Regular iPhone 17's USB-C Charging Speeds Tested With Apple Chargers

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The website ChargerLAB has tested the standard iPhone 17 model's USB-C charging speeds with a variety of Apple's chargers, from 18W to 140W.


The device reached a peak charging speed of around 27W to 28W with these Apple chargers:

• 29W USB-C Power Adapter


• 30W USB-C Power Adapter


• 35W Dual USB-C Port Power Adapter


• 35W Dual USB-C Port Compact Power Adapter


• 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max


• 61W USB-C Power Adapter


• 67W USB-C Power Adapter


• 70W USB-C Power Adapter


• 96W USB-C Power Adapter


• 140W USB-C Power Adapter

Uber expects non-restaurant deliveries to hit an annual run rate of $12.5B in gross bookings by the end of 2025, up 25% from the $10B+ rate it shared in May (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber expects non-restaurant deliveries to hit an annual run rate of $12.5B in gross bookings by the end of 2025, up 25% from the $10B+ rate it shared in May  —  Uber Technologies Inc. sees its grocery and retail deliveries growing faster than expected, underscoring the company's effort …

Networking at the Heart of AI — @Scale: Networking 2025 Recap

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AI is everywhere and, as network engineers, we are right in the thick of it: building the network infrastructure for AI. This year, at  our largest @Scale:Networking ever, engineers from Meta, ByteDance, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, and NVIDIA came together to share our latest experiences in architecting, designing, operating, and debugging our AI [...]

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How Vite Became the Backbone of Modern Frontend Frameworks

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Vite, created by Evan You, has become the go-to build tool for modern frontend frameworks, including Vue, SvelteKit, Astro, and

The post How Vite Became the Backbone of Modern Frontend Frameworks appeared first on The New Stack.

iOS 26: Track Emailed Orders in Apple Wallet

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In iOS 26, Apple Intelligence makes the Wallet app's order tracking feature genuinely useful by scanning your email for shipping details.


The ability to track orders in Apple Wallet isn't new – it's actually been around since iOS 16. But if you've never noticed it before, don't worry. Most people haven't used it either.

The feature initially struggled because it relied on merchants to actively support it, but not many bothered. In fact, despite being available for years, order tracking in Apple's Wallet app remained largely unused. But there's a decent chance iOS 26 will change all that.

Order Tracking Meets Apple Intelligence

Inspiren, which provides AI-powered fall detection and other tech for senior living facilities, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $155M (Kathleen Steele Gaivin/McKnight's ...)

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Kathleen Steele Gaivin / McKnight's Senior Living:
Inspiren, which provides AI-powered fall detection and other tech for senior living facilities, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $155M  —  Inspiren has raised $100 million in Series B funding, the healthcare technology company announced today.<

Can Optimus make America win the humanoid robot race? Here’s the verdict

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Musk and company now position Optimus not as a niche robot experiment but as central...

Anthropic plans to triple its global workforce and expand its applied AI team 5x in 2025, after growing its business clients from ~1K to 300K+ in two years (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Anthropic plans to triple its global workforce and expand its applied AI team 5x in 2025, after growing its business clients from ~1K to 300K+ in two years  —  Anthropic is stepping up its global enterprise ambitions.  —  The $183 billion artificial intelligence startup has grown …

The MacRumors Show: iPhone Air and 17 Pro First Impressions

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On this episode of The MacRumors Show, we talk over first impressions of the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro.

Lab-grown brain powered by 800,000 human neurons that plays Pong

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Germany will present the world’s first code-deployable biological computer, no larger than a shoebox, at...

Perplexity launches Search API, giving developers direct access to the same web index that powers the startup's answer engine (Michael Nuñez/Venturebeat)

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Michael Nuñez / Venturebeat:
Perplexity launches Search API, giving developers direct access to the same web index that powers the startup's answer engine  —  Perplexity AI launched a comprehensive search application programming interface on Thursday, giving developers direct access to the same massive web index that powers …

Red Sox vs. Tigers Game on Apple TV+ Tonight Will Be Partly Shot on iPhone 17 Pro

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Apple TV+'s broadcast of the Boston Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers game at Fenway Park tonight will incorporate live footage captured with the iPhone 17 Pro.

Image Credit: Apple TV+

CISOs: Prepare for Software’s Agentic Future Today

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recent C-suite survey found that 89% of executives anticipate that agentic AI will be the definitive software development standard within

The post CISOs: Prepare for Software’s Agentic Future Today appeared first on The New Stack.

Sources: ByteDance may get ~50% of TikTok US' overall profit, including a licensing fee of 20% of revenue, despite selling majority ownership to US investors (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: ByteDance may get ~50% of TikTok US' overall profit, including a licensing fee of 20% of revenue, despite selling majority ownership to US investors  —  TikTok's Chinese parent company will likely get about half of the profit from the platform's US operation even after it sells majority ownership …

iOS 26: Use Visual Intelligence With iPhone Screen Content

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In iOS 26, Apple has extended Visual Intelligence to work with content that's on your iPhone, allowing you to ask questions about what you're seeing, look up products, and more.


Visual Intelligence started out in iOS 18.2 as a Camera Control button function that can describe what you are looking at, get details about a restaurant or business, translate text, and the like.

But in iOS 26, Visual Intelligence is no longer just for learning more about your physical surroundings. You can also use the feature to analyze content on your iPhone screen, simply by pressing the same buttons you use to take a screenshot.

You can search across apps, go straight to relevant websites, add an event to your calendar, and more. Keep reading to learn what you can do with it. Note that Visual Intelligence is an [...]

Canadian ground robot survives Atlantic drop, reaches Portuguese shore successfully

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Rheinmetall Canada tested a Mission Master 2.0 unmanned ground vehicle by dropping it from a...

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Sandwich artist

Apple Watch SE 3 and Ultra 3 Get First Discounts on Amazon

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Apple just released the Apple Watch SE 3 and Apple Watch Ultra 3, and today Amazon introduced the first discounts on these wearables. All discounts have been applied automatically and do not require any coupon codes to see the final sale price.

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

Starting with the Apple Watch SE 3, you can get the 40mm GPS model for [...]

Workers controlling the means of ROI

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The Golden Era of PaaS is Still Here

I’m playing around with trying to, I don’t know, re-introduce the notion of PaaS to the platform discussion. I don’t think what’s going on now is as good as it could be. I mean, yeah, I’m biased. But, you know, also biased to awesome.

As you may recall from last episode, I cleaned my desk. You can see that in action here. My audio there was crap, but I wanted to get onto my weekend. Subsequently, I got a bunch of new audio gear.

You get the AI you deserve

Looking at the recent skepticism and elusive ROI for enterprise AI (see some links below!), here’s three theoretic takes from me over on my weblog. Plus, one of Andrew’s best PowerPoint-jokes.

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Why Rancher’s Founders Pivoted From Kubernetes to Agentic AI

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The transformation of generative AI (GenAI) from conversational tools to autonomous, action-oriented agents marks a significant inflection point for enterprise

The post Why Rancher’s Founders Pivoted From Kubernetes to Agentic AI appeared first on The New Stack.

Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust

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We’ve replaced the original core system in Cloudflare with a new modular Rust-based proxy, replacing NGINX.

Introducing Observatory and Smart Shield — see how the world sees your website, and make it faster in one click

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We're announcing two enhancements to our Application Performance suite that'll show how the world sees your website, and make it faster with one click - available Cloudflare Dashboard!

Monitoring AS-SETs and why they matter

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We will cover some of the reasons why operators need to monitor the AS-SET memberships for their ASN, and now Cloudflare Radar can help.

An AI Index for all our customers

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Cloudflare will soon automatically create an AI-optimized search index for your domain, and expose a set of ready-to-use standard APIs and tools including an MCP server, LLMs.txt, and a search API.

Apple Responds to U.S. Class Action Lawsuit Over Delayed Siri Features

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Apple on Thursday filed a motion to dismiss a consolidated U.S. class action lawsuit related to delayed Siri features, according to court documents reviewed by MacRumors.


The delayed Siri features will be powered by Apple Intelligence, which was heavily advertised for the iPhone 16 models released last year.

The plaintiffs said they never would have purchased an iPhone 16, or would have paid less, had they known Apple's marketing surrounding the delayed Siri features was false. In response, Apple's lawyers said the delay of just [...]

China and its media are quiet about the TikTok deal, a notable silence as China can still decide the app's fate; Chinese social media chatter has been limited (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

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Dylan Butts / CNBC:
China and its media are quiet about the TikTok deal, a notable silence as China can still decide the app's fate; Chinese social media chatter has been limited  —  Following U.S. President Donald Trump's approval of a deal that could keep TikTok alive in the U.S. on Thursday …

Recycled nuclear waste to power space batteries for NASA lunar rovers, landers

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A Washington-based company is set to use the new type of nuclear waste to power...

Tougher than steel: 9 strongest materials that help engineer everyday wonders

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Metals have shaped the progress of human civilization, from the earliest tools and weapons to...

German investigators conduct raids in relation to Northern Data, which is majority-owned by Tether and has been pivoting from crypto mining to AI computing (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
German investigators conduct raids in relation to Northern Data, which is majority-owned by Tether and has been pivoting from crypto mining to AI computing  —  German investigators have carried out raids in relation to Northern Data AG, the Frankfurt-listed technology firm backed …

US deploys space-based nuclear blast detectors that captures 10,000+ frames per sec

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The United States has quietly completed deployment of its latest series of space-based nuclear detection...

World War II weapons dump site turns into surprising refuge for sea creatures

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An undersea submersible has revealed crabs, worms, and fish living on World War II explosives...

The Trump administration's $14B valuation of TikTok's US business falls well below previous estimates of around $40B, considered a bargain by investors (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
The Trump administration's $14B valuation of TikTok's US business falls well below previous estimates of around $40B, considered a bargain by investors  —  The $14 billion valuation that the Trump administration has estimated for TikTok's US business falls well below projections …

Russia: World’s first closed fuel nuclear system will recycle 95% of spent fuel

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Russia is going to develop the world’s first closed fuel cycle nuclear power system, according...

Trust & Safety: Armed Conflict; Our New Trust & Safety Game With The International Committee Of The Red Cross

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While members of Congress waste time grandstanding about “censorship” and politicians threaten to jail tech executives for their moderation choices, actual trust & safety teams are quietly doing work that saves lives in active war zones. But you’d never know it from all the political theater. That’s why we’ve partnered with the International Committee of […]

Introducing new regional Internet traffic and Certificate Transparency insights on Cloudflare Radar

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Cloudflare Radar now offers a Certificate Transparency dashboard for monitoring TLS certificate activity, and new regional traffic insights for a sub-national perspective on Internet trends.

Code Mode: the better way to use MCP

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It turns out we've all been using MCP wrong. Most agents today use MCP by exposing the "tools" directly to the LLM.

Eliminating Cold Starts 2: shard and conquer

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We reduced Cloudflare Workers cold starts by 10x by optimistically routing to servers with already-loaded Workers. Learn how we did it here.

Network performance update: Birthday Week 2025

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On the Internet, being fast is what matters and at Cloudflare, we are committed to being the fastest network in the world.

The UK unveils plans for a digital ID, which will be required to work in the country, to combat illegal immigration; the ID will be stored on people's phones (Kate Whannel/BBC)

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Kate Whannel / BBC:
The UK unveils plans for a digital ID, which will be required to work in the country, to combat illegal immigration; the ID will be stored on people's phones  —  Digital ID will be mandatory in order to work in the UK, as part of plans to tackle illegal migration.

Raspberry Pi 500+ puts the Pi, 16GB of RAM, and a real SSD in a mechanical keyboard

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Keyboard uses low-profile Gateron Blue switches and an RP2040 controller.

World’s first mushroom-powered waterless toilet turns human waste into fertilizer

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The University of British Columbia (UBC) has launched the world’s first mushroom-powered waterless toilet, introducing...

Project infragraph: IBM’s Real-Time Model for Infrastructure Assets

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As anyone who works with infrastructure knows, there are limited tools for understanding all of an organization’s IT assets, offering

The post Project infragraph: IBM’s Real-Time Model for Infrastructure Assets appeared first on The New Stack.

Meta plans to launch paid, ad-free versions of Instagram and Facebook in the UK, each costing £2.99 per month on the web, and £3.99 on iOS and Android (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Meta plans to launch paid, ad-free versions of Instagram and Facebook in the UK, each costing £2.99 per month on the web, and £3.99 on iOS and Android  —  Meta Platforms Inc. will soon offer paid versions of Facebook and Instagram in the UK that will remove advertising from both platforms.

Checkout.com announces an employee share buyback at a $12B valuation, up 30% from $9.35B two years ago yet below $40B in 2022, and says an IPO isn't a priority (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

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Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg:
Checkout.com announces an employee share buyback at a $12B valuation, up 30% from $9.35B two years ago yet below $40B in 2022, and says an IPO isn't a priority  —  Checkout.com is allowing employees to sell some of their shares back to the firm at a $12 billion valuation …

Wars are engineered long before they are fought

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News about the outbreak of war is usually sold as something sudden and unexpected. However,...

How inaccurate AI translations of Wikipedia pages, which AI models use for training, may cause a doom spiral that further marginalizes vulnerable languages (Jacob Judah/MIT Technology Review)

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Jacob Judah / MIT Technology Review:
How inaccurate AI translations of Wikipedia pages, which AI models use for training, may cause a doom spiral that further marginalizes vulnerable languages  —  When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost everything.

Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam

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Audience participation, "don't sweat the small stuff."

Summary:

• “Very often, you need great audiences to have great art.” Tyler
• And at: “people judge things at the margin, right? In a friendship, or marriage, or if you have co-founders. At the margin, am I getting what I want? And, getting out of that mindset is very difficult. "

OLX Group, an online marketplace owned by Prosus, agrees to acquire La Centrale, a French auto classifieds platform, for $1.3B in cash, expected to close in Q4 (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)

Summary:

Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg:
OLX Group, an online marketplace owned by Prosus, agrees to acquire La Centrale, a French auto classifieds platform, for $1.3B in cash, expected to close in Q4  —  Prosus NV-owned OLX Group BV is buying French online auto trader La Centrale for €1.1 billion ($1.3 billion) to expand its business into Western Europe.

we gave up on that dream

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The Concorde was fast, but not that fast. It could go from New York to Paris in just over 3 hours. The starry-eyed futurists of the song could be forgiven for expecting things to get even better. But even when oil prices were cheap, it was just too expensive to run, so we gave up on that dream, and now are lucky to travel that distance in 7 hours.

Boooo! From Commentary on “I.G.Y."

A look at the use of tools like ChatGPT by retail investors to pick stocks, fueling a robo-advisory market boom, as experts warn of solely relying on AI (Joice Alves/Reuters)

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Joice Alves / Reuters:
A look at the use of tools like ChatGPT by retail investors to pick stocks, fueling a robo-advisory market boom, as experts warn of solely relying on AI  —  - Robo-advisory market projected to grow 600% by 2029  — Half of retail investors open to using AI tools, survey finds

You get the enterprise AI you deserve, or, while management search for AI workloads, workers gobble up the AI ROI

Summary:

A round-up of recent “how is enterprise AI use and outcomes going?” links:

• Value seems to accrue to employee, the not enterprise. The ROI is, therefore, not legible. Related: Brian on “smart people” profiting from and using UI.
• The US military wants AI on every desk: “‘We want to have an AI capability on every desktop – 3 million desktops – in six or nine months,’ Michael said during a Politico event on Tuesday. ‘We want to have it focus on applications for corporate use cases like efficiency, like you would use in your own company … for intelligence and for warfighting.'”

Low quality content production is a higher quality of life

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‘I think the level of quality that everything has these days, every image, every website, every song, every video also has downsides. It defining the “norm”, the expectation we have from one another has two main issues that keep irritating me.’

🔗 The Professionalism Trap

Google Cloud: $58 billion in new revenue commitments over the next two years

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nine out of the top 10 AI labs use Google’s infrastructure. He also says that nearly all generative AI unicorns run on Google Cloud, that 60% of all GenAI startups worldwide have chosen Google as their cloud provider, and that the company has lined up $58 billion in new revenue commitments over the next two years, which represents more than double its current annual run rate.

(1) Clearly, some comms work in action here, to, (2) get the message out there that Google is kind of a big deal. Unlike with Kubernetes, Google hasn’t been able to (effortlessly?) translate it’s brand-appeal to AI. Maybe that’s because much of AI-frenzy is consumer-focused, not nerd-focused (as was the case with Kubernetes).

🔗 It isn’t your imagination: Google Cloud is flooding the zone

we can all agree that "workslop" is the word we need

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They call bullshit on that HBR study on “workslop.” But, rightly so, they love the term and agree with the existence of said workslop.

🔗 Workslop: bad ‘study’, but an excellent word

Feeding the hungry robot with your video content

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Doing SEO for the LLMs so that your content can be found.

🔗 AEO for YouTube: How to Get Your Videos Cited by ChatGPT

monetization efforts

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Sources say that Simo has recently been meeting with potential candidates, including some of her former Facebook colleagues, to lead a new team that will be tasked with bringing ads to ChatGPT. The role will oversee all monetization efforts across OpenAI, including subscriptions.

🔗 OpenAI is looking for a head of ads for ChatGPT

Supporting the executive

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This is also what it’s like to work in corporate strategy and supporting the executive suite. It feels like a lot of time wasted when someone could have been coming up with fixes instead of silo-hopping. That said: the point of a system is what it does. So, coordinating with the giant organization is often the goal, not so much the actual actions taken. Also in the “that said” category: it takes a lot of effort to make a change, but once that change is in place, the power of the giant organization has a huge impact.

🔗 What It’s Like to Work at the White House

Sources: the Trump admin plans to require chipmakers to match local output with imports and impose tariffs on companies that fail to maintain a 1:1 ratio (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the Trump admin plans to require chipmakers to match local output with imports and impose tariffs on companies that fail to maintain a 1:1 ratio  —  Administration wants domestic manufacturing to match imports and would impose tariffs on those companies that don't step up production

How Cloudflare uses the world’s greatest collection of performance data to make the world’s fastest global network even faster

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Cloudflare is using its vast traffic to send responses faster than ever before, by learning the characteristics of each individual network and tuning our congestion control system.

Oklahoma’s Overreaction To Charlie Kirk’s Murder Part 1: Kirk Statues At Every Public University!

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I have not written at all about Charlie Kirk in the wake of his disgusting murder, so allow me a bit of throat clearing. When I learned of his murder, my reaction was to be both depressed and a bit sick to my stomach. I’m under no illusions about who Kirk was, what he stood […]

iPhone Driver's Licenses Coming to North Dakota Residents

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iPhone users who reside in North Dakota will soon be able to add their driver's licenses and IDs to the Apple Wallet app on the ‌iPhone‌ and Apple Watch. The on-device Digital ID can be used instead of a physical ID at select U.S. airports and for age verification in retail stores, in apps, and on the web.


Apple added North Dakota to its list of states that support driver's licenses in the Wallet app, which means the feature should be launching imminently. Earlier in September, North Dakota's Department of Transportation (DOT) said that mobile IDs would be available to North Dakota drivers "within the next month."

When the feature goes live, North Dakota residents will be able to add a license or st [...]

TikTok Sale Gains Momentum as Trump Signs Executive Order Approving Deal

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U.S. President Donald Trump today signed an executive order approving a deal that would see TikTok's U.S. operations largely sold off, reports CNBC. The deal would allow TikTok to comply with U.S. law requiring the social media service to be sold to a non-Chinese company or be banned from operating in the country.


A joint-venture company that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu-Dhabi-based MGX investment fund will oversee TikTok's U.S. operations, with TikTok parent company ByteDance retaining less than 20 percent of the company. The joint-venture group will control a 45 percent stake in TikTok, wh [...]

Supreme Court Uses Shadow Docket To Let Trump Fire FTC Commissioner While Pretending They Haven’t Already Decided The Case

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The Supreme Court pulled off another shadow docket masterpiece this week, granting Trump’s request to keep FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter fired while simultaneously pretending they haven’t already made up their minds about whether presidents can ignore 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent. What makes this particularly brazen is that the Court is allowing Trump to violate […]

Amazon Fire TV devices expected to ditch Android for Linux in 2025

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Ditching Google could help Amazon better monetize its streaming gadgets.

Okta Wants To Secure Your AI Agents, Too

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At its annual Oktane user conference, identity management service Okta today announced its plans to start treating AI agents —

The post Okta Wants To Secure Your AI Agents, Too appeared first on The New Stack.

Right Wing Extremist Violence Is More Frequent And More Deadly Than Left Wing Violence

Summary:
After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist groups foment political violence in the U.S., and “they should be put in jail.” “The radical left causes tremendous violence,” he said, asserting that “they seem to do it in a bigger way” than groups on the right. […]

EU Has 'No Intention' to Repeal DMA Following Apple Challenge

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The European Commission has no plans to scrap the Digital Markets Act despite Apple's complaints that the law causes a worse experience for European iPhone owners. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an EU law that regulates how tech companies like Apple operate. It includes rules meant to prevent companies from unfairly favoring their own services, blocking competitors, and limiting user choice.


In a statement shared by France24, EU digital affairs spokesman Thomas Regnier said that the EC was "not surprised" by Apple's filing, and that it had "absolute [...]

More NCAA Football Teams Using iPads for Video Replay During Games

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NCAA college football conference MAC today announced it has collaborated with Apple to provide its 13 teams with iPads for video replay during the 2025 season.


Coaches are receiving iPad Pro models with the M4 chip and iPad Air models with the M3 chip, with DVSport's 360 Rewind app installed for video replay. The app allows for coaches and players to make in-game adjustments on the fly.

"For today's student-athletes, iPad feels second nature, making it a perfect fit on college football gamedays," said Scott Brodrick, an iPad product marketing manager at Apple. "With its advanced display, powerful performance, fast connectivity, all-day battery, and the intui [...]

JavaScript Gets Supply Chain Security With Chainguard Libraries

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is expanding its supply chain security platform with the launch of Chainguard Libraries for JavaScript, a collection of thousands of

The post JavaScript Gets Supply Chain Security With Chainguard Libraries appeared first on The New Stack.

DHS Demands Media, Politicians Stop Being So Mean To ICE

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The regime that controls the nation and constantly shoves it towards the next constitutional crisis is at it again. And by “it,” I mean complaining that people aren’t nicer to it. Yes, the deliberately antagonistic Trump administration can dish it out, but it definitely can’t take it. That has resulted in this latest bit of […]

Daily Deal: The 2025 Complete ChatGPT And Gemini AI Course

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Discover the future of AI with the ChatGPT and Gemini AI Advanced Course. Harness the power of cutting-edge tools like ChatGPT, Gemini AI, GPT 3.5, GPT 4, Bard, DALL-E 2, and more. Transform your creative process, boost productivity, and explore limitless possibilities in text, image, video, and audio generation. Dive into hands-on learning and real-world […]

10+ Hidden Features in iOS 26

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There are over 200 changes and new features in iOS 26, including major additions like the Liquid Glass design overhaul. We've covered a lot of the more notable updates already, but there are also some smaller changes that you might have missed.

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How To Use RAG-Powered AI for Safer Legacy Code Maintenance

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The reality is that generative AI (GenAI) was never “introduced” into enterprise business; it crept in when users discovered it

The post How To Use RAG-Powered AI for Safer Legacy Code Maintenance appeared first on The New Stack.

Jim Jordan Celebrates Google Caving To His Pressure In Letter That Says Caving To Government Pressure Is Wrong

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Look, if you want to cut to the chase: the lawyers working for Google and Meta know that the MAGA world is very, very stupid and very, very gullible, and it’s very, very easy to tell them something that they know will be interpreted as a “victory” while actually signaling something very, very different. You […]

Apple iPhone 17 review: Sometimes boring is best

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The least exciting iPhone this year is also the best value for the money.

Microsoft Launches a Combined Marketplace for Cloud Solutions, AI Apps and Agents

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Microsoft has long offered a variety of marketplaces for businesses in its ecosystem. For cloud solutions, there is the Azure

The post Microsoft Launches a Combined Marketplace for Cloud Solutions, AI Apps and Agents appeared first on The New Stack.

AirPods 4 vs. AirPods Pro 3 Buyer's Guide: 25 Differences Compared

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Apple's standard AirPods offer active noise cancellation for an additional $50, bringing them closer to the AirPods Pro than ever before. But after a substantial update to the AirPods Pro this fall, which should you choose?


The AirPods Pro 3 move slightly closer to the AirPods 4, adopting a hidden LED indicator and capacitive pairing button, but the device also adds new high-end features such as heart rate monitoring, along with significantly improved active noice cancellation and better earbud battery life.

Apple last year introduced a major update for its standard AirPods, with the earbuds gaining a more refined design for improved comfort, H2 chip, dust, sweat, and water resistance [...]

Consistency at Scale: Unifying Temporal and YugabyteDB

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AI, reliability and governance aren’t optional — they’re the foundation on which everything else depends. Data platform Manetu unified Temporal

The post Consistency at Scale: Unifying Temporal and YugabyteDB appeared first on The New Stack.

Five New Apple Stores Open This Month in Detroit, Tokyo, and Beyond

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Apple today opened a new store in the United Arab Emirates, at the Al Jimi Mall in Al Ain.

Apple Al Jimi Mall

1953–1961

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I always forget that Nixon was a vice president, and I’m still shocked every time I’m reminded of that.

Take $200 Off Every M4 MacBook Air on Amazon

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Amazon today is hosting big discounts across the entire M4 MacBook Air lineup, with deals that represent all-time lows across every model of the computer. In total, you'll find $200 off the M4 MacBook Air notebook right now, with both 13-inch and 15-inch models on sale.

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

Prices start at [...]

Reviewing iOS 26 for power users: Reminders, Preview, and more

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These features try to turn iPhones into more powerful work and organization tools.

Every Cloudflare feature, available to everyone

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Cloudflare is making every feature available to any customer.

Cloudflare's developer platform keeps getting better, faster, and more powerful. Here's everything that's new.

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Cloudflare's developer platform keeps getting better, faster, and more powerful. Here's everything that's new.

Partnering to make full-stack fast: deploy PlanetScale databases directly from Workers

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We’ve teamed up with PlanetScale to make shipping full-stack applications on Cloudflare Workers even easier.

R2 SQL: a deep dive into our new distributed query engine

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R2 SQL provides a built-in, serverless way to run ad-hoc analytic queries against your R2 Data Catalog. This post dives deep under the Iceberg into how we built this distributed engine.

Safe in the sandbox: security hardening for Cloudflare Workers

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We are further hardening Cloudflare Workers with the latest software and hardware features. We use defense-in-depth, including V8 sandboxes and the CPU's memory protection keys to keep your data safe.

Announcing the Cloudflare Data Platform: ingest, store, and query your data directly on Cloudflare

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The Cloudflare Data Platform, launching today, is a fully-managed suite of products for ingesting, transforming, storing, and querying analytical data, built on Apache Iceberg and R2 storage.

Choice: the path to AI sovereignty

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Championing AI sovereignty through choice: diverse tools, data control, and no vendor lock-in. We're enabling this in India, Japan, and Southeast Asia, offering local, open-source models on Workers AI

Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta

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Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. Sign up for the private beta.

Proton Mail iOS App Gets Major Redesign With Offline Mode

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Proton has rolled out a major update to its Mail app for iOS and Android, introducing a completely rebuilt interface alongside a new offline mode that lets users read, write, and organize emails without an internet connection.


First up, the privacy-focused email service has moved the compose button from the top-right corner to the bottom of the screen for easier one-handed access. Proton also claims the updated app makes scrolling, archiving, and replying twice as fast compared to the previous version.

Meanwhile, the new offline functionality allows users to draft emails and manage their inbox while disconnected, with messages syncing automatically once connectivity returns.

The Swiss-based privacy startup says that both iOS and An [...]

iOS 26: Screen and Filter Messages From Unknown Senders

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In iOS 26, Apple has introduced enhanced message filtering that gives you more control over unwanted texts, separating spam messages from unknown senders into distinct categories. Here's how to set up and use these new filtering options to keep your Messages app clutter-free.

Enable Message Filtering Settings

1. Open the Messages app on your iPhone.


2. Tap the filter menu icon (three horizontal lines) in the top-right corner.


3. Select Manage Filtering. This takes you directly to the Messages section in Settings.


4. Toggle on Screen Unknown Senders to enable filtering.

Why Your App’s Biggest Performance Bottleneck Might Be SSL/TLS

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Your app is slow. You’ve optimized the database, fixed the N+1 queries and tuned your microservices. But what if the

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A year of improving Node.js compatibility in Cloudflare Workers

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Over the year we have greatly expanded Node.js compatibility. There are hundreds of new Node.js APIs now available that make it easier to run existing Node.js code on our platform.

Secret Service Dubiously Claims, Without Evidence, To Have Uncovered ‘Hidden Telecom Network’ That Could Have Crippled NYC, UN

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The Secret Service says it has uncovered what it’s calling “a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York Tri-state area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials.” The news was announced, in part, over at the right wing propaganda website run by an overt white supremacist […]

Auto Mix is Good

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I thought I’d dislike the new Auto Mix song transition in Apple Music. But, I actually like it. It does, indeed, make it feel more “radio” and, thus, lively and of the human world instead of isolated headphones desk-troglodyte.

The Cross App Access Protocol Makes AI Agents Enterprise-Ready

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LAS VEGAS — Most enterprises are now using AI agents in some form, but few have any governance systems in

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Apple Challenges EU Digital Markets Act Over Feature Delays

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Apple is urging European regulators to scrap the Digital Markets Act (DMA), claiming it has created security vulnerabilities and damaged the user experience, not to mention caused at least three of its product features to be postponed or delayed indefinitely.


In a statement posted to its website, Apple says EU users now face exposure to malware through mandatory third-party app stores, with pornography and gambling apps appearing on iPhones for the first time. This, Apple says, is because alternative marketplaces like AltStore have introduced content that the company has historically blocked from its App Store.

Feature development has also suffered under the new rules, says Apple. iPhone Mirroring remains unavail [...]

🤖 Google Cloud’s 2025 DORA Report Declares AI the New Developer Baseline

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AI has shifted from a helpful add-on to the bedrock of modern software engineering, according to Google Cloud’s 2025 DORA Report. While nearly all developers now use AI, trust remains tentative, and the real differentiator lies in how organizations structure their practices and platforms to manage speed without chaos.

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Source summarized:
AI has the New Baseline: What Google Cloud’s 2025 DORA Report Means for Developers – ADTmag

Key Points

• 90% of technology professionals use AI, with a majority integrating it into at least half their workflow.
• Trust gaps remain: only 25% of developers strongly trust AI outputs.
• AI boosts speed but can introduce instability, especially for teams lacking strong delivery pipelines.
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