Sources: Chinese authorities urge local companies to avoid using less advanced chips, particularly Nvidia's H20, for government or national security work (Bloomberg)

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A look at potential issues as US judges join lawyers in testing generative AI to speed up legal research, summarize cases, draft routine orders, and more (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

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James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review:
A look at potential issues as US judges join lawyers in testing generative AI to speed up legal research, summarize cases, draft routine orders, and more  —  The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes and for humans to miss those mistakes has been on full display in the US legal system as of late.

Seventh Circuit Shuts Down Indiana’s Unconstitutional Police Buffer Zone Law

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Although the Supreme Court has yet to say so itself (and probably won’t any time soon, given its current composition), it’s generally accepted that citizens have the right to film public officials performing their public duties. Law enforcement officers, however, seem to feel this should never be a right and that their actions in full […]

ESET says a high-severity WinRAR zero-day is being exploited by two Russian cybercrime groups, enabling persistent backdoors when malicious files are opened (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
ESET says a high-severity WinRAR zero-day is being exploited by two Russian cybercrime groups, enabling persistent backdoors when malicious files are opened  —  A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups.

Elon Musk alleges Apple is violating antitrust laws by "making it impossible" for any AI firm but OpenAI to top its App Store, says xAI will take legal action (Surbhi Misra/Reuters)

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Surbhi Misra / Reuters:
Elon Musk alleges Apple is violating antitrust laws by “making it impossible” for any AI firm but OpenAI to top its App Store, says xAI will take legal action  —  Elon Musk has accused Apple (AAPL.O) of engaging in antitrust violations by allegedly mak

Apple Cinemas Won't Back Down in Trademark Battle with Apple

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Apple Cinemas, the company that is being sued for alleged trademark infringement by Apple, today said that it is committed to defending its brand.

We are committed to defending our brand, our history, and our continued right to operate as Apple Cinemas--an identity that is and has always been clearly distinct and fully compliant with all applicable trademark laws.

Apple Cinemas is a long-established independent theater chain with no connection to Apple Inc. Our name reflects our geographic roots and has never been intended to suggest, or used to imply, any affiliation with their brand. Furthermore, clai

Q&A with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Notion's evolution into an "AI workspace", being profitable, B2B vs. B2C, usage-based pricing for AI, and more (Casey Newton/The Verge)

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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Q&A with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Notion's evolution into an “AI workspace”, being profitable, B2B vs. B2C, usage-based pricing for AI, and more  —  This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast.  This is the second episode …

Phonon interference hits new heights, promising leaps in quantum and energy tech

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Researchers at Rice University and their collaborators have achieved a groundbreaking demonstration of strong interference...

Record-breaking perovskite indoor solar cells harvest six times more energy

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Indoor light is an untapped source of energy for billions of small electronics. Devices like...

Sources: Google, Meta, and other tech firms have met with Brazilian officials as new regulations on tech are being shaped, with Trump's tariffs as a backdrop (Ana Ionova/New York Times)

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Ana Ionova / New York Times:
Sources: Google, Meta, and other tech firms have met with Brazilian officials as new regulations on tech are being shaped, with Trump's tariffs as a backdrop  —  Brazil Kept a Tight Rein on Big Tech.  Trump's Tariffs Could Change That.  —  Got a Tip?  The Times offers several ways …

AI-powered radar can spy on phone calls from 10 feet, exposing new privacy risks

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Believe it or not, your phone’s tiniest vibrations can reveal your conversations — thanks to...

Aligning our prices and packaging with the problems we help customers solve

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You asked for simplicity. We listened. Introducing Externa and Interna, two new use-case-driven packages to simplify how you connect and protect your entire infrastructure.

Nvidia announces two low-power Blackwell workstation GPUs, the RTX PRO 4000 SFF and RTX PRO 2000, both featuring compact designs and available later this year (VideoCardz.com)

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VideoCardz.com:
Nvidia announces two low-power Blackwell workstation GPUs, the RTX PRO 4000 SFF and RTX PRO 2000, both featuring compact designs and available later this year  —  NVIDIA updates RTX Pro Blackwell series with entry-level SKUs  —  Based on GB203 and GB206 GPUs.

Nvidia debuts new Omniverse SDKs and Cosmos world foundation models for robotics devs, including Cosmos Reason, a 7B-parameter reasoning vision language model (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)

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Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch:
Nvidia debuts new Omniverse SDKs and Cosmos world foundation models for robotics devs, including Cosmos Reason, a 7B-parameter reasoning vision language model  —  Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries, and other infrastructure for robotics developers …

Why False Equivalence Is One Of Democracy’s Most Dangerous Lies

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There’s a trick at the center of American political discourse—so deeply embedded that even well-meaning people don’t realize they’re performing it. It goes like this: if you’re a fair-minded individual, you must believe that both political parties are fundamentally the same. To assert a meaningful difference in their commitment to truth, democracy, or constitutional governance […]

Paxos applies to create a US national trust bank, which would allow it to manage and hold assets for customers, following applications by Circle and Ripple (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

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Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Paxos applies to create a US national trust bank, which would allow it to manage and hold assets for customers, following applications by Circle and Ripple  —  Paxos Trust Company, the cryptocurrency firm behind PayPal's stablecoin, said it is applying to create a national

Live Translation Coming to AirPods

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An in-person Live Translation feature could soon be available on the AirPods, according to imagery found in iOS 26 beta 6.


There's a picture of the AirPods with Hello in several different languages, along with a suggestion that the feature will be activated with a double press. The file itself is named "Translate," which certainly seems to imply that there will be a gesture to activate a Live Translation option.

9to5Mac reported on the image first, but we can confirm that it is tucked away in the files for the Translate app in the latest beta.

Prior to the launch of ‌iOS 26‌, Bloomberg's [...]

Trump says he met with Lip-Bu Tan and that the Intel CEO will continue talks with his Cabinet members in the coming days, after calling for his resignation (Skylar Woodhouse/Bloomberg)

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Skylar Woodhouse / Bloomberg:
Trump says he met with Lip-Bu Tan and that the Intel CEO will continue talks with his Cabinet members in the coming days, after calling for his resignation  —  President Donald Trump said members of his Cabinet would continue discussions with Lip-Bu Tan in the coming days after meeting …

New high-strength plastic promises endless recycling without losing quality

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Modern engineering demands materials that do more than just hold their shape. They must be...

The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized reproduction of its articles, and seeks $14.7M in damages (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

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Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized reproduction of its articles, and seeks $14.7M in damages  —  The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, has sued the generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement.

Everything New in iOS 26 Beta 6

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There's just about a month to go until Apple unveils new iPhones at its September event, and that means time is running out for Apple to perfect iOS 26. We've reached a weekly beta update cadence, and Apple seeded ‌iOS 26‌ beta 6 to developers today.


There are changes to Liquid Glass, tweaks to navigation, new ringtones, and more.

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SEC filing: crypto exchange Bullish increased the size and price of its US IPO to sell 30M shares for $32 to $33 each, up from 20.3M shares for $28 to $31 each (Charles Capel/Bloomberg)

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Charles Capel / Bloomberg:
SEC filing: crypto exchange Bullish increased the size and price of its US IPO to sell 30M shares for $32 to $33 each, up from 20.3M shares for $28 to $31 each  —  Bullish increased the size and price of its initial public offering, boosting the potential deal size to $990 million …

Source: StubHub now aims to hold its IPO in September after pausing plans in April; it updated its IPO prospectus, reporting Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to $397.6M (CNBC)

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CNBC:
Source: StubHub now aims to hold its IPO in September after pausing plans in April; it updated its IPO prospectus, reporting Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to $397.6M  —  StubHub, the ticketing marketplace that spun out of eBay in 2020, has resumed its plans to go public and is now aiming to hold its IPO next month, CNBC has learned.

AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years

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Around 175,000 households still use dial-up Internet in the US.

Trump family's World Liberty Financial is using a publicly listed company, ALT5 Sigma, to raise $1.5B for the purchase of its WLFI token (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Trump family's World Liberty Financial is using a publicly listed company, ALT5 Sigma, to raise $1.5B for the purchase of its WLFI token  —  World Liberty Financial cofounders Zach Witkoff (left) and Eric Trump.  —  The Trump family's crypto business, World Liberty Financial …

Trump Pretends Crime Rates Are Up To Justify Sending Troops To DC Streets. Too Many Americans Believe Him.

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This was the way it was always going to end: with Trump turning the Oval Office into the palace of a king. One need look no further than Trump’s attempt to invoke the vengeful spirits of the Overlook Hotel by adding a $200 million ballroom to the White House, as though this were the early […]

Vercel Goes All in on Vibe Coding Web Apps

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Vercel today rolled out a new version of its v0 AI-driven offering, changing the name to .app from .dev to

The post Vercel Goes All in on Vibe Coding Web Apps appeared first on The New Stack.

GitHub CEO To Step Down As Company Is More Tightly Embraced by Microsoft’s CoreAI Team

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Anthropic adds a memory feature for Claude to reference information from past chats, available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, and soon for other plans (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

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Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic adds a memory feature for Claude to reference information from past chats, available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, and soon for other plans  —  Anthropic has introduced a helpful new feature for Claude that solves a problem similar to one ChatGPT already addressed.

Will Apple Release a Larger iMac Again? Here's What Rumors Say

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It has been more than three years since Apple discontinued the 27-inch iMac, as part of its move away from Intel processors. Since then, the 24-inch iMac has been Apple's only all-in-one desktop computer, with no larger model available.


Will a larger iMac ever make a comeback? Below, we recap the latest rumors.

In November 2023, Apple announced that it had no plans to release a new version of the 27-inch iMac with an Apple silicon chip at that time. Instead, Apple recommended pairing its standalone Studio Display with a Mac Studio or Mac mini. But an even larger iMac could materialize one day, if rumors from the past are still accurate. < [...]

Massive jellyfish swarm forces full shutdown of France’s largest nuclear plant

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Jellyfish have done it again. A massive swarm of the squishy ocean drifters has forced...

Minimus Adds VEX Support to Managed Hardened Images Service

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Open source regrets (News)

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Open source maintainers share their regrets, Thomas Dohmke steps down as GitHub CEO, James Kettle breaks down HTTP/2 from a security perspective, PHP is getting the pipe operator this November, and a class action copyright suit threatens Anthropic and the rest of the AI industry.

Apple Changes Liquid Glass Again in iOS 26 Beta 6

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Apple is continuing to tweak the way that the Liquid Glass design looks ahead of the iOS 26 launch, and the latest beta makes a change to the Lock Screen.


The Lock Screen clock has been updated with additional transparency, allowing more of the background to peek through.

Beta 6 on left, beta 5 on right

GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down

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Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018.

Can Platform Engineering Accelerate AI Adoption?

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Gone are the days of top-down developer tooling mandates. About half of all companies are applying a bottom-up approach to

The post Can Platform Engineering Accelerate AI Adoption? appeared first on The New Stack.

iOS 26 Gets More New Ringtones

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With the sixth beta of iOS 26, Apple has added several new ringtones that are alternatives to the classic "Reflection" ringtone. Reflection is the ringtone that Apple has long used as the default on the iPhone.


In addition to the standard Reflection ringtone, there are now six variants: Buoyant, Dreamer, Tech, Pop, Reflected, and Surge.

Reflected is identical to the "Alt 1" ringtone option that was added back in the second beta of ‌iOS 26‌.

The classic Reflection ringtone is still the default, so if you prefer one of the new sounds, you'll need to set it manually. Apple also added a new ringtone called Little Bird, which is distinct from the new Reflection options. You [...]

Engineered microbes boost vitamin K2 production for stronger bones and hearts

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A new study has revealed how a widely used food bacterium manages its internal chemistry...

NY Appeals Court: Lol, No Of Course You Can’t Sue Social Media For The Buffalo Mass Shooting

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When politicians immediately blamed social media for the horrific 2022 Buffalo mass shooting—despite zero evidence linking the platforms to the attack—it was obvious deflection from actual policy failures. The scapegoating worked: survivors and victims’ families sued the social media companies, and last year a confused state court wrongly ruled that Section 230 didn’t protect them. […]

Daily Deal: Stone River eLearning

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They say you should never stop learning, and at Stone River, that mantra is a way of life. Through this subscription, you’ll get full access to 800+ courses and 4,800 hours of online learning, covering everything from iOS mobile development to graphic design. Plus, you’ll get a range of VIP perks, including unlimited eBooks and […]

Beyond JSX: Rethinking the Component Model in Frontend

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JSX (JavaScript XML) gave developers a familiar way to write interfaces, blending HTML-like syntax with JavaScript’s power. But as applications

The post Beyond JSX: Rethinking the Component Model in Frontend appeared first on The New Stack.

OWC's Back To School Sale Has 14-Port Thunderbolt Dock for $149.99, Plus Discounts on SSDs and More

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OWC is still hosting its annual Back To School sale this week, offering big discounts on a variety of USB-C docks, memory cards, external drives and enclosures, and Mac accessories. All of the discounts have been applied automatically, so you won't need any special coupon codes.

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

OWC has added a few new items to the event, including big discounts on its 1M2 Enclosure, available for [...]

Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of macOS Tahoe to Developers

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Apple today provided developers with the sixth beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after the fifth beta.


Registered developers can download the new beta software through the System Settings app.

macOS Tahoe features Apple's Liquid Glass redesign, which extends across all of the new updates this year. Apple also brought the Phone and Journal apps to the Mac for the first time, and introduced a new cross-platform Games app.

With the update, Apple overhauled how Spotlight works, enabling new functionality that allows it to be used to complete all kinds of actions like sending emails without having to open up an app [...]

Apple Seeds Sixth Developer Betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26

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Apple today provided developers with the sixth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the fifth betas.


Registered developers can download the new beta software using the Software Update section of the Settings app.

‌iOS 26‌ and ‌iPadOS 26‌ feature Apple's new Liquid Glass design aesthetic, with a focus on translucency and glass-like interface elements. The design extends to the Lock Screen, Home Screen, and Control Center, along with menus and buttons in apps.

Apple's s [...]

Apple Seeds Second macOS Sequoia 15.7 Release Candidate to Developers

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Apple today seeded a second release candidate version of macOS Sequoia 15.7, one week after seeding the first release candidate. If no further bugs are found, ‌macOS Sequoia‌ 15.7 could be released to the public soon.


Developers can opt-in to the ‌‌macOS Sequoia‌‌ beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app.

According to Apple's release notes, the update includes security fixes.

This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.

Apple Seeds Sixth watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 Developer Betas

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Apple today provided developers with the sixth betas of watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 for testing purposes, with the betas coming one week after the fifth betas were released.


The software updates can be downloaded through the Settings app on each device. A developer account is required.

‌watchOS 26‌ and tvOS 26 adopt new Liquid Glass design changes inspired by visionOS, much like iOS 26 and macOS 26. watchOS has a new AI-powered Workout Buddy for motivation and the Smart Stack incorporates more personal context for better suggestions. There's also a new Notes app and support for Live Translation.

tvOS 26 supports karaoke using an [...]

US clinic deploys NVIDIA supercomputer to fast-track life-saving medical breakthroughs

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Mayo Clinic has taken a major step towards integrating AI solutions in healthcare after deploying...

GitHub Loses Its CEO And Independence

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Thomas Dohmke, who has been at the helm of GitHub since 2021, today announced that he is stepping down to

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Trump DOJ Can’t Score ICE Protest Convictions Because Federal Officers Keep Lying

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This remains one of the most unintentionally funny things the Trump administration has ever done. Of course, this regime isn’t known for its sense of humor, so anything generating a laugh exists despite the regime, rather than because of it. But laugh we will! Trump is throwing billions at ICE, hoping a whole bunch of […]

Federation Platform and Privacy Waves: How Meta distributes compliance-related tasks at scale

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We’re exploring Meta’s Federation Platform, a scalable set of tools for managing compliance-related tasks, along with Privacy Waves, our method for batching these tasks and ensuring accountability.  Together, the Federation Platform and Privacy Waves create a structured, effective, and sustainable approach to operationalizing privacy work, enabling Meta to safeguard user data for the billions of [...]

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The post Federation Platform and Privacy Waves: How Meta distributes compliance-related tasks at scale appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

3D-printed titanium rocket part aces cryogenic pressure test in a world first

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A team of scientists at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) has announced that...

US tech firm unveils 20.7 sq ft solar hydrogen module powered by sunlight, water

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A US clean energy company has made a giant step toward commercial-scale renewable hydrogen production...

World’s most powerful gamma-ray detector set to unlock nuclear secrets

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Researchers have completed the major construction of the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA), a next-generation...

Practical platform engineering, the industry analyst business dies again, personal utopia - three good videos

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Three good videos

Platform Engineering 2025: What “great”’ looks like now.

Most platform engineering talks are very frustrating for me. The same stuff over and over since about 2015. The platform engineering space is rife with people who’ve made the monumental mistake of thinking Kubernetes is a platform and then finding out they have so much more to build on-top of that thin layer. Meanwhile, based on that false assumption, the industry just jettisoned all the PaaS technology we had. It’s a “journey” of self-harm and rebuilding. But, uh…I’m not bitter! Anyhow, this is a great panel going over mostly how to put platform engineering in place. We sometimes call this “culture

iPhone 17 Pro Leak Reveals Alleged New 5G Antenna Design

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Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 Pro models will feature a redesigned antenna system that wraps around the large rear camera bump on the devices, according to the latest rumor from a hit-or-miss leaker known as Majin Bu.

A render of the iPhone 17 Pro's alleged antenna system via @zellzoi

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From Knowledge to Action - For AI, now, the app is what matters most.

This collaborative doodling website is like Google Maps plus MS Paint

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A new website that lets you paint over a world map with other users in real-time has taken the digital illustration community by storm.  Wplace is a collaborative pixel art platform that serves as a spiritual successor to Reddit’s r/Place April Fools’ Day experiments, placing time restrictions on drawing tools that motivate users to team […]

Take $200 Off Every M4 MacBook Air on Amazon

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Amazon is still hosting massive discounts across the entire M4 MacBook Air lineup, with sales that beat Prime Day prices by about $50. In total, you'll find $200 off every M4 MacBook Air notebook right now on Amazon, 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.

Starting with the 13-inch models, Amazon has $200 off all three configurations of this notebook. Prices start at [...]

Database Categories Are Dead: Here’s What’s Next

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The traditional database taxonomy is broken. The labels we’ve used for over a decade like “NoSQL,” “relational,” “document, “key-value” and

The post Database Categories Are Dead: Here’s What’s Next appeared first on The New Stack.

Dem Senators Ask: Who Is Going To Regulate Trump’s Mobile Phone Venture (Spoiler: Nobody)

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Back in June the Trump administration announced it would be launching a new mobile phone company, including a new Trump branded phone they claimed would be “made in the U.S.” As we noted then, it was all mostly bullshit: the venture was just a flimsy rebranding of an existing MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator), which […]

How Gemini CLI GitHub Actions is Changing Developer Workflows

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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How to Re-Enable GPT-4o Model in ChatGPT for Mac

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If you haven't heard, OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT-5 on August 7 has caused a furor among a contingent of paying ChatGPT subscribers who find the new frontier model's communication style too clinical compared to legacy model GPT-4o's warmer, more conversational approach. Keep reading to make the old model available to select again in the ChatGPT app for Mac.


After just a few days of trying GPT-5, many Plus subscribers have decided they prefer GPT-4o's personality and creative collaboration skills. As a result, OpenAI is allowing paying customers to con [...]

AOL Dial-Up Internet Service to End After 34 Years

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AOL will officially discontinue its dial-up internet service on September 30, pulling the plug on an era that defined early internet access for millions of Americans.

Report Reveals Tool Overload Driving Fatigue and Missed Threats in MSPs

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New 12.9-Inch MacBook Could Launch This Year Starting at $599

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Apple's rumored new more affordable MacBook could have a starting price as low as $599 and launch as soon as this year, according to a new report out of Asia.


We first learned of Apple's low-cost MacBook plans in late June, when analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the company was developing a "more affordable" 13-inch laptop that would compete with Chromebooks and drive MacBook purchases, though he did not mention pricing.

Kuo said the new MacBook is set to use an A18 Pro chip, which debuted in the iPhone 16 Pro last year. That would make it the first Mac powered by an iPhone chip. So far, all Apple silicon Macs have used M-series chips, which feature more cores, greater memory capacity, and improved external display [...]

INE Named to Training Industry’s 2025 Top 20 Online Learning Library List

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Report: Apple Testing Revamped Siri With Apps Like Uber and YouTube

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Apple is testing a revamped version of Siri with select third-party apps, including Uber, AllTrails, Threads, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp, and a few games, according to the latest word from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Apple also continues to test the new Siri with its own apps, he said. Apple's own example was an iPhone user asking Siri about their mother's flight and lunch reservation plans based on info retrieved from the Mail and Messages apps.

When it first announced the new-and-improved Siri at WWDC 2024, Apple said it would have better understanding of a user's personal context, on-screen awareness, and deeper per-app controls, with these features to be powered by Apple Intelligence and an upgraded App Intents system. The features will be available across the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and [...]

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Arianity with a comment about how RFK Jr. approaches things: He is literally a eugenicist. If you dig down into his beliefs, he consistently thinks that if you die to something, it’s because you were “weak” and deserved it. In second place, it’s MrWilson […]

Get Apple's AirPods 4 for $99 and AirPods Pro 2 for $169 at Amazon

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Amazon this weekend has a pair of solid discounts on the AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2, providing up to $80 off these headphones.

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.

You can get the AirPods 4 for $99.00 (matched at Best Buy), down from $129.00, which is just $10 higher compared to the all-time low price we tracked during Prime Day. This is the base model without Active Noise Cancellation.

[...]

MacBook Pro With OLED Display Might Launch a Bit Later Than Expected

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It was long rumored that Apple would release the first MacBook Pro models with OLED displays next year, but that timeframe is a little less certain now.


In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said he expects the MacBook Pro to gain an OLED display "between the end of 2026 and early 2027."

Compared to current MacBook Pro models with LCD screens, benefits of OLED technology could include increased brightness (if the MacBook Pro gets an Ultra Retina XDR display with tandem OLED technology, like the latest iPad Pro), higher contrast ratio with deeper blacks, improved power effi [...]

Can AI ‘Defeat’ Authentication? Depends on Who You Ask

Summary:

Speaking at the U.S. Federal Reserve last month,  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned of a “fraud crisis,” in that AI

The post Can AI ‘Defeat’ Authentication? Depends on Who You Ask appeared first on The New Stack.

Here Are 3 New iOS 26 Features You Might Have Missed

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iOS 26 introduces a new Liquid Glass design, but the update also includes some other new features that have not received as much attention.


Below, we recap three smaller iOS 26 features that you might have missed.

iOS 26 should be released in September, but anyone can sign up to test the public beta for free. Make sure to back up your iPhone first.

Adaptive Power Mode

This Week In Techdirt History: August 3rd – 9th

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Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we looked at how the DHS was surveilling journalists who published leaked documents and how they obtained the encrypted messages of protestors. The FCC was trying to pretend Trump’s executive order about social media wasn’t ridiculous, and one commissioner who suggested it was unconstitutional was rapidly withdrawn from […]

Experts Split on AI Reviewing Its Own Code for Security

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Anthropic‘s launch of automated security reviews for Claude Code has drawn widespread attention from industry experts, who see the move

The post Experts Split on AI Reviewing Its Own Code for Security appeared first on The New Stack.

Terminal User Interfaces: Review of Crush (Ex-OpenCode Al)

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I originally wanted to look at the OpenCode agentic command line interface (CLI), but this has now been renamed Crush.

The post Terminal User Interfaces: Review of Crush (Ex-OpenCode Al) appeared first on The New Stack.

TypeScript 5.9 Brings Less Friction, More Features

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Typescript 5.9 was released Aug. 1, with a slate of new features, including expandable hovers for preview, support for import

The post TypeScript 5.9 Brings Less Friction, More Features appeared first on The New Stack.

HeliumOS Is an Atomic Version of CentOS Stream Built for Stability

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Atomic Linux distributions are all the rage at the moment because they offer enhanced security, stability, and simplified update mechanisms.

The post HeliumOS Is an Atomic Version of CentOS Stream Built for Stability appeared first on The New Stack.

Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain

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Disney spent 18 months negotiating to create a digital version of Dwayne Johnson for the live-action Moana film. Johnson agreed. The technology was ready. Then Disney’s lawyers killed the whole thing—not because of privacy concerns or actor rights, but because they worried parts of the film might end up in the public domain. This is […]

Wassette: Microsoft’s Rust-Powered Bridge Between Wasm and MCP

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Microsoft’s Azure Core Upstream team this week released Wassette, a Rust-powered runtime that could fundamentally change how AI agents acquire

The post Wassette: Microsoft’s Rust-Powered Bridge Between Wasm and MCP appeared first on The New Stack.

What To Do When Critical Open Source Projects Go End of Life

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Ninety-eight percent of organizations use open source software (OSS) regularly, according to the Linux Foundation. Open source is pervasive. It’s

The post What To Do When Critical Open Source Projects Go End of Life appeared first on The New Stack.

AI: Do or Don’t Believe the Hype

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How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content

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With the rise of AI writing tools, Wikipedia editors have had to deal with an onslaught of AI-generated content filled with false information and phony citations. Already, the community of Wikipedia volunteers has mobilized to fight back against AI slop, something Wikimedia Foundation product director Marshall Miller likens to a sort of "immune system" response. […]

5 Challenges With Vibe Coding for Enterprises

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Enterprises everywhere are looking for ways to leverage AI, with code generation leading the way. Talented software engineers are in

The post 5 Challenges With Vibe Coding for Enterprises  appeared first on The New Stack.

Kaizen! Pipely is LIVE (Friends)

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Gerhard calls Kaizen 20, 'The One Where We Meet'. Rightfully so. It's also the one where we eat, hike, chat, and launch Pipely live on stage with friends.

ChatGPT users hate GPT-5’s “overworked secretary” energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy

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"I want my GPT-4o back and I’ll do anything to get it."

API Observability: Beyond Monitoring To True Debuggability

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In today’s distributed systems landscape, traditional monitoring approaches are falling short. While dashboards and alerts tell us that something is

The post API Observability: Beyond Monitoring To True Debuggability appeared first on The New Stack.

Honeycomb’s Concept for AI Observability: Integrate Cursor With Your MCP

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Honeycomb has created a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for observability that represents an ambitious concept, as observability expands both

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Google and Valve will kill “Steam for Chromebooks” experiment in January 2026

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Well, that's one way to exit beta.

Vector Search Is Reaching Its Limit. Here’s What Comes Next

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This is the first of two parts. Vector databases are a foundational component of many modern AI systems, powering fast

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AI Reviews Aren't Very Good

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Making AI Reviews More Useful

Reading all the ChatGPT 5 coverage confirms my feeling that no one knows how to review these models yet. It’s either those incomprehensible charts (and also, who cares how good they are at math? More: who understand what those tests even mean?) or people just saying “I really like it.”

It’s a classic IT/business alignment problem. Until you define the “business

Redesigning Workers KV for increased availability and faster performance

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Workers KV is Cloudflare's global key-value store. After the incident on June 12, we re-architected KV’s redundant storage backend, remove single points of failure, and make substantial improvements.

Why Continuous Integration Matters More Than Ever

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Introduction to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

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Continuous integration is the process of merging code (updates or existing features) with an existing codebase (software tool or product,

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The Browser Company’s AI browser now has a $20 subscription

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The Browser Company — the makers of the Arc browser — just launched a $20 per month subscription to its new AI-powered web browser, Dia, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new Dia Pro subscription comes with unlimited access to the browser’s chat feature, which lets you ask questions about the content in your tabs. […]

Prometheus and OpenTelemetry Just Couldn’t Get Along

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Prometheus was long the de facto standard for metrics in observability. Then came VictoriaMetrics, originally a fork of Prometheus, and

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JavaScript Standards Update: What’s New in ECMAScript 2025

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Now that the ECMAScript 2025 annual update has been approved, we know exactly which features have made it into the

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ArmorCode Extends AI Tool to Generate Code Fixes for Specific Runtime Environments

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Using Logging Frameworks for Application Development

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Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from the Manning book Logging Best Practices: A Practical Guide to Cloud Native

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Platform Engineering Is Failing — Here’s Why Infrastructure Comes First

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We’re now several years into the adoption of platform engineering, which has been widely accepted as the best way for

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