OpenAI and Paradigm announce EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities (OpenAI)

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OpenAI:
OpenAI and Paradigm announce EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities  —  Making smart contracts safer by evaluating AI agents' ability to detect, patch, and exploit vulnerabilities in blockchain environments.

Judge Highlights Government Fuckery In Ruling Over Migrant Detainees’ Due Process Rights

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The ICE surge in Minneapolis, Minnesota was instigated by a far-right click bait artist and encouraged by the president’s portrayal of Somali immigrants as “garbage” people from a “garbage” country. And those were some of the nicer words Trump used to describe the people his agencies would be hunting down first. Several weeks later, a […]

Apple adds support for third-party voice-based conversational apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, letting CarPlay users access apps like AI chatbots (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple adds support for third-party voice-based conversational apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, letting CarPlay users access apps like AI chatbots  —  With iOS 26.4, CarPlay users will be able to use third-party chatbots with CarPlay.  AI services like Claude, Gemini …

Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a "spatial dataflow" architecture to minimize energy consumption, raised a $60M Series A (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a “spatial dataflow” architecture to minimize energy consumption, raised a $60M Series A  —  Efficient Computer Co. says it's going to make the dream of low-energy artificial intelligence computing a reality after raising $60 million in early-stage funding today.

5 changes to know about in Apple's latest iOS, macOS, and iPadOS betas

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The 26.3 updates were mostly invisible; these changes are more significant.

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TP-Link, alleging it deceptively markets its products as secure while allowing the CCP to hack into consumers' devices (The Record)

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The Record:
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TP-Link, alleging it deceptively markets its products as secure while allowing the CCP to hack into consumers' devices  —  Texas is suing networking equipment company TP-Link Systems for allegedly allowing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to hack into consumers' devices …

OpenAI hires Instagram's VP of global partnerships, Charles Porch, as its first VP of global creative partnerships, seeking to win over a skeptical Hollywood (Julia Black/Vanity Fair)

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Julia Black / Vanity Fair:
OpenAI hires Instagram's VP of global partnerships, Charles Porch, as its first VP of global creative partnerships, seeking to win over a skeptical Hollywood  —  Charles Porch's newly created role as OpenAI's VP of global creative partnerships signals the AI giant's new focus on the entertainment industry

Brendan Carr’s Abuse Of FCC ‘Equal Opportunity’ Rule Completely Blows Up In His Face

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Yesterday we noted how CBS fecklessly tried to prevent Stephen Colbert from broadcasting an interview with Texas Democratic State Representative James Talarico. Which, as you’ve probably already seen, resulted in the interview on YouTube getting way more viewers than it would have normally, and Texas voters flocking to Google to figure out who Talarico is: […]

Daily Deal: Luminar Neo Bundle

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The Luminar Neo Bundle includes a one time purchase of the software, an introductory course on how to use it, and 6 add-ons. Luminar Neo is an easy-to-use photo editing software that empowers photography lovers to express the beauty they imagined using innovative tools. Luminar Neo was built from the ground up to be different […]

iOS 26.4 Brings CarPlay Support for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini

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With iOS 26.4, CarPlay users will be able to use third-party chatbots with ‌CarPlay‌. AI services like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT will be accessible through the ‌CarPlay‌ system for the first time.


Apple's ‌CarPlay‌ Developer Guide [PDF] lists voice-based conversational apps as a supported app type starting with iOS 26.4. Apple is implementing a new voice control screen that will let apps provide visual feedback for voice-based conversational apps.

AI apps that integrate ‌CarPlay‌ will need to add support for the voice control screen while voice-based services are active. There is a specific entitlement for voice-based co [...]

GitHub Tests AI Agents to Handle Repository Upkeep

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Samsung Expands Monitor Sale With Up to 58% Off on Amazon

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Last week, we started tracking a big Samsung sale on Amazon, including the return of the all-time low price on the newest Smart Monitor. This week, Samsung has expanded this sale to include even more monitors at all-time low prices, and it still includes the 32-inch Smart Monitor M9 for $1,299.99, down from $1,599.99.

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

This model of the Smart Monitor launched last summer, and today's sale is a match of the best price we've ev [...]

Sports-focused prediction market Novig raised a $75M Series B led by Pantera Capital at a $500M valuation; Novig is commission-free for retail traders (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

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Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Sports-focused prediction market Novig raised a $75M Series B led by Pantera Capital at a $500M valuation; Novig is commission-free for retail traders  —  As the prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket dominate the attention of investors and regulators, a sports-focused challenger called Novig …

China unveils Dragon Armor 3.0 battery with world-first fire-energy separation design

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A Chinese battery manufacturer has just unveiled a battery which comes with fire electricity separation and...

Meta plans to spend $65M in 2025 to boost state politicians friendly to AI; filings: Meta started two super PACs, one backing the GOP and another for Democrats (New York Times)

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New York Times:
Meta plans to spend $65M in 2025 to boost state politicians friendly to AI; filings: Meta started two super PACs, one backing the GOP and another for Democrats  —  Meta's biggest election investment aims to prevent state legislation that it fears could inhibit

iOS 26.4's Major New CarPlay Feature Revealed

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Back at WWDC 2025, Apple revealed that it was planning to allow CarPlay users to watch video via AirPlay in their vehicles while they are not driving, and the first beta of iOS 26.4 suggests the feature may be nearing availability.


There are several new references to CarPlay video streaming functionality within the iOS 26.4 beta's source code. The feature is not yet visible to users, but software developer Thomas Dye managed to get it working to some extent in Xcode's CarPlay simulator on the Mac, and he showed it off in a recent YouTube video ( [...]

The ‘Most Massive Attack On Free Speech’ Is Happening Right Now, And The Twitter Files Crew Is Mighty Quiet

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For the last five years, we had to endure an endless, breathless parade of hyperbole regarding the so-called “censorship industrial complex.” We were told, repeatedly and at high volume, that the Biden administration flagging content for review by social media companies constituted a tyrannical overthrow of the First Amendment. In the Missouri v. Biden (later […]

iPhone 17 Pro Max Curiously Becomes Most Traded-In Smartphone

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New trade-in data indicates that Apple's iPhone 17 Pro Max has rapidly become the single most traded-in smartphone.


According to a new report from SellCell, Apple's latest flagship iPhone has quickly risen to the top of the independent trade-in market, accounting for 11.5% of all devices appearing in the top-20 trade-in rankings just months after release. The analysis is based on SellCell internal trade-in data and secondary market pricing trends gathered from 40 independent ‌iPhone‌ buyers.

The ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max's share of the top-20 trade-in rankings increased from about 5.1% in late Nove [...]

Watch: China’s humanoid robots impress with synchronized Lunar New Year performance

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Unitree’s humanoid robots made headlines this week after taking part in an impressive performance at...

Audible launches an "immersion reading" feature that lets readers switch between ebook and audiobook versions of a title in their Audible and Kindle libraries (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Audible launches an “immersion reading” feature that lets readers switch between ebook and audiobook versions of a title in their Audible and Kindle libraries  —  Only days after Spotify announced its foray into physical book sales, which included an audiobook feature that lets …

Is your on-call rotation quietly burning out top talent?

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On-call work is a fact of life for IT operations (ITOps) teams, but as systems complexity and business pressure mount,

The post Is your on-call rotation quietly burning out top talent? appeared first on

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from Autodesk, a16z, Nvidia, AMD, Sea, and others to build its world models for robotics, scientific discovery, and more (Alicia Tang/Bloomberg)

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Alicia Tang / Bloomberg:
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from Autodesk, a16z, Nvidia, AMD, Sea, and others to build its world models for robotics, scientific discovery, and more  —  World Labs, a startup from artificial intelligence pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raised $1 billion in a new round of funding to pursue a novel approach to AI development.

Snap says its direct revenue business has hit a $1B annualized revenue run rate, driven primarily by Snapchat+ surpassing 25M subscribers since its 2022 launch (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Snap says its direct revenue business has hit a $1B annualized revenue run rate, driven primarily by Snapchat+ surpassing 25M subscribers since its 2022 launch  —  Snap's direct revenue business has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, the company announced on Wednesday.

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana-made cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)

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The Keyword:
Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana-made cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages  —  The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images in beta.

Cogent Security, which aims to use AI agents to decide which software bugs to remediate, raised a $42M Series A led by Bain, taking its total funding to $53M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

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Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune:
Cogent Security, which aims to use AI agents to decide which software bugs to remediate, raised a $42M Series A led by Bain, taking its total funding to $53M  —  Cogent Security has raised a $42 million Series A just six months after launch.  Their bet?  That AI

Matthew Ball's State of Video Gaming 2026 report: global video game content sales grew 5.3% YoY to $195.6B in 2025 while job losses fell 40% YoY to 9,200 people (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)

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Sophie McEvoy / GamesIndustry.biz:
Matthew Ball's State of Video Gaming 2026 report: global video game content sales grew 5.3% YoY to $195.6B in 2025 while job losses fell 40% YoY to 9,200 people  —  Private funding fell a further 55% last year, according to Epyllion's latest State of Video Gaming report

Google expands Quick Share support with AirDrop to the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro XL, and 9 Pro Fold, after introducing it on the Pixel 10 in November 2025 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google expands Quick Share support with AirDrop to the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro XL, and 9 Pro Fold, after introducing it on the Pixel 10 in November 2025  —  After introducing on the Pixel 10 last year, Google is expanding Quick Share support with AirDrop to the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro XL, and 9 Pro Fold.

Kana, which builds AI marketing agents to perform data analysis, audience targeting, campaign management, and more, emerges from stealth and raised a $15M seed (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

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Ram Iyer / TechCrunch:
Kana, which builds AI marketing agents to perform data analysis, audience targeting, campaign management, and more, emerges from stealth and raised a $15M seed  —  Marketing is one of the few operations no industry can afford to ignore, which is why we have a veritable host of AI-powered marketing tools …

Ancient fossils reveal our oldest known ancestors had four eyes

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Rare fossils discovered in southern China reveals that the earliest creatures with spines — jawless...

Google's Pixel 10a arrives on March 5 for $499 with specs and design of yesteryear

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Google's new budget phone is here, but don't expect a big upgrade.

M5 iPad Pro Hits New Record Low Prices on Amazon, Starting at $799.99 [Updated]

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Apple's 11-inch M5 iPad Pro has hit new all-time low prices today on Amazon, starting at $799.99 for the 256GB Wi-Fi 11-inch iPad Pro, down from $999.00. As of writing, we're only tracking low prices on the 11-inch model of the M5 iPad Pro.

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

Amazon also has the 512GB Wi-Fi 11-inch iPad Pro for & [...]

US firm advances next-gen nuclear fuel supply with new deal for military use, reactors

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Centrus Energy has officially partnered with global engineering giant Fluor to spearhead a massive expansion...

How Russia’s nuclear forces shape Norway’s Arctic defense strategy

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Norway is further strengthening its military forces to prepare for a potential Russian land grab...

US firm to leverage Formula 1 engineering to build affordable $30,000 electric truck

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A Michigan-based company is reshaping its electric-vehicle strategy with the goal of launching a midsize...

1700-foot record-breaking Antarctica drill retrieves longest-ever sediment core

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An international research team has achieved a scientific milestone by recovering a 228-meter-long sediment core...

Low-Cost MacBook Expected on March 4 in These Colors

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Apple will announce its rumored low-cost MacBook at its event on March 4, with the device coming in a selection of bold color options, according to a known leaker.


Earlier this week, Apple announced a "special Apple Experience" for the media in New York, London, and Shanghai, taking place on March 4, 2026 at 9:00am ET.

Posting on Weibo, the leaker known as "Instant Digital" said that the color scheme of the Apple logo graphic used for the upcoming "Apple Experience" should match the colors of the new entry-level Mac. The invite graphic sh [...]

What a ‘Good Plan’ Really Means for AI Coding Agents

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European electric trucks demonstrate megawatt charging in subzero conditions

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A Finnish EV fast-charging solutions maker hosted three of Europe’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturers to...

Ars Technica Retracts Story Featuring Fake Quotes Made Up By AI, About A Different AI That Launched A Weird Smear Campaign Against An Engineer Who Rejected Its Code (Seriously)

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Last week, Denver-area engineer Scott Shambaugh wrote about how an AI agent (likely prompted by its operator) started a weird little online campaign against him after he rejected its code inclusion in the popular Python charting library matplotlib. The owner likely didn’t appreciate Shambaugh openly questioning whether AI-generated code belongs in open source projects at […]

US buildup near Iran expands: Key aircraft, ships, and missile defenses deployed

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The United States is rapidly expanding its military footprint across the Middle East as tensions...

10 Reasons to Wait for Apple's iPhone 18 Pro

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Apple's iPhone development roadmap runs several years into the future and the company is continually working with suppliers on several successive iPhone models at the same time, which is why we often get rumored features months ahead of launch. The iPhone 18 series is no different, and we already have a good idea of what to expect for the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max.


One thing worth noting is that Apple is reportedly planning a major change to its iPhone release cycle this year, adopting a two-phase rollout starting with the iPhone 18 series. That means the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and iPhone Fold will be released in September 2026, followed by the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e in spring 2027.


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New method turns human urine into clean electricity using microbial fuel cells

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Researchers at McGill University in Canada have optimized a process that converts human urine into...

Tool Fragmentation is Breaking Delivery Context — Here’s What Teams are Learning

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6 agentic knowledge base patterns emerging in the wild

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AI agents have become the software industry’s latest fascination. Backed by large language models (LLMs), this new class of AI

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Secrets Management Failures in CI/CD Pipelines

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Perplexity Abandons AI Advertising Strategy Over Trust Worries

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AI company Perplexity is stepping away from advertising over concerns that it will erode user trust, despite moves by rivals to introduce ads as an alternative money-making strategy.


Perplexity was one of the first AI services to embrace ads in 2024, after it ran tests where sponsored answers appeared under the chatbot's answers. That approach however was phased out last year, and executives at the company now say they don't plan to revisit it, according to the Financial Times.

"A user needs to believe this is the best possible answer, to keep using the product and be willing to pay for it," a Perplexity executive told the publication.

The report follows OpenAI's move [...]

Apple Music Connect Launches as Promotional Resource for Labels and Distributors

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Apple has launched Apple Music Connect, a new resource for labels, distributors, and partners to manage promotional assets, upload press photos, and help coordinate how artists' music and marketing materials are presented across the streaming service.


The new online hub includes a range of tools and services for music labels, including:

• Promote: Creates promotional artwork and visual assets to support releases across Apple Music surfaces and external channels.


• Apple Music Pitch: A way to submit detailed information about upcoming releases for editorial and playlist consideration.


• Media Requests: A place for uploading and managing press photos and assets re

Where are the enterprise AI apps? Part n + 1

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Outside of programming, there’s still a dearth of enterprise AI apps, it seems. Palo Alto’s CEO:

“Consumers are far outstripping enterprise for the moment, but we expect enterprise will surely and slowly get on that bandwagon,” he said on the company’s Q2 earnings call. … “Right now … tell me how many enterprise AI apps are you using which are driving tremendous amounts of throughput,” he asked, and answered himself “I can’t think of anything but coding apps.”

Yes, but… Corey Quinn says enterprises are grabbing up all the GPU use they can from AWS:

In other words, I can confirm these claims. AWS isn’t getting ahead of its skis here; customers are legitimately asking for all the GPUs they can get their hands on.

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SC State Senator Proposes Bill To Remove Religious Exemptions For Vaccines In Public School Children

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The current measles shitstorm in South Carolina has been burning for several months now, dating all the way back to October of 2025. What started with a bunch of counties that were undervaccinated for measles began spiraling out of control at the start of 2026. The federal tracker for measles cases is at best woefully […]

“Observability Engineering”: a book so nice, we wrote it twice (xpost)

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“In which Martin Fowler gives me exactly the right advice at exactly the wrong time, we assemble a rogues gallery of technical contributors, and the second edition is off to print.” Originally posted here. Last week I got to meet Martin Fowler for the first time in person. This was an exciting moment for me. Martin ranks […]

Rumor: Apple to Announce Multiple New Products in First Week of March

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Apple on Monday invited selected journalists and content creators to a "special Apple Experience" on Wednesday, March 4 in New York, London, and Shanghai. And now, rumors are surfacing about Apple's broader plans for that week.


Daring Fireball's John Gruber today guessed that Apple will announce new products on a day-by-day basis from Monday, March 2 through Wednesday, March 4:

What strikes me is that March 4 — the "experience" day — is a Wednesday. So my spitball guess is that they announce all these products via Newsroom press releases, day-by-day. Like, say, the iPhone 17e on Monday, ne

iOS 26.4 Beta Tidbits: Hidden Features You May Have Missed

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There is a long list of new features in the iOS 26.4 beta, many of which we highlighted yesterday, but we've since discovered several other smaller changes that Apple made in the software.

Health App

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Brings Improved Coding, Computer Use, and Office Tasks

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Anthropic today updated its Sonnet model to version 4.6, and the company says it is the most capable Sonnet model to date with upgrades across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.


Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the default for users who have Free and Pro plans, and it has an updated 1M token context window.

Sonnet 4.6 improves consistency and instruction following for coding, it's better at computer use tasks, and it can complete office tasks that previously required an Opus model. Sonnet 4.6 has human-level capability for tasks like navigating a complex spreadsheet or filling out a multi-step web form.

According to Anthropic, Sonnet 4.6 has a "a broadly warm, honest, prosocial, and at times f [...]

Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.

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Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. As stated in the article, these organizations are blocking access largely out of concern that generative AI companies are using the Wayback Machine […]

Simplify managing your Docker compose files with this handy tool

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The Docker run command is a great introduction to running containers. It’s simple, it’s quick, and it’s fairly easy to

The post Simplify managing your Docker compose files with this handy tool appeared first on The New Stack.

Techdirt Podcast Episode 444: Answering Your Questions

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Support us on Patreon » Two weeks ago, we ran a bit of an AMA experiment, with a call on Bluesky for fans of Techdirt to ask Mike any questions they might have. We got lots of great responses and now, as promised, Mike is delivering the answers on this week’s episode of the podcast! You […]

iOS 26.4 Beta Launches Without Apple Intelligence Siri Features

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The first beta of iOS 26.4 is available to developers and public beta testers, and the software includes no new Siri features. There were expectations of at least some new Apple Intelligence ‌Siri‌ capabilities because of how long the delays have been and persistent rumors suggesting Apple was targeting an iOS 26.4 release, but we'll have to wait longer for ‌Siri‌ updates.


After Apple announced a delay for the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ version of ‌Siri‌ in March 2025, Bloomberg's [...]

From notebooks to nodes: Architecting production-ready AI infrastructure

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The transition from running machine learning models in Colab notebooks to operational, high-traffic applications requires significant changes in infrastructure setup.

The post From notebooks to nodes: Architecting production-ready AI infrastructure appeared first on The New Stack.

Android-to-iPhone AirDrop Transfers Now Supported on Pixel 9

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Google is expanding its cross-platform file sharing feature to additional Android devices, allowing them to transfer files to an iPhone using the AirDrop protocol. AirDrop support for Quick Share is coming to the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold over the next few days.


Google announced Quick Share compatibility with AirDrop back in November, but the feature was initially limited to the newest Pixel 10 devices.

With AirDrop interoperability, Pixel 9 and Pixel 10 devices can transfer files to an ‌iPhone‌, iPad, or [...]

Toyota Rolling Out Apple Wallet Car Keys on iPhone

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In 2020, Apple added a digital car key feature to its Wallet app, allowing users to lock, unlock, and start a compatible vehicle with an iPhone or Apple Watch. The feature is currently offered by select automakers, such as Audi, BMW, Hyundai, Kia, Genesis, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo, and Toyota is now rolling out support as well.


According to a Reddit post, select trims of the 2026 Toyota RAV4 support the Apple Wallet car key feature in the United States, at a minimum. We have yet to confirm if the feature is rolling out to any of Toyota's other 2026 model year vehicles.

Toyota's implementation of the feature utilizes Ultra Wideband technology, allowing you to simply ap [...]

Hey Brett Kavanaugh, This Is On You:

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“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.” —Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, September 8, 2025 From that one line, which Anil Kalhan dubbed “Kavanaugh Stops,” we see story after story of just how disconnected from […]

The “funhouse mirror”: How AI reflects the hidden truths of your software pipeline

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AI is the epitome of moving fast and breaking things. But where has the rigor gone, asks Thoughtworks CTO Rachel

The post The “funhouse mirror”: How AI reflects the hidden truths of your software pipeline appeared first on The New Stack.

iOS 26.4 Adds Average Bedtime Metric and Restores Blood Oxygen to Health App Vitals Graph

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In iOS 26.4, Apple added an Average Bedtime metric to the Sleep section of the Health app, letting users better monitor how bedtime impacts sleep quality.


Under a new Sleep Highlight, Apple lists the time that you went to bed and the time that you usually go to bed based on averages over a two-week period.

In iOS 26.3, Apple displayed average sleep time over the past seven days. That highlight still exists, but it is now supplemented with the daily bedtime readout.

Apple also updated the Vitals readout in the U.S., and it once again lists blood oxygen level on the line graph overview that's available each day. In iOS 26.3 and earlier versions of iOS 26, there was a section for the blood oxygen level, but the graph did not include a b [...]

Apple Removes iTunes Movies and TV Shows Apps in tvOS 26.4

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With tvOS 26.4, Apple has removed the dedicated iTunes Movies and iTunes TV Shows apps that listed content available for purchase. Buying movies and TV shows can be done through the Apple TV app instead.


Apple started phasing out the iTunes Movies and iTunes TV Shows apps back in 2023, redirecting users to the ‌Apple TV‌ app for purchases. The apps remained available until now to provide customers with instructions on where to find their content, and to provide access to the iTunes Wish List.

Apple removed the TV Shows and Movies section in the iPhone and [...]

Cowardly And Complicit CBS Pulls Colbert Interview With Dem Politician To Please Republicans

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The right wing extremist takeover of CBS continues to go just about how you thought it might. CBS is under fire yet again, this time for forcing Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” to cancel a scheduled appearance with Texas Democratic State Representative James Talarico because it might upset our full-diapered president. Colbert acknowledged the cancellation […]

Amazon's Latest AirPods Deals Include AirPods 4 at $99 and AirPods Max at $449

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Amazon this week has a pair of discounts on a few AirPods models, including the AirPods 4 and AirPods Max. You can get the AirPods 4 for $99.00, down from $129.00.

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.

This is a second-best price on the AirPods 4, which is the base model without Active Noise Cancellation. Amazon provides a February 23 estimated delivery date for free shipping, with faster delivery options for Prime members.

Apple Working on Three AI Wearables: Smart Glasses, AI Pin, and AirPods With Cameras

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Apple is speeding up its work on three AI wearable devices, reports Bloomberg. Apple is developing AI smart glasses, a wearable AI pin or pendant, and AI AirPods, all of which will connect to the iPhone and will interface with the smarter version of Siri that's in the works.


Cameras will be integrated into all three products to allow the AI to "see" around the wearer and answer questions about the wearer's surroundings.

Smart Glasses

Apple Releases First macOS Tahoe 26.4 Public Beta

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Apple today provided public beta testers with the first release of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.4 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.

‌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 Charge Limit feature that lets Mac users select a maximum charge level that ranges from 80 p [...]

Anthropic’s new Claude Sonnet 4.6 promises Opus-level coding at Sonnet pricing

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Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Sonnet 4.6, the latest version of its mainstream model. This new version promises to almost

The post Anthropic’s new Claude Sonnet 4.6 promises Opus-level coding at Sonnet pricing appeared first on The New Stack.

RAM shortage hits Valve's four-year-old Steam Deck, now available "intermittently"

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Forget launching new stuff—Valve is even having problems with existing hardware.

Your AI strategy is built on layers of API sediment

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“The API landscape is a mess, and very few people understand it,” Kin Lane, API industry veteran and founder of

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CredShields Contributes to OWASP’s 2026 Smart Contract Security Priorities

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Attention, Autonomy, and AI in the Critical Path - Related to your interests - February 17th, 2026

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• “‘CEO said a thing!’ journalism” - fantastic new phrase!
• How AI Is Redefining Product Teams - What do product managers do in AI code gen land?
• NatWest hails progress after £1.2bn spent on tech last year, but true AI transformation to come

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Your Boss Doesn’t Know What to Do With AI

Enterprise AI Has a Product-Market Fit Problem. Enterprise AI isn’t stalled because the models are weak. It’s stalled because we haven’t discovered product-market fit inside the enterprise yet.

You don’t find real AI value by theorizing in workshops. You find it by running experiments for months inside your actual systems - against real data - in a governed environment.

That requires a platform.

Without one, AI pilots turn into disconnected experiments, shadow infrastructure, and compliance risk. With one, experimentation compounds into institutional learning.

In this video, I break down:

• Why enterprise AI is still in discovery mode
• Why experimentation must be long-running, not one-off
• How governance enables innovation instead of blocking it
• Why a secure platform foundation is the baseline for AI ROI

If you’re thinking about AI strategy, plat

Cline CLI 2.0 Turns Your Terminal Into an AI Agent Control Plane

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All the Claw things (News)

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Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is "claw done right", MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died.

Python virtual environments: isolation without the chaos

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Installing packages globally isn’t always a good idea. Different tools inside an application can require specific versions of features, functions,

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There's a lot of business logic in Java, decades worth...

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We have invested a lot in domain models, some of which are even very good. And, to be able to leverage that as we move to the new world is really, really important." Rod Johnson.

Source: “GenAI Grows Up: Building Production-Ready Agents on the JVM," Rod Johnson, GOTO, October 1st, 2025.

That reminds me of this gem:

Google’s Conductor Now Reviews the Code it Helps You Write

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Prompt Injection Isn’t Just a Chat Problem — It’s a DevOps Threat

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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Forget the Vibe-Coders, We Need to Support Responsible AI-Assisted Development

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Range-Over Functions in Go

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Iteration has long been one of the more fragmented areas of Go, with developers relying on ad hoc patterns to traverse custom data structures. This article explores the range-over-functions experiment, a proposed evolution of the language that introduces a standardized iterator model while preserving Go’s familiar for range syntax. Using the new iter package and sequence abstractions, it shows how iteration logic can be expressed more clearly, flexibly, and idiomatically. Originally published in April 2024, the concepts remain highly relevant as Go continues to evolve toward more expressive yet simple language features.

cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source

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At FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels, Belgium, Daniel Stenberg, creator of the popular open source data transfer program, cURL, described AI as

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OpenClaw is being called a security “Dumpster fire,” but there is a way to stay safe

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In a blog earlier this February, Snyk engineers said they scanned the entire ClawHub (the OpenClaw marketplace) and found that

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HackerOS is what a Linux enthusiast’s OS should be

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There are over 1,000 Linux distributions on the market. Throw a rock into the tech pond, and I guarantee that

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Arcjet reaches v1.0, promises stable security for JavaScript apps

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Arcjet this week released v1.0 of its JavaScript SDK, moving it from beta to a stable, production-ready API. Arcjet’s security

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Han shot first (Friends)

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Our ol' friend, Brett Cannon, is back to talk all things Python. But first! Star Wars, Machete Order, Lost, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Murderbot, Ted Lasso, Project Hail Mary, David Attenborough, perpetual voice rights, and the AI uncanny valley.

The first Android 17 beta is now available on Pixel devices

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Don't expect big changes yet.

AI Is Normal Now - The Enterprise Is Not

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Original Content

• Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn’t need new platforms - I’ve been circling a theme this week after reading “AI as a Normal Technology” (Spring, 2025). This is some stream of conscious on it.

• Enterprises are gonna enterprise-y, especially with AI. Also available in LinkedIn, if you prefer that kind of thing.

• A series of OODA loops, Software Defined Talk #559 - This week, we discuss the future of SaaS, OpenAI vs. Anthropic strategies, and cloud capex. Plus, when will yo

Tanzu Catsup: The Risk of Relying on AI for Platform Engineering

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Internal development teams and executives are increasingly looking at AI to automate the creation of internal developer platforms. However, cobbling together open-source components with AI is a far cry from building a scalable, secure, and “enterprise-grade” environment. In this conversation, we explore why betting your internal infrastructure on AI-generated platforms is a high-stakes risk and why human-led architecture still dictates the long-term success of a platform.

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Relative to your interests, Friday afternoon

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• What’s a software CEO to do in the current climate? Here’s the urgent 2026 playbook - Playbook for software companies that are (forced to) switch from growth mode to normal company mode.
• Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation \ Anthropic - “Today, our run-rate revenue is $14 billion, with this figure growing over 10x annually in

GitHub’s Agentic Workflows bring “continuous AI” into the CI/CD loop

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A lot of the hype around agents has been around writing code, but what if you could have an agent

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Why 40% of AI projects will be canceled by 2027 (and how to stay in the other 60%)

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The agentic AI race is on, and most organizations are at risk of losing it. Not because they lack ambition,

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Shedding old code with ecdysis: graceful restarts for Rust services at Cloudflare

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ecdysis is a Rust library enabling zero-downtime upgrades for network services. After five years protecting millions of connections at Cloudflare, it’s now open source.

How to ground AI agents in accurate, context-rich data

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AI agents are all the rage in enterprises today. CEOs and CTOs want them brought into their businesses ASAP to

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The reason AI agents shouldn’t touch your source code — and what they should do instead

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Dynatrace is experiencing a major moment in its history. It’s expanding from an observability platform what might be described as

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Go 1.26 brings Green Tea GC, SIMD operations, and secret mode

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Statistical language R is making a comeback against Python

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The latest iteration of the TIOBE Index of programming languages indicates that more specialized languages are creeping up on Python’s

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DIY PC maker Framework has needed monthly price hikes to navigate the RAM shortage

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And Framework expects things to get worse before they get better.