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The top 10 US tech billionaires collectively added $550B+ to their combined net worth in 2025, reaching $2.5T by December 24, up from $1.9T at the year's start (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

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Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
The top 10 US tech billionaires collectively added $550B+ to their combined net worth in 2025, reaching $2.5T by December 24, up from $1.9T at the year's start  —  Elon Musk stays on top as Nvidia's Jensen Huang powers up the rankings on an AI-fuelled surge in fortunes

Chinese state media: China launches three VC funds of $7.1B+ each to back early-stage "hard technology" startups valued below ¥500M, or about $71M (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Chinese state media: China launches three VC funds of $7.1B+ each to back early-stage “hard technology” startups valued below ¥500M, or about $71M  —  China on Friday launched three venture capital funds to invest in “hard technology” are

Cursor CEO Michael Truell warns that "vibe coding" advanced projects may create "shaky foundations" and eventually "things start to kind of crumble" (Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez/Fortune)

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune:
Cursor CEO Michael Truell warns that “vibe coding” advanced projects may create “shaky foundations” and eventually “things start to kind of crumble”  —  Michael Truell, cofounder and CEO of Cursor.STUART ISETT—FORTUNE  —  Cursor may utilize AI …

10,200-ton nuclear submarine for US Navy: Korean firm proposes to build Virginia-class vessels

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A Seoul-based company has expressed its intention to build nuclear-powered submarines for the U.S. Navy....

As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon is playing defense by blocking agents' access to its site and investing heavily in its own tools (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon is playing defense by blocking agents' access to its site and investing heavily in its own tools  —  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy could see how dramatically artificial intelligence was altering e-commerce.

US Navy’s retired nuclear reactors from submarine could power AI data centers, 360,000 homes

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A power company in the United States is planning to make use of retired nuclear...

A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship (Aishvarya Kavi/New York Times)

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Aishvarya Kavi / New York Times:
A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship  —  Imran Ahmed, who runs an organization that chronicles disinformation, was among five Europeans the State Department had barred, claiming they promote censorship.

Google may finally allow users to change Gmail addresses for the first time ever

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Google may finally be loosening one of its most rigid account rules. An official Google...

An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert about the US adopting authoritarian digital practices, the research group's accomplishments, and more (Finian Hazen/MIT Technology Review)

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Finian Hazen / MIT Technology Review:
An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert about the US adopting authoritarian digital practices, the research group's accomplishments, and more  —  Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades.

Uncrewed 78-foot cargo ship with folding wings to cross the Atlantic on wind power

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A US-based maritime robotics company has recently struck a construction deal for its 78-foot wind-powered...

Cosmic Christmas tree: Star cluster 2,700 light-years away shows active star formation

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Astronomers are drawing attention to a Christmas Tree-shaped cluster of stars glowing inside one of...

Apple settles with a Brazilian regulator to allow alternative app stores; report: Apple will charge a 5% fee for alt app stores and 15% on App Store link-outs (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

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Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple settles with a Brazilian regulator to allow alternative app stores; report: Apple will charge a 5% fee for alt app stores and 15% on App Store link-outs  —  Brazilian regulators have approved a settlement that will require Apple to change how the App Store operates on iPhone in the country …

World’s first 800V immersion-cooled battery targets power-hungry AI data centers

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XING Mobility will unveil an 800V immersion-cooled high-voltage DC backup battery for AI data centers...

Xiaomi unveils the $995+ Xiaomi 17 Ultra in China with a 200MP periscope camera, a 50MP 1" sensor, and an ultrawide; Leica edition gets a mechanical zoom ring (Siddharth/GSMArena.com)

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Siddharth / GSMArena.com:
Xiaomi unveils the $995+ Xiaomi 17 Ultra in China with a 200MP periscope camera, a 50MP 1" sensor, and an ultrawide; Leica edition gets a mechanical zoom ring  —  The Xiaomi 17 Ultra has finally been unveiled in China as the brand's flagship phone.  Alongside the standard model …

Medieval mega-project: The engineering marvel of the Codex Gigas

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Written over 800 years ago, the Codex Gigas (also called the “Devil’s Bible”) is one...

US Navy awards Skydweller $1.4M to develop next-gen all-electric aircraft propulsion

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The U.S. Navy has awarded Skydweller a $1.4 million contract to support the development of...

AI sector minted 50+ new billionaires in 2025; Crunchbase: investors poured $200B+ into AI startups in 2025, or about 50% of global funding, up from 34% in 2024 (Alicia Park/Forbes)

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Alicia Park / Forbes:
AI sector minted 50+ new billionaires in 2025; Crunchbase: investors poured $200B+ into AI startups in 2025, or about 50% of global funding, up from 34% in 2024  —  Record activity in the AI sector this year has boosted dozens of founders and business executives into the billionaire ranks.

Write your AI stuff in the languages you know and that are running your organization

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From my recent article on The New Stack:

The choice of where and how to start your AI journey is a business decision, not a technology one. By grounding your AI efforts in the operational muscle you’ve already built with Java and Spring, you minimize friction and risk. Everyone just keeps doing what they’re doing, but with a new tool. This established operational and development life is the hard-won experience, paid for in decades of maintenance and gut-wrenching production failures, that gives you the platform to continuously absorb new capabilities like Spring AI and MCP.

Get the developer experience and the operator experience right, and you unlock the organizational velocity needed to turn tentative AI experiments into a mission-critical competitive advantage.

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Related to your interests, Thursday

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• Harry Clarke’s Elixirs of Life
• 9 Terms That Helped Navigate a Confusing Year in Art - “It’s art that blends street art, Pop art, sneakerhead culture, merch-drop dynamics, and memes into a mix that is the opposite of reverential.”
• Nobody knows how large software products work - “It’s easier to write software than to explain it”
• A Year Of Vibes - Pondering on a year of coding full-blown AI style.
• Why My Newsletter Costs $2.50 - The $2.50 spam filter. I bet it will work.

Russia to build nuclear plant on Moon to power rovers, labs during 336-hour long nights

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Russia has unveiled its plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon within...

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The Octopus Organization is a great collection of organization anti-patterns. This week, one of the co-authors, Jana Werner talks with Whitney and Coté about those patterns and her own experiences. They go over topics like reading habits, the role of business books, decision making, ownership, curiosity in organizations. practical steps to avoid common corporate anti-patterns, the importance of clear communication and leadership principles, and rubber pigs.

Check out the rest in our interview with Jana Werner. It was a fun discussion.

Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin significantly trails Waymo, deploying an estimated 30 cars with safety drivers, vs. Waymo's 200 cars without human monitors (Jack Ewing/New York Times)

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Jack Ewing / New York Times:
Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin significantly trails Waymo, deploying an estimated 30 cars with safety drivers, vs. Waymo's 200 cars without human monitors  —  Shares of Tesla have hit new highs on optimism about the company's self-driving taxis.  But experts say Tesla is far behind Waymo, which has a big head start.

Recently, in America

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Scroll to the end to see five giant lasagna pans.

EV battery breakthrough could enable ultra-fast charging with more range, longer life

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A research team at Tohoku University has identified a method to configure fullerene molecules into...

Best of 2025: Five Trends That Will Drive Software Development in 2025

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Best of 2025: Grok Studio: xAI’s New Collaborative Workspace Transforms AI-Assisted Development

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Donald Knuth’s 2025 Christmas Lecture: The Knight’s Tours

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“It’s that time of the year!” read the email from Stanford Online. As he approaches his 88th birthday, Donald Knuth

The post Donald Knuth’s 2025 Christmas Lecture: The Knight’s Tours appeared first on The New Stack.

A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)

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Lisa Bonos / Washington Post:
A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars  —  A recent power outage in San Francisco shows how vulnerable self-driving vehicles can be when problems arise.

A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges (Paresh Dave/Wired)

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Paresh Dave / Wired:
A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges  —  Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit's wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps.

What You Can (and Can't) Use an Apple Gift Card For

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Apple Gift Cards are one of the most common Apple-related gifts given during the holidays, so if you've received one today, here are all of the things you can and cannot use it for.


After redeeming an Apple Gift Card, the value is added to the Apple Account balance and automatically applies at checkout when making eligible purchases. It can be spent on a wide range of Apple products, services, and digital content.

Apple Gift Cards are marketed as a single, flexible balance that works across Apple's ecosystem, but there are clear limits on what they can and cannot be used for once redeemed to an Apple Account.

What Apple Gift Cards Can Be Used For

• Purchasing Apple hardware and accessories on apple.com, in the

PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals in 2025 vs. $2.17B in 2024; 11 crypto IPOs raised $14.6B worldwide, up from $310M from four IPOs in 2024 (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

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Nikou Asgari / Financial Times:
PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals in 2025 vs. $2.17B in 2024; 11 crypto IPOs raised $14.6B worldwide, up from $310M from four IPOs in 2024  —  Dealmaking has been driven by Trump administration's crypto-friendly policymaking  —  A record $8.6bn worth of crypto deals were struck in 2025 …

How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)

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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD  —  When David Ellison became a teenager, his father, Larry, bou

Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global (The Information)

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The Information:
Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global  —  Nvidia stunned Silicon Valley on Wednesday by agreeing to pay about $20 billion to license technology from Groq …

10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification

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It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of states and Australia now have various requirements to verify your age before you can create a social media account. Age-verification laws may sound straightforward to some: protect young people online by […]

UK Law Enforcement Pushed Hard To Maintain Access To Deeply Flawed Facial Recognition Tech

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While each iteration presents a chance to improve, there are some very real reasons why facial recognition tech will do a bit of stagnating. And that reason is the biggest market for this tech: law enforcement agencies. In 2019, the US National Institute for Science and Technology studied 189 different facial recognition algorithms. The results […]

LG Forces TV Owners To Use Microsoft ‘AI’ Copilot App You Can’t Uninstall And Nobody Asked For

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If your product is even a third as innovative and useful as you claim it is, you shouldn’t have to go around trying a little too hard to convince people. The product’s usefulness should speak for itself. And you definitely shouldn’t be forcing people to use products they’ve repeatedly told you they don’t actually appreciate […]

Sidero Labs Extends Talos Linux Directly to Broadcom VMs

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ATLANTA — ’ Talos Linux was created to offer an alternative to the high cost and complexity of managing disparate

The post Sidero Labs Extends Talos Linux Directly to Broadcom VMs appeared first on The New Stack.

Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google

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Last week, Google filed suit against SerpApi, a scraping company that helps businesses pull data from Google search results. The lawsuit claims SerpApi violated DMCA Section 1201 by circumventing Google’s “technological protection measures” to access search results—and the copyrighted content within them—without permission. There’s just one problem with this theory: Google built its entire business […]

Daily Deal: The JavaScript DOM Game Developer Bundle

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The JavaScript DOM Game Developer Bundle has 8 courses to help you master coding fundamentals. Courses cover JavaScript DOM, Coding, HTML 5 Canvas, and more. You’ll learn how to create your own fun, interactive games. It’s on sale for $30. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all sales from […]

Redefining API Management for the AI-Driven Enterprise

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For years, API management sat comfortably in the “connectivity” bucket of enterprise architecture. Teams focused on building, exposing and securing APIs

The post Redefining API Management for the AI-Driven Enterprise appeared first on The New Stack.

Scale LLM Tools With a Remote MCP Architecture on Kubernetes

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As AI systems move from experimentation to production, developers are starting to discover a new problem: The tools that large

The post Scale LLM Tools With a Remote MCP Architecture on Kubernetes appeared first on The New Stack.

MAGA Legislators Want To Add Mercenaries To Trump’s Perverse Take On The ‘War On Drugs’

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Yeah, the economy sucks and trade-war tariff agendas are only making things worse. But as Trump promised/threatened during a recent national address from the White House, things are turning around, even if you (MAGA voters especially) are too stupid to see it. It looks like the first growth market to see a significant increase might […]

10 Mac Apps Worth Trying in 2026

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2026 is almost upon us, and a new year is a good time to try out some new apps. We've rounded up 10 excellent Mac apps that are worth checking out.

1. Alt-Tab (Free) - Alt-Tab brings a Windows-style alt + tab thumbnail preview option to the Mac. You can see a full window preview of open apps and app windows.


2. One Thing (Free) - One Thing is a super simple menu bar app that helps you remember the one main thing that you need to accomplish. Whatever you type in will show up in your menu bar so it's front and center. Text and colors are customizable, and you can use emoji.

Apple CEO Tim Cook Buys $3 Million of Nike Shares

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Apple CEO Tim Cook disclosed a roughly $3 million open-market purchase of Nike shares this week (via Reuters).


According to a regulatory filing published yesterday, Cook purchased 50,000 Class B shares of Nike on December 22 at an average price of $58.97 per share, for a total investment of approximately $2.95 million. The filing shows that Cook now holds about 105,000 Nike shares, a position valued at nearly $6 million.

Nike shares rose following the disclosure, gaining between about 2% and 5% in premarket and early regular-session activity, after the stock had fallen sharply in the days following the company's most recent ear [...]

Apple Plans to Expand iPhone Driver's Licenses to These 7 U.S. States

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In select U.S. states, residents can add their driver's license or state ID to the Apple Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch, and then use it to display proof of identity or age at select airports and businesses, and in select apps.


The feature is currently available in 13 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, and it is expected to launch in at least seven more in the future.

To set up the feature, open the Wallet app and tap on the plus sign in the top-right corner. Next, select Driver's License and ID Cards and follow the steps.

Supported States

• Arizona (since March 2022)<

Apple to Introduce New App Store Fee Structure in Brazil Following Antitrust Settlement

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Brazilian regulators have approved a settlement that will require Apple to change how the App Store operates on iPhone in the country, including allowing alternative app stores, expanded payment options, and a defined new fee structure.


In a press release, Brazil's Administrative Council of Economic Defense (CADE), said its court has approved a Term of Commitment to Cease proposed by Apple to resolve an investigation into the company's ‌App Store‌ rules on iOS. The case began in 2022 and examined whether Apple's restrictions on app distrib [...]

How To Get DNS Right: A Guide to Common Failure Modes

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This is the first in a two-part series. If you’ve spent any time diagnosing outages or performance issues, you know

The post How To Get DNS Right: A Guide to Common Failure Modes appeared first on The New Stack.

iPhone Air 2 Could Still Launch Next Year

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Apple's next-generation iPhone Air could still launch in the fall of 2026, according to the Weibo leaker known as "Fixed Focus Digital."


The leaker claims to have been told by sources that the second-generation ‌iPhone Air‌ will launch in the fall. Meanwhile, the iPhone 17e is said to already be in mass production ahead of unveiling at a spring product launch event.

The rumor comes in contrast to an array of corroborated reports that the second-generation ‌iPhone Air‌ has been delayed until March 2027, where it is expecte [...]

Apple Discontinued These 25 Products This Year

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With the end of 2025 near, the time has come to look back at the devices and accessories that Apple discontinued throughout the year.


Most of the products that were discontinued this year were simply replaced by a new model with an updated chip. However, the iPhone SE line was entirely discontinued when the iPhone 16e launched, and the iPhone Plus line is being phased out.

Below, we have listed 25 products that were discontinued by Apple this year.

iPhones

Best of 2025: AI-Generated Code Packages Can Lead to ‘Slopsquatting’ Threat

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A Guide to Safe, Incremental Open Source Observability Migration

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When people hear “software migration” or “migrating away from proprietary agents” they picture months of copying dashboards, rewriting alerts, redeploying

The post A Guide to Safe, Incremental Open Source Observability Migration appeared first on The New Stack.

Best of 2025: Semaphore Goes Open Source: A New Dawn for DevOps Professionals

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Advanced iPhone 18 Camera Sensor to Be Made in Texas

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Samsung is preparing to supply Apple with advanced image sensors for the iPhone in Austin, Texas, according to The Elec.


The sensors will reportedly be made by Samsung at its existing facility in Austin. The company is expected to install production equipment for the project in the near future and has posted job listings for mechanical and electrical technicians, engineers, and managers to work on set up.

Samsung is expected to make the ‌iPhone‌'s image sensor with a three-stack design, which enables higher pixel density and improved low-light performance by vertically stacking multiple sensor layers. Stacked sensor architecture also allows for faster readout speeds, r [...]

Larry Ellison Is Very Excited To Destroy What’s Left Of CNN, Sweetens The Pot For Hostile Warner Takeover

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We’ve noted how right wing billionaire Larry Ellison, as part of his attempt to control the entirety of media, had launched a $108 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Brothers backed by Saudi cash. Larry, as we’ve seen with CBS and his interest in TikTok, is trying to convert what’s left of U.S. media into a giant safe space […]

40 Years Of Copyright Obstruction To Human Rights And Social Justice

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One of the little-known but extremely telling episodes in the history of modern copyright, discussed in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available), concerns the Marrakesh Treaty. A post on the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) site from 2017 has a good summary of what the treaty is about, and why it is important: It sets out exceptions and […]

On Friday Deploys: Sometimes that Puppy Needs Murdering (xpost)

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(Cross posted from its original source) ‘Tis the season that one of my favorite blog posts gets pulled out and put in rotation, much like “White Christmas” on the radio station. I’m speaking, of course, of “Friday Deploy Freezes are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies” (old link on WP). This feels like as good a time […]

Microsoft’s Bold Goal: Replace 1B Lines of C/C++ With Rust

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is hiring top-level engineers to help to get rid of C and C++ in its largest codebases and replace that

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Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired All Their Actual Tech Experts

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Here’s a fun game the Trump administration keeps playing: destroy a successful government program, wait a few months, then breathlessly announce you’ve “invented” the exact same thing but with obvious corruption mechanisms baked in. Last week, the administration excitedly announced a new “Tech Force”—a program to bring tech talent into government for two-year stints to […]

Why You Can’t Build AI Without Progressive Delivery

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Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke once told James Governor, “You can’t do AI-based development without progressive delivery.” It’s a striking

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Have a 3D Printer? You Can Make Your Own iPhone Fold Dummy

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Apple is working on a foldable iPhone that's set to come out in September 2026, and rumors suggest that it will have a display that's around 5.4 inches when closed and 7.6 inches when open. Exact measurements vary based on rumors, but one 3D designer has created a mockup based on what we've heard so far.


On MakerWorld, a user named Subsy has uploaded a 1:1 ‌iPhone‌ Fold replica (via Macworld), which can be 3D printed to give you a rough idea of the size of the upcoming foldable ‌iPhone‌.

Subsy claims that the model is "based on recently leaked CAD drawi [...]

Kansas Resident Patrick Roach Successfully Sues Verizon For Refusing To Unlock His Phone (And Wins)

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If you’ve been around a while, you might remember that Verizon used to be completely obnoxious when it came to forcing you to use their phones and their shitty apps. At one point, Verizon wouldn’t even let you use a competing GPS mapping app, locking you to Verizon’s substandard VCAST apps. The company also adored […]

Why AI Agents Need Their Own Identity, Not Yours

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AI native startups definitely serve the non-human crowd. An AI agent can’t really have a human identity, according to Jake

The post Why AI Agents Need Their Own Identity, Not Yours appeared first on The New Stack.

Texas App Store Age Verification Law Blocked by Federal Judge

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A Texas federal judge today blocked an App Store age verification law that was set to go into effect on January 1, 2026, which means Apple may not have to support the changes after all.


The Texas ‌App Store‌ Accountability Act (SB2420) requires Apple and other app marketplaces to confirm user age when a person creates an Apple Account. Apple Accounts for users under 18 would need to join a Family Sharing group, with new controls available for parents and restrictions for minors.

In a preliminary injunction that delays the implementation of the act, Judge Robert Pitman said that it violates the First Amendment and is "more likely than not unconstitutional."

The Act is akin to a law that would require eve

Web Components Are the Comeback Nobody Saw Coming

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For years, web components have been the quiet genius in the corner of the web development world — technically brilliant,

The post Web Components Are the Comeback Nobody Saw Coming appeared first on The New Stack.

Samsung Developing 'Wide Fold' With iPhone Fold-Like Design Ahead of Apple's 2026 Launch

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Samsung is working on a new foldable smartphone that's wider and shorter than the models that it's released before, according to Korean news site ETNews. The "Wide Fold" will compete with Apple's iPhone Fold that's set to launch in September 2026.


Samsung's existing Galaxy Z Fold7 display is 6.5 inches when closed, and 8 inches when open, with a 21:9 aspect ratio when folded and a 20:18 aspect ratio when open. Samsung has used a similar size for its prior Z Fold devices.

Rumors suggest the ‌iPhone‌ Fold's display will measure in at 5.3 to 5.5 inches when closed, and 7.5 to 7.8 inches when open (rumors vary). It's squatter and wider than Samsung's taller, narro [...]

The New Operational Stack: From IaC to Platforms to AI Agents

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It’s been 10 years since Infrastructure as Code (IaC) became the backbone of cloud provisioning. Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi and Ansible

The post The New Operational Stack: From IaC to Platforms to AI Agents appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple Pay Promo Offers 20% Off Adidas Purchases

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Apple's latest Apple Pay promo provides a 20 percent discount for ‌Apple Pay‌ users who purchase Adidas gear through the Adidas website or the Adidas app.


To get the deal, buy something from Adidas and then enter the promo code APPLEPAY at checkout. As with all ‌Apple Pay‌ promos, making the purchase using ‌Apple Pay‌ is a requirement.

Apple says the discount can be applied on purchases up to $250, with the deal set to last until December 31 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time.

Some gear is excluded, including Campus, Gazelle, Disney, Human Made, limited edition originals, and more.

Building Multicloud Resilience for the AI Era

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When Amazon Web Services went down in October, the ripple effects were immediate. Major retailers, platforms and SaaS applications across

The post Building Multicloud Resilience for the AI Era appeared first on The New Stack.

FCC’s import ban on the best new drones starts today

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US drone makers are happy—US drone hobbyists, not so much.

AI Use Cases That Actually Fix Engineering Bottlenecks

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This is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of “AI for the Enterprise: The Playbook for Developing and Scaling Your AI

The post AI Use Cases That Actually Fix Engineering Bottlenecks appeared first on The New Stack.

iPhone 18 Pro Launching Next Year With These 12 New Features

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While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are not expected to launch for another nine months, there are already plenty of rumors about the devices.


Below, we have recapped 12 features rumored for the iPhone 18 Pro models.

1. The same overall design is expected, with 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch display sizes, and a "plateau" housing three rear cameras


2. Under-screen Face ID


3. Front camera in top-left corner of the screen

The Hidden Kernel Problem at the Heart of Cloud Native Security

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Most of us in the cloud native ecosystem live in YAML. We live in APIs, orchestration, controllers and container tooling.

The post The Hidden Kernel Problem at the Heart of Cloud Native Security appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple to Allow Alternative App Stores and More on iOS in Brazil by April

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Due to regulatory action, Apple has agreed to allow alternative app stores, third-party payment systems for in-app purchases, and in-app links to external offers on iOS in Brazil, according to legal news website MLex and Brazilian blog Tecnoblog.


This means that iPhone users in Brazil would gain access to options beyond Apple's App Store, such as the AltStore from Riley Testut and Shane Gill.

The changes must be implemented within 105 days, so Appl [...]

Best of 2025: OpenAI Codex: Transforming Software Development with AI Agents

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Kubernetes: Get the Most from Dynamic Resource Allocation

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With both data center electricity and hardware prices skyrocketing, most organizations will soon be looking to squeeze more efficiencies from

The post Kubernetes: Get the Most from Dynamic Resource Allocation appeared first on The New Stack.

Best of 2025: The Future of DevOps: Key Trends, Innovations and Best Practices in 2025

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Why Apple's Foldable iPhone May Be Smaller Than Expected

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Apple's first foldable iPhone, rumored for release next year, may turn out to be smaller than most people imagine, if a recent report is anything to go by. According to The Information, the outer display on the book-style device will measure just 5.3 inches – that's smaller than the 5.4-inch screen on the ‌iPhone‌ mini, a line Apple discontinued in 2022 due to poor sales. The report has led some people to wonder why Apple would settle on such a compact form factor.


Using The Information's reported dimensions, content creator Ben Geskin has shared some images and video of a printed version of the device (embedde [...]

The Splay is a subpar monitor but an exciting portable projector

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Splay can be a monitor and takes a lot of the stress out of projectors, too.

Track a Flight on Your iPhone

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Flight tracker apps are a popular way to keep tabs on planes in the sky, because when you're preparing to fly or when someone you know is on board a flight, you can use them to check that things are still on schedule. But if you have an iPhone, you don't need to download and install a third-party app to track a flight – it's a handy built-in feature of the operating system.


The ability to track flights in iOS is thanks to the data detectors that Apple has integrated into the system for quite a few years now. Data detectors recognize things like times, dates and addresses, and in the right context, turns these into tappable links. Here's how it works.

Track Flights in Messages

ChatGPT Now Has a 2025 Year-End Summary Feature Like Spotify Wrapped

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OpenAI added a year-end summary feature to ChatGPT, allowing users to get a personalized overview of their 2025 ChatGPT usage. The summary is similar to year-end wrap-ups from companies like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and other services.


ChatGPT offers up an overview of themes discussed and chat stats, such as busiest chatting day, number of overall chats, messages sent, and more. ChatGPT provides each user with a chat style based on writing or speaking habits, along with an "archetype" based on what ChatGPT is used for.

The year-end update also provides a poem, a personalized pixel painting, a 2025 "award," and predictions for 2026.

ChatGPT users can get their year-end summary by asking ChatGPT to "Show me my year with ChatGPT" in [...]

iOS 26.3 Brings AirPods-Like Pairing to Third-Party Devices in EU Under DMA

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The European Commission today praised the interoperability changes that Apple is introducing in iOS 26.3, once again crediting the Digital Markets Act (DMA) with bringing "new opportunities" to European users and developers.


The Digital Markets Act requires Apple to provide third-party accessories with the same capabilities and access to device features that Apple's own products get. In iOS 26.3, EU wearable device makers can now test proximity pairing and improved notifications.

Here are the new capabilities that Apple is adding:

• Proximity pairing - Devices like earbuds will be able to pair with an iOS device in an AirPods-like way by bringing the accessory close to an iPhone or

Apple Offers Free Two-Hour Delivery for Last-Minute Holiday Shopping

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Apple has started offering free two-hour delivery on eligible, in-stock products for those who still need to do some last-minute gift shopping. The two-hour delivery upgrade is available through December 24 in most metro areas of the U.S. and Canada. Three-hour delivery is also available in Australia.


Two-hour delivery is provided through courier companies that Apple partners with, like Uber Eats or Postmates, and it typically costs $9. Items are delivered from a local Apple retail store, so whatever you're ordering needs to be in stock at a nearby location.

The offer is available for in-stock purchases of iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Ai [...]

Why AI Agents Are ‘Just Another Backend’

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In 2014, asking companies why they’d want to release software more than once a quarter was a legitimate question. Gartner

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Your Enterprise AI Strategy Must Start With Java, Not Python

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It’s prediction season. Nowadays that means reading a lot of fanfic about how AI will replace your entire org chart

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2025 was for AI what 2010 was for cloud (xpost)

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The satellite, experimental technology has become the mainstream, foundational tech. (At least in developer tools.) (xposted from new home) I was at my very first job, Linden Lab, when EC2 and S3 came out in 2006. We were running Second Life out of three datacenters, where we racked and stacked all the servers ourselves. At […]

Where's the New Apple TV?

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Apple hasn't updated the Apple TV 4K since 2022, and 2025 was supposed to be the year that we got a refresh. There were rumors suggesting Apple would release the new ‌Apple TV‌ before the end of 2025, but it looks like that's not going to happen now.

Better Relevance for AI Apps With BM25 Algorithm in PostgreSQL

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Tiger Data, formerly known as Timescale, recently open sourced a preview version of pg_textsearch, ranked text search using the Best

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How SaaS Leaders Can Move From AI Hype to ROI in 2026

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In conversations with founders, product leaders and CTOs, I still hear a lot of skepticism around AI. Trust, complexity and

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How Kafka Simplifies Application Integration and Modernization

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In enterprises, applications execute business processes and often create data as a side effect. Traditional business reporting uses this data

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Best of 2025: This Bankrupt AI Startup Was More Artificial Than Intelligent

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AI Engineering Trends in 2025: Agents, MCP and Vibe Coding

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When I went to the first AI Engineer Summit in October 2023, AI agents were a joke. At that point,

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Best of 2025: OpenAI Acquires Windsurf for $3 Billion

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Python Typing Survey 2025: Code Quality and Flexibility As Top Reasons for Typing Adoption

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The 2025 Typed Python Survey, conducted by contributors from JetBrains, Meta, and the broader Python typing community, offers a comprehensive look at the current state of Python’s type system and developer tooling. With 1,241 responses (a 15% increase from last year), the survey captures the evolving sentiment, challenges, and opportunities around Python typing in the [...]

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How Workers powers our internal maintenance scheduling pipeline

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Physical data center maintenance is risky on a global network. We built a maintenance scheduler on Workers to safely plan disruptive operations, while solving scaling challenges by viewing the state of our infrastructure through a graph interface on top of multiple data sources and metrics pipelines.

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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Honey: all the news about PayPal’s alleged scam coupon app

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PayPal’s Honey browser extension has been lauded for years as an easy way to find coupons online. But some are calling it a “scam” after a deep dive from YouTuber MegaLag, who accused Honey of “stealing money from influencers,” and returned one year later with a second video that says Honey targeted minors, collected data […]

The AI Competition Is Now a High-Stakes Construction Race

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For years, the AI race was defined by a fierce competition to hire and retain a small group of elite

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Google Launches Agent Development Kit for TypeScript: A Code-First Approach to Building AI Agents

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Apple UX Pioneer on Reviving Computer Desktop Design

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Scott Jenson is sad over the stagnation of computer desktop design, a field with still-untapped potential for making humans way

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ObsidianOS, a Challenging but Reliable Linux Distribution

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Before we get into the review of ObsidianOS, let’s talk about A/B partitioning. It is essential to everything about ObsidianOS.

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