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.

'Apple: The First 50 Years' Book Available Tomorrow

Summary:
Tech columnist David Pogue's new book Apple: The First 50 Years will be available in hardcover and digital formats starting this Tuesday, March 10.


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 [...]

SoftBank's stock is down ~48% since Nov. 3, as scrutiny into the scale of its OpenAI involvement grows; on Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% on Stargate delay reports (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
SoftBank's stock is down ~48% since Nov. 3, as scrutiny into the scale of its OpenAI involvement grows; on Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% on Stargate delay reports  —  Japanese group has suffered from recent share falls and a negative outlook from rating agency S&P

New Apple TV 4K and HomePod Likely Won't Launch Until New Siri is Ready

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Apple has a new version of the HomePod and a new Apple TV 4K ready to go, but the devices may be tied to the Siri update that's been continually postponed, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


In a report on a planned September launch for new ‌Siri‌ capabilities and the home hub that's reliant on the revamped version of ‌Siri‌, Gurman says the updated ‌Apple TV‌ and ‌HomePod‌ are b [...]

Anthropic debuts a Code Review feature for Claude Code, which uses agents working in teams to check pull requests for bugs, available in research preview (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

Summary:

David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic debuts a Code Review feature for Claude Code, which uses agents working in teams to check pull requests for bugs, available in research preview  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Anthropic launches AI agents to review developer pull requests.  — Internal tests tripled meaningful code review feedback.

Apple's Smart Home Hub Won't Launch Until September as Siri Remains Unfinished

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Apple is postponing the launch of its planned smart home hub until September 2026, reports Bloomberg. Apple has pushed back the debut of the home hub multiple times due to ongoing issues with the revamped version of Siri. The hub has a heavy AI focus and it is tied to the more intelligent ‌Siri‌ that Apple has in the works.


Prior to realizing the Apple Intelligence version of ‌Siri‌ would not be ready until 2026, Apple planned to launch the home hub in spring 2025. After it became clear ‌Siri‌ [...]

Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a "seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution" is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

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Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a “seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution” is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO  —  Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky's board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

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

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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.

Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for this month, until later this year to let the company finish work on the new Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for this month, until later this year to let the company finish work on the new Siri  —  Apple Inc.'s artificial intelligence struggles are rippling through its product plans, forcing the company to delay a long …

MacBook Neo Wallpapers Now Available for All Macs in macOS Tahoe 26.4 Beta

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The colorful new wallpapers that Apple introduced with the MacBook Neo are available for all Macs in the fourth beta of macOS Tahoe 26.4 that came out for developers today.


Featuring bubble-style lines with colorful gradients, the wallpapers come in Mac Purple, Mac Blue, Mac Pink, and Mac Yellow. The design and the colors spell out the word "Mac."

Beta testers can use the new wallpapers by opening up the System Settings app, going to the Wallpaper option, and scrolling down to the Pictures section.

Apple typically makes all of the wallpapers that it designs for Mac marketing images available to all Macs, so the new Neo wallpapers join wallpapers created for [...]

NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics (Jake Angelo/Fortune)

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Jake Angelo / Fortune:
NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics  —  Artificial intelligence has permeated nearly every part of daily American life.  It's being adopted across the professional sphere …

Donut Lab’s solid-state battery keeps 97.7% charge after 10 days in third test

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Finnish startup Donut Lab has just released the third independent test of its solid-state “Donut...

ICE Detainment Center Guards Allegedly Set Up Suicide Death Pools

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Say what you will about cops — even the federal ones — but they have nothing on the people charged with guarding people who have been detained or imprisoned. The cruelty of cops is slightly tempered by the fact that anyone with a cell phone, dash cam, or doorbell surveillance device might catch them in […]

Daily Deal: The Courses Digest, Labs Digest, and Exams Digest Bundle

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The Courses Digest, Labs Digest, and Exams Digest Bundle gives you unlimited access to expertly crafted online courses, interactive labs and study tools. Whether you’re aiming for industry-recognized certifications or expanding your tech expertise, this bundle will help you get there with courses on CompTIA, AWS, Microsoft, Cisco, Salesforce, and more. It’s on sale for […]

UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting (Aisha Down/The Guardian)

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Aisha Down / The Guardian:
UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting  —  Exclusive: Rented datacentres and ‘supercomputer’ site that's still a scaffolding yard raise questions for Starmer's push to ‘mainli

Latest iOS 26.4 Beta Adds New Emoji Characters

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The fourth iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, and macOS Tahoe 26.4 betas that Apple provided to developers today introduce nine new emoji characters.

• Trombone


• Treasure Chest


• Distorted Face


• Hairy Creature (aka Bigfoot or Sasquatch)


• Fight Cloud


• Orca


• Landslide

OpenAI agrees to acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems being built and is "trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500", to fold into OpenAI Frontier (OpenAI)

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OpenAI:
OpenAI agrees to acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems being built and is “trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500”, to fold into OpenAI Frontier  —  Accelerating agentic security testing and evaluation capabilities in OpenAI Frontier

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

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Apple today provided developers with the fourth betas of upcoming watchOS 26.4 and visionOS 26.4 betas for testing purposes. The software comes a week after Apple released the third 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 Shows apps o [...]

Fourth macOS Tahoe 26.4 Beta Now Available for Developers

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Apple today provided the fourth beta of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.4 update to developers for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after Apple seeded the third beta.


Developers can download the ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 update by opening up the System Settings app, selecting the General category, and then choosing Software Update. Beta Updates will need to be enabled, and a free developer account is required.

‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 adds a new Charge Limit feature so Mac users can select a maximum charge level that ranges from 80 to 100 percent. Apple also brought back the Compact tab layout in Safari for those who missed the option in earlier versions of ‌macOS Tahoe‌.

Apple silicon Macs who are running [...]

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

Summary:
Apple today seeded the fourth 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 third betas 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. A Playlist Playground feature in Apple Music lets you generate songs for any idea, mood, emotion, or activity using a text-based prompt. There's also a Concerts Near You feature for finding local shows [...]

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:

Source: UK cyber security company Darktrace names Ed Jennings, who previously led work management platform Quickbase, as CEO, its third chief in 18 months (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

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Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
Source: UK cyber security company Darktrace names Ed Jennings, who previously led work management platform Quickbase, as CEO, its third chief in 18 months  —  UK-based cyber security group hires Ed Jennings as private equity owners push for faster growth  —  Darktrace has appointed …

The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Unlawful Tariffs. Now It Says It Can’t.

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When companies sued to block Trump’s IEEPA tariffs last year, one of the key arguments they made was obvious: if these tariffs turn out to be illegal, we’ll never get our money back. We need an injunction now. The government had an equally confident response: relax, if the tariffs are struck down, we’ll just issue […]

Qualcomm unveils the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board computer for AI and robotics applications, powered by Dragonwing IQ8 processor and 16GB of RAM (Steve Dent/Engadget)

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Steve Dent / Engadget:
Qualcomm unveils the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board computer for AI and robotics applications, powered by Dragonwing IQ8 processor and 16GB of RAM  —  It marries a Qualcomm processor with a microcontroller and comes with 16GB of RAM.  —  Qualcomm, which purchased microcontroller board &helli

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.

Australia's online age restrictions take effect, requiring platforms to verify users are 18+ before they can access content including porn and R-rated games (Ahmed Yussuf/ABC)

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Ahmed Yussuf / ABC:
Australia's online age restrictions take effect, requiring platforms to verify users are 18+ before they can access content including porn and R-rated games  —  In short:  —  New online safety codes requiring R-rated games and websites to verify users' ages are now in effect.

Apple Has Apparently Already Finalized iPhone 18e

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Apple has already finalized plans for next year's entry-level "iPhone 18e" model, according to a known leaker.


According to a new post from the Weibo user known as "Fixed Focus Digital," Apple has now locked in plans for the ‌iPhone‌ 18e. This is despite the fact that the iPhone 17e hasn't yet launched.

The ‌iPhone 17e‌ features the A19 chip, Apple's C1X modem, MagSafe, and 256GB of base storage. Little is known about the ‌iPhone‌ 18e's features at this stage, but the A20 chip seems hi [...]

The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)

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Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press:
The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US  —  Justice Department lawyers announced Monday that they'd reached a settlement in their antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster …

Why 60 nations store their gold in the world’s second-largest vault

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Deep beneath the historic streets of London’s financial district lays a vast underground maze which...

MacBook Neo's AppleCare+ Repair Fees Are Lower Than All Other Macs

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The new MacBook Neo has a breakthrough starting price of just $599, and AppleCare+ repair fees for the laptop are lower than all other Macs too.


AppleCare+ for the MacBook Neo can be purchased for $139 upfront, or customers can opt to pay $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year indefinitely. In the U.S., there is also AppleCare One [...]

Anthropic sues to block the DOD from designating it a supply chain risk, says the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights (Jack Queen/Reuters)

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Jack Queen / Reuters:
Anthropic sues to block the DOD from designating it a supply chain risk, says the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights  —  Anthropic on Monday filed a lawsuit to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating …

Nexperia's Chinese subsidiary says it has begun producing its own chips using 12-inch wafers, a further step toward independence from its Dutch parent (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Nexperia's Chinese subsidiary says it has begun producing its own chips using 12-inch wafers, a further step toward independence from its Dutch parent  —  Chipmaker Nexperia's Chinese subsidiary said on Monday it has begun producing its own chips, a further step towards independence …

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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Apple Studio Display Gets First Pre-Order Discounts at Up to $300 Off

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Amazon today has introduced the first big pre-order discounts on the brand new Apple Studio Display lineup, with up to $300 off these monitors. The Studio Display deals join pre-order discounts on M4 iPad Air, MacBook Neo, and more on Amazon and other retailers.

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There are three models of the 2026 Studio Display on sale right now, including two Nano-texture glass models and one Standard Glass model. The biggest discount is on the Nano-texture Gl [...]

iPhone 17e Reviews: Two Key Upgrades

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The first reviews of the iPhone 17e were published today by selected publications and YouTube channels, ahead of the device launching on Wednesday.


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

The Verge's Allison Johnson recommended that customers purchase the standard iPhone 17 for an extra $200 over the iPhone 17e, if they c [...]

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

The post AI coding agents can write code, Crafting wants to help them ship it appeared first on The New Stack.

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.

M4 iPad Air Reviews: Faster Chip, Familiar Design

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The first reviews of the iPad Air with the M4 chip have been shared by selected publications and YouTube channels, ahead of the device launching this Wednesday.


The new iPad Air features the M4 chip, 12GB of memory, the N1 wireless chip for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 connectivity, and Apple's C1X modem on cellular models. Everything else remains unchanged compared to last year's M3 model.

• M3 vs. M4 iPad Air Buyer's Guide: All Differences Compared

Nvidia and ABB partner to bring ABB's robot training software to Nvidia's Omniverse simulation platform and build autonomous robots, which Foxconn is trialing (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Nvidia and ABB partner to bring ABB's robot training software to Nvidia's Omniverse simulation platform and build autonomous robots, which Foxconn is trialing  —  Industrial robots that can be trained in virtual conditions are being trialled by Foxconn  —  Nvidia and ABB Robotics are partnering …

Stablecoin payments startup KAST raised an $80M Series A; sources say the raise is at a $600M valuation and KAST expects a $100M annual revenue run rate in 2026 (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:

RTX’s hybrid aviation system passes test with engine, batteries running at full power

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RTX has reached a key milestone in its hybrid-electric propulsion project, successfully running its system’s...

US scientists could shrink wireless tech after making magnets behave like graphene

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Scientists in the US have linked two seemingly unrelated areas of physics after demonstrating that...

Anker's New Prime 3-in-1 Foldable Charging Station Hits Record Low on Amazon, Plus More Anker Deals

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Last month, Anker debuted its new Prime 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station with a launch discount on Amazon. This deal has gotten even better today, with the accessory marked down to $115.99, down from $149.99, and no need for a coupon.

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The Prime 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station features Qi2.2 support, whic [...]

World’s longest: China’s 2,969-foot mountain-hugging escalator unveiled

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The people of the Wushan County area in China have long faced a tough reality....

Supersonic B-1 Lancer explained: US’ Cold War nuclear bomber now striking Iran

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As the US–Israel war against Iran enters its tenth day, long-range American bombers have been...

If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms

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I think this recent post by AI industry CEO Matt Shumer is worth a read. In it, he basically explains how quickly LLMs (large language models) are evolving to supplant many developers and programmers, and how that disruption is coming to other industries quickly. He also warns critics of AI to adjust their priors and realize […]

New modular robots can flip, jump, and keep moving even after being cut into pieces

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Engineers at Northwestern University have developed a new class of modular robots called “legged metamachines.”...

World’s most complex nuclear clean-up operation plans first large-scale fuel sample

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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) has launched a new cleanup operation at the crippled...

US considers sending special forces to seize Iran’s near weapons-grade uranium

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Military planners in Washington are examining a high-risk option to secure Iran’s near bomb grade...

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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NASA Valkyrie humanoid robot built for Mars research returns to US after 10 years

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A humanoid robot developed by NASA for future Mars missions is set to return to...

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.

Tim Cook Says Two Things Matter Most at Apple Ahead of Company's 50th Anniversary

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CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue interviewed Apple's CEO Tim Cook ahead of the company's 50th anniversary on April 1, 2026.


In the interview, Cook revealed the two things that are "essential" to Apple: people and culture.

"Yes, we have a lot of intellectual property and so forth, and that is important, but it's people that create that intellectual property," said Cook. "It's the culture that creates the innovation with the intellectual property."

"I think it's very difficult to replicate culture," added Cook. "It takes a long time, because you have to hire the right people. And then those people have to hire the right people, and you have to build a complete organization."
[...]

Rethinking And Refreshing Techdirt’s Weekend Posts: We Want Your Feedback

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For many years now we’ve had two regular posts that come out on the weekends: our This Week In Techdirt History posts on Saturdays, and our Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week posts on Sundays. Sometimes we switch it up a little bit, replacing the history post with a special promotion or (as will be […]

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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Apple Planning 'MacBook Ultra' With Touchscreen and Higher Price

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Apple is planning to launch an all-new "MacBook Ultra" model this year, featuring an OLED display, touchscreen, and a higher price point, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.


Gurman revealed the information in his latest "Power On" newsletter. While Apple has been widely expected to launch new M6-series MacBook Pro models with OLED displays, touchscreen functionality, and a new, thinner design in the fourth quarter of 2026 for some time, Gurman today tur [...]

Apple Hoping to 3D-Print More Products

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Apple is hoping to 3D-print aluminum device enclosures in the future, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


In today's "Power On" newsletter, Gurman revealed that Apple is pushing to move to 3D-printed aluminum enclosures for for future devices. The MacBook Neo relies on a new aluminum manufacturing process that saves as much metal as possible to drive down costs and speed up production.

3D-printing aluminum enclosures would similarly enable [...]

MacBook Neo 2 Could Feature Touchscreen

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Apple's second-generation MacBook Neo will launch in 2027 and could feature a touchscreen, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.


Apple this week announced the ‌MacBook Neo‌, an all-new entry-level Apple laptop that starts at $599, with education pricing at $499. The ‌‌MacBook Neo‌‌ is designed to compete with lower-cost Windows laptops and Chromebooks, while expanding the Mac lineup with a substantially more affordable option.

Unlike every other Apple silicon Mac, the ‌‌MacBook Neo‌‌ is powered by the A18 Pro chip originally developed for the [...]

Apple Watch Series 11 Hits All-Time Low Prices on Amazon With $100 Off Nearly Every Aluminum Model

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Amazon this weekend 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 last month, but this sale has now expanded with many more options on both 42mm and 46mm GPS models.

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

Apple 'HomePad' to Offer Magnetic Snap-to-Wall Feature and More

Summary:
Apple's upcoming "HomePad" will offer a magnetic snap-to-wall feature and more, according to the leaker and prototype collector known as "Kosutami."


In a new post on X, Kosutami said that one of the HomePad prototypes features a MagSafe-like snap-to-wall capability, along with doorbell integration. It is said to be heavily reliant on Apple Intelligence. They apparently saw this prototype in person.

Apple has reportedly been working on the device for several years, with the aim for it to serve as a centralized loca [...]

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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This Week In Techdirt History: March 1st – 7th

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Five Years Ago This week in 2021, while AT&T was apparently committed to being comically hypocritical about Section 230, Utah was prematurely trying to dance on 230’s grave with a new and extremely horrible “free speech” bill that was a disaster in the making, and we had Ron Wyden and Chris Cox on the Techdirt […]

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

Summary:

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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Iceland Foods Finally Surrenders In Trademark Fight With Iceland, The Country

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The ten year war over Iceland is over and Iceland has come out the victor. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, be prepared to listen to a whole bunch of stupid. In 2016, we wrote about Iceland Foods, a UK grocer, which had somehow convinced the EU to give it a trademark for […]

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI

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About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron—a story about a dystopian society that enforces “equality” by handicapping anyone who excels—and the AI detection tool […]

Utah’s Proposal To Tax Online Pornography Is A Civil Liberties Disaster Waiting To Happen

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Republican lawmakers in Utah have long been on the cutting edge of shitty policymaking when it comes to regulating the internet. The latest chapter in that legacy is a proposed tax on porn and adult content purchased in the state’s digital space. Originally proposed by a pair of Republican lawmakers in the Utah state legislature […]

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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Why AI-Generated Code Is Raising the Stakes for Secrets Management

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The case for running AI agents on Markdown files instead of MCP servers

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A venture capitalist is running his entire company on twelve Markdown files. No web application. No workflow engine. No orchestration

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Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

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Announcements this week were mostly business as usual, but Apple isn't immune.

From the endpoint to the prompt: a unified data security vision in Cloudflare One

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Cloudflare One unifies data security from endpoint to prompt: RDP clipboard controls, operation-mapped logs, on-device DLP, and Microsoft 365 Copilot scanning via API CASB.

On-Call Rotation Best Practices: Reducing Burnout and Improving Response

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Can QA Reignite its Purpose in the Agentic Code Generation Era?

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When to use AI for writing, and when it's totally acceptable

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If you’re dyslexic and just trying to communicate more clearly in writing, or you’ve got a bullshit job and you just want to get your bullshit job’s bullshit tasks out of the way so you can move on to more meaningful endeavors, or at least move past the day-to-day slog that permeates your workday and serves no real purpose other than to pay the bills, then I cede; I cannot fault you.

From: “LLMs Are Antithetical to Writing and Humanity”

As I like to say, if it’s bullshit work, let the bullshit artist do it.

I think we can all agree on cheese on that one.

How about work that isn’t bullshit?

One objection to AI driven writing and learning is that it’s too easy. I’m leering of the Protestant take on work and learning: if it’s not pai

How Go 1.26 stack allocation optimizations beat hand-optimized code

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#​592 — March 6, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

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Meta accused of "concealing the facts" about smart glass users' privacy.

One developer, team power: The future of AI-driven DevSecOps

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Every conversation about AI in software delivery circles back to the same core idea: Give engineers better AI tools, and

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Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems

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Problems viewing products and checking out.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro

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OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-5.4, the next version of its frontier model. The company calls it its “most capable and

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Survey Sees DevOps Workflows Evolving in the Age of AI

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Ending the "silent drop": how Dynamic Path MTU Discovery makes the Cloudflare One Client more resilient

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The Cloudflare One Client now features the ability to actively probe and adjust packet sizes. This update eliminates the problems caused by tunnel layering and MTU differences, providing more stability and resiliency.

macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update will "upgrade" your M5's CPU to new "super" cores

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In otherwise minor software update, macOS now uses M5's new nomenclature.