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From legacy architecture to Cloudflare One

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Learn how Cloudflare and CDW de-risk SASE migrations with a blueprint that treats legacy debt as an application modernization project.

Mac Trade-Ins Surge Amid MacBook Neo Launch

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Apple this week saw an unusual surge of Mac trade-ins amid the launch of the MacBook Neo.


A reliable source speaking to MacRumors revealed that the quantity of Macs traded in at Apple retail stores this week increased over 100% compared to previous weeks, likely driven by demand for the ‌MacBook Neo‌ and M5 MacBook Air.

Older, low-end models dominated this week's trade-ins, suggesting that customers are upgrading to the ‌MacBook Neo‌ and the M5 ‌MacBook Air‌, rather than the new MacBook Pro models with the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.

The scale of increase is notic [...]

Sources: Elon Musk pushed out two more xAI co-founders after getting frustrated with xAI's coding product progress and brought in "fixers" from SpaceX and Tesla (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Sources: Elon Musk pushed out two more xAI co-founders after getting frustrated with xAI's coding product progress and brought in “fixers” from SpaceX and Tesla  —  Tesla and SpaceX managers sent in to review work as billionaire's start-up struggles to keep pace with rivals

Patch Me If You Can: AI Codemods for Secure-by-Default Android Apps

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Even seemingly simple engineering tasks — like updating an API — can become monumental undertakings when you’re dealing with millions of lines of code and thousands of engineers, especially if the changes are security-related. Nowhere is this more apparent than in mobile security, where a single class of vulnerability can be replicated across hundreds of [...]

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The post Patch Me If You Can: AI Codemods for Secure-by-Default Android Apps appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

iPhone 17 Pro is Now Part of MLB History

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Back in September, the Apple TV streaming service's broadcast of the pivotal Boston Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers game at Fenway Park incorporated live footage captured with the iPhone 17 Pro, and now the device has been enshrined in MLB history.


Apple this week announced that the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has added one of the four iPhone 17 Pro devices that captured the Red Sox clinching a postseason berth with a thrilling walk-off win over the Tigers to its permanent collection in Cooperstown, New York. More details are available [...]

World’s largest tow truck rescues 135,000-lb excavator from parking garage

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A routine demolition job in Washington, Pennsylvania, turned into an extraordinary rescue operation after a...

Adobe agrees to pay $75M to resolve a US government lawsuit accusing it of concealing hefty termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Adobe agrees to pay $75M to resolve a US government lawsuit accusing it of concealing hefty termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions  —  Adobe (ADBE.O) said on Friday it will pay $75 million to resolve a U.S. government lawsuit accusing the Photoshop and Acrobat maker …

Apple's First Foldable Displays Nearing Mass Production

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Advanced display panels destined for Apple's first foldable iPhone are reportedly nearing mass production.


The Weibo leaker known as "Instant Digital" today said that Samsung Display is set to begin mass production of OLED panels for the first foldable iPhone in May 2026. Meanwhile, the user "Fixed Focus Digital" claims that the foldable iPhone's screen may be flatter than many of the existing foldable devices currently on sale, suggesting that Apple has largely solved th [...]

‘Superfast surrogate’ framework to hunt for exotic quark matter within neutron stars

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Scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to unlock secrets hidden within the densest...

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Launch Deals Hit Brand New M4 iPad Air, M5 MacBook Air, and More

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This week was Apple launch week, and we're already seeing solid markdowns on the new M4 iPad Air, M5 MacBook Air, and more. Additionally, below you'll find deals on AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation and Apple Watch Series 11.

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Low-Code’s New Frontier: Tailored Solutions for Each Industry

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Apple is Up to Something Secret in New York

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Apple's retail store at the Grand Central Terminal in New York is temporarily closed, but the reason why remains a mystery.


As seen in photos shared by Parker Ortolani, Apple's space on the Main Concourse's East Balcony is covered up with temporary walls and curtains. There is also temporary lighting and audio equipment set up, and a video shared on social media appears to show that Apple is or was recording some sort of production.

Apple is clearly up to something, but exactly what remains anyone's guess. It could be recording a special video that will be part of its [...]

Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen  —  Peacock is making a clear bet on two things: AI and mobile-first entertainment.  —  Based on what the streamer previewed at a press event yesterday …

Scientists overturn 150-year-old geometry rule using twin donut-like torus surfaces

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Researchers in the US and Germany have solved a mathematical problem that has puzzled mathematicians...

Draper liquid rocket engine achieves supersonic speeds in US Air Force test

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The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Ursa Major have successfully completed the first flight...

First time in US: Alpha-E tabletop nuclear fusion device installed at Purdue University

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Purdue University’s School of Health Sciences has completed the installation of the first Alpha-E tabletop...

Could Israel use nuclear weapons against Iran? The Samson option explained

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Escalating tensions between Israel and Iran have revived concerns about a scenario once considered almost...

US aerospace firm launches new jet engine to power next-gen loyal wingman drones

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Honeywell Aerospace has revealed its HON6000 high-performance turbofan engine, which is primarily designed to power...

Banking, manufacturing, and other EU businesses warn "tech sovereignty" could hit profits and competitiveness as Brussels aims to cut reliance on US tech giants (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Banking, manufacturing, and other EU businesses warn “tech sovereignty” could hit profits and competitiveness as Brussels aims to cut reliance on US tech giants  —  Companies argue that ‘tech sovereignty’ drive could hit profits and undermine continent's competitiveness

US: Lockheed’s new long-range missile for moving land, sea targets aces flight test

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On March 12, 2026, Lockheed Martin successfully completed the first flight test of the Precision...

iPhone Fold: 5 Things We Learned This Week About Apple's Foldable

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It's been a big week for foldable iPhone rumors. In case you missed any of them, here are five developments that we've covered over the last few days.


Apple is expected to launch the iPhone Fold this September. For everything else we know, be sure to check out our dedicated roundup.

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Turkish firm’s attack drone turned into mid-air launch platform for strike UAVs

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A Turkish company has showcased its powerful drone carrying two smaller unmanned aerial vehicles under...

Uber is relaunching a robotaxi service with Hyundai-backed Motional in Las Vegas; the service will have a safety driver behind the wheel until the end of 2026 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber is relaunching a robotaxi service with Hyundai-backed Motional in Las Vegas; the service will have a safety driver behind the wheel until the end of 2026  —  Uber Technologies Inc. is relaunching a robotaxi service with the Hyundai Motor Co.-backed company Motional in Las Vegas …

Trump DOJ Wimps Out On Ticketmaster, Again Revealing Hollowness Of MAGA ‘Antitrust’

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Last election season, you might recall how the Trump campaign lied to everyone repeatedly about how his second administration would “rein in big tech,” and be a natural extension of the Lina Khan antitrust movement. As we noted at the time, that was always an obvious fake populist lie, but it was propped up anyway […]

From B-52 to Tu-160: 10 massive bomber planes that changed long-range warfare

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Strategic bombers have long been among the largest and most powerful aircraft ever built, designed...

The “files are all you need” debate misses what’s actually happening in agent memory architecture

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When you look at how top engineering teams actually build agent memory systems, a pattern emerges: There is a filesystem

The post The “files are all you need” debate misses what’s actually happening in agent memory architecture appeared first on The New Stack.

The Risk Profile of AI-Driven Development

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Parallels Confirms MacBook Neo Can Run Windows in a Virtual Machine

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Parallels Desktop virtualization software is compatible with the new MacBook Neo, according to an update from the company – but Windows VM performance will depend on your intended use case.


From Parallels' updated knowledge base article:

Parallels Desktop runs on MacBook Neo in basic usability testing. The Parallels Engineering team has completed initial testing and confirmed that Parallels Desktop installs and virtual machines operate stably on MacBook Neo. Full validation and performance testing is ongoing, and additional compatibility statement will follow if required.

STMicro says it will retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots in its older chip plants for repetitive and physically demanding tasks, aiming to avoid closures (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)

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Nathan Vifflin / Reuters:
STMicro says it will retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots in its older chip plants for repetitive and physically demanding tasks, aiming to avoid closures  —  STMicroelectronics (STMPA.PA) unveiled plans on Thursday to retrain workers and deploy robots in its older chip manufacturing plants …

Apple TV Claims First F1 Viewership Victory Over ESPN

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Apple TV aired the first Formula 1 race of the 2026 season last weekend following an exclusive streaming rights partnership for five years, and Apple senior VP of services Eddy Cue is already calling it a win for the company.


Cue told The Hollywood Reporter that viewership for last week's Australian Grand Prix was up year over year compared to the 2025 race, which aired on ESPN.

"The 2026 Formula 1 season on Apple TV is off to a strong start, with fans responding positively and viewership up year over year for the first weekend, exceeding both F1 and Apple ex [...]

Sources: HSBC and Standard Chartered are set to be among the first licensed stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong, as the city pushes to become a crypto hub (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: HSBC and Standard Chartered are set to be among the first licensed stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong, as the city pushes to become a crypto hub  —  HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc are set to be among the first licensed stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong …

Apple to Cut App Store Developer Fees in China From March 15

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Apple has announced it is lowering App Store developer fees in China from March 15, with commission rates for standard in-app purchases (IAPs) set to change to 25%, down from 30%.


In an update on its Developer blog, Apple also said the commission rate for qualifying IAPs under the App Store Small Business Program and Mini Apps Partner Program (and auto-renewals of IAP subscriptions after the first year) will be 12%, down from the current 15%.

Apple said the changes are a result of "discussions with the Chinese regulator," indicating the move is to avoid regulatory intervention. A report [...]

China approves the market launch of an invasive BCI system that helps restore hand movement, the world's first approval of such a device for commercial use (Reuters)

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Reuters:
China approves the market launch of an invasive BCI system that helps restore hand movement, the world's first approval of such a device for commercial use  —  China's drug regulator said on Friday that it has given the nod for a brain-computer interface (BCI) system that helps restore hand-movement ability …

How eBPF and OpenTelemetry Have Simplified the Observability Function

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Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of "humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters" and strengthens that of "working-class, often male voters" (Kelby Vera/HuffPost)

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Kelby Vera / HuffPost:
Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of “humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters” and strengthens that of “working-class, often male voters”  —  In a new interview, Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicted who will be hit hardest by shifts in technology ... and it wasn't the typical MAGA base.

Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including of a VIP Chinese trader and a suspected Iranian gold smuggler, that helped move $1B to Iran-linked groups (Fortune)

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Fortune:
Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including of a VIP Chinese trader and a suspected Iranian gold smuggler, that helped move $1B to Iran-linked groups  —  In early 2025, an embattled Iranian regime was turning increasingly to crypto in order to thwart sanctions choking its economy.

Source: the perpetrators of the wiper attack on Stryker appear to have used Microsoft Intune to issue a "remote wipe" command against all connected devices (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Source: the perpetrators of the wiper attack on Stryker appear to have used Microsoft Intune to issue a “remote wipe” command against all connected devices  —  A hacktivist group with links to Iran's intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker …

Sources: ByteDance is working with Aolani Cloud to deploy ~500 Nvidia Blackwell systems in Malaysia, totaling ~36,000 B200 chips; the hardware could cost $2.5B+ (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ByteDance is working with Aolani Cloud to deploy ~500 Nvidia Blackwell systems in Malaysia, totaling ~36,000 B200 chips; the hardware could cost $2.5B+  —  TikTok parent, pushing global expansion, plans to tap Blackwell processors that are barred for export to China

The European Commission says "X has submitted remedies in relation to its blue check mark" in the EU and the commission will now "assess the proposed remedies" (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

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Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
The European Commission says “X has submitted remedies in relation to its blue check mark” in the EU and the commission will now “assess the proposed remedies”  —  Elon Musk's X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, has agreed to change its verification mechanism …

MAHA Institute: Nix The Entire Childhood Vaccine Schedule

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If you agree with me that what RFK Jr. has done at HHS — particularly when it comes to altering vaccine schedules, approvals, research, and access — is bad well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Kennedy road Trump’s coattails, building his own Make America Health Again (MAHA) movement on the back of the wider MAGA […]

A survey of US adults: 75% say they have heard a lot or a little about data centers; 39% say they are bad for the environment, and 38% bad for home energy costs (Pew Research Center)

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Pew Research Center:
A survey of US adults: 75% say they have heard a lot or a little about data centers; 39% say they are bad for the environment, and 38% bad for home energy costs  —  A broad majority of Americans have heard about data centers - the often-sprawling computing facilities that are popping up nat

Developers on AI coding: many are enthusiastic and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some say software jobs openings may grow, and more (Clive Thompson/New York Times)

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Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Developers on AI coding: many are enthusiastic and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some say software jobs openings may grow, and more  —  Lately, Manu Ebert has been trying to keep his A.I. from humiliating him.

How Go 1.26's smarter `go fix` rewrites deprecated function calls

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#​593 — March 13, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Writing Some Wrongs

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]

Anthropic's Claude Can Now Create Interactive Visuals Directly in Conversations

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Anthropic's Claude chatbot has been updated with support for inline visual content that will help it provide clearer answers.

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My grandfather was mildly obsessed with organizing and documenting the history of his life: a memoir about a career in the military from 1938 to ~1975, growing up in a Depression era Oklahoma “dirt farm.”

There was also geology. I think all old people have that project. Us soon to be old Gen-X’ers have more records around than probably any human in history, especially the nerds. Soon, we’ll all be obsessively organizing the equivalent of our 40 year slides and boxes of receipts. Personal digital gnolling.

Weasel Words: OpenAI’s Pentagon Deal Won’t Stop AI‑Powered Surveillance

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OpenAI, the maker of ChaptGPT, is rightfully facing widespread criticism for its decisions to fill the gap the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) created when rival Anthropic refused to drop its restrictions against using its AI for surveillance and autonomous weapons systems. After protests from both users and employees who did not sign up to support government mass surveillance—early […]

Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Highlights

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What if we could identify interesting listening moments from your year, and tell you a story about them?

The post Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Highlights appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers

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Trade group callls out HP for latest Dynamic Security firmware update.

Before you let AI agents loose, you’d better know what they’re capable of

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For enterprises, agentic AI systems potentially allow staff responsibilities to shift from execution to judgment, oversight, and strategy. This creates

The post Before you let AI agents loose, you’d better know what they’re capable of appeared first on The New Stack.

Google will soon bring Chrome to ARM64 Linux

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Google on Thursday announced that it will finally launch Chrome for ARM64 Linux devices in the second quarter of 2026.

The post Google will soon bring Chrome to ARM64 Linux appeared first on The New Stack.

iPhone 17e Hands-On: What's New and What's Not

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Apple's latest low-cost iPhone launched yesterday, and we picked up the iPhone 17e to see how it compares to the iPhone 16e that came before it, and how it measures up to the iPhone 17 lineup.

SurePath AI advances MCP policy controls to tighten the cable on AI’s USB-C

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AI needs governance. Amid the exponential growth of predictive, generative, and agentic artificial intelligence, humans everywhere have repeatedly asked, “Is

The post SurePath AI advances MCP policy controls to tighten the cable on AI’s USB-C appeared first on The New Stack.

New Perplexity APIs give developers access to agentic workflows and orchestration

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On the heels of last month’s Perplexity Computer launch, the company on Thursday announced an expansion of the Perplexity API

The post New Perplexity APIs give developers access to agentic workflows and orchestration appeared first on The New Stack.

Don’t Ban Kids From Using Chatbots

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Laws prohibiting minors from accessing AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT would violate the First Amendment. But that’s not stopping lawmakers from trying. Senator Josh Hawley has introduced the Guidelines for User Age-verification and Responsible Dialogue Act of 2025 (GUARD Act), which would require AI companies to “prohibit” minors under “18 years of age” from “accessing or […]

Anthropic’s Claude can now draw interactive charts and diagrams

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Anthropic’s Claude has always been great at coding and working with text, but where Google and OpenAI invested heavily in

The post Anthropic’s Claude can now draw interactive charts and diagrams appeared first on The New Stack.

Google Maps Adds Gemini AI-Powered 'Ask Maps' Feature and 3D Immersive Navigation

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Google today added Gemini AI to Google Maps, enabling a new Ask Maps feature. Gemini in maps can answer complex, real-world questions that Google says "a map could never answer before."


There is a new Ask Maps button where Google Maps users can get answers to specific questions like "is there a public tennis court with lights on that I can play at tonight?" Google says that finding information like that would have taken a lot of sifting through reviews in the past, but now Google Maps can provide an answer with a custom map.

The feature can be used for trip planning, and it is able to provide tailored responses based on prior searches or saved information in the app. Google Maps can build a trip i [...]

The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing Under Section 702

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Senator Ron Wyden says that when a secret interpretation of Section 702 is eventually declassified, the American public “will be stunned” to learn what the NSA has been doing. If you’ve followed Wyden’s career, you know this is not a man prone to hyperbole — and you know his track record on these warnings is […]

Daily Deal: The All-in-One Super-Sized Ethical Hacking Bundle

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To completely understand computer security, it’s vital to step outside the fence and to think outside the box. Computer security is not just about firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems, or anti-viruses. It’s also about tricking people into doing whatever a hacker wishes. A secure system, network, or infrastructure is also about informed people. The All-in-One Super-Sized […]

AI Is Forcing DevOps Teams to Rethink Observability Data Management

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Docs Expose CBP’s Use Of Ad Data To Track People’s Movements

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Every phone is a narc whether you realize it or not. The private sector certainly knows what information a cell phone can divulge and has leveraged the always-on nature of these devices to maximize profitability. The public sector — mainly law enforcement agencies, both local and federal — have caught onto this as well. With […]

Why AI-driven operations are pushing governance beyond a compliance issue and into an operational priority

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Board members and senior executives are pushing hard to accelerate AI adoption. As a result, significant numbers of organizations have

The post Why AI-driven operations are pushing governance beyond a compliance issue and into an operational priority appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks

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Neo is the first MacBook in a long time with an easily replaceable keyboard.

Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion

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AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions.

The post Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

iPhone 17e vs. iPhone 16 Buyer's Guide: Which Low-Cost iPhone Should You Choose?

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The iPhone 17e just joined the iPhone lineup. Apple continues to sell the iPhone 16 as an alternative low-cost option, and while the two devices share many core features, there are still more than 25 differences between them to be aware of.


Following the launch of the iPhone 17 lineup and the iPhone Air, Apple discontinued the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, and reduced the price of the ‌iPhone 16‌ and ‌iPhone 16‌ Plus by $100.

The ‌iPhone 17e‌ and ‌iPhone 16‌ now represent the two least expensive iPhone models available directly [...]

Samsung's Monitor Sale Includes Free Copy of Resident Evil Requiem, Plus TV and Galaxy Deals

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Samsung introduced the newest line of Galaxy products last month, including the S26 smartphones and Galaxy Buds4. Today, you can find a few discounts on some of these products, plus savings on Samsung's most popular monitors and TVs, with notable markdowns on products like The Frame TVs.

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Apple Says 'Hello' With New Instagram Account

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Apple is already on Instagram, where it primarily shares photos and videos for its Shot on iPhone campaign, but the company is expanding its horizons.


Apple today launched another Instagram account called Hello Apple (@helloapple), where it will share company news, stories, product marketing, and more. The account will showcase how Apple products inspire creativity and help to make a difference in everyday lives, and it will highlight work from Apple's creator community.

Apple said the account will occasionally provide behind-the-scenes peeks too, so fans will want to follow along to learn something new.

"Our stories, and yours," the accou [...]

MacBook Neo Teardown: Modular Ports, Glue-Less Battery, Zero Tape

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A teardown of the new MacBook Neo by Australian YouTube repair channel Tech Re-Nu reveals what may be the most modular and repair-friendly Mac laptop in recent times.


The Neo is shown being taken apart in just six minutes, suggesting Apple has prioritized simplicity across the board, using standard Torx screws (T3, T5, and T8) and a clean cable routing design.

To open the aluminum body, eight screws on the bottom are loosened, similar to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Inside, a tiny motherboard sits, surrounded by a stripped-back internal layout with minimal parts and no hinge covers.

The battery is secured by 18 screws and lifts straight out – there are no stretch-release adhesive tabs, and no sticky glue holding it in [...]

MacBook Neo's Keyboard Can Be Replaced Individually

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Apple has published its MacBook Neo repair manual, and it reveals some big repairability news: the keyboard can be replaced individually.


For many years, replacing the keyboard in a MacBook has required replacing the entire Top Case, which refers to the top half of the aluminum shell surrounding the keyboard. For example, the latest MacBook Air has a "Top Case with Keyboard" part, and the latest MacBook Pro models have a "Top Case with Battery and Keyboard" part.

For the MacBook Neo, there are separate Keyboard, Keyboard with Touch ID, and Top Case parts, and Apple shows how to replace the keyboard [...]

Apple Announces 50th Anniversary Plans

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Apple today announced that it will celebrate the company's 50th anniversary over the coming weeks, but it has yet to reveal any specific plans.


Apple was founded on April 1, 1976, so the company will turn 50 on April 1, 2026.

"While Apple is known for looking forward, this milestone offers a special moment to reflect on the journey that has brought the company here, to celebrate the people and communities who have thought different with us, and to honor the enduring values that continue to guide our work," said Apple, in a press release.

Apple said its celebrations will recognize the "creativity, innovation, and impact that people around the world have made possible with Appl [...]

Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares '50 Years of Thinking Different' Letter

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Apple CEO Tim Cook today shared a "50 Years of Thinking Different" letter, ahead of the company's 50th anniversary on April 1, 2026.


The letter touches on the upcoming 50th anniversary and says that "the world is moved forward by people who think different." For those unaware, "Think Different" was a famous advertising slogan used by Apple in the late 1990s to early 2000s.

"At Apple, we're more focused on building tomorrow than remembering yesterday," said Cook, in the letter. "But we couldn't let this milestone pass without thanking the millions of people who make Apple what it is today."

Apple announced that it [...]

Runpod report: Qwen has overtaken Meta’s Llama as the most-deployed self-hosted LLM

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The rise of agentic AI services has enabled the enterprise technology market to blossom with a new, fully evolved set

The post Runpod report: Qwen has overtaken Meta’s Llama as the most-deployed self-hosted LLM appeared first on The New Stack.

Amazon Introduces First Cash Discounts on New MacBook Air and MacBook Pro

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Apple's new M5 MacBook Air and M5 Pro/M5 Max MacBook Pro just launched yesterday, and now Amazon has the first cash discounts on these models. You'll find $49 off nearly every new MacBook model on Amazon, without the need of a membership or clipping a coupon.

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.

Before today, the only offers we were tracking were Best Buy gift cards with the purchase of a new MacBook. This makes Amazon's discounts the first cash markdowns on Apple's new products that we've seen so far. [...]

Google Maps gets its biggest navigation redesign in a decade, plus more AI

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Google Maps is about to get more chatty and immersive.

David Ellison Pinky Swears CNN Will Retain Editorial Independence, Points To CBS

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We’ve already all seen what the Ellison family’s version of “editorial independence” looks like over at CBS, where contrarian troll Bari Weiss has turned the already very Republican friendly news giant into a safe space for right wing zealots and autocrats. All overseen by a Brendan Carr chosen censor tasked with ensuring the channel always […]

Gloo built a faith-based AI platform that already has secular interest

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AI models have gotten a lot better at avoiding hallucinations, and the frontier labs tend to put strict guardrails around

The post Gloo built a faith-based AI platform that already has secular interest appeared first on The New Stack.

Sorry, Charlie, StarKist Wants AI With Good Taste

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Zero Downtime Multicloud Migrations for Observability Control Planes

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Announcing Cloudflare Account Abuse Protection: prevent fraudulent attacks from bots and humans

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Blocking bots isn’t enough anymore. Cloudflare’s new fraud prevention capabilities — now available in Early Access — help stop account abuse before it starts.

Beavers Are Not Moose: Buc-ee’s Sues Competitor Over Cartoon Moose Branding

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Alright, I think it might be time for a wellness check on the people running Buc-ee’s. I realize that these chain of gas and convenience stores has a strange cult following in the south. I won’t pretend to understand why that is, but whatever. Unfortunately, the company also appears to be run by a bunch […]

14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns

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Most of the devices are made by Asus and are located in the US.

JetBrains Launches Air and Junie CLI to Blend Traditional IDE with AI Agents

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Windows 11's Steam Deck-ish, streamlined Xbox gaming UI comes to all PCs in April

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Running Windows on gaming handhelds is currently a blessing and a curse.

From Tailnet to platform (Interview)

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Adam talks with Tailscale co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer David Carney about where Tailscale is headed next: TSIDP, TSNet, multiple tailnets, and Aperture. They get into clickless auth (via TSIDP), TSNet apps, multiple tailnets for isolation and control, and Aperture, Tailscale’s private AI gateway for API key management, observability, and agent security.

Galileo releases Agent Control, a centralized guardrails platform for enterprise AI agents

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Galileo, a company known for its AI observability and guardrails technology, on Wednesday released Agent Control, an open source control

The post Galileo releases Agent Control, a centralized guardrails platform for enterprise AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B open model for large-scale AI systems

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Ahead of its flagship GTC conference next week, Nvidia on Wednesday launched the second model in its open-weight Nemotron 3

The post Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B open model for large-scale AI systems appeared first on The New Stack.

Tetrate launches open source marketplace to simplify Envoy adoption

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Agentic AI development company Tetrate has launched Built on Envoy, a free and open source extensions marketplace for Envoy. Envoy

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Microsoft’s VS Code team moved to weekly releases after 10 years of monthly — and credits AI for making it possible

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Earlier this year, Pierce Boggan, the Product Lead for VS Code and GitHub Copilot at Microsoft, quietly dropped a bombshell

The post Microsoft’s VS Code team moved to weekly releases after 10 years of monthly — and credits AI for making it possible appeared first on The New Stack.

Intel shores up its desktop CPU lineup with boosted Core Ultra 200S Plus chips

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New CPUs are a bit faster and a bit cheaper than the ones they replace.

JetBrains names the debt AI agents leave behind

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Developers have spent years fighting technical debt. Now there’s a new variant accumulating in codebases, and many teams don’t even

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“Self-healing” IT? HPE research explores how AI-trained models can catch silent infrastructure failures

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The volume of data and noise that comes with enterprise IT complexity leaves operations teams struggling to understand how to

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The 2 failures with AI coding that are creating security bottlenecks

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Code assistants have fallen short of the “10x engineers” we expected. A recent GitLab survey of DevOps practitioners found that

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The MySQL Shadow

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For much of Postgres's history, it has lived in the shadow of other relational systems, and for a time even in the shadow of NoSQL systems. Those shadows have faded, but it is helpful to reflect on this outcome.

On the proprietary side, most database products are now in maintenance mode. The only database to be consistently compared to Postgres was Oracle. Long-term, Oracle was never going to be able to compete against an open source development team, just like Sun's Solaris was

Publish your data, AI techniques, and agentic engineering work on Towards Data Science

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If you’re reading The New Stack, there’s a good chance you’ve already done something worth writing about: built an agent

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Slashing agent token costs by 98% with RFC 9457-compliant error responses

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Cloudflare now returns RFC 9457-compliant structured Markdown and JSON error payloads to AI agents, replacing heavyweight HTML pages with machine-readable instructions. This reduces token usage by over 98%, turning brittle parsing into efficient control flow.

The Observability Bill is Coming Due – and AI Wrote Most of It

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AI Security for Apps is now generally available

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Cloudflare AI Security for Apps is now generally available, providing a security layer to discover and protect AI-powered applications, regardless of the model or hosting provider. We are also making AI discovery free for all plans, to help teams find and secure shadow AI deployments.

Gemini Code Assist Gets Agent Auto-Approve, Inline Diffs, and Custom Commands to Speed Up the Core Coding Loop

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Microsoft Azure Skills Plugin Gives AI Coding Agents a Playbook for Cloud Deployment

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"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,