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A look at some standout startups from YC's W25 Demo Day, which showcased 160 companies, including several creating tools to enhance other companies' AI agents (TechCrunch)

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TechCrunch:
A look at some standout startups from YC's W25 Demo Day, which showcased 160 companies, including several creating tools to enhance other companies' AI agents  —  Silicon Valley's most storied startup accelerator, Y Combinator, held its Winter 2025 Demo Day on Wednesday, showcasing its latest batch of 160 startups.

Clearwater Analytics agrees to acquire Beacon, a capital markets developer platform, for $560M, and Bistro, Blackstone's portfolio visualization tool, for $125M (Cameron Emanuel-Burns/FinTech Futures)

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Cameron Emanuel-Burns / FinTech Futures:
Clearwater Analytics agrees to acquire Beacon, a capital markets developer platform, for $560M, and Bistro, Blackstone's portfolio visualization tool, for $125M  —  US-based investment management platform Clearwater Analytics has signed definitive agreements to acquire Beacon …

Orlando-based Worth, whose tech lets fintechs, banks, and enterprises underwrite SMBs by automating KYC, fraud verification, and more, raised a $20M seed (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

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Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
Orlando-based Worth, whose tech lets fintechs, banks, and enterprises underwrite SMBs by automating KYC, fraud verification, and more, raised a $20M seed  —  Worth, a company focused on helping fintechs, banks, and enterprises underwrite small and medium-sized businesses more easily …

Justin Baldoni’s Lawsuit Against The NY Times Appears Destined For Dismissal

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As we’ve been following along to some degree with the whole Blake Lively versus Justin Baldoni legal mess, the more recent stories have been about Baldoni’s attempt to go after protected creative speech in a Deadpool movie, the choice of waging a PR war before the trial even starts, and the Streisand Effect nature to […]

Meta debuts the highly requested Passthrough Camera API for Quest 3/3S as an experimental feature; developers can't ship apps with the API on Horizon Store yet (David Heaney/UploadVR)

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David Heaney / UploadVR:
Meta debuts the highly requested Passthrough Camera API for Quest 3/3S as an experimental feature; developers can't ship apps with the API on Horizon Store yet  —  Quest's highly anticipated “Passthrough Camera API” is now available for all developers to experiment with, though they can't yet include it in store app builds.

The NIST's new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of "AI safety" and "AI fairness" and prioritizes "reducing ideological bias" in models (Will Knight/Wired)

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Will Knight / Wired:
The NIST's new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of “AI safety” and “AI fairness” and prioritizes “reducing ideological bias” in models  —  A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”

US military to test Ukraine’s long-range drones in hunt for low-cost warfare tech

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The U.S. military is planning to test Ukraine’s long-range drones for the first time. The...

Streamers court YouTubers for new shows or spinoffs; sources: Amazon made $100M+ in profit on Beast Games and Netflix held talks with Dude Perfect for a series (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)

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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Streamers court YouTubers for new shows or spinoffs; sources: Amazon made $100M+ in profit on Beast Games and Netflix held talks with Dude Perfect for a series  —  As ‘Beast Games’ boasts profit and gears up for more seasons, streamers search for similar success  — 

Talking About Bluesky And Putting Power & Choice Back Into Users’ Hands At SXSW

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When 1,700 people pack a room at SXSW (with hundreds more relegated to overflow spaces) to hear about a decentralized social media protocol, it’s clear something interesting is happening. The crowd that showed up for my conversation with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber this week wasn’t just there for another social media platform — they were […]

Eight Tips for Getting the Most Out of Apple's Focus Modes

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Apple's "Focus" feature is a powerful tool for cutting down on distractions and interruptions on a per-task basis, but setting up different Focus options takes some time investment and tinkering because there are a lot of features available. We've rounded up a handful of suggestions that may help you get more out of Focus.

Managing Focus Modes

Email: Amazon says Echo users won't be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally, as new generative AI features need processing in the cloud (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

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Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Email: Amazon says Echo users won't be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally, as new generative AI features need processing in the cloud  —  In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally … <

2025 iPad Air hands-on: Why mess with a good thing?

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Apple’s annual refresh is a minor one, but not much needed to change anyway.

Robots to soon require exercises like humans for more strength, lifelike agility

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According to a study, robots built with lab-grown skeletal muscle tissue could require physical exercises...

Sources: Ubisoft explores selling a stake in a new entity holding IP like Assassin's Creed to investors including Tencent, at a higher valuation than Ubisoft (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Ubisoft explores selling a stake in a new entity holding IP like Assassin's Creed to investors including Tencent, at a higher valuation than Ubisoft  —  - Tencent among firms invited to bid for stake in new entity  — Unit to hold some core Ubisoft IP, including Assassin's Creed

MacRumors Giveaway: Win an Apple Watch Ultra 2 and Charger 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 Apple Watch Ultra 2 and a Lululook Qi2 3-in-1 Wireless Travel Charger.


Lululook makes a wide range of affordable accessories for all of Apple's devices, including the Apple Watch. The <a href="https://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?TSID=3088&GR_URL=http [...]

Delaying a revamped Siri may be embarrassing for Apple, but rushing an update with half-baked features could have created a real crisis for the company (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

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Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Delaying a revamped Siri may be embarrassing for Apple, but rushing an update with half-baked features could have created a real crisis for the company  —  Apple's recent Siri delays have stirred up a mess of bad press, and reportedly led to an all-hands meeting where an exec called the affair “ugly and embarrassing.”

Friends on the Frontend (Friends)

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Adam's friend on the frontend, John Long joins the show to explore his usage of AI, design tools and the stack he prefers. We talk Next.js vs Rails, maintaining open source, building websites with Framer, their mutual love for Figma, and more.

Klarna reports 2024 revenue up 24% YoY to $2.81B, a net profit of $21M, compared with a net loss of $244M a year ago, and 93M active consumers (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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Ryan Lawler / Axios:
Klarna reports 2024 revenue up 24% YoY to $2.81B, a net profit of $21M, compared with a net loss of $244M a year ago, and 93M active consumers  —  Klarna, the Swedish buy now, pay later giant, on Friday filed for a U.S. IPO.  —  Why it matters: It's the first big consumer fintech to test …

Klarna files for a US IPO, with plans to list on the NYSE under KLAR, seeking to raise at least $1B and reportedly targeting a valuation of more than $15B (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Klarna files for a US IPO, with plans to list on the NYSE under KLAR, seeking to raise at least $1B and reportedly targeting a valuation of more than $15B  —  Klarna Group Plc filed publicly for a US initial public offering in what could be one of the year's biggest financial company listings.

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

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Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

Block says it is expanding consumer lending through Cash App Borrow after obtaining FDIC approval to issue loans out of its subsidiary Square Financial Services (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Block says it is expanding consumer lending through Cash App Borrow after obtaining FDIC approval to issue loans out of its subsidiary Square Financial Services  —  With its stock down more than 30% this year and revenue growth slowing, Jack Dorsey's Block is going bigger in lending.

War-ready navigation: Lockheed Martin’s quantum INS to guide troops without GPS

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Lockheed Martin has secured a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Innovation Unit (DIU)...

The UK held a hearing for Apple's legal battle with the government over providing a backdoor in its Advanced Data Protection service, without the media present (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

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Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
The UK held a hearing for Apple's legal battle with the government over providing a backdoor in its Advanced Data Protection service, without the media present  —  Media organisations including the Guardian and the BBC fail to gain entry to proceedings  —  A hearing in Apple's legal battle …

Apple's $349 A16 iPad Supports Final Cut Pro

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The low-cost iPad that Apple released this week with an A16 chip is able to run Final Cut Pro for ‌iPad‌, according to the Final Cut Pro App Store page.


Under compatibility, Final Cut Pro for ‌iPad‌ has been updated to say that it requires iPadOS 17.6 or later "and a device with an M-series or A16 or later chip."

Prior to the release of the ‌iPad‌, the most affordable device that was able to run Final Cut Pro for ‌iPad‌ was the iPad mini with A17 Pro chip, which is priced at $499. The 11th-generation ‌iPad‌ is cheaper, and it provides more screen space for video editi [...]

Here's a Look Inside the New M4 MacBook Air

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Repair site iFixit today disassembled the M4 MacBook Air for one of its traditional teardown videos, providing us with a look inside of the machine and giving some insight into its repairability.

DHS Buries Its Last Election Security Review Because With Trump In Charge, No One Cares About Election Integrity

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) now exists in name only. Not only did Trump’s band of Musk-led pillagers dismantle the infrastructure side of the agency by disbanding the CISA group investigating a massive China-based hack of US phone systems, but the administration terminated ongoing election security and disinformation-thwarting efforts by the agency roughly […]

The GOP's Jim Jordan subpoenas Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and 10 others over alleged Biden pressure to use AI to "censor lawful speech" (Tina Nguyen/The Verge)

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Tina Nguyen / The Verge:
The GOP's Jim Jordan subpoenas Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and 10 others over alleged Biden pressure to use AI to “censor lawful speech”  —  The ‘free speech’ investigation goes hunting at Apple, OpenAI, and 14 other companies.

From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet

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Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that […]

White House memo: David Sacks sold $200M+ in digital asset-related investments personally and via his firm, Craft Ventures, before starting his government job (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
White House memo: David Sacks sold $200M+ in digital asset-related investments personally and via his firm, Craft Ventures, before starting his government job  —  David Sacks, the Trump administration's AI and crypto czar, sold over $200 million worth of digital asset-related investments personally …

Squids’ color-changing pigments could pave way for efficient solar power generation

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Not only masters of camouflage, squids may also be experts in solar power. A fascinating...

Arson attack: Several Teslas burned in Germany in protest against Elon Musk

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In Berlin, Germany, the tension surrounding Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, escalated dramatically as...

Get Ready for Faster Text Generation With Diffusion LLMs

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For several years now, we’ve taken for granted that many transformer-based large language models (LLMs) use a technique known as

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End of Life: Gemini will completely replace Google Assistant later this year

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Google promises more details on the move to Gemini in the coming months.

Are fully implanted devices the end of hearing aids?

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In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sat down with Brent Lucas, CEO of Envoy...

I threw away Audible’s app, and now I self-host my audiobooks

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Stream your DRM-free audiobooks to devices yourselves, without the cloud's chains.

Apple Reassures Siri Team Members Feeling Disappointed and Embarrassed by Apple Intelligence Delay

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Apple is reassuring employees on the Siri team who may be feeling demotivated by the recent ‌Siri‌ delays and the bad press surrounding the company's decisions, reports Bloomberg.


In a ‌Siri‌ team meeting, Apple senior director Robby Walker acknowledged that employees might be feeling "angry, disappointed, burned out and embarrassed" following the ‌Siri‌ delay, but he praised the hard work of employees and the "incredibly impressive" features they developed, saying that Apple would continue to work to "ship the world's greatest virtual assistant" to Apple users. "I saw so many [...]

Ceramic powder with Archimedean Shapes to boost heat shields, tested under 2,550°F

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Boride ceramics are special materials made from metals like zirconium or hafnium combined with boron....

RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats

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Lack of encryption was one SMS shortcoming that RCS was created to solve.

World’s most powerful underwater tide-riding turbines to power 15,000 homes annually

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One of the most powerful underwater tide-riding turbine projects has secured funding from the European...

How Warp Terminal Helps Me Correct My Scripts and Coding

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Every so often, technology really seriously and magically impresses me, which is no easy feat these days. After all, we’ve

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The Google graveyard: all the products Google has shut down

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Google releases a lot of products, but it shuts down a lot of them, too. Some didn’t deserve to be discontinued (we pine for the days of Reader and Inbox), and some probably weren’t long for this world from the start. (What was Google Wave supposed to be, anyway?) The company actually used to shut […]

First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out Of Control

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I’m old enough to remember when age verification bills were pitched as a way to ‘save the kids from porn’ and shield them from other vague dangers lurking in the digital world (like…“the transgender”). We have long cautioned about the dangers of these laws, and pointed out why they are likely to fail. While they may be well-intentioned, the growing proliferation of age verification schemes […]

Apple Launches 'Surveyor' App for Apple Maps Data Collection

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Apple today launched a new app called Surveyor, which is designed to allow users to collect data like images of street signs and roadside details to improve Apple Maps.


The app is not public facing and appears to be for use with companies that Apple partners with to assign mapping tasks. Downloading the app and opening it up directs users to "Open Partner App" to choose a task. Tapping on the option launches another app called Premise.

Premise is a company that lets people earn rewards by "completing simple tasks." The Premise app is described as a task marketplace that provides money for taking surveys, sharing local information like construction zones or grocery pricing, or taking [...]

Daily Deal: The Ultimate Adobe CC Training Bundle

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The Ultimate Adobe CC Training Bundle has 12 courses to help you get the most out of the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite. Courses cover Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, After Effects, and more. It’s on sale for $40. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all sales from Techdirt […]

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Launch Discounts Hit New iPad, iPad Air, and MacBook Air, Plus AirPods 4 for Just $99.99

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Apple's new 11th generation iPad, M3 iPad Air, and M4 MacBook Air launched this week, and discounts are already available for all of these products on Amazon. Additionally, we're tracking ongoing record low prices on the AirPods 4, M4 MacBook Pro, and Apple Pencil Pro.

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Electric-powered US plant produces first ton of green steel, oxygen as by product

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A novel industrial reactor that produces steel using only electricity hit a major milestone after...

Hands-On With Apple's New M3 iPad Air

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Along with introducing new MacBook Air and Mac Studio models, Apple this week launched a refreshed version of the iPad Air. Little has changed, but the M3 chip is a solid upgrade over the M2, and Apple also debuted a new keyboard option.

Entering AI Autumn: Why LLMs Are Nearing Their Limit

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There’s no question that AI is everywhere, with new use cases emerging almost daily, but the endless buzz obscures a

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Ukraine’s new military tech can control drone swarms like video games

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A new kind of technology developed by a Kyiv-based firm can remotely control military drone...

Real-Time Write Heavy Workloads: Considerations and Tips

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Write-heavy database workloads bring a distinctly different set of challenges than read-heavy ones. For example: Scaling writes can be costly,

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The MacRumors Show: Apple Intelligence Comes Under Fire

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we talk about Apple's recent announcement that several of its most highly anticipated Apple Intelligence features are to be delayed.

iPhone 17 Pro Max Rumors Allegedly Refer to 'iPhone 17 Ultra' Model

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If you've been following iPhone rumors over the last few years, you may remember reading reports that Apple flirted with the idea of introducing a super high-end "Ultra" model that would either replace its Pro Max device or sit above it in Apple's smartphone hirearchy. These reports appeared in the pre-launch iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 rumor cycles, but ultimately came to nothing. Now though, the rumor is back.


Citing sources from Weibo, Taiwan, "US investment report content," and supply chain trends, the Korean news aggregator account "yeux112 [...]

5 Ways Ephemeral Environments Transform Microservice Testing

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“Staging is down again.” These four words strike dread into engineering teams everywhere. They signal the start of another productivity-killing

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Semaphore Goes Open Source: A New Dawn for DevOps Professionals

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How Slack Transformed Cron into a Distributed Job Scheduler

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For a decade, Slack ran its cron jobs on a single server. But when the server started having issues and

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'Ted Lasso' Fourth Season Confirmed by Series Star Jason Sudeikis

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Ted Lasso is returning to Apple TV+ for a fourth season, series star Jason Sudeikis has confirmed (via The Radio Times).


In an interview on the New Heights podcast, Sudeikis admitted that he will be reprising his role once again as the show's titular character, and said that the fourth instalment is currently being written.

It's not yet known when the new season will be ready. As for where the storyline is going, Sudeikis revealed: "Ted's coaching a women's team, so there, that's it."

It's been two years since Apple released season three of the show, and there have been a fair few <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/03/ted-lasso-season- [...]

Watch the Trailer for Apple's Big Summer Movie 'F1' Starring Brad Pitt

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Apple Original Films this week released a trailer for its upcoming "F1" racing film, which will have a theatrical release via Warner Bros. Pictures.


In the film, Brad Pitt stars as an F1 driver who was an up-and-coming talent in the 1990s, until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, Pitt is invited to join a former teammate's struggling F1 team, in a last-shot bid to save the team and become the best in the world. It looks to be a classic underdog story.

Consortium Driving OpenStack to Become Arm of The Linux Foundation

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Saudi Arabia Buys Everybody’s Sensitive Pokémon Go Location Data

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During the great TikTok moral panic of 2022-2025 we noted repeatedly how it was very weird for the public, press, and lawmakers to singularly hyperventilate about the privacy and propaganda impacts of one specific Chinese-owned app while just completely refusing to do anything about the much broader problems that TikTok (and a thousand other companies) […]

Apple Wallet Gets Deeper Integration With PayPal's Debit Card This Year

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It would have been really easy to miss it, but Apple last year briefly mentioned a new PayPal feature coming to the Wallet app on the iPhone.


In the final sentence of an October 2024 press release, celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Apple Pay, Apple said iPhone users in the U.S. would be able to see their PayPal balance when using their PayPal debit card in the Wallet app. Apple said this feature would launch in 2025, so it should arrive in a future iOS 18 or iOS 19 update.

Here is exactly what Apple said in the press release last year:

Next year, customers in the U.S. will also be able to see their PayPal balance when using their PayPal debit card in Apple Wallet, giving them greater visibility and confi

SUSE Displays Enhanced Enterprise Linux at SUSECON

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ORLANDO — At SUSECON, SUSE, a leading provider of open and secure enterprise solutions, unveiled significant advancements in its Linux

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Activist Groups Challenge UK Demand for Apple Encryption Backdoor

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Two human rights groups have filed a legal complaint with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in an attempt to quash the UK government's demand for Apple to allow backdoor access to its encrypted data (via Financial Times).


Earlier this year, the UK government invoked the Investigatory Powers Act to demand that Apple create a backdoor granting secret access to encrypted user data stored in iCloud globally. However, Apple refused to comply.

In response, rather than granting the requested access, Apple withdrew Advanced Data Pr [...]

Apple’s $349 iPad 11 is missing a lot, but it’s still all the iPad most people need

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Other iPads are nicer and faster, but I end up using all of them the same way.

Trump Claims Boycotting Tesla Is Illegal, Which It Very Much Is Not

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Elon Musk’s companies aren’t having the best couple of weeks, it seems. ExTwitter suffered from several outages this week, some lengthy, while Musk claimed that it was the result of a DDoS attack and hinted that Ukraine might be to blame. The story of SpaceX thus far in 2025 has mostly been one filled with […]

Apple to Support Encrypted RCS Messaging in Future Software Update

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Apple says it will add support for a new Rich Communication Services (RCS) specification that includes end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for messages sent over the protocol in future software updates.

"End-to-end encryption is a powerful privacy and security technology that iMessage has supported since the beginning, and now we are pleased to have helped lead a cross industry effort to bring end-to-end encryption to the RCS Universal Profile published by the GSMA," said an Apple spokesperson. "We will add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS in future software updates."

It Is Long Past Time For Democrats To Start Pounding The Impeachment Drum

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The big deal today is Democrats’ threatened capitulation to the GOP on the continuing resolution to keep the government open—but entirely on Trump’s terms, no matter who it bankrupts (hello, DC police and fire departments!). But the larger point made here stands, because the cowardice on display in this budget showdown is the cowardice that […]

Kuo: Cook Should Personally Address Siri Apple Intelligence Failure

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Apple made a major misstep with the way that it handled the delay of Apple Intelligence features for Siri, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today. Announcing the delay through a press statement was a bad decision, and Apple should instead have gone through official channels.


Kuo referenced the well-known "Antennagate" PR crisis when the iPhone 4 launched in 2010, and the way that then Apple CEO Steve Jobs handled it. Jobs personall [...]

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The TAKE IT DOWN Takedown

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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 […]

AI and Trust: Leading the Charge in an Era of Accelerated Innovation

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The global AI landscape is at a critical inflection point, with nations taking starkly different approaches to artificial intelligence governance

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Goodbye SaaS, Hello AI Agents

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The transition from SaaS to Services as Software with AI agents is upon us. AI agents are here, and a

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AirPods Getting Live Translation Feature Later This Year

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Apple is working on q feature that will let the AirPods translate in-person conversations from one language to another, reports Bloomberg. The functionality will be linked to iOS 19, and it will be introduced in an AirPods software update planned for later this year.


The AirPods will be able to provide a simpler translation process for people who are speaking different languages, though the process will rely on the Translate app on the iPhone.

If an English speaker with AirPods is talking to someone who is speaking Spanish, the ‌iPhone‌ will dete [...]

iPhone 16e Has a Bluetooth Audio Problem

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In the two weeks since the iPhone 16e launched, some early adopters of the device have experienced a Bluetooth audio issue.


According to complaints from affected users across the Apple Support Community, Reddit, and X, audio being streamed from an iPhone 16e to a Bluetooth speaker periodically stutters or cuts out. It is unclear how widespread the problem is.

One affected user said the issue has persisted even after updating the iPhone 16e to <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/11/apple-releases-ios-18-3-2/" [...]

Meta, Apparently, Really Wants Everyone To Read This Book (By Trying To Ban It)

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Thank you, Mark Zuckerberg, for giving me yet another exhibit in my museum of those who fail to understand the Streisand Effect. Meta is so desperate to silence a former employee’s book that it’s doing everything possible to ensure maximum publicity for the allegations within it. You might think that a company like Meta would […]

Google Gemini Can Now Use Your Search History to Provide Personalized Responses

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Google's Gemini AI product is now able to absorb a user's search history in order to provide more personalized information, Google announced today. The Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model is able to connect to Google apps and services to tailor responses based on past searches.


Google says that this feature will save time and will provide users with "more precise answers." For now, Gemini is only able to read search history, but in the future, it will be able to connect with other Google apps and services. Gemini's access to search history is opt-in, and it is experimental at this time.

In the Gemini app, users can use the model menu to select "Personalization" to connect their Google search history. When making a request, Gemini will t [...]

The Maturing State of Infrastructure as Code in 2025

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The evolution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has been marked by a handful of major shifts in approach and technology,

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OpenAI Calls on U.S. Government to Let It Freely Use Copyrighted Material for AI Training

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OpenAI, known for its ChatGPT chatbot, today submitted AI recommendations to the Trump administration, calling for deregulation and policies that give AI companies free rein to train models on copyrighted material in order to compete with China on AI development.


AI companies cannot freely innovate while having to comply with "overly burdensome state laws," according to OpenAI. The company claims that laws regulating AI are "easier to enforce" with domestic companies, imposing compliance requirements that "weaken the quality and level of training data available to American entrepreneurs." OpenAI suggests that the government provide "private sector relief" from 781+ AI-related bills introduced in various states.

OpenAI [...]

Google has a fix for your broken Chromecast V2 unless you factory reset

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Just keep your Chromecast plugged in, and it should come back to life.

Cycloid Adds Ability to Customize Components of a Software Stack to DevOps Platform

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Intel’s New CEO Will Make Changes to Reshape Software Strategy

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Software was a priority for the previous CEO Pat Gelsinger. He made a string of software acquisitions, including Codeplay and

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How AI Is Reshaping CISO Priorities

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Security teams have always had to adapt to change, but new developments that will play out this year could make

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Defining Security in Software: Frameworks, Compliance and Best Practices

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The OWASP Top Ten Proactive Controls 2018 version states, “Insecure software is undermining our financial, healthcare, defense, energy, and other

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Google’s Gemini AI can now see your search history

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Gemini can do more with your data if you let it.

Google is bringing every Android game to Windows in big gaming update

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Google has big plans for gaming in 2025.

AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

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Cursor AI tells user, "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work."

One Mighty kro; One Giant Leap for Kubernetes Resource Orchestration

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kro — which we spell lowercase like a Linux command-line tool and pronounce “crow” like the bird — extends Kubernetes

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Epic Games is addressing one of Windows-on-Arm’s last big app compatibility gaps

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Drivers and kernel-level software can't be translated automatically by Windows.

MCP: The Missing Link Between AI Agents and APIs

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Last November Anthropic launched the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard designed to streamline how AI models interact

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Eclipse Foundation to Release Open Source IDE Infused with AI Agents

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How to Choose the Right Cloud CPU for Your Workload

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When I first started as an enterprise developer in the mid 1990s, everything ran in our on-premises data centers, and

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Standardizing the Language of Observability in OpenTelemetry

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As companies look to more closely track the real-time health of their applications, many are running into a common challenge:

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Cross-Platform UI Framework Lynx Competes With React Native

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LynxJS, a new family of technologies from ByteDance, enables developers to create native user interfaces (UIs) using a single code

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Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism

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"Probably the craziest thing I've said so far," he admitted during an interview.

INE Security Alert: Using AI-Driven Cybersecurity Training to Counter Emerging Threats

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Bridging the Dev and SecOps Gap: How Intelligent Continuous Security Enables True End-to-End Security

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Sonos’ streaming box is reportedly canceled. Good riddance.

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Opinion: The long-rumored Sonos streaming box wasn't a good idea anyway.

New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan will pick up where Pat Gelsinger left off

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Tan will start as CEO on March 18, taking over from interim co-CEOs.

Reaching industrial economies of scale (Interview)

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Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the idea of "industrializing software development" using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor assistant called Cody, to Code Search, to AI agents, to Batch Changes, they're really helping software teams to industrialize the process, the inner and the outer loop, of being a software developer on high performance teams with large codebases.

Cockpit voice recorder survived fiery Philly crash—but stopped taping years ago

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Heroic work to recover and repair a CVR.

SUSE Unveils Cloud Native Innovations at SUSECON 2025

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ORLANDO — At SUSECON 2025, SUSE announced a series of cloud native innovations to solidify its position as a leader

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Go Power: Microsoft’s Bold Bet on Faster TypeScript Tools

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Microsoft has launched an initiative to port the TypeScript compiler and tools to a native Golang implementation, codenamed “Corsa.” With

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