Discord says it won't roll out age verification globally next month as previously announced, delaying the change until H2 after it adds verification options (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

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Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Discord says it won't roll out age verification globally next month as previously announced, delaying the change until H2 after it adds verification options  —  Now it will hold off on expansion until it adds more verification options, vendor transparency, and other changes.

YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background  —  YouTube is expanding its more affordable, $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription service with new features, including the ability to download videos …

Apple Releases Second macOS Tahoe 26.4 Public Beta

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Apple today provided public beta testers with the second releases of upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.4, tvOS 26.4, and watchOS 26.4 updates for testing purposes. The public betas comes a day after Apple provided the beta to developers, and a week after Apple seeded the first betas.


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 settings app for each update.

‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 includes several new features. The Compact tab layout has been reimplemented in Safari for those who missed having the option in earlier versions of ‌macOS Tahoe‌, and there is a new Char [...]

OpenTelemetry roadmap: Sampling rates and collector improvements ahead

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OpenTelemetry has evolved over the last few years to become the de facto standard of choice for a rapidly growing

The post OpenTelemetry roadmap: Sampling rates and collector improvements ahead appeared first on The New Stack.

ICE Promised A MN Supreme Court Justice It Would Stop Raiding Courthouses. It Immediately Broke That Promise.

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Checks and balances. That’s the mantra. That’s what makes America great. That’s the system we deployed to prevent being just another iteration of the British empire. It was never perfect, but it seemed to get the job done most of the time. The gentleman’s agreement underlying this system tended to hold up even when bad […]

Daily Deal: Opusonix Pro Subscription

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Opusonix is the workflow-first platform built for music producers and engineers who are tired of endless email chains and scattered files. By centralizing feedback, versions, and tasks in one structured workspace, it helps you cut email traffic by up to 90% so you can focus more on creating and less on chasing approvals. From time-coded […]

Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a "supply chain risk", if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday (Axios)

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Axios:
Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access …

Waymo opens its robotaxi service to "select riders" in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando, expanding its operations to 10 US cities (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

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Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Waymo opens its robotaxi service to “select riders” in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando, expanding its operations to 10 US cities  —  Alphabet-owned Waymo on Tuesday opened its robotaxi service to some public passengers in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Orlando, the company announced.

AWS Extends Agentic AI Capabilities of Kiro Developer Tool to Improve Code Quality

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Software stocks rebound as Anthropic announces partnerships integrating its AI tools with enterprise apps, including Slack, Intuit, Docusign, and FactSet (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Software stocks rebound as Anthropic announces partnerships integrating its AI tools with enterprise apps, including Slack, Intuit, Docusign, and FactSet  —  Software stocks made a comeback on Tuesday after Anthropic hosted its enterprise agents event, where it revealed new partnerships …

Texas Spent Years Screaming About ‘Snowflakes’ On Campus. Now It’s Building The World’s Biggest Safe Space.

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For the better part of a decade, conservative politicians—and Texas politicians in particular—have been absolutely apoplectic about the state of free speech on college campuses. You’ve heard the greatest hits: students are coddled snowflakes who can’t handle the real world, trigger warnings are destroying intellectual rigor, safe spaces are turning universities into daycare centers, and […]

SambaNova, which says its SN50 AI chip runs 5x faster than its rivals and will be deployed by SoftBank, raised a $350M Series E led by Vista Equity and Cambium (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
SambaNova, which says its SN50 AI chip runs 5x faster than its rivals and will be deployed by SoftBank, raised a $350M Series E led by Vista Equity and Cambium  —  Artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. raised $350 million in a new funding round and said that customers …

Tim Cook Reflects on Joining Apple and Steve Jobs

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In an August 2024 letter published by The Steve Jobs Archive today, Tim Cook reflected on joining Apple and what he learned from working with Steve Jobs.


Jobs convinced Cook to join Apple in 1998, to help turn around the company:

I'll never forget that first conversation with Steve. At the time, Apple had been struggling and Steve was working to right a ship that had drifted in his absence. Many people doubted the company could survive, and I was warned that accepting a job there would come with risks. But when Steve spoke, any trepidation I harbored instantly dissolved. I had never met someone with so much passion and vision. He spoke with charisma and clarity—about a future where technology could unlock a wellspring of human creativity and potential, c

Most platform teams build products, but they don’t know it

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There is a failure mode so common in platform engineering that it barely gets mentioned anymore. A team ships a

The post Most platform teams build products, but they don’t know it appeared first on The New Stack.

Beverly Hills-based Subject, whose streaming-style, on-demand platform provides digital curriculum and learning insights for grades 6-12, raised $28M (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

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Natalie Breymeyer / Axios:
Beverly Hills-based Subject, whose streaming-style, on-demand platform provides digital curriculum and learning insights for grades 6-12, raised $28M  —  Subject, a Beverly Hills-based AI education platform, raised a $28 million venture round led by Vistara Growth, CEO Michael Vilardo tells Axios Pro exclusively.

DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein ingratiated himself with top Microsoft executives, aiding his return to society after his release from prison in 2009 (New York Times)

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New York Times:
DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein ingratiated himself with top Microsoft executives, aiding his return to society after his release from prison in 2009  —  For more than two decades, the convicted sex offender developed a network at the tech giant, making

Slang AI, which develops voice-based software for the hospitality industry that answers inbound calls, manages reservations, and more, raised a $36M Series B (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

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Natalie Breymeyer / Axios:
Slang AI, which develops voice-based software for the hospitality industry that answers inbound calls, manages reservations, and more, raised a $36M Series B  —  Slang AI, a New York-based AI platform for the hospitality industry, raised a $36 million Series B led by U.S. Venture Partners, CEO Alex Sambvani tells Axios exclusively.

Sunken treasure: Record 2,350 Yuan Dynasty ceramics found in ancient shipwreck

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Marine archaeologists have recovered a massive collection of 14th-century ceramics from the first ancient shipwreck...

Harness Makes Registry for Integrating Artifacts into DevOps Workflows Available

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Profound, which tracks how AI models recommend brands across millions of prompts, raised a $96M Series C at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $155M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

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Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune:
Profound, which tracks how AI models recommend brands across millions of prompts, raised a $96M Series C at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $155M  —  Profound, an 18-month-old startup betting that the future of marketing will be shaped not by Google links but by AI answers, is now a unicorn.

An Evercore ISI economist criticizes Citrini's AI report, calling its assumptions "extreme and improbable", but says it's a thought-provoking exercise (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)

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Robin Wigglesworth / Financial Times:
An Evercore ISI economist criticizes Citrini's AI report, calling its assumptions “extreme and improbable”, but says it's a thought-provoking exercise  —  Most of the sell-side has remained hilariously silent at a mere Substacker seemingly shaking markets, even though the anguish and frustration is almost palpable.

Pentagon ditches Anthropic for Elon Musk’s Grok in massive classified AI shakeup

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The Pentagon is preparing to expand the artificial intelligence systems running inside its most sensitive...

Letter AI, whose sales software provides personalized, deal-specific guidance, raised a $40M Series B, four months after a $10.6M Series A (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)

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Geoff Weiss / Business Insider:
Letter AI, whose sales software provides personalized, deal-specific guidance, raised a $40M Series B, four months after a $10.6M Series A  —  - Letter AI has raised $40 million and is now valued in the hundreds of millions.  — The sales software startup uses AI to deliver real-time, deal-specific guidance.

Sonos Planning Another App Overhaul With Live Activities Support

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Sonos is preparing a major update to its app that aims to simplify navigation and introduce iPhone Lock Screen controls using Live Activities, part of a broader effort to rebuild confidence after the company's troubled 2024 software overhaul, Bloomberg reports.


Sonos plans to roll out a series of optional changes to its ‌iPhone‌ and Android app in the coming months, with the company focusing on usability improvements, navigation, and more accessible playback controls. The update is expected to arrive gradually rather than as a sweeping redesign, reflecting a different release strategy following the company's widely criticize [...]

Kraken launches what it claims are the first regulated perpetual futures contracts based on tokenized stocks, available to non-US users and trading 24/7 (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

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Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Kraken launches what it claims are the first regulated perpetual futures contracts based on tokenized stocks, available to non-US users and trading 24/7  —  The crypto exchange is bringing U.S. stocks closer to the crypto world, letting users trade derivatives of tokenized stocks around-the-clock and wi

Anker and Jackery Kick Off Power Station Sales With Up to 56% Off

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Anker and Jackery have introduced big discounts across their most popular portable power stations this week, including up to 56 percent off select models from each company. We're tracking Anker's best deals over at Amazon, while Jackery's discounts can be found on the retailer's own website.

Anker SOLIX

Nimble, whose AI agents structure real-time web data into tables that can be queried like a database, raised a $47M Series B, bringing its total funding to $75M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

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Ram Iyer / TechCrunch:
Nimble, whose AI agents structure real-time web data into tables that can be queried like a database, raised a $47M Series B, bringing its total funding to $75M  —  Believe it or not, web search is still thriving as an industry.  As businesses invest in using AI agents to make the most of their data …

CrowdStrike says the average breakout time for attackers moving from intrusion to other network systems fell to 29 minutes in 2025, a 65% YoY increase in speed (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)

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Matt Kapko / CyberScoop:
CrowdStrike says the average breakout time for attackers moving from intrusion to other network systems fell to 29 minutes in 2025, a 65% YoY increase in speed  —  The average time from intrusion to network movement in 2025 was 29 minutes, a 65% increase in speed from the year prior.  —  Learn more.

MacRumors Turns 26: Here's What Our Readers Thought About the iPod, iPhone, and More

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MacRumors turns 26 today, and we want to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has read and supported our website over the years.


MacRumors was founded by Arnold Kim on February 24, 2000, while he was a medical student, and it has since become one of the world's most popular Apple news websites. Kim was profiled in The New York Times in 2008. Coincidentally, we share our birthday with Steve Jobs, who would have turned 71 years old today.

Our website has been around for many major Apple product announcements, including the iPod, MacBook Pro, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and more.

Here are the forum threads for [...]

Sendmarc Releases DMARCbis Fireside Chat Featuring Co-Editor Todd Herr

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Meta could end up owning 10% of AMD in new chip deal

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AMD will supply 6 gigawatts' worth of chips to buttress Meta's AI efforts.

World-first: Quantum-inspired optimization computer installed on mobile robot

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Japanese firms Toshiba and MIRISE Technologies have demonstrated a breakthrough in autonomous mobility. The firms...

US scientists create coating that keeps coffee, milk and soup from sticking to surfaces

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Researchers in the US have developed a multilayered insulated superhydrophobic (MISH) coating that repels near-boiling...

US scientists develop diamond cooling layer that cuts device heat by 41°F

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What started as a fun experiment to create a decorative diamond “owl” for distinguished guests...

Trump Demands Firing Of Netflix Board Member For Suggesting U.S. Corporations Might Someday Be Held Accountable

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We’ve noted repeatedly how Trump wants to scuttle Netflix’s proposed merger with Warner Brothers because his friend and key donor, billionaire Larry Ellison wants to buy Warner Brothers (and CNN) instead. In fact the two have already purportedly met to discuss which CNN anchors they’d like to fire once Larry (who just bought CBS and […]

UK firm’s new hybrid engine concept boosts mileage by 40% using 100% renewable fuel

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A new hybrid engine concept developed by Horse Powertrain, powered by 100 percent renewable fuel,...

Xiaomi's Rumored 'iOS Bridge' to Bring Better Apple Device Connectivity

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Xiaomi will introduce a new software update at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) that will reportedly improve connectivity between its own devices and Apple products.


Alongside the debut of the Xiaomi 17 series, its HyperOS 3.1 update is said to include a new "iOS Bridge" for smoother connectivity between the two platforms. According to GizChina, the features tipped include the following:

• iPhone call alerts: Incoming calls on an iPhone that appear on connected Xiaomi tablets and PCs, allowing users to answer or manage calls without having the iPhone in their hand.


• Enhanced AirPods integration: AirPods to integra

Lockheed flight-tests F-35 fighter with AI to help pilots identify threats faster

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Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has announced it has flight-tested a new artificial intelligence feature on...

The Hidden Security Risks in Modern JavaScript Frameworks and How React Teams Can Reduce Them

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First reactor installation begins at Lufeng nuclear power plant in eastern China

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The reactor pressure vessel was hoisted into place at the Lufeng nuclear power plant in...

Steve Jobs Would Have Celebrated His 71st Birthday Today

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Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, so today would have marked his 71st birthday if he hadn't passed away in 2011 at the age of 56.


In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer Company to market Wozniak's Apple I, a pioneering personal computer. Their collaboration led to the introduction of the Apple II in 1977, which significantly influenced the personal computing industry.

In 1984, Apple launched the Macintosh, notable for its graphical user interface and the iconic "1984" Super Bowl commercial directed by Ridley Scott. However, internal conflicts led to Jobs' departure from Apple in 1985. He then founded NeXT Inc., focusing on advanced computer platforms.

In 1997, Apple acquired NeXT, bringing Jobs back to the company as inter [...]

Video: China’s ceiling-mounted robotic arm that charges EVs in parking garages

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A viral video circulating on social media has shown how China is using overhead robotic...

Tim Cook Warned by CIA That China Could Move on Taiwan by 2027

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Apple CEO Tim Cook was among a handful of top tech executives who attended a classified CIA briefing warning that China could attack Taiwan by 2027, according to a sweeping investigative report by The New York Times ($).


The previously unreported briefing was apparently held in a secure room in Silicon Valley in July 2023. The meeting is said to have been arranged at the request of the then-commerce secretary Gina Raimondo, who had grown frustrated with the tech industry's reluctance to move chip production away from Taiwan.

CIA director William Burns and director of national intelligence Avril Haines reportedly presented the latest intelligence on China's military plans to Cook, Nvidia CE [...]

Why “automated” infrastructure might cost more than you think

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Somewhere in the organization, there’s a Jenkins job that nobody wants to touch. The job is mission-critical and deploys to

The post Why “automated” infrastructure might cost more than you think appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple Set a European iPhone Sales Record Last Year

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Apple shipped 36.9 million iPhones in Europe in 2025, a 6% year-over-year growth which allowed the company to claim a record 27% share of the region's smartphone market, according to new research from analytics firm Omdia.


The gains came even as the broader European smartphone market declined by 1% to 134.2 million units, which Omdia says was weighed down by softer demand and new regulations around eco-design requirements and mandatory USB-C ports.

Apple's performance was driven by the iPhone 16, the Pro Max versions of both the iPhone 16 and iPhone 17, and the more affordable iPhone 16e. The la [...]

WhatsApp Working on Scheduled Messages Feature

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WhatsApp developers are working to bring scheduled messages to the Meta-owned platform, reports WABetaInfo.


A scheduled message allows users to type a message and choose a specific date and time for it to be sent automatically. Telegram already has the feature, while Apple has offered a similar Send Later option in its Messages app since iOS 18.

While the feature is yet to be functioning in the latest WhatsApp beta on TestFlight, WABetaInfo shared an image showing a new Scheduled Messages option in a group chat info page. From here, users will apparently be able to view the number of messages they have scheduled and access options to manage them. The fe [...]

GitOps Implementation at Enterprise Scale — Moving Beyond Traditional CI/CD

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MAHA People Are Mad At RFK Jr. And For Good Reason As He Reverses Stance On Glyphosate

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One of the more perplexing questions in all of the coverage I’ve done on RFK Jr. has been whether or not Kennedy is some misguided true believer or if this is all some grift for power, influence, and/or money. While most people who watch how RFK Jr. has operated on the topic of vaccines, for […]

Apple Announces Plans to Begin Assembling Mac Mini in U.S. This Year

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Apple has announced that Foxconn will begin assembling some Mac mini computers at a factory in Houston, Texas later this year.


"Apple is deeply committed to the future of American manufacturing, and we're proud to significantly expand our footprint in Houston with the production of Mac mini starting later this year," said Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a press release.

Apple is also expanding AI server manufacturing at the Houston factory, and it is opening a new Advanced Manufacturing Center in the city later this year. The dedicated facility will "provide hands-on training in advanced manufacturing techniques to students, supplier employees, and American businesses of all sizes."

In an inter [...]

What to Expect From the iPhone 17e Launching in March 2026

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We've got just over a week to go until Apple's "Special Experience" on March 4, and we're expecting to see the iPhone 17e announced during the week of the event. The ‌iPhone‌ 17e will be the first update to the new low-cost iPhone 16e that Apple unveiled in February 2025.

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Apple Launches New 'Sales Coach' App

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Apple today debuted a new Sales Coach app for the iPhone and the iPad, replacing the former SEED app. Designed for Apple Store and Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP) employees, Sales Coach provides training resources and information useful for Apple device sales.


Sales Coach is available for ‌Apple Store‌ and AASP employees worldwide, and Apple has released it as an update to the former SEED app. Those who have the SEED app will see it change to Sales Coach when installing the latest update. Sales Coach is not a publicly available app.

Compared to the SEED app [...]

How Copyright Litigation Over Anne Frank’s Diary Could Impact The Fate Of VPNs In The EU

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“The Diary of a Young Girl” is a Dutch language diary written by the young Jewish writer Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Although the diary and Anne Frank’s death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp are well known, few are aware that the text has […]

The Pentagon’s Anthropic problem is every enterprise’s AI problem

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The Pentagon’s standoff with Anthropic raises a question for any CTO building on a single frontier AI model: If access changed

The post The Pentagon’s Anthropic problem is every enterprise’s AI problem appeared first on The New Stack.

Everything New in iOS 26.4 Beta 2

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Testing on the iOS 26.4 update is continuing, and Apple released the second beta today. The main new feature is an expansion of RCS encryption testing, but there are a few other small tweaks.

End-to-End Encryption RCS Testing

Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs

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Panasonic was one of the last Japanese companies still manufacturing TVs.

Yes, Section 230 Should Apply Equally To Algorithmic Recommendations

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If you’ve spent any time in my Section 230 myth-debunking guide, you know that most bad takes on the law come from people who haven’t read it. But lately I keep running into a different kind of bad take—one that often comes from people who have read the law, understand the basics passably well, and […]

The mythical agent-month (News)

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Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new MCP server that's quite efficient, and Elliot Bonneville thinks the only moat left is money.

AWS creates a sandbox for its agent experiments

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(AWS) is launching a dedicated GitHub organization for its most experimental agentic AI work. On Monday, the company launched Strands

The post AWS creates a sandbox for its agent experiments appeared first on The New Stack.

Ring’s Super Bowl Ad Generates So Much Backlash It Has Ended Its Partnership With Flock Safety

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Eight million ways to die. According to AdWeek, the price for a 30-second commercial during Super Bowl LX has soared to $8 million, after NBC opened in the summer by offering spots for $7 million. As AdWeek notes, “due to demand, the company has already reached its cap for the number of spots that were available for advertisers […]

Daily Deal: The 2026 Ultimate Project Managers Training Bundle

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The 2026 Ultimate Project Managers Training Bundle will help you learn how to efficiently manage small- and large-scale complex projects. With 9 courses focused on Asana, Jira, Agile, Microsoft Project, and more, you’ll be introduced to various ways to organize and manage teams, and to various tools that will aid productivity while keeping projects and […]

iOS 26.4 Beta Adds End-to-End Encryption for iPhone-to-Android RCS Texts

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With the second iOS 26.4 beta, Apple and Google have started testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users.


Apple started testing E2EE for RCS in the first beta, but the feature was limited to iPhone-to-iPhone communications with iMessage turned off. In this beta, ‌iPhone‌ users can send encrypted messages to Android users.

‌iPhone‌ users will need to install the second beta of iOS 26.4 to exchange encrypted messages with Android users, while Google users need to have the latest version of Google Messages.

According to Apple's developer release [...]

Take Up to 30% Off Apple's iPhone 17 Cases on Amazon

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Amazon this week has big discounts across Apple's Clear, Silicone, and TechWoven Cases for the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air lineup. Items on sale include Clear, Silicone, and TechWoven Cases for the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air. We're also tracking a few discounts on other accessories like the FineWoven Wallet with MagSafe and Beats cases.

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.

Apple's official cases are reaching up to 30 percent off in this sale, with many priced at  [...]

Second macOS Tahoe 26.4 Beta Now Available for Developers

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Apple today provided the second beta of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.4 update to developers for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after Apple seeded the first beta.


Developers can download the ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 update by opening up the System Settings app, selecting the General category, and then choosing Software Update. Beta Updates will need to be enabled, and a free developer account is required.

‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 adds a new Charge Limit feature so Mac users can select a maximum charge level that ranges from 80 to 100 percent. Apple also brought back the Compact tab layout in Safari for those who missed the option in earlier versions of ‌macOS Tahoe‌.

Apple silicon Macs who are running [...]

Apple Seeds Second Betas of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 to Developers

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Apple today seeded the second betas of upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple seeded the first betas.


Registered developers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update.

iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 add multiple new features to the ‌iPhone‌ and the ‌iPad‌, but the first beta contained no sign of new Siri capabilities.

A Playlist Playground feature in Apple Music lets you generate songs for any idea, mood [...]

Apple Releases Second watchOS 26.4, tvOS 26.4 and visionOS 26.4 Betas

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Apple today provided developers with the second betas of upcoming watchOS 26.4, tvOS 26.4, and visionOS 26.4 betas for testing purposes. The software comes a week after Apple released the first betas.


The software updates are available through the Settings app on each device, and because these are developer betas, a free developer account is required.

watchOS 26.4 adds a new Average Bedtime metric to the sleep features that sync to the health app, so you can better keep an eye on how bedtime impacts overall sleep quality.

tvOS 26.4 eliminates the iTunes Movies and iTunes TV Show [...]

The Media Still Can’t Figure Out That Trump Says Things That Aren’t True

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Debates on how the media should be covering what Donald Trump says have been going on for over a decade now. A few months ago, we wrote about the regularity with which the mainstream media “sanewashes” his more ridiculous statements, taking the incoherent ramblings of a madman and pretending to translate them into actual policy […]

iPhone 18 Pro to Revive Feature Samsung Dropped Years Ago

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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro Max are expected to resurrect a major feature Samsung's flagship Galaxy smartphones dropped years ago, according to a multitude of rumors.


The ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro and ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro Max are now widely expected to feature a significantly upgraded main camera with a variable aperture. An aperture is the opening within a camera lens that controls the amount of light reaching the image sensor.

In December 2024, Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo was first to say that that the main rear camera on both ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro models w [...]

Hank Green will gladly take billionaire money for education videos

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Today, I’m talking with Hank Green, a longtime friend of Decoder and the cofounder and now former owner of Complexly, an online education company he started with his brother John in 2012. I say former owner because Hank and John have just converted Complexly into a nonprofit and given up their ownership of the company […]

Coding agents are only as good as the signals you feed them

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The industry has spent the last few years optimizing AI agents’ code-generation capabilities. The focus has been on expanding context

The post Coding agents are only as good as the signals you feed them appeared first on The New Stack.

Claude Code Security Finds the Bugs That Static Analysis Can’t — and Wall Street Noticed

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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Cloudflare One is the first SASE offering modern post-quantum encryption across the full platform

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We’ve upgraded Cloudflare One to support post-quantum encryption by implementing the latest IETF drafts for hybrid ML-KEM into our Cloudflare IPsec product. This extends post-quantum encryption across all major Cloudflare One on-ramps and off-ramps.

This simple infrastructure gap is holding back AI productivity

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Organizations are investing heavily in AI, with some allocating up to 8% of their total revenue in AI tools for

The post This simple infrastructure gap is holding back AI productivity appeared first on The New Stack.

Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents automatically make websites agent-ready

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Cloudflare, the well-regarded security and Content Delivery Network company, has launched a new feature called “Markdown for Agents” that automatically

The post Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents automatically make websites agent-ready appeared first on The New Stack.

Wasm vs. JavaScript: Who wins at a million rows?

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By now it’s pretty clear that JavaScript needs WebAssembly (Wasm) to perform heavy computational tasks. In the past few weeks

The post Wasm vs. JavaScript: Who wins at a million rows? appeared first on The New Stack.

Does Platform Product Management & Design Really Happen? Or is it all just platform engineering? - Tanzu Catsup

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Most organizations treat infrastructure as a series of projects to be “completed,” but successful platform engineering requires a permanent product mindset. In this episode, we explore why platform teams need dedicated product management to balance competing priorities—like security, cost, and developer experience—and why the “why” scales much better than the “what” in large enterprises. We also dive into the often-overlooked role of designers in creating platform tools that developers actually want to use.

Tanzu Catsup is a weekly conversation about platform engineering, cloud-native operations, and building software in large organizations. We follow the work wherever it actually leads.

And, see the archives for Tanzu Catsup.

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Developers crave AI tools for various tasks beyond coding, but that’s only about 20% of their work. But, ops people freak out about security and control challenges, like cost, regulatory compliance, and usage tracking.

Why Kubernetes 1.35 is a game-changer for stateful workload scaling

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With Kubernetes 1.35, the In-Place Pod Resize feature has graduated to GA, and Vertical Pod Autoscaling InPlaceOrRecreate update mode has

The post Why Kubernetes 1.35 is a game-changer for stateful workload scaling appeared first on The New Stack.

Claude Code comes to Roadmap, OpenClaw loses its head, and AI workslop

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I’m Matt Burns, Director of Editorial at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments,

The post Claude Code comes to Roadmap, OpenClaw loses its head, and AI workslop appeared first on The New Stack.

Beyond the vibe code: The steep mountain MCP must climb to reach production

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One thing I didn’t do last year was go to any Model Context Protocol (MCP) conferences, largely because I couldn’t

The post Beyond the vibe code: The steep mountain MCP must climb to reach production appeared first on The New Stack.

Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

Meta's flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind

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The company asserts it will continue to make VR headsets, though.

Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build

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Red Hat is perhaps the biggest name in enterprise Linux, but it’s also a major cloud-native player thanks to its

The post Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build appeared first on The New Stack.

Web scraper sued by Google claims Google is the one scraping the web

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SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, is fighting back against Google's copyright lawsuit that accuses it of vacuuming up search results "at an astonishing scale." In a motion to dismiss filed on Friday, SerpApi argues that Google doesn't hold a copyright on its search results, alleging that the engine […]

Survey: Adoption of AI Software Testing Slowed by Trust Issues

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NanoClaw’s answer to OpenClaw is minimal code, maximum isolation

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Gavriel Cohen built NanoClaw, a lightweight alternative to OpenClaw, in a weekend after learning about security flaws in the popular agentic framework.

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96% of developers don’t trust AI code: Here’s a step toward the fix

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The narrative surrounding software development has shifted dramatically over the last six months. The industry has moved past the initial

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The reason big tech is giving away AI agent frameworks

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As someone who had a front-row seat to the container orchestration wars, I am watching the same movie play out

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Fake Data, Upcoming Book, and the Political Economy of AI

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The world is on fire – and I’ve often been at a loss for how to constructively contribute to public discourse. For decades, I have shared knowledge gained through fieldwork to offer a different perspective on complex sociotechnical matters. Too often these days, I find myself banging my head against the wall while navigating the […]

Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens

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The Cloudflare API has over 2,500 endpoints. Exposing each one as an MCP tool would consume over 2 million tokens. With Code Mode, we collapsed all of it into two tools and roughly 1,000 tokens of context.

Why the era of relying on dozens of “purpose-built” databases is finally coming to an end

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What will drive the next wave of innovation in enterprise applications? Ask the experts, and you’ll likely hear a similar

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Automating everything but changing how people work - Relative to your interests, Friday

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Enterprise AI apps (or lack thereof), ROI surveys, CFO budget pivots, agile’s stubborn relevance, platform engineering vs. private cloud, Heroku’s freeze, IRS tech cuts, and Europe hedging on AI tools

Related to your interests

AWS Just Turned “Deploy to AWS” Into a Five-Word Prompt

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When DevOps Meets the Cloud: A Real-World Transformation Story

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You Can Feel It Coming - Software Defined Talk

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This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and “The Modern Stack” simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them.

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Progressive Delivery, with Heidi Waterhouse - Software Defined Interviews

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Why it's great to be a Spring developer now, and how to make it even better - State of Spring, 2026

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This is a talk I give at the start of Spring workshops we do. Here is the recording. The point is to show people that being a Java and Spring developers is fantastic right now. Here’s the description:

Spring developers are in a strange position in 2026: everything is changing: AI, platform engineering, enterprise architecture. And yet Spring keeps getting stronger.

In this talk, Coté walks through why this is actually a great moment to be a Spring developer, especially in large organizations. He looks at:

• How AI code generation is changing Java and Spring development
• Why enterprise momentum still matters
• The role of platforms in making Spring teams faster
• Where private AI, model b

Management is always eager to "reduce costs."

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The real story lies “in collapsing headcount growth expectations, from 6% in 2025 to just 2% in 2026 with just 21% of CFOs planning staff increases of 4% to 9%, down from 31% last year,” Nauman Abbasi, vice president analyst in Gartner’s finance practice, said in the release. “This marks a structural pivot from labor expansion to optimization driven by automation and AI that deliver productivity gains without proportional increases in headcount.”

🔗 Most CFOs expect larger IT budgets, ‘collapsing’ staff growth: Gartner

Meanwhile: 6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom

Say you love business logic without saying "business logic."

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Model Eats the Software: Why the Marginal Cost of Enterprise Software Approaches Zero

More on agentic AI changing the software business from Jason Hoffman:

Andreessen specifically predicted that Salesforce would disrupt Oracle. Fourteen years later, Oracle is roughly 2.5x the size of Salesforce. Salesforce sells application logic – workflows, configurations, business rules. Oracle sells infrastructure – databases, middleware, cloud compute. The application layer was always the vulnerable part. The infrastructure layer was always the durable part. Software ate the world. Then it sat around all gluttonous and bloated. Frozen reasoning."

Also, it was the incumbents who did all the eating.

And, a proposal for using AI as the UI and business logic layer for enterprise apps:

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AI still not good at basic knowledge worker workflows, which is likely an apps problem

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Here is one account of AI being shit at multi-step activate outside of coding:

I think my request of “Hey Gemini, show me a list of all the articles I wrote over the last year and arrange them into categories by subject” is a straightforward one, and I came away from this experience surprised that Gemini shipped these features as bleeding edge AI to customers when it never really delivered for me.

I have the same experience, weekly. In general, using AI for this kind search and analytics has been bad and more time consuming than just doing it myself.

It is especially bad when you hook it up to other services like docs and email.

It works pretty well with plain text files. I think why it works there is that it writes scripts to search and chunk the text. That is, it’s doing non-AI work to search docs and others. Perhaps it’s good at orchestrating text work like