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TypeScript 6.0 RC arrives as a bridge to a faster future

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TypeScript 6.0 Release Candidate (RC) is here, and in some ways, it’s the most consequential release since the project hit

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A cosmic surprise: Black hole merger may have sparked a gamma-ray burst

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In November 2024, gravitational-wave detectors recorded the violent merger of two black holes billions of...

A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes "because it plays better"; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles (Gautam Mukunda/Bloomberg)

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Gautam Mukunda / Bloomberg:
A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes “because it plays better”; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles  —  Whatever you think about whether artificial intelligence is coming for your job, it has already mastered one corporate skill: hogging the credit.

Get the New Book 'Apple: The First 50 Years' on Sale for Launch Week

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This week, tech columnist David Pogue launched a new book called "Apple: The First 50 Years." On Amazon, you can get the new book for $39.30 in hardcover, down from $50.00, the best price we've seen so far on the book.

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The book explores the first five decades of Apple's history, including interviews with 150 key people who shaped Apple into what it is today, like Steve Wozniak, John Sculley, Jony Ive, and mo [...]

MCP’s biggest growing pains for production use will soon be solved

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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as one of the key building blocks of the agentic AI stack, serving

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AI layoffs are here, the MCP vs API debate, and the rise of the Mac Mini-powered Agent

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

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World record efficiency: Highest power conversion rate for copper gallium solar cell achieved

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Scientists at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST) have set a...

Top Stories: Apple's 50th Anniversary, New and Upcoming Products, and More

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After Apple's big week of announcements, this week saw all of the new products officially become available, so reviewers and general users alike are now getting their hands on them and putting them through their paces.


Apple also started ramping up plans for celebrating the company's 50th anniversary coming up on April 1, with Tim Cook sharing a letter addressing the milestone and the company even hosting a brief musical appearance by Alicia Keys at its Grand Central Terminal store in New York City, so read on below for all the details on these stories and more!

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Apple Announces 50th Anniversary Plans

TSMC's N3 logic wafer capacity has become one of the AI industry's biggest constraints, which could push customers to explore greater foundry diversification (SemiAnalysis)

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SemiAnalysis:
TSMC's N3 logic wafer capacity has become one of the AI industry's biggest constraints, which could push customers to explore greater foundry diversification  —  TSMC N3 Wafer Shortages, Memory Constraints, Datacenter Bottlenecks, Supply Chain Wars Winner  —  Ivan Chiam, Myron Xie, Ray Wang, and 3 others

Andrej Karpathy’s 630-line Python script ran 50 experiments overnight without any human input

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On the night of March 7, Andrej Karpathy pushed a 630-line Python script to GitHub and went to sleep. By

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Wordle’s creator made a fun new puzzle game

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 119, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your agents are well, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Pixar's future and flight MH370 and sports gambling […]

Shipwrecks found across 328 feet of seafloor near 2,300-year-old ancient Greek city

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Researchers have discovered an extraordinary underwater cache of shipwrecks across 328 feet of seafloor in...

China’s gallium oxide semiconductor could enable more compact radar for stealth aircraft

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Researchers from Beijing University have discovered a new kind of gallium oxide (Ga₂O₃) that could...

China’s BYD unveils 385-mile range EV that charges 10% to 70% in just 5 minutes

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Chinese EV giant BYD has launched a new version of its Fang Cheng Bao Ti3...

China challenges Neuralink with world’s first commercial approval for brain implant

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In a first for China, Neuracle Medical Technology (NMT) has reportedly secured approval for its...

An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

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Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more  —  Plus, why an H100 is worth more today than 3 years ago  —  Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, provides a deep dive …

Quantum computers still struggle with chemistry’s hardest molecular calculations

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One of the biggest promises of quantum computing is the ability to simulate molecules with...

Scientists create bicycle-style robot that travels at high speed while navigating obstacles

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Scientists have created a bicycle-style robot designed to travel at high speed while successfully navigating...

An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI-powered tools of war, now playing out in Iran (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

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Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:

China’s radar could identify decoy drones, real targets, swarm attack accurately with AI method

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Military scientists in China have reportedly made a significant advancement that can help boost radar’s...

Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens control; Roskomnadzor data shows average daily traffic is down ~20% in March compared to February (Anastasia Stognei/Financial Times)

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Anastasia Stognei / Financial Times:
Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens control; Roskomnadzor data shows average daily traffic is down ~20% in March compared to February  —  Outages mark new phase in government campaign against internet freedom  —  Moscow is experiencing mass mobile internet blackouts …

Palantir software demos and DOD records show how the military may be using AI chatbots, including the kinds of queries and the data used to generate responses (Caroline Haskins/Wired)

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Caroline Haskins / Wired:
Palantir software demos and DOD records show how the military may be using AI chatbots, including the kinds of queries and the data used to generate responses  —  Software demos and Pentagon records detail how chatbots like Anthropic's Claude could help the Pentagon analyze intelligence and suggest next steps.

Singapore-based MetaComp, which bridges traditional fiat payment rails and stablecoin settlement infrastructure, raised $35M across two pre-Series A rounds (Timmy Shen/The Block)

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Timmy Shen / The Block:
Singapore-based MetaComp, which bridges traditional fiat payment rails and stablecoin settlement infrastructure, raised $35M across two pre-Series A rounds  —  Quick Take  — MetaComp, a digital finance infrastructure provider, said it has raised a total of $35 million across two Pre-A funding rounds completed within three months.

A survey of 1,692 US physicians: over 80% use AI professionally and the most common use cases are medical research summarization and clinical care documentation (American Medical Association)

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American Medical Association:
A survey of 1,692 US physicians: over 80% use AI professionally and the most common use cases are medical research summarization and clinical care documentation  —  CHICAGO — New research from the American Medical Association's Center for Digital Health and AI shows that physicians' adoption …

Apple to Host 50th Anniversary Celebrations Around the World

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Apple today announced that it will be celebrating its upcoming 50th anniversary by hosting gatherings "around the world" throughout the month of March.


Apple's 50th anniversary is on April 1, 2026. The company has yet to reveal exactly where and when it will be hosting additional celebrations, but possibilities include major cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tokyo.

"Each gathering highlights human creativity and ingenuity in action, and showcases the remarkable things people can do when they have the right Apple products in their hands," said Apple, in a press release.

"Stay tuned for more updates," said Apple.

17-time Grammy Award-winning m [...]

At The WBC: Mark DeRosa Screwed Up & Then MLB Streisanded The Story

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The World Baseball Classic is currently going on and I absolutely adore it. Essentially a World Cup for baseball, 20 nations are playing against one another in a banger of a tune-up for the Major League Baseball season. It’s a flamboyant delight, with cultural celebrations such as the Italian team doing a shot of espresso […]

The US Army awards Anduril a 10-year contract worth up to $20B to buy its software, hardware, and services; the deal includes a 5-year optional ordering period (Jen Judson/Bloomberg)

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Jen Judson / Bloomberg:
The US Army awards Anduril a 10-year contract worth up to $20B to buy its software, hardware, and services; the deal includes a 5-year optional ordering period  —  The US Army has awarded Anduril Industries a contract with a total value of as much as $20 billion to buy the defense startup's software …

Living bacteria turn electricity into chemical detector in new bioelectronic sensor

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Researchers have developed a bioelectronic sensor that uses living bacteria to generate electrical signals when...

A US government website shows the Commerce Department withdrew a planned rule tightening AI chip exports; a draft was sent to agencies for feedback in February (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)

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Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
A US government website shows the Commerce Department withdrew a planned rule tightening AI chip exports; a draft was sent to agencies for feedback in February  —  The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday withdrew a planned rule on AI chip exports, according to a government website.

Sources: Meta plans sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, amid mounting AI infrastructure costs; it had ~79,000 employees as of Dec. 31 (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Sources: Meta plans sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, amid mounting AI infrastructure costs; it had ~79,000 employees as of Dec. 31  —  Meta (META.O) is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters …

A US judge questions Elon Musk's $134B claim for damages in his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft but rules he can still make his case to a jury (Elon Musk/Financial Times)

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Elon Musk / Financial Times:
A US judge questions Elon Musk's $134B claim for damages in his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft but rules he can still make his case to a jury  —  California court questions billionaire's expert witness but declines to exclude the testimony from April trial

$TRUMP memecoin surged as much as 60% after its promoters said it would host a gala luncheon at Mar-a-Lago with Trump; the WH hasn't confirmed his attendance (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
$TRUMP memecoin surged as much as 60% after its promoters said it would host a gala luncheon at Mar-a-Lago with Trump; the WH hasn't confirmed his attendance  —  The memecoin bearing Donald Trump's name surged as much as 60% in the last 24 hours after its promoters advertised an exclusive gala …

Amazon wins its appeal against a €746M GDPR fine imposed by Luxembourg's privacy watchdog after a court finds the watchdog had not properly done its analysis (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Amazon wins its appeal against a €746M GDPR fine imposed by Luxembourg's privacy watchdog after a court finds the watchdog had not properly done its analysis  —  Amazon (AMZN.O) on Friday won its appeal against a record 746-million-euro ($854.4 million) fine imposed by Luxembourg's privacy regulator …

The IRS’s Verification System for Sharing Taxpayer Data With ICE Would Have Accepted ‘Don’t Care 12345’ as a Valid Address

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We’re a couple weeks late to this one, but it deserves more attention than it received. As the Washington Post first reported, a federal judge has found that the IRS violated federal law 42,695 times when it handed over confidential taxpayer addresses to ICE last summer. But the raw number, staggering as it is, undersells […]

Sources: the Trump administration is set to receive a ~$10B fee from investors in TikTok's US business for the government's role in brokering the TikTok US deal (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the Trump administration is set to receive a ~$10B fee from investors in TikTok's US business for the government's role in brokering the TikTok US deal  —  Investors in social-media platform's U.S. business, including Oracle and Silver Lake, agreed to give the government several multibillion-dollar payments, sources

10+ New Features Coming in iOS 27

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We're only three months away from Apple's WWDC 2026 event, which will see the company unveil iOS 27. With the fully revamped version of Siri possibly delayed until September, ‌iOS 27‌ is shaping up to be the update we wanted iOS 26 to be.


There will be new Apple Intelligence features, updates for the iPhone Fold, and more, with the latest rumors summarized below.

Foldable iPhone Features

Survey: AI Coding Exacerbates Existing DevOps Workflow Issues

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Roblox Rolls Out AI-Powered Real-Time Rephrasing Of Profanity Within Chat

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The power of the latest generation of AI systems is such that previously impractical applications are not just possible, but scalable. For example, moving beyond basic early AI text translation tools, it is now possible to use live translation to communicate in another language in real time. For many people that will be a real […]

NanoClaw and Docker team up to isolate AI agents inside MicroVM sandboxes

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Like the idea of OpenClaw-style agents, but their insecurity makes you sweat? The combo of NanoClaw and Docker Sandboxes may

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Apple Kicks Off 50th Anniversary With Surprise Alicia Keys Concert in New York

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Apple mysteriously shut down its Grand Central Terminal store in New York City today, and it turns out it was for an impromptu Alicia Keys concert to celebrate Apple's upcoming 50th anniversary.


Apple quietly invited select YouTubers and members of the media (including MacRumors) to the store location, but kept the performer secret until Alicia Keys took the stage. Preparations for the concert started yesterday, with Apple setting up a stage, audio equipment, and lights, complete with Keys' signature pink piano.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, marketing chief Greg Joswiak, retail head Deirdre O'Brien, and hardware engineering boss John Ternus were at the Grand C [...]

Adobe settles DOJ cancellation fee lawsuit, will pay $75 million penalty

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Adobe says it will also give customers who "qualify" free services but is vague on details.

F-Droid says Google’s Android developer verification plan is an ‘existential’ threat to alternative app stores

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Attention, any developers hoping to sell their apps to the world’s 3.3 billion Android phones. “Google is changing the way

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Trump Rolls Out White Carpet For White Migrants

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Roughly a year ago — as Trump was trying to turn anti-genocide protests into deportable antisemitism — his administration made it clear it was only willing to support white people with antisemitic views. The administration threw some anti-Israel filters into the mix for DHS vetting of incoming migrants, blending them with the anti-Trump filters that […]

iFixit Teardown: MacBook Neo Has Most Accessible Mac Battery in Over a Decade

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Repair site iFixit did its traditional teardown on the MacBook Neo, and was pleasantly surprised with the laptop's repairability. "We haven't been as happy about a MacBook since 2012," says iFixit.

Daily Deal: Luminar Mobile for iOS And Android

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Luminar Mobile is your all-in-one creative companion designed for iOS, Android OS, and Chrome OS. Powered by an intuitive, touch-responsive interface, it lets you enhance photos effortlessly—anytime, anywhere. Whether you’re adjusting lighting, perfecting portraits, or adding artistic flair, Luminar Mobile delivers pro-level results in the palm of your hand. It’s on sale for $20. Note: […]

MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 17 Pro and 25W Qi Charger From Lululook

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For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Lululook to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an iPhone 17 Pro and a 25W Qi2.2 3-in-1 Charger from Lululook to go along with it.


Priced at $79, Lululook's 3-in-1 Charging Station is able to charge an iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch at the same time. It features Qi 2.2 support and certification, so it is able to charge the iPhone [...]

Subscribers to Amazon Prime Video with ads lose 4K support on April 10

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Amazon says its service requires "significant investment."

M5 MacBook Air review: Still the best MacBook for almost everybody

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The M5 MacBook Air is a minor upgrade, but minor upgrades add up over time.

Ninth Circuit Guts California’s Kids Code Once Again

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It’s been a little while since we last wrote about California’s deeply problematic “Age Appropriate Design Code,” which tried to force internet companies into taking blatantly unconstitutional steps to pressure companies into magically preventing all “harms” to kids. The law has bounced between the district court and the Ninth Circuit multiple times — and yesterday, […]

The MacRumors Show: MacBook Neo First Impressions

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss first impressions of the MacBook Neo, Studio Display XDR, and iPhone 17e.

Mac Trade-Ins Surge Amid MacBook Neo Launch

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Apple this week saw an unusual surge of Mac trade-ins amid the launch of the MacBook Neo.


A reliable source speaking to MacRumors revealed that the quantity of Macs traded in at Apple retail stores this week increased over 100% compared to previous weeks, likely driven by demand for the ‌MacBook Neo‌ and M5 MacBook Air.

Older, low-end models dominated this week's trade-ins, suggesting that customers are upgrading to the ‌MacBook Neo‌ and the M5 ‌MacBook Air‌, rather than the new MacBook Pro models with the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.

The scale of increase is notic [...]

Patch Me If You Can: AI Codemods for Secure-by-Default Android Apps

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Even seemingly simple engineering tasks — like updating an API — can become monumental undertakings when you’re dealing with millions of lines of code and thousands of engineers, especially if the changes are security-related. Nowhere is this more apparent than in mobile security, where a single class of vulnerability can be replicated across hundreds of [...]

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iPhone 17 Pro is Now Part of MLB History

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Back in September, the Apple TV streaming service's broadcast of the pivotal Boston Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers game at Fenway Park incorporated live footage captured with the iPhone 17 Pro, and now the device has been enshrined in MLB history.


Apple this week announced that the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has added one of the four iPhone 17 Pro devices that captured the Red Sox clinching a postseason berth with a thrilling walk-off win over the Tigers to its permanent collection in Cooperstown, New York. More details are available [...]

Apple's First Foldable Displays Nearing Mass Production

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Advanced display panels destined for Apple's first foldable iPhone are reportedly nearing mass production.


The Weibo leaker known as "Instant Digital" today said that Samsung Display is set to begin mass production of OLED panels for the first foldable iPhone in May 2026. Meanwhile, the user "Fixed Focus Digital" claims that the foldable iPhone's screen may be flatter than many of the existing foldable devices currently on sale, suggesting that Apple has largely solved th [...]

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Launch Deals Hit Brand New M4 iPad Air, M5 MacBook Air, and More

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This week was Apple launch week, and we're already seeing solid markdowns on the new M4 iPad Air, M5 MacBook Air, and more. Additionally, below you'll find deals on AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation and Apple Watch Series 11.

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Low-Code’s New Frontier: Tailored Solutions for Each Industry

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Apple is Up to Something Secret in New York

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Apple's retail store at the Grand Central Terminal in New York is temporarily closed, but the reason why remains a mystery.


As seen in photos shared by Parker Ortolani, Apple's space on the Main Concourse's East Balcony is covered up with temporary walls and curtains. There is also temporary lighting and audio equipment set up, and a video shared on social media appears to show that Apple is or was recording some sort of production.

Apple is clearly up to something, but exactly what remains anyone's guess. It could be recording a special video that will be part of its [...]

iPhone Fold: 5 Things We Learned This Week About Apple's Foldable

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It's been a big week for foldable iPhone rumors. In case you missed any of them, here are five developments that we've covered over the last few days.


Apple is expected to launch the iPhone Fold this September. For everything else we know, be sure to check out our dedicated roundup.

Display Crease

Trump DOJ Wimps Out On Ticketmaster, Again Revealing Hollowness Of MAGA ‘Antitrust’

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Last election season, you might recall how the Trump campaign lied to everyone repeatedly about how his second administration would “rein in big tech,” and be a natural extension of the Lina Khan antitrust movement. As we noted at the time, that was always an obvious fake populist lie, but it was propped up anyway […]

The “files are all you need” debate misses what’s actually happening in agent memory architecture

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When you look at how top engineering teams actually build agent memory systems, a pattern emerges: There is a filesystem

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The Risk Profile of AI-Driven Development

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Parallels Confirms MacBook Neo Can Run Windows in a Virtual Machine

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Parallels Desktop virtualization software is compatible with the new MacBook Neo, according to an update from the company – but Windows VM performance will depend on your intended use case.


From Parallels' updated knowledge base article:

Parallels Desktop runs on MacBook Neo in basic usability testing. The Parallels Engineering team has completed initial testing and confirmed that Parallels Desktop installs and virtual machines operate stably on MacBook Neo. Full validation and performance testing is ongoing, and additional compatibility statement will follow if required.

Apple TV Claims First F1 Viewership Victory Over ESPN

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Apple TV aired the first Formula 1 race of the 2026 season last weekend following an exclusive streaming rights partnership for five years, and Apple senior VP of services Eddy Cue is already calling it a win for the company.


Cue told The Hollywood Reporter that viewership for last week's Australian Grand Prix was up year over year compared to the 2025 race, which aired on ESPN.

"The 2026 Formula 1 season on Apple TV is off to a strong start, with fans responding positively and viewership up year over year for the first weekend, exceeding both F1 and Apple ex [...]

Apple to Cut App Store Developer Fees in China From March 15

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Apple has announced it is lowering App Store developer fees in China from March 15, with commission rates for standard in-app purchases (IAPs) set to change to 25%, down from 30%.


In an update on its Developer blog, Apple also said the commission rate for qualifying IAPs under the App Store Small Business Program and Mini Apps Partner Program (and auto-renewals of IAP subscriptions after the first year) will be 12%, down from the current 15%.

Apple said the changes are a result of "discussions with the Chinese regulator," indicating the move is to avoid regulatory intervention. A report [...]

How eBPF and OpenTelemetry Have Simplified the Observability Function

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From legacy architecture to Cloudflare One

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Learn how Cloudflare and CDW de-risk SASE migrations with a blueprint that treats legacy debt as an application modernization project.

MAHA Institute: Nix The Entire Childhood Vaccine Schedule

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If you agree with me that what RFK Jr. has done at HHS — particularly when it comes to altering vaccine schedules, approvals, research, and access — is bad well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Kennedy rode Trump’s coattails, building his own Make America Health Again (MAHA) movement on the back of the wider MAGA […]

How Go 1.26's smarter `go fix` rewrites deprecated function calls

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#​593 — March 13, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Writing Some Wrongs

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]

Anthropic's Claude Can Now Create Interactive Visuals Directly in Conversations

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Anthropic's Claude chatbot has been updated with support for inline visual content that will help it provide clearer answers.

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My grandfather was mildly obsessed with organizing and documenting the history of his life: a memoir about a career in the military from 1938 to ~1975, growing up in a Depression era Oklahoma “dirt farm.”

There was also geology. I think all old people have that project. Us soon to be old Gen-X’ers have more records around than probably any human in history, especially the nerds. Soon, we’ll all be obsessively organizing the equivalent of our 40 year slides and boxes of receipts. Personal digital gnolling.

Weasel Words: OpenAI’s Pentagon Deal Won’t Stop AI‑Powered Surveillance

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OpenAI, the maker of ChaptGPT, is rightfully facing widespread criticism for its decisions to fill the gap the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) created when rival Anthropic refused to drop its restrictions against using its AI for surveillance and autonomous weapons systems. After protests from both users and employees who did not sign up to support government mass surveillance—early […]

Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Highlights

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What if we could identify interesting listening moments from your year, and tell you a story about them?

The post Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Highlights appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers

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Trade group callls out HP for latest Dynamic Security firmware update.

Before you let AI agents loose, you’d better know what they’re capable of

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For enterprises, agentic AI systems potentially allow staff responsibilities to shift from execution to judgment, oversight, and strategy. This creates

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Google will soon bring Chrome to ARM64 Linux

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Google on Thursday announced that it will finally launch Chrome for ARM64 Linux devices in the second quarter of 2026.

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iPhone 17e Hands-On: What's New and What's Not

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Apple's latest low-cost iPhone launched yesterday, and we picked up the iPhone 17e to see how it compares to the iPhone 16e that came before it, and how it measures up to the iPhone 17 lineup.

SurePath AI advances MCP policy controls to tighten the cable on AI’s USB-C

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AI needs governance. Amid the exponential growth of predictive, generative, and agentic artificial intelligence, humans everywhere have repeatedly asked, “Is

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New Perplexity APIs give developers access to agentic workflows and orchestration

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On the heels of last month’s Perplexity Computer launch, the company on Thursday announced an expansion of the Perplexity API

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Anthropic’s Claude can now draw interactive charts and diagrams

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Anthropic’s Claude has always been great at coding and working with text, but where Google and OpenAI invested heavily in

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Google Maps Adds Gemini AI-Powered 'Ask Maps' Feature and 3D Immersive Navigation

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Google today added Gemini AI to Google Maps, enabling a new Ask Maps feature. Gemini in maps can answer complex, real-world questions that Google says "a map could never answer before."


There is a new Ask Maps button where Google Maps users can get answers to specific questions like "is there a public tennis court with lights on that I can play at tonight?" Google says that finding information like that would have taken a lot of sifting through reviews in the past, but now Google Maps can provide an answer with a custom map.

The feature can be used for trip planning, and it is able to provide tailored responses based on prior searches or saved information in the app. Google Maps can build a trip i [...]

AI Is Forcing DevOps Teams to Rethink Observability Data Management

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Why AI-driven operations are pushing governance beyond a compliance issue and into an operational priority

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Board members and senior executives are pushing hard to accelerate AI adoption. As a result, significant numbers of organizations have

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Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks

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Neo is the first MacBook in a long time with an easily replaceable keyboard.

Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion

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AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions.

The post Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

WordPress launches an in-browser website creator

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WordPress.org is launching a new tool that lets you create a private website directly in your browser, according to an announcement on Wednesday. You can access the tool by heading to my.WordPress.net, which opens up a workspace where you can start building a website without signing up to WordPress, choosing a hosting plan, or selecting […]

Runpod report: Qwen has overtaken Meta’s Llama as the most-deployed self-hosted LLM

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The rise of agentic AI services has enabled the enterprise technology market to blossom with a new, fully evolved set

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Google Maps gets its biggest navigation redesign in a decade, plus more AI

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Google Maps is about to get more chatty and immersive.

Gloo built a faith-based AI platform that already has secular interest

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AI models have gotten a lot better at avoiding hallucinations, and the frontier labs tend to put strict guardrails around

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Sorry, Charlie, StarKist Wants AI With Good Taste

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Zero Downtime Multicloud Migrations for Observability Control Planes

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Announcing Cloudflare Account Abuse Protection: prevent fraudulent attacks from bots and humans

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Blocking bots isn’t enough anymore. Cloudflare’s new fraud prevention capabilities — now available in Early Access — help stop account abuse before it starts.

14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns

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Most of the devices are made by Asus and are located in the US.

JetBrains Launches Air and Junie CLI to Blend Traditional IDE with AI Agents

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Windows 11's Steam Deck-ish, streamlined Xbox gaming UI comes to all PCs in April

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Running Windows on gaming handhelds is currently a blessing and a curse.

From Tailnet to platform (Interview)

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Adam talks with Tailscale co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer David Carney about where Tailscale is headed next: TSIDP, TSNet, multiple tailnets, and Aperture. They get into clickless auth (via TSIDP), TSNet apps, multiple tailnets for isolation and control, and Aperture, Tailscale’s private AI gateway for API key management, observability, and agent security.

Galileo releases Agent Control, a centralized guardrails platform for enterprise AI agents

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Galileo, a company known for its AI observability and guardrails technology, on Wednesday released Agent Control, an open source control

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Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B open model for large-scale AI systems

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Ahead of its flagship GTC conference next week, Nvidia on Wednesday launched the second model in its open-weight Nemotron 3

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Tetrate launches open source marketplace to simplify Envoy adoption

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Agentic AI development company Tetrate has launched Built on Envoy, a free and open source extensions marketplace for Envoy. Envoy

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Microsoft’s VS Code team moved to weekly releases after 10 years of monthly — and credits AI for making it possible

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Earlier this year, Pierce Boggan, the Product Lead for VS Code and GitHub Copilot at Microsoft, quietly dropped a bombshell

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