FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale

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FFmpeg is truly a multi-tool for media processing. As an industry-standard tool it supports a wide variety of audio and video codecs and container formats. It can also orchestrate complex chains of filters for media editing and manipulation. For the people who use our apps, FFmpeg plays an important role in enabling new video experiences [...]

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iPhone 17e: Smaller Details You Might Have Missed

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Apple has unveiled the iPhone 17e, with key upgrades over the iPhone 16e including the A19 chip, MagSafe, and the Ceramic Shield 2 for a more scratch-resistant screen. The device also has Apple's latest C1X modem for faster 5G, a doubled 256GB of base storage, and a new Soft Pink color option alongside White and Black.


In addition to those headline changes, we uncovered four smaller iPhone 17e details:

• A19 chip limitation: While the A19 chip in the iPhone 17 has a 5-core GPU, the chip has a reduced 4-core GPU in the iPhone 17e. This limitation will result in slightly slower graphics performance while gaming, but many customers are unlikely to notice a major difference in real-

Sources: SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay delays its IPO roadshow that was scheduled to launch Monday, as markets were rattled by the strikes in Iran (Echo Wang/Reuters)

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Echo Wang / Reuters:
Sources: SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay delays its IPO roadshow that was scheduled to launch Monday, as markets were rattled by the strikes in Iran  —  SoftBank's (9984.T) PayPay has delayed its highly anticipated IPO roadshow that wa

ByteDance shares details about its "Project Swan" headset, set to launch this year with a 4,000-PPI micro-OLED display, and unveils Pico OS 6, its new XR OS (David Heaney/UploadVR)

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David Heaney / UploadVR:
ByteDance shares details about its “Project Swan” headset, set to launch this year with a 4,000-PPI micro-OLED display, and unveils Pico OS 6, its new XR OS  —  ByteDance's Pico announced the key display and compute specs of its “Project Swan” headset, coming later this year …

US Military Shoots Down CBP Drone, Which Certainly Instills Confidence In Its Offshore Murder Program

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Wow. Imagine if you could just make this shit up. The U.S. military used a laser Thursday to shoot down a “seemingly threatening” drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, lawmakers said. It is to LOL. Not only did the military friendly fire a CBP […]

Daily Deal: Adobe Lightroom 1-Year Subscription

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Adobe Lightroom is a cloud-based photo editing and organizing tool designed for photographers of all levels. With an intuitive interface and advanced features, it allows you to create stunning images, manage your photo library, and work seamlessly across desktop, mobile, and web. Lightroom Classic provides robust tools for handling large volumes of images, offering precise […]

US scientists discover new silicon qubit that could power future quantum chips

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Scientists in the US have identified a robust new qubit in silicon, dubbed the CN...

A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has more than $6B in global contracts, had roughly $2B in revenue last year, and is valued at ~$31B (New York Times)

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New York Times:
A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has more than $6B in global contracts, had roughly $2B in revenue last year, and is valued at ~$31B  —  Within minutes of arriving at a security conference with U.S. defense and intelligence officials in December

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

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


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 [...]

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

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Apple today provided developers with the third 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 second 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 [...]

Anthropic's $60B+ in funding, half of which came just last month, from over 200 investors is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon (Dan Primack/Axios)

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Dan Primack / Axios:
Anthropic's $60B+ in funding, half of which came just last month, from over 200 investors is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon  —  Anthropic has raised more than $60 billion from over 200 “venture capital” investors, half of which came just last month.

AI Bros Wanted Trump. Now They Learn What Happens When You Tell Him No.

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Last year, in Fascism For First Time Founders, I warned the tech industry what happens when you cozy up to authoritarians. As I wrote then: Innovation requires trust. Not just between individuals, but institutional trust. People need to believe that contracts will be enforced, that property rights will be protected, that the rules won’t change […]

ControlMonkey Extends IaC Automation Reach to Restore Network Services

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Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B+ at a $20B+ valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B+ at a $20B+ valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October  —  Reflection AI's new funding talks come as Trump administration seeks US rivals to China's DeepSeek

Investing in Infrastructure: Meta’s Renewed Commitment to jemalloc

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Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to reduce maintenance needs and modernize the codebase while continuing to evolve the allocator to adapt to the latest hardware and workloads. We are committed to continuing to develop jemalloc development with the [...]

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Report: Apple Asks Google to Run Siri on Its Servers

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Apple has asked Google to investigate setting up servers in its data centers to run a future version of Siri powered by Gemini, The Information reports.


Currently, Apple sends its more complex AI queries to Private Cloud Compute, a system that runs on Apple servers using Apple silicon chips. Today, only 10% of Apple's Private Cloud Compute capacity is said to be in use on average. The usage is low enough that some servers intended for Apple's AI cloud system are still in warehouses and have not yet been installed. This could change rapidly upon the launch of the next-generation version of ‌Siri‌, which could spike Apple's demands for cloud c [...]

Apple Releases iPhone Cases, Apple Watch Bands, and Crossbody Strap in New Colors

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A seasonal color refresh arrived today for a variety of Apple accessories, including iPhone cases, Apple Watch bands, and the Crossbody Strap. All of the accessories in the latest colors are available to order on Apple.com starting today.


Apple's Silicone Case for the standard iPhone 17 model has three new color options, including Bright Guava, Vanilla, and Electric Lavender.

Bright Guava and Vanilla extend to the Silicone Case [...]

X announces a "Paid Partnership" label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're ads; until now, creators relied on hashtags to label posts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X announces a “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're ads; until now, creators relied on hashtags to label posts  —  Social network X on Monday announced the introduction of a new “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're adverti

Apple Watch Series 11 Hits $299 Low Price on Amazon, Get $100 Off Nearly Every Aluminum Model

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Amazon this week has all-time low prices on the Apple Watch Series 11, with $100 discounts across numerous models of the smartwatch. We first started tracking the return of these deals about a week ago, but this sale has now expanded with many more options on both 42mm and 46mm GPS models.

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.

You can get the 42mm GPS Apple Watch Series 11 for [...]

SCOTUS declines to hear a dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material, in a case where a computer scientist was denied a copyright for AI-generated art (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
SCOTUS declines to hear a dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material, in a case where a computer scientist was denied a copyright for AI-generated art  —  The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence …

The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)

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Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional:
The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity  —  On Anthropic and the Department of War  —  I.  —  A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die.

$599 M4 iPad Air is a lot like the old one, but with a substantial RAM boost

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Unexpected RAM upgrade is the highlight of an otherwise straightforward refresh.

A look at the rights AI companies have in US government contracts, such as the "any lawful use" standard, amid the Anthropic-DOD dispute and the OpenAI-DOD deal (Jessica Tillipman)

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Jessica Tillipman:
A look at the rights AI companies have in US government contracts, such as the “any lawful use” standard, amid the Anthropic-DOD dispute and the OpenAI-DOD deal  —  The Anthropic-Pentagon dispute has drawn significant public attention and an equally large amount of misinformation.

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data (Hayden Field/The Verge)

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Hayden Field / The Verge:

Sources: at Apple's request, Google investigated hosting servers inside its data centers to run a Gemini-based Siri while abiding by Apple's privacy standards (The Information)

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The Information:
Sources: at Apple's request, Google investigated hosting servers inside its data centers to run a Gemini-based Siri while abiding by Apple's privacy standards  —  In January, when Apple announced an agreement to use Google's Gemini models in Apple products, it was an admission that the iPhone maker …

Apple's new iPhone 17e has an A19 chip, MagSafe, and 256GB of storage for $599

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New just-the-basics phone replaces the year-old iPhone 16e at the same price.

iPhone 17e Now Features 256GB Base Storage

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Apple's just-announced iPhone 17e comes with doubled base storage compared to last year's predecessor while remaining at a $599 starting price.


The iPhone 17e now comes with 256GB base storage, up from 128GB in the iPhone 16e. The change is especially notable, given the surge in price of DDR memory in recent months owing to the AI server build-out.

The more affordable iPhone in Apple's lineup also now comes with MagSafe and Qi2 for fast wireless charging up to 15W, compared to 7.5W Qi wireless charging on iPhone 16e. The addition means MagSafe chargers, stands, cases, wallets, and camera accessories snap easily to the back of iPhone 17e, providing seamless alignment.

The iPhone 17e will be available for [...]

Related to your interests, Monday

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Related to your interests

• Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI
• How tech chiefs gauge ROI on AI - AI uses: better search, preparing leases, and this: “When the system senses that ice is running low, it fires off an order to AI agents

Apple updates the iPad Air with M4, featuring an 8-core CPU, 9-core GPU, 12GB of unified memory, an N1 networking chip, for $599+ and $799+ in 11" or 13" sizes (Apple)

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Apple:
Apple updates the iPad Air with M4, featuring an 8-core CPU, 9-core GPU, 12GB of unified memory, an N1 networking chip, for $599+ and $799+ in 11" or 13" sizes  —  With blazing performance, more memory, enhanced connectivity, and game-changing iPadOS 26 features, iPad Air is a fantastic value

Apple Announces iPhone 17e With A19 Chip, MagSafe, and More

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Apple today announced the iPhone 17e, featuring the A19 chip, MagSafe connectivity, faster charging, and more.

Apple unveils the iPhone 17e, offering a 6.1-inch display, a 3nm A19 chip, a C1X modem, a 48MP Fusion camera, and more, for $599+ and shipping from March 11 (Apple)

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Apple:
Apple unveils the iPhone 17e, offering a 6.1-inch display, a 3nm A19 chip, a C1X modem, a 48MP Fusion camera, and more, for $599+ and shipping from March 11  —  iPhone 17e delivers incredible value with faster performance, an advanced camera system, enhanced durability, the magic of MagSafe, and double the starting storage at 256GB

Apple Unveils iPad Air With M4 Chip, Increased RAM, Wi-Fi 7, and More

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Apple today introduced a new iPad Air, with key upgrades including Apple's M4 chip for faster performance, an increased 12GB of RAM, Apple's N1 wireless networking chip with Wi-Fi 7 support, and Apple's custom C1X modem in cellular models.


The new iPad Air has the same overall design as the previous-generation model, which is equipped with the M3 chip, 8GB of RAM, and Wi-Fi 6E support.

With the M4 chip, the iPad Air now has up to 30% faster multi-core CPU performance compared to the model with the M3 chip, according to Apple. In the iPad Air, the M4 chip has an 8-core CPU, a 9-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine. Memory bandwidth increased from 100GB/s to 120GB/s, according to Apple's tech specs.
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Postman Adds Ability to Invoke API Code From Within Git Workflows

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Kubernetes alone does not a platform make

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Even the platform engineers need to hide Kubernetes to get their job done:

Kubernetes adds another layer of complexity for platform engineering teams, introducing architectural complexities that require a deep understanding of containers, networking, storage, and cluster security protocols. While it has become the default runtime for modern applications, managing Kubernetes at scale alongside existing VM‑based workloads can overwhelm platform engineering teams. YAML sprawl, cluster life-cycle management, networking dependencies, and security controls consume time that should be spent improving the developer experience and can lead to costly human error.

As a result, many platform engineering teams find themselves serving as infrastructure integrators rather than product engineering teams. They spend cycles wiring systems together, maintaining custom automation, and resolving edge cases between environments. What’s needed is access to solutions that provide an automated infr

8 billion miles driven: Tesla’s Full Self Driving cars reach major test milestone

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Tesla’s advanced driver-assist system (ADAS), marketed as Full Self-Driving (FSD – Supervised), has reached a...

AWS plans to invest €18B more in Aragon, Spain, taking its investment in the region to €33.7B; its Aragon facilities have used 100% renewable energy since 2022 (Cristina Cueto/DatacenterDynamics)

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Cristina Cueto / DatacenterDynamics:
AWS plans to invest €18B more in Aragon, Spain, taking its investment in the region to €33.7B; its Aragon facilities have used 100% renewable energy since 2022  —  Including facilities for the manufacture, assembly, storage, and recycling of servers

AirPods 4 ANC Hit $119 Low Price on Amazon

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Amazon today has the AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $119.00, down from $179.00. This is a solid second-best price on the AirPods 4 with ANC, and the best price we've tracked so far in 2026.

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 currently provides a March 7 delivery date for free shipping on the AirPods 4, and Prime members should see faster estimates with same-day delivery in many locations. As of writing, we're only tracking this deal at Amazon.
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Robotic fins boost underwater robot stability against strong currents by 87%

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Engineers at Southampton, Edinburgh, and Delft have integrated liquid-metal e-skin and proprioceptive sensing into a...

Robotic ‘industrial workhorse’ designed for construction on moon passes field test

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When humans will start living in a permanent moon base is something we don’t know...

Apple's Next Launch Starts Today

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Following a new AirTag in January, Apple is set to unveil its next new products of 2026 starting today. Apple CEO Tim Cook teased that the company will have a "big week ahead," with announcements set to begin this Monday, March 2.


Apple is reportedly planning a three-day stretch of product announcements from Monday, March 2 through Wednesday, March 4, with at least five new products expected to be unveiled, including a lower-cost MacBook, an [...]

World’s most powerful particle collider upgrade enters next phase with giant cold boxes

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CERN engineers have transported two gleaming cryogenic “cold boxes” deep into the tunnels of the...

Nvidia says it plans to invest $2B each in photonic product makers Lumentum and Coherent to support the companies' R&D and manufacturing operations in the US (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Nvidia says it plans to invest $2B each in photonic product makers Lumentum and Coherent to support the companies' R&D and manufacturing operations in the US  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) will invest $2 billion each in photonic product makers Lumentum (LITE.O) and Coherent (COHR.N) …

Semafor Keeps Hosting Ridiculous “Restoring Trust In Media” Events That Only Further Undermine Trust In Media

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You might recall that when political news website Semafor entered the media industry on the back of $25 million in private money, they made all kinds of promises about how they were somehow going to revolutionize U.S. media. In reality most of their promises were relatively inane, and it didn’t take long before the outlet […]

Inside Iran’s arsenal: The weapons it is using in fight with US and Israel

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In the ongoing conflict involving the U.S. and Israel, Iran is utilizing its extensive inventory...

Upcoming Budget MacBook Seen Within Apple as 'Incredible Value'

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Internally at Apple, the rumored low-end MacBook is being described as "incredible value," so much so that the company believes its imminent launch is going to drive a serious number of switchers from Windows machines and Chromebooks, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Writing in his Power On newsletter over the weekend, Gurman says that Apple believes the device "could even compel iPhone users without computers to buy their first Mac."

We don't yet have an official price for the machine, but the MacBook Air starts at $999, so the upcoming low-cost MacBook is expected to be significantly cheaper. Apple is unlikely to pr [...]

US: Extended-range Precision Strike Missile sees first use in Iran operations

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The US military has reportedly used the new Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) short-range ballistic missile...

Solar-driven chemical reaction can extract oxygen from lunar soil, NASA test confirms

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Space travel has always had a luggage problem. If you want to breathe, drink, or...

Watch Honor’s new humanoid robot wow viewers with flawless moonwalk and backflip

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Chinese smartphone giant Honor wowed the viewers at the Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona...

Cloudflare’s new Markdown support shows how the web is evolving for AI agents

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I’ve always liked Markdown for both clarity and brevity, and now more LLM agents will appreciate it, too. In response

The post Cloudflare’s new Markdown support shows how the web is evolving for AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.

Video: US 6th-gen F-47 fighter’s adaptive engine progress draws global attention

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Pratt & Whitney has released a video that may show us a glimpse of the...

Touchscreen MacBook Pro to Be 'Touch-Friendly, Not Touch-First'

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Apple's rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro will be a "touch-friendly device, rather than one that's touch-first," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Writing in Power On, Gurman said users will be able to easily move between touch-based and point-and-click inputs, thanks to changes coming in macOS 27 – set up in part by last year's Liquid Glass redesign. However, Apple is said to be taking a conservative approach to touch-based input, offering it more as a "bonus" than a prominent feature.

"Before anyone gets too excited, the touch-based MacBook Pro will not feel like an iPad," said Gurman. "This is the MacBook Pro you've known for the

Apple's Foldable iPad Still In the Works, Could Arrive by 2029

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Apple is still developing a large foldable iPad, despite hitting several technical hurdles along the way, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Writing in his Power On newsletter, Gurman says the "gigantic" foldable iPad will challenge Apple's long-running tradition of keeping the Mac and iPad as separate devices. Some have referred to it as a foldable iPad, while others have called it an all-display MacBook, but concerns remain about its practicality when it comes to typing.

A report in July last year claimed Apple had decided to pause work on a lar [...]

OLED MacBook Air Expected in 2028

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Apple will update the MacBook Air with an OLED display for its 2028 model, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Writing in his latest "Power On" newsletter, Gurman says that he expects the MacBook Air's transition from LCD to OLED to occur with the product's 2028 update, as part of a larger migration to OLED across the company's flagship iPad and MacBook models that includes the iPad mini, MacBook Pro, iPad Air, and MacBook Air – and likely in that order.

Apple already uses OLED displays in the iPad Pro. There are apparently no plans to add OLED to the low-cost iPad. The ‌MacBook Pro‌ will be updated with an OLED display when it is next redesigned [...]

Next Year's iPad Pro Likely to Feature Vapor Chamber Cooling System

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Apple will add a vapor chamber cooling system to the iPad Pro as soon as next year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman says an iPhone 17 Pro-style vapor chamber is something Apple has been working to bring to the ultra-thin iPad Pro, and it could debut in the next model, which is expected to arrive in spring of 2027.

Apple overhauled the thermal design of the iPhone 17 Pro models to include a vapor chamber cooling system, where a small amount of deionized water moves heat away from the A19 Pro chip and distributes it throughout the iPhone's aluminum unibody frame. Apple says the design allows for 40 pe [...]

New Sonos Play Portable Speaker With AirPlay 2 Leaks on Best Buy

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Say hello to the Sonos Play – a new unannounced portable speaker that appears to have been accidentally leaked on the Canadian Best Buy site.


Priced at CAD $399.99, the speaker looks a lot like a smaller version of the Sonos Move 2, and features Wi-Fi for multi-room setups of up to 32 speakers, AirPlay 2 support, and Bluetooth 5.3. There's also an aux-in for connecting record players and other equipment. Courtesy of the Redditor who spotte [...]

Google ADK Opens the Door to AI Agents That Work Inside Your DevOps Toolchain

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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AMD Ryzen AI 400 chips will bring newer CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs to AM5 desktops

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First wave of Ryzen AI desktop CPUs targets business PCs rather than DIYers.

Modernizing with agile SASE: a Cloudflare One blog takeover

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In 2026, agile SASE is the engine for modernization. Discover how Cloudflare One secures humans, devices, and AI agents on a single, programmable connectivity cloud.

Beyond the blank slate: how Cloudflare accelerates your Zero Trust journey

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Project Helix simplifies and accelerates the onboarding process for Cloudflare One. By using automation and Terraform templates, this tool allows customers to quickly deploy a comprehensive, best-practice configuration in minutes.

The truly programmable SASE platform

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As the only SASE platform with a native developer stack, we’re giving you the tools to build custom, real-time security logic and integrations directly at the edge.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is danderbandit with a very straightforward reaction to the fallout from Ring’s Super Bowl commercial: Fuck Ring Exactly why I would never own a cloud based camera system. In second place, it’s MrWilson with a piece-by-piece reply to a comment about DHS demanding social media […]

Get $100 Off iPad Mini 7 on Amazon, Starting at $399

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Amazon today has brought back a few $100 discounts on the iPad mini 7, starting at $399.00 for the 128GB Wi-Fi tablet, down from $499.00. It's been nearly a month since we last tracked prices this low on the iPad mini 7.

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Additionally, you can get the 256GB Wi-Fi iPad mini 7 for [...]

Apple Reportedly Expects 'Major Rush' of Customers This Week

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Apple has advised its retail store employees to expect a "major rush" of customers this week, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Apple teased "a big week ahead," with announcements starting Monday.

In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said some employees believe Apple's preparations for new products this week are "on par with what happens before the debut of new iPhones in the fall," suggesting that at least one of the devices set to be unveiled between Monday and Wednesd [...]

Apple Stores Temporarily Closed in the United Arab Emirates

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Apple has temporarily closed all five of its retail stores in the United Arab Emirates, including three locations in Abu Dhabi and two in Dubai.

Apple Store at the Dubai Mall

The XZ Utils aftermath: Inside the mission to stop the next global backdoor before it starts

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In 2024, a backdoor was discovered hidden inside XZ Utils, a compression utility woven into many popular Linux distributions. This

The post The XZ Utils aftermath: Inside the mission to stop the next global backdoor before it starts appeared first on The New Stack.

This Week In Techdirt History: February 22nd – 28th

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Five Years Ago This week in 2021, Australian news sites were reacting bizarrely to Facebook’s withdrawal from sharing news in the country, just before Facebook caved and decided to restore news links. The whole ordeal was surrounded by silly reactions so we pointed to the best summary of everything, and also looked at how it […]

The real breakthrough in robotics is foundation models — not hardware

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Physical AI, also known as embodied AI, is purported to be the next evolution in the quest to build autonomous

The post The real breakthrough in robotics is foundation models — not hardware appeared first on The New Stack.

Perplexity Computer wows, Karpathy kills vibe coding, and OpenAI replaces Anthropic at the Pentagon

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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 Perplexity Computer wows, Karpathy kills vibe coding, and OpenAI replaces Anthropic at the Pentagon appeared first on The New Stack.

Trump Settles With Isaac Hayes’ Estate Over Use Of Music During The Campaign

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One of the unfortunate knock on effects of being generally insufferable is that many people don’t want to be associated with you in any way. And when you’re both insufferable and happen to be the most divisive American political figure in modern history, all the more so. And that is certainly why, during both of […]

The NFL Won A Lawsuit Over Its Bluesky Ban. Its Social Media Strategy Is Still A Loser

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Full disclosure up front: I sit on the board of Bluesky. That said, I had absolutely no idea this lawsuit existed until recently. Which, honestly, tells you something about how much of a legal non-event it was. But the underlying story here—about the NFL treating social media the way it treats television broadcast rights—is worth […]

Under a Paramount-WBD merger, two struggling media giants would unite

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Can two declining companies form a profitable one?

Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

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Burke Holland works on GitHub Copilot by day and codes with his AI agents always. Early January, Burke posted about how Opus 4.5 changed everything. We were all still buzzing from the holiday-season 2x usage bump Claude gave us, and Opus 4.5 felt like a genuine step function in capability. Burke and I get into all the details. Opus 4.5 may have started the fire, but GPT-5.3 Codex is certainly living up to the hype.

Red Hat introduces its first out and out AI platform

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Red Hat has been deploying AI in the enterprise for some time. For example, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) now

The post Red Hat introduces its first out and out AI platform appeared first on The New Stack.

Whistleblower: ICE Has Slashed Its Training Program And Its Boss Is Lying To Congress About It

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ICE can’t keep up with the baseline set by resident ghoul/White House advisor Stephen Miller. Miller has demanded 3,000 arrests per day, which he presented as the minimum he would be satisfied with. To reach this goal, tons of talent from other federal law enforcement agencies have been added to the mix. The results have […]

AI-Fueled Development Pushes Open-Source Risk to Extremes: Report

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Verizon Continues To Make Phone Unlocking Annoying (With The Trump FCC’s Help)

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Earlier this year we noted how the Trump FCC, at the direct request of wireless phone giants, destroyed popular phone unlocking rules making it easier and cheaper to switch wireless carriers. The rules, applied via spectrum acquisition and merger conditions after years of activism, required that Verizon unlock your phone within 60 days after purchase so […]

Netflix cedes Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount: “No longer financially attractive”

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Netflix shares jumped following the announcement.

How to downgrade from macOS 26 Tahoe on a new Mac

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Most new Macs can still be downgraded with few downsides. Here's what to know.

Harness Readies Resilience Testing Platform to Make Applications More Robust

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Apple says it has "a big week ahead." Here's what we expect to see.

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Apple is taking an "ain't broke/don't fix" approach to most of its gadgets.

I Learned Traffic Optimization Before I Learned Cloud Computing. It Turns Out the Lessons Were the Same.

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Toxic combinations: when small signals add up to a security incident

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Minor misconfigurations or request anomalies often seem harmless in isolation. But when these small signals converge, they can trigger a security incident known as a toxic combination. Here’s how to spot the signs.

We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript

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The Web streams API has become ubiquitous in JavaScript runtimes but was designed for a different era. Here's what a modern streaming API could (should?) look like.

The most-seen UI on the Internet? Redesigning Turnstile and Challenge Pages

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We serve 7.6 billion challenges daily. Here’s how we used research, AAA accessibility standards, and a unified architecture to redesign the Internet’s most-seen user interface.

Bringing more transparency to post-quantum usage, encrypted messaging, and routing security

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Cloudflare Radar has added new tools for monitoring PQ adoption, KT logs for messaging, and ASPA routing records to track the Internet's migration toward more secure encryption and routing standards.

ASPA: making Internet routing more secure

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ASPA is the cryptographic upgrade for BGP that helps prevent route leaks by verifying the path network traffic takes. New features in Cloudflare Radar make tracking its adoption easy.

Ways to dramatically reduce Go binary size

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#​591 — February 27, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly

From vibes to engineering: How AI agents outgrew their own terminology

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Andrej Karpathy probably didn’t set out to retire “vibe coding” just a year after popularizing it, but time and technological

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Malicious NPM Package Gets Downloaded 50K Times Before Discovery

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Netdata is a seriously impressive server monitoring tool

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Every once in a while, I come across a tool that makes me lean back and go, “Wooo, that’s cool!”

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The agent pull request flood is here. If you run Istio, you’re halfway to solving it.

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Agentic workflows are rapidly accelerating the volume of pull requests, and validation is quickly becoming the most critical bottleneck. Teams

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Digital Transformation at Santander: How Platform Engineering is Revolutionizing Cloud Infrastructure

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Santander faced a significant technical challenge in managing an infrastructure that processes billions of daily transactions across more than 200 critical systems. The solution emerged through an innovative platform engineering initiative called Catalyst, which transformed the bank's cloud infrastructure and development management. This post analyzes the main cases, benefits, and results obtained with this initiative.

Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today

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Google's new image model replaces the previous versions immediately.

Google’s Nano Banana 2 promises Flash speeds with Pro results

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Google on Thursday launched the latest version of its Nano Banana image generation model, which promises to improve upon last

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Using LLMs to amplify human labeling and improve Dash search relevance

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How we train Dash's search ranking models with a mix of human and LLM-assisted labeling.

Observability platform migration guide: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Fluent Bit

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Observability platform migrations are rarely simple. You’re still balancing risk (don’t break on-call), scope (don’t try to move everything at

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Security Flaws in Anthropic’s Claude Code Risk Stolen Data, System Takeover

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Why the secret to scaling AI isn’t a better model, it’s a simpler foundation

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A recent study from MIT’s NANDA initiative highlights a persistent challenge in enterprise AI adoption. Despite heavy investment and experimentation,

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Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI

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We are at an inflection point in enterprise IT. For the last decade, “modernization” has been synonymous with containerization —

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