AWS creates a sandbox for its agent experiments

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(AWS) is launching a dedicated GitHub organization for its most experimental agentic AI work. On Monday, the company launched Strands

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Some AI startups are boosting their valuations by raising capital in back-to-back or multitiered deals, raising questions about how much they are really worth (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

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Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal:
Some AI startups are boosting their valuations by raising capital in back-to-back or multitiered deals, raising questions about how much they are really worth  —  The race to get into hot AI startups has led to

Ring’s Super Bowl Ad Generates So Much Backlash It Has Ended Its Partnership With Flock Safety

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Eight million ways to die. According to AdWeek, the price for a 30-second commercial during Super Bowl LX has soared to $8 million, after NBC opened in the summer by offering spots for $7 million. As AdWeek notes, “due to demand, the company has already reached its cap for the number of spots that were available for advertisers […]

Ubicquia, which provides software to utilities, cities, and companies to manage energy infrastructure like transformers, raised a $106M Series D (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)

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Katie Fehrenbacher / Axios:
Ubicquia, which provides software to utilities, cities, and companies to manage energy infrastructure like transformers, raised a $106M Series D  —  Ubicquia, which deploys digital tech for infrastructure, raised a $106 million Series D, CEO Ian Aaron tells Axios Pro exclusively.

Daily Deal: The 2026 Ultimate Project Managers Training Bundle

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The 2026 Ultimate Project Managers Training Bundle will help you learn how to efficiently manage small- and large-scale complex projects. With 9 courses focused on Asana, Jira, Agile, Microsoft Project, and more, you’ll be introduced to various ways to organize and manage teams, and to various tools that will aid productivity while keeping projects and […]

iOS 26.4 Beta Adds End-to-End Encryption for iPhone-to-Android RCS Texts

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With the second iOS 26.4 beta, Apple and Google have started testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users.


Apple started testing E2EE for RCS in the first beta, but the feature was limited to iPhone-to-iPhone communications with iMessage turned off. In this beta, ‌iPhone‌ users can send encrypted messages to Android users.

‌iPhone‌ users will need to install the second beta of iOS 26.4 to exchange encrypted messages with Android users, while Google users need to have the latest version of Google Messages.

According to Apple's developer release [...]

Take Up to 30% Off Apple's iPhone 17 Cases on Amazon

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Amazon this week has big discounts across Apple's Clear, Silicone, and TechWoven Cases for the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air lineup. Items on sale include Clear, Silicone, and TechWoven Cases for the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air. We're also tracking a few discounts on other accessories like the FineWoven Wallet with MagSafe and Beats cases.

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.

Apple's official cases are reaching up to 30 percent off in this sale, with many priced at  [...]

AI-powered claw drone retrieves downed hostile UAVs for intel in combat zones

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Soldiers of the Army National Guard’s 28th Infantry Division have won an award for inventing...

Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products  —  The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distilla

Second macOS Tahoe 26.4 Beta Now Available for Developers

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Apple today provided the second beta of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.4 update to developers for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after Apple seeded the first 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 Second Betas of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 to Developers

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


Registered developers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update.

iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 add multiple new features to the ‌iPhone‌ and the ‌iPad‌, but the first beta contained no sign of new Siri capabilities.

A Playlist Playground feature in Apple Music lets you generate songs for any idea, mood [...]

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

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Apple today provided developers with the second betas of upcoming watchOS 26.4, tvOS 26.4, and visionOS 26.4 betas for testing purposes. The software comes a week after Apple released the first betas.


The software updates are available through the Settings app on each device, and because these are developer betas, a free developer account is required.

watchOS 26.4 adds a new Average Bedtime metric to the sleep features that sync to the health app, so you can better keep an eye on how bedtime impacts overall sleep quality.

tvOS 26.4 eliminates the iTunes Movies and iTunes TV Show [...]

Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app Facetune, is splitting its consumer app unit from its GenAI unit LTX to better capture the growth in AI (Echo Wang/Reuters)

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Echo Wang / Reuters:
Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app Facetune, is splitting its consumer app unit from its GenAI unit LTX to better capture the growth in AI  —  The creator of the Facetune photo editing app, Lightricks, is splitting its consumer app business from its generative AI video platform LTX …

The Media Still Can’t Figure Out That Trump Says Things That Aren’t True

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Debates on how the media should be covering what Donald Trump says have been going on for over a decade now. A few months ago, we wrote about the regularity with which the mainstream media “sanewashes” his more ridiculous statements, taking the incoherent ramblings of a madman and pretending to translate them into actual policy […]

Software stocks extend their weeks-long selloff, with AppLovin, Datadog, Workday down 7%+; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in a post by Citrini (Jack Pitcher/Wall Street Journal)

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Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal:
Software stocks extend their weeks-long selloff, with AppLovin, Datadog, Workday down 7%+; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in a post by Citrini  —  The weeks-long selloff in software stocks deepened Monday amid gene

iPhone 18 Pro to Revive Feature Samsung Dropped Years Ago

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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro Max are expected to resurrect a major feature Samsung's flagship Galaxy smartphones dropped years ago, according to a multitude of rumors.


The ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro and ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro Max are now widely expected to feature a significantly upgraded main camera with a variable aperture. An aperture is the opening within a camera lens that controls the amount of light reaching the image sensor.

In December 2024, Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo was first to say that that the main rear camera on both ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro models w [...]

Sources: Trump's "Board of Peace" is exploring a USD-pegged stablecoin for Gaza; a source says it will not be a "Gaza Coin" or a new Palestinian currency (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Sources: Trump's “Board of Peace” is exploring a USD-pegged stablecoin for Gaza; a source says it will not be a “Gaza Coin” or a new Palestinian currency  —  Proposal to launch cryptocurrency pegged to US dollar comes after cash supply was decimated during Israeli offensive

China’s neighbor to roll out colossal 7,000-ton stealth sub with 3,700-mile missile reach

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The Indian Navy is getting ready to commission its third nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, INS...

Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after its stock fell ~46% over the last 12 months, giving PayPal a market value of ~$38.4B (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after its stock fell ~46% over the last 12 months, giving PayPal a market value of ~$38.4B  —  PayPal Holdings Inc., the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped …

Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI (Anthropic)

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Anthropic:
Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI  —  People are integrating AI tools into their daily routines at a pace that would have been difficult to predict even a year ago.

Apple Sports App Expands to More Countries and Leagues

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Starting today, the Apple Sports app on the iPhone is available in 36 additional countries across the Caribbean and Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Peru, and others.


Apple Sports first launched in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. in February 2024, and it later expanded to Europe and Mexico. The app shows scores, stats, standings, upcoming games, and more for a variety of leagues and competitions. With the Caribbean and Latin America expansion, the app is now available in 80 countries.

Also as of today [...]

Finnish quantum computing company IQM plans to go public via a SPAC merger with New Jersey-based Real Asset Acquisition in a deal set to value it at $1.8B (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

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Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:
Finnish quantum computing company IQM plans to go public via a SPAC merger with New Jersey-based Real Asset Acquisition in a deal set to value it at $1.8B  —  IQM Quantum Computers will go public through a merger with a blank-check vehicle in a deal expected to value the Finnish quantum computing firm …

OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances, entering into multiyear deals with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey to help deploy its enterprise platform Frontier (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances, entering into multiyear deals with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey to help deploy its enterprise platform Frontier  —  OpenAI on Monday announced it is entering into multiyear partnerships with four consulting firms that will help the company deploy its enterprise platform called Frontier.

Sources: some Xbox staffers say they are relieved that Sarah Bond is leaving, after she led a pivot away from the console with the "Xbox everywhere" strategy (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Apple Watch Series 11 Gets $100 Discounts on Amazon, Starting at $299

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Amazon this week has all-time low prices on the Apple Watch Series 11, with $100 discounts across select models of the smartwatch. This time around the deals are more sparse, and we're only tracking these discounts on three models of the smartwatch.

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

Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First Action begins running ads urging AI regulations in New Jersey; the PAC raised nearly $50M and now aims to raise $75M (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First Action begins running ads urging AI regulations in New Jersey; the PAC raised nearly $50M and now aims to raise $75M  —  The ads by Public First Action, which started airing on Monday, are part of an escalating political war over artificial intelligence before the midterm elections.

Aalyria, a Google spinoff whose software allows routing of traffic across diverse satellite platforms in low earth orbit, raised $100M at a $1.3B valuation (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

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Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Aalyria, a Google spinoff whose software allows routing of traffic across diverse satellite platforms in low earth orbit, raised $100M at a $1.3B valuation  —  In 2022, Google spun out a project focused on high-speed communications networks into a startup called Aalyria.

Scientists develop quantum-powered material to make hydrogen using just sun and water

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A team of researchers at the University of Michigan has developed quantum materials that could...

Who Knew? Mindless And Corrupt Deregulation Apparently Kills People

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You might recall that a central pillar of the Trump administration during the last election season was that a second Trump term would “take aim at big tech,” protect the little guy, rein in corporate power, and even “continue the legacy of antitrust enforcers like Lina Khan.” The press was filled with endless stories credibly parroting these sorts […]

Video: Unitree’s G1 humanoid robots perform synchronized Kung Fu at Chinese temple

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Chinese robotics player Unitree released a video showing dozens of G1 humanoid robots performing a...

Nobel laureate invents machine that pulls 1,000 liters of water from air daily

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In some of the driest regions on Earth, a new technology is proving that drinking...

HR app Humand, used by 1.5M+ "deskless" workers in construction, retail, hospitals, and more, raised a $66M Series A led by Goodwater and Kaszek (Maria Clara Cobo/Bloomberg)

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Maria Clara Cobo / Bloomberg:
HR app Humand, used by 1.5M+ “deskless” workers in construction, retail, hospitals, and more, raised a $66M Series A led by Goodwater and Kaszek  —  Startup Humand is betting the next wave of workplace software won't target office employees but the billions of workers who don't sit behind a computer.

Nissan’s ‘moving battery pack’ patent aims to boost EV safety, performance

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Japanese carmaker Nissan has patented an ‘active mount’ for the battery pack to boost performance...

Uber launches Uber Autonomous Solutions, offering services like insurance, roadside assistance, and "AV mission control" tools, and will offer fleet financing (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

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Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
Uber launches Uber Autonomous Solutions, offering services like insurance, roadside assistance, and “AV mission control” tools, and will offer fleet financing  —  App says new operation will boost commercialisation of AVs  —  Uber has set up a new initiative to serve a growing number …

Chinese engineers create robotic hands capable of performing delicate tasks like humans

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Chinese robotics startup LinkerBot has designed a new robotic hand for humanoids that enables them...

iPhone 18 Pro Reportedly Enters Trial Production Stage

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Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro has entered production testing ahead of a launch later this year, a Chinese leaker reported today.


In a Weibo post, the leaker account known as "Fixed Focus Digital" said the Pro models had already entered "mass-production testing," likely referring to late-stage manufacturing validation for the devices ahead of a September launch.

February typically aligns with Apple's Design Validation Test (DVT) phase transitioning into early Production Validation Test (PVT). During this period, Apple uses production tooling and activates portions of factory assembly lines to validate manufacturing processes, yields, and quality control, rather than producing units at full scale. Full mass production usually ramps in the summer [...]

New method uses waste bread to replace fossil fuels in chemical manufacturing

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Most of us see a heel of dry, forgotten bread as a candidate for the...

Quantum data teleported 19 miles across German capital with 95% peak accuracy

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Researchers in Berlin have teleported quantum data across a 19-mile loop of commercial fiber in...

US deploys F-16 Wild Weasels with Angry Kitten EW pods as Iran tensions mount

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The United States has deployed a squadron of F-16CJ Block 52 Viper fighters equipped with...

Coding agents are only as good as the signals you feed them

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The industry has spent the last few years optimizing AI agents’ code-generation capabilities. The focus has been on expanding context

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Apple's AI Wearables Expected to Lean Heavily on Visual Intelligence

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Apple's Visual Intelligence is expected to feature heavily in the company's upcoming set of AI wearable devices, which could include smart glasses, a pendant, and more advanced AirPods, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman said that hints dropped by CEO Tim Cook in recent months suggested the Apple Intelligence feature would be central to the devices, with Cook's comments following a pattern similar to how he foreshadowed the importance of health sensors and augmented reality before the launch of Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro, respectively.

On iPhone 15 Pro and newer models, Visual Intelligence le [...]

Claude Code Security Finds the Bugs That Static Analysis Can’t — and Wall Street Noticed

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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Cloudflare One is the first SASE offering modern post-quantum encryption across the full platform

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We’ve upgraded Cloudflare One to support post-quantum encryption by implementing the latest IETF drafts for hybrid ML-KEM into our Cloudflare IPsec product. This extends post-quantum encryption across all major Cloudflare One on-ramps and off-ramps.

iOS 26.3.1 Update for iPhones Coming Soon as 'Apple Experience' Nears

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Apple's software engineers are testing iOS 26.3.1, according to the MacRumors visitor logs, which have been a reliable indicator of upcoming iOS versions.


iOS 26.3.1 should be a minor update that fixes bugs and/or security vulnerabilities, and it will likely be released within the next two weeks.

Last month, Apple released iOS 26.2.1 with bug fixes and support for the second-generation AirTag. Likewise, it is possible that iOS 26.3.1 will include support for some of the new products that Apple is expected to announce in the first week of March, such as the iPhone 17e, but this is merely speculation at this point.

Apple is re [...]

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson (who racked up a lot of wins this week) with a comment about the Twitter Files crew staying quiet when there are real attacks on free speech: “Free speech absolutists”: “You’re absolutely free to shut up and listen to my speech. Also, your […]

Apple Reportedly Plans to Unveil at Least Five New Products Next Week

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In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said Apple will have a three-day stretch of product announcements from Monday, March 2 through Wednesday, March 4. In total, he expects Apple to introduce "at least five products."


A week ago, Apple invited selected journalists and content creators to an "Apple Experience" in New York, London, and Shanghai on Wednesday, March 4 at 9 a.m. Eastern Time. At these in-person gatherings, the expectation is that attendees will receive hands-on time with the new products that Apple announce [...]

Apple is Testing These iPhone 18 Pro and Foldable iPhone Colors

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The special new color that Apple is considering for the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max this year is red, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Specifically, he said that Apple is testing a "deep red" finish for the two devices.

If this rumor materializes, it would be the first time that the Pro and Pro Max models ever come in red, and the iPhone 18 Pro models would be the first iPhone models to be available in red since the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus in (PRODUCT)RED. However, it sounds like it would be more of a burgundy finish than a bright red. [...]

This simple infrastructure gap is holding back AI productivity

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Organizations are investing heavily in AI, with some allocating up to 8% of their total revenue in AI tools for

The post This simple infrastructure gap is holding back AI productivity appeared first on The New Stack.

Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents automatically make websites agent-ready

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Cloudflare, the well-regarded security and Content Delivery Network company, has launched a new feature called “Markdown for Agents” that automatically

The post Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents automatically make websites agent-ready appeared first on The New Stack.

Wasm vs. JavaScript: Who wins at a million rows?

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By now it’s pretty clear that JavaScript needs WebAssembly (Wasm) to perform heavy computational tasks. In the past few weeks

The post Wasm vs. JavaScript: Who wins at a million rows? appeared first on The New Stack.

Does Platform Product Management & Design Really Happen? Or is it all just platform engineering? - Tanzu Catsup

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Most organizations treat infrastructure as a series of projects to be “completed,” but successful platform engineering requires a permanent product mindset. In this episode, we explore why platform teams need dedicated product management to balance competing priorities—like security, cost, and developer experience—and why the “why” scales much better than the “what” in large enterprises. We also dive into the often-overlooked role of designers in creating platform tools that developers actually want to use.

Tanzu Catsup is a weekly conversation about platform engineering, cloud-native operations, and building software in large organizations. We follow the work wherever it actually leads.

And, see the archives for Tanzu Catsup.

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Developers crave AI tools for various tasks beyond coding, but that’s only about 20% of their work. But, ops people freak out about security and control challenges, like cost, regulatory compliance, and usage tracking.

This Week In Techdirt History: February 15th – 21st

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Five Years Ago This week in 2021, we looked at how state laws around community broadband were harming communities during the pandemic, just as one Congressional representative introduced a new such law to do so nationwide. Minneapolis joined the list of cities banning facial recognition tech, while it was revealed that CBP’s use of the […]

Why Kubernetes 1.35 is a game-changer for stateful workload scaling

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With Kubernetes 1.35, the In-Place Pod Resize feature has graduated to GA, and Vertical Pod Autoscaling InPlaceOrRecreate update mode has

The post Why Kubernetes 1.35 is a game-changer for stateful workload scaling appeared first on The New Stack.

Anker's Weekend Sale Includes Big Savings on Newest Prime Chargers

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Earlier this month, Anker debuted its new Prime 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station with a launch discount on Amazon. This deal is still available this weekend, allowing you to clip an on-page coupon on Amazon to get the accessory for $119.99, down from $149.99.

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

The Prime 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station features Qi2.2 support, which lets a compatible MagSafe ‌iPhone‌ charge at up to 25W. It's the same speed as [...]

Claude Code comes to Roadmap, OpenClaw loses its head, and AI workslop

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I’m Matt Burns, Director of Editorial at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments,

The post Claude Code comes to Roadmap, OpenClaw loses its head, and AI workslop appeared first on The New Stack.

Beyond the vibe code: The steep mountain MCP must climb to reach production

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One thing I didn’t do last year was go to any Model Context Protocol (MCP) conferences, largely because I couldn’t

The post Beyond the vibe code: The steep mountain MCP must climb to reach production appeared first on The New Stack.

Top Stories: Apple Event on March 4, iOS 26.4 Beta, and More

Summary:
It looks like our first major Apple product announcements of 2026 are right around the corner, with Apple announcing a "special Apple Experience" for members of the media scheduled for March 4 where we're expecting to see them get hands-on time with several newly announced products.


In other Apple news this week, the first betas of iOS 26.4 and related updates include some new features and enhancements, while we heard a bit more about the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max coming later this year, so read on below for all the details on these stories and more!

Top Stories

Apple Announces Special Event in New York, London, and Shanghai on March 4

Court Orders Slavery Exhibit At George Washington’s House Restored After Trump Admin Pulled It Down

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The Trump administration’s project for erasing the parts of American history they find inconvenient continues unabated. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hit the occasional roadblock. In January, the administration removed portions of an exhibit at the former Philadelphia home of George Washington that made reference to 9 slaves he owned that spent time at […]

Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

Open Letter To Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas

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We are calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.  In the past year, DHS has consistently targeted people engaged in First Amendment activity. Among other things, the agency has issued subpoenas to technology companies to […]

Apple's Low-Cost Colorful MacBook: All the Rumors

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Apple has been developing a more affordable version of the MacBook, and it's rumored to be launching in under two weeks. This is going to be one of Apple's most unique Macs, because there hasn't really been anything quite like it before.


We've rounded up everything we know about the low-cost MacBook ahead of its March debut.

Design

Meta's flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind

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The company asserts it will continue to make VR headsets, though.

Trump Fires Court-Appointed US Attorney Hours After It Replaces His Illegally-Appointed Former Campaign Lawyer

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It’s all well and good that we have a system of laws and rules in place. For the most part, the bumpers on the bowling lane help keep a lot of stuff on the field of play (to mix metaphors), even if powerful politicians would rather have the rules apply to everyone else but them. […]

Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build

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Red Hat is perhaps the biggest name in enterprise Linux, but it’s also a major cloud-native player thanks to its

The post Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build appeared first on The New Stack.

Bondi Bragged About Forcing Facebook To Censor Speech. Now FIRE Is Suing.

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I seem to recall a years-long freakout among MAGA folks about the Biden administration pressuring social media companies to remove content. You may have heard about it. Anyway. In unrelated news FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), has filed suit against Attorney General Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on behalf of […]

Jony Ive's First OpenAI Device Will Be Smart Speaker With Camera, 2027 Launch Planned

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OpenAI is working on several AI hardware devices in partnership with former Apple designer Jony Ive, and the first product that comes out could be a smart speaker. The company is developing a smart speaker, a smart lamp, and considering AI glasses, according to The Information, with the speaker set to come out in early 2027.


OpenAI's smart speaker has an integrated camera and it is designed to learn information about who is using it and what's around them. It will include a facial recognition feature similar to Face ID, and users will be able to use the speaker to make purchases. The speaker will have AI integration, so users can ask it questions and ma [...]

Web scraper sued by Google claims Google is the one scraping the web

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SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, is fighting back against Google's copyright lawsuit that accuses it of vacuuming up search results "at an astonishing scale." In a motion to dismiss filed on Friday, SerpApi argues that Google doesn't hold a copyright on its search results, alleging that the engine […]

Survey: Adoption of AI Software Testing Slowed by Trust Issues

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NanoClaw’s answer to OpenClaw is minimal code, maximum isolation

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Gavriel Cohen built NanoClaw, a lightweight alternative to OpenClaw, in a weekend after learning about security flaws in the popular agentic framework.

The post NanoClaw’s answer to OpenClaw is minimal code, maximum isolation appeared first on The New Stack.

96% of developers don’t trust AI code: Here’s a step toward the fix

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The narrative surrounding software development has shifted dramatically over the last six months. The industry has moved past the initial

The post 96% of developers don’t trust AI code: Here’s a step toward the fix appeared first on The New Stack.

The reason big tech is giving away AI agent frameworks

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As someone who had a front-row seat to the container orchestration wars, I am watching the same movie play out

The post The reason big tech is giving away AI agent frameworks appeared first on The New Stack.

Fake Data, Upcoming Book, and the Political Economy of AI

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The world is on fire – and I’ve often been at a loss for how to constructively contribute to public discourse. For decades, I have shared knowledge gained through fieldwork to offer a different perspective on complex sociotechnical matters. Too often these days, I find myself banging my head against the wall while navigating the […]

The MacRumors Show: What's Coming at the 'Apple Experience'?

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We talk through everything to expect at Apple's upcoming "Experience" on March 4, on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show.

Three Upcoming Apple Products Seemingly Spotted in macOS 26.3 Code

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macOS 26.3 hints at Apple's rumored lower-cost MacBook, and two new Studio Display models, according to Macworld's Filipe Espósito.


Espósito found the following codenames within macOS 26.3's source code, and he revealed the upcoming products that they likely correspond with, based on previous reporting from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and others.

The codenames:

• J700: Lower-cost MacBook


• J427: A new Studio Display


• J527: A new, higher-end Studio Display

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Get Up to $1,200 Off Samsung's Best Monitors and More

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This week's best Apple-related deals include multiple third-party retailer accessory sales from Samsung, Nomad, Dell, and Otterbox. We're also tracking one of the first big price discounts on the iPhone Air MagSafe Battery in our recap of the week's best deals below.

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.

Samsung

• What's the deal? Save on Samsung monitors, TVs, and more


• Where can I get it?

Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens

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The Cloudflare API has over 2,500 endpoints. Exposing each one as an MCP tool would consume over 2 million tokens. With Code Mode, we collapsed all of it into two tools and roughly 1,000 tokens of context.

Why the era of relying on dozens of “purpose-built” databases is finally coming to an end

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What will drive the next wave of innovation in enterprise applications? Ask the experts, and you’ll likely hear a similar

The post Why the era of relying on dozens of “purpose-built” databases is finally coming to an end appeared first on The New Stack.

Automating everything but changing how people work - Relative to your interests, Friday

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Enterprise AI apps (or lack thereof), ROI surveys, CFO budget pivots, agile’s stubborn relevance, platform engineering vs. private cloud, Heroku’s freeze, IRS tech cuts, and Europe hedging on AI tools

Related to your interests

AWS Just Turned “Deploy to AWS” Into a Five-Word Prompt

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When DevOps Meets the Cloud: A Real-World Transformation Story

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You Can Feel It Coming - Software Defined Talk

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This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and “The Modern Stack” simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them.

See the traditional podcast listing for links and more.

Progressive Delivery, with Heidi Waterhouse - Software Defined Interviews

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See the traditional podcast version for more and Heidi links.

Why it's great to be a Spring developer now, and how to make it even better - State of Spring, 2026

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This is a talk I give at the start of Spring workshops we do. Here is the recording. The point is to show people that being a Java and Spring developers is fantastic right now. Here’s the description:

Spring developers are in a strange position in 2026: everything is changing: AI, platform engineering, enterprise architecture. And yet Spring keeps getting stronger.

In this talk, Coté walks through why this is actually a great moment to be a Spring developer, especially in large organizations. He looks at:

• How AI code generation is changing Java and Spring development
• Why enterprise momentum still matters
• The role of platforms in making Spring teams faster
• Where private AI, model b

Why AI Makes Requirements a Runtime Artifact

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What to do About AI’s Forced Rethink of Reliability in Modern DevOps

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Management is always eager to "reduce costs."

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The real story lies “in collapsing headcount growth expectations, from 6% in 2025 to just 2% in 2026 with just 21% of CFOs planning staff increases of 4% to 9%, down from 31% last year,” Nauman Abbasi, vice president analyst in Gartner’s finance practice, said in the release. “This marks a structural pivot from labor expansion to optimization driven by automation and AI that deliver productivity gains without proportional increases in headcount.”

🔗 Most CFOs expect larger IT budgets, ‘collapsing’ staff growth: Gartner

Meanwhile: 6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom

Say you love business logic without saying "business logic."

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Model Eats the Software: Why the Marginal Cost of Enterprise Software Approaches Zero

More on agentic AI changing the software business from Jason Hoffman:

Andreessen specifically predicted that Salesforce would disrupt Oracle. Fourteen years later, Oracle is roughly 2.5x the size of Salesforce. Salesforce sells application logic – workflows, configurations, business rules. Oracle sells infrastructure – databases, middleware, cloud compute. The application layer was always the vulnerable part. The infrastructure layer was always the durable part. Software ate the world. Then it sat around all gluttonous and bloated. Frozen reasoning."

Also, it was the incumbents who did all the eating.

And, a proposal for using AI as the UI and business logic layer for enterprise apps:

First, right n

AI still not good at basic knowledge worker workflows, which is likely an apps problem

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Here is one account of AI being shit at multi-step activate outside of coding:

I think my request of “Hey Gemini, show me a list of all the articles I wrote over the last year and arrange them into categories by subject” is a straightforward one, and I came away from this experience surprised that Gemini shipped these features as bleeding edge AI to customers when it never really delivered for me.

I have the same experience, weekly. In general, using AI for this kind search and analytics has been bad and more time consuming than just doing it myself.

It is especially bad when you hook it up to other services like docs and email.

It works pretty well with plain text files. I think why it works there is that it writes scripts to search and chunk the text. That is, it’s doing non-AI work to search docs and others. Perhaps it’s good at orchestrating text work like

The Go team debates AI-generated contributions

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#​590 — February 20, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly

The developer as conductor: Leading an orchestra of AI agents with the feature flag baton

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Last month, just a few weeks after Dynatrace finalized its acquisition of DevCycle, Michael Beemer of Dynatrace and Andrew Norris,

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Want an easy way to manage Podman containers? Here it is.

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You’ve heard of Docker Desktop, right? Of course you have. Docker Desktop is a user-friendly GUI app that simplifies managing

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The essential shift every ITOps leader must make to survive an unrelenting stream of incidents

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High-profile IT incidents are becoming more frequent and more severe. A single hour of downtime for a revenue-generating service could

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AI agents are accelerating vulnerability discovery. Here’s how AppSec teams must adapt.

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It has never been easier to quickly and at scale find security vulnerabilities. Linus’s Law, Eric Raymond’s famous dictum about

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Rubik’s WOWCube adds complexity, possibility by reinventing the puzzle cube

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Technology is a double-edged sword in the $399 Rubik's Cube-inspired toy.

How your LLM is silently hallucinating company revenue

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LLMs are accelerating work across engineering disciplines, from generating React components and building backend APIs to noodling with SQL. But

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Rising identity complexity: How CISOs can prevent it from becoming an attacker’s roadmap

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Identity has always been the thread that stitches enterprise IT together, but the nature of that identity has changed dramatically.

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Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro is mostly great

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Google on Thursday launched the latest version of its Gemini Pro model. While it’s not the best at every task,

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Twilio’s A2H is a new protocol that helps agents talk to humans

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Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a proliferation of frameworks and protocols for agentic AI tools. There is

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