Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's latest tech investment craze (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's latest tech investment craze  —  This cohort has become an increasingly important driver of investment growth in the world's second-largest economy.  —  By Bloomberg Businessweek

US strikes 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels as battle for control of Hormuz intensifies

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Tensions around the oil-rich Persian Gulf surged on Tuesday as the United States carried out...

A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November 2025 as head of industrial compute, as he helps guide OpenAI's infrastructure efforts (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November 2025 as head of industrial compute, as he helps guide OpenAI's infrastructure efforts  —  For months, OpenAI's Sam Altman has been talking up plans to spend trillions of dollars on an unprecedented buildout of data centers stocked with advanced chips to power AI.

"Feminization" and Deming

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The term “feminization” is, as the kids used to say, “suss,"[^1] but this reminds me of one of the points John Willis made in his Deming work.

There was a huge influx of women in corporate work/factories during WWII, and also lots of rapid process change. It was all wildly successful - proven by a clear outcome of winning the war! Then the men came back, patted the women (and Deming-ites) on the head and said “that’s nice, now back to normal…”

Original: Money, Talent, and the War Test: What WWII’s Female Labor Surge Says About “Feminization”

[1]: It usually, effectively, ends up meaning “being better,” or,

Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages (The Economic Times)

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The Economic Times:
Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages  —  Lossfunk, an AI lab founded by Paras Chopra,

The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

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Thomas Claburn / The Register:
The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original  —  Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk  —  Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard …

Applied Materials partners with Micron and SK Hynix to develop next-gen memory chips for AI and HPC at its new EPIC center, part of a planned $5B R&D investment (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

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Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Applied Materials partners with Micron and SK Hynix to develop next-gen memory chips for AI and HPC at its new EPIC center, part of a planned $5B R&D investment  —  Applied Materials (AMAT.O) said on Tuesday it has partnered with memory chip companies Micron Technology (MU.O) and SK Hynix …

Sources: Chinese state enterprises and agencies move to curb in-office OpenClaw use over potential security risks as users across China experiment with OpenClaw (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Chinese state enterprises and agencies move to curb in-office OpenClaw use over potential security risks as users across China experiment with OpenClaw  —  Chinese authorities moved to restrict state-run enterprises and government agencies from running OpenClaw AI apps on office computers …

Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, Canada, and New Zealand, and adds support for over 50 additional languages, including Hindi, French, and Spanish (Charmaine D'Silva/The Keyword)

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Charmaine D'Silva / The Keyword:
Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, Canada, and New Zealand, and adds support for over 50 additional languages, including Hindi, French, and Spanish  —  We're bringing Chrome's powerful AI features to more regions and languages, helping millions of people get the most out of their browser.

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help boost weekly active users, now at 920M, short of the 1B goal the company targeted last year (The Information)

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The Information:
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help boost weekly active users, now at 920M, short of the 1B goal the company targeted last year  —  OpenAI plans to soon launch its Sora AI-generated video capabilities in ChatGPT, according to people with knowledge of the effort.

A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI agents to simulate human responses for product development, polling, and more, recently valued at $1B (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)

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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI agents to simulate human responses for product development, polling, and more, recently valued at $1B  —  The team behind Aaru is attracting brands including McDonald's and EY by betting AI bots can predict human behavior better than humans can

DOJ Lawyer: RFK Jr.’s Authority Shall Not Suffer Any Checks & Balances From The Courts

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I’ve spent a lot of digital ink detailing just how bad RFK Jr. has been in his post at HHS. Everything from his attempts to entirely remake vaccine policies in the country, to his neutered response to the ongoing measles outbreak in the country, up to and including his attempts to strong-arm the entire federal […]

A look at the rise and fall of Chen Zhi, an alleged online scam kingpin whom the US and UK accused of laundering billions; he was extradited to China in January (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
A look at the rise and fall of Chen Zhi, an alleged online scam kingpin whom the US and UK accused of laundering billions; he was extradited to China in January  —  Chen Zhi developed a sprawling network of politicians and banks while he built a global fortune and alleged “pig butchering” scam h

ASUS Executive Says MacBook Neo is 'Shock' to PC Industry

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On an earnings call today, an ASUS executive admitted that Apple's more affordable MacBook Neo is a "shock" to the PC industry (via PCMag). In the U.S., the MacBook Neo starts at just $599, or at an even lower $499 for college students.


"Given Apple's historically very premium pricing, launching such an affordable product is certainly a shock to the entire market," said ASUS's Chief Financial Officer Nick Wu, according to a transcript of the earnings call published by Seeking Alpha. His comment was translated to English by an interpreter who was present on the call.
[...]

Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000x faster than top Intel server CPUs (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)

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Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum:
Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000x faster than top Intel server CPUs  —  Fully homomorphic encryption chip speeds operations 5,000-fold  —  Samuel K. Moore is IEEE Spectrum's semiconductor editor.  —  SUMMARY

Engineers combine 222 laser modes into one fiber using tiny photonic lantern

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Researchers in Israel have created a microscopic optical device that could simplify high-power laser systems....

How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws (Barbara Booth/CNBC)

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Barbara Booth / CNBC:
How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws  —  New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content …

Why Apple Rejected a Clamshell-Style Foldable iPhone

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Apple considered but abandoned plans for a flip-style foldable iPhone because it didn't create compelling new use cases, according to Weibo leaker Instant Digital. Apple reportedly felt that it was an "unnecessary" design because the biggest selling point would have been its smaller size when folded.


The split at the middle also caused issues with internal space, limiting battery capacity and leaving less space for camera components. Apple would have had to compromise on the rear camera system. Instant Digital suggests that if Apple wanted a smaller ‌iPhone‌, the company would introduce a smaller slab-style model instead.

There have been two distinct periods when rumors suggested Apple was considering an ‌iPhone‌ that folds in half like [...]

Analysis: surging memory and CPU costs could drive the retail price of a mainstream $900 notebook up by nearly 40% in 2026 to maintain current margin structures (TrendForce)

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TrendForce:
Analysis: surging memory and CPU costs could drive the retail price of a mainstream $900 notebook up by nearly 40% in 2026 to maintain current margin structures  —  - For a mainstream notebook with an MSRP of US$900, surging memory prices alone could raise retail prices by more than 30%; …

New robot AI predicts physical motion from video to guide machines in real time

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Robotics startup Rhoda AI has emerged from stealth with a new approach to robot intelligence...

3D-printed metallic glass motor parts could slash energy loss in drones, e-bikes

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Researchers in Europe are developing metallic glass materials that could significantly reduce energy losses in...

NASA’s Van Allen Probe A set for fiery re-entry after decade studying radiation belts

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NASA’s spacecraft Van Allen Probe A is expected to fall back to Earth this week...

Apple's Low-Cost iPhone 17e is Faster Than the Low-Cost MacBook Neo

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Apple is set to launch two new low-cost devices tomorrow, the iPhone 17e and the MacBook Neo. Both devices use A-series chips, which have historically been limited to the iPhone and iPad.


The ‌MacBook Neo‌ has Apple's A18 Pro chip inside, which was first used in the iPhone 16 Pro models, while the ‌iPhone 17e‌ has a newer A19 chip. Unsurprisingly, thanks to the newer chip, Apple's $599 ‌iPhone‌ outperforms the CPU in its $599 Mac.

The ‌iPhone 17e‌ earned a [...]

Sources: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta and ex-Meta CRO John Hegeman seek to raise $1B+ for a holding company to acquire at least one company and infuse it with new tech (Bloomberg)

Summary:

Bloomberg:
Sources: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta and ex-Meta CRO John Hegeman seek to raise $1B+ for a holding company to acquire at least one company and infuse it with new tech  —  Sequoia Capital partner Ravi Gupta and former Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman are looking to raise …

Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

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Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers  —  Elon Musk's xAI scored a victory in Mississippi, where regulators on Tuesday authorized the artificial intelligence company to build a power plant …

37,000 Fake AI Comments Mysteriously Oppose Washington State’s Effort To Tax The Rich

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Ideally, the U.S. public is supposed to be able to comment on government policy proceedings, and the government is supposed to listen to that input. Of course, it doesn’t really work that way: For years we’ve noted how U.S. regulatory comment proceedings are full of bots and fake comments from industries trying to game regulators, and […]

First MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e, and Studio Display XDR Orders Begin Arriving

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It's Wednesday, March 11 in Australia and New Zealand, which means it's the official launch day for all of the products Apple introduced last week, including the new low-cost MacBook Neo, the iPhone 17e, the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models, the Studio Display, the ‌Studio Display‌ XDR, the M4 iPad Air, and the M5 MacBook Air.


Apple fans who purchased one of the new devices will start receiving their orders in the next few hours, and will soon sha [...]

New frontier: Meta buys Moltbook, the viral social media network for AI agents

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Looks like social media for humans was not enough for Meta. Now it wants social...

MacBook Neo Has Up to 8× Slower SSD Speeds Compared to New MacBook Pro

Summary:
While the MacBook Neo achieves a breakthrough $599 starting price, that of course comes with some compromises, and one of them is slower SSD speeds.


The Verge today showed the MacBook Neo had up to 8× slower sustained SSD read and write speeds in a benchmark test compared to the new MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. The site did not mention which tool it used to measure SSD speeds, but it was likely Blackmagic's Disk Speed Test or AmorphousDiskMark.

Here is a comparison of sustained SSD speeds, according to The Verge.

Sonos Launches Two New Speakers With AirPlay 2 Support

Summary:
Sonos today launched two new speakers, the Sonos Play and the Sonos Era 100 SL. Sonos says that the additions to its lineup "reflect a renewed focus on strengthening the Sonos system" after a disastrous 2024 app redesign damaged customer trust.


The Sonos Play is a versatile speaker that can be used from room to room, and like most Sonos products, multiple speakers can be paired together. Sonos Play speakers connect to WiFi and can be grouped across multiple rooms or paired up for stereo sound.

There's an included charging base so the speaker can be used either at home or while on the go. The battery lasts for up to 24 hours, and it can also serve as a power bank for recharging [...]

Amazon calls engineers for a “deep dive” internal meeting to discuss “GenAI”-related outages

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A normally optional, routine Amazon meeting turned serious when the brand’s top retail executive summoned engineers to discuss a series

The post Amazon calls engineers for a “deep dive” internal meeting to discuss “GenAI”-related outages appeared first on The New Stack.

Stephen Thaler’s Legendary AI Copyright Losing Streak Ends With Nowhere Left To Appeal

Summary:
We’ve been covering Stephen Thaler’s quixotic quest to get copyright (and patent) protection for works generated entirely by his AI system “DABUS” for years now. If there’s one thing Thaler has proved beyond all reasonable doubt, it’s that you can be comprehensively, thoroughly, and repeatedly wrong at every level of the American legal system and […]

Big change brings big change (News)

Summary:
This week's been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it's seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally playing DOOM. We've also got a heartfelt take on what it feels like to be a 10x engineer in the age of AI, plus some cool new tools like Handy for speech-to-text and web haptics. Oh, and new MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max are up for pre-order. Try not to impulse buy (or do).

Giant 25,000-square-foot robot gym in Germany to train hundreds of humanoid robots

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Germany is getting ready to launch the world’s largest robotics research and training center, where...

With its latest Phi-4 reasoning model, Microsoft reckons bigger isn’t always better

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The dominant trend in artificial intelligence of late has been clear: bigger models, more data, more compute. But the cost

The post With its latest Phi-4 reasoning model, Microsoft reckons bigger isn’t always better appeared first on The New Stack.

Report: Lower Performing Software Engineering Teams Benefit More from AI

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Nvidia plans NemoClaw launch, an open-source platform for AI agents

Summary:

Nvidia is planning to launch NemoClaw, an open-source platform for AI agents, next week. The product is reportedly already being

The post Nvidia plans NemoClaw launch, an open-source platform for AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.

Human Problems: It’s Not Always The Technology’s Fault

Summary:
We have met the enemy and he is us. When a teenage boy in Orlando started texting Character.AI’s chatbot, it started as an innocent use of a new tool. Sewell Setzer III customized the chatbot to have the Game of Thrones-inspired persona of Daenerys Targaryen, the series’ prominent dragon-riding queen. In the months that followed, […]

Daily Deal: The 2026 Complete Firewall Admin Bundle

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Transform your future in cybersecurity with 7 courses on next‑level packet control, secure architecture, and cloud‑ready defenses inside the 2026 Complete Firewall Admin Bundle. Courses cover IT fundamentals, topics to help you prepare for the CompTIA Server+ and CCNA exams, and more. It’s on sale for $25. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and […]

How to deploy an AI server on your Debian/Ubuntu server

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Whenever I use AI, I always opt to go with a locally installed instance. The reason for that is twofold.

The post How to deploy an AI server on your Debian/Ubuntu server appeared first on The New Stack.

MacBook Neo Will Have Day One Software Update

Summary:
Customers planning to get a new MacBook Neo tomorrow will need to install a day one update. Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26.3.2, which is available for the new Mac.


According to Apple's release notes for ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.3.2, it includes bug fixes and security updates. Apple will likely require the software to be installed during the ‌MacBook Neo‌ setup process.

As of yesterday, there is also a version of the ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 beta that's compatible with the ‌MacBook Neo‌, and also Apple's new M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models.

The ‌MacBook Neo‌ is [...]

Apple's New MacBooks Have a Keyboard Change You Might Have Missed

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The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models feature a keyboard change that was easy to miss during Apple's announcements last week.

The new U.S. English keyboard layout

Trump Kicks Kristi Noem To The Curb For Being Exactly The Sort Of Person Trump Wanted Her To Be

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I come here to celebrate the apparently permanent sidelining of former DHS head, Kristi Noem. I know the adage usually does some hedging before damning with faint praise, but I’m not interested in praise, faint or otherwise, much less pretending this isn’t worth celebrating. Noem openly pined for the VP position, but shot herself in […]

Studio Display XDR White Paper Reveals New Color System and Future Calibration Feature

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Apple's newly published Studio Display XDR Technology Overview white paper reveals two notable display technologies: a forthcoming Full Calibration feature and a new color measurement model called Apple CMF 2026.


According to the document, a future macOS update will introduce Full Calibration, a feature that allows users to recalibrate key display characteristics using professional measurement equipment. Apple says Full Calibration will adjust the white point, primary color coordinates, luminance, and gamma response of the display when used with a compatible spectroradiometer. The feature is not available at launch.

The functionality is aimed at professional color workflows, allowing [...]

Amazon Kicks Off Big Accessory Sale on Monitors, iPhone Accessories, and More

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Today we're tracking a collection of discounts on Amazon for a wide range of products, including monitors, iPhone and desktop accessories, and more. The majority of the deals below have been automatically applied, but some will require you to clip an on-page coupon in order to see the final sale price.

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.

Highlights include Samsung's 32-inch Smart Monitor M9 for $1,299.99, which is $30 [...]

12 New Apple Products Still Expected This Year

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Apple may have updated several iPads and Macs late last year and just last week, but there are still a number of new devices expected to arrive later in 2026.


Most of Apple's remaining launches for the year are likely to follow the company's typical fall schedule in September and October, but we could always see additional announcements outside of the 2026 fall season.

We've rounded up a list of everything that we're still waiting to see from Apple in 2026.

1. Low-Cost iPad – Apple is working on a new version of the low-cost iPad that was expected to arrive last week, but it was conspicuous in its absence from Apple's announcements. Th

Bell’s new 517 mph-speeding aircraft for DARPA’s SPRINT program passes design review

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In military aviation, the runway has always been a tether. It provides the distance needed...

MacBook Neo Reviews: Is Just 8GB of RAM Enough?

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The first reviews of the MacBook Neo were published today by selected publications and YouTube channels, ahead of the laptop launching on Wednesday.


Available in Blush, Citrus, Indigo, and Silver, the MacBook Neo is powered by a version of the A18 Pro chip from the iPhone 16 Pro. The laptop is equipped with a 13-inch display, up to 512GB of storage, and a non-configurable 8GB of RAM.

MacBook Neo is Apple's most affordable MacBook ever, and most of the reviews so far call it a great value. In the U.S., pricing starts at just $599, or at an even lower $499 for college students and qualifying educational staff.

The big question: is just 8GB of RAM enough? Most reviewers say yes.

Reviews

With GridGain acquisition, MariaDB bets on in-memory computing and Apache Ignite

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MariaDB is one of the stalwarts of the open-source database world. Born out of the MySQL fork following Oracle’s acquisition of

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Terra Innovatum secures nuclear-grade graphite for planned micro-reactor in US

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Terra Innovatum Global has executed its first procurement order for nuclear-grade graphite with Mersen, marking...

First proton beams circulate in US test accelerator built to shape future colliders

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US researchers have successfully accelerated and stored the first proton beams inside a specialized accelerator...

Apple CEO Tim Cook Takes a Pit Stop in New Video to Promote F1

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Apple CEO Tim Cook today shared a short promotional video on social media highlighting Apple's new role as the U.S. home of Formula One.


The clip takes place around Apple Park and shows Cook driving a small campus buggy along the ring road before pulling up beside Dutch racing driver Max Verstappen. The scene plays out like a Formula 1 pit stop, with the buggy stopping at a makeshift pit area labeled "Tim Box Box," a reference to the radio phrase used by F1 teams to call drivers into the pits.

During the stop, a rapid tire-change sequence unfolds, parodying the high-speed choreography of real Formula 1 pit crews. After the brief stop, Cook accelerates away from the pi [...]

MacBook Neo Unboxing Videos Shared Ahead of Launch Day

Summary:
The first MacBook Neo unboxing videos were shared today by selected YouTube channels, ahead of the laptop launching on Wednesday.


Regardless of whether you choose Blush, Citrus, Indigo, or Silver, the MacBook Neo comes with a white USB-C charging cable in the box. In all regions except the UK and the EU, Apple's 20W USB-C Power Adapter is also included in the box. As has been the case for a few years now, however, Apple stickers are no longer provided.

We have rounded up some of the unboxing videos below.

Apple MacBook Neo review: Can a Mac get by with an iPhone’s processor inside?

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8GB of RAM is a bummer, but this $599 laptop cuts most of the right corners.

Investigating multi-vector attacks in Log Explorer

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Log Explorer customers can now identify and investigate multi-vector attacks. Log Explorer supports 14 additional Cloudflare datasets, enabling users to have a 360-degree view of their network.

Building a security overview dashboard for actionable insights

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Cloudflare's new Security Overview dashboard transforms overwhelming security data into prioritized, actionable insights, empowering defenders with contextual intelligence on vulnerabilities.

AirPods Pro 3 Hit All-Time Low Price of $199

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Verizon today has the AirPods Pro 3 available for $199.00, down from $249.00. This is a match of the all-time low price on the AirPods Pro 3, which has been hard to come by on Amazon in recent weeks.

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 model of the AirPods Pro launched in September 2025 and has 2x better Active Noise Cancellation than the previous generation, better audio quality, a revised fit that's meant to improve comf [...]

New Book 'Apple: The First 50 Years' Now Available

Summary:
Tech columnist David Pogue's new book Apple: The First 50 Years is available in hardcover and digital formats starting today.


In time for Apple's 50th anniversary on April 1, the 608-page book explores the first five decades of the company's history. Pogue interviewed 150 key people who shaped Apple into what it is today, including the company's co-founder Steve Wozniak, former CEO John Sculley, former design chief Jony Ive, and others.

While many aspects of Apple's history are well documented, the book's official description promises "new facts that correct the record": [...]

MAGA Suddenly Quiet About Overseas Influence Now That Larry Ellison’s Warner Bros Bid Has Saudi, Chinese Backing

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You might recall that during the great mass TikTok hyperventilation of 2021-2025, there was no limit of face fanning by Republicans like Brendan Carr about overseas involvement in social media. Carr was so particular on this subject, he scuttled an FCC program aimed at shoring up “smart” home device security standards because one of the […]

Apple Holds an Edge as Laptop Prices Could Face a 40% Increase

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Apple's Mac lineup will soon span a wider price range than ever, from the new $599 MacBook Neo to a rumored top-of-the-line MacBook "Ultra" expected later this year. However, new research suggests the broader laptop market could be heading for a painful price adjustment.


According to TrendForce, surging memory and CPU costs could push mainstream laptop retail prices up by nearly 40% in 2026. The firm modeled a laptop with a $900 MSRP and found that DRAM and SSD (normally around 15% of a device's bill of materials) have ballooned to over 30% following several quarters of shar [...]

The AI Infrastructure crisis: When ambition meets ancient systems

Summary:

Artificial Intelligence has become a core capability in modern software systems, powering applications such as personalized recommendations, fraud detection, medical

The post The AI Infrastructure crisis: When ambition meets ancient systems appeared first on The New Stack.

Summary:

When Developer Workflow Discipline Isn’t Enough thectoadvisor.com/blog/2026… Selling cross-silo enterprise infrastructure stuff is very difficult:

These are platform engineering objections. And they’re coming from a team the vendor never talked to. Because the vendor optimized their story for developer adoption. They have research that tells them developers love this. What they don’t have is a conversation with the platform team that has to decide whether this can actually be operationalized inside a real enterprise environment."

It’s pretty much always devs versus ops in enterprises. They need organizational therapy from the top, and then the tools.

Apple Now Makes One in Four iPhones in India

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Apple boosted iPhone production in India by around 53 percent last year and now makes a quarter of its flagship devices there to avoid tariffs on China, reports Bloomberg ($).


Apple assembled about 55 million iPhones in the country across 2025, up from 36 million a year earlier, according to the publication's sources. The shift is part of Apple's broader effort to mitigate risk from U.S.-China trade tensions and reduce dependence on a single country for production.

Apple makes about 220 million to 230 million iPhones globally. A Canalys report last year claime [...]

Translating risk insights into actionable protection: leveling up security posture with Cloudflare and Mastercard

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Cloudflare will be integrating Mastercard’s RiskRecon attack surface intelligence capabilities to help you eliminate Internet-facing blind spots while continuously monitoring and closing security gaps.

Real Consequences: Trump’s Bullshit Claim About Tylenol Is Seeing Real World Results

Summary:
There’s this insane subset of people who, when they talk about Donald Trump, I’ll never understand. It’s the ones who claim that taking what Donald Trump says seriously is a mistake that most people are unlikely to make. It’s also expressed by the crowd that claims something to the effect of: you shouldn’t take Trump […]

Everything New in iOS 26.4 Beta 4

Summary:
Apple is continuing to test the iOS 26.4 beta, and the latest update is now available for developers and public beta testers. As testing goes on, there are fewer new features in each beta, but today’s release adds new emoji characters and a few other changes.

New Emoji

Reduce Bright Effects<

DOJ Un-Drops Its Appeal Against Law Firms, Files Brief That Gets The First Amendment Exactly Backwards

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On Wednesday of last week, I wrote a post about how the Trump administration had quietly given up defending its unconstitutional executive orders targeting law firms. The DOJ was dropping its appeals, the firms that fought had won, and the firms that capitulated—led by Paul Weiss and their nearly $1 billion in groveling pro bono […]

Your Data is Made Powerful By Context (so stop destroying it already) (xpost)

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Your Data Is Made Powerful By Context (so stop destroying it already) In logs as in life, the relationships are the most important part. AI doesn’t fix this. It makes it worse. (cross-posted) After twenty years of devops, most software engineers still treat observability like a fire alarm — something you check when things are already […]

Apple's Shazam Music Recognition Now Available in ChatGPT

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ChatGPT is now able to identify songs that are playing using Apple-owned music service Shazam. With a new Shazam integration, ChatGPT users can type in a question like "Shazam, what is this song?" to bring up a "Tap to Shazam" interface to get the title of a song.


Shazam's full music recognition technology is available in ChatGPT, so users won't need to exit out of the app to identify a song and listen to an inline preview. Using Shazam in ChatGPT works the same way as Shazam on an Apple device.

Shazam can be added to ChatGPT by opening up the ChatGPT settings, navigating to apps, and searching for Shazam. After installation, Shazam can be invoked by starting a request with "Shazam."

Using Shazam in ChatGPT does not require the Shazam app to be installed, and the song recognition functionality can [...]

Congressional Republicans Push Bills That Would Block Kids Access To Content For Ideological Reasons

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Should parents have a right to monitor and control which sites and apps their kids use? Today, parents do have that legal right under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The 1998 law requires verifiable parental consent before websites or apps can collect, use or share personal information from teens 13 or under. In […]

Testing Apple's 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new "performance" cores

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M5 Pro Max's "performance" CPU cores definitely aren't just rebranded E-cores.

Anthropic launches a multi-agent code review tool for Claude Code

Summary:

Thanks to agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and others, developers are shipping more code than ever. But

The post Anthropic launches a multi-agent code review tool for Claude Code appeared first on The New Stack.

Fully Synergized Paradigms - Related to your interests, Monday sweep

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The Links

• Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs - “The results revealed a troubling paradox. Workers who were more susceptible to corporate BS rated their supervisors as more charismatic and ‘visionary,’ but also displayed lower scores on a portion of the study that tested analytic thinking, cognitive reflection and fluid intelligence. Those more receptive to corporate BS also scored significantly worse on a test of effective workplace decision-making.” But, the others are more cynical and, I would guess, more grumpy: “The study found that being more receptive to corporate bullshit was also positively linked to job satisfaction and feeling inspired by company mission statements. Moreover, those who were more likely to fall for corporate BS were also more likely to spread it.” // Related:

How Advanced Browsing Protection Works in Messenger

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We’re sharing the technical details behind how Advanced Browsing Protection (ABP) in Messenger protects the privacy of the links clicked on within chats while still warning people about malicious links. We hope that this post has helped to illuminate some of the engineering challenges and infrastructure components involved for providing this feature for our users. [...]

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How context rot drags down AI and LLM results for enterprises, and how to fix it

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One of the most quoted business mantras today states that if a company wants to be successful, data is everything.

The post How context rot drags down AI and LLM results for enterprises, and how to fix it appeared first on The New Stack.

Cursor builds always-on agents to tackle developer task tedium

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AI-powered code editor company Cursor has introduced Cursor Automations to build always-on agents that operate on its deep understanding of

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Moving AI apps from prototype to production requires enterprise-grade postgres infrastructure

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There’s no ignoring the AI gold rush. In 2024, 78% of organizations reported using AI, a 23 percentage-point increase from

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AI coding agents can write code, Crafting wants to help them ship it

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AI coding agents are getting very good at generating code, but for enterprise engineering teams, that’s only part of the

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Fixing request smuggling vulnerabilities in Pingora OSS deployments

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Today we’re disclosing request smuggling vulnerabilities when our open source Pingora service is deployed as an ingress proxy and how we’ve fixed them in Pingora 0.8.0.

Active defense: introducing a stateful vulnerability scanner for APIs

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Cloudflare’s new Web and API Vulnerability Scanner helps teams proactively find logic flaws. By using AI to build API call graphs, we identify vulnerabilities that standard defensive tools miss.

The technical leap where most brilliant AI initiatives spectacularly fail

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The hard work is done. Your organization successfully navigated the treacherous waters of legacy infrastructure and now stands at the

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VS Code Is Becoming an Agent Control Plane — and Most Teams Haven’t Noticed Yet

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GitHub Copilot Coding Agent for Jira Connects Planning to Pull Requests Without Leaving Your Workflow

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How We Got Here: Alert Fatigue to Decision Fatigue

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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Complexity is a choice. SASE migrations shouldn’t take years.

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Discover how Cloudflare partners TachTech and Adapture are shattering the 18-month migration myth, deploying agile SASE for global enterprises in weeks by treating security as software.

Vibe code full-stack apps fast with TanStack Start

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It’s no secret that it’s gotten significantly easier to build applications in the last few years. And vibe coding is

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Why is your Kubernetes cluster adding nodes when the dashboards look fine?

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Kubernetes has always been sensitive to bad inputs. What’s changed is how often teams are running into it. As more bursty workloads—especially inference—land on Kubernetes, a familiar

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Snowflake Cortex Code CLI adds dbt and Apache Airflow support for AI-powered data pipelines

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Snowflake Cortex Code CLI, Snowflake’s coding agent that was announced at the end of February, recently added support for dbt

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Related to your interests - Week of March 2nd, 2025

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The Links

Claude, without me asking, rewrote many of my original description below. Enjoy!

• Pentagon Leverages AI in Iran Strikes Amid Feud With Anthropic - One artillery unit doing the work of 2,000 staff with a team of just 20 people. Anthropic didn’t want their model used for this; the Pentagon used it anyway. The future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed between PR statements and actual weapons targeting.

• Anthropic’s Pentagon Feud Accelerates Push Into Consumer Market - Claude’s free active users grew 60%+ and daily signups grew 4x since the start of the year. Apparently nothing boosts consumer signups like a military controversy.

New Presentation

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I just gave a new presentation at SCALE titled The Wonderful World of WAL. I am excited to have a second new talk this year. (I have one more queued up.)

I have always wanted to do a presentation about the write-ahead log (WAL) but I was worried there was not enough content for a full talk. As more features were added to Postgres that relied on the WAL, the talk became more feasible, and at 103 slides, maybe I waited too long.

I had a full

NanoClaw can stuff each AI agent into its own Docker container to deal with OpenClaw’s security mess

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On the one hand, I feel a bit conflicted pointing out the recognised security issues with OpenClaw, even as serious

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Is AI killing open-source software?

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“It’s complicated” can be used to describe relationships and how AI works — or doesn’t — with open source development.

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Open-source coding agents like OpenCode, Cline, and Aider are solving a huge headache for developers

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AI coding agents are proliferating, but the economics of running large language models (LLMs) are breaking down as developers juggle

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OpenAI GPT-5.4 launches, AI gets its own jobs report, Claude surges after U.S. ban

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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.

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OutSystems CEO on how enterprises can successfully adopt vibe coding

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Everybody is building AI agents. But the enterprises actually shipping them to production are learning that an agent on its

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Anthropic and OpenAI are battling for the best open-source maintainers

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The open-source maintainer sits at the center of the modern software ecosystem, with the libraries they build often deep within

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IT-Tools brings many useful developer tools into one convenient location

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How many tools do you use as a developer? I’m guessing that the answer is “many.” There are token generators,

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Nearly half of all companies now use Rust in production, survey finds

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A decade into tracking the Rust programming language, the 2025 State of Rust Survey, released this week, paints a picture

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Long-term support for Linux releases gets a new lease on life

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If you want to keep your Linux instances safe and secure, your best course is to use Long Term Support

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