, and macOS Tahoe.

The ‌AirPods Pro‌ 2 and ‌AirPods [...]

Harmonic, a startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev that aims to build AI better at math than humans, raised a $100M Series B at a $875M valuation (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

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Kate Clark / Bloomberg:
Harmonic, a startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev that aims to build AI better at math than humans, raised a $100M Series B at a $875M valuation  —  Harmonic AI, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by Robinhood Markets Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vlad Tenev …

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

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Every second counts: Scientists link 10 clocks across 6 nations to redefine timekeeping

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Time has always been defined by the vibrations of cesium atoms. But as the limits...

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 […]

Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really)

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey just sent threatening letters to Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming their AI chatbots violated Missouri’s consumer protection laws. The crime? When asked to rank presidents on antisemitism, some of the AIs had the temerity to suggest Donald Trump might not be great on that front. Yes, you read that […]

Daily Deal: The Modern Tech Skills Bundle

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Bring your tech skills up to 21st-century snuff with the Modern Tech Skills Bundle. This 2,000+ class series combines subject areas that every aspiring tech pro needs to know to get ahead and stay ahead. Broken out into cybersecurity, AI and machine learning, and information technology and cloud computing, you’ll be able to zero in […]

Air filter modeled on nasal mucus doubles efficiency in real-world performance tests

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Chemical engineers in South Korea have developed a new air filtration system inspired by one...

Prime Day iPad Deals Feature Up to $120 Off iPad Air, iPad Mini, and iPad

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iPads have had some of the biggest discounts during Prime Day this year, and you can still find multiple record low prices on the iPad, iPad mini, and iPad Air today. Our main post has all of the Apple Prime Day deals that you can find on Amazon this year.

11th Gen iPad

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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NFL Apps Rolling Out on CarPlay Starting With These Teams

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As spotted by 9to5Mac's Zac Hall, NFL team apps are rolling out on CarPlay.


The official Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears apps gained CarPlay support earlier this year, followed by the official New Orleans Saints app this week. All three apps are developed by a company named YinzCam, which says it develops the official apps for a total of 25 NFL teams, 18 NHL teams, 17 NBA teams, 16 MLS clubs, and more.

In the CarPlay apps, fans can listen to live audio and radio broadcasts for their favorite team's games, right on their vehicle's dashboard.

YinzCam will presumab [...]

Oklahoma Sued Again For Mandating Students Be Taught Election Conspiracy Theories, Bible Stories

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Like far too many states in the current Trump era, Oklahoma has also decided the Constitution is meaningless and that whatever the government wants, it can have. In this case, it means mandating every school classroom contain a Bible that must be “taught” from, as well as expanding the concept of “social studies” to include […]

Review: Aqara's G410 Doorbell Camera Brings HomeKit Support and Hub Features for $130

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Smart home accessory maker Aqara today launched the Doorbell Camera Hub G410, which integrates with HomeKit and offers HomeKit Secure Video Support.


I was able to test the Doorbell Camera Hub G410 ahead of launch, and it's a solid doorbell camera, and even better if you have an Aqara setup or plan to get more Aqara products. The G410 includes a Matter controller and it is able to serve as a hub for other Aqara Zigbee devices, like Aqara's door locks, so you don't need a standalone hub that doesn't serve another purpose. For Thread-based devices, it's also a Thread border router that can improve connectivity.

Aqara's [...]

Humanoid robot soldiers could lead to ‘indiscriminate killings,’ China military warns

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China’s official military newspaper has called for urgent ethical and legal research to regulate the...

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 […]

5 Reasons to Buy an iPhone 17 Air in September

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We're just a couple months away from the launch of new iPhone models, and rumors are starting to really pick up. This year, we're expecting an all-new iPhone 17 Air, which will be the first notable redesign to the ‌iPhone‌'s form factor since the ‌iPhone‌ 12 launched.

• It's super thin. As we saw in a video of a dummy model shared by Majin Bu, the ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ looks sleek and modern. It's thinner than any ‌iPhone‌ that has come before it, and we're expecting it to be super light in the hand due to the thin design.


• No frills. Since it's thin, Apple had to cut space. There's a 48-megapixel single-

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.

China’s 540 million-ton lithium find could shake up global EV battery supply game

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China has announced the discovery of a vast hard-rock lithium deposit in central Hunan Province,...

OWC Takes $100 Off Popular 14-Port Thunderbolt Dock During Prime Day-Like Sale

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OWC kicked off a new sale this week, offering big Prime Day-like discounts on a variety of USB-C docks, memory cards, external drives and enclosures, and Mac accessories. Some of these deals won't be applied until you add the items to your cart, at which time an automatic coupon will be applied to your order.

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

There are a few notable deals in this sale, including $100 off the popular <stron [...]

Jurassic Park-ing: US museum finds 67-million-year-old dinosaur fossil under asphalt

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Scientists in the US were in for a massive surprise when a drilling project beneath...

Add Custom Backgrounds to Messages in iOS 26

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Apple's iOS 26 finally brings custom conversation backgrounds to the Messages app, letting you personalize your chats with photos, colors, or images generated by Image Playground. Third-party messaging apps like WhatsApp have offered this kind of feature for years, so finally iPhone owners can now also add their own visual flair to text conversations in Apple's stock messaging app.


Custom backgrounds can help you organize conversations at a glance and add a personal touch to your most important chats. You might choose a sunset photo for family group chats, a solid color for work messages, or a fun AI-generated image for conversations with friends. Just note that when you change the background, everyone in the conversation will also see it.

Bear in mind that iOS 26 is currently in beta testing and will see [...]

INE Security Launches Enhanced eMAPT Certification

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DoorDash Fashions Snowflake Into Real-Time ERP 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.

Prime Day Deals Still Going Strong on AirPods, iPads, MacBooks, and More

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Although in previous years Amazon Prime Day would be finished by now, this year the event is in its third day. Prime Day 2025 is set to run through tomorrow, July 11, making it the longest Prime Day yet. As it does every year, Prime Day offers shoppers a huge selection of deals across Amazon's storefront and we're tracking numerous all-time low prices on Apple gear right now.

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.

For our coverage, we're focusing on discounts for Apple and Apple-related products that can be purchased right now on Am [...]

Apple Updates Trade-In Values for iPhones, Macs, and More

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Apple today updated its trade-in values for some iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch models.


The charts below provide an overview of Apple's current and previous trade-in values for these devices in the United States, according to its website.

Many of the values decreased, but some others are unchanged, and iPhone 14 Pro Max and entry-level iPad values went up very slightly. In addition, Apple is no longer accepting 12-inch MacBook or Apple Watch Series 4 trade-ins.

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Prime Day Beats Deals Include Powerbeats Pro 2 at $179.95, Beats Pill at $97.95, and More Best-Ever Prices

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Amazon is discounting a collection of Beats headphones and speakers for Prime Day, including an all-time low price on the Powerbeats Pro 2. You can get this new 2025 model for $179.95 in three colors, down from $249.99. We've been tracking all of the best Apple-related accessories for Prime Day, including TVs, monitors, and more.

Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a [...]

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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U.S. Consumer Protection Is Dead: Lobbyists And Lawyers Kill New FTC Rule That Would Have Made It Easier To Cancel Subscriptions

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Have I mentioned lately that the U.S. no longer has functional federal consumer protection and corporate oversight thanks to Donald Trump? And how that should probably be more of a story across journalism? Last fall you might recall that the FTC created a popular new rule that barred corporations from making it annoying or difficult […]

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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5 Reasons to Skip This Year's iPhone 17 Pro

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Apple will launch its new iPhone 17 series in two months, and the iPhone 17 Pro models are expected to get a new design for the rear casing and the camera area. But more significant changes to the lineup are not expected until next year, when the iPhone 18 models arrive.


If you're thinking of trading in your iPhone for this year's latest, consider the following features rumored to be coming to the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max models – as well as a rumored new premium iPhone model for 2026. Taken together, they may just give you pause for thought.

Under-Display Face ID

iPhone 17 Base Model Likely to Stick With 8GB RAM

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Apple's iPhone 17 lineup could feature a notable RAM divide, with the base model potentially missing out on a rumored memory boost coming to the more high-end models.


According to leaker Fixed Focus Digital on Weibo, the iPhone 17 will stick with 8GB of RAM while the iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max will jump to 12GB. The leaker previously revealed the iPhone 16e name before its official announcement, lending some credibility to their claim.

For comparison, Samsung's latest Galaxy S25 models, which launched earlier this year, all come with 12GB of RAM. Google's Pixel 9 also comes with 12GB [...]

Aqara Debuts G410 Doorbell, G100 Camera, and H2 Dimmer With HomeKit Support

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Smart home company Aqara's G410 video doorbell, which is Matter-compatible and supports Apple's HomeKit Secure Video, is now available to buy.


Announced in January, the Doorbell Camera Hub G410 introduces several notable upgrades, including a 2K resolution sensor for sharper video, a 175-degree field of view, and built-in mmWave presence detection to reduce false alerts.

The G410 also supports dual-band Wi-Fi, Thread, and HomeKit Secure Video, as well as options for secure storage via iCloud, local microSD, or NAS. It's ready for both battery-powered and wired setups.

The Aqara G410 video doorbell can be purchased on the Aqara website for [...]

Foldable iPhone Display Production Begins Ahead of Launch Next Year

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Production of foldable OLED displays for Apple's first foldable iPhone have begun ahead of its expected launch next year, Korea's ETNews reports.


The first foldable ‌iPhone‌'s displays are being produced by Samsung Display, who are establishing a production line dedicated to the upcoming Apple device its A3 factory in Asan, Chungcheongnam-do. The production line will make displays exclusively for the foldable ‌iPhone‌ and work on the facility is now believed to be in its final stage. It will be capable of producing 15 million 7-inch foldable OLED panels per year.

Apple's first foldable ‌iPhone‌ is expected to feature an inward-folding OLED display. It will l [...]

Meta Offered Apple AI Executive Over $200 Million to Leave

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Meta offered one of Apple's top artificial intelligence executives over $200 million to lure him away from the company, Bloomberg reports.


Ruoming Pang, who until recently led Apple's foundation models team, departed the company to join Meta's Superintelligence Labs, a newly established division tasked with building advanced AI systems capable of performing at or beyond human-level intelligence.

At Apple, he was in charge of a team with approximately 100 employees that work on Apple's large language models. Models developed by Pang's team are used for Apple Intelligence features like email summaries, Priority Notification [...]

Let’s All Talk About The ‘Reverse Boycott’ Oakland A’s Game That MLB Is Trying To Memory-Hole

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I’ve been an MLB.TV evangelist for some time now. My deep love for the game of baseball has led me to subscribe to baseball’s streaming service, still probably the best in sports, for over a decade now. While the local blackouts are still a nuisance, I really do love the ability to stream almost any […]

Litigious Company Demands Removal Of A Tweet Linking To An Article About How Litigious They Are

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It’s not every day you watch a company faceplant so theatrically in public, but Cloud Innovation’s latest stunt deserves a slow clap. Cloud Innovation, which you’d probably never heard of unless you’re neck-deep in African IP registry battles (stay tuned), just managed to make a legal play whose end result should be calling a lot […]

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 […]

Harnessing AI To Elevate Automated Software Testing

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Automated software testing continues to be a key tool for driving engineering efficiency, and with the rise of AI, greater

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The Hidden Threat of API Sprawl Beyond the Gateway

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Network APIs Are Radically Reshaping Dev-CSP Collaboration

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In today’s hyperconnected world, digital experiences are only as good as the networks behind them. While application developers have long

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How to Write Rust Code Like a Rustacean

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Rust is no longer the “new kid on the block.” It’s become a staple of a developer’s tech stack, helping

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OpenTelemetry for Mobile: Adoption Set to Triple, Says Survey

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When most developers think about OpenTelemetry, they picture backend tracing, metrics and logs, not mobile app performance. But new data

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Survey Surfaces Significant Lack of Visibility Into Software Supply Chain Risks

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Ars staffers share some of their favorite unexpected 3D prints

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Once you solve one problem with a 3D printer, you'll go looking for others.

Kubernetes Complexity Realigns Platform Engineering Strategy

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When Kubernetes came onto the tech scene about a decade ago, it quickly became the shining example of the grassroots,

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200 million requests per day with Go and cgi-bin

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Migrate and modernize VMware workloads with AWS Transform for VMware

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AWS Transform for VMware is a service that tackles cloud migration challenges by significantly reducing manual effort and accelerating the migration of critical VMware workloads to AWS Cloud. In this post, we highlight its comprehensive capabilities, including streamlined discovery and assessment, intelligent network conversion, enhanced security and compliance, and orchestrated migration execution.

How to Measure the ROI of AI Coding Assistants

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Every organization is asking how to go faster with AI. “The problem with this question is that we’re really focused

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Gmail’s new subscription management is here to declutter your inbox

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After coming and going for a year, Gmail's unified subscription page is rolling out.

What Are the Differences Between OTel, Fluent Bit and Fluentd?

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This article is part of a series. Read also: Fluent Bit, a Specialized Event Capture and Distribution Tool Fluent Bit:

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How To Build Smarter Factories With Edge Computing

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Walk through any modern manufacturing facility, and you’ll witness a fundamental shift happening. Machines that once operated in isolation now

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React Router: New Governance and React Server Component APIs

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There’s been a lot of buzz about Remix’s announcement that it will pursue a different direction, but in that hullabaloo,

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Tackle API Sprawl with a Holistic Discovery Strategy

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APIs are everywhere in today’s enterprise — REST, SOAP, GraphQL and beyond — spreading across environments and platforms at breakneck

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Kraft Trims Snowflake Bill with AI App to Fine-Tune Queries

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How do you make the most of your deployments? By optimizing the heck out of query executions and data warehouse

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How TimescaleDB helped us scale analytics and reporting

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Cloudflare chose TimescaleDB to power its Digital Experience Monitoring and Zero Trust Analytics products.

No Disruption: How Quesma Rewrites the Data Migration Playbook

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Ask a data team what they would do if they could rebuild their infrastructure from scratch, and it’s a pretty

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Context Engineering: Going Beyond Prompt Engineering and RAG

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The initial wave of large language model (LLM) development centered on prompt engineering – carefully crafting the right question or

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Internal Developer Platform Marketing, part 01

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Most platform teams forget they have a product to sell to developers. Part one of my new series over at The New Stack lays out why internal platform marketing is incredibly important. Here’s excerpt on positioning:

Platform Positioning: What Is It Good For?

Positioning defines where your platform fits in your organization’s technical landscape. It answers the crucial question: “When and why should developers choose this platform over other options?”

Oftentimes, platforms are positioned as the everything solution that solves all the problems and, thus, should be used for all applications. This might be technically right, but narrowing down to a set of smaller, specific posit

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VMware Tanzu enhances support for generative AI and agents with Tanzu AI Solutions - “As customers move from AI experimentation to implementation, they stand to benefit from closer integrations between technology components as they redefine “Ops” frameworks within their businesses. VMware Tanzu AI Solutions are designed to do just that, with specific enhancements like AI middleware that boosts performance, fosters security and reduces time to value when it comes to operationalizing AI models and applications. Tanzu AI Solutions are polyglot for those who are unfamiliar with preferred data science languages or use other languages, and should appeal to Java developers with the launch of Spring AI. Spring AI also includes dedicated feature sets to control, observe, and evaluate models and, ultimately, agents,