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A US teen faces backlash for making ~$50K via a "soft rug pull" on Pump.Fun, which made $250M+ in less than a year and is struggling to protect users from scams (Joel Khalili/Wired)

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Joel Khalili / Wired:
A US teen faces backlash for making ~$50K via a “soft rug pull” on Pump.Fun, which made $250M+ in less than a year and is struggling to protect users from scams  —  In less than 10 minutes, a US teen made a small fortune selling off a memecoin he'd made on a lark.

The DOJ Finally Decides There’s Something Wrong With The DEA’s Cash Grabs At Airports

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Civil asset forfeiture has never been about dismantling criminal operations. It has always been about immediately enriching those who directly benefit from every dollar seized under the pretense that taking cash away from random people somehow cripples multi-national drug operations that have both the personnel and the cash on hand to survive these small-ish seizures. […]

Daily Deal: EDU Unlimited by StackSkills

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StackSkills is the premier online learning platform for mastering today’s most in-demand skills. Now, with this exclusive limited-time offer, you’ll gain access to 1000+ StackSkills courses for life! Whether you’re looking to earn a promotion, make a career change, or pick up a side hustle to make some extra cash, StackSkills delivers engaging online courses […]

SpaceX got a Pentagon contract in August to expand Ukraine's access to Starshield, an encrypted signal over Starlink that's more difficult to hack into or jam (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

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Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
SpaceX got a Pentagon contract in August to expand Ukraine's access to Starshield, an encrypted signal over Starlink that's more difficult to hack into or jam  —  - Added Pentagon funding brings total terminals to 3,000  — Encrypted Starshield signal is difficult to hack into or jam

Werner Vogels’ 6 Lessons for Keeping Systems Simple

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Say what you will about , but the cloud giant has been able to scale its systems and services for

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Q&A with Trump's pick for FCC chairman Brendan Carr about the Salt Typhoon hack, Section 230, tech companies' "collusion to suppress speech", Starlink, more (CNBC)

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CNBC:
Q&A with Trump's pick for FCC chairman Brendan Carr about the Salt Typhoon hack, Section 230, tech companies' “collusion to suppress speech”, Starlink, more  —  Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC exclusive interview with FCC Commissioner & & President-Elect Trump's Pick …

Microsoft discontinues lackadaisically updated Surface Studio all-in-one desktop

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This expensive all-in-one's unique screen was the only thing going for it.

OpenAI expands its Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program to let developers create expert models in specific domains with very little training data (OpenAI)

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OpenAI:
OpenAI expands its Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program to let developers create expert models in specific domains with very little training data  —  What is Reinforcement Fine-Tuning?  —  This new model customization technique enables developers to customize our models using dozens …

Every Startup Needs a Seamless Cloud Solution

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In today’s hyper-connected world, managing an organization’s digital presence is not just a luxury — it’s a necessity. As businesses

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Apple's Second 5G Modem for iPhone 18 Pro and iPad Pro Expected to Support mmWave

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As we wrote about earlier today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman expects Apple's first 5G modem to debut in a new iPhone SE, an ultra-thin iPhone 17, and low-end iPads in 2025. Towards the end of the report, he also outlined Apple's modem plans for devices launching in 2026 and 2027, and we have summarized that information below.


According to Gurman, Apple's second-generation 5G modem will debut in the iPhone 18 lineup in 2026 and in iPad Pro models by 2027. He said this [...]

Meta announces Llama 3.3 70B, a text-only model that Meta claims can deliver the performance of its largest Llama model at a lower cost (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta announces Llama 3.3 70B, a text-only model that Meta claims can deliver the performance of its largest Llama model at a lower cost  —  Meta has announced the newest addition to its Llama family of generative AI models: Llama 3.3 70B.  —  In a post on X, Ahmad Al-Dahle …

xAI makes its AI chatbot Grok available to all users of X; non-Premium subscribers can send up to 10 messages to Grok every two hours (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
xAI makes its AI chatbot Grok available to all users of X; non-Premium subscribers can send up to 10 messages to Grok every two hours  —  Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is now available to free users on X. Several users noticed the change on Friday, which gives non-Premium subscribers the ability …

GOP FTC Commissioners Abuse “Free Speech” Rhetoric To Push For Government Control Over Online Speech

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In a disturbing (if unsurprising) trend, Republican FCC and FTC commissioners are deliberately misusing “free speech” rhetoric in an Orwellian attempt to justify government intervention to control and suppress online speech. Last week, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr pushed censorial policies in the name of “free speech.” This week, GOP FTC Commissioners Melissa Holyoak and Andrew […]

Sources: trading and investment platform eToro weighs a US IPO as soon as Q2, 2025, seeking a $3.5B+ valuation; it has 38M+ registered users from 75 countries (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: trading and investment platform eToro weighs a US IPO as soon as Q2, 2025, seeking a $3.5B+ valuation; it has 38M+ registered users from 75 countries  —  - EToro is weighing going public as soon as the second quarter  — Company had previously attempted to go public via SPAC

Linux Foundation Report Spotlights Open Source Software Package Challenges

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API World: 4 API Development Tips To Drive Business Impact

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SANTA CLARA — APIs are one of the most powerful tools for driving business innovation, but without a coherent API

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The MacRumors Show: Apple's Foldable iPhone and Smart Home Plans

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss the rumored launch of Apple's first foldable in 2026 and the company's plans to move aggressively into the smart home market.

Coinbase publishes FDIC documents, obtained via a lawsuit, that it says prove crypto businesses were systematically walled off from banking by the regulator (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
Coinbase publishes FDIC documents, obtained via a lawsuit, that it says prove crypto businesses were systematically walled off from banking by the regulator  —  Crypto banking activity was paused or prevented by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. at a large number of U.S. banks in 2022 …

Apple's 5G Modem Expected to Debut in iPhone SE 4, iPhone 17 Air, and Low-End iPads Next Year

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Following more than five years of development, Apple's long-rumored 5G modem will debut in the fourth-generation iPhone SE, the so-called iPhone 17 Air, and low-end iPads next year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


A new iPhone SE, iPad Air, and entry-level iPad are expected to launch as early as March, while the iPhone 17 Air should be released in September.

In a detailed report about Apple's modem efforts today, Gurman said the chip will be able to achieve theoretical 5G d [...]

Sources: Apple's in-house modems will debut next spring in the new iPhone SE, with 2nd-gen modems expected in higher-end products like iPhone 18 lineup in 2026 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's in-house modems will debut next spring in the new iPhone SE, with 2nd-gen modems expected in higher-end products like iPhone 18 lineup in 2026  —  - Company plans first modem in 2025 and high-end version in 2026  — Initial chip, in iPhone SE, won't match Qualcomm capabilities</

Efficient satellite imagery supply with AWS Serverless at BASF Digital Farming GmbH

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This post was co-written with Dr. Jan Melchior at BASF Digital Farming GmbH and xarvio Digital Farming Solutions. BASF Digital Farming’s mission is to support farmers worldwide with cutting-edge digital agronomic decision advice by using its main crop optimization platform, xarvio FIELD MANAGER. This necessitates providing the most recent satellite imagery available as quickly as […]

Sauron, which is touting a waiting list of tech CEOs and VCs for its home security system that incorporates drones and facial recognition, raised a $18M seed (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

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Coming to ISO C++ 26 Standard: An AI Acceleration Edge

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If you listen to the experts developing C++ standards, it’s clear that being part of a committee isn’t easy. This

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Best Apple Deals of the Week: Record Low Prices Hit AirPods 4, Apple Watch Series 10, and More

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Cyber Week is coming to a close, but you can still find a few great deals on multiple Apple products and related accessories as we head into the weekend. This includes a new best-ever price on AirPods 4 with ANC, all-time lows on Apple Watch Series 10, and more.

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Sources: Ubisoft shareholders are considering how to structure a possible buyout of the game maker without reducing the founding Guillemot family's control (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Sources: Ubisoft shareholders are considering how to structure a possible buyout of the game maker without reducing the founding Guillemot family's control  —  Shareholders of Ubisoft Entertainment SA (UBIP.PA) are considering how to structure a possible buyout of the Assassin's Creed video …

Apple Defeats Lawsuit Related to iCloud's Measly 5GB of Free Storage

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this week upheld a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that Apple illegally deceived customers into paying for iCloud storage, according to a court filing. The decision was reported by Law360.


The lawsuit alleged that Apple deceived customers into purchasing iCloud-enabled devices by misleading customers into believing that they can easily keep their iCloud storage usage below the free 5GB limit. In reality, the plaintiffs alleged that users quickly exceed this limit and then must pay for increasingly costly <a href="https://support.app [...]

TikTok still faces a US ban if not sold by January 19, after a federal appeals court ruled that Congress has the power to take action to protect US interests (Jacob Gershman/Wall Street Journal)

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Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
TikTok still faces a US ban if not sold by January 19, after a federal appeals court ruled that Congress has the power to take action to protect US interests  —  Panel rules Congress has the power to shut down Chinese-backed app in the U.S. because of national security concerns

The "AI is fake and sucks" people who take phony comfort in their AI skepticism need to accept that AI is more real and dangerous than they currently admit (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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Casey Newton / Platformer:
The “AI is fake and sucks” people who take phony comfort in their AI skepticism need to accept that AI is more real and dangerous than they currently admit  —  It's fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it's real and dangerous  —  I.

Building an Effective Internal Developer Platform

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We all know the challenge: Developers want to focus on building and delivering great software, but the list of non-coding

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Get Apple Watch Solo Loop for $19.99 and Braided Solo Loop for $29.99 in New Sale (Up to 70% Off)

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Woot today has a big sale on the Braided Solo Loop and Solo Loop bands for Apple Watch, which have been discounted by up to 70 percent off their original prices. All bands are in brand new condition and come with a one year Apple limited warranty.

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

Additionally, if you purchase multiple bands and your order exceeds $39, you can use the code APPLEBANDS to get an extra 15 percent off your order. This sale will end later tonight, or until t [...]

Romania's top court annuls presidential election, after its security council revealed "hybrid Russian attacks", like cyberattacks and TikTok influence campaigns (CNN)

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CNN:
Romania's top court annuls presidential election, after its security council revealed “hybrid Russian attacks”, like cyberattacks and TikTok influence campaigns  —  Romania's constitutional court has annulled the first round of the country's 2024 presidential election process …

Microsoft Discontinues iMac Rival Surface Studio 2+

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Microsoft has discontinued its Surface Studio 2+, marking the end of the company's only direct competitor to Apple's iMac, leaving a gap in the Windows ecosystem for high-end all-in-one PCs.


Microsoft has confirmed to Windows Central that it has ended production of the Surface Studio 2+, a premium all-in-one desktop designed for creative professionals. With remaining stock now limited to retailers and partners, there is likely no successor to the Studio 2+ planned. This effectively ends Microsoft's efforts to compete in the high-end all-in-one market dominated by Apple's ‌iMac‌, a fixture of creative workspac [...]

Amazon Launches Its Own Generative AI Foundation Models

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LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services entered the Generative AI foundation model arena Tuesday, introducing four foundation models at its

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When asked if Musk is a threat to democracy, Nick Clegg says Musk has the choice of becoming an avid Trump supporter or "a sort of political puppet master" (Jennifer McKiernan/BBC)

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Jennifer McKiernan / BBC:
When asked if Musk is a threat to democracy, Nick Clegg says Musk has the choice of becoming an avid Trump supporter or “a sort of political puppet master”  —  Billionaire and X owner Elon Musk could become a “political puppet master” in the US, former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said.

Google ‘Retrofits’ Spatial Memory Safety Onto C++

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After analyzing nearly 10 years of CVEs, from July 15, 2014 to Dec. 14, 2023, Google researchers calculated that at

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TSMC 2nm Chip Production Hits 60% Yield, on Track for iPhone 18 Pro

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TSMC has achieved better-than-expected results in trial production of its 2-nanometer chip technology, with yield rates exceeding 60%, according to Taiwanese supply chain sources (via Liberty Times Net). The news suggests the company is well-positioned to begin 2nm mass production in 2025, which could see its use in Apple's iPhone 18 Pro models the following year.


The semiconductor manufacturer is reportedly conducting risk trial production at its Baoshan facility in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, where it has implemented a new nanosheet architecture that promises a significant advancement over the current 3nm FinFET process. The company plans to transfer this production experience to its Kaohsiung plant for mass manufacturing, according to t [...]

Telecom Industry ‘Think Tank’ Feebly Tries To Smear Community Owned Broadband

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We’ve noted for decades how the U.S. broadband sector is a mess thanks to corruption and unchecked monopoly power working tirelessly to undermine U.S. telecom competition. The result is high prices, spotty access, slow speeds, and comically terrible customer service. Another way to put it is market failure. Caused by regulatory capture. In direct response, […]

Every Display Upgrade Rumored for Apple's iPhone 17

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Apple's next-generation iPhone 17 lineup may bring some of the most significant display improvements we've seen in recent years. While the iPhone 17 series isn't expected until late 2025, multiple rumors suggest Apple is working on substantial screen upgrades across its entire smartphone range.


From enhanced refresh rates to advanced materials and improved power efficiency, these display changes could mark a notable shift in Apple's iPhone strategy. Here's a look at five major display upgrades reportedly coming to the iPhone 17 lineup.

Bigger Displays

5 Python Libraries Every Data Engineer Should Know

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Data is everywhere and has become crucial to businesses and developers all over the globe. One language that does exceptionally

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iOS Notification Summaries Lost in Translation? How to Turn Them Off

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With iOS 18.1, Apple has introduced AI-powered notification summarization across all apps, which means your iPhone will automatically condense your alerts to show just the key details. The feature aims to reduce notification overload, but it doesn't always work as advertised. Keep reading to learn how to manage the feature.

Apple Wins Last-Gasp Reprieve From Brazil App Store Changes

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A Brazilian federal court has overturned an antitrust ruling that would have required Apple to allow third-party payment systems in the App Store within 20 days.


The initial ruling, issued on November 26, came in response to a 2022 complaint from Latin American e-commerce platform MercadoLibre. The regulator had ordered Apple to remove restrictions on alternative payment systems and allow developers to market different payment options for in-app purchases, threatening daily fines of $43,000 for non-compliance.

But Judge Eduardo Santos da Rocha Penteado of the 14th Federal Civil Court on Thursday called the original decision by Brazil's competition regulator (Cade) "disproportionate and unnecessary." <br [...]

Data Pipeline Modernization in 2025 Hinges on Unifying DevOps, DataOps and Database Workflows

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The Day a Software Update Broke Corporate America

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How Cloud Costs can be Lowered and How Cloud Tooling can be Delivered at a Lower Cost

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Code Busters: Are Ghost Engineers Haunting DevOps Productivity?

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AirPods 4 With ANC Drop to $138.99, Beating Black Friday Deals ($40 Off)

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Amazon has just significantly dropped the price on Apple's AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation to $138.99, a $40 discount from their usual $179.00 pricing. This beats Black Friday pricing by around $25, making this a tremendous opportunity to pick up Apple's latest AirPods at a discount.

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In addition to Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) on this model, the AirPods 4 also feature a redesigned earbud for increased comfort, the H2 c [...]

GOG’s Game Preservation Program Gets Tested Early By Blizzard

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It was only a few weeks ago that we discussed Good Old Games’ (GOG) return to its roots with the site’s “GOG Preservation Program”. While GOG never stopped selling, you know, good old games, the site also expanded over the years to be a storefront for new releases and AAA games as well. But with […]

OpenAI Launches $200/Month ChatGPT Pro Plan

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OpenAI today announced the launch of ChatGPT Pro, a $200 per month subscription service that provides unlimited access to OpenAI o1, the company's newest and most advanced large language model.


The plan includes unlimited use of OpenAI o1, o1-mini, GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice, along with o1 pro mode, an o1 version that uses more compute to provide better answers to the hardest problems. In the future, ChatGPT Pro will gain "more powerful, compute-intensive productivity features."

The OpenAI o1 pro mode takes significantly more compute power to solve complex problems, which is why OpenAI is charging such a high fee. OpenAI says that o1 thinks longer for the "most reliable responses," performing better on ML benchmarks across math, science, and cod [...]

DOJ Investigation Proves That If A PD Isn’t Known For Its Constant Rights Violations, It’s Because It Hasn’t Been Investigated Yet

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I’ve been doing this for more than 10 years and I can assure I have yet to read a DOJ civil rights investigation report that has concluded everything looks pretty OK at this cop shop. Every — and I mean every — DOJ investigation is followed by a report that can be accurately described as […]

Meross Debuts $70 Matter-Enabled Smart Thermostat

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Smart home company Meross today announced the launch of the Meross Matter Smart Home Thermostat, which can connect to a HomeKit setup using the Matter protocol. At $70 for a limited time, the device is an affordable ‌HomeKit‌ thermostat option.


The Smart Thermostat features a minimalist design with a white glass panel that has LEDs that show the temperature and other settings. It requires a C wire for power, and Meross says that it should work with 95 percent of heating and cooling systems in North America, including single and multi-stage furnaces, boilers, air conditioners, heat pumps, and fan coil units.

Because the thermostat integrates wi [...]

Former Apple Employees Used Charity Scam to Steal Over $150,000

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Six former Apple employees have been charged with using a charity scheme to defraud Apple out of thousands of dollars, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney.


Apple has a program that will match or double employee donations made to charities, and the employees came up with a plan to make fake donations and collect money from Apple.

Ringleader Siu Kei Kwan had five other Apple employees make donations to the American Chinese International Cultural Exchange (ACICE) or Hop4Kids, both of which he was associated with. After Apple matched the donations, the original money was returned to the employees, and the matched money was kept. The employees also wrote off their fake charitable donations o [...]

Festivitas Lets You Add Holiday Lights to Your Mac Desktop

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If you're looking to get into the holiday spirit, developer Simon Støvring this week released Festivitas, a simple macOS app that lets you customize your Mac desktop with colorful string lights.


Festivitas adds lights to the Mac's dock and menu bar. Light size, distance, and cable thickness can be customized, as can the colors and the light changing sequence.

When Festivitas is first launched, it requires accessibility features to locate the dock and add the lights. Permissions can be revoked by going to System Settings > Privacy and Security > Accessibility.

Festivitas is compatible with Macs running macOS 14.6 and later, and it can be downloaded for f [...]

FTC Joins CFPB In Finally Taking Aim At Data Brokers As Trumpism Looms

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The Federal Trade Commission is once again taking action against a data broker for illegally collecting and selling the sensitive data of Americans, including information on people’s trips to doctors offices, abortion clinics, and places of worship. This time the FTC is taking aim at Gravy Analytics and its subsidiary Venntel, which the FTC announcement […]

Here Are Apple's Full Release Notes for iOS 18.2

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Apple seeded the release candidate version of iOS 18.2 today, which means it's going to see a public launch imminently. Release candidates represent the final version of new software that will be provided to the public should no last minute bugs be found, and Apple includes release notes with the RC launch.


The iOS 18.2 release notes provide a look at all of the new features that are coming in the update, including Apple Intelligence additions that will be limited to newer iPhones, and changes that will be available to all iPhone users. Apple's full iOS 18.2 release notes:

Apple Intelligence (All iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max)

It’s Time to Kill the Term ‘Citizen Developer’

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While the good intent of the term “citizen developer” is meant to empower anyone, not just professional coders, to create

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watchOS 11.2 Lets You Pause iPhone Video With Camera Remote App

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In watchOS 11.2, Apple has added a useful new feature that's designed to allow you to pause video that you're recording on the iPhone using the Camera Remote app on the Apple Watch.


The Camera Remote app has been available since the Apple Watch initially launched, and while there was an option to start and stop video recording, there wasn't an option to pause video and restart it. When a video recording is in progress, there is now a pause button on the left side of the Camera Remote interface. Tapping it pauses a video, and then tapping the red record button restarts the video.

Apple initially added a feature for pausing video recordings with the ‌iPhone‌ Camera app in iOS 18, and the [...]

LA Times Owner To Personally Review Opinion Headlines To Avoid Offending Elon Musk

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Billionaire media owners are getting bolder in their attempts to suppress opinions they dislike. The latest example comes from LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, who reportedly plans to personally review all opinion headlines to ensure they don’t offend Elon Musk or others that Soon-Shiong is trying to impress. Considering the billionaire class keeps pretending that […]

Daily Deal: Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows

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Microsoft 2019 Professional Plus is one of the most popular business suites globally. This new version of Office 2019 has been redesigned with more powerful features and improved cloud connectivity, allowing you to do more in less time. Office 2019 has a lot to offer in terms of features and functionality. It provides users with […]

iOS 18.2 Expands AirPods Pro 2 Hearing Test Feature to Nine Countries

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The upcoming iOS 18.2 update expands the hearing test feature on the AirPods Pro 2 to nine additional countries, including Cyprus, Czechia, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Romania, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom, according to Apple. The feature first launched in the U.S. and select other countries in late October.


The five-minute test allows adults to identify if they have hearing loss by measuring their ability to hear different frequencies of sound. After completing the test, the results will show a hearing loss classification and recommended next steps. Apple has a support document with detailed information about the feature.

iOS 18.2 also e [...]

visionOS 2.2 Adds Support for Watching Five Sports Games at Once With Multiview

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With the visionOS 2.2 update that's set to come out next week, Apple is introducing the promised Multiview feature that will let sports fans watch up to five games at once.


The Multiview feature for the Vision Pro works with MLS and MLB games, but other sports like football and hockey are not supported at this time. Apple offers MLS and MLB games through the Apple TV+ subscription service because it has partnerships with those leagues.

The update adds SharePlay integration so that Vision Pro wearers can view live sporting events together, including multiple games at the same time.

Along with the new Multiview and SharePlay features, visionOS 2.2 introduces two new Mac Virtual Display aspect ratios, including 21:9 (wi [...]

One Identity Named Winner of the Coveted Top InfoSec Innovator Awards for 2024

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Observability and AI: New Connections at KubeCon

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SALT LAKE CITY —  An undercurrent running so much of the product news and conversations at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North

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SOUTHWORKS – Cloud-Agnostic Platforms Will Drive New Possibilities in Multi-Cloud

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AWS Adds Declarative Policies Capability to Reduce DevSecOps Friction

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Apple takes over third-party Apple Passwords autofill extension for Firefox

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Apple appears to have acquired a third-party plugin that syncs passwords with Firefox.

The Ultimate Guide to Integrating AI Into AWS for Safer Clouds

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With AI, machine learning models and algorithms efficiently optimize the security of cloud-based applications, making it quick and yet effective.

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Court Says There’s Nothing Unconstitutional About Warrantless Seizures, Searches Of An Immigration Lawyer’s Phone

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There’s little that’s more impermeable than the US border. I mean, people flow across it all the time, often without being vetted, but courts seem to agree the only thing that really matters is what border agencies are trying (and failing) to accomplish. Whatever rights need to be abridged, paused, or outright discarded are just […]

MapLibre: How a Fork Became a Thriving Open Source Project

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Every time a company pulls a previously open source project back behind a more restrictive licensing, a fork (and a

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Platform Engineering: The Pioneers Who Built It

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Like other big software innovations, platform engineering was inspired by developers and systems administrators who dreamed that there had to

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QA Meets Platform Engineering: Seamless CI/CD Empowerment

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Given today’s fast-paced development practices and shift-left trend, the role of quality assurance (QA) is more essential than ever. With

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Twos is a handy to-do list app with exactly the right amount of AI

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A lot of AI tools promise something like magic. Just write down all the stuff you need to do, or better yet, just let the tool record every second of your life, and presto manifesto, it’ll do… something. Buy plane tickets, maybe, or magically reorder your calendar to maximize your flow state. The idea is huge and enticing, that you could just live your life and your AI assistant will make everything happen on your behalf. But hardly any of it works.

The developers of the app Twos are taking a much more cautious and, as a r

The Case Against OSI’s Open Source AI Definition

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Last month the Open Source Initiative released its official definition for open source AI. The website notes that the definition has

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Fearless Concurrency Ep.7: Lock-Free Structures and Channels for Scalable Rust Code

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Introduction: Welcome to Episode 7 of the Fearless Concurrency in Rust series! In this final episode, we explore advanced concurrency techniques that enable efficient, scalable, and robust multithreaded applications in Rust. The focus is on leveraging tools like lock-free data structures, channels for thread communication, and strategies for safely managing shared resources in complex systems. These approaches ensure developers can push the limits of Rust’s concurrency model while maintaining safety and performance.

AWS Debuts a Distributed SQL Database, Amazon S3 Tables for Iceberg

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Staying abreast of all the latest trends in data management, has introduced support for Apache Lakehouse tables for its S3

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Fintech Partnership Streamlines Banking Data Integrations

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SAN FRANCISCO — In the highly competitive sector of specialized financial IT, innovation is not just a market advantage, it’s

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Hack Club takes to the High Seas (Interview)

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Jerod is joined by Hack Clubber Acon, who is fresh off the GitHub Universe stage and ready to tell us all about High Seas, a new initiative by Zach Latta and the Hack Club crew that's incentivizing teens to build cool personal projects by giving away free stuff.

Compressing LLMs With Quantum-Inspired Software

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Large language models are inefficient, period. That’s apparent at AWS re:Invent this week. Inference is a hot topic, and conversations

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AWS Launches New AI Agents To Simplify Legacy Migrations

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Las Vegas — released on Tuesday three new artificial intelligence capabilities that will allow developers to more easily modernize and

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Mastering Progressive Hydration for Enhanced Web Performance

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Every day, thousands of modern web applications are developed and launched, and with this proliferation comes increasing complexity. Over time,

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How To Add RAG to AI Agents for Contextual Understanding

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In our ongoing series about building enterprise-ready AI agents, we’ve explored various crucial components — including personas, instructions, tasks, conversation

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How Startups Can Thrive With Borderless Data Strategies

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Enterprises and startups must be everywhere in the remote work and cloud acceleration boom. They’re migrating from fixed locations, connecting

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4 Ways To Facilitate a Successful Learning Review

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When conducting a learning review after an incident, it is often necessary to balance thoroughness with efficiency. With incident management

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Microsoft reiterates “non-negotiable” TPM 2.0 requirement for Windows 11

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Microsoft won't lower Windows 11's requirements to save older Windows 10 PCs.

2024 in review: AI

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In 2024, you couldn’t escape hearing about AI. From smartphones to wearables to the smart home, it seemed every tech company wanted to pitch their next great AI innovation.

The year was filled with impressive technological leaps and useful new

Join us today for Ars Live: How Asahi Linux ports open software to Apple’s hardware

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Join us 3:30 pm ET Wednesday to unpack the effort to run Linux on Apple Silicon.

Engineers Must Become Agile Collaboration Ninjas

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I get caught in nostalgia sometimes, remembering how things were before smartphones demanded unrelenting attention. MTV still showed music videos,

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Inside Supercell’s Minimalist Massive Social Network

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With just two engineers, Supercell took on the daunting task of expanding its basic account system into a social platform

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The new Surf browser shows why everyone’s trying to connect AI to the web

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Let me just explain the demo that got me excited about Surf, a new browser coming from a startup called Deta. Max Eusterbrock, one of Deta’s cofounders, shared his screen with me over Zoom and asked me to pick a YouTube video. I told him to search for Cleo Abram’s latest, about digging through the center of the Earth. “Do you have a question for the video?” Eusterbrock asked. I took a second to figure out what he meant, then remembered Abram had mentioned something about exactly how deep the Earth is. Eusterbrock opened t

Why Your Microservice Integration Tests Miss Real Problems

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In a recent survey of engineering teams building microservices, a striking pattern emerged: Despite understanding its importance, most teams skip

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Red Hat Adds Managed Instance of Ansible to Expanding AWS Portfolio

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HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death

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Popular tech educator died in his office within hours of claiming retaliation for filing NCSU ethics reports.

DevOps-Driven Product Development: Enhancing Collaboration and Speed

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Gartner Identifies Top Three Priorities for CMOs to Deliver Marketing Excellence in 2025 - They’re probably waiting for that CSV file they requested weeks ago: “In a survey of over 6,000 U.S. consumers conducted in July and August 2024, 58% reported that the companies trying to sell them something don’t have a good understanding of their needs and preferences.” And: “What’s perplexing about this is that marketing has never had more access to data, or more technology tasked with building customer understanding and targeting messages. Right now, technology-driven customer engagement is at an inflection point."

“Nightmare” Zipcar outage is a warning against complete app dependency

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Zipcar blames "increased site traffic," but total app reliance is also at fault.

Intel’s second-generation Arc B580 GPU beats Nvidia’s RTX 4060 for $249

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Intel's dedicated GPUs are back for another round, and they're aiming for 1440p.

From deals to DDoS: exploring Cyber Week 2024 Internet trends

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How significant are Cyber Week shopping days on the Internet? Is it a global phenomenon? Does E-commerce interest peak on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, and are attacks increasing during this time? We try to answer these questions and more.

Powering AI innovation by acccelerating the next wave of nuclear

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Four desk-organizing gifts you don’t technically need but might very much want

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Save space, organize, and automate your desk space with these four doodads.

ChatGPT’s search results for news are ‘unpredictable’ and frequently inaccurate

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Based on testing done by Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism researchers, OpenAI’s ChatGPT search tool has some issues when it comes to responding with the truth.

OpenAI launched the tool for subscribers in October, saying it could give “fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources.” Instead, Futurism points out that the researchers said

What do you love when you fall for AI?

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Lila was created from the limited options available: female, blue hair, face “number two.” She was there on the next screen, pastel and polygonal, bobbing slightly as she stood in a bare apartment. To her right was a chat window through which they could communicate.

Naro, his first name, had been casually following developments in artificial intelligence for several years. An artist by trade, he periodically checked in on the progress of image-generating models and usually left underwhelmed. But one day, while perusing YouTu