Musk posted "no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala 🤔" after Trump's apparent assassination attempt, then deleted the false claim, calling it a joke (Flynn Nicholls/Newsweek)

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Flynn Nicholls / Newsweek:
Musk posted “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala 🤔” after Trump's apparent assassination attempt, then deleted the false claim, calling it a joke  —  Elon Musk has faced backlash after writing, “No one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” following an apparent

Apple Sports App Updated With Live Scores on iPhone's Lock Screen and More New Features

Summary:
Apple today updated its free Sports app for the iPhone with several new features and changes, including Live Activities support.


The latest version of the Apple Sports app on iOS 18 and watchOS 11 introduces Live Activities support for all teams and leagues available within the app. This feature enables live scores and play-by-play information on the iPhone's Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island on newer models, and on the Apple Watch starting with watchOS 11.

Apple previously said Live Activities are no longer available in the Apple TV app on iOS 18.

Apple Sports provides scores and more for the following leagues:

• NFL


• NCAAF


• MLS


• MLB


• NBA
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Microsoft debuts new AI coding tools in Excel, adds email prioritization Outlook features, and says Copilot's customer base grew 60%+ in the most recent quarter (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Microsoft debuts new AI coding tools in Excel, adds email prioritization Outlook features, and says Copilot's customer base grew 60%+ in the most recent quarter  —  Excel will get AI tools for Python language, Outlook gets email prioritization features.  —  Microsoft Corp. said Vodafone …

Microsoft launches Copilot Pages, which brings Copilot responses to a new page where they can be edited collaboratively, coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot today (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Summary:

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Copilot Pages, which brings Copilot responses to a new page where they can be edited collaboratively, coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot today  —  Microsoft is announcing its new Copilot Pages feature today, which is designed to be a canvas for “multiplayer AI collaboration.”

Anker Offers MacRumors Readers 20% Off Collection of Chargers, Hubs, Batteries, and More

Summary:
MacRumors readers have a chance to get 20 percent off a collection of Anker's best chargers, power banks, cables, hubs, and docks this week. In order to get this deal, head to Anker's website and add an accessory to your cart, then enter the code akmacrumors20ch at checkout to see the discount.

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

Our exclusive 20 percent off code works on most accessories sitewide, including Anker's new line of MagSafe-compatible products. Anker does have an offer running to <a href="https://click.l [...]

LLM-Assisted Translation From Postgres to SQLite and DuckDB

Summary:

My Hacker News repo provides a set of Powerpipe dashboards that use a Steampipe plugin to acquire data from the

The post LLM-Assisted Translation From Postgres to SQLite and DuckDB appeared first on The New Stack.

Unintended Consequences

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Synchron says its brain implant now lets people with paralysis use Alexa without voice or physical interaction, along with iPhones and other devices (Emily Mullin/Wired)

Summary:

Emily Mullin / Wired:
Synchron says its brain implant now lets people with paralysis use Alexa without voice or physical interaction, along with iPhones and other devices  —  Neuralink rival Synchron is connecting its brain-computer interface with consumer technologies to allow people with paralysis more functionality.

The FDA approves sleep apnea detection in the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Ultra 2, before the 10's September 20 launch, after Samsung in early 2024 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

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Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
The FDA approves sleep apnea detection in the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Ultra 2, before the 10's September 20 launch, after Samsung in early 2024  —  The US Food and Drug Administration Monday published approval for sleep apnea detection on the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10 and Watch Ultra 2.

Microsoft confirms scrapping plans to overhaul its Edge browser UI, including moving away from a rounded tab design, first announced at a February 2023 event (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft confirms scrapping plans to overhaul its Edge browser UI, including moving away from a rounded tab design, first announced at a February 2023 event  —  Unveiled last year, the “new look and feel” for Microsoft Edge is no longer coming.  —  When you purchase through link

Copado Adds AI Agents to Automate DevOps Workflows for Salesforce Apps

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Slack unveils Agents for Slack, letting paid users access Salesforce AI agents, third-party agents from Asana, Cohere, Adobe, and others, and users' own agents (Emilia David/VentureBeat)

Summary:

Emilia David / VentureBeat:
Slack unveils Agents for Slack, letting paid users access Salesforce AI agents, third-party agents from Asana, Cohere, Adobe, and others, and users' own agents  —  Workplace messaging app Slack wants to make it easier to build and connect AI agents for clients.

Entro Security Labs Releases Non-Human Identities Research Security Advisory

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AirPods 4 Review Videos Show Hidden Pairing Button, Lack of MagSafe

Summary:
The first AirPods 4 reviews surfaced today, providing us with a closer look at Apple's latest earbuds before they launch on Friday.


There are two types of AirPods 4, including ones with active noise cancellation for $179 and those without active noise cancellation for $129. As discovered last week, the pairing button and charging status light are now hidden on both AirPods 4 charging cases, and some of the review videos offer a quick demonstration of these changes.

Marques Brownlee showed the new capacitive button starting at the 3:48 mark of his video:

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Sources: ByteDance aims to mass produce two AI chips designed alongside TSMC in 2026; a source says ByteDance plans to order several hundred thousand (The Information)

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The Information:
Sources: ByteDance aims to mass produce two AI chips designed alongside TSMC in 2026; a source says ByteDance plans to order several hundred thousand  —  TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is accelerating efforts to make its own artificial intelligence chips as it looks for an edge over its rivals in China's AI chatbot market.

Apple Watch's Sleep Apnea Detection Feature Receives FDA Clearance

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today published clearance of sleep apnea detection on newer Apple Watch models, as reported by TechCrunch.


Sleep apnea is a potentially serious disorder in which a person's breathing repeatedly stops and starts while they sleep.

Apple last week announced that sleep apnea detection would be available on the Apple Watch Series 10, Apple Watch Series 9, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in the U.S. and more than 150 other countries and regions later this month. Apple's fine print says the featu [...]

AirPods 4 Reviews: 'An Almost-Perfect AirPods Pro Alternative'

Summary:
Various media outlets and YouTube channels today shared their first impressions of the AirPods 4, reviewing the changes Apple has made to enhance comfort, sound, and functionality.

Image via The Verge

Americans Consumed 100 Trillion Megabytes Of Wireless Data Last Year (And Paid Too Much For It)

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The wireless industry’s major trade association (CTIA) just released a new study indicating that Americans consumed more than 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data last year. CTIA’s 2024 Annual Wireless Industry Survey found last year saw the biggest single-year increase in wireless data usage ever recorded: 36% more data consumed than in 2022 — and almost double […]

Apple AirPods 4 review: ANC is impressive for an open design, upgraded sound, and wireless charging, but no proper multipoint and inconvenient volume controls (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Summary:

Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple AirPods 4 review: ANC is impressive for an open design, upgraded sound, and wireless charging, but no proper multipoint and inconvenient volume controls  —  The AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation are worth springing for compared to the regular pair.

Elon Musk deleted an X post that said "no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala" after an apparent Trump assassination attempt, calling the post a joke (Business Insider)

Summary:

Business Insider:
Elon Musk deleted an X post that said “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala” after an apparent Trump assassination attempt, calling the post a joke  —  - The FBI is probing what it says appears to be a second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

Here's When iOS 18 Rolls Out Today in Every Time Zone

Summary:
It's that time of year again. Apple is about to release iOS 18, which promises to bring a range of new features and improvements to iPhones worldwide. It's Apple's biggest software update of the year, and the company is expected to release it sometime today – Monday, September 16.


Based on past releases, the update is likely to drop at around 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time/1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. To give iPhone users globally an idea of when iOS 18 should available as an over-the-air update, below we've compiled a list of time zone conversions for several countries. This list isn't exhaustive, so please verify the exact time for your specific location, and bear in mind that there could always be a delay as Apple prepares its servers for rollout.

Sources: in 2022, Intel lost out to AMD and TSMC on a contract to design and fabricate Sony's PS6 chip, a significant blow to its contract manufacturing unit (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

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Max A. Cherney / Reuters:
Sources: in 2022, Intel lost out to AMD and TSMC on a contract to design and fabricate Sony's PS6 chip, a significant blow to its contract manufacturing unit  —  Intel (INTC.O) lost out on a contract to design and fabricate Sony's PlayStation 6 chip in 2022, which dealt a significant blow …

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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Apple increases the cost of out-of-warranty battery replacement for iPhone 16 Pro models by 20% to $119; the fee remains $99 for the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Summary:

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple increases the cost of out-of-warranty battery replacement for iPhone 16 Pro models by 20% to $119; the fee remains $99 for the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus  —  Apple has increased its out-of-warranty battery replacement fee for iPhone 16 Pro models, according to its iPhone repair and service page.

Analysis: new iPhone first weekend pre-orders were down 12.7% to ~37M units; the iPhone 16 Pro declined 27% and iPhone 16 Pro Max 16% compared to the iPhone 15 (Ming-Chi Kuo)

Summary:

Ming-Chi Kuo:
Analysis: new iPhone first weekend pre-orders were down 12.7% to ~37M units; the iPhone 16 Pro declined 27% and iPhone 16 Pro Max 16% compared to the iPhone 15  —  Based on my latest supply chain survey and pre-order results from Apple's official websites, I've compiled key data on iPhone 16's …

iOS 18 Release Is Today – Check That Your iPhone Supports It

Summary:
Apple's latest iPhone operating system, iOS 18, brings a host of new features and improvements to iPhones new and old. It's Apple's biggest software update of the year, and the company is expected to release it sometime on Monday, September 16, likely at around 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time/1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, based on past releases. Keep reading to learn if Apple's upcoming mobile operating system will run on your particular iPhone model.


iOS 18 is compatible with the iPhone XR, and therefore also the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max models with the same A12 Bionic chip.

In other words, iOS 18 is compatible with the same iPhone models as iOS 17:

China advises state-linked orgs to use a new lithography machine with a resolution of 65nm or better, signaling an improvement in its home-developed DUV tech (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)

Summary:

Yuan Gao / Bloomberg:
China advises state-linked orgs to use a new lithography machine with a resolution of 65nm or better, signaling an improvement in its home-developed DUV tech  —  - China improved the resolution of its home-developed DUV gear  — Country still lags far behind in advanced lithography systems

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who oversees Big Tech regulation, says he is stepping down over a rift with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (Reuters)

Summary:

Reuters:
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who oversees Big Tech regulation, says he is stepping down over a rift with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen  —  Thierry Breton of France stepped down as a member of the European Commission on Monday and will no longer be his country's candidate …

iPhone 16 Pro Demand Has Been Lower Than Expected, Analyst Says

Summary:
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today said demand for the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max has been "lower than expected" since the devices became available to pre-order in the U.S. and dozens of other countries on Friday. Kuo said his data is based on a "supply chain survey" and shipping estimates listed on Apple's online store.


Kuo estimated that sales of all four iPhone 16 models reached about 37 million units in the first weekend after Apple began accepting pre-orders, which is down nearly 13% compared to first-weekend sales of the iPhone 15 series last year. The analyst said a key factor for the decl [...]

How to Use Comments in Your Python Code (And Why You Should)

Summary:

I’ve been writing about Python for some time now, starting from the very simple first steps and migrating toward more

The post How to Use Comments in Your Python Code (And Why You Should) appeared first on The New Stack.

JavaScript, Python and Java Among Tops in Language Rankings

Summary:

RedMonk’s third-quarter 2024 programming language rankings are out and among the top 20 languages, things have remained pretty stable, with

The post JavaScript, Python and Java Among Tops in Language Rankings appeared first on The New Stack.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

Summary:
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Mithras with a comment about the “Patriot Reporter” and his claims about his wealth: $5 million a month… But he needs a sideline as a realtor? That’s really making me doubt the $5 million a month. In second place, it’s That One Guy with […]

Best Buy's Weekend Sale Takes $130 Off Nearly Every 9th Gen iPad, Starting at Just $199.99

Summary:
You can get Apple's 64GB Wi-Fi 9th generation iPad for the all-time low price of $199.99 this weekend on Best Buy, down from $329.99. This deal is part of Best Buy's ongoing three day sale, which will end later tonight. We've already covered other discounts in the sale, including savings on M2 iPad Pro, M4 iPad Pro, and MacBook Pro.

Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Best Buy. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. <br / [...]

iOS 18 Available Today With These 8 New Features For Your iPhone

Summary:
Following over three months of beta testing, iOS 18 will finally be widely released to the public this Monday, September 16. The update should be available to install starting at around 10 a.m. Pacific Time (1 p.m. Eastern Time) in the Settings app under General → Software Update on the iPhone XS and newer.


Below, we have highlighted eight key new features included in iOS 18, and Apple shared a complete list of new features and changes last week.

Note that Apple Intelligence features are not coming until iOS 18.1 and later.

Customizable Home Screen

Protect Your Codebase: The Importance of Provenance

Summary:

Anyone who has watched a crime drama has heard about the chain of custody for evidence. The prosecution must be

The post Protect Your Codebase: The Importance of Provenance appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple Charging 20% More to Replace Batteries in iPhone 16 Pro Models

Summary:
Apple has increased its out-of-warranty battery replacement fee for iPhone 16 Pro models, according to its iPhone repair and service page.


Apple Stores can replace the battery inside an iPhone 16 Pro or iPhone 16 Pro Max for $119 in the U.S., which is up from $99 for the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. This is a 20% increase to the fee, which includes the cost of a new battery and service by an Apple Store. The fee may vary at third-party Apple Authorized Service Providers.

The fee remains $99 for the standard iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus.

Customers with AppleCare+ can still get an iPhone 16 Pro battery replaced for free, but only if the battery retains less than 80% of its original capacity.

Apple says all [...]

The great Evernote reboot

Summary:

For so many years, the Evernote elephant was a truly iconic logo. Evernote was one of the first productivity apps to embrace smartphones, to enable cross-platform sync, and to make it really easy to store and create almost anything. And so Evernote was huge.

But Peak Evernote w

Apple Watch SE With Colorful Plastic Design 'Remains in Development'

Summary:
Remember the "unapologetically" plastic iPhone 5c from 2013? The next version of the lower-cost Apple Watch SE might look similar.


In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said a new Apple Watch SE with a plastic casing "remains in development" ahead of a potential release next year. Apple has apparently faced some "cost and quality challenges" with the [...]

Docker Overhauls, Simplifies Subscription Plans

Summary:

Container platform provider Docker has revamped subscription plans, aiming to simplify access to its suite of products while introducing new

The post Docker Overhauls, Simplifies Subscription Plans appeared first on The New Stack.

The fanciest game console you can buy

Summary:

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 52, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I swear I don’t always just share absurdly expensive gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)

This week, I’ve been reading about Chappell Roan and <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/41136586/smu-football-acc-death-

M4 Macs, New iPad Mini, and iPad 11 Expected at Upcoming Apple Event

Summary:
Apple will likely hold another event in October this year to announce new Macs and iPads. If so, it would be the fourth time in the last five years that Apple has held an event in October. Last year, Apple held a virtual event on Monday, October 30 to announce new MacBook Pro and iMac models with the M3 series of chips.


In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reit [...]

Python Try … Except: What It Is and How to Use It

Summary:

The more complicated your code, the more you’ll depend on dealing with exceptions. If you’ve yet to run across exceptions,

The post Python Try … Except: What It Is and How to Use It appeared first on The New Stack.

Pandas: A Vital Python Tool for Data Scientists

Summary:

Pandas aren’t just adorable bears munching on bamboo and rolling around, showing just how much fun being a bear can

The post Pandas: A Vital Python Tool for Data Scientists appeared first on The New Stack.

This Week In Techdirt History: September 14th – 21st

Summary:
Five Years Ago This week in 2019, an appeals court issued a worrying ruling about handing IP addresses to the FBI, while the DOJ was trying to get Apple and Google to hand over names and phone numbers of 10,000 app users. A better appeals court ruling also arrived, saying that the CFAA can’t be […]

Git Push: How to Use the CLI to Interact with GitHub

Summary:

So you’ve finally added the git command line interface to your developer workflow but you’re not sure how to make

The post Git Push: How to Use the CLI to Interact with GitHub appeared first on The New Stack.

Why ChatGPT Shifted From Next.js To Remix: Some Theories

Summary:

The frontend development community was all abuzz about OpenAI shifting off Next.js to Remix. We’re not sure who broke the

The post Why ChatGPT Shifted From Next.js To Remix: Some Theories appeared first on The New Stack.

AlmaLinux: Deploy a DHCP Server for Your Internal Network

Summary:

Chances are pretty good you already have a DHCP server on your network. DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol,

The post AlmaLinux: Deploy a DHCP Server for Your Internal Network appeared first on The New Stack.

How To Use Python pip (and Why You Need To)

Summary:

Python is one of the best languages for learning the ins and outs of programming. Not only is the language

The post How To Use Python pip (and Why You Need To) appeared first on The New Stack.

Top Stories: Apple Event Recap With iPhone 16 and 16 Pro, Apple Watch Series 10, AirPods 4, and More

Summary:
One of the busiest weeks of the year for Apple news has drawn to a close following Monday's event that saw the unveiling of new iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods models and Friday's start of iPhone pre-orders in dozens of countries around the world.


Read on below for the biggest announcements of this week as we take a brief break ahead of a flood of software updates early next week and all of the new hardware making its way into customers' hands a few days later!

Everything Apple Announced at Monday's Event in 13 Minutes

Using Cursor AI as Part of Your Development Workflow

Summary:

Since I last reviewed it, Cursor AI has gotten very popular. The common reported experience is that after trying alternatives,

The post Using Cursor AI as Part of Your Development Workflow appeared first on The New Stack.

Thanks Complicated Music Licensing Schemes: ‘Alan Wake’ Updated To Remove Bowie Song From Credits

Summary:
Here we go again. For those of us that view video games as a vital and still emerging form of culture and art, one of the more frustrating aspects of the industry is how music is licensed for game soundtracks and how that licensing complicates games as they age. For instance, we saw this play […]

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Blunder From Down Under

Summary:
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 […]

How to Use JSON In Your Python Code

Summary:

If you’re familiar with containers, you probably are also familiar with JSON. If not, JSON is fairly straightforward to understand.

The post How to Use JSON In Your Python Code appeared first on The New Stack.

School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy For Unproven Promises Of Safety

Summary:
Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the country don’t have to imagine this deep surveillance of their most private communications: it’s a reality that comes with their school districts’ decision to install AI-powered monitoring software such as Gaggle and GoGuardian on students’ school-issued machines […]

Apple Intelligence Features Expected to Roll Out in This Order Between iOS 18.1 and iOS 18.4

Summary:
iOS 18 will be released to the public on Monday, but the first Apple Intelligence features will not be available until iOS 18.1 is released in October.


Apple Intelligence features will continue to roll out in iOS 18.2 and beyond, with the expected roadmap outlined below per Apple's website and rumors.

Apple Intelligence requires an iPhone 15 Pro model or any iPhone 16 model, and it will initially require device and Siri language being set to U.S. English.

iOS 18.1

How to cross-post your Threads posts to the fediverse

Summary:

It looks like the fediverse is continuing to open up. In late March, Meta’s Threads introduced a beta feature that allows users from the US, Canada, or Japan to cross-post and view likes from Mastodon and, presumably, other federated social networks. In June, it added that ability to over 100 countries.

While you can follow a step-by-step process to get to the Fediverse settings dialog, where you can opt in or ou

‘Patriot Reporter’ Latest Conspiracy Theorist To Discover It’s Not Libel If It’s The Truth

Summary:
It’s hardly surprising that someone who makes a living trafficking in things other than facts would have trouble recognizing facts when they’re applied to him. That’s the case here with Philip Godlewski — a self-proclaimed “patriot reporter” and QAnon conspiracy theorist. (h/t Volokh Conspiracy) According to claims made in court, Godlewski is “one of the […]

Daily Deal: 6-in-1 Wireless Charger Stand with Time Clock And Alarm

Summary:
Charge your device or illuminate your desk with this innovative 6-in-1 Wireless Charger. It’s easy to use with its touch buttons and Qi wireless charging for Qi-enabled devices. Beautifully made with a modern look, it can quickly charge your device and is touch-sensitive allowing you to show the digital clock. This charger comes with an […]

Why Cloud Migrations Fail

Summary:

As more businesses embark on their digital transformations, enterprise teams increasingly turn to the cloud to reap its benefits. Nearly

The post Why Cloud Migrations Fail appeared first on The New Stack.

M4 iPad Pro Gets Massive Discounts at Best Buy and Amazon, Save Up to $385

Summary:
Today we're tracking big discounts across the entire M4 iPad Pro lineup as part of Best Buy's new weekend sale, with a few additional discounts available at Amazon. At Best Buy, My Best Buy Plus/Total members can get $150 off nearly every M4 iPad Pro model right now, with many hitting new all-time low prices because of this member exclusive discount.

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's discounts are mainly focused on the high-capacity 1TB and 2TB models for both the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro. The biggest discount i [...]

Apple Begins Selling Refurbished 2022 iPad Pro and iPad Air Models

Summary:
Apple today began selling certified refurbished 2022 iPad Pro and iPad Air models through its online store in the U.S. for the first time.


The fourth-generation 11-inch iPad Pro with the M2 chip, sixth-generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro with the M2 chip, and fifth-generation iPad Air with the M1 chip are each available in a variety of storage capacities and color options. The refurbished models are discounted by between 15% and 20% compared to the original pricing of these iPads.

Apple first introduced this particular iPad Air model in March 2022, and the iPad Pro models followed in October of that year.

Apple says its refurbished iPads include a new battery and outer shell, a new white box, and all manuals and acce [...]

Should You Become a Contractor?

Summary:

The tech industry is still in the midst of layoffs. When permanent roles are so precarious, is it the right

The post Should You Become a Contractor? appeared first on The New Stack.

MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 16 Pro From iMazing

Summary:
For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with iMazing to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win one of Apple's new iPhone 16 Pro models. For those unfamiliar with iMazing, it is Mac and PC software that gives you a quick, simple way to manage everything on your iPhone. You can transfer data, make backups, manage media, save content like messages, and more.


Apple has the built-in Finder on the Mac for managing the ‌iPhone‌, and an app for PCs, but iMazing goes above and beyond what Apple's simple tools can do.

Creating and managing backups is simple with iMazing's backup tools. You can set up a [...]

Instead Of Fearing & Banning Tech, Why Aren’t We Teaching Kids How To Use It Properly?

Summary:
I recognize why some parents are worried about screen time and the use of technology in the classroom. But isn’t the better idea to teach kids how to use it properly, rather than banning it altogether? Lately, there have been a bunch of stories about banning mobile phones in schools. Both California and New York […]

How I Enhanced Large Language Models With Simple RAG

Summary:

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) helps large language models (LLMs) generate more accurate and relevant responses by providing context through external data

The post How I Enhanced Large Language Models With Simple RAG appeared first on The New Stack.

Dagger for Docker’s CI/CD and Security Gaps

Summary:

The idea I had was to share my Neo4j knowledge graph project on a Docker container for possible work and

The post Dagger for Docker’s CI/CD and Security Gaps appeared first on The New Stack.

The MacRumors Show: iPhone 16 and Apple Watch Series 10 Announced!

Summary:
On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we talk through all of the major announcements from Apple's "It's Glowtime" event.

Neofetch is over, but many screenshot system info tools stand ready

Summary:
Dev behind a popular screenshot tool checks out, but the successors are good.

25,000 Python Devs Surveyed on Tools, IDEs and Python 2

Summary:

Developer tool provider JetBrains and the Python Software Foundation have surveyed 25,000 Python developers, and after six months of crunching

The post 25,000 Python Devs Surveyed on Tools, IDEs and Python 2 appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple to Allow iPad Users in EU to Download Apps From Third-Party App Stores From September 16

Summary:
Apple has announced it will allow iPad apps to be sold via third-party app stores in the European Union from Monday, September 16, coinciding with the release of iPadOS 18.


The move follows Apple's tolerance in the bloc for alternative app stores on iPhones, which happened earlier this year in compliance with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Apple's iPad operating system was designated by the European Commission as a "core platform service" in April under the rules of the DMA, joining iOS, the App Store, and Safari.

Although iPadOS user nu [...]

Reverse rug pull, so cool? (Friends)

Summary:
Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger's blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do we produce podcasts?

Customizing scopes in the OAuth app authorization flow

Summary:
Learn how to configure and customize which scopes your app requests during the Dropbox OAuth 2 app authorization flow.

How to support 1,000's of developers for your internal developer platform

Summary:

Let’s start with some good looking cheese:

Interconnect Security Risks to Protect Your Kubernetes Environment

Summary:

As Kubernetes and containerized environments become the backbone of modern application development, securing these environments grows increasingly complex. The distributed

The post Interconnect Security Risks to Protect Your Kubernetes Environment appeared first on The New Stack.

Cable TV In Free Fall As Industry Loses Another 1.62 Million Viewers

Summary:
It seems like only yesterday that cable TV executives — and the analysts poised to prop up their narratives to boost stock valuations — were busy insisting that the “cord cutting” trend was a “fiction” that would abate any moment now. It was the kind of thinking that helped justify their inability to adapt to […]

Cribl Extends Reach of Platform for Routing DevOps Telemetry Data

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Small AI Chip Makers Eye Gains in Inference Workloads

Summary:

SambaNova Systems, a seven-year-old company that is working to establish a foothold in the rapidly expanding AI chip market, is

The post Small AI Chip Makers Eye Gains in Inference Workloads appeared first on The New Stack.

From VMs to AI: How Edge Computing Is Evolving

Summary:

To quote Aerosmith: We’re living on the edge. Enterprises and organizations around the world are now comfortable with the concept

The post From VMs to AI: How Edge Computing Is Evolving appeared first on The New Stack.

Kong: New ‘AI-Infused’ Features for API Management, Dev Tools

Summary:

Kong co-founder and CEO Augusto Marietti foresees a day when, just as there are app stores, there will be API

The post Kong: New ‘AI-Infused’ Features for API Management, Dev Tools appeared first on The New Stack.

How Meta Is Reinforcing its Global Network for AI Traffic

Summary:

It was in 2022 when engineers started to see the first clouds of an incoming storm, namely how much AI

The post How Meta Is Reinforcing its Global Network for AI Traffic appeared first on The New Stack.

Unicode 16.0 release with new emoji brings character count to 154,998

Summary:
New designs will roll out to phones, tablets, and PCs over the next few months.

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

Summary:
The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

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Business leaders are losing faith in IT, according to this IBM study. Here’s why - “Fewer than half (47%) of business leaders surveyed think their IT organization is “effective in basic services,” down from 69% surveyed in 2013, the survey shows. Only 36% of CEOs in the survey see IT as effective, down from 64% since 2013. Chief financial officers give a bit more credit to IT, with 50% seeing its effectiveness, but this is down from 60% since 2013."

Continuous Stewardship for More Sustainable Code

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Technology has evolved from being narrow, niche and for the few, to humankind utterly relying on it. It’s in our

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Building customizable ergonomic keyboards (Interview)

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Erez Zukerman shares the story of launching the ErgoDox EZ on Indiegogo (May 2015), what it takes to create customizable ergonomic keyboards, the benefits of split keyboards and custom key layouts, repairability and longevity, community engagement, and the attention to detail required in everything they create. We talk through their keyboard lineup, our personal experience with how we mouse and keyboard...we cover it all.

Protecting APIs from abuse using sequence learning and variable order Markov chains

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At Cloudflare, we protect customer APIs from abuse. This is no easy task, as abusive traffic can take different forms, from giant DDoS attacks to low-and-slow credential stuffing campaigns. We now address this challenge in a new way: by looking outside typical volumetric measures and using statistical machine learning to find important API client request sequences.

How Apache Iceberg and Flink Can Ease Developer Pain

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At a high level, data infrastructure is split into an operational estate and an analytical estate. The operational estate “is

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Aembit Raises $25 Million in Series A Funding for Non-Human Identity and Access Management

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2 Open Source AI Tools That Reduce DevOps Friction

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AI is playing a transformative role across industries. While some fear that AI might lead to a dystopian takeover, like

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iFixit’s FixHub tools want to pull soldering away from the wall socket

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Battery-powered USB-C soldering iron aims to improve over what's out there.

Survey Sees AI and Automation Accelerating Pace of Software Development

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Criminal IP Teams Up with IPLocation.io to Deliver Unmatched IP Solutions to Global Audiences

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Fearless Concurrency Ep.1: Rust's Approach to Safe and Manageable Multithreading

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Introduction: In Episode 1 of the Fearless Concurrency in Rust series, Herbert Wolverson introduces the foundational concept of threads in programming, tracing their origins and evolution while demonstrating how Rust handles concurrency in a safer, more manageable way. He explores the history of threads and their role in enabling programs to perform multiple tasks simultaneously, comparing Rust’s threading model with traditional approaches in C++ and Go. Thread Basics and History: Understanding how threads function within operating systems and their development over time.

Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead

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"Select Play Partners" can block unofficial installation of their apps.

Google Search will take you ‘Wayback’ with links to the Internet Archive

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Google Search is now adding links to archived websites in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. That’s a bit of good news for anybody lamenting the disappearance of the cached pages link from Google’s results.

The Internet Archive hosts billions of archived webpages, as it notes in its blog post today about the change. The Wayback Machine is a very helpful tool for looking at older versions of websites to see what may have changed com

How the Harris-Trump US presidential debate influenced Internet traffic

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See how the first 2024 US presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump influenced Internet traffic patterns compared to the Biden-Trump debate. We also review email trends and observed attack activity.

Customers get increased integration with Cloudflare Email Security and Zero Trust through expanded partnership with CrowdStrike

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This post explains how our integrations with CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM allow customers to identify and investigate risky user behavior and analyze data combined with other log sources to uncover hidden threats.

Cloud Cost Optimization: Accounting Principles Meet Engineering Efficiency

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What the AIs think of the US presidential debate

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Today it’s just links and fun finds that I’ve been storing up for a about a week.

What the AIs thinks of the debate

I asked Perplexity about the US presidential debate last night. I wasn’t very interested in “fact checking,” but in how different the coverage in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/us/pol

Navigating Agile Waters: Why Integrating Copilot Demands Methodological Adjustments

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