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Supporters and skeptics of the TikTok ban in Congress say Trump's US ownership proposal bewilders them, claiming it doesn't comply with the divest-or-ban law (Politico)

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Politico:
Supporters and skeptics of the TikTok ban in Congress say Trump's US ownership proposal bewilders them, claiming it doesn't comply with the divest-or-ban law  —  Members of Congress are declaring themselves bewildered by Donald Trump's latest proposal to save TikTok by brokering a joint-ownership deal.

Elon Musk's first moves suggest DOGE will be closer to an IT project than the sweeping operation to slash $2T+ from the federal budget that he once predicted (New York Times)

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New York Times:
Elon Musk's first moves suggest DOGE will be closer to an IT project than the sweeping operation to slash $2T+ from the federal budget that he once predicted  —  The rebranding of a former White House digital office into the new Department of Government Efficiency signals i

An investigation reveals how the Israeli military's reliance on Microsoft's cloud and AI systems surged during the most intensive phase of the Israel-Hamas war (The Guardian)

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The Guardian:
An investigation reveals how the Israeli military's reliance on Microsoft's cloud and AI systems surged during the most intensive phase of the Israel-Hamas war  —  Leaked documents shed light on how Israel integrated the US tech giant into its war effort to meet growing demand for cloud and AI tools

Sources outline negotiations between the Biden administration and TikTok ahead of the ban, as company insiders refute claims that a blackout helped their case (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

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Uber and Ola deny setting fares based on phone models in India after a government body alleged that the firms use differential pricing for Android and iOS users (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Uber and Ola deny setting fares based on phone models in India after a government body alleged that the firms use differential pricing for Android and iOS users  —  Uber (UBER.N) said it does not set ride prices based on a user's phone model, shortly after an Indian government body alleged &hellip

Trump's EO to protect the dollar bars any further work on a CBDC and aligns the government's interests with those of stablecoin issuers like Tether and Circle (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Trump's EO to protect the dollar bars any further work on a CBDC and aligns the government's interests with those of stablecoin issuers like Tether and Circle  —  - US crypto czar sees potential for extending dollar dominance  — USDT, USDC account for almost 90% of total stablecoin value

Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits  —  Hedge fund billionaire Liang Wenfeng builds model on tight budget despite US attempt to halt China's high-tech ambitions

Justin Baldoni’s Legal Team Decides To Wage A PR War Before Trial

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And now this whole thing gets even messier. What started off as something of a Streisand Effect post about Justin Baldoni’s decision to amplify the accusations made against him by Blake Lively has now simply ballooned into something much, much larger. Keep in mind that Lively’s accusations can essentially be distilled down to two main […]

Chinese self-driving company WeRide aims to make more inroads overseas in 2025; WeRide operates in nine countries and secured new deals in Switzerland and Japan (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal)

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Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Chinese self-driving company WeRide aims to make more inroads overseas in 2025; WeRide operates in nine countries and secured new deals in Switzerland and Japan  —  WeRide already operates driverless vehicles in 30 cities across nine countries  —  Chinese a

OpenAI updates ChatGPT's Canvas feature with o1 model support and HTML and React code rendering, making it a direct competitor to Claude's Artifacts (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
OpenAI updates ChatGPT's Canvas feature with o1 model support and HTML and React code rendering, making it a direct competitor to Claude's Artifacts  —  OpenAI Canvas gets a huge upgrade.  Canvas is the ChatGPT feature where ChatGPT can open up a shared editing environment and collaborate …

Source: Lightspeed has invested a total of $2.2B in AI deals, excluding the $2B Anthropic funding round it is leading, and is close to raising a $7B fund (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

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Kate Clark / Bloomberg:
Source: Lightspeed has invested a total of $2.2B in AI deals, excluding the $2B Anthropic funding round it is leading, and is close to raising a $7B fund  —  The 25-year-old venture capital firm is embracing tech's new era of enormous artificial intelligence deals

Yann LeCun says DeepSeek "profited from open research and open source" like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones  —  If you hadn't heard, there's a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis …

Filing: Character AI says 1A protects it from liability in a lawsuit that claims a teen committed suicide after becoming emotionally attached to a chatbot (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Filing: Character AI says 1A protects it from liability in a lawsuit that claims a teen committed suicide after becoming emotionally attached to a chatbot  —  Character AI, a platform that lets users engage in roleplay with AI chatbots, has filed a motion to dismiss a case brought … <

India Spends $715 Million On The Wrong Kind Of Open Access Journals

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Numerous articles on Walled Culture have chronicled the struggles to turn the aspirations of open access to knowledge into reality. The central reason people do not have free digital access to all academic knowledge is that publishers have been successful in subverting attempts to provide it. Publishers are strongly motivated to undermine open access, since its successful […]

UnitedHealth says the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit in February 2024 affected ~190M people, nearly double its previous estimate of 100M (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
UnitedHealth says the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit in February 2024 affected ~190M people, nearly double its previous estimate of 100M  —  UnitedHealth has confirmed the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit last February affected around 190 million people in America — nearly

Sources: Rad AI, which creates AI-powered tools for radiologists, raised a $60M Series C at a $525M valuation; Rad AI raised a $50M Series B in March 2024 (Business Insider)

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Business Insider:
Sources: Rad AI, which creates AI-powered tools for radiologists, raised a $60M Series C at a $525M valuation; Rad AI raised a $50M Series B in March 2024  —  - Rad AI recently raised a Series C funding round led by Transformation Capital, Business Insider has learned.

White House crypto czar David Sacks says NFTs and memecoins are neither securities nor commodities, but collectibles that people buy to "commemorate something" (Catherine McGrath/Fortune)

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Catherine McGrath / Fortune:
White House crypto czar David Sacks says NFTs and memecoins are neither securities nor commodities, but collectibles that people buy to “commemorate something”  —  Non-fungible tokens and memecoins are neither securities nor commodities, according to White House crypto czar David Sacks.

Nvidia starts to wind down support for old GPUs, including the long-lived GTX 1060

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Nvidia last dropped Game Ready driver support for older GPUs in 2021.

Cops Are Still Bypassing Facial Recognition Controls To Build Cases Based On Bad Matches

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The Detroit PD has made this sort of thing its unofficial brand. It has even shelled out at least $300,000 to ensure people most often think of the Detroit PD when discussing false arrests aided and abetted by facial recognition tech. But there are plenty of others in the US law enforcement industrial complex vying […]

New York Law Requiring Cheap $15 Broadband Takes Effect

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After King Trump’s dutiful Supreme Court recently refused to hear the case, a New York State law has taken effect requiring that ISPs provide low-income, state residents affordable $15 broadband. It’s a big win for digital equity activists and consumer groups that have long argued that America’s heavily monopolized (and barely competitive) broadband industry results […]

Brendan Carr, Trump’s ‘Free Speech’ Warrior, Wastes No Time Violating Trump’s New Free Speech Executive Order

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Back in November, I explained in great detail how Trump’s new FCC chair Brendan Carr was signaling loud and clear that he intended to be Trump’s top censor. This was in contrast to both his and Trump’s declaration that Carr was some sort of “free speech warrior.” Instead, he has given every indication that he’s […]

The Data Engineer’s Guide to GenAI and AI Integration

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When we started Nexla in 2016, our mission was to make data readily available to any data consumers, which also

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The MacRumors Show: Samsung's 2025 Challenge to Apple

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The MacRumors Show is back for 2025! On this week's episode, we look at how Samsung's latest announcements challenge Apple.

Daily Deal: The Complete PMP Training Bundle

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Project Management is global. This is one of those professions similar to being an accountant, where your skills and talents can be applied to any industry in any place. The 10-course Complete PMP Training Bundle provides a comprehensive training path for all things project management, including the most update to date courses including PMP 6th […]

Best Apple Deals of the Week: AirTag 4-Pack on Sale for $69.99, Plus Pre-Order Discounts on Samsung Galaxy S25 Phones

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This week's deals-related headliner is focused on Samsung's new lineup of Galaxy S25 smartphones, with as much as $1,250 in savings when you pre-order these devices before their February launch. Otherwise, you can also still find great all-time low prices on Apple's AirTag 4-Pack, M3 MacBook Air, and M4 iMac.

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.

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iOS 18.3 Might Have a Last-Minute Change, Here's Why

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A private account on social media platform X today leaked the final build number for Apple's upcoming iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 updates: 22D61. That is a very slight change compared to the 22D60 build number for the iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 Release Candidates, which are essentially the final beta versions of each update.


The account has a good track record of sharing iOS-related information, but it has had some occasional misses. We continue to respect the account owner's request to not link to its posts, as they wish to remain anonymous and maintain a low profile.

The change suggests that iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 could include a very minor, last-minute change or two. Exactly what those changes might be [...]

iOS 18 Installed on 76% of iPhones Introduced in the Last Four Years

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iOS 18 adoption is on pace with iOS 17 adoption last year, according to ‌iOS 18‌ adoption statistics provided by Apple. ‌iOS 18‌ is installed on 76 percent of iPhones introduced in the last four years, while 63 percent of iPads from the last four years are running iPadOS 18.


68 percent of all iPhones have ‌iOS 18‌ installed, and 53 percent of all iPads have ‌iPadOS 18‌ installed.

For all iPhones, 19 percent are still running iOS 17 and 13 percent are running an earlier version of iOS. For all iPads, 28 percent are running iPadOS 17 and 19 percent are running an earlier version of iPadOS. <br [...]

DC Appeals Court: Compelling Fingerprint Production To Unlock Phones Violates Fifth Amendment

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Well, well, well: let’s get this circuit split started! In completely unexpected news, the DC Court of Appeals has ruled [PDF] that compelling someone to unlock a device using their finger is a violation of Fifth Amendment protections that disallow forcing someone to testify against themselves. (h/t Gabriel Malor on Bluesky) Most courts have ruled […]

Bringing Jetpack Compose to Instagram for Android

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Introducing a new Android UI framework like Jetpack Compose into an existing app is more complicated than importing some AARS and coding away. What if your app has specific performance goals to meet? What about existing design components, integrations with navigation, and logging frameworks? On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast Pascal Hartig is [...]

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Apple Brings in New Exec to 'Fix' Siri and Apple Intelligence

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Apple is making an internal staffing change that it hopes will improve Siri and its artificial intelligence offerings, reports Bloomberg. Kim Vorrath, a 37-year Apple veteran, will join the AI team to work under AI chief John Giannandrea.


Vorrath is a program management VP, and has a reputation for meticulously managing software projects at Apple and ensuring employees meet deadlines. She has been described as Apple's "bug wrangler" and as a "powerful force" in the company. For the last few years, she has been <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/ [...]

Kuo: iPhone 17 Models Won't Have Smaller Dynamic Island

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The upcoming iPhone 17 models that Apple plans to release this year will not feature a smaller Dynamic Island, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today.


On social media, he said that he is expecting the size of the ‌Dynamic Island‌ to remain "largely unchanged" across the ‌iPhone 17‌ lineup. His statement is contrary to prior rumors that we've heard about planned changes for the ‌iPhone 17‌ models.

Analyst Jeff Pu said several times last year that Apple would adopt a "meta [...]

Poorly Designed Rewards Crush Improvement Efforts

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No matter how clearly we explain what we want, our system of rewards can undermine our efforts to improve. Incentive

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 costs as much as a whole gaming PC—but it sure is fast

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Even setting aside Frame Generation, this is a fast, power-hungry $2,000 GPU.

iOS 18.4 Beta Coming Soon With These New Features for Your iPhone

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iOS 18.3 is expected to be widely released next week, and that means the first iOS 18.4 beta for iPhones should be just around the corner.


Apple has previously implied that iOS 18.4 will be released in April, as that is when it promised to make Apple Intelligence available in even more languages.

Below, we outline what to expect from iOS 18.4 so far.

Apple Intelligence for Siri

What Makes TikTok’s Algorithms So Effective?

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On Tuesday, the newly-elected U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order that gave TikTok a 75-day reprieve from

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Visits Lumon Industries in 'Severance' Promo Video

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The hit Apple TV+ workplace thriller "Severance" returned for a second season last week, and Apple continues to heavily market the show.


In a short video shared today by "Severance" executive producer Ben Stiller, Apple CEO Tim Cook visits Lumon Industries. He enters the office's elevator and undergoes the severance procedure, which divides his memories between his work and personal life. Cook arrives to the severed floor as his "innie," wearing a "Tim C." name tag.

A stoic but smiling Tim C. walks down a hallway and enters a room with Milchick, who greets him by calling him the "core of the apple." Cook sits down in front of a TV, which will play a video walki [...]

Endor Labs Forks Semgrep to Opengrep for Static Code Analysis

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Cloud Deployment of AI Models Jumps, Says Data Science Study

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Ignore the anecdotal stories you’re hearing about AI workloads driving a migration from the cloud to on-premises and private cloud

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Fallthrough & Friends (Friends)

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Kris Brandow & Matthew Sanabria from Fallthrough.fm join Jerod to discuss tools we're switching to, whether or not Go is still a great systems programming language choice, user-centric documentation, the need for archivists & more.

AT&T’s Support Of ‘Open Access’ Fiber Competition Is A Head Fake, Community Owned ISP Says

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We’ve talked repeatedly how one way to boost lagging U.S. broadband competition is the support of “open access” fiber networks that allow numerous ISPs to compete over a centralized fiber network. In ideal implementations, like Ammon, Idaho or in parts of Utah, residents have the option of switching between multiple, competing ISPs, sometimes in a […]

Agile and Innovation: Striking the Right Balance in Software Development

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Vector Databases: The Foundation of AI Agent Innovation

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Vector database growth shows no signs of slowing in the year and years ahead, with Forrester predicting that most organizations

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Unreleased Sony WH-1000XM6 Headphones Appear in FCC Filing

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Sony could be close to launching the successor model to its popular WH-1000XM5 over-ear noise-canceling headphones, if a new FCC filing is anything to go by.


The company's WH-1000XM5 cans, which we compared to Apple's AirPods Max back in May 2022, are considered by many to offer some of the best noise-canceling in the business, providing great sound, excellent comfort and long battery life.

Now it appears that Sony wants to go one better, with news that the company has filed for certification for the next model in the series.

First spotted by <a href="https://thewalkmanblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/sony-wh-1000xm6-yy2984-hits-fcc.html" [...]

How to Measure DevOps Success Effectively in 2025

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Apple Announces New In-App Purchase API

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Apple yesterday announced a new API to expand in-app purchase capabilities on the App Store, providing developers with new ways to support large content catalogs, creator-driven experiences, and customizable subscription models.



The new "Advanced Commerce API" addresses three broad use cases:

• Apps offering extensive libraries of one-time purchase content, such as audiobooks or educational courses, that require frequent updates.


• Apps that provide access to creator-led content, enabling users to purchase either one-time or renewable subscriptions tied to specific creators or collections.


• Subscription services that offer optiona

Apple's Macintosh Turns 41 Today

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Apple announced the Macintosh 41 years ago today, introducing the first widely successful personal computer with a graphical user interface.



The Macintosh revolutionized personal computing by popularizing the use of a mouse to control an on-screen pointer. At the time, this point-and-click navigation method was unfamiliar to most, as personal computers primarily relied on text-based command-line interfaces operated with a keyboard. An excerpt from Apple's press release in 1984:

Users tell Macintosh what to do simply by moving a "mouse" — a small pointing device — to select among functions listed in menus and represented by pictorial symbols on the screen. Users are no longer forced to memorize the nu

Threads Now Lets You Schedule Posts Up to 75 Days in Advance

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Threads, Meta's social network that's meant to rival X, has announced it is rolling out the ability for all users to schedule posts.


Threads can now be created and scheduled to go up at a later date and time. Multiple posts can be scheduled per day, up to 75 days in advance, but it's not possible to schedule replies.

To use the feature, create a post, select the three-dot menu in the top-left corner, and select "Schedule." Once a time and date for posting has been selected, you can view, delete, or edit the post from the drafts folder.

Announcing the feature on Thursday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri added that Threads is also adding a way to "markup" re-shared posts by drawing over, highlighting, or adding arrows to the existing p [...]

Siri Gives Eagles 33 False Super Bowl Wins in Basic Knowledge Test

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In what may not come as much of a surprise, a new test of Siri's knowledge of Super Bowl history has revealed significant accuracy issues with Apple's virtual assistant, suggesting Apple still has some way to go in overcoming challenges with Siri's ability to provide reliable information.


In a methodical experiment, One Foot Tsunami's Paul Kafasis asked Siri who won each Super Bowl from I through LX and documented its responses. The results were strikingly poor, with Siri correctly identifying winners only 34% of the time – just 20 correct answers out of 58 played Super Bowls.

Perhaps most notably, Siri repeatedly and incorrectly credited the Philadelphia Eagles with 33 Super Bowl victories, de [...]

5 New Things Your iPhone Can Do in iOS 18.3

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Apple is set to release iOS 18.3 next week, bringing further refinements to Apple Intelligence features, a couple of neat new capabilities to iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 devices, and bug fixes.


While not quite as packed with new features as Apple's preceding iOS 18 point releases, iOS 18.3 still introduces capabilities that aim to make your iPhone smarter and more intuitive. Below, we've listed five new things your ‌iPhone‌ will be able to do when the update rolls out later this month.

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Ignore the Grifters - AI Isn’t Going to Kill the Software Industry — Dustin Ewers - “we’ll eventually allocate our scarce AI resources towards the things they are best at, which leaves plenty of things for humans to do."

Apple Watch Bands Are Safe to Wear, Says Apple, After Lawsuit Filed

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Following a class action lawsuit that alleges some Apple Watch bands contain toxic "forever chemicals," also known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), Apple has ensured that Apple Watch bands are "safe for users to wear."


Apple's full statement today:

Apple Watch bands are safe for users to wear. In addition to our own testing, we also work with independent laboratories to conduct rigorous testing and analysis of the materials used in our products, including Apple Watch bands.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The TickTock On TikTok

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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 […]

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 212 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

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Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser.


‌Safari Technology Preview‌ 212 includes fixes and updates for Authentication, Canvas, CSS, Forms, JavaScript, Loading, Networking, PDF, Rendering, SVG, Text, Web API and Web Inspector.

The current ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release is compatible with machines running [...]

Milwaukee Meteorologist Fired One Day After Criticizing Elon Musk’s Nazi-ish Salute

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To borrow a phrase famously used by the world class philosophers called Green Day, Elon Musk is something of a walking contradiction. He touts the so-called “Twitter Files” as some kind of damning report on government weaponization against critical content and is then accused of doing exactly the same thing himself. He’s a “free speech […]

Epic Games Store Lures EU Developers With Promise to Pay Apple Fees

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Epic Games is planning to pay the Apple fees that EU developers incur when distributing their apps through the ‌Epic Games‌ Store, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney told The Verge today.


‌Epic Games‌ added almost 20 third-party games to its app store on iOS devices in the European Union, where alternate app stores are allowed to operate. Epic also debuted its free games program, and the company says it will pay the Core Technology Fees for iOS developers in the EU who offer their apps for free on the ‌Epic Games‌ Store.

Developers who bring their apps to the ‌Epic Games‌ Store can get their Core Technology Fee [...]

Apple Says Several Car Makers Still Plan to Support Next-Generation CarPlay

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Apple today confirmed that "several" car makers still plan to support next-generation CarPlay in future vehicle models. Apple said each car brand will share more details as they near the announcements of these vehicles, but it did not provide a timeframe. Apple previously said next-generation ‌CarPlay‌ would launch in 2024, but that did not happen.


Apple's statement about next-generation ‌CarPlay‌:

The next generation of CarPlay builds on years of success and insights gained from CarPlay, delivering the best of Apple and the automaker in a deeply integrated and customizable experience. We continue to work closely with several au

Apple Removes '2024' Timeframe From Next-Generation CarPlay Page

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Apple's website said the first vehicle models with support for next-generation CarPlay would "arrive in 2024," but that did not happen. A little more than three weeks into 2025, Apple has now updated its website in the U.S. to remove that 2024 timeframe from the next-generation ‌CarPlay‌ section of its overall CarPlay page.


The fact that Apple did not remove the entire next-generation ‌CarPlay‌ section from the page suggests that the software might still launch at some point in the future, but Apple is no longer providing a timeframe at this point.

It is unclear if Apple, car makers, or both are to blame for the missed 2024 target. We have reached out to Apple for comment.
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OpenVox: The Community-Driven Fork of Puppet Has Arrived

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The DevOps automation landscape is set for a significant shift as ‘s open-source community launches OpenVox, a fork of the

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Building High-Performance Software Development Teams: 7 Tips

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High-performing teams are the engine of innovation and efficiency in any software development organization. Their success stems from producing high-quality

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

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Apple today released new beta firmware updates for both AirPods 4 models and the AirPods Pro 2 with both Lightning and USB-C charging cases. The firmware has a build number of 7E5067b, and it is only available to developers at the current time.


It is not immediately clear what new features or changes are included in the new firmware, but we'll update this article should we find out. Non-developers will have 7B21 firmware on the ‌AirPods Pro‌ 2 and 7B20 firmware on the ‌AirPods 4‌, with no change until the beta firmware sees an official launch.

There is no method for manually forcing the installation of a firmware update on AirPods. Firmware updates are generally insta [...]

How To Write User Stories: A Beginners Guide

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I currently run several engineering teams in FinTech. Our work involves large distributed systems and strict requirements. Although I started

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JetBrains ‘Agentic’ AI Agent Helps Automate Coding Tasks

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Integrated Development Environment (IDE) company JetBrains has announced a new AI agent that takes a more comprehensive approach to working

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AI Power Needs May Strain US Grid as Stargate Project Grows

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The newly announced $500 billion Stargate Project should help address industry demands for more compute power needed for rapidly evolving

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We Need to Cut Down on Cloud Waste in 2025

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Let’s face the facts: budgets are tight, and we are all trying to avoid the dreaded layoffs. Any type of

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Google’s mobile search results are dropping the ‘breadcrumbs’ from URLs

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Google is changing the way visible URLs show up on mobile search results worldwide. Search results since 2009 have shown “breadcrumbs” or the hierarchy of a webpage’s URL using “>” after the domain name, but starting today, it will only show the domain on your smartphone or tablet.

Web developers have had some control over how results show up according to Google’s stru

The Open Source License Rug Pull and More at State of Open Con 25

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Hang on a minute, can we make some more money off all this work we’ve done on this open source

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Top Architecture Blog Posts of 2024

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Well, it’s been another historic year! We’ve watched in awe as the use of real-world generative AI has changed the tech landscape, and while we at the Architecture Blog happily participated, we also made every effort to stay true to our channel’s original scope, and your readership this last year has proven that decision was […]

Return to PaaS: Building the Platform of Our Dreams

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Think back to the beginning of the cloud era. The process of taking an application we had running on local

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The State of Application Risk: Key Findings Reveal Widespread Security Vulnerabilities

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What’s in the New Node.js, and How Do You Install It?

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Node.js is still one of the most popular runtimes for JavaScript. In fact, it’s kind of a juggernaut: It has

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How Oracle Is Meeting the Infrastructure Needs of AI

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Generative AI is largely a data story, but it’s also an infrastructure and operations tale. GPUs are ascendant, being better

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From open source to acquired (Interview)

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Ashley Jeffs shares his journey with Benthos, an open source stream processor that was acquired by Redpanda. We talk about the evolution of data streaming technologies, the challenges he faced while growing the project, the decision to bootstrap versus seek venture capital, and what ultimately led to the acquisition. We discuss reactions to licensing changes, what it's like to have your thing acquired, the challenging yet fulfilling nature of open source work, what's next for Benthos, and what it takes to enjoy the journey.

Optimizing Release Management Components Using GPT

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Navigating the Next Wave of Cybersecurity Legislation With a Supercharged Security Culture

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Ready or Not: U.S. Tech Companies Must Be Ready for EU Accessibility Compliance Rules

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How Meta discovers data flows via lineage at scale

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Data lineage is an instrumental part of Meta’s Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) initiative, a suite of technologies that efficiently protect user privacy. It is a critical and powerful tool for scalable discovery of relevant data and data flows, which supports privacy controls across Meta’s systems. This allows us to verify that our users’ everyday interactions [...]

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AI Development Simplified: Modal Redefines Serverless

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Serverless has been a trend in internet development for the past decade or more, but has taken on new meaning

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Cybercriminals Are Not Playing Games: Malware Hiding in Roblox Mods

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For decades, opportunistic cybercriminals have preyed on enthusiastic gamers by delivering malware via cracked games or mods. As the threat

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Reddit won’t interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans

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Hundreds of Reddit communities are currently considering disallowing X.

Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2024?

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People continue to tell me on a semi-regular basis how much they appreciate these approximately annual posts, the first of which came out in April of 2017. I think this might be more because the project doesn't have enough official ways to recognize people than it is an endorsement of the particular thing that I've done here, the limitations of which I am always careful to mention. In particular, I do not intend this as a comprehensive picture of contributions to the project, or even to development activity; and I lack the data to fairly divide credit for a single commit between multiple individuals. Nevertheless, I am very grateful to all the people who have expressed appreciation for these posts, or told me about the value that they derived from them. Thank you so much.

[Edited to add: This also includes only data about contributions to the PostgreSQL repository itself. It does not include anything about contributions to related projects such as drivers, admin tools, etc. This is not because such w

Wine 10.0 brings Arm Windows apps to Linux, still is not an emulator

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Wine compatibility layer is the heart of many Windows app translation projects.

GenAI Helps Frontend Developers Create Components

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When developer and attorney Julia Machado developed websites for WordPress, she found an ecosystem of plug-ins for the open source

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Samsung’s Galaxy S25 event was an AI presentation with occasional phone hardware

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Samsung somehow packed even more AI into its event, and phones, than last year.

Why You Should Reconsider Your ‘Big Tech’ Job in 2025

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As Big Tech layoffs continue, software engineers are finding it harder to make the hop from tech job to tech

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Make a Scalable CI/CD Pipeline for Kubernetes With GitHub and Argo CD

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Modern software development isn’t just about writing code; it’s about meeting the demands of speed, scalability and reliability in a

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4 Cybersecurity Misconceptions to Leave Behind in 2025

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Most people know that cyberthreats lurk around every corner. Be it an opportunistic lone criminal or a hacker with the

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Real-Time AI Apps: Using Apache Flink for Model Inference

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In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses face a growing need to process data and make decisions in real time. Traditional

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Enhance the resilience of critical workloads by architecting with multiple AWS Regions

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In this post, we will share how you can use multi-Region as an architectural approach to achieve higher resilience on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This approach relies on first operating a workload across multiple Availability Zones within an AWS Region, before expanding to achieve even higher resilience by using multiple Regions.

How To Migrate Your VMs to KubeVirt With Forklift

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As companies increasingly move to the cloud, they’re running into a problem: Many large, legacy, virtualized workloads cannot be easily

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Cloud Native Computing Now Has Its Own File System: CubeFS

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What’s a Kubernetes-based distributed system without a proper file system, one that cleanly separates the computer from the storage layer?

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Root Out Vulnerabilities in GitHub as You Merge Code Changes

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For all the talk about the need to “shift left” security to earlier in the software development life cycle, little

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DryRun Security Defines Application Security Policies Using Natural Language

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Evolving Shift Left Security: A More Powerful Approach to Software Development Security

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Bitbucket Cloud’s “Hard Down” Outage Highlights DevOps Dependencies

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Practical agentic AI without all the mysticism

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Catch-up: what we learn from Sonos and OpenTofu, how I use AI at work, Bluesky is getting pretty good.

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Go 1.24 Release Candidate 2

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Enhancing Neural Network Training at Yelp: Achieving 1,400x Speedup with WideAndDeep

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At Yelp, we encountered challenges that prompted us to enhance the training time of our ad-revenue generating models, which use a Wide and Deep Neural Network architecture for predicting ad click-through rates (pCTR). These models handle large tabular datasets with small parameter spaces, requiring innovative data solutions. This blog post delves into our journey of optimizing training time using TensorFlow and Horovod, along with the development of ArrowStreamServer, our in-house library for low-latency data streaming and serving. Together, these components have allowed us to achieve a 1400x speedup in training for business critical models compared to using a single GPU...

Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well

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Security measure? Boxing out third-party tools? Or something more complex?

New year, same streaming headaches: Netflix raises prices by up to 16 percent

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The cheapest ad-free plan increases from $15.49 to $17.99.

Apple Intelligence, previously opt-in by default, enabled automatically in iOS 18.3

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Opting out is still possible in Settings, but only after setup is complete.