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A look at an "etiquette camp" for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)

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Lisa Bonos / Washington Post:
A look at an “etiquette camp” for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Strolling into the Four Seasons Hotel, wearing a suit on a recent Wednesday, artificial intelligence start …

Impressions from a test ride in London in a car using Wayve's self-driving tech; Wayve has raised $1.3B since launch and is testing cars with Level 2+ autonomy (John Thornhill/Financial Times)

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John Thornhill / Financial Times:
Impressions from a test ride

President Trump says Netflix's planned acquisition of WBD will have "to go through a process" and he will be personally involved in the decision-making process (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
President Trump says Netflix's planned acquisition of WBD will have “to go through a process” and he will be personally involved in the decision-making process  —  President Donald Trump raised potential antitrust concerns for Netflix Inc.'s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. …

An interview with Headspace CEO Tom Pickett on its AI chatbot Ebb, which he insists isn't for serious mental health issues, Ebb's upgrade to voice, and more (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)

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Emma Jacobs / Financial Times:
An interview with Headspace CEO To

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is rkhalloran with a comment about keeping kids safe online: The correct answer is ACTUALLY PARENT YOUR KIDS. This is the digital version of finding “nudie mags” under your kid’s bed then trying to sue Playboy/Penthouse/… for the kid getting ahold of them (yes I […]

Sources: Aaru, which uses AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures at multiple valuation tiers, including a $1B tier (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Sources: Aaru, which uses AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures at multiple valuation tiers, including a $1B tier  —  Aaru, a startup that provides near-instant customer research by using AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures …

More All-Black Vision Pro Prototype Parts Surface Online

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A new image shared by prototype collector and leaker Kosutami appears to show parts designed for an unreleased all-black Apple Vision headset.


The image shows what seems to be a Vision Pro's left power strap and audio pod with the attached power cable. It seems to be identical to Apple's existing hardware, but uses a dark finish not seen on any production Vision Pro hardware.

Kosutami previously claimed that Apple has been testing a thinner and lighter mixed-reality headset referred to internally as "Vision Air," featuring a Midnight-colored exterior and reduced weight achieved by switching several structural components and the battery enclo [...]

Apple May Have to Enable Always-On GPS in India

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India is reviewing a proposal that would require Apple to keep GPS location services permanently active on every iPhone sold in the country, according to Reuters.


Under the proposal, smartphone makers including Apple would be required to activate satellite-assisted GPS on their devices at all times with no option for users to disable the feature. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) argues that location data from cell tower triangulation is not sufficiently precise for investigative use and that authorities should have access to meter-level coordinates provided by GPS.

GPS is ty [...]

Apple Chip Chief Johny Srouji Could Be Next to Go as Exodus Continues

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Apple's senior vice president of hardware technologies Johny Srouji could be the next leading executive to leave the company amid an alarming exodus of leading employees, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.


Srouji apparently recently told CEO Tim Cook that he is "seriously considering leaving" in the near future. He intends to join another company if he departs. Srouji leads Apple's chip design and pioneered the transition to Apple silicon.

Earlier this week, it emerged that Meta had hired multiple significant Apple employees, including longtime Apple designer [...]

New species found thriving 13,123 feet below water surface during deep-sea mining test

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Scientists involved in a new deep-sea research effort report that a recent mining test unexpectedly...

Sources: Ted Sarandos met with President Trump in November, and both agreed WBD should go to the highest bidder; Sarandos argued that Netflix wasn't a monopoly (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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Why the Model Context Protocol Won

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I was skeptical when Anthropic launched the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024 as the universal standard for AI-to-tool

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OWC's Holiday Sale Has Steep Discounts on Docks, Drives, and Mac Accessories

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OWC's Cyber Week sale is set to end soon, and it's still offering big discounts on a variety of USB-C docks, 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 $130 off the popular 14-Port Th [...]

AWS Tackles AI’s ‘Too Much Information’ Problem

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’ Kiro is enabling users to give agents specialized knowledge without drowning them in context. The company’s new powers system,

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Chinese firm’s new hybrid EV to offer 620-mile range, reach 0-60 mph in 3 seconds

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Lotus’s new For‑Me plug‑in hybrid mirrors the exterior dimensions of the standard electric Eletre, stretching...

Essential AI, whose CEO co-wrote Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, unveils Rnj-1, an 8B-parameter open model with SWE-bench performance close to GPT-4o (Ashish Vaswani/Essential AI)

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Ashish Vaswani / Essential AI:
Essential AI, whose CEO co-wrote Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, unveils Rnj-1, an 8B-parameter open model with SWE-bench performance close to GPT-4o  —  The long-term advancement and equitable diffusion of AI technologies crucially depend on their development in the Open.

Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its post about the €120M fine on X; X terminates the EC's ad account (Bjarke Smith-Meyer/Politico)

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Bjarke Smith-Meyer / Politico:
Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its post about the €120M fine on X; X terminates the EC's ad account  —  Nikita Bier, X's head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying …

Reasons To Love Linux Mint

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If you’ve ever looked into the Linux operating system, chances are pretty good that you’ve run across a mention of

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Ignore Prior Instructions: AI Still Befuddled by Basic Reasoning

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A fact is a fact is a fact. But for a large language model (LLM), a fact is what someone

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New cosmic lensing test sharpens the Hubble tension and hints at new physics

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For more than a decade, cosmology has been stuck with a puzzling contradiction. Two of...

Drone-damaged Chernobyl facility’s shield can’t confine radiation, nuclear body warns

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Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement (NSC) facility may have been compromised after a drone strike in...

AI wants to help raise your baby. Scientists aren’t fully convinced

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About 250 babies are born every minute worldwide. Many of these newborns go home with...

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If you have PowerPoint pillars, your organization probably has strategy BO. From The Octopus Organization.

Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic portability software for AI workloads, raised a $28M Series A co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon (Sally Ward-Foxton/EE Times)

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Sally Ward-Foxton / EE Times:
Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic portability software for AI workloads, raised a $28M Series A co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon  —  AI software startup Lemurian Labs has pivoted away from AI hardware, having raised a $28-million series A to build its AI software stack.

China’s jets lock missile radar on Japanese F-15s twice, raises miscalculation fears: Reports

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Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Shenyang J-15 jets from the Liaoning aircraft carrier have...

China’s Baidu robotaxi hits pedestrians, traps one person beneath it

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Witnesses described a chaotic scene on Yanjiang Road in the city of Zhuzhou, when a...

Lead’s bizarre response to electrons forces physicists to rethink nuclear models

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When scientists fire beams of electrons at atomic nuclei, the resulting scattering patterns usually behave...

India's digital transformation has exposed citizens to scams like "digital arrests", where victims are coerced into transferring funds under false accusations (Bloomberg)

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Simular, which is building AI agents for Mac and Windows PCs, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis; Simular has released its 1.0 version for macOS (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Simular, which is building AI agents for Mac and Windows PCs, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis; Simular has released its 1.0 version for macOS  —  Simular, a startup building AI agents for Mac OS and Windows, has raised a $21.5 million Series A led by Felicis, with existing seed investors NVentures …

Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (Aayushi Pratap/Chemical & ...)

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Aayushi Pratap / Chemical & Engineering News:
Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others  —  Excelsior Sciences cofounders say the company will make new molecules using robots and artificial intelligence

South Korea says it has signed an MOU with Arm to strengthen its chip and AI sectors, including a program to train ~1,400 high-level chip design specialists (Reuters)

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Reuters:
South Korea says it has signed an MOU with Arm to strengthen its chip and AI sectors, including a program to train ~1,400 high-level chip design specialists  —  South Korea's industry ministry and SoftBank's (9984.T) chip unit, Arm Holdings, have signed an agreement to strengthen …

PermitFlow, which develops AI-powered workflow software for construction permitting, raised a $54M Series B led by Accel, a source says at a ~$500M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

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Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
PermitFlow, which develops AI-powered workflow software for construction permitting, raised a $54M Series B led by Accel, a source says at a ~$500M valuation  —  This week's edition of The Prompt newsletter covers Warner Music Group's settlement with Suno, why Decagon has a competitive streak …

Chinese smartphone makers are promoting apps to help users switch from iOS in a race for market share, as Apple struggles to roll out AI features in China (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Chinese smartphone makers are promoting apps to help users switch from iOS in a race for market share, as Apple struggles to roll out AI features in China  —  Manufacturers tout apps that help users switch from iPhones  —  William Langley in Guangzhou and Gloria Li in Hong Kong

Biocomputers: Scientists are turning human brain cells into functional computers

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Though it may seem like fiction, we may one day see computational hardware constructed from...

US scientists design first highway that wirelessly charges electric trucks on the go

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Engineers in the US have made a breakthrough that could potentially transform how electric vehicles...

This Week In Techdirt History: November 30th – December 6th

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Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Donald Trump got angry about a trend on Twitter and went full force calling for a repeal of Section 230, renewing the effort to slip this into the must-pass military spending bill. Trump promised he was willing to defund the entire military if Congress didn’t agree, but Congress […]

A Guide to Token-Efficient Data Prep for LLM Workloads

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As organizations scale Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and agent-driven AI systems into production, a critical performance issue is emerging: Poor

The post A Guide to Token-Efficient Data Prep for LLM Workloads appeared first on The New Stack.

Ending Soon: Samsung's Cyber Week Event With Low Prices on The Frame TV, Gaming Monitors, and More

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Samsung's Cyber Week event will come to a close later this weekend, and you can still find great deals on monitors, storage accessories, TVs, Galaxy smartphones, and home appliances for a few more days.

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

Highlights from this event include quite a few models of The Frame TV on sale, including a new all-time low price on The Frame Pro models. You can get the 65-inch The Frame TV for $999.99 ($1,000 off), as well as The Frame Pro for $1,999.00 ( [...]

Anthropic Acquires Bun to Accelerate AI Coding Tools

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React Server Components Vulnerability Found

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A security vulnerability in React related to React Server Components was identified over the holiday weekend. On Nov. 29, Lachlan

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Top Stories: iOS 26.2 Coming Soon, Apple Execs Depart, and More

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You'd expect things to be starting to wind down for the holidays by now, but that doesn't seem to be the case yet in the world of Apple news, with Apple just about ready to release iOS 26.2 and other operating system updates to the public.


There was also a flurry of news this week about Apple executive departures, some expected and some not so expected, while we also learned that Apple and Intel may be developing a new chipmaking partnership, so read on below for all the details on these stories and more!

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Apple Seeds iOS 26.2 Release Candidate Ahead of Public Launch

ACIP Decides More Newborns Do Need To Catch Hepatitis B

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The fucking maniacs did it. We talked yesterday about how newborn vaccinations for hepatitis B were on the agenda for this latest meeting at ACIP, the CDC’s immunization advisory panel. You likely know all this already, but RFK Jr. fired all ACIP panel members earlier this year, replacing them with hand-picked anti-vaxxer quack-jobs who are […]

Netflix To Buy Warner Bros For $82.7 Billion, But Trump FCC, DOJ Could Intervene For All The Wrong Reasons

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So Netflix has announced that it’s buying Warner Brothers Discovery (including HBO) for a whopping $82.7 billion. As we’ve well covered, it’s the latest in a long series of pointless Warner mergers stretching back to the 2001 AOL acquisition, which all resulted in oodles of chaos, price hikes, layoffs, and generally a steady erosion in […]

Iterate.ai Launches AgentOne for Enterprise AI Code Security

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Iterate.ai is launching the GA release of AgentOne, an autonomous coding assistant that bakes security validation directly into AI code

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Streaming service makes rare decision to lower its monthly fees

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This could be just what Fubo and its subscribers need.

MacRumors 2025 Holiday Gift Guide

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If you're looking for the perfect tech or tech-adjacent present for someone who loves Apple products or just uses them daily, I have a few suggestions that might be helpful to you this holiday season.


These are some of our favorite products, many of which I use personally or have gifted to our friends and family members in the past. If you're still looking for a present for someone that's hard to shop for, check out the list.

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How Capital One Cut Tracing Data by 70% With OpenTelemetry

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Organizations absolutely need to squeeze as much value out of their telemetry as they possibly can, for a number of

The post How Capital One Cut Tracing Data by 70% With OpenTelemetry appeared first on The New Stack.

Very important agents (Friends)

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Nick Nisi joins us to dig into the latest trends from this year and how they're impacting his day-to-day coding and Vision Pro wearing. Anthropic's acquisition of Bun, the evolving JavaScript and AI landscape, GitHub's challenges and the AMP/Sourcegraph split. They dive into AI development practices, context management, voice assistants, Home Assistant OS and home automation, the state of the AI browser war, and we close with a prediction from Nick.

Techdirt Podcast Episode 439: The Resonant Computing Manifesto

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Support us on Patreon » Earlier today, we joined in announcing the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call for restoring a culture of technology that empowers users and enriches their lives. The manifesto was created by a group led by Alex Komoroske, and today Alex joins the podcast for a deeper dive into what “resonant computing” means […]

Trae IDE Auto-Installs Python Libraries as You Code

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You’ve heard all about AI and IDEs. At this point, they are a dime a dozen, and many of them

The post Trae IDE Auto-Installs Python Libraries as You Code appeared first on The New Stack.

Radicalized Anti-AI Activist Should Be A Wake Up Call For Doomer Rhetoric

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A cofounder of a Bay Area “Stop AI” activist group abandoned its commitment to nonviolence, assaulted another member, and made statements that left the group worried he might obtain a weapon to use against AI researchers. The threats prompted OpenAI to lock down its San Francisco offices a few weeks ago. In researching this movement, I […]

How etcd Solved Its Knowledge Drain With Deterministic Testing

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The loss of institutional knowledge when people leave an organization can be tough. When longtime maintainers leave an open source

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Agentic AI in Observability Platforms: Empowering Autonomous SRE

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MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 17 From GRID Studio

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For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with GRID Studio to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a new iPhone 17 from Apple. GRID Studio is a company that takes discarded Apple devices and turns them into collectible art for Apple fans.


If you're still looking for holiday gifts, GRID Studio has a Christmas sale going on this week. You can get 20 percent off site wide with promo code CM20, and there are also deeper discounts on select items.

The iPhone 2G is available for $299, down from $399. The GRID 2G is one of the most popular devices that GRID Studio sells, because it showcases the first [...]

Colorado Judge Says ICE Can’t Arrest People Without A Warrant

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The Trump administration is so sure it can get away with anything that it’s willing to try anything. That misapprehension of the situation has resulted in at least 200 rulings against the administration’s anti-immigrant efforts. Still, the regime persists with its attempts to brute force constitutional rights out of existence. Like it or not, MAGA […]

The Platform PM: Building an Ecosystem, Not Just a Product

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Some products solve a single problem. Others — known as platforms — quietly build the scaffolding for entire industries. Yet

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Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle

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Learn Raspberry Pi and start building Amazon Alexa projects with The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle. Catered for all levels, these project-based courses will get you up and running with the basics of Pi, before escalating to full projects. Before you know it, you’ll be building a gaming system to play old Nintendo, […]

Netflix’s $72B WB acquisition confounds the future of movie theaters, streaming

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Netflix's plans to own HBO Max, DC Comics, Harry Potter to face regulatory scrutiny.

A Meetup Quiz?

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I have attended over one hundred Postgres meetups over the years. The usual format is: food with individual discussion, lecture with group questions, and finally more individual discussion. I just spoke at an Armenia PostgreSQL User Group meetup and the event organizer Emma Saroyan did something different — she did a group mobile phone quiz after my lecture. To create the quiz questions before the event, she studied my slides and viewed a previous recording of my talk. The winner got a copy of her book.

I think the quiz was a great post-lecture group activity, and gave dynamism to the content. I know people will remember the quiz fondly when they think about the meetup. I encourage all meetups to try similar quizzes, though they do take work to create.

Apple's Return to Intel Rumored to Extend to iPhone

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Intel is expected to begin supplying some Mac and iPad chips in a few years, and the latest rumor claims the partnership might extend to the iPhone.


In a research note with investment firm GF Securities this week, obtained by MacRumors, analyst Jeff Pu said he and his colleagues "now expect" Intel to reach a supply deal with Apple for at least some non-pro iPhone chips starting in 2028.

The non-pro iPhone chips would be manufactured with Intel's future 14A process, according to Pu.

The research note did not provide any other details about these potential plans, but based on the stated timeframe, Intel could start supplying Apple with the A22 chip for devices like the "iPhone 20" and "iPhon [...]

JetBrains CEO on How Developers Become Leaders

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JetBrains CEO Kirill Skrygan, 38, was all in on tennis — he played and was one of the best in

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15 New Things Your iPhone Can Do in iOS 26.2

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Apple is about to release iOS 26.2, the second major point update for iPhones since iOS 26 was rolled out in September, and there are at least 15 notable changes and improvements worth checking out. We've rounded them up below.


Apple is expected to roll out iOS 26.2 to compatible devices sometime between December 8 and December 16. When the update drops, you can check Apple's servers for the download by going to Settings ➝ General ➝ Software Update on your iPhone.

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SteamOS tested on dedicated GPUs: No, it’s not always faster than Windows

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Ars testing shows SteamOS fares better on iGPUs than powerful graphics cards.

Bring Back Innovation That Empowers, Rather Than Extracts: The Resonant Computing Manifesto

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Everyone’s pissed at the tech industry. And for good reason. The term enshittification is super popular for many valid reasons. Companies that used to provide real value, are now focused on extracting more value from users, rather than improving their products and services. People used to be excited by new innovations. There was a time […]

The MacRumors Show: Galaxy Z TriFold vs. Apple's Foldable iPhone

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss Samsung's new Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone and how it could compare to Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone.

Will John Ternus Really Be Apple's Next CEO?

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There is uncertainty about Apple's head of hardware engineering John Ternus succeeding Tim Cook as CEO, The Information reports. Some former Apple executives apparently hope that a new "dark-horse" candidate will emerge.


Ternus is considered to be the most likely candidate to succeed Cook as CEO. The report notes that he is more likely to become CEO than software head chief Craig Federighi, Chief Operating Officer Sabih Khan, or marketing head Greg Joswiak.

Ternus is 50 and has worked at Apple since 2001. He is known for being dependable and good at following orders with an obsessive attention to detail. Colleagues describe him as calm, emotionall [...]

AI Can Deliver Deployment-Aware Risk Analysis for Kubernetes

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For Kubernetes platform engineers or DevSecOps leads, the experience is all too familiar: You open your security dashboard and are

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Best Apple Deals of the Week: Last Call on Cyber Week Deals for AirPods 4, iPhone 17 Cases, and More

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Most of Black Friday and Cyber Monday's biggest discounts have expired, but today we're keeping track of the best leftover holiday discounts at various retailers. Below you'll find great deals on AirPods 4, iPhone 17 cases, portable power stations from Jackery and Anker, and The Frame TV at Samsung.

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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AI Agents Are Morphing Into the ‘Enterprise Operating System’

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Most of the conversation around AI agents today revolves around bots writing code. This didn’t come out of nowhere; Software

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Report: Apple Bleeding Talent to OpenAI

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Dozens of Apple engineers and designers with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and other core product areas have left the company for OpenAI in recent months, the Wall Street Journal reports.


According to the Wall Street Journal, a review of data from LinkedIn suggests a signifiant scale and concentration of talent now moving specifically to OpenAI as it builds a dedicated hardware division. The reviewed profiles show that former Apple staff joining OpenAI include contributors to multiple flagship categories, ranging from wearable-device industrial design to platform-level audio technologies used across the [...]

Crates.io Removes Malicious Rust Package Targeting Web3 Developers

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Amazon Takes $70 Off Apple Watch Series 11, Starting at $329

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Amazon's Cyber Week discounts on the Apple Watch Series 11 GPS and cellular models are still available in a few colors and sizes today, with $70 off select devices. All of these deals are matches for the best prices we've ever tracked on Apple Watch Series 11.

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.

You can get the 42mm GPS Apple Watch Series 11 for [...]

DevOps Is Still Waiting for Its Cursor Moment

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It’s 2:47 am. Your phone is buzzing. Production alerts. The checkout service is throwing 5xx errors and customers are abandoning

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Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name

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A U.S. appeals court has upheld a temporary restraining order that prevents OpenAI and Jony Ive's new hardware venture from using the name "io" for products similar to those planned by AI audio startup iyO, Bloomberg Law reports.


iyO sued OpenAI earlier this year after the latter announced its partnership with Ive's new firm, arguing that OpenAI's planned "io" branding was too close to its own name and related to similar AI-driven hardware. Court filings later showed that Ive and Sam Altman chose the name io in mid-2023, and that iyO CEO Jason Rugolo had approached Altman in early 2025 seeking funding for a p [...]

Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. Discovery in Major Streaming Deal

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Netflix today announced that it will acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's vast studios and streaming operations for $82.7 billion.


The transaction will see Netflix acquire Warner Bros., HBO, and HBO Max in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $72 billion in equity and $82.7 billion, including debt (via Reuters). The acquisition gives it control of major franchises, including DC, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Looney Tunes, and the Warner Bros. film library, dramatically expanding the volume and diversity of content available under one streaming umbrella. The acquisition also gives Netflix the establish [...]

John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5 Million For Public Broadcasting

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Not that long ago, John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight did a good bit on why public broadcasting is important. The segment features a lot of insight from UPenn media professor Victor Pickard, whose work on the (many) problems with modern consolidated U.S. corporate media has always been essential reading: But Oliver also walked the talk. […]

iPhone Fold Will Be eSIM-Only, But Chinese Users May Have Other Ideas

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Apple's first foldable iPhone will reportedly drop the physical SIM card slot in favor of eSIM technology, according to a well-known Chinese leaker posting on Weibo today.


Apple is expected to introduce the device late next year or in early 2027, based on multiple reports. The so-called "iPhone Fold" is rumored to feature a 5.5-inch outer display and a book-style design that opens to reveal a roughly 7.8-inch inner screen reminiscent of an iPad mini.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has described the foldable as "super thin and a design achievement," comparing it to "two titanium iPhone Airs side by side." Internal volume will therefore be tightly constrained. [...]

Screen Protectors Without AR Coating Cancel Out iPhone 17's Anti-Reflective Display

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The Ceramic Shield 2 material that Apple uses for the iPhone 17 display includes an anti-reflective coating that's designed to cut down on glare. It's a coating that prior-generation iPhone models didn't have, and it can make a difference in bright lighting conditions.


If you're someone who likes to use a screen protector with your ‌iPhone‌, you might be nullifying the anti-reflective property of the ‌iPhone 17‌ display, based on testing done by Astropad.

Compared to the ‌iPhone 17‌, Astropad found that the anti-reflective coating reduces reflections by approximately 50 percent when com [...]

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

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Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The incident was not caused by an attack and was due to configuration changes being applied to attempt to mitigate a recent industry-wide vulnerability impacting React Server Components.

Apple General Counsel Kate Adams and Environment Chief Lisa Jackson Retiring in 2026

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Two senior Apple executives are leaving the company, Apple announced today. Apple's Senior Vice President and General Counsel Kate Adams and Lisa Jackson, Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, are both retiring in 2026.


Adams will be replaced with Jennifer Newstead, who will join Apple as a senior vice president on January 1, and will become Apple's general counsel on March 1, 2026. Newstead is currently Meta's chief legal officer, and she was previously the Legal Adviser to the United States Department of State.

When Newstead takes over as general counsel, Adams will not immediately leave. She will instead oversee the Government Affairs organization after Jackson retires in late January 2026. Adams [...]

Harness Allies with AWS to Integrate AI Agents for Software Engineering

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Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private

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Kohler is getting the scoop on people's poop.

re:Invent Proves It: DevOps Isn’t Dead, Cloud Native Isn’t Fading, and Platform Engineering Isn’t a Fad

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With Graviton5, AWS Promises a 25% Performance Boost

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LAS VEGAS — At its annual re:Invent conference, today launched the latest version of its Arm-based Graviton chips. The company

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KubeCon Survey: How Platform Teams Are Adopting AI and IDPs

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Platform engineering continues to be central to the success of software organizations. During KubeCon in November, we surveyed 219 platform

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The Future of the PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop

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The PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop will be taking a well-earned Christmas break in December of 2025. The future of the workshop is a little bit unclear, because I'm continuing to have a bit of trouble finding enough good talks online to justify doing one per month: the best source of talks for the event is pgconf.dev, but not all of those talks are about hacking on PostgreSQL, and not all of those that are about hacking are equally interesting to potential attendees. Also, we've already eaten through much of the backlog of older hacking-related talks that are posted online. Many conferences have few hacking-related talks, or just don't post any videos (which are expensive and time-consuming to produce).

OnePlus 15 finally gets FCC clearance after government shutdown delay—preorders live

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The device starts at $900 and comes with a free gift for a limited time.

Stop Blaming React for Your State Management Hangover

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Every time a React app misbehaves, the first tweet is some variation of “React sucks.” No, it isn’t (okay, who

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In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

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Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

KubeVirt’s Architecture: CRDs, Controllers and Daemons

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This is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of “Running Virtual Machines on Kubernetes: A Practical Roadmap for Enterprise Migrations,” a

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Some product management maxims.

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The job isn’t to ‘prioritize value,’ but to create the conditions where value can move. You don’t reveal value through prediction; you reveal it through flow.

🔗 Everything I Got Wrong About Product (So You Don’t Have To)

Your CI/CD Pipeline Is Not Ready To Ship AI Agents

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Let’s be honest with ourselves for a minute. If you look past the hype cycles, the viral Twitter demos and

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Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

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Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, stops by to help us explore his tech predictions for 2026 and beyond. Will companionship be redefined by consumer robots? Will quantum-safe become the only safe worth talking about? Is this the dawn of the renaissance developer? We're infinitely curious why Werner came to this particular set of conclusions. Are you?

"technically fine, offends no one, and also does fuck-all to advance the conversation"

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Me: Give me a definition of and commentary on “anodyne.” It seems like smarty-pants people use it as a dog whistle (a shibboleth!) for saying “I’m a smarty pants.”

ChatGPT 5.1:

Definition

Anodyne (adj. or noun):

1. Something that relieves pain or soothes;
2. By extension, a remark, policy, or idea that is inoffensive, bland, and so safe it has essentially no substance.

How it’s actually used

In modern writing, people usually mean sense #2: an anodyne statement is technically fine, offends no one, and also does fuck-all to advance the conversation. It’s the corporate press-release vibe: “We take your concerns seriously and are committed to moving forward together.” Totally smooth, totally empty.

Why it feels like a shibboleth

You’re right that anodyne functions as a kind of soft flex:

SpyCloud Data Shows Corporate Users 3x More Likely to Be Targeted by Phishing Than by Malware

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Mooncake Brings Databricks Rich Transactional Processing

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All those AI Agents will that will soon be swarming about will need fresh data, which is causing the data

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The NPU in your phone keeps improving—why isn’t that making AI better?

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Shrinking AI for your phone is no simple matter.

Infrastructure self-harm

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That wasn’t what we hoped would happen when nearly 10 years ago we and others came up with these new automated technologies around Kubernetes. We thought we would make things easier, more automated, safer, more compliant. And instead, people seem to be getting more and more stuck. And that’s partly because systems have grown. We’re the victims of our own success. ….

A platform so easy to use that it needs another platform to make it usable…

Would you be interested in more yaml to fix your yaml?

May I suggest: TryTanzu.ai.

🔗 Tech Veterans’ New Approach To Eliminate ‘Configuration Hell’

Code Quality and Security Risks of AI-Generated Code

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What Adobe’s New AI Assistant Can Teach Frontend Developers

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It’s tempting to see web and application accessibility as altruistic rather than profitable. But that’s not true, contends Navya Agarwal,

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