Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company plans to expand its lending to commodities traders "dramatically" after extending ~$1.5B worth of credit to the sector (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company plans to expand its lending to commodities traders “dramatically” after extending ~$1.5B worth of credit to the sector  —  Stablecoin giant Tether Holdings SA plans to expand “dramatically” in lending to commodities traders …

Sources: Samsung raised the prices of some memory chips by 30%- 60% compared to September, amid shortages, adding to stress for companies building data centers (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Sources: Samsung raised the prices of some memory chips by 30%- 60% compared to September, amid shortages, adding to stress for companies building data centers  —  - Samsung hikes prices of server chips by 30% to 60%  — Steep price hikes seen adding to stress for data infrastructure firms

249 million-year-old fossils prove ocean life bounced back fast after ‘The Great Dying’

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In 2015, a fossil treasure trove, comprising 30,000 teeth and bones, was discovered on the...

WhatsApp Launching Third-Party Chat Support Across EU Countries

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WhatsApp is close to rolling out third-party chat support across the European Union, as part its compliance with the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA).


WhatsApp parent company Meta is required by the DMA to make its messaging platform interoperable with other third-party services, and Meta says the first apps that WhatsApp will support are BirdyChat and Haiket, following successful testing over recent months.

WhatsApp users on iOS and Android who choose to make use of the interoperability support will be able to share messages, images, voice messages, videos, and files. Meta says there will also be an option to create groups with third-party users, once its partners are ready to support the feature. Meta [...]

Meta plans to launch WhatsApp third-party app integration in Europe "over the coming months" as required by the DMA, starting with BirdyChat and Haiket (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)

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Thomas Ricker / The Verge:
Meta plans to launch WhatsApp third-party app integration in Europe “over the coming months” as required by the DMA, starting with BirdyChat and Haiket  —  Coming ‘soon’ with end-to-end encryption enabled.  —  Meta is on the cusp of launching third-party integration …

Type 004: China’s fourth aircraft carrier may be nuclear powered, new images suggest

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A week after China commissioned its newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, newly surfaced satellite imagery...

Google proposes ad tech changes to address a €2.95B EU antitrust fine, including enhancing interoperability across its ad services, but still plans to appeal (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Google proposes ad tech changes to address a €2.95B EU antitrust fine, including enhancing interoperability across its ad services, but still plans to appeal  —  Google has offered to tweak its ad tech products to settle a European Union order after a near-€3 billion ($3.4 billion) …

How Hyperconnected AI Development Creates a Multi-System Secret Sprawl

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Autonomous electric VTOL aircraft for US military makes successful first flight

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Joby Aviation on Thursday announced the first flight of its new turbine-electric, autonomous vertical takeoff...

GitOps in the Wild: Scaling Continuous Delivery in Hybrid Cloud Environments

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An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg on lessons from AOL, the rise of esports, turning around EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic, Zynga, more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg on lessons from AOL, the rise of esports, turning around EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic, Zynga, more  —  An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg about a career focused on turnarounds, from EA's KOTR to Zynga and now to Unity.

China’s Unitree debuts wheeled humanoid robot designed for fast, repetitive tasks

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Chinese robotics company Unitree Robotics has launched the G1-D, its first humanoid robot on wheels....

Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted at ~$2.73, up 9.5% from the ~$2.49 IPO price, after a $440M IPO earlier this week that was 2x oversubscribed (Soumyajit Saha/Nikkei Asia)

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Soumyajit Saha / Nikkei Asia:
Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted at ~$2.73, up 9.5% from the ~$2.49 IPO price, after a $440M IPO earlier this week that was 2x oversubscribed  —  MUMBAI — Shares of financial tech company Pine Labs made their debut on India's main bourses on Friday, opening 9.5% above …

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin sends twin probes to Mars, recovers booster in a first

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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on its second flight, carrying...

Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing more than $250B in market value gains following the announcement of its OpenAI deals in September (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing more than $250B in market value gains following the announcement of its OpenAI deals in September  —  Larry Ellison's software company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts

How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing the strain of AI's increased energy demand with their promises of net-zero carbon emissions (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)

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Emily Forgash / Bloomberg:
How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing the strain of AI's increased energy demand with their promises of net-zero carbon emissions  —  Energy-hungry data centers test industry's commitment to go carbon-zero by 2040  —  Weeks after ChatGPT was unleashed on the world in

‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately

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One of my favorite things in all of professional sports is the unofficial holiday referred to as “Bobby Bonilla Day.” The short version of it is that Bonilla played for the New York Mets decades ago and eventually bought out his contract in 2000 when they decided they were done with him. Rather than pay […]

Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September (Tess Bennett/Australian Financial Review)

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Tess Bennett / Australian Financial Review:
Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September  —  Artificial intelligence infrastructure start-up Firmus Technologies has tripled its valuation to $6 billion in two months …

Sources: Amazon and Anthropic support the GAIN AI Act, which would give US buyers first priority on advanced AI chips, joining Microsoft; Nvidia opposes it (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon and Anthropic support the GAIN AI Act, which would give US buyers first priority on advanced AI chips, joining Microsoft; Nvidia opposes it  —  Legislation would give tech leaders preferential access to chipsn

OpenAI is piloting group chats in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan; up to 20 users can be invited to prompt ChatGPT in a shared space (OpenAI)

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OpenAI:
OpenAI is piloting group chats in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan; up to 20 users can be invited to prompt ChatGPT in a shared space  —  Collaborate with others, and ChatGPT, in the same conversation.  —  Try in ChatGPT(opens in a new window)

Mozilla says it is building AI Window, a Firefox feature that will include an AI assistant and let users choose the model, but offers few additional details (Elissa Welle/The Verge)

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Elissa Welle / The Verge:
Mozilla says it is building AI Window, a Firefox feature that will include an AI assistant and let users choose the model, but offers few additional details  —  You will be able to chat with the browser's AI assistant in the new AI Window. … Another day, another AI browser.

Apple and OpenAI Must Face xAI Lawsuit Over Siri Integration

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Apple and OpenAI were not able to get a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's xAI startup dismissed, reports Bloomberg. Texas District Judge Mark Pittman said today that Apple and OpenAI will need to continue on with the lawsuit and submit filings arguing their case.



xAI sued Apple and OpenAI in August 2025, accusing the two companies of conspiring to dominate the AI market. The lawsuit came after Musk complained that his apps X and Grok had not been featured in the [...]

Sources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers (The Information)

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The Information:
Sources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers  —  OneTrust, a nine-year-old startup that benefited from a wave of European and U.S. laws regulating how companies collect and share website data …

Apple Releases Second macOS Tahoe 26.2 Public Beta With Edge Light

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Apple today provided public beta testers with the second beta of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.2 update for testing purposes. The public beta comes a day after Apple provided the beta to developers.


After signing up for beta testing on Apple's beta site, public beta testers can download the updates using the Software Update section in the System Settings app.

macOS Tahoe 26.2 beta 2 adds an Edge Light feature for video calls. Edge Light provides a light border around the edges of the Mac's display, mimicking the look of a physical ring light to improve lighting in darkened rooms.

Edge Light uses the Neural Engine for positioning, so it is optimally placed around your face in the video frame. Light color can b [...]

A US judge rules that Apple and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by X and xAI accusing them of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in AI (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)

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Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:
A US judge rules that Apple and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by X and xAI accusing them of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in AI  —  Apple Inc. and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X Corp. and xAI accusing the companies of conspiring …

Apple cuts App Store fees to 15% for mini app hosts as antitrust pressure grows

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Apple on Thursday introduced a new program that cuts App Store fees for developers who...

OpenAI releases GPT-5.1 in the API, featuring a "no-reasoning" mode and extended prompt caching with up to 24-hour retention to generate faster responses (OpenAI)

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OpenAI:
OpenAI releases GPT-5.1 in the API, featuring a “no-reasoning” mode and extended prompt caching with up to 24-hour retention to generate faster responses  —  Today we're releasing GPT‑5.1 in the API platform, the next model in the GPT‑5 series that balances intelligence …

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Deviation From The Teen

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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 […]

Researchers look to diamond detectors to solve fusion’s extreme radiation challenge

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In a bid to power the state’s clean-energy future, the University of California has awarded...

Is Server-Side Rendering React’s Holy Grail?

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With React and React Native now under a new foundation, perhaps React will make progress on server-side rendering (SSR). SSR

The post Is Server-Side Rendering React’s Holy Grail? appeared first on The New Stack.

Satechi Launches New 7-in-1 Multiport Adapter

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Satechi today announced the launch of a new OntheGo 7-in-1 Multiport Adapter, which provides access to seven ports in a pocket-sized enclosure that's ideal to bring along when traveling.


The hub is similar in size to a hockey puck, and it includes a magnet so it can be attached to the back of a MagSafe iPhone or to a magnetic iPad case. Along with a USB-C port that offers up to 100W of passthrough charging, Satechi's adapter has the following ports:

• HDMI 4K/60Hz


• USB-A (5Gb/s)


• USB-A (5Gb/s)


• SD card re

AI company unveils avatar app that recreates deceased loved ones in interactive form

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In 2020, Kanye West gifted Kim Kardashian a hologram message of her late father, Rob...

Single protein regenerates entire finger joint, fuels limb regrowth hopes

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For the first time, scientists at Texas A&M University have identified a crucial protein that...

Apple's 40W Dynamic Power Adapter Expands to New Countries

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Apple is expanding availability of its new 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max to several countries that use type G plugs. The new variant of the adapter features a three-prong folding design that is distinct from the initial two-prong versions that launched in September alongside the iPhone 17 models.


The new 40W Dynamic Power Adapter design is available for purchase in the UK, Ireland, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia.

Apple previously launched the Dynamic Power Adapter in the U.S., Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, and the Philippines.

The 40W Dynamic Power Adapter is the same [...]

A Love Letter To America

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I love America. You’re so fucked up. But I love you. You’re built upon a beautiful and preposterous idea: that ordinary people—you and I—can govern ourselves. Together. Not through superior intelligence. Not through noble birth. Not through accumulated wealth. But through the messy, difficult, glorious work of reasoning together when no one has final answers […]

Apple Begins Selling Some Third-Party Accessories in 'Dark Cherry' Color

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Apple has teamed up with a handful of accessory makers to offer charging stands, cables, a power bank, a laptop sleeve, and more in a Dark Cherry color.


The range of Dark Cherry accessories were added to Apple's online store this week in the U.S. and many other countries, with delivery and in-store pickup available.

Participating brands include Herschel, Nimble, PopSockets, Zens, and others.

Here are all of the Dark Cherry accessories:

• Nimble Champ Stretch 10K Charger


• Nimble Daily Travel Kit

To Wrangle Cloud Bursting Costs, Tools Need To Evolve

Summary:

Cloud bills are easy to measure. The operational costs that come with keeping cloud environments running are harder to account

The post To Wrangle Cloud Bursting Costs, Tools Need To Evolve appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple Store App Gets Liquid Glass Update With New Icon

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Apple today updated its Apple Store app for the iPhone and iPad, introducing a new icon that better matches the Liquid Glass design changes added in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.


The new version of the icon features a Liquid Glass shopping bag on a blue gradient background. The prior version of the icon had a blue shopping bag on a white background.

Apple also adopted Liquid Glass design elements for the rest of the app, adding a transparent, rounded navigation bar with a Liquid Glass slider, and an updated search interface. Aside from the [...]

Omen VTOL tailsitter delivers vertical takeoff and extended range in one system

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Omen, a new hover-to-cruise autonomous aircraft developed by Anduril and EDGE, is advancing toward full-rate...

Solo.io Open Sources Agentregistry, With Support for Agent Skills

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ATLANTA — , the cloud native application networking company, has added another open source tool to the rapidly expanding agentic

The post Solo.io Open Sources Agentregistry, With Support for Agent Skills appeared first on The New Stack.

Furloughed Employees Sue Administration For Adding Partisan Wording To Their Out-Of-Office Messages

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Here comes more pathetic, childish bullshit from an administration that has made petty bullshit its brand. The just completed government shutdown caused problems everywhere. The Trump administration knew its refusal to compromise on the budget bill was going to hurt it, so it did everything it could to reshape the narrative, even as it somehow […]

Apple Releases New Firmware for AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, and AirPods 4

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Apple today released new firmware designed for the AirPods Pro 3, the AirPods 4, and the prior-generation AirPods Pro 2. The ‌AirPods Pro 3‌ firmware is 8B25, while the AirPods Pro 2 and ‌AirPods 4‌ firmware is 8B21, all up from the prior 8A358 firmware released in October.


There's no word on what's include in the updated firmware, but the AirPods Pro 2, ‌AirPods 4‌ with ANC, and ‌AirPods Pro 3‌ are both set to get expanded support for Live Translation in the European Union in iOS 26.2, which is being beta tested.

The firmware could be related to that upcoming functionality, or it could add bug fixes and performance improvements.
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Chronosphere Adds AI Remediation Guidance to Observability Platform

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Apple TV to Include MLS Games at No Extra Cost Starting in 2026

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Apple plans to incorporate Major League Soccer (MLS) content into its Apple TV streaming service starting in 2026, reports The Hollywood Reporter. MLS will no longer be a separate subscription, and games will instead be available as part of the base ‌Apple TV‌ service.


As of now, MLS games are accessible through the MLS Season Pass, which is priced at $14.99 per month or $99 for the season. The MLS Season Pass will be eliminated for the 2026 season, and soccer fans will have access to games through the standard $12.99 per month ‌Apple TV‌ subscription.

The MLS board of governors will need to ap [...]

For Devs, a Fix for AI Complexity is Hiding in Plain Sight

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The agents are here. So is the secret to managing them. I went to GitHub Universe 2025 to learn about

The post For Devs, a Fix for AI Complexity is Hiding in Plain Sight appeared first on The New Stack.

Judge Orders OpenAI To Give Lawyers 20 Million Private Chats, Thinks ‘Anonymization’ Can Keep Them Private

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A federal magistrate judge just ordered that the private ChatGPT conversations of 20 million users be handed over to the lawyers for dozens of plaintiffs, including news organizations. Those 20 million people weren’t asked. They weren’t notified. They have no say in the matter. Last week, Magistrate Judge Ona Wang ordered OpenAI to turn over […]

Daily Deal: MagStack Foldable 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station with Floating Stand

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MagStack is the perfect on-the-go wireless charging station that also transforms into a floating stand for smartphone FaceTime or video playback while charging. This 3-in-1 foldable design featuring 3 wireless charging spots, enables charging for up to 3 devices simultaneously, including iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods Pro, AirPods with Wireless Charging Case, other Qi-compatible Android phones, […]

Woot's Early Black Friday Sale Has Massive Discounts on Apple Watch Bands

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Woot this week is back with a big sale on Solo Loop and Braided Solo Loop bands for Apple Watch, with as much as 70 percent off these accessories. Additionally, Woot has sweetened this deal and is offering 35 percent off when you buy two or more, 50 percent off three or more, and 65 percent off four or more.

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.

You can get the Solo Loop for just $14.99 ($34 off) and the Braided Solo Loop for $29.99 ($69 off) [...]

We’re Repeating Cybersecurity’s Big Mistake, This Time With AI

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Fifteen years ago, most enterprises treated cybersecurity as an afterthought — a box to check rather than a foundational strategy.

The post We’re Repeating Cybersecurity’s Big Mistake, This Time With AI appeared first on The New Stack.

Google will let Android power users bypass upcoming sideloading restrictions

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Google will preserve sideloading for power users, but it hasn't decided how that will work yet.

GOP Threatened To Keep The Government Shut Down If 8 GOP Senators Couldn’t Profit From Being Investigated

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Last night the House passed, and then Donald Trump signed, the funding bill that reopened the government after the longest government shutdown in history. Amazingly, the Republican’s sketchy demands to fill their personal bank accounts with undeserved taxpayer money almost scuttled the deal. But, don’t worry: those Senators got their corrupt boondoggle and they plan […]

Volkswagen's myVW App Now Available on Apple Watch

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Volkswagen today announced that it is bringing Apple Watch support to the myVW app, allowing Volkswagen owners to access key vehicle functions from their wrists.


The myVW ap is available for most MY20+ ICE and electric vehicles that have an applicable connected vehicle service plan. Volkswagen has several paid plan options, like Remote Access, VW Vehicle Insights, and Safe and Secure.

Some of the features available through the Apple Watch app include Lock/Unlock, Honk and Flash, Vehicle Status, and Lock Status. For EVs, Remote Charging, Charge Status, and Climate Start/Stop are available. ICE models have access to Remote Start/Stop and Fuel Status.

To use the app, vehicle owners will need to download the myWV app, accept the myVW terms of service [...]

How IDPs Balance Productivity and Control in the AI Era

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The rapid adoption of agentic AI has accelerated software engineering practices, promising unprecedented productivity, faster iteration cycles and a dramatic

The post How IDPs Balance Productivity and Control in the AI Era appeared first on The New Stack.

Tesla Working to Add Apple CarPlay Support to Vehicles

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Tesla is working to add support for Apple CarPlay in its vehicles, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.


Tesla vehicles rely on its own infotainment software system, which integrates vehicle functions, navigation, music, web browsing, and more. The automaker has been an outlier in foregoing support for Apple ‌CarPlay‌, which has otherwise become an industry standard feature, allowing users to mirror their iPhone apps to their in-car infotainment screen.

Now, Tesla seems to have abruptly reversed course and apparently intends to add support for the highly requested [...]

OpenAI Recovers 30,000 CPU Cores With Fluent Bit Tweak

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ATLANTA — When systems grow large enough, even very small optimizations can lead to very large savings. This was the

The post OpenAI Recovers 30,000 CPU Cores With Fluent Bit Tweak appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple Announces App Store Mini Apps Partner Program

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Apple today announced the App Store Mini Apps Partner Program, allowing apps that host mini apps and mini games to support In-App Purchases.


The program is designed for developers who host mini apps and games within a larger, native app.

Today, we're introducing the Mini Apps Partner Program, which expands on the App Store's ongoing support for apps that offer mini apps. Mini apps are self-contained experiences that are built using web technologies like HTML5 and JavaScript. This program is designed to help developers who host mini apps grow their business and further the availability of mini apps

Apple Reaches Deal to Take Billions of Dollars in China's WeChat

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Apple has reached a new agreement with Tencent that will allow the company to process payments and collect a 15% commission on purchases made inside WeChat mini games and mini apps on the iPhone, establishing a major new revenue stream in China after over a year of negotiations, according to Bloomberg.


Under the arrangement, Apple will begin handling in-app payment processing for qualifying mini apps and mini games distributed inside WeChat, China's dominant all-purpose mobile platform. Developers participating in the system will need to adopt specific Apple software requirements, including a feature that allows parents to share a chi [...]

From Physics to the Future: Brian Granger on Project Jupyter in the Age of AI

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What if you could rewrite a beloved open source, battle-tested server from scratch, complete with a new test suite, in

The post From Physics to the Future: Brian Granger on Project Jupyter in the Age of AI appeared first on The New Stack.

Your Top 2026 Priority? Prepare Your Data for AI

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Your AI success relies on your data. The more unified your data is across your organization, the more your AI

The post Your Top 2026 Priority? Prepare Your Data for AI appeared first on The New Stack.

ClickOps, IaC and the Excluded Avocado Middle

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Amazon Takes $118 Off M5 MacBook Pro With New Lowest-Ever Price

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Amazon today has dropped the price of the new M5 MacBook Pro to $1,480.00, down from $1,599.00. This is the 10-Core model with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD in Space Black, and it's a new all-time low price on the M5 MacBook Pro.

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.

This version of the MacBook Pro just launched last month and it comes with the newest M5 chip, which offers up to 15% faster CPU performance and up to 45% faster graphics when compared to the M4 chip. For t [...]

iOS 26.2 Adds New CarPlay Setting

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iOS 26 extended pinned conversations in the Messages app to CarPlay, for quick access to your most frequent chats. However, some drivers may prefer the classic view with a list of individual conversations only, and Apple now lets users choose.


Apple released the second beta of iOS 26.2 this week, and it introduces a new CarPlay setting for turning off pinned conversations in the Messages app. After installing the beta on your iPhone, simply open the Settings app on CarPlay, look for the Pinned Conversations toggle in the main menu, and turn it off if you prefer to.

iOS 26.2 will be released to all users in December, according to Apple.

• Everything New in iOS 26.2 Beta 1

Apple Denied Permission to Appeal UK App Store Ruling

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Apple was today denied permission from the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal to appeal a ruling that found its App Store commission practices to be unlawful and could result in damages of over $1 billion.


The hearing follows a decision made in October by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) saying that Apple unlawfully abused its position in the distribution of iOS apps. The case was brought forward in 2023 on behalf of more than 1,500 UK developers who alleged that Apple charged excessive commission rates on paid apps and in-app purchases.
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How To Build an AI-First Organization, One Engineer at a Time

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Unless your business was born out of a university machine learning (ML) department or conceived in the last three years,

The post How To Build an AI-First Organization, One Engineer at a Time appeared first on The New Stack.

Finding the grain of sand in a heap of Salt

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We explore the fundamentals of Saltstack and how we use it at Cloudflare. We also explain how we built the infrastructure to reduce release delays due to Salt failures on the edge by over 5%.

Sinclair Broadcasting Posts Huge Quarterly Loss After Jimmy Kimmel Censorship

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You might recall that right wing propaganda broadcaster Sinclair Broadcasting recently tripped over its own ass after working with the Trump administration to try and censor Jimmy Kimmel for criticizing the President. The flood of outrage at the Disney/FCC/ABC collaborative effort ultimately forced the company to retreat and put Kimmel back on the air. Even after ABC […]

1Password Simplifies Access With New Unlock Setting

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1Password today announced a redesigned unlock system for Mac and Windows that allows the app to open automatically when a user unlocks their device.


The new setting lets 1Password unlock alongside the operating system when a user authenticates with Face ID, Touch ID, a PIN, or a system password. According to 1Password, this removes the repeated reauthentication many users encounter when returning to their computers after brief periods away, while still relying on the device's built-in authentication hardware to validate identity.

1Password said the feature is optional and forms part of a broader update introducing new secur [...]

Shuffle: Making Random Feel More Human

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Shuffle has always been one of Spotify’s most-used features, and also one of the most misunderstood. For...

The post Shuffle: Making Random Feel More Human appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

iPhone 16e Has Apparently 'Failed' Just Like iPhone Air

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Apple's entry-level iPhone 16e model is selling poorly, just like the iPhone Air, according to an Asia-based leaker.


The Weibo user known as "Fixed Focus Digital" said that the ‌iPhone 16e‌ is not selling well and the attempt at delivering a popular, low-cost iPhone has "failed." That being said, both models are expected to see successors. The ‌iPhone‌ 17e is expected to debut in the spring of 2026, while the ‌iPhone Air‌ 2 is likely to arrive at a later date owing to a delay. Meanwhile, demand for the iPho [...]

AI-Driven Performance Testing: A New Era for Software Quality

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Why Traditional SLOs Are Failing at Hyperscale: Building Context-Aware Reliability Contracts

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The Future of Observability: Predictive Root Cause Analysis Using AI

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JFrog Adds Ability to Track Usage of AI Coding Tools

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RFK Jr.’s FDA Is Now Also In Turmoil Over Corrupt Drug Regulator

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While we’ve talked quite a bit about the horror show that is RFK Jr.’s position as Secretary of HHS, most of the focus of those posts has been around what is happening at the CDC. And for good reason, too. The ongoing measles outbreak, the quick hiring/firing of Susan Monarez, and all the anti-vaxx bullshit […]

Survey Surfaces Multiple DevOps Platform Migration Challenges

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Trump Administration Still Trying To Send Kilmar Abrego Garcia To Anywhere But Where He Wants To Go

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For all its talk about trimming down government spending, an untold amount of money has been blown just to keep one person from getting one over on the Trump administration. That man would be Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He became the poster boy for the regime’s bigotry when he fought back against his sudden deportation to […]

Everything New in iOS 26.2 Beta 2

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Apple today provided developers with the second beta of iOS 26.2, which adds a few new features worth knowing about.

Measure App

Games App

CarPlay

Knative Has Finally Graduated From the CNCF

Summary:

ATLANTA — Knative, the open source Kubernetes-native platform for building, deploying and running serverless and event-driven applications, has officially graduated

The post Knative Has Finally Graduated From the CNCF appeared first on The New Stack.

How To Deploy an Open Source Version of NotebookLM

Summary:

NotebookLM is an AI research and note-taking tool created by that uses large language models (LLMs) that make it possible

The post How To Deploy an Open Source Version of NotebookLM appeared first on The New Stack.

Jupyter AI v3: Could It Generate an ‘Ecosystem of AI Personas?’

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What if your AI assistant could watch you code, spot bugs as they happen and fix them before you even

The post Jupyter AI v3: Could It Generate an ‘Ecosystem of AI Personas?’ appeared first on The New Stack.

DO repeat yourself! (Interview)

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Prolific software blogger, Sean Goedecke, joins us to discuss why he believes software engineers need to be involved in the politics of their organization, how to avoid worry driven development, what is "good taste" in software engineering, where agentic coding will take our industry, why getting the main thing right is so important, and how to get your blog to the top of Hacker News.

Microsoft releases update-fixing update for update-eligible Windows 10 PCs

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A bug was keeping Windows 10 PCs from enrolling in Microsoft's ESU program.

The DevOps Impact of API-First Development

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Choosing Your AI Orchestration Stack for 2026

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AI has advanced at an incredible pace. Just a few months ago, we were still talking about agentic AI’s budding

The post Choosing Your AI Orchestration Stack for 2026 appeared first on The New Stack.

Why You Should Break Your ML Pipelines on Purpose

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This is the first of two articles. What happens when your machine learning system quietly breaks, and no one notices?

The post Why You Should Break Your ML Pipelines on Purpose appeared first on The New Stack.

Why the Frontend Should Run AI Models Locally With ONNX

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Frontend developers need to make a paradigm shift about how they build applications using AI models, according to Angular consultant

The post Why the Frontend Should Run AI Models Locally With ONNX appeared first on The New Stack.

5 Ways To Transform ITOps With a Human and AI Agent Model

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A new era of AI operations is here. Research reveals that over half (51%) of global companies have already deployed

The post 5 Ways To Transform ITOps With a Human and AI Agent Model appeared first on The New Stack.

Review: New Framework Laptop 16 takes a fresh stab at the upgradeable laptop GPU

Summary:
New components make it more useful and powerful but no less odd.

How Google Is Shifting AI From the Cloud to Your Browser

Summary:

The Google Web AI summit was held earlier this month as an invite-only event in Sunnyvale, Calif. After the event,

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Connecting to production: the architecture of remote bindings

Summary:
Remote bindings allow you to connect your local Worker code to deployed Cloudflare resources like R2 and D1. Come along on the technical journey of how we built this feature to create a seamless local development experience.

KubeCon: A Terraform Killer Built on Apple’s Pkl

Summary:

ATLANTA — Terraform has you tripping? YAML got you cross-eyed? A startup, Platform Engineering Labs, has tackled the ongoing headache that

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The Potato, the Spreadsheet, and the AI That Checks Its Own Work

Summary:

Of late, the newsletter has turned into me linking to longer posts on my blog. There’s the usual links and wastebook as well. This makes it more of a digest than a stand-alone item. As you can tell by the volume of blog posts below, I like blogging though and I’m glad I’m doing I do it more!

Original content

Speaking of, several little things on the blog:

• The ultimate bike-shedding story, and, always make your own slides.

• Reject the rejection of your writing voice especially when you’re writing “enterprise grade” copy.

• Survive the next meeting.

• Java and Spring dev

Meatsack context engineering to defuse tense conversations

Summary:

In a tense situation, take a moment to say out loud your opponents position, feeling, and perspective. This is like setting up context and prompting for an AI. You put that in the context window and it flavors the ongoing conversation. It’d probably do interesting stuff in AI chats. Those chats are so explicit and non-confrontational that these dynamics probably already happen.

🔗 How to Fix Breakdowns in Communication

The charts say things are OK

Summary:

It’s astonishing that the richest country in world history could convince itself that it was plundered by immigrants and trade.

🔗 One-Third of US Families Earn Over $150,000

Feels a little bit like a platform standard so powerful that you need an AI front-end to make it usable by mere mortals.

Summary:

Yes:

Kubernetes started as a way to orchestrate containers, but its true innovation lies in its API model. The declarative resource pattern, with its desired state, actual state and continuous reconciliation, has proven to be a universal abstraction. It works for workloads, infrastructure, policies and more. That universality is why Kubernetes has become the foundation for IDPs. It provides a consistent way to define, extend and enforce platform building blocks. Whether you’re provisioning a cloud database, managing a network policy or applying compliance rules, Kubernetes APIs make platforms programmable, predictable and composable. This API-first foundation also makes Kubernetes uniquely ready for the AI era. Agents and large language models (LLMs) don’t navigate dashboards or tribal knowledge; they interact with APIs. And Kubernetes offers a consistent, structured interface designed from Day 1 for machine-to-machine communication.”

But:

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🤖 Writing for Baby Shoggoths: How AI Became Literature’s Last Reader

Summary:

{Some crazy-town stuff in here, but interesting and probably, mostly, correct. -Coté}

Human writers may soon craft words primarily for AI rather than other humans, as large language models increasingly consume, interpret, and influence the world’s text. The essay explores the strange idea that “writing for AI” could grant influence over future superintelligence—or even a form of digital immortality.

Summarized by AI.

Source summarized:
Baby Shoggoth Is Listening - The American Scholar.

Key Points

• AI could replace human readers as the primary audience for writing.
• Writers like Tyler Cowen and Gwern advocate “writing for AI” to influence future models and preserve intellectual legacy.
• Chatbot-optimized writing favors clarity, structure, and high-quality sources over clickbait.
• Early contributions to AI training d

🤖 Optimism Linked to 15% Longer Life and Higher Odds of Reaching 85+

Summary:

People who maintain a more optimistic outlook tend to live longer and are more likely to reach “exceptional longevity,” defined as surviving to 85 or beyond. Drawing on data from over 69,000 women and 1,400 men, researchers found optimism’s benefits persisted even when accounting for health conditions, depression, and lifestyle habits.

Summarized by AI.

Source summarized:
Optimism is associated with exceptional longevity in 2 epidemiologic cohorts of men and women | PNAS.

Key Points

• Higher optimism is associated with an 8–15% longer life span in both men and women.
• Optimistic individuals are 1.5–1.7 times more likely to reach age 85, independent of health and lifestyle factors.
• Benefits persisted after adjusting for baseline health conditions, depression, and social integration.

🤖 AI Security Loops: When Coding Assistants Become Their Own Risk

Summary:

Developers are embracing AI coding tools to accelerate software creation, but the resulting security landscape is increasingly complex. While AI can detect threats and debug code, relying on it exclusively creates a recursive loop where the same AI that writes code may also incorrectly validate or approve it.

Summarized by AI.

Source summarized: Shifting Security Left with AI — Is It Truly AI-Assisted Security, or an Infinite Loop?.

Key Points

• 49% of developers now use AI regularly for coding-related tasks, with 73% saving up to four hours per week.
• AI-generated code increases security risk, sometimes creating “4x faster code with 10x more vulnerabilities.”
• Recursive AI loops emerge when the same AI both generates and reviews code, lea

🤖 Europe’s Innovation Constitution Calls for Radical Economic Refocus

Summary:

Europe’s prosperity is stagnating because the EU has strayed from its core mission: a functioning internal market that drives economic growth and innovation. This manifesto argues for a renaissance built on enforcing market rules, enabling creative destruction, and cutting regulatory dead weight.

Summarized by AI.

Source summarized: The Constitution of Innovation: A New European Renaissance.

Key Points

• Refocus the EU on core economic functions: customs union, internal market, eurozone monetary policy, and common trade policy.
• Enforce the internal market by reviving infringement actions and dismantling barriers to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and workers.
• Enable creative destruction: eliminate zombie firms, streamline bankruptcy, and support market exit as a driver of innovation.