AerynOS is a Linux distribution geared toward performance and bulletproof updates

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There are thousands upon thousands of Linux distributions, so when a new flavor comes into being, the first thing I

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Google Pixel 10a review: long battery life and a good camera with no bump, but weak gaming performance and barely an upgrade from the Pixel 9a (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

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Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Google Pixel 10a review: long battery life and a good camera with no bump, but weak gaming performance and barely an upgrade from the Pixel 9a  —  Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.  —  Google's budget Pixels have long been a top recommendation for anyone who needs a phone …

Tencent-owned Finnish game company Supercell says it is cooperating with a CFIUS security probe of Tencent's data practices (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

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Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Tencent-owned Finnish game company Supercell says it is cooperating with a CFIUS security probe of Tencent's data practices  —  Supercell Oy, the Finnish game company owned by Tencent Holdings Ltd., said it's cooperating with a US government security probe of its Chinese parent's data practices.

Ex-NASA and SpaceX engineers deploy industrial humanoid robots in record time

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Noble Machines, a robotics startup founded by engineers from major U.S. technology and aerospace organizations,...

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's recent $30B investment in OpenAI "might be the last time" it invests in the company, because OpenAI is "going to go public" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's recent $30B investment in OpenAI “might be the last time” it invests in the company, because OpenAI is “going to go public”  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company's recent $30 billion investment in OpenAI “might be the last time” …

MacBook Neo Pre-Orders at Best Buy Include Free $25 Gift Card

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Earlier today we began tracking the first pre-order offers on the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, and now the MacBook Neo has joined in at Best Buy. If you pre-order the new low-cost MacBook Neo at Best Buy, you'll get a free $25 Best Buy gift card after purchase.

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

In order to get the deal, you need to pre-order any MacBook Neo model at Best Buy with a valid e-mail address. The e-gift card will be sent out after you receive the MacBook Neo, or after you pick it up in a Best Buy store.
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Solid-state magnesium-air battery beats platinum, bends 120 degrees without leaks

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Electric vehicles and grid storage systems depend heavily on lithium and other costly metals. Researchers...

OpenAI’s Codex is now on Windows

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OpenAI’s Codex agentic coding app is now available on Windows. To say Codex has been a hit for OpenAI would

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Codenotary Previews AI Platform to Autonomously Detect and Remediate IT Issues

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Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 With Support for Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

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Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26.3.1, a minor update to the ‌macOS Tahoe‌ operating system that came out last September. ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.3.1 comes three weeks after Apple launched macOS Tahoe 26.3.


Mac users can download the new software by opening up the System Settings app and navigating to the Software Update section.

According to Apple's release notes for the update, it adds support for the new Studio Display and Studio Display XDR. Apple has also released a firmware update for the new displays.

The new monitors are available for pre-order and will launch on Wednesday, March 11.

Judge Says He’s Sick Of The Government’s Shit; Threatens To Make DHS, DOJ Testify Under Oath

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Of course, we’ll see what comes of this, but it’s starting to look like this administration won’t outlast this level of judicial scrutiny. It may have bullied its way past courts during Trump’s first year back in office, but now lines are being drawn. Whether or not those lines matter is an open question. But […]

New Studio Display and Studio Display XDR Will Have Day One Firmware Update

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Apple today released a new firmware update for the Studio Display and Studio Display XDR, two products that aren't set to launch until March 11.


The Studio Display Firmware 26.3 update is only for the new Studio Display options, and it is not available on the older model.

Studio Display firmware can be updated by connecting the display to a Mac and going to System Settings > Software Update.

Pre-orders are available for the Studio Display and Studio Display XDR as of today. Prices start at $1,599.

Apple Releases Third macOS Tahoe 26.4 Public Beta

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Apple today provided public beta testers with the third release of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.4 update for testing purposes. The public beta comes a week after Apple seeded the second beta.


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

‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 includes several new features. The Compact tab layout has been reimplemented in Safari for those who missed having the option in earlier versions of ‌macOS Tahoe‌, and there is a new Charge Limit feature that lets Mac users select a maximum charge level that ranges fro [...]

Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle

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Learn Raspberry Pi and start building Amazon Alexa projects with The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle. Catered for all levels, these project-based courses will get you up and running with the basics of Pi, before escalating to full projects. Before you know it, you’ll be building a gaming system to play old Nintendo, […]

MacBook Neo hands-on: Apple build quality at a substantially lower price

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The Neo won't be for everyone, but Apple has managed to preserve a premium feel.

Apple Releases iOS 26.3.1 and iPadOS 26.3.1 With Bug Fixes and Studio Display Support

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Apple today released iOS 26.3.1 and iPadOS 26.3.1, minor updates to the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 operating systems. The software comes three weeks after Apple released iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3.


The new software can be downloaded on eligible iPhones and iPads over-the-air by going to Settings > General > Software Update.

According to Apple's release notes, the update adds support for the new Studio Display and Studio Display XDR, and it includes unspecified bug fixes.

Apple is also beta testing iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4, major updates that are set to come out this spring.

Scientists drill into 175-million-year-old clay rock to solve nuclear waste storage problem

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A team of researchers has initiated a deep drilling project underneath a mountain in Switzerland...

Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)

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Matt Kapko / CyberScoop:
Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members  —  The marketplace was one of the world's largest hubs for cybercrime with more than 142,000 members.

GSMA Open Gateway offers developers one API for 300+ mobile networks

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Developers care about protocols, standards, and specifications — a little. But it’s not what keeps them up at night. Your

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Epic and Google propose a settlement that would have Google share its Play Store app catalog with rivals and offer a registered app store program for Android (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Epic and Google propose a settlement that would have Google share its Play Store app catalog with rivals and offer a registered app store program for Android  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google unveiled a new system for apps on its Android phones and tablets Wednesday, agreeing to easier access …

The AI Shift: Why RISC-V is poised to challenge Arm and x86

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The RISC-V standard has evolved and matured to the extent that performance drawbacks have largely disappeared compared with the long-tried

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Why traditional ITOps is failing to keep up with the unique nature of AI incidents

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If 2025 was the year of AI adoption, with 88% of organizations now using AI across at least one business

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pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?

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I'm proposing a very ambitious patch set for PostgreSQL 19. Only time will tell whether it ends up in the release, but I can't resist using this space to give you a short demonstration of what it can do. The patch set introduces three new contrib modules, currently called pg_plan_advice, pg_collect_advice, and pg_stash_advice.

DragonflyDB CEO: Most real-time AI infrastructure was built for a different era

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The business case for real-time AI is clear. Personalization drives engagement, real-time inference drives revenue, and context-rich machine learning is

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Hands-On With the New MacBook Neo

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Apple introduced an all-new affordable Mac today, the MacBook Neo. Members of the media were invited to try the new device and other Apple products at events in New York, Shanghai, and London, and MacRumors' videographer Dan Barbera was in attendance. Dan was able to see the MacBook Neo in person, as well as other devices like the new Studio Display XDR.

The Trump Administration Just Admitted Its War On Law Firms Was A Bluff. The Cowards Who Folded Already Paid The Price.

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We’ve said it over and over again on this site: when you stand up to the bully, the bully backs down. When you capitulate, you get nothing but a permanent stain and an invitation for more abuse. And here we are again. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump administration plans to abandon […]

Sources: some investors push Anthropic to de-escalate its DOD dispute and avoid the "supply-chain risk" designation; source: some Anthropic-DOD talks continue (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Sources: some investors push Anthropic to de-escalate its DOD dispute and avoid the “supply-chain risk” designation; source: some Anthropic-DOD talks continue  —  Some Anthropic investors are racing to contain fallout from the AI research lab's dispute with the Pentagon … <

MacBook Neo vs. MacBook Air Buyer's Guide: 40 Differences Compared

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The MacBook Neo is now Apple's entry-level MacBook, undercutting the MacBook Air by $500. To deliver such a dramatically lower price, the MacBook Neo has a significant number of tradeoffs. Here's everything that's different between the two devices.


Apple's introduction of the MacBook Neo expands the company's laptop lineup with a far more affordable entry point, sitting well below the ‌MacBook Air‌ in both price and capability. While the two machines share a similar size and lightweight design, they are aimed at very different types of users. The MacBook Neo focuses on delivering the essentials of the Mac experience at the lowest possible cost, while the ‌MacBook Air‌ offers significantly more performance, features, and flexibili [...]

Cloud repatriation is hard. Here’s how to build a self-service developer platform that works.

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As more organizations move workloads back on-premises, they find themselves caught in a conundrum: How do they close the gap

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Google Pixel 10a review: The sidegrade

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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Sources: Arda, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew to automate manufacturing using AI, is raising $70M at a $700M valuation (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Arda, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew to automate manufacturing using AI, is raising $70M at a $700M valuation  —  Bob McGrew is raising $70 million to fund a startup making software platform to help run autonomous factories

MacBook Neo Can Only Drive One External Display at 4K 60Hz

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Apple's new low-cost MacBook Neo is equipped with the A18 Pro chip that Apple first used in the iPhone 16 Pro, and it's the first Mac that has an A-series chip.


Using an iPhone chip in a Mac comes with some downsides, like external display support. The MacBook Neo supports a single external display with a 4K resolution and 60Hz refresh rate.

The MacBook Neo will not work with the new Studio Display and Studio Display XDR that Apple announced yesterday because both of those are 5K displays, but it will work with affordable USB-C 4K display options from companies like LG, Dell, and Samsung.

There are [...]

Sonar Unfurls Framework for Managing DevOps Workflows in the Age of AI

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Sources: Neura Robotics, which is building cognitive, humanoid robots for logistics, is raising ~€1B in a funding round backed by Tether at a ~€4B valuation (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Neura Robotics, which is building cognitive, humanoid robots for logistics, is raising ~€1B in a funding round backed by Tether at a ~€4B valuation  —  German startup Neura Robotics is raising about €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in a funding round backed …

When AI Gets It Wrong: The Insecure Defaults Lurking in Your Code

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Apple Unveiled These Seven New Products This Week

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Apple this week unveiled seven products, including an iPhone 17e, an iPad Air with the M4 chip, updated MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, a new Studio Display, a higher-end Studio Display XDR, and an all-new MacBook Neo that starts at just $599.


iPhone 17e features the same overall design as the iPhone 16e, but it gains Apple's A19 chip, MagSafe for magnetic wireless charging and magnetic accessories, Apple's second-generation C1X modem for faster 5G, and a doubled 256GB of base storage. In the U.S., the iPhone 17e starts at $599, just like the iPhone 16e did.

The new iPad Air's key upgrades include Apple's M4 chip, an increased 12GB of RAM, Apple's N1 chip with Wi-Fi 7 support, and the C1X modem in cellular models.

The MacBook Air received a faster M5 [...]

The Media Trust report: online ads surpassed email as the primary malware channel in 2025, accounting for 60%+ of all observed malware and phishing campaigns (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)

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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
The Media Trust report: online ads surpassed email as the primary malware channel in 2025, accounting for 60%+ of all observed malware and phishing campaigns  —  Follow Lara O'Reilly … - Online ads leapfrogged email as the primary channel for malware in 2025, per a new report.

Skip The New Models and Get Up to $300 Off M4 MacBook Air on Amazon

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Apple today launched pre-orders for the new M5 MacBook Air, but if you're looking for a good discount you'll do better to shop previous generation models on Amazon. Right now you'll find up to $300 off select M4 MacBook Air devices, with the best deals on 15-inch 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.

Specifically, you can get the 256GB 15-inch M4 MacBook Air for $999.00 ($200 off), [...]

MacBook body, iPhone power: $599 MacBook Neo features A18 Pro chip and 16-hour battery

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Apple has introduced the MacBook Neo, a new entry-level laptop that reshapes the lower end...

New M5 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Get First Pre-Order Offers From Best Buy

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Apple just kicked off pre-orders for the new M5 MacBook Air and M5 Pro/M5 Max MacBook Pro, and Best Buy already has a few offers on these notebooks. You can get a $50 Best Buy gift card when pre-ordering the MacBook Air and a $100 gift card when pre-ordering the MacBook Pro.

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

In order to get these deals, you need to pre-order one of the newest MacBooks at Best Buy with a valid e-mail address. The e-gift card will be sent out after you receive the eligible MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, or after y [...]

A US lawsuit says Gemini sent a man to find an android body it could inhabit, before he died by suicide; Google says it sent him to crisis hotlines "many times" (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)

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Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal:
A US lawsuit says Gemini sent a man to find an android body it could inhabit, before he died by suicide; Google says it sent him to crisis hotlines “many times”  —  A new lawsuit alleges Google's chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit.

MacBook Neo Starts at Just $499 for Students

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Following months of rumors about a lower-cost MacBook, Apple has delivered in a big way with the MacBook Neo, which starts at $599 in the United States.


Even better, the MacBook Neo starts at just $499 through Apple's education store on its website, for eligible college students and educational staff.

There is only one upgrade option available for the MacBook Neo. If you want a configuration with a Touch ID button and an expanded 512GB of storage, that costs $100 extra. This raises the price to $699 for the general public, and to $599 for co [...]

MacBook Neo Has Just 8GB RAM With No Upgrade Option

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Apple made some compromises to sell a Mac notebook at $599, including cutting back on RAM. While all other Macs start at 16GB RAM, the MacBook Neo is equipped with 8GB RAM and no option to upgrade to more memory.


With the A18 Pro chip from the iPhone 16 Pro models and 8GB RAM, the MacBook Neo is able to run all Apple Intelligence features, but as AI gets more advanced and Apple adds new capabilities, there's a chance it could fall behind.

8GB RAM ensures the MacBook Neo is affordable, especially with the current memory shortages that are causing prices to soar. It's also the RAM in the ‌iPhone 16‌ Pro.

Apple's [...]

Eclipse Foundation reports Open VSX hits 300 million monthly downloads

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The Eclipse Foundation this week announced that Open VSX, the open source extension registry for tools built on the VS

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Source: OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5.4, with an "extreme" reasoning mode and a 1M-token context window, matching past models but up from GPT-5.2's 400K (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5.4, with an “extreme” reasoning mode and a 1M-token context window, matching past models but up from GPT-5.2's 400K  —  OpenAI's next GPT model is coming—and soon, according to a person with knowledge of it.

Apple's MacBook Neo has two USB-C ports with different specs: one is USB-C 3 with up to 10 Gb/s transfer speeds, and the other is USB-C 2, limited to 480 Mb/s (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

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Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple's MacBook Neo has two USB-C ports with different specs: one is USB-C 3 with up to 10 Gb/s transfer speeds, and the other is USB-C 2, limited to 480 Mb/s  —  The MacBook Neo's two USB-C ports have two different specifications, with one being limited to USB 2 speeds.

MacBook Neo Features Two Different USB-C Ports

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The MacBook Neo's two USB-C ports have two different specifications, with one being limited to USB 2 speeds.


One port is a USB-C 3 port with support for data transfer speeds up to 10 Gb/s, while the other is a USB-C 2 port with support for data transfer speeds up to 480 Mb/s. Both support charging, but only the USB-C 3 port features DisplayPort, so users will need to make sure they are hooked up to the correct port when using an external display.

There is no way to tell them apart externally. The limitation is likely related to the USB controller of the A18 Pro chip. There is also a headphone jack on the device, but there is no MagSafe charging capability or any other ports.

MacBook Neo is [...]

Always-on detections: eliminating the WAF “log versus block” trade-off

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Cloudflare is introducing Attack Signature Detection and Full-Transaction Detection to provide continuous, high-fidelity security insights without the manual tuning of traditional WAFs. By correlating request payloads with server responses, we can now identify successful exploits and data exfiltration while minimizing false positives.

Get an iPhone 17e at No Cost With First Pre-Order Discounts From Cellular Carriers

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Apple's latest iPhone, the iPhone 17e, went up for pre-order this morning, and as always you can find numerous offers on the newest Apple smartphone from cellular carriers. This includes savings from AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.

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.

Shoppers should remember that all of the offers below are pre-order deals on the iPhone 17e, which is set to launch on March 11.

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Abandoned US coal mines to turn into giant underground water batteries with new method

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Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have successfully developed advanced modeling tools that could...

Aikido Security bets on AI to make software secure itself

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While traditional penetration testing relies on manual or point-in-time assessments, often delivered weeks after software has already shipped, software security

The post Aikido Security bets on AI to make software secure itself appeared first on The New Stack.

Hello, MacBook Neo: Apple Showcases All-New $599 MacBook in Videos

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Apple today unveiled the colorful new MacBook Neo, which has a "breakthrough" starting price of just $599 in the United States. MacBook Neo features a 13-inch display, an A18 Pro chip with Apple Intelligence support, 256GB and 512GB storage options, dual speakers on the left and right sides of the laptop, and more.

Apple has shared a "Hello, MacBook Neo" video showing off the laptop:

MacBook Neo hands-on: it doesn't feel budget, with an aluminum body and weighing 2.7 lbs like the Air, but it has a flimsy keyboard and no option above 8GB RAM (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)

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Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
MacBook Neo hands-on: it doesn't feel budget, with an aluminum body and weighing 2.7 lbs like the Air, but it has a flimsy keyboard and no option above 8GB RAM  —  But of course, it's light on specs. … It's just fascinating to see the company tackle an entirely new category …

Want Touch ID on the MacBook Neo? It'll Cost You $100 Extra

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Apple today debuted the MacBook Neo, a $599 notebook with an A18 Pro chip, 16-hour battery life, and selection of bright colors. The MacBook Neo has the same magic keyboard as other MacBooks, but getting Touch ID is an extra charge.


The base $599 MacBook Neo model has a standard keyboard without ‌Touch ID‌ and 256GB of storage, but if you pay $100 more, you can get 512GB of storage and a ‌Touch ID‌ button on the keyboard.

There is no option to get ‌Touch ID‌ with the 256GB storage tier. There are just two pricing tiers for storage, with no other upgrade options available for the MacBook Neo. There is a $100 EDU discount, so teachers and students can get the standard Neo for $499, and the upgraded versi [...]

Apple's MacBook Neo uses the A18 Pro that launched in its iPhone 16 range, alongside 8GB of RAM and a headphone jack; Apple discontinued its 12" MacBook in 2019 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

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Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Apple's MacBook Neo uses the A18 Pro that launched in its iPhone 16 range, alongside 8GB of RAM and a headphone jack; Apple discontinued its 12" MacBook in 2019  —  The entry-level MacBook could help Apple compete with Chromebooks and low-cost Windows laptops.

The MacBook Neo is $599 with 256GB of storage and $699 with Touch ID and 512GB of storage, available in citrus, silver, indigo, and blush colors (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
The MacBook Neo is $599 with 256GB of storage and $699 with Touch ID and 512GB of storage, available in citrus, silver, indigo, and blush colors  —  Apple Inc. rolled out the $599 MacBook Neo in its biggest push yet into low-end laptops, aiming to challenge Windows PCs and Chromebooks for budget-minded shoppers.

The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple's long-awaited colorful, lower-cost MacBook

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Cute, colorful laptop takes the place of the old $599 M1 MacBook Air.

Apple Opens Pre-Orders for MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e, M5 Pro/Max MacBook Pro, New Studio Displays and More

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Apple is now accepting pre-orders for all of the new products that it announced this week. Everything can be ordered from the online Apple Store following the debut of the new low-cost MacBook earlier this morning, with deliveries starting on Wednesday, March 11.


Here's a list of what you can order now, with pricing details included.

• MacBook Neo - The 13-inch MacBook Neo has an A18 Pro chip and it's priced starting at $599. It comes in Silver, Indigo, Blush, and Citrus.


• iPhone 17e - Pricing starts at $599 for 256GB of storage. Features A19 chip,

Apple Announces $599 'MacBook Neo' With A18 Pro Chip

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Apple today announced the "MacBook Neo," an all-new kind of low-cost Mac featuring the A18 Pro chip for $599.


The MacBook Neo is the first Mac to be powered by an iPhone chip; the A18 Pro debuted in 2024's iPhone 16 Pro models. Apple says it is up to 50% faster for everyday tasks than the bestselling PC with the latest shipping Intel Core Ultra 5, up to 3x faster for on-device AI workloads, and up to 2x faster for tasks like photo editing.

The MacBook Neo features a 13-inch Liquid Retina display with a 2408-by-1506 resolution, 500 nits of brightness, and an anti-reflective coating. The display does not have [...]

Unleash raises $35M, launches Impact Metrics to govern feature rollouts at AI speed

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Four years is a long time in technology. But in AI, it’s more like an eternity. When Unleash last raised

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Mind the gap: new tools for continuous enforcement from boot to login

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Cloudflare’s mandatory authentication and independent MFA protect organizations by ensuring continuous enforcement, from the moment a machine boots until sensitive resources are accessed.

Apple Store Down Ahead of Rumored 'MacBook Neo' Announcement

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Apple's online store has gone down, just minutes before the company is expected to announce a lower-cost MacBook, which may be named MacBook Neo.


Apple already unveiled six products this week, including an iPhone 17e, a new iPad Air, new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, an updated Studio Display, and an all-new Studio Display XDR that replaces the Pro Display XDR.

To learn about these new products, read our coverage of Apple's announcements:

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

Brendan Carr Can’t Explain Why ‘Equal Time’ Rule Doesn’t Apply To Right Wing Radio

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We’ve noted repeatedly how Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr has been abusing the FCC’s “equal opportunity” (or “equal time”) rule to try and threaten daytime and late night talk shows with government retribution if they refuse to enthusiastically coddle Republicans. Late night shows had historically been exempt from the dated rules, which required that any […]

284°F self-healing material could help Europe catch up to US, China in reusable spacecraft

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Europe is lagging behind the US and China when it comes to reusable space technologies....

Europe’s 2.6 Gbps space laser link beats China in high-orbit internet speed race

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The quest for high-speed satellite communication has intensified.  Both the European Space Agency (ESA) and...

Why the “bible” of data systems is getting a massive rewrite for 2026

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How Martin Kleppmann’s iconic book is evolving for AI and cloud-native architectures Since its release in 2017, Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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Iran’s missile arsenal is testing US and Israeli air defenses like never before

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The expanding conflict between Iran on one side and the United States, Israel, and several...

5 ways Iran shields its ballistic missile arsenal from enemy strikes

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For decades, military conflicts have invested heavily in protecting their most important military assets, ballistic...

Chainguard Expands Repository to Add More Secure Open Source Libraries

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Art Degrees, Sun Microsystems, and How Kubernetes Scales Contributions, with Josh Berkus - Software Defined Interviews #121

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Our interview for this week is up, it’s with Josh Berkus:

Whitney and Coté discuss with Josh Berkus (Red Hat, Kubernetes contributor) how liberal and fine arts degrees (philosophy, photography, sculpture, pottery) apply to tech careers. Berkus details how early hardware experience influenced his database performance work, noting hardware’s renewed relevance with AI and multi-arch computing. The conversation covers Sun Microsystems’ 1990s internet role, internal politics, and its MySQL/Postgres strategy. They examine open source’s shift from end-user to vendor-driven models, foundations' roles, and contributor incentives. Berkus describes Kubernetes release processes, contributor-experience programs, and its resilience to low-quality AI contributions.

Listen to the traditional podcast format, or

Unlocking Observability by Design With Inferred Schemas

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Defeating the deepfake: stopping laptop farms and insider threats

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Cloudflare One is partnering with Nametag to combat laptop farms and AI-enhanced identity fraud by requiring identity verification during employee onboarding and via continuous authentication.

Moving from license plates to badges: the Gateway Authorization Proxy

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Cloudflare’s Gateway Authorization Proxy adds support for identity-aware policies for clientless devices, securing virtual desktops, and guest networks without a device client.

Stop reacting to breaches and start preventing them with User Risk Scoring

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Cloudflare One now incorporates dynamic User Risk Scores into Access policies to enable automated, adaptive security responses. This update allows teams to move beyond binary "allow/deny" rules by evaluating continuous behavior signals from both internal and third-party sources.

OPM Musical Artist Gets Copyright Notice For Performing His Own Song

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It’s a tale as old as time, assuming time began a decade or two ago. A music artist who just wants to make and perform their craft gets on the internet and performs the song he or she created, only to receive some version of a copyright notice or warning, confusing the hell out of […]

Fuck ICE Says West Virginia Court, Threatening Fines And Contempt Charges

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The administration has burnt the “presumption of regularity” to a crispness normally reserved for conquered bridges succumbing to heat death. It is now well known that the Trump administration will do whatever it wants to do, whether or not it’s supported by law. And when the courts push back, the administration responds with implicit “fuck […]

How WebAssembly plugins simplify Kubernetes extensibility

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The integration of WebAssembly (Wasm) into the Helm ecosystem streamlines the orchestration of WASI-compliant binaries across disparate environments, including OCI

The post How WebAssembly plugins simplify Kubernetes extensibility appeared first on The New Stack.

How to clone a drive to an image with Clonezilla

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There will come a time when you need to not only back up your data, but also create an image

The post How to clone a drive to an image with Clonezilla appeared first on The New Stack.

Rubio To World: Stop Doing The Exact Same Thing The US Just Did

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The State Department wants US diplomats to fight data localization around the world. The policy position is correct. It’s just that the messenger has spent the last few months systematically destroying every reason anyone might listen. Reuters has an exclusive report on a State Department cable ordering US diplomats to lobby against data sovereignty and […]

N. Korean Famous Chollima Hackers Use Malicious npm Packages to Steal Data

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Why 83% of organizations reportedly trust open source with their most sensitive assets

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Internal access management (IAM) is seeing compounded growth in demand and adoption as a key component in zero trust and

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.3 Instant promises to dial down the cringe

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On the same day Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, OpenAI also launched a faster version of its GPT-5.3 family on

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Minnesota Judge Shuts Down DHS’s Attempt To Expel Thousands Of Refugees

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The Trump administration is purposefully cruel. That much cannot be argued, not when it has deliberately sent deportees to foreign torture prisons, dumped them in war-torn countries with histories of human rights abuses, and stranded people its has been ordered to release far from home without their IDs, phones, or money. This regime loves to […]

Daily Deal: The 2026 Ultimate GenAI Masterclass Bundle

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Unlock the power of AI with lifetime access to 50 groundbreaking courses designed to help you master the most advanced AI tools of 2025 and beyond. Explore conversational AI, generative models, and cutting-edge technologies like ChatGPT, GPT APIs, and AI-driven applications with the 2026 Ultimate GenAI Masterclass Bundle. With hands-on projects and real-world applications, this […]

How we rebuilt the search architecture for high availability in GitHub Enterprise Server

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Here's how we the search experience better, faster, and more resilient for GHES customers.

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Yahoo is selling Engadget to Static Media

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Engadget, the long-running tech news website, has a new owner. Yahoo sold the publication to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later this March. (Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.) The deal hasn't yet been publicly announced, but a source familiar with the publication says […]

M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon

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Apple is using more chiplets and three types of CPU cores to make the M5 family.

Confluent adds A2A support, anomaly detection, and Queues for Kafka in major platform update

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Confluent recently unveiled support for the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, an open standard for inter-agent communication. The platform’s implementation of the

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Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, its fastest Gemini 3 model yet

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Two weeks after launching Gemini 3.1 Pro, its most capable AI model yet, Google on Tuesday launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite,

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Ron Wyden Is Begging His Colleagues To Stop Trying To Hand Trump A Censorship Weapon

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We’ve been writing about Section 230 for a very long time. We’ve written about why it matters, why the people attacking it are wrong, and why most of the proposed “reforms” would make the internet dramatically worse for everyone except the already powerful. And for just about as long as we’ve been doing that, Senator […]

Google’s Chrome browser moves to a two-week release cycle

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Google on Tuesday announced that its Chrome browser will move to a faster release cycle later this year, with a

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OpenClaw rocks to GitHub’s most-starred status, but is it safe?

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OpenClaw is in the ascension. This open source autonomous AI agent has this year surpassed Linux on the GitHub all-time

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The Hidden Price Tag: Uncovering Hidden Costs in Cloud Architectures with the AWS Well-Architected Framework

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In this post, we discuss how following the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) and AWS Well-Architected Framework can help reduce these risks through proper implementation of AWS guidance and best practices while taking into consideration the practical challenges organizations face in implementing these best practices, including resource constraints, evaluating trade-offs and competing business priorities.

New MacBook Airs come with M5, double the storage, and higher starting prices

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New Airs leave more room underneath for the rumored low-cost MacBook.

Developers are coding to a moving target, and nobody knows where AI lands next

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In Barcelona this week, a bit of tension is in the air for certain attendees at the annual Mobile World

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Apple intros M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and its first new monitors in years

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New laptops come with more storage but also higher starting prices.

Related to your interests, Tuesday

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The Links

• Gartner Research Reveals CFOs’ Budget Plans Prioritize Growth Functions, Technology and AI in 2026 - More spending on tech, less on people.

• The Supreme Court doesn’t care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art - I think this means you can’t copyright stuff made by AI? In the US, at least. How about programming code? That’d be a big shift!

• What AX can do to deliver cohesion and uniformity to AI agents - 🤖: Agents amplify

Introducing the 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report

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There has been a fundamental shift toward industrialized cyber threats, highlighted by a record 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack and sophisticated session token theft. Our new report examines how nation-states and criminal actors have moved beyond traditional exploits to "living off the XaaS" within legitimate enterprise logic.

Evolving Cloudflare’s Threat Intelligence Platform: actionable, scalable, and ETL-less

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Stop managing ETL pipelines and start threat hunting. Introducing new visualization, automation, and enrichment tools in the Cloudflare Threat Intelligence Platform to turn massive telemetry into instant security posture.

Meta gave React its own foundation. But it’s not letting go just yet.

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Open source has long been shaped by the tension between community ideals and commercial reality. This past week highlighted just

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