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Azul CTO: Java at 30 Still Rules Enterprise Dev

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The Java programming language turned 30 today. And 30 years after its debut, Java remains the champion of enterprise software

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Sources: CommScope is exploring a sale of its broadband connectivity and cable arm CCS for up to $10B, seeking to unload assets to repay debt (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: CommScope is exploring a sale of its broadband connectivity and cable arm CCS for up to $10B, seeking to unload assets to repay debt  —  The company is working with an adviser to gauge buyer interest in the business, known as CCS, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential information.

ICE Raids South Dakota Businesses Three Days After DHS Head Kristi Noem’s Visit Was Greeted With Protests

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This is exactly what it looks like: the actions of an administration infested by vindictive thugs. Former South Dakota governor and current DHS boss Kristi Noem returned to South Dakota to get her ego stroked a bit by Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota. While Noem was picking up a fake degree and presumably […]

Q&A with Demis Hassabis about how Google I/O became the Gemini show, Google getting "AGI-pilled", Project Astra, Sergey Brin's shorter AGI timelines, and more (New York Times)

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New York Times:
Q&A with Demis Hassabis about how Google I/O became the Gemini show, Google getting “AGI-pilled”, Project Astra, Sergey Brin's shorter AGI timelines, and more  —  A few years ago, most Google executives didn't talk about A.G.I. — artificial general intelligence, the industry term for a human-level A.I. system.

Trump says no to India: Demands Apple build iPhones in US or face 25% tariff

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In April, Apple chartered flights to ferry over 600 tons of iPhones from India to...

US scientists make rubber 10 times tougher, 4x more crack-resistant under repeated stress

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Materials scientists in the U.S. have just given natural rubber a major upgrade by developing...

Judge temporarily blocks Trump move to stop Harvard from enrolling foreign students

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A federal judge on Friday handed Harvard a win by temporarily blocking the Trump administration...

Build an AI Chat Assistant With Stream and OpenAI

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Have you ever visited a website and found yourself chatting with an AI assistant that feels almost human? You can

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President Trump says that the tariffs he has threatened against Apple would also be aimed at "Samsung and anybody that makes that product" (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
President Trump says that the tariffs he has threatened against Apple would also be aimed at “Samsung and anybody that makes that product”  —  “It would be more,” Trump said when asked at the White House whether his tariff threat would only apply to Apple.

Google Home is getting deeper Gemini integration and a new widget

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Smart homes can be dumb, but maybe Gemini can help.

Less echo, less stress: Sound-absorbing ceilings can improve learning in preschoolers

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When young children are dropped off at school or daycare for the first time, they...

Sources: Oracle will buy ~400,000 Nvidia GB200 chips and lease them to OpenAI at its 1.2 gigawatts Texas data center, billed as the first US Stargate project (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Sources: Oracle will buy ~400,000 Nvidia GB200 chips and lease them to OpenAI at its 1.2 gigawatts Texas data center, billed as the first US Stargate project  —  The 1.2 gigawatts infrastructure project will be one of the largest in the world  —  Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Sony's New WH-1000XM6 Headphones vs. AirPods Max

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Sony recently came out with a new set of high-end over-ear noise canceling headphones, so we thought we'd compare them to the AirPods Max to see how Sony's 2025 headphones measure up to Apple's headphones that haven't seen a notable update since their 2020 launch.

Nanoleaf EXPO Case Review: Fun LED Display Boxes for Sneakers and Collectibles

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If you have a collection that you want to show off, whether it's high-end sneakers, expensive collectible vinyl figures, or something else you want to draw attention to, Nanoleaf's EXPO Smart LED Display Cases are worth checking out. They're priced at $270 for a pack of four, with additional expansion cases available for $63.


The EXPO Smart Cases are LED equipped display boxes for collectibles. They're rectangular, with white plastic sides and clear plastic at the front and the back. The front panel opens up so that items can be placed inside.

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Kids Don’t Have IDs And Age-Estimation Tech Is Frequently Very Wrong

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Lawmakers continue to propose new bills that would require social media companies and app stores to segment users by age and obtain parental consent for minors. Laws like Utah’s new App Store Accountability Act and an identically named piece of federal legislation are being pushed across the country. Other bills, such as the Rhode Island Social Media Regulation Act, would […]

AI Is Quickly Making IT Teams and Developers From Invisible to Indispensable

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A terabyte, which was once considered an unfathomable amount of data, now pales compared to the petabytes that today’s IT

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Daily Deal: The Complete Machine Learning Bundle

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Dive into the world of self-driving cars, speech recognition technology, and more with the Complete Machine Learning Bundle. Over 10 courses, you will learn about pattern recognition and prediction, and how to harness the power of machine learning to take your programming to the next level. Discover quant trading, how to harness large data sets, […]

OpenAI says Operator, its AI agent that can use the web to perform tasks, will soon use a model based on o3 after previously using a custom version of GPT-4o (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says Operator, its AI agent that can use the web to perform tasks, will soon use a model based on o3 after previously using a custom version of GPT-4o  —  OpenAI is updating the AI model powering Operator, its AI agent that can autonomously browse the web and use certain software within a cloud-hosted virtual machine.

A look at Anthropic's first developer conference, where CPO Mike Krieger said 70%+ of Anthropic's code pull requests are now written by their AI model Claude (Kylie Robison/Wired)

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Kylie Robison / Wired:
A look at Anthropic's first developer conference, where CPO Mike Krieger said 70%+ of Anthropic's code pull requests are now written by their AI model Claude  —  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said everything human workers do now will eventually be done by AI systems.

iOS 18 Leak Reveals Apple Tested MacBook Pros With M3 Ultra Chip

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Apple's highest-end M3 Ultra chip is currently limited to the Mac Studio, but a new leak has revealed that Apple tested the chip in the MacBook Pro as well.


In a post today on the Chinese social media platform BiliBili, a user who we are not familiar with said that they found code references to unreleased 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with the M3 Ultra chip, in an internal build of iOS 18 running on an iPhone 16 engineering prototype. Specifically, they said that they found J514d and J516d codenames in a file located in the /AppleInternal/Diags/Tests/ folder.

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Scientists develop breakthrough blood test for rare genetic disorders in children

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In a major leap for genetic diagnostics, scientists from the University of Melbourne and the...

Monarch, which makes a personal finance app, raised a $75M Series B at a $850M valuation, says its subscribers grew by 20x since Intuit closed Mint in 2023 (Hugh Son/CNBC)

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Hugh Son / CNBC:
Monarch, which makes a personal finance app, raised a $75M Series B at a $850M valuation, says its subscribers grew by 20x since Intuit closed Mint in 2023  —  The personal finance startup Monarch has raised $75 million to accelerate subscriber growth that took off last year when budgeting tool Mint was shut down, CNBC has learned.

Apple's Latest Ads Show Off Key iPhone Features

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Apple today shared several new short video ads on its UK YouTube channel, highlighting iPhone features like the App Store, Ceramic Shield, Stolen Device Protection, and Find My.

Companies Must Embrace Bespoke AI Designed for IT Workflows

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Although LLMs have been readily available for the past few years, inroads into the IT sector have been minimal. We

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Best Apple Deals of the Week: Memorial Day Sales Arrive With Savings on iPad, AirPods, iPhone Accessories, and Much More

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It's Memorial Day weekend, and retailers are hosting a wide variety of discount events online with big savings on everything from computer monitors to iPhones and charging accessories. We're also still tracking numerous deals that happened during the week, including savings on iPad mini 7, Apple Watch, and AirPods Max, as well as a huge markdown on your first year of Peacock.

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DHS Strips Harvard’s Foreign Student Program Just As Judge Blocks Separate Mass Student Expulsion Scheme

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DHS announced yesterday that Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students, stripping the university of its Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification. The timing is particularly brazen: around the same time, a federal judge in California had blocked DHS from a separate scheme to mass-revoke thousands of student visas based on fifteen minutes of review. […]

US military’s top mystery plane that operates near Area 51 spotted at secretive bases

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A plane that’s deemed as the world’s most secretive Boeing 737-200 has been recently spotted....

Kuo: Apple Better Off Taking 25% Tariff Hit Than Move iPhone Production to US

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It would be more financially viable for Apple to absorb a 25% import tariff on iPhones sold in the United States than to relocate its assembly operations to the U.S., Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today said.


Kuo, a respected analyst with a long track record of accurate forecasts about Apple's supply chain, made the statement on X (formerly Twitter) in response to renewed pressure from former President Donald Trump for Apple to shift iPhone production to the United States. The comment follows President Trump's threat to impose a 25% tariff on all iPhones not assembled domestically.

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First Lady Melania Trump releases an audiobook of her memoir, with her "official AI voice" created by ElevenLabs, available exclusively in the ElevenReader app (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
First Lady Melania Trump releases an audiobook of her memoir, with her “official AI voice” created by ElevenLabs, available exclusively in the ElevenReader app  —  First Lady Melania Trump released her recently published memoir “Melania” as an audiobook that will be available …

Color meets current: Breakthrough silicone shines in rainbow tones, carries electricity

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Scientists in the U.S. have developed a groundbreaking silicone variant that can conduct electricity, overturning...

The MacRumors Show: Google and OpenAI Step Up AI Tech Ahead of WWDC

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss all of the major announcements from Google's AI-focused I/O conference this week and the mysterious device former Apple design chief Jony Ive is designing at OpenAI.

Give Your iPhone Screen Recording a Voiceover

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On iPhone and iPad, Apple's screen recording feature records a video of what you're doing on your screen, which is great if you want to capture gameplay, walk someone through a tutorial in an app, demonstrate a bug, or anything else. You can also include a voiceover in screen recordings. Keep reading to learn how.


If you're making a screen recording to demonstrate something in iOS, chances are it would benefit from some voiceover commentary. Fortunately, Apple enables you to do this by activating your device's microphone for the duration of the recording.

To record your voice along with screen activity, simply follow these steps.

1. Invoke the Control Center by swiping down diagonally from the top-right corner of the screen.


2. Long press the Screen Recording button </

World’s first supersonic artillery shell unveiled by US startup, flies at Mach 3.5

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A major technological milestone in artillery warfare was unveiled at the Future Artillery Conference in...

SteamOS 3.7 brings Valve’s gaming OS to other handhelds and generic AMD PCs

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Focus is currently on AMD-based PCs with hardware similar to the Steam Deck.

Sources: Tim Cook called Texas Governor Greg Abbott last week urging a veto or changes to a bill that would require Apple to verify users' ages on its devices (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Tim Cook called Texas Governor Greg Abbott last week urging a veto or changes to a bill that would require Apple to verify users' ages on its devices  —  Apple's CEO called Greg Abbott after law passed requiring app stores to verify user ages 

Intuit stock jumps 9%+ after reporting Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $7.8B with FY 2025 guidance of $18.72B to $18.76B, up from $18.16B to $18.35B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Intuit stock jumps 9%+ after reporting Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $7.8B with FY 2025 guidance of $18.72B to $18.76B, up from $18.16B to $18.35B  —  WATCH NOW  —  Shares of Intuit popped about 9% on Friday, a day after the company reported quarterly results that beat analysts' estimates and issued rosy guidance for the full year.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge review: a thin design and a good 200MP camera give a fresh take on the baseline model but battery life is mediocre and the price is high (Abrar Al-Heeti/CNET)

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Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET:
Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge review: a thin design and a good 200MP camera give a fresh take on the baseline model but battery life is mediocre and the price is high  —  Admitting you're wrong is never fun, but I'll swallow my pride and say it right now: I was wrong about the Galaxy S25 Edge.

Solar cells reach record 19.96% efficiency with six times cheaper organic polymer

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A novel low-cost polymer developed by a research team at Zhengzhou University has achieved an...

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan used an AI avatar for his initial comments on Zoom's Q1 earnings call on May 21; Klarna's CEO used an AI avatar to deliver earnings on May 19 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan used an AI avatar for his initial comments on Zoom's Q1 earnings call on May 21; Klarna's CEO used an AI avatar to deliver earnings on May 19  —  CEOs are now so immersed in AI, they're sending their avatars to address quarterly earnings calls instead of themselves, at least partially.

Atomic motion turned into a powerful quantum resource by Caltech scientists

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Quantum technology often requires the precise control of individual particles, atoms, or ions. Optical tweezers...

Apple Raises iPhone Trade-In Values For Limited Time — Here's the List

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Apple has temporarily increased its iPhone trade-in values in select countries, including the U.S., Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, U.K., and China. Apple says the extra credit towards a new iPhone is available through June 18.


In the U.S., the maximum estimated trade-in values increased by only $5 to $30, with the full changes in that country outlined below.

Glitch CEO Anil Dash says it will stop hosting projects and close user profiles on July 8; Glitch launched in March 2017 and Fastly acquired it in May 2022 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Glitch CEO Anil Dash says it will stop hosting projects and close user profiles on July 8; Glitch launched in March 2017 and Fastly acquired it in May 2022  —  The collaborative coding platform will no longer host projects starting July 8th. … Glitch, the coding platform where developers …

Java at 30 Years Old: An Industry Perspective

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Sources: Foxconn is among potential bidders for Singapore-based semiconductor assembly and testing firm UTAC in a deal that could value the company at ~$3B (Kane Wu/Reuters)

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Kane Wu / Reuters:
Sources: Foxconn is among potential bidders for Singapore-based semiconductor assembly and testing firm UTAC in a deal that could value the company at ~$3B  —  Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW) is among potential bidders for the Singaporean semiconductor assembly and testing business UTAC Holdings &hell

Build GenAI Applications Locally With Docker Model Runner

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Docker Model Runner is a new feature of the Docker Desktop designed to streamline the process of running and testing

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Cloudflare named in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge

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For the third consecutive year, Gartner has named Cloudflare to the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE) report.

Trump hosted a gala dinner for top buyers of $TRUMP, including Justin Sun, and said he was fulfilling his promise to make the US the world's "crypto capital" (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
Trump hosted a gala dinner for top buyers of $TRUMP, including Justin Sun, and said he was fulfilling his promise to make the US the world's “crypto capital”  —  The president hosted the biggest investor

Verizon Gets $20 Billion Frontier Merger Approved By FCC After Promising To Be More Racist And Sexist

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Back in March, Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr announced he was “investigating” Verizon because the company hadn’t scaled back its diversity and inclusion efforts quickly enough for the bigots in the Trump administration. Despite the investigation being completely baseless, Verizon was quick to comply, yanking materials related to its fleeting efforts to diversify its workforce […]

Now's a great time to rediscover PaaS

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Google Translate Can Now Be Set as the Default Translation App on iOS - Set your Apple stuff to use Google Translate as the translation service.

AI PCs Finally Get Their Killer App: Floating AR Desktop

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There aren’t many companies that can say this, but it’s true: Sightful is sitting squarely at the intersection of augmented

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Trump Demands US iPhone Production, Threatens 25% Tariff

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President Donald Trump escalated his trade rhetoric Friday, targeting Apple with a potential 25% tariff unless the company manufactures iPhones domestically rather than anywhere else.


The warning came via Truth Social after CEO Tim Cook announced earlier this month that Indian facilities would handle the majority of U.S. iPhone sales. Apple's pivot to India was widely seen as a strategy to sidestep Chinese manufacturing amid ongoing trade tensions.

"I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhones that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else," Trump wrote. "If that is not the case, a Tariff of at least 25% must be p

Curve Pay Launches iPhone NFC Payments as Apple Pay Alternative

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British fintech company Curve has launched contactless payments for iPhone users in the European Union, becoming the second third-party payment service after PayPal to take advantage of Apple's newly opened NFC interface (via iphone-ticker.de).


The Curve Pay app allows users to make tap-to-pay purchases without using Apple Pay or the Wallet app, following PayPal's debut of similar functionality in Germany earlier this month. The feature was made possible by Europe's Digital Markets Act, which forced Apple to open its NFC chip to third-party developers.

Unlike traditional wallet apps, Curve Pay operates as an independent payment authority rather than simply [...]

Apple Calendar App Revamp Confirmed by Job Posting

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A new Apple job listing has provided more evidence that the company is working on a major overhaul of its Calendar app.


A senior software engineer position for "Calendar Experience," spotted by Macworld's Filipe Espósito, explicitly states that Apple seeks candidates to join a team that will "reimagine what a modern calendar can be across Apple's platforms." Listed on April 29, the posting is surely the clearest acknowledgment yet of Apple's Calendar ambitions.

The job listing provides further context for Apple's acquisition of Mayday Labs in April 2024. Per our <a href="https://www.macrum [...]

Claude Opus 4: The AI Revolution That Could Transform DevOps Workflows

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Moderation Without Representation

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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 […]

Firefox Maker Mozilla Discontinues Pocket and Fakespot to Focus on Browser

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Mozilla today said that it is shutting down Pocket, the read-it-later service that allows users to save articles, videos, and webpages to view later. The company also plans to end work on Fakespot, a browser extension and website that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.


Pocket is a well-known service that streamlines articles, offering a distraction-free reading experience. It includes offline access, text-to-speech options, and tagging capabilities. Pocket has been integrated in Firefox since 2015, and Mozilla bought the service in 2017.

Fakespot is an online review checking website that Mozilla bought two years ago and integrated into Firefox, but Mozilla said Fakespot "didn't fit a model [it] could sustain."

Pocket is [...]

Boomi Delivers Agentstudio for AI Agent Development

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DALLAS — Joining the parade of recent tech conferences, the major topic of the sessions and conversations at Boomi World

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In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”

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AI features in Windows are gradually becoming more widespread and inescapable.

How Not To CwF+RtB: Tell Fans They’ll Pay Any Price If They’re ‘Real’ Fans

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I really used to love our series of posts on how companies and content creators can build more revenue and loyalty with their customers through what we called the “Connect with Fans and a Reason to Buy” philosophy. Shortened to “Cwf+RtB,” the idea is that by treating fans in an awesome and human way, concerns […]

Verizon Wants to Lock Phones Longer Like AT&T and T-Mobile

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Verizon wants to lock subscribers to its network for a longer period of time, and has asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission [PDF] to extend how long customers must wait before a Verizon smartphone can be unlocked and transferred to another carrier.


Back when Verizon purchased 700MHz spectrum for its network in 2008, it agreed to unlock smartphones after a 60-day period. Verizon now wants the FCC to waive that requirement, allowing it to change its phone unlocking policy.

Verizon claims that the 60-day unlocking requirement it is subject to leads to fraud and device trafficking. Verizon said it lost an estimated 784,703 devices to fraud in 2023, costing it "hundreds of millions of [...]

Gouach wants you to insert and pluck the cells from its Infinite e-bike battery

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Tiny French firm wants to keep a few bad cells from spoiling a lot of e-bikes.

Trump Admin Forcing African Countries To Embrace Elon Musk’s Starlink If They Want To Continue Receiving Lifesaving Aid

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You can’t say that Elon Musk hasn’t gotten his money’s worth after spending $277 million to help buy Donald Trump an election victory (that’s not including the $44 billion Musk spent on turning Twitter into a right wing propaganda mill). The end of the numerous investigations into labor, environmental, and consumer fraud abuses alone have […]

SAP Sapphire 2025

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I just returned from SAP Sapphire 2025 in Orlando, and while SAP painted a compelling vision of an AI-powered future, I couldn’t

The post SAP Sapphire 2025 appeared first on Gigaom.

CodeRabbit’s AI Code Reviews Now Live Free in VS Code, Cursor

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CodeRabbit, a two-year-old startup that uses AI for automated code reviews, has expanded its reach by integrating directly into popular

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Apple Stops Work on Camera-Equipped Apple Watch Planned for 2027

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Apple is no longer planning to release an Apple Watch that includes a camera, reports Bloomberg. Apple was developing Apple Watch and Apple Watch Ultra models that had a camera to view the wearer's surrounding environment, but work on those projects ended this week.


The camera in the Apple Watch would not have been used for features like FaceTime or snapping photos, but instead would have allowed Apple Watch owners to get information about objects and places near them.

An Apple Watch might have been able to do things like provide hours when pointed at a restaurant or store, identify a plant, describe [...]

Perforce Commits to Building Agentic AI Fabric for DevOps Workflows

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Apple Smart Glasses Launching in 2026

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Apple is planning to launch a set of smart glasses by the end of 2026, reports Bloomberg. The glasses will be comparable to the Meta Ray-Bans and the Android XR glasses that Google showed off earlier this week.


Apple's smart glasses are expected to include cameras, microphones, and AI capabilities, much like the Meta Ray-Bans. The glasses will be able to take photos, record video, provide translations, give turn-by-turn directions, play music, facilitate phone calls, offer feedback on what the wearer is seeing, and answer queries, but there won't be augmented reality capabilities included. [...]

Building Multistep Forms in React With No State Mess

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Multistep forms are common. You’ll see them in onboarding, checkout, quizzes and setup wizards. Each step collects a small part

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Claude 4 Debuts with Two New Models Focused on Coding and Reasoning

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AI company Anthropic today announced the launch of two new Claude models, Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Anthropic says that the models set "new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents."


According to Anthropic, Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade to Claude Sonnet 3.7, offering improved coding and reasoning along with the ability to respond to instructions more precisely. Claude Opus 4 is designed for coding among other tasks, and it offers sustained performance for complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows.

Mozilla is killing its Pocket and Fakespot services to focus on Firefox

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Browser maker shifts resources to "new Firefox features that people need most."

Review: Satechi's Foldable 3-in-1 Charger Maximizes Portability

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Satechi, known for its range of accessories for Apple products, recently came out with a new series of OntheGo Wireless Chargers that are perfect for bringing along on trips due to their compact size.


There are two models, a 3-in-1 charger and a 2-in-1 charger. The 3-in-1 option has a Qi2 charging surface for an iPhone, an AirPods charger, and an Apple Watch charging puck. The 2-in-1 model drops the AirPods charger, so it has just the Qi2 charging platform and the Apple Watch charger. Depending on the AirPods you have, you can charge them via Qi2 or with an Apple Watch charger anyway.

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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket

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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, the handy bookmarking tool used to save articles and webpages for later. The organization announced that Pocket will stop working on July 8th, 2025, as Mozilla begins concentrating its “resources into projects that better match their browsing habits and online needs.” Following the shutdown, you’ll only be able to export […]

Musk Adviser May Make as Much as $1 Million a Year While Helping to Dismantle Agency that Regulates Tesla and X

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. One of Elon Musk’s employees is earning between $100,001 and $1 million annually as a political adviser to his billionaire boss while simultaneously helping to dismantle the federal agency that regulates two of Musk’s biggest companies, according to court records and a financial disclosure report obtained by ProPublica. […]

How To Build RAG Applications Using Model Context Protocol

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Building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications has become a cornerstone of modern AI, enabling large language models (LLMs) to ground their

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Daily Deal: The Complete Circuit Design And Simulation Super Bundle

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The Complete Circuit Design and Simulation Super Bundle has 19 courses on electronics, 3D simulation, and PCB builds. You’ll learn what tools you need to set up your own home lab, how to build your own Arduino board, how to solder, how to create a customized printed circuit board, and more. It’s on sale for […]

“How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets.

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Warm lights, tactile buttons, intuitive usage.

Clouds, Code, and Control: The New Open Source Power Struggle

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Since the beginning of time, those in power have often used their authority to exploit or dominate those with less

The post Clouds, Code, and Control: The New Open Source Power Struggle appeared first on The New Stack.

Glass redux: Google aims to avoid past mistakes as it brings Gemini to your face

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Google didn't get it right with Glass, but Android XR is ready for the AI era, even if you aren't.

Anthropic Launches Its Most Powerful Models for Coding Yet

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SAN FRANCISCO — At its first developers conference, Code with Claude, AI company Anthropic today launched the latest versions of

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CarPlay Ultra Solves One of Regular CarPlay's Biggest Limitations

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The next generation of CarPlay is finally starting to roll out, and it includes a new feature that solves one of regular CarPlay's longstanding limitations.


Apple last week announced the launch of CarPlay Ultra, and it offers a Radio app, allowing you to control AM and FM radio stations within CarPlay. With regular CarPlay, you must switch between CarPlay and your vehicle's built-in software interface to control the radio, so CarPlay Ultra will be more convenient for this purpose.

CarPlay Ultra's built-in Radio app can also be used to control satellite radio stations, but this is less notable given that SiriusXM already offers a CarPlay app.

Apple shared an image of the SiriusXM experience within the R [...]

Now you can watch the Internet Archive preserve documents in real time

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If you’ve ever wondered how the Internet Archive uploads all the physical documents on its site, now you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the process. The Internet Archive launched a new YouTube livestream that shows the digitization of microfiche in real time — complete with some relaxing, lo-fi beats. Microfiche is a sheet of […]

Use Apple Watch Backtrack to Retrace Your Steps

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On Apple Watch Ultra, Apple Watch SE, and Apple Watch Series 6 and later models running watchOS 9 and newer, you can use the Compass app's Backtrack feature to track your route and then help you retrace your steps in case you get lost.


Backtrack uses the GPS on your Apple Watch to create a virtual breadcrumb trail of your route so you don't have to worry about keeping track of where you're going. According to Apple, Backtrack is designed to be used in remote settings, away from familiar places like your home or workplace, and outside densely populated areas without Wi-Fi, but there's nothing stopping you from using it anywhere you need it.

The following steps show you how to use the feature. Note that Backtrack doesn't account for external conditions, such as changes in elevation or objects in the env [...]

An example of coaching ChatGPT to be less wrong

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Here is an example of how you have to steer the robot (ChatGPT, below) to the right answer. You can almost feel it trying to give you what you “want” (more like: what seems the predictable next words):

Me:

Did Ricardo use the example of the British sending wool to Portugal and importing port from them? What were contemporary examples of comparative advantage he used?

ChatGPT:

Yes, you’re almost spot on. David Ricardo’s famous example in Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) was England and Portugal, and the goods were cloth and wine—not wool and port, but close.

Here’s the gist of the example:

• Portugal could produce both cloth and wine more efficiently than England (absolute advantage).

• But England had a comparative advantage in cloth production—it gave up less wine per unit of cloth produced than Portugal

Extending the Malbec subsea cable to Southern Brazil

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Meta is partnering with V.tal to extend the Malbec subsea cable to Porto Alegre, Brazil by 2027. With this new extension, Malbec will become the first subsea cable to land in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, bringing more connectivity to millions of people in Southern Brazil and neighboring countries. Malbec will improve the [...]

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Why Most GenAI Projects Fail: Only 1 in 3 Make It to Production

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AI is experiencing the fastest enterprise adoption curve in tech history — usage is surging, budgets are multiplying, and use

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Rethinking AI Software Development With a Three-Tiered Framework

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Google Cloud Next Wrap-Up

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To wrap up this year’s Google Cloud Next, The New Stack founder Alex Williams, The New Stack AI editor Frederic

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How Microservices Guardrails Help Teams Move Faster

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Beyond API Uptime: Modern Metrics That Matter

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Imagine if a popular food delivery app suddenly took 20 seconds to display restaurant menus. Would people continue using it?

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Simplifying Authorization at Scale: The Importance of DevOps Workflows with Flexible, Scalable and Secure Access Control

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Resolving a request smuggling vulnerability in Pingora

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Cloudflare patched a vulnerability (CVE-2025-4366) in the Pingora OSS framework, which exposed users of the framework and Cloudflare CDN’s free tier to potential request smuggling attacks.

How To Remove a Deployment in Kubernetes: Methods, Steps and Tools

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Key takeaways: To delete a Deployment and its associated resources, use: kubectl delete deployment <deployment-name> -n <namespace> Deleting a Deployment

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Datadog Expands Scope of Observability Ambitions

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What I learned from my first few months with a Bambu Lab A1 3D printer, part 1

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One neophyte's first steps into the wide world of 3D printing.

The Era of AI-Native Software: Why Retrofitting AI Won’t Work And How DevOps Must Keep Up

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Continuous Compliance for Cloud-Native CI/CD Pipelines

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INE Security Partners with Abadnet Institute for Cybersecurity Training Programs in Saudi Arabia

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I helped a lost dog’s AirTag ping its owner: An ode to replaceable batteries

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The most repair-friendly device Apple makes needs to stick with coin batteries.

Ladybird: That Rare Breed of Browser Based on Web Standards

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There appear to be a lot of different web browsers available — but on closer examination, this isn’t entirely true.

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