iOS 26's New Battery Life Mode Available Only on These iPhone Models

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Last week, we reported that iOS 26 introduces an opt-in Adaptive Power Mode on the iPhone, alongside the existing Low Power Mode.


Apple says that Adaptive Power Mode can make "small performance adjustments" when necessary to extend an iPhone's battery life, including slightly lowering the display brightness or allowing some activities to "take a little longer."

The full description of Adaptive Power Mode, from the first iOS 26 beta:

When your battery usage is higher than usual, iPhone can make small performance adjustments to extend your battery life, including slightly lowering the display brightness or allowing some activities to tak

Body wanders while brain naps: The science and myth of sleepwalking

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Sleepwalking, or somnambulism, belongs to a family of sleep disorders called parasomnias, behaviors that hover...

Experts say China-linked groups have repeatedly hacked Russian companies and government agencies in search of military secrets since the war in Ukraine began (Megha Rajagopalan/New York Times)

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Megha Rajagopalan / New York Times:
Experts say China-linked groups have repeatedly hacked Russian companies and government agencies in search of military secrets since the war in Ukraine began  —  Since the war in Ukraine began, analysts have monitored a series of intrusions ai

MIT scientists find first evidence that rivers form coral reef passes

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In a new groundbreaking study out of MIT, researchers proved a theory that island rivers...

Darklang Reset: From REST to Functional Language With ADTs

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In my developer forecast for 2025 last December, I predicted there would be further developments at Darklang, which started as

The post Darklang Reset: From REST to Functional Language With ADTs appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple Pulls 'Convince Your Parents to Get You a Mac' Ad From YouTube

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Apple has marked as private its day-old The Parent Presentation video on YouTube, meaning that it is no longer available to watch.


Apple has also moved The Parent Presentation to the bottom of its College Students page, effectively burying it. When we reported on the marketing campaign yesterday, the presentation was prominently featured at the top of the page.

It is unclear why Apple is suddenly hiding the ad, or if it will return. Apple did not immediately respond to our request for comment.

On social media, some people said that the ad was cringe or gross, so perhaps Apple pulled the video due to overly negati [...]

2,000-year-old Roman wall covered in stunning frescos found in London

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In the former Beverly Hills of Roman London, archaeologists were astonished to find thousands of...

8 Linux Desktop Distributions to Try

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After a lifetime spent navigating the ever-evolving landscape of Linux, from those early days of dial-up and painstakingly compiled kernels,

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iOS 26 Adding Two New Wi-Fi Features, Allows AirDrop and AirPlay Alternatives

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iOS 26 is gaining two new Wi-Fi features, including Captive Assist and Wi-Fi Aware.


MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris discovered a reference to Captive Assist within the code for the first iOS 26 developer beta, but Apple has yet to enable the feature. It should be available by the time the software update is released later this year.

In his Power On newsletter last month, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that Apple was working on a feature that would sync captive Wi-Fi network sign-in information across the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. This means [...]

SolydXK: An Impressive Linux Distribution Under the Radar

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It’s a rare occasion that I come across a Linux distribution that I’ve never heard of, and SolydXK is one of

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A look at "Generative Engine Optimization" startups like Profound and Bluefish AI, which help businesses improve content to appear in AI search summaries (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

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Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
A look at “Generative Engine Optimization” startups like Profound and Bluefish AI, which help businesses improve content to appear in AI search summaries  —  Businesses are scrambling to be cited in AI-generated answers on Google, Perplexity and ChatGPT.

Airstrikes delayed Iran’s nuclear weapons program by 2-3 years, claims Israel

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Israel has targeted Iran’s Isfahan nuclear facility for the second time. Israeli Air Force bombed...

Quantum Super Hub: Meet the ChatGPT of quantum computing unveiled in Canada

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In a bold step toward making quantum computing accessible enough to solve everyday problems, the...

Chinese military unveils mosquito-sized drones that can perform battlefield missions

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China’s National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) has developed a mosquito-sized drone designed for covert...

LambdaTests Launches Automated Accessibility Tools

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Is your website truly accessible? What about your React application? How about those Android and iOS apps? More than 1.3

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Top Stories: Why iPads Don't Run macOS, iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe Changes, and More

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With WWDC 2025 now firmly in the rear-view mirror, we've had a bit more time to digest all of Apple's announcements, dig deeper into the developer sessions and betas, and hear from Apple executives about this year's updates.


The Liquid Glass redesign is present pretty much across Apple's operating systems, but there are a lot more changes in store for the platforms as iPadOS has gotten more Mac-like, iOS has gotten new customizability options and features, and macOS Tahoe introduces some welcome changes, so read on below for all the details!

Apple Explains Why iPads Don't Just Run macOS

Kantar: the share of Indians consuming media exclusively on mobile phones grew to 23% in Q1 2025, up from 15% in Q1 2023, as TVs stay unaffordable for many (Satviki Sanjay/Bloomberg)

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Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg:
Kantar: the share of Indians consuming media exclusively on mobile phones grew to 23% in Q1 2025, up from 15% in Q1 2023, as TVs stay unaffordable for many  —  The number of users who only use digital channels ballooned to 23% in the March quarter of 2025, according to market research firm &hellip

US firms unveil sixth-gen jet F-47’s wingmen autonomous drones at Paris Air Show

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California-based defense technology company Anduril Industries and energy and defense corporation General Atomics have officially...

Scientists split water molecules for green hydrogen using only solar energy

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Green hydrogen is one of the cleanest fuels known, and it has the capacity to...

New smart windows cuts temperature by 80°F, fights light pollution in cities

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Windows are a major source of energy loss in buildings, a sector that accounts for...

Microsoft suspending an ICC judge's email account raised alarms across EU about how dependent its governments, businesses, and citizens are on US tech companies (New York Times)

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New York Times:
Microsoft suspending an ICC judge's email account raised alarms across EU about how dependent its governments, businesses, and citizens are on US tech companies  —  To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently suspended the emai

In a first, Chinese scientists monitor heat flow at atomic level using electron beam

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For years, scientists have known that phonons (vibrations of atoms) carry heat through solids. However,...

A profile of Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang, whose ties to influential people in the AI industry and the GOP could give Meta leverage over its competitors (Ellen Huet/Bloomberg)

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Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
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How Huawei has remained resilient in the face of US sanctions; Mizuho: about 700,000 units of Huawei's Ascend 910 series are expected to ship in 2025 (South China Morning Post)

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South China Morning Post:
How Huawei has remained resilient in the face of US sanctions; Mizuho: about 700,000 units of Huawei's Ascend 910 series are expected to ship in 2025  —  Huawei is expected to ship about 700,000 Ascend AI processors in 2025, according to Mizuho estimates  —  By Ann Caoin Shanghai and Wency

BitcoinTreasuries.net: about 130 publicly-listed companies currently hold a combined ~$87B in bitcoin, about 3.2% of all the bitcoins that will ever exist (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)

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Philip Stafford / Financial Times:
BitcoinTreasuries.net: about 130 publicly-listed companies currently hold a combined ~$87B in bitcoin, about 3.2% of all the bitcoins that will ever exist  —  Corporate treasuries now hold more than 3% of the world's biggest cryptocurrency, a stash worth $87bn

Report: Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone buy out other investors in Assent for $400M, valuing the Ottawa-based supply chain software company at $1.3B (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)

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Alex Riehl / BetaKit:
Report: Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone buy out other investors in Assent for $400M, valuing the Ottawa-based supply chain software company at $1.3B  —  Company spokesperson denied that Assent had been acquired, but declined to break down post-deal ownership structure.

Huawei unveils a beta version of HarmonyOS 6, making it available to developers, and announces the HarmonyOS Agent Framework to help developers create AI agents (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

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Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:
Huawei unveils a beta version of HarmonyOS 6, making it available to developers, and announces the HarmonyOS Agent Framework to help developers create AI agents  —  The tech giant did not give a public launch date for the latest version of the operating system, but said it will

A UN survey of 21 countries finds that trust in AI is strongest in low-income and developing nations; 83% in China and 37.5% in the US said they trust AI (Magdalena Del Valle/Bloomberg)

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Magdalena Del Valle / Bloomberg:
A UN survey of 21 countries finds that trust in AI is strongest in low-income and developing nations; 83% in China and 37.5% in the US said they trust AI  —  A United Nations study found a sharp global divide on attitudes toward artificial intelligence, with trust strongest in low-income countries and skepticism high in wea

Browserbase, which develops headless browsers for AI agents and apps, raised a $40M Series B led by Notable Capital at a $300M valuation, up ~4x since September (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

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Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
Browserbase, which develops headless browsers for AI agents and apps, raised a $40M Series B led by Notable Capital at a $300M valuation, up ~4x since September  —  The 16-month-old infrastructure startup behind ‘headless browsers’ is now valued at $300 million and claims more than 1,000 customers.

Canadian crypto companies are encountering regulatory challenges in introducing a local stablecoin, as the US advances stablecoin legislation (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)

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Monique Mulima / Bloomberg:
Canadian crypto companies are encountering regulatory challenges in introducing a local stablecoin, as the US advances stablecoin legislation  —  While the US Senate advanced far-reaching stablecoin legislation, Canadian companies are pushing to get even the most basic stablecoin products available for users in the coun

Corporate travel and expense management service Navan, formerly known as TripActions, confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $9.2B in October 2022 (Pritam Biswas/Reuters)

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Pritam Biswas / Reuters:
Corporate travel and expense management service Navan, formerly known as TripActions, confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $9.2B in October 2022  —  Corporate travel and expense company Navan said on Friday it had confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering …

Buc-ee’s Sues Parody Apparel Shop For Parodying Its Brand

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A couple of weeks back, we discussed famed southern convenience store chain Buc-ee’s and its penchant for initiating all kinds of trademark related threats and lawsuits. While we talk about this sort of thing a lot around here, the company’s actions have been particularly silly. When taken in sum total, you’re left with the idea […]

Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking 7.3Tbps DDoS attack in mid-May, which delivered 37.4TB of junk traffic to the target in just 45 seconds (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking 7.3Tbps DDoS attack in mid-May, which delivered 37.4TB of junk traffic to the target in just 45 seconds  —  Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger …

Insurance giant Aflac says a cybercrime group breached its systems and may have stolen data; source: the attack bears the hallmarks of Scattered Spider (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

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Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Insurance giant Aflac says a cybercrime group breached its systems and may have stolen data; source: the attack bears the hallmarks of Scattered Spider  —  Insurance company Aflac said a “sophisticated cybercrime group” breached its systems and may have stolen data.

The Way Forward For AI: Learning From The Elephant & The Blind Men

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This series of posts explores how we can rethink the intersection of AI, creativity, and policy. From examining outdated regulatory metaphors to questioning copyright norms and highlighting the risks of stifling innovation, each post addresses a different piece of the AI puzzle. Together, they advocate for a more balanced, forward-thinking approach that acknowledges the potential […]

Apple Internally Discussing Whether to Bid to Acquire Perplexity AI

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Apple executives have been discussing the possibility of the company making a bid to acquire Perplexity AI, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Perplexity is one of the leading AI startups that has proven popular as an AI-infused web search engine.


Mergers and acquisitions chief Adrian Perica, services head Eddy Cue, and other executives overseeing Apple's AI efforts have been participating in the discussions, which Gurman says "are at an early stage and may not lead to an offer." Apple declined to comment, while Perplexity said that it has "no knowledge of any c [...]

Just on the rocks (Friends)

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Jerod tells Adam about how bad he hates the taste of Gin, sips on some Generative A Rye (on the rocks), they open the comments section for a bit, and then land the plane talking about being alone, naked, and afraid.

Apple Sued by Shareholder Over Delayed Siri Features Allegedly Lowering Stock Price

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Apple shareholder Eric Tucker today filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the company in a California court, over alleged violations of federal U.S. securities laws.


Apple's CEO Tim Cook, former CFO Luca Maestri, and current CFO Kevan Parekh are also named as defendants in the case, which still needs to be certified by a judge.

The complaint alleges that Apple made false statements related to the more personalized version of Siri that it previewed during its WWDC 2024 keynote. The complaint alleges that these actions hurt the company's stock price, and thereby harmed shareholders.

"Unbeknownst to investors, Apple lacked a functional prototype of these advanced AI-based Siri features at the time of the 2024 WW [...]

Vibe, Then Verify: Turning AI Risk Into Enterprise Reward

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This isn’t mere speculation: Emerging AI tools can rapidly generate sophisticated applications, such as interactive dashboards or complete landing pages,

The post Vibe, Then Verify: Turning AI Risk Into Enterprise Reward appeared first on The New Stack.

The Shell Game Of Fascist Gaslighting

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I need to say something that will be deeply uncomfortable for many of you: if you have friends, family, or colleagues defending what’s happening right now, their old sane selves may not be coming back. Let me be specific about what I mean. This week, Donald Trump posted explicit orders on Truth Social directing federal law enforcement […]

HTTP/3 in the Wild: Why It Beats HTTP/2 Where It Matters Most

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Despite the promises of HTTP/2, the web still struggles with latency, jitter and real-world network volatility. Enter HTTP/3 — not

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ICE Tells Agents They Can Start Making Unjustified Arrests Again

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It has never been about removing dangerous criminals — the “worst of the worst” — from the United States. Under Donald Trump, immigration enforcement has been about removing immigrants from the country. Period. That’s the whole thing. (And, apparently the only immigrants welcome to seek shelter in the US are those of the whiter variety […]

If I Need Slack to Use It, It’s Not a Platform as Product

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I still remember the first time I was told: Just use the internal platform — it’s all self-service now. So

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Is Datadog Becoming a Platform Engineering Company?

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NEW YORK – Datadog’s internal developer portal (IDP), announced at its annual user DASH conference here this month, could replace

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Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles

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Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: when something is supposedly dying or irrelevant, journalists can’t stop writing about it. Consider the curious case of Bluesky, which, according to various pundits, is a failed […]

Daily Deal: The 2025 Java Bundle

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The 2025 Java Bundle has 6 courses designed to help you build real projects and fast-track your way to a becoming a Java expert. Courses cover the fundamentals of Java with exercises to help you improve your skills. You’ll learn how to build a website with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. There’s also a course to […]

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Shop Low Prices on AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4, Plus Anker's Charging Sale

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This week's best deals are headlined by ongoing low prices on the AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4, plus we're still tracking a few solid deals on M4 Mac mini and M4 MacBook Pro. If you're shopping for Apple-related accessories, our exclusive Anker coupon will help you save 20% sitewide this month.

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Apple Adds Energy and Battery Labels to iPhone and iPad Pages in EU

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To comply with a new regulation that takes effect today, Apple has added an energy efficiency label to its iPhone and iPad pages in EU countries. Apple is also required to start including a printed version of the label with the devices sold there.


The label grades a given iPhone or iPad model's energy efficiency from a high of A to a low of G, based on the EU's testing parameters. However, Apple said that certain aspects of the testing methods outlined by the European Commission are "ambiguous," so it ch [...]

Vite’s Creator on a Unified JavaScript Toolchain and Vite+

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There will be advantages to frameworks that roll out as Vite plugins, such as Remix React Router, TanStack and Redmond

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MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 16 Pro From Lululook

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For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Lululook to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an iPhone 16 Pro and a Lululook Find My Tracker Card to go along with it.


Lululook's Tracker Card works like an AirTag, integrating with the Find My app on your iPhone. It's as thin as two credit cards so it can fit right into a wallet or passport, but it also has an optional lanyard on it so yo [...]

US Marines Witnessed Detaining A US Citizen In Los Angeles

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As Mike Masnick noted late last week while covering yet another extremely disturbing development in the ongoing horror show that is our current government, the Trump Administration isn’t fucking around. It wants to destroy America so it can have the only kind of America it’s willing to put up with: one it can rule, rather […]

How AI Can Help You Learn the Art of Programming

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Have you already started your programming journey? Or maybe you’ve just recently started it, and you’re finding learning your first

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The MacRumors Show: WWDC 2025 Rumors—What Was Right and Wrong?

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we take a rumor report card-style look back at some of the biggest rumors surrounding WWDC 2025, what was predicted correctly, and what missed the mark.

Longer commercial breaks lower the value of ad-based streaming subscriptions

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WBD also started showing ads during HBO programming.

Creating a Communications Framework for Platform Engineering

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Imagine that your platform engineering team has spent months developing an internal solution designed to reduce deployment times and eliminate

The post Creating a Communications Framework for Platform Engineering appeared first on The New Stack.

Oakley Meta Glasses Announced With Longer Battery Life, Improved Cameras, and More

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Meta today announced new smart glasses in collaboration with Oakley, featuring improved battery life, upgraded video capabilities, and more.

Post-ZiRP Enterprise Self-care

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Checking in on the infinite workday

This week’s Software Defined Talk episode:

This week, we cover Apple’s WWDC updates—from containerization to Foundation Models—and the Linux Foundation’s new FAIR Package Manager. Plus, we crown the best SDT Uber rider. Take a listen, make sure to subscribe. Also available in YouTube if you like that kind of thing.

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iPhone 17 Base Model Rumored to Come in New Purple and Green Colors

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Apple is testing new Purple and Green color options for the iPhone 17 base model, according to new information shared by a leaker known as Majin Bu.


In a blog post today, Majin Bu said that only one of the two new colors might make the final cut, with Purple apparently being the more likely choice.

The base model iPhone 16 is available in five colors: Ultramarine, Teal, Pink, White, and Black.

Majin Bu has a mixed track record with Apple rumors. Most recently, they accurately leaked that <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/24/ipados-19-mac-like-menu-bar-rum [...]

Survey: ArgoCD Leaves Flux (And Other GitOps Platforms) Behind

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Whenever a new technology is conceived, multiple implementations will often surface and vie with one another for dominance. In the

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Apple Escapes Immediate EU Fines, But Penalties Still Likely

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Apple will not face immediate financial penalties from the European Commission if it fails to meet its Digital Markets Act (DMA) compliance deadline on June 26, despite previously receiving a €500 million fine for violations related to the App Store.


The European Commission confirmed to Euronews that financial sanctions against Apple will not be automatically imposed once the company's 60-day grace period expires. The Commission spokesperson said that any further penalties will only follow a formal analysis of Apple's current conduct and a procedural exchange of findings between the regulator and the company. <br [...]

Apple Shares PowerPoint Presentation That Can Help Convince Your Parents to Buy You a Mac

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Are you a student who is struggling to convince your parents to buy you a Mac for college? Apple has come up with a humorous solution for you.


Apple today shared The Parent Presentation, which explains why a Mac is a useful tool in college. The customizable 81-slide presentation is available in PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides formats. After downloading the template on this page, you can fill in your name and some other key details, and make other edits to your liking.

The presentation mostly contains tongue-in-cheek comments, but it also outlines a few real benefits of Macs, such as the MacBook Air's portability.

In an accompanying YouTube video shared by Apple, comedian Martin Herlihy shows a group of high sc [...]

Tech Hiring Improves but Managers Overworked, Says Report

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First, the bad news: half of all companies represented in a new survey experienced either a layoff or a hiring

The post Tech Hiring Improves but Managers Overworked, Says Report appeared first on The New Stack.

Salt Typhoon Hack Keeps Getting Worse, Telecoms Tell Employees To Stop Looking For Evidence Of Intrusion

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Late last year, eight major U.S. telecoms were the victim of a massive intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Typhoon” hack was so severe, the intruders spent a year rooting around the ISP networks even after discovery. AT&T and Verizon, two of the compromised companies, […]

Foxconn to Start Making iPhone Casings in India

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Apple's iPhone assembler Foxconn has begun constructing a new facility in India to manufacture ‌iPhone‌ enclosures for the first time, The Economic Times reports.


Foxconn is building the new unit at the ESR Industrial Park in Oragadam, Tamil Nadu. The company has acquired approximately 500,000 square feet of space in ESR's industrial zone, where construction on the new enclosure facility is already underway. The site is located adjacent to Foxconn's upcoming display module assembly plant, which is in an advanced stage of development and is also expected to supply Apple.

This will be t [...]

Compliance in the Age of AI: Why Strong CI/CD Foundations Matter

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Apple Celebrates New Store in Perth, Australia With a Special Wallpaper

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Apple today announced that it will soon be opening a new retail store at Forrest Place, a pedestrianized area in the heart of Perth, Australia.


The store will be in a historic building originally built for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, at the corner of Forrest Place and Murray Street. Apple is taking over a space that was previously occupied by Australian swimwear retailer City Beach.

Apple already has a store in central Perth on nearby Hay Street. That location, opened in 2010, will be permanently closing on Wednesday, June 25, and the newer and larger Forrest Place store will be holding its grand opening on Friday, June 27 at 9 a.m. local time.

"Prepare to discover a flourishing hub of creativity, as we open the door to a new er [...]

iOS 26 Beta is Hiding a New Ringtone — Here's What It Sounds Like

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Apple is hiding a new ringtone within iOS 26.


The new ringtone is an alternative version of the existing Reflection ringtone, which has been the default ringtone since the iPhone X was released in 2017. It was discovered within the code for the first developer beta of iOS 26, but it remains hidden, so you will not find it in the list of ringtones available in the Settings app for now.

It is unclear if Apple will move forward with releasing the ringtone in a later iOS 26 beta version.

The new ringtone was shared on X yesterday by the account @8810cfw, in a post that was later reposted by the account ShrimpApplePro.

MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris <a href="https://x.co [...]

It's Not Just You: Apple Intelligence is Down on iOS 26 and Other Betas [Fixed]

Summary:
Apple Intelligence has not been working for many hours today across the first developer betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe.


The issue has been flagged by users across the Apple Developer Forums, Reddit, and other online discussion platforms throughout the day.

MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris is unable to use any Apple Intelligence features on iOS 26, ranging from Image Playground to Visual Intelligence.

The new Foundation Models framework, which provides developers wit [...]

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Outsourced But Not Out Of Mind

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

Chasing AI Autonomy Misses Near-Term Agentic Returns

Summary:

Apple recently published a paper asking large reasoning models (LRMs) to solve some simple but lengthy algorithmic challenges, such as

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Spotify Preparing to Launch Long-Awaited Lossless Audio Tier on iPhone

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Spotify appears to be gearing up to launch its long-awaited lossless music tier.


Chris Messina (via TechCrunch) and Spicetify (via The Verge) spotted new lossless references within the code for Spotify's desk [...]

Review: ViewSonic's VP2788-5K Display Offers a Cheaper Alternative to Apple's Studio Display

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After years of there being few alternatives to the Apple-approved LG UltraFine 5K and later the Apple Studio Display in the 27-inch 5K display market, a number of new entrants have recently appeared to offer more options for consumers.

ViewSonic 2788-5K

Rust Eats Python’s, Java’s Lunch in Data Engineering

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The Rust programming language is moving into new areas, including enterprise data pipelines. While most of the industry relies on

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AI’s $500B+ Gamble: Can Ethics and Energy Keep Up?

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With the growing popularity of artificial intelligence technology over the past year, critics have begun to highlight its numerous shortcomings.

The post AI’s $500B+ Gamble: Can Ethics and Energy Keep Up? appeared first on The New Stack.

PostgreSQL Hacking + Patch Review Workshops for July 2025

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Next month, I'll be hosting 2 or 3 discussions of Tomas Vondra's talk, Fast-path locking improvements in PG18, given at 2025.pgconf.dev (talk description here). If you're interested in joining us, please sign up using this form and I will send you an invite to one of the sessions. Thanks to Tomas for agreeing to attend the sessions. We'll have plenty more 2025.pgconf.dev talks on the schedule in future months, as well! As usual, nobody is too inexperienced to join us, and nobody is too experienced. We have everyone from total newcomers to interested committers.

Why Everyone Hates Your DevOps Stack

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The data doesn’t lie: Developers, on average, are juggling 14 different vendor tools throughout the work day. They spent time

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In Praise of “Normal” Engineers

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This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engineering teams” . It was later picked up by IEEE Spectrum (!!!), who scrapped most of the teams content and published a different, shorter piece on March […]

How To Be a GenAI Hero Without Being an ML Engineer

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Vishnu Kammari also contributed to this article. Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly becoming a cornerstone of modern business strategies, with

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Making Sense of User-Focused Observability

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As software systems grow larger, they become less comprehensible to any one engineer. Organizations expand in size, responsibilities become narrower

The post Making Sense of User-Focused Observability appeared first on The New Stack.

Baseline Newly Available: Stay on Top of New Web Features

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The web platform is always evolving and improving; the downside for web developers is knowing which new features are available

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What’s New in Apache Iceberg 3.0

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Version 3 of Apache Iceberg has been released. A number of features have been added that expand the flexibility of

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AWS Extends MCP Support in Amazon Q Developer to Multiple IDEs

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Everything you need to know about NIST’s new guidance in “SP 1800-35: Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture”

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We read NIST’s new guidance on “Implementing a Zero-Trust Architecture” so that you don’t have to. Read this to get the key points on the newly-released NIST Special Publication 1800-35.

Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

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In mid-May 2025, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).

Introduction to Cloud Native Computing

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What Is Cloud Native? Cloud native computing is a transformative approach in software development, where services are built and managed

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Why AI-based Code Generation Falls Short

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The Top 5 AI Trends for Developers

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Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’

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Back in May, we talked about a change that Nintendo made to its EULA that essentially amounted to “We’ll brick your console if we don’t like how you use it.” Now, Nintendo will tell you that the changes were done to protect the company from the threat of piracy. The problem is that’s not what […]

Smart TV OS owners face “constant conflict” between privacy, advertiser demands

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Advertisers want to know "exactly what you ate for breakfast."

The CEO of htmx likes codin' dirty (Interview)

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Jerod is joined by Carson Gross, the creator of htmx –a small, zero-dependency JavaScript library that he says, "completes HTML as a hypertext". Carson built it because he's big on hypermedia, he even wrote a book called Hypermedia Systems. Carson has a lot of strong opinions weakly held that we dive into in this conversation.

Atlassian Adds CLI Option to AI Agent for Building Software

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AI Browsers: Dia’s Chat-Based UI and the Future of the Web

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The web browser has been the core app of the web for more than thirty years. Fundamentally, it hasn’t changed

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AWS Extends Cloud Security Reach to Include DevSecOps Tools to Scan Code

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How Developers Can Monetize APIs Without a Marketplace

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API monetization is expected to reach $8 billion by 2027 in the US alone. That figure could be driven higher

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Anthropic’s Claude Code Gets Support for Remote MCP Servers

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Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent, has seen a 160% growth in its active user base since the company launched

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Netflix will start showing traditional broadcast channels next summer

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France's TF1 channels will air on netflix as linear TV sees "secular decline."

Google’s frighteningly good Veo 3 AI videos to be integrated with YouTube Shorts

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YouTube Shorts and Veo 3 could be a match made in heaven... or the other place.

How To Use Terraform for Automation at the Edge

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Automation is redefining how organizations deploy and manage secure workloads at the distributed edge. By leveraging flexible platforms with robust

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CloudBees Adds MCP Server to Unify Platform for Integrating DevOps Workflows

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