How Distributed Databases Power Developer Platforms at Scale

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The path from proof of concept to production-grade system exposes a familiar pattern in enterprise software. Teams sprint toward product-market

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This new AI role is exploding (News)

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A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won't tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes deeper on his dead framework theory, and Andrew Gallagher says to stop vibe coding your unit tests.

iPhone Air Sales Are So Bad That Apple's Delaying the Next-Generation Version

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The thin, light iPhone Air sold so poorly that Apple has decided to delay the launch of the next-generation ‌iPhone Air‌ that was scheduled to come out alongside the iPhone 18 Pro, reports The Information.


Apple initially planned to release a new ‌iPhone Air‌ in fall 2026, but now that's not going to happen.

Since the ‌iPhone Air‌ launched in September, there have been reports of poor sales and manufacturing cuts. Apple's supply chain has scaled back shipments and pro [...]

Sources: Apple is delaying the release of the next version of the iPhone Air, originally planned for fall 2026, after the first model sold below expectations (The Information)

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The Information:
Sources: Apple is delaying the release of the next version of the iPhone Air, originally planned for fall 2026, after the first model sold below expectations  —  Apple is delaying the release of next year's version of the iPhone Air, its thinnest smartphone, after the first model sold below expectations …

Trump Falls For Satire From Site Called ‘The Dunning Kruger Times’

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Over the weekend, the President of the United States fell for obvious satire from a website literally called “The Dunning Kruger Times.” Donald Trump—a man with access to the best, most accurate information on basically any subject—posted to Truth Social a screenshot claiming that “DOGE halts yearly payments of $2.5 million to Barack Obama for […]

The LLM Flywheel Effect: AI That Writes and Tests Documentation

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To help a team member get up to speed on a project, I had to learn and then document how

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Daily Deal: TP1 Multi-Device 4-Touch Recognition Wireless Trackpad

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Upgrade your workspace with the Turonic TP1 — a wireless touchpad designed for seamless navigation, precision gestures, and multi-device flexibility. Whether you’re working on a laptop, desktop, or tablet, the TP1 offers smooth, intuitive control across Windows, Android, and Linux devices. With both Bluetooth 5.0 and 2.4GHz wireless connectivity, you can switch between devices in […]

Apple TV execs dismiss introducing an ad tier, buying Warner Bros. Discovery

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Apple execs say Apple TV shows and movies are about "emotional" experiences.

The Best Early Black Friday iPhone Deals

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Cellular carriers have always offered big savings on the newest iPhone models during the holidays, and Black Friday 2025 sales have kicked off at AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and more. Right now we're tracking notable offers on the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air. For even more savings, keep an eye on older models during the holiday shopping season.

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

If you're looking for something other than iPhones, be sure to visit our Black Friday Roundup for all of the best deals and discounts happening this season. [...]

Next-gen reactor hits 90% lithium recovery and 99% purity from end-of-life batteries

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A cleaner way to reclaim lithium from dead batteries may have just stepped out of...

Samsung Galaxy XR vs. Apple Vision Pro

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Samsung recently came out with the Galaxy XR, its first mixed reality headset. The Galaxy XR competes with the Apple Vision Pro, so we thought we'd pick one up to see how it compares to Apple's headset.

Sources: the European Commission is exploring ways to force EU member states to phase out Chinese telecom equipment makers Huawei and ZTE from their networks (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: the European Commission is exploring ways to force EU member states to phase out Chinese telecom equipment makers Huawei and ZTE from their networks  —  The European Commission is exploring ways to force European Union member states to phase out Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp …

Exploring RTEB, a New Benchmark To Evaluate Embedding Models

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With the rise of large language models (LLMs), our exposure to benchmarks — not to mention the sheer number and

The post Exploring RTEB, a New Benchmark To Evaluate Embedding Models appeared first on The New Stack.

Travel and leisure booking service Klook files for a US IPO, and reports a net loss of $141.5M on $407.4M of revenue for the first nine months of 2025 (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Travel and leisure booking service Klook files for a US IPO, and reports a net loss of $141.5M on $407.4M of revenue for the first nine months of 2025  —  Travel and leisure booking platform Klook Technology Ltd. has filed for an initial public offering in New York, as signs emerged …

Trump OLC On Boat Strikes: The Less Of A Threat Posed By Boat Occupants, The More Justified We Are In Murdering Them

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This administration isn’t content to be normal awful. It insists on being ghastly awful as often as possible. Not content to eject hundreds of migrants into foreign torture prisons, the administration has decided it’s time to start killing foreign people in boats just because. That’s not me using a worn-out turn of phrase. That was […]

Canada-based legaltech company Clio raised a $500M Series G at a $5B valuation, along with $350M in debt, and says it has completed its $1B vLex acquisition (Josh Scott/BetaKit)

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Josh Scott / BetaKit:
Canada-based legaltech company Clio raised a $500M Series G at a $5B valuation, along with $350M in debt, and says it has completed its $1B vLex acquisition  —  Clio has closed a $500-million USD Series G round and another $350 million in debt to complete a landmark deal as part of a transaction that began six months ago.

M3 iPad Air vs. M5 iPad Pro Buyer's Guide: All Differences Compared

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Apple recently updated the iPad Pro, widening the gap with the iPad Air, but how different are the two product lines and which should you buy?


Earlier this year, Apple refreshed the ‌iPad Air‌ with the M3 chip—a minor update over the previous model from 2024 which added the M2 chip and Apple Pencil hover. The latest ‌iPad Pro‌ models introduced the M5 chip alongside a small number of changes after last year's major redesign, which saw the debut of a thinner design with OLED displays.

Should you consider purchasing the ‌iPad Air‌ to save money, or [...]

Why SAP Is Opening Up Its Data and Developer Ecosystems

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BERLIN — One of SAP’s key themes during its TechEd 2025 event in Berlin this year was “openness.” While it’s

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Meta’s Generative Ads Model (GEM): The Central Brain Accelerating Ads Recommendation AI Innovation

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We’re sharing details about Meta’s Generative Ads Recommendation Model (GEM), a new foundation model that delivers increased ad performance and advertiser ROI by enhancing other ads recommendation models’ ability to serve relevant ads. GEM’s novel architecture allows it to scale with an increasing number of parameters while consistently generating more precise predictions efficiently. GEM propagates [...]

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Canada-based CoLab, which makes collaboration software for manufacturers, raised a $72M Series C led by Intrepid Growth Partners (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

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Lucinda Shen / Axios:
Canada-based CoLab, which makes collaboration software for manufacturers, raised a $72M Series C led by Intrepid Growth Partners  —  CoLab, a maker of collaboration software for manufacturers, raised $72 million in Series C funding, the company tells Axios Pro exclusively.

New EV battery recycling process recovers 99% pure nickel and cobalt

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Researchers in South Korea have developed a new eco-friendly recycling process that recovers more than...

James Webb spots mysterious gas swirling in a faraway brown dwarf’s atmosphere

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The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021, continues to provide breakthrough observations. Using the...

Beyond Adoption: The Age of Operational Excellence

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The 2025 Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Report Is Here

Five years ago, the idea of running data workloads on Kubernetes still raised eyebrows. Today, it’s the norm — and the question has changed from “Can we?” to “How do we do it best?”

The 2025 Data on Kubernetes Report, based on a survey of 182 technology professionals, marks a major inflection point for our community. The results show that DoK has officially crossed the chasm: adoption is complete, and the next chapter is all about optimization, cost management, and AI-driven innovation.

From Adoption to Optimization

Nearly half of organizations now run 50% or more of their data workloads on Kubernetes in production. A

Kubecon: VCluster’s K8s Platform to Manage GPUs as a Service

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ATLANTA — VCluster Labs (formerly Loft Labs) has released an augmented version of its namesake Kubernetes distribution, one customized for

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Scientists put quantum optics on a chip, bringing scalable quantum computers close

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Germany has taken another major step toward realizing scalable quantum computers with the launch of...

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AI-Powered Apple Health+ Service Still Coming Next Year

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Apple is still planning to introduce a new AI-powered "Health+" service in 2026, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Gurman revisited the rumor about a revamped Health app in the latest edition of his "Power On" newsletter. Apple is apparently planning to overhaul the Health app next year with a new Health+ service, featuring an AI assistant. Gurman said that it "could make Apple one of the first major tech companies to gain steam in the health AI chatbot space."

Earlier this year, Gurman said the AI [...]

German scientists plan natural-fiber blades to tackle wind turbine waste

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Germany is taking a natural turn in wind energy. A new initiative led by Kiel...

Go Beyond DevOps With Autonomous Full-Stack Optimization

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In the days of on-premises data centers, when procurement cycles were measured in months, overprovisioning was a logical risk management

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AirPods 4 Hit New Low Price of $84.99 on Amazon

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Over the weekend we began tracking a deal on the base model of Apple's AirPods 4, and today Amazon has discounted the wireless earbuds to an even lower price of $84.99, down from $129.00. With this increased discount, Amazon's price is now the lowest we've ever tracked on the AirPods 4.

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Free delivery options place the AirPods 4 at a November 15 delivery date, but Prime members should see same-day delivery dates in some locations. You [...]

Majestic Labs, which makes patent-pending server architecture that promises 1,000x more memory capacity, raised $100M, including a $71M Series A led by Bow Wave (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Majestic Labs, which makes patent-pending server architecture that promises 1,000x more memory capacity, raised $100M, including a $71M Series A led by Bow Wave  —  Three former Meta and Google silicon executives on Monday announced they've raised a total of $100 million to build technology …

Practitioners’ Guide to Chiseled Containers: Smaller, Faster, Safer

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Containerization has transformed how teams build and deploy applications, but it’s also introduced new operational challenges. Traditional container images often

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Coinbase plans to launch a platform to let individual investors buy digital tokens before they are listed on its exchange, reviving 2017 and 2018's ICO craze (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

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Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Coinbase plans to launch a platform to let individual investors buy digital tokens before they are listed on its exchange, reviving 2017 and 2018's ICO craze  —  Blockchain startup Monad will be first project to sell its token on new platform&nb

27% efficient perovskite solar cells achieve year-long stability with new coating

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An international team of researchers has raised the efficiency of perovskite solar cells to nearly...

Grab plans to invest $60M in remote driving service Vay and potentially increase it to $410M within a year if Vay hits certain milestones, set to close in Q4 (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

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Olivia Poh / Bloomberg:
Grab plans to invest $60M in remote driving service Vay and potentially increase it to $410M within a year if Vay hits certain milestones, set to close in Q4  —  Grab Holdings Ltd., Southeast Asia's largest ride-hailing provider, is investing $60 million in remote-driving service Vay to add …

YouTube TV Customers Lose Access To ABC Channels, DVR Recordings Due To Annoying, Avoidable Disney Contract Dispute

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For the last decade or so, U.S. cable TV customers have been plagued by a steady parade of content blackouts as cable providers and broadcasters bicker over new programming contracts. For the end user, so-called “retransmission feuds” usually go something like this: a TV broadcaster demands a cable company pay significantly more money to carry […]

Scribe, which helps enterprises identify where AI and workflow automation investments will yield returns, raised a $75M Series C at a $1.3B post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Scribe, which helps enterprises identify where AI and workflow automation investments will yield returns, raised a $75M Series C at a $1.3B post-money valuation  —  After helping several enterprises document how work actually happens, Scribe has raised $75 million at a $1.3 billion post-money valuation …

Russia ups the UAV warfare game with 62-mile-range attack drone swarms

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Russia is rapidly developing a new generation of autonomous, AI-driven drones with machine vision, GPS-independent...

World-first laser system captures high-res awake mouse brain activity 10x faster

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A research team from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science...

Gamma, which uses AI to help create presentations, social media posts, websites, and more, raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation and reports 600K+ paying subscribers (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)

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Niko Gallogly / New York Times:
Gamma, which uses AI to help create presentations, social media posts, websites, and more, raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation and reports 600K+ paying subscribers  —  The five-year-old start-up, which has just 52 employees and is profitable, is now valued at $2.1 billion by investors including Andreessen Horowitz.

Robotic kitchen with AI cooks and serves 120 meals an hour without human help

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Shoppers at a REWE supermarket in Düsseldorf, Germany, are now witnessing what could be the...

Tailscale Welcomes Kubernetes Co-Founder Joe Beda as Advisor

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Virtual Private Network (VPN) software provider Tailscale has brought on Kubernetes pioneer Joe Beda as an advisor, the latest move

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Instacart reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $939M, above est., orders up 14% YoY to 83.4M, above 82.9M est., GTV up 10% to $9.1B, and plans a $1.5B share buyback (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Instacart reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $939M, above est., orders up 14% YoY to 83.4M, above 82.9M est., GTV up 10% to $9.1B, and plans a $1.5B share buyback  —  Instacart posted better-than-expected order growth and provided an upbeat earnings outlook for the current period …

Astronauts’ pee could be used to grow food in deep space, scientists explore

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Space is hard. Future astronauts will face a long list of excruciating challenges. These include...

Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on "the woke left and the woke right", patriotism, Russia's Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)

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Steven Levy / Wired:
Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on “the woke left and the woke right”, patriotism, Russia's Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more  —  Palantir's CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights.  But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him?

Survive the next meeting

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This is a mode I catch myself in where all I’m focused on is getting through the next meeting. “Getting through” means running out the clock so that it’s over, getting out of it without any new work, and especially without “getting in trouble” for something.

Obviously, this is bad most of the time as I should be focused on doing the right job well.

Sometimes in BigCo’s there are malicious or benignly malicious actors, however. You could have people trying to off-load work on you or outright trying to subvert you.

Often, the subversion has nothing to do with you (or th

Microsoft recruits popular US influencers to promote its Copilot chatbot; Sensor Tower says Copilot has had 99M downloads since launch, far below ChatGPT's 1.4B (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)

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Emily Forgash / Bloomberg:
Microsoft recruits popular US influencers to promote its Copilot chatbot; Sensor Tower says Copilot has had 99M downloads since launch, far below ChatGPT's 1.4B  —  Microsoft Corp., eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America …

An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after nearly 10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list (Joe Tidy/BBC)

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Joe Tidy / BBC:
An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after nearly 10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list  —  After years of reading about “Tank” and months of planning a visit to him in a Colorado prison, I hear the door click open before I see him walk into the room.

Amazon's House of David Season 2 had 350 to 400 AI-generated shots, up from 70+ in Season 1, using 10 to 15 tools from companies like Runway, drawing criticism (Kat Tenbarge/Wired)

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Kat Tenbarge / Wired:
Amazon's House of David Season 2 had 350 to 400 AI-generated shots, up from 70+ in Season 1, using 10 to 15 tools from companies like Runway, drawing criticism  —  The show, which follows David's ascent to King of Israel, used four times as much AI this season, including for many of its battle scenes.

No Ad Tier for Apple TV 'At This Time,' According to Eddy Cue

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Apple TV has "no plans" to launch an ad-supported streaming tier for the platform, according to Apple's head of services Eddy Cue, speaking in interview with Screen International.


Asked if there were plans for a tier with ads, Cue said: "Nothing at this time. Again, I don't want to say no forever, but there are no plans."

Cue added that if Apple TV can stay aggressive with its pricing, then it's better for consumers not to have their viewing experience interrupted by ads.

Apple TV cost just $4.99 per month in the U.S. when it launched in 2019, but the price has since increased three times. The price went up to $6.99 per month in 2022, and then to [...]

OLED Display Coming to M6 Pro/Max MacBook Pro, Not Base M6 Model

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Apple will initially reserve its MacBook Pro OLED display upgrade to the high-end 14-inch and 16-inch models with M6 Pro and M6 Max chips, while the base 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro will continue to feature a mini-LED based screen, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman said Apple is working on a "revamped M6 Pro and M6 Max MacBook Pro with an OLED display, thinner chassis and touch support," but he made no mention of the lower-priced 14-inch MacBook Pro with base M6 chip that Apple will presumably launch next year or in early 2027.

In Apple's three-pronged MacBook Pro lineup, the lower-priced model u [...]

Apple to Hide Selfie Camera Under Display of 20th Anniversary iPhone

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Apple will conceal the front-facing camera under the screen of its 2027 iPhone, a Chinese leaker said today, corroborating reports that Apple's 20th anniversary iPhone will have no visible cutouts in the display.


Weibo-based account Digital Chat Station said Apple's development of under-screen camera technology was progressing as planned for adoption in 2027, one year after it will reportedly debut under-screen Face ID technology on iPhone 18 Pro models.

Several Android phones already feature under-display selfie cameras, but image quality typically suffers due to the lens being behind display layers. Apple has likely resisted adoption for this reason, [...]

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I’m creating a State of Spring [Framework] talk, just 20 minutes. The focus isn’t so much on the framework, but the community around it. This, of course, means Java too. Here’s some numbers. What do you think about the Spring and Java community and developers who use Spring and Java?

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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Tech DEI programs on decline

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Major employers including Meta and Google suspended minority hiring targets and dropped some references to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from their websites and regulatory filings around the time of Trump’s order. Meta and Google also significantly reduced funding for DEI initiatives, such as events, training, and recruiting drives aimed at improving representation of minority groups, according to company announcements and employees.

🔗 Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped

"The core IT spending is now projected to hit $3.45 trillion"

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“Gartner is now projecting that datacenter systems spending in 2025 will rise by 46.8 percent to $489.5 billion, which is an incremental $14.6 billion in spending in the datacenter for hardware and base systems software. The core IT spending is now projected to hit $3.45 trillion, an incremental $59.8 billion in spending and representing a 12.5 percent growth over the $3.06 trillion in core IT spending in 2024.”

🔗 Gartner Raises 2025 IT Spending Forecast, Puts Out 2026 Prediction - IT Jungle

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One Guy with a comment on our post about receiving a bogus DMCA takedown from CyberGhost over our previous post about receiving a bogus DMCA takedown from CyberGhost: Sometimes the cover-up’s worse than the crime I’m really struggling to think of a non-damning […]

Unix: OpenSolaris Lives on in This OpenIndiana Fork

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As someone who grew up as a Hoosier, seeing a Linux distribution named OpenIndiana warms my heart. Of course, is

The post Unix: OpenSolaris Lives on in This OpenIndiana Fork appeared first on The New Stack.

AirPods 4 Drop to $84.99 Record Low Price on Amazon [Updated]

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Apple's AirPods 4 have dropped to $84.99 on Amazon this week, down from $129.00. This is a match of the lowest price we've ever tracked on the AirPods 4 on Amazon, and it's for the base model without Active Noise Cancellation.

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Free delivery options place the AirPods 4 at a November 14 delivery date, but Prime members should see same-day delivery dates in some locations. You can also get the AirPods 4 with ANC on sale for [...]

Today's Your Last Chance to Shop Our Exclusive 15% Off Sale at Nomad

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We've partnered with Nomad this week to get you an extra 15 percent off in stock gear with the code MR2025 at checkout, allowing our readers a chance to save on iPhone 17 cases, Apple Watch bands, MagSafe-compatible products, and more. Additionally, Nomad is currently running an overstock sale with discounts across various accessories like AirPods cases, iPhone 16 cases, Apple Watch bands, and Lightning cables.

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Apple Developing These 5 New Satellite Features for iPhone

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Apple is working on a series of new satellite connectivity features for the iPhone, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.


In this week's "Power On" newsletter, Gurman revealed that the new features in development include:

• Apple Maps via satellite: Navigation in Apple Maps without cellular or Wi-Fi connectivity.


• Photos in Messages via satellite: Support for sending photos in the Messages app using satellite connectivi

PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant

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“The support from the Python community in response has been overwhelming,” Seth Larson told me last week. As the Python

The post PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant appeared first on The New Stack.

Future of Apple Fitness+ 'Under Review'

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The future of Apple Fitness+ is "under review" amid a reorganization of the service, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


In the latest edition of his "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that Apple Fitness+ remains one of the company's "weakest digital offerings." The service apparently suffers from high churn and little revenue.

Nevertheless, Fitness+ has a small, loyal fanbase that makes it difficult for Apple to shut it down "without a backlash." The service is sufficiently inexpensive to operate that negative headlines would not be worth the saving.

Nevertheless, Gur [...]

This Week In Techdirt History: November 2nd – 8th

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Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we featured a guest post about why most complaints about Section 230 are really just complaints about the First Amendment, and another with a deep dive into the implications of the presidential election for various issues in tech. As the votes from said election poured in, we noted […]

An Observability Veteran on AI’s ‘Intoxicating’ Potential

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Troubleshooting software requires observability: We need to collect and analyze telemetry to formulate, disprove or validate hypotheses about why our

The post An Observability Veteran on AI’s ‘Intoxicating’ Potential appeared first on The New Stack.

How To Build WebAssembly Components With the MoonBit Language

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MoonBit is a modern language plus workflow designed to create efficient WebAssembly projects; it can also target JavaScript. I last

The post How To Build WebAssembly Components With the MoonBit Language appeared first on The New Stack.

The Best Early Black Friday Apple Deals on AirPods, Apple Watch, iPad, and More

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We're officially in the month of Black Friday, which will take place on Friday, November 28 in 2025. As always, this will be the best time of the year to shop for great deals, including popular Apple products like AirPods, iPad, Apple Watch, and more. In this article, the majority of the discounts will be found on Amazon.

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Specifically, we're sharing all of the Apple products that currently have all-time low prices, or discounts that are at least very close to their record-low prices. Of course, these are early Black Friday deals, so even better discounts could emerge later in the month, but if you're shoppin [...]

Frontend or Backend: Where Full-Stack Devs Spend Their Time

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Thinking about becoming a full-stack developer? Be forewarned: Full-stack developers are twice as likely to say that a majority of

The post Frontend or Backend: Where Full-Stack Devs Spend Their Time appeared first on The New Stack.

Top Stories: iOS 26.1 Released, iOS 26.2 Beta, iPhone 18 Rumors, and More

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Things were busy in Apple software land this week, with the public release of iOS 26.1 and updates for Apple's other platforms being quickly followed by the round of 26.2 betas with plenty more changes in store.


On the hardware side, we're still wondering whether we'll see anything more released before the end of the year, but either way, 2026 is shaping up to be a big year for Apple with updates across almost the entire lineup and likely some new entrants as well.

Top Stories

Everything New in iOS 26.1

Good Management Is a Fad, Use Women's Razors, and AI Saves Three Hours a Week

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3 factors is all you need

In this Tanzu Talk interview, Coté talks Brian Friedman about his extensive experience working with Pivotal, Tanzu, and Broadcom. They discuss the intricacies of modernizing enterprise applications, the relevance of .NET in the current tech landscape, and the role of platforms like Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. They also explore using AI, the challenges of application transformation, and the importance of leveraging the right tools and methodologies to drive successful tech modernization initiatives.

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3 factors is all you need - Notes on Modernizing Enterprise Apps

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In this Tanzu Talk interview, Coté talks Brian Friedman about his extensive experience working with Pivotal, Tanzu, and Broadcom. They discuss the intricacies of modernizing enterprise applications, the relevance of .NET in the current tech landscape, and the role of platforms like Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. They also explore using AI, the challenges of application transformation, and the importance of leveraging the right tools and methodologies to drive successful tech modernization initiatives.

Corporate culture can just be a tool to match the needs of the moment.

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The conclusion here is clear: the industry will want different things from you as it evolves, and it will tell you that each of those shifts is because of some complex moral change, but it’s pretty much always about business realities changing. If you take any current morality tale as true, then you’re setting yourself up to be severely out of position when the industry shifts again in a few years, because “good leadership” is just a fad."

Corporate culture can just be a tool to match the needs of the moment.

Also, a good reminder about the arc of an individual’s career strategy

You also have to operate within the constraints of your life today and your possible lives tomorrow. Early in my career, I had few responsibilities to others, and had the opportunity to work extremely hard at places like Uber. Today, with more family responsibilities, I am unwilling to make the tradeoffs to consistently work that way, wh

‘Stop Killing Games’ Finds More Allies From MPs In The UK

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Thankfully, the Stop Killing Games movement isn’t stopping this time. YouTuber Ross Scott kicked the movement off in 2024 to generate political action around the disappearance of games that people had bought purely because the company that sold them decided to no longer support them or run backend infrastructure needed play them. While the movement […]

Apple's Cheap MacBook: What to Expect in 2026

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Apple is going to release a low-cost MacBook in 2026, with the device set to be more affordable than the $999 MacBook Air. With the affordable notebook, Apple is aiming to better compete with cheap Chromebooks and Windows PCs.


If you're thinking about picking up a computer for lightweight tasks like document editing, web browsing, watching videos, and doing homework, you might want to wait to see what Apple has in store before making a purchase. Below, we highlight what we know about the new Mac so far.

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The Department Of Defense Wants Less Proof Its Software Works

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When Congress eventually reopens, the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will be moving toward a vote. This gives us a chance to see the priorities of the Secretary of Defense and his Congressional allies when it comes to the military—and one of those priorities is buying technology, especially AI, with less of an obligation to prove it’s effective […]

Search Isn’t Dead: From RAG to Agents With Vector Databases

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Note: This article was originally published on Oct. 16, 2025, and has been updated with information from the webinar. In

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Monitor Docker Containers Across Servers With Beszel

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How many machines do you have on your network that run Docker containers? One? Two? 20? Now, how are those

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In-Depth iPhone Battery Experiment Pits Slow Charging Against Fast Charging

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HTX Studio this week shared the results from a six-month battery test that compared how fast charging and slow charging can affect battery life over time.


Using six iPhone 12 models, the channel set up a system to drain the batteries from five percent and charge them to 100 percent over and over again. Three were fast charged, and three were slow charged.

Another set of iPhones underwent the same test, but with charging initiated at 30 percent and stopped at 80 percent, so the iPhones were always in that range.

Prior to the experiment, the capacity for each phone was tested, and after 500 cycles, the capacity was tested again. The results suggest there is minimal additional battery drain from fast charging, but keeping an ‌iPhone‌ between 30 and 80 percent charge could be minimally beneficial.

HTX Studio concluded that the best way to charge an ‌iPhone‌ is "however you [...]

Fox News Desperately Tries To Repair The Broken Simulation

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Within twenty-four hours of Republicans getting crushed in elections they’d convinced themselves were winnable, Fox News deployed the counter-move. Not denial—the losses were too visible for that. Bret Baier had already explained to Fox & Friends viewers how bad it was. “It’s a big loss,” he said. Not just the results, but “the spreads are surprising.” Not acceptance—that would […]

#define: sheer resistance (Friends)

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On this seventh iteration of our award-worthy game show filled with obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery: past winners battle to determine the champion of champions. (Also, Adam.)

Commercial spyware “Landfall” ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year

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Targeted attack could steal all of a phone's data and activate camera or mic.

CyberGhost DMCAs Our Story About Their Bogus DMCA (Yes, Really)

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VPN company CyberGhost just sent Cloudflare a bogus DMCA takedown demand, claiming that our article about their last bogus copyright takedown demand, somehow violates their copyright. I’m not sure I’d trust a VPN company that fucks up this badly. There are a lot of sketchy VPN companies out there, and it’s sometimes tricky to tell […]

Higher prices, simpler streaming expected if HBO Max folds into Paramount+

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The end of HBO Max is "certainly plausible."

tvOS 26.2 Lets You Create Apple TV Profiles Without an Account, Adds Dedicated Kids Mode

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With tvOS 26.2, Apple is changing the way that profiles work on the Apple TV. It's now possible to create a profile without an Apple Account, which is particularly useful for guest profiles and profiles for children.


In the ‌Apple TV‌ Settings app's profiles section, the "Add New Profile" option no longer requests that users sign in with an Apple device or manually with an Apple Account.

Alongside the Apple Account sign in, there is a "Create Profile" option that only requires a name, a profile rating, and a yes or no question about whether the new user is a child.

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Apple Releases First macOS Tahoe 26.2 Public Beta

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Apple today provided public beta testers with the first release of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.2 update for testing purposes. The public beta comes a day after Apple provided the beta to developers.


After signing up for beta testing on Apple's beta site, public beta testers can download the updates using the Software Update section in the System Settings app.

The Reminders app includes an option to have an alarm go off when a reminder is due, the News app has some design updates, and Apple is adding new features to the Podcasts app.

The beta is limited to developers and public beta testers right now, but it won't be a long testing period. We'll likely see Apple release macOS Tahoe 26.2 right around mid-December given past launch timelines.

Build Terraform Modules That Your Team Will Actually Reuse

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Many organizations struggle with Terraform module adoption, experiencing challenges such as: Version fragmentation: Different projects/teams end up on different versions.

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OpenTelemetry Experts on Tough Telemetry Challenges in Mobile

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The season is changing for frontend observability, as we’re seeing great community involvement in improving OpenTelemetry support for web apps

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X appears to be sending fake traffic across the web

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X's new link experiment on iOS may be artificially inflating traffic. Websites like Substack and Bluesky noticed a sharp increase in "fake" views following the update, something that Nick Eubanks, the VP of owned media at the digital marketing platform Semrush, attributes to a new behavior that preloads content before users click on it. "What's […]

Tactics to End Dark Patterns in App and Web Development

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Rohan Gupta of R Systems sees the value of building UI with an eye out for dark patterns at the

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The Search API Reset: Incumbents Retreat, Innovators Step Up

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The search landscape is shifting. In recent months, Microsoft announced the retirement of the Bing Search API, while Google limited

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MIT Researchers Propose a New Way to Build Software That Actually Makes Sense

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Apptainer for Docker Developers: A Comprehensive Guide

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An open source container platform, Apptainer (formerly Singularity) is designed for secure, high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Unlike Docker, which dominates

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AIOps for SRE — Using AI to Reduce On-Call Fatigue and Improve Reliability

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Private Cloud AI Platform Engineering, at SREDay Amsterdam

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I’m at SREDay Amsterdam today, hosted by ING at their lovely Cedar building.

Here’s the slides I’m going to present later today:

I’m not sure if they’re recording it. But, of course, if they are, it will be on my weblog.

Update: Some photos of presenting, taken by the SREDay people. Fancy!

DevSecOps in Practice: Closing the Gap Between Development Speed and Security Assurance

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Using ChatGPT image generation to make isomorphic D&D maps

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With a little prompt craft, you can get some good regional maps out of ChatGPT.

Here is the original photo I took on a flight from London for Amsterdam:

The prompt I used:

Use this image to determine the layout of a D&D map in the style of Dungeons and Dragons adventures and maps. Pay attention to the rivers, coastline and building placement.

The result was cartoonish, so I prompted it again with:

I wanted it more from the perspective of the original and more realistic looking don’t put names in things

Then I got these. The second is just asking for another view and more signs of human life:

Remember when DevSecOps was all the rage?

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Enterprises are till trying to figure out DevSecOps:

[M]any organizations remain stuck in siloed approaches that pose problems due to competing demands for speed, efficiency and risk reduction. Enterprises that effectively integrate security into software development and deployment–both through platforms and tools, and via cross-team collaboration– are better positioned to drive velocity, quality and innovation while maintaining and even improving security."

Also, if you must Kubernetes, try to run just one, or as few as possible: ”given the array of tools and personas involved, organizations must contend with complexity, staffing and other hurdles in addition to cost, security and integration issues. Thus, it is critical to leverage a single platform that integrates the many open-source components of an effective Kubernetes deployment and supports the different personas (e.g., cloud admins, platform engineers and security teams) involved.”

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Future-Proof Your Strategy With an Open Source AI Playbook

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For all the investments corporations are making in AI, the results are decidedly mixed. While the chipmakers and hyperscale cloud

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AWS to Help Fund Open VSX Registry Hosted by Eclipse Foundation

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Conformant Kubernetes Update Availability Varies Significantly Across Services

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Organizations often want to integrate the latest Kubernetes features or security upgrades as soon as possible. However, ReveCom’s analysis shows

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