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Matt Mullenweg responds to DHH's claim that "Automattic is doing open source dirty", pointing out Rails' own trademark policy and taking some jabs at 37signals (Matt Mullenweg)

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Matt Mullenweg:
Matt Mullenweg responds to DHH's claim that “Automattic is doing open source dirty”, pointing out Rails' own trademark policy and taking some jabs at 37signals  —  I'll just remind everyone at the start that this is a respectful debate, and DHH and I tried to get on a call but couldn't because we were both traveling.

A look at what's changed since Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard a year ago: layoffs, exec departures, some Xbox exclusives on PlayStation and Switch, more (Victoria Kennedy/Eurogamer.net)

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Victoria Kennedy / Eurogamer.net:
A look at what's changed since Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard a year ago: layoffs, exec departures, some Xbox exclusives on PlayStation and Switch, more  —  A look back at everything that's happened over the last year.  —  Follow Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Working from home is powering productivity (News)

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Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engine's beatings will continue until morale improves, Levels.fyi has added a salary heat map, Gareth Edwards highlights just how fragile the Internet really is & Artem Zakirullin details how cognitive load is what really matters in software development.

Best Buy Launches Exclusive Black & Gold Beats Studio Pro

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Following an Amazon-exclusive Matte White version of the Beats Studio Pro that launched last month, Best Buy recently debuted its own exclusive color option for the over-ear headphones from the Apple-owned brand: Black & Gold.


Offering a two-tone alternative to the standard Black color option, the Black & Gold Beats Studio Pro feature a largely black exterior but with something of a champagne or gold color inside the headband and all the way down to where the ear cups attach. Gold accents for the headband hinges and the Beats "b" button provide additional contrast.

The Black & Gold Beats Studio Pro come with the same traditional black nylon case as the original four launc [...]

Modernizing Cloud Infrastructure with Kubernetes

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As organizations increasingly adopt cloud technologies, modernizing infrastructure to meet dynamic business requirements has become essential. Kubernetes has emerged as the leading choice for container orchestration due to its scalability, security, and flexibility, making it a prime candidate for modern infrastructure on the cloud. This white paper outlines why Kubernetes, coupled with tools like opsZero’s […]

Modernize your infrastructure with opsZero

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Smart gardening firm’s shutdown a reminder of Internet of Things’ fickle nature

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Company closing "due to a number of challenges with this business."

Apple Preparing to Add Support for Digital Car Keys on Volvo, Polestar, and Audi Vehicles

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Apple is preparing to begin supporting digital car keys in the Wallet app for certain Volvo, Polestar, and Audi vehicles, based on code changes discovered by MacRumors in Apple's Wallet app backend.


‌The car keys‌ function can allow an iPhone or Apple Watch with NFC capabilities to unlock, lock, or start a vehicle through the Wallet app by simply holding the device near a compatible vehicle's NFC reader. Car key functionality may vary by manufacturer and model.

Apple introduced ‌digital car key support‌ in 2022, and select car brands like BMW, BYD, Hyundai/Genesis/Kia, Lotus, Mercedes-Benz, and RAM have implemented support for the feature‌. Apple maintains a full list of vehicles that support ‌car keys‌ on its <a href="https://www.apple.com/ios/car [...]

Sources: Tether talked to several commodities trading firms about lending to them, as it hopes to face fewer regulatory restrictions than traditional lenders (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Tether talked to several commodities trading firms about lending to them, as it hopes to face fewer regulatory restrictions than traditional lenders  —  - Commodity traders rely on credit lines to finance shipments  — Tether CEO says any commodities work ‘in early stages’

Boost Your Shipping Velocity With Argo and Buildpacks

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A recent Microsoft study looked into what drives developers’ productivity and found that the feedback loop had a strong impact.

The post Boost Your Shipping Velocity With Argo and Buildpacks appeared first on The New Stack.

Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today

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Windows 10 is by far the most-used version of Windows, and support ends soon.

Apple Seeds Seventh Developer Betas of iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1 With Apple Intelligence

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Apple today provided developers with the seventh betas of iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1 to continue testing Apple Intelligence features. The seventh betas come a week after Apple seeded the sixth iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1 betas.


The updates can be downloaded from the Settings app on a compatible device by going to General > Software Update. Note that Apple Intelligence features still an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 16 to run.

Apple Intelligence includes Writing Tools that are available wherever text can be selected and edited, and it can be used for spell checking, fixing grammar, rewriting with a new tone, and summa [...]

Apple Seeds Fifth Betas of watchOS 11.1, visionOS 2.1, and tvOS 18.1 to Developers

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Apple today seeded the fifth betas of upcoming watchOS 11.1, visionOS 2.1, and tvOS 18.1 updates to developers for testing purposes. The fifth betas come a week after Apple released the fourth betas.


watchOS 11.1 can be installed by going to the Apple Watch app and selecting the Software Update section under "General" in Settings. tvOS 18.1 can be downloaded and installed through the Apple TV Settings app, and visionOS 2.1 can be installed by going to the Software Update section of the Settings app on the Vision Pro and opting into Beta Updates.

So far, no major new features have been discovered in these three updates, though there are undoubtedly some minor feature t [...]

National Public Data, the FL-based data broker that was hacked and lost hundreds of millions of SSNs and more earlier this year, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
National Public Data, the FL-based data broker that was hacked and lost hundreds of millions of SSNs and more earlier this year, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy  —  A Florida data broker that lost hundreds of millions of Social Security numbers

Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Techniques

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has experienced a number of advancements in recent years alongside its increasing popularity. In my talk at

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Empowering developers w/ easy, scalable stream processing on K8s

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In this Town Hall, Intuit shared insights on Numaflow, an open-source Kubernetes-native stream processing framework developed to address the challenges of real-time data analytics. The presentation highlighted how Numaflow enables...

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Sources: OpenAI's research organization is in upheaval after the promotion of Liam Fedus to lead post-training, with several researchers asking to switch teams (The Information)

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The Information:
Sources: OpenAI's research organization is in upheaval after the promotion of Liam Fedus to lead post-training, with several researchers asking to switch teams  —  When it comes to recruiting and retaining artificial intelligence researchers, OpenAI has faced tougher competition this year from old and new rivals.

Spin + StarlingMonkey Equals JavaScript for WebAssembly

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VIENNA — It took a while, but JavaScript deployment with WebAssembly (Wasm) has seen a nice development, highlighted here with

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Anker Debuts Early Access Black Friday Deals, Plus 20% Off Select Accessories for MacRumors Readers

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Anker recently kicked off an early access Black Friday sale, which is set to run through the end of the month. These early bird deals include big discounts on portable chargers, USB-C hubs, cables, and more.

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

Additionally, MacRumors readers can still get 20 percent off a collection of Anker's best charge [...]

Apple TV+ Shares First Trailer for 'Silo' Season 2

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Apple TV+ today released the first trailer for the second season of its globally acclaimed drama original series "Silo," which is set to premiere on November 15, 2024.

iOS 18: Use New Library and Notes Features in Apple Maps

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Apple Maps in iOS 18 introduces two helpful new features: a centralized Library for saved content and the ability to add personal notes to locations. Here's how to take advantage of these new tools.

Using the New Library

Apple Study Reveals Critical Flaws in AI's Logical Reasoning Abilities

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Apple's AI research team has uncovered significant weaknesses in the reasoning abilities of large language models, according to a newly published study.


The study, published on arXiv, outlines Apple's evaluation of a range of leading language models, including those from OpenAI, Meta, and other prominent developers, to determine how well these models could handle mathematical reasoning tasks. The findings reveal that even slight changes in the phrasing of questions can cause major discrepancies in model performance that can undermine their reliability in scenarios requiring logical consistency.

Apple draws attention to a persistent problem in language models: their reliance on pattern matching rather than genuine logical reasoning. In several [...]

Microservices Testing: Feature Flags vs. Preview Environments

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Microservices architectures have transformed how modern applications are built, allowing for rapid feature development and scalability. However, they also bring

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Samsung rolls out One UI, based on Tizen 8.0, to its smart TVs that were released in 2023, after announcing plans to update the TVs at its developer conference (Asif Iqbal Shaik/SamMobile)

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Asif Iqbal Shaik / SamMobile:
Samsung rolls out One UI, based on Tizen 8.0, to its smart TVs that were released in 2023, after announcing plans to update the TVs at its developer conference  —  A few days ago, during the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) 2024, Samsung announced it would bring One UI to its TVs.

At its Adobe Max event, Adobe adds AI tools to Photoshop, like Distraction Removal, and makes Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and more generally available (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
At its Adobe Max event, Adobe adds AI tools to Photoshop, like Distraction Removal, and makes Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and more generally available  —  Adobe is kicking off its annual Adobe Max conference today with the launch of new AI-powered features across its Creative Cloud apps.

Meta Quest 3S review: fast performance, comfortable, excellent controllers, and large app library, but Fresnel lenses lead to artifacts and average MR cameras (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)

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Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
Meta Quest 3S review: fast performance, comfortable, excellent controllers, and large app library, but Fresnel lenses lead to artifacts and average MR cameras  —  It's not Meta's first $300 VR headset, but it's still a tremendous accomplishment.  —  You can think of the $300 Meta Quest 3S as a basic Honda Accord of VR headsets.

Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Model in public beta in Premiere Pro, including letting users extend footage and generate video from prompts (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Model in public beta in Premiere Pro, including letting users extend footage and generate video from prompts  —  Adobe is making the jump into generative AI video.  The company's Firefly Video Model, which has been teased since earlier this year …

Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Apple Watch Ultra 2 Buyer's Guide: Which Should You Choose?

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The Apple Watch Series 10 arrived a year after the Apple Watch Ultra 2, introducing a revamped design and a more advanced display. Apple did not launch an Apple Watch Ultra 3 this year, leaving last year's ‌Apple Watch Ultra 2‌ as the latest version, so how does it compare to the latest Series 10 model?


Both the Apple Watch Series 10 and the ‌Apple Watch Ultra 2‌ feature sleep apnea detection, speaker playback, a second-generation Ultra Wideband chip, an Always-On Retina display, IP6X dust resistance, and more, but there are still some significant differences between the two devices. Since the Series 10 is a year newer than the Ultra 2, it boasts a limited number of superior features, but the Ultra 2 remains the o [...]

A profile of Alex Gerko, who used an Icelandic supercomputer and 25K AI chips to build XTX, an algorithmic trading firm that handles $250B of daily trades (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

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Nikou Asgari / Financial Times:
A profile of Alex Gerko, who used an Icelandic supercomputer and 25K AI chips to build XTX, an algorithmic trading firm that handles $250B of daily trades  —  XTX Markets conquered foreign exchange trading and made its Russian-born founder a multibillion-pound fortune

Gurman: Apple Could Release $2,000 'Apple Vision' Headset Next Year

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Apple is working on a more affordable version of its spatial computing headset in the form of a $2,000 "Apple Vision" device that could debut as early as next year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


The new headset would be a lower-end counterpart to the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro, which was released in February. Apple reportedly expects this more affordable model to sell at least twice as many units as the Vision Pro, though "that's not saying much," adds Gurman. Apple will struggle to hit 500,000 Vision Pro sales this year, according to m [...]

How To Fix Your CNCF Governance and Make Money

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When the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) archived our OpenEBS project in February 2024, we had two options: walk away

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iPhone SE 4 Case Leak Suggests Device May Not Feature Action Button

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Serial leaker Sonny Dickson has shared an image on social media purporting to show a case designed for Apple's unannounced iPhone SE 4. The case aligns with most rumors about the device, expected to launch in the spring, but there is one difference.


Rumors have suggested that the iPhone SE 4 will have a design similar to the iPhone 14, featuring an all-display design with Face ID instead of Touch ID, a 6.06-inch display, OLED display technology instead of LCD, a USB-C port, a single 48-megapixel rear camera located in a horizontal oblong bump, an <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2024/1 [...]

A look at the legal dispute between OpenAI and Open AI, run by Guy Ravine, who bought the open.ai domain and filed to trademark "Open AI" in December 2015 (Evan Ratliff/Bloomberg)

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Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg:
A look at the legal dispute between OpenAI and Open AI, run by Guy Ravine, who bought the open.ai domain and filed to trademark “Open AI” in December 2015  —  Guy Ravine's Open AI (with a space) owns a trademark and website that OpenAI (no space) wants.

LinkedIn says US C-suite users are up 35% and UK C-suite users are up 30% in five years, and their content gets 4x more engagement than other members' content (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

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Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
LinkedIn says US C-suite users are up 35% and UK C-suite users are up 30% in five years, and their content gets 4x more engagement than other members' content  —  Pressure is growing on C-suite executives to raise their online game — but they must beware of oversharing

Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle says the service is now back in a "provisional, read-only manner", after a DDoS attack and data breach on October 9 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle says the service is now back in a “provisional, read-only manner”, after a DDoS attack and data breach on October 9  —  The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week.

The UK appoints Microsoft UK CEO Clare Barclay to lead its new Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, which will focus on growing eight sectors, including tech (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
The UK appoints Microsoft UK CEO Clare Barclay to lead its new Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, which will focus on growing eight sectors, including tech  —  Clare Barclay will lead new statutory body tasked with helping Britain win investment away from rival nations

Apple Planning Smart Glasses and AirPods With Cameras for 2027

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Apple is working on smart glasses and AirPods with built-in cameras for a potential release in 2027, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The devices are said to be part of Apple's efforts to expand its augmented reality product lineup beyond the Vision Pro headset with something that has wider appeal.


The push for new AR products comes as the Vision Pro faces challenges in the market. Many users find the $3,500 headset too heavy for extended use, expensive, and prone to overheating, relegating it to niche status. Interest in the device has reportedly waned [...]

A Deep-Dive Into CodeOps or DevOps for Code

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South Korean government data: tech exports slowed for a straight second month, indicating slowing global demand; DRAM had its slowest growth since December 2023 (Sam Kim/Bloomberg)

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Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korean government data: tech exports slowed for a straight second month, indicating slowing global demand; DRAM had its slowest growth since December 2023  —  South Korea's exports of technology products slowed for a straight second month in an indication global demand may be peaking out …

“The Curious Case of the Strategic Snoozer.”

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The Deep Dive crew [adds commentary to hitting the snooze button a lot](https://newsletter.cote.io/p/the-curious-case-of-the-strategic).

Here’s the text I gave it, a narration of waking up in the morning, rather, not waking up:

Well, I woke up at the time you woke up about 6 AM, and I thought I shouldn't get up now so I played a game a little bit. And then I went back to sleep. And then my alarm went off, which is about seven, and I hit snooze and went back to sleep. And then my alarm woke me up again, and I thought, “well I'm gonna get up now,” so instead of pressing snooze, I pressed stop. And then I went back to sleep. Then you came upstairs and you woke me up and I got up.

“This whole snooze button saga…it’s…it’s a JOURNEY.”

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is DisgruntledAnonymous with a comment on our post about Elon Musk seizing people’s Twitter accounts to promote Donald Trump: This just solidified my decision to delete and deactivate my accounts (primary and burner) on that site. I would advise those who haven’t fallen into the […]

Traceability in AI-Enhanced Code: A Developer’s Guide

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The swift and widespread adoption of Generative AI has permeated business sectors across the globe. With transcription tools and content

The post Traceability in AI-Enhanced Code: A Developer’s Guide appeared first on The New Stack.

What Platform Engineering Meant for Adidas’s SREs

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Every second counts in e-commerce. So when the global sportswear company Adidas went from less than 3,000 to 29,000 requests

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Apple Announced the HomePod Mini Four Years Ago Today

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Apple announced the HomePod mini smart speaker four years ago today at its "Hi, Speed" special event.


The low-cost smart speaker was announced alongside the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, ‌iPhone‌ 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max in October 2020. The ‌HomePod mini‌ is Apple's first compact smart speaker, offering high-quality audio, Siri voice control, and smart home integration via HomeKit.

Priced at $99, it stands in contrast to the full-size <a href="ht [...]

WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin

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WordPress.org has taken over a popular WP Engine plugin in order “to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem,” WordPress cofounder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced today. This “minimal” update, which he labels a fork of the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin, is now called “Secure Custom Fields.”

It’s not clear what security problem Mullenweg is referring to in the post. He writes that he’s “invoking point 18 of the plugin directory guidelines,” <a href="https://github.com/wordpress/wporg-plugin-gui

This Week In Techdirt History: October 6th – 12th

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Five Years Ago This week in 2019, Deupty AG Jeffrey Rosen was complaining about companies like Facebook offering encryption, while FBI Director Chris Wray was deploying straw men arguments about the tech, and the DOJ was conflating the content moderation debate with the encryption debate. We learned more about ICE’s massive surveillance network, and the […]

Apple Pencil Pro Hits New All-Time Low Price of $89.99, Plus More Accessory Deals

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Amazon this weekend has introduced a new record low price for the Apple Pencil Pro, available for $89.99, down from $129.00. Alongside this deal, we're tracking a collection of Apple accessory discounts, including great deals on the Magic Keyboard and MagSafe Charger.

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 Pencil

How to Ensure Cloud Native Architectures Are Resilient and Secure

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Organizations are racing to innovate and scale with cloud native technologies in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. But in my experience,

The post How to Ensure Cloud Native Architectures Are Resilient and Secure appeared first on The New Stack.

Best Buy Kicks Off Weekend Sale With Sitewide Discounts on iPads, MacBooks, Monitors, and More

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Best Buy is hosting a new weekend sale that includes a few solid deals on iPads and MacBook Air. There's also plenty of non-Apple discounts during the event, with big savings on TVs, smart home products, video games, and more.

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

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Ubuntu Linux: Install the Suricata Intrusion Detection System

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An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is essential for monitoring network traffic and checking for malicious activity. If your servers are

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Deno 2.0, Angular Updates, Anthropic for Devs, and More

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The Deno team introduced a new Deno for Enterprise program Wednesday, along with releasing Deno 2.0. Deno for Enterprise includes

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Linux: Create System Backups With rsnapshot

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One step to data reliability is backing up your data on a regular basis. You never know when something could

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Top Stories: iOS 18.1 Release Date, New Macs Incoming, and More

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Things are firming up for a big Halloween week for Apple, with the company's next operating system updates reportedly coming early in the week and hardware launches coming a few days later.


Ahead of those hardware launches, we've recently seen what appears to be one of the most significant physical product leaks in years, while some of the new features in Apple's recent software updates have gained attention for their utility, so read on below for all the details on these stories and more!

Apple Plans to Release iOS 18.1 With Apple Intelligence on October 28

Working With JSON Data in Python

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JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) facilitates information sharing between applications. It’s the go-to choice for exchanging data between web clients and

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UK Study Suggests Legal System Needs To Account For ‘Sexual Privacy’ In Copyright Cases

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You all know the playbook when it comes to shady copyright shakedown outfits that work with or for pornography companies. Groups like Malibu Media and others built an infamous reputation for using the legal system to extract IP address-based information on customers whom they then claim downloaded porn illegally, they then mail settlement offers to […]

Will Apple Ever Make AR Smart Glasses?

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There have been multiple signs suggesting that Apple's mixed reality Vision Pro headset is struggling to take off, both due to the super high price and the heavy design that limits the amount of time it can be worn for most people. What does the Vision Pro's floundering mean for Apple's work on future virtual and augmented reality projects?

Vision Pro Interest

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: An Appeal A Day Keeps The Censor Away

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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 […]

iOS 18.1 Includes Option to Set 'Primary' Email Address and Change iCloud Email

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In iOS 18.1, there is a new option to set a "Primary" email address in the Settings app, which means it is easier to change the main email address associated with your Apple Account. The Primary email address is the one that is visible to other people when collaborating on and sharing documents, sending calendar invites, and more.


Apple did not previously make it easy to change an Apple Account (or Apple ID) email address, despite the fact that it is sometimes visible to other people. To change an Apple Account email before, you had to delete the email you were using, choose another, and go through a verification process.

You can now change the email address and continue to use the prior email for login purposes right alongside the new primary. This se [...]

John Deere Once Again Under Fire Again For Efforts To Monopolize Repair

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A few years ago agricultural equipment giant John Deere found itself on the receiving end of an antitrust lawsuit for its efforts to monopolize tractor repair. The lawsuits noted that the company consistently purchased competing repair centers in order to consolidate the sector and force customers into using the company’s own repair facilities, driving up costs and […]

Apple Intelligence: What to Know About Summaries and Smart Replies

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Summaries and smart reply options aren't the flashiest of Apple Intelligence features, but these are capabilities that Apple is introducing in iOS 18.1 that have the potential to be useful for most people's day-to-day device usage.

Summaries

Mail and Messages

The Internet Archive is still down but will return in ‘days, not weeks’

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The Internet Archive will come back within “days” following a cyberattack that brought down the organization’s vast digital library and the Wayback Machine, according to an update from founder Brewster Kahle. It’s been struggling due to a data breach and DDoS attack earlier this week that revealed the email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, and other information associated with more than 31 million unique email addresses.

Apple's Pro Display XDR is Nearly Five Years Old With No Update in Sight

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Apple sells two external displays, including the Pro Display XDR and the Studio Display, but neither has received hardware upgrades in years. In fact, the Pro Display XDR is nearly five years old, having been released all the way back in December 2019.


Below, we recap rumors about potential next-generation Pro Display XDR and Studio Display monitors, but nothing seems to be imminent.

Pro Display XDR

The indispensable cog (Friends)

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Go Time co-host, Johnny Boursiquot, joins Adam & Jerod to discuss not making the (first) cut, applying Founder Mode, being a cog (or not), realizing that companies are posting fake engineering jobs & the (maybe) imminent demise of the .io TLD.

Vietnamese Duo Hit With Injunction After 117,000 Bogus DMCA Claims

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While we still lament the fact that the DMCA’s Section 512(f) has no real teeth to punish people for filing bogus DMCA takedown notices, at least some companies are still trying to use it against the most egregious offenders. Last year, Google went after two people in Vietnam, who Google accused of creating at least […]

Configure Microservices in NestJS: A Beginner’s Guide

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Monolithic architecture was the predominant approach to backend development before 2011. In this model, the entire application is structured as

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Asahi Linux’s bespoke GPU driver is running Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs

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Work on Asahi's Vulkan GPU driver and various translation layers is paying off.

For Whatever Reason, NASA’s Inspector General Has Decided To Buy Itself Some Clearview Access

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Get ready for some more unexpected uses of the world’s most controversial facial recognition tech. Clearview has amassed a 10-billion-image database — not through painstaking assembly but by sending its bots out into the open web to download images (and any other personal info it can find). It then sells access to this database to […]

How Microsoft Edge Is Replacing React With Web Components

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When Microsoft’s Edge browser team released WebUI 2.0 in May, a project that aimed to replace React components with native

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Daily Deal: The Complete PMP Training Bundle

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Project Management is global. This is one of those professions similar to being an accountant, where your skills and talents can be applied to any industry in any place. The 10-course Complete PMP Training Bundle provides a comprehensive training path for all things project management, including the most update to date courses including PMP 6th […]

Trek CarBack bike radar lets you know when cars are approaching

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Trek takes on the Garmin Varia with its new CarBack bike radar.

Deploy Kubernetes Behind Firewalls Using These Techniques

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As Kubernetes and cloud native systems become the de facto standard for deploying and managing modern applications, their expansion into

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Jonathan Haidt’s Claims On Kids & Tech Crumble Under Scrutiny From Top Expert, Candice Odgers

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Jonathan Haidt’s incredibly well-timed decision to surf on the wave of a moral panic about kids and social media has made him a false hero for many parents and educators. In my review, I noted that his book, “The Anxious Generation,” is written in a way that makes adults struggling with the world today feel […]

How CyberArk is streamlining serverless governance by codifying architectural blueprints

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This post was co-written with Ran Isenberg, Principal Software Architect at CyberArk and an AWS Serverless Hero. Serverless architectures enable agility and simplified cloud resource management. Organizations embracing serverless architectures build robust, distributed cloud applications. As organizations grow and the number of development teams increases, maintaining architectural consistency, standardization, and governance across projects becomes crucial. […]

eBPF Is Coming for Windows

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At the virtual eBPF Summit last month, Thomas Graf, who is CTO and cofounder of Isovalent, talked about the future

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Mojo’s Chris Lattner on Making Programming Languages Evolve

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Modular’s new Python-based Mojo programming language — launched in 2023 — is designed for deployments on GPUs and other accelerators,

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Xbox plans to set up shop on Android devices if court order holds

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Google has already said it plans to appeal the ruling that would let Xbox in.

Runtime Context: Missing Piece in Kubernetes Security

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More and more organizations rely on Kubernetes to deploy and manage their applications. However, traditional security approaches often fall short

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How to Install Python 3.13? Use the Interactive Interpreter

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With the latest release of Python (version 3.13), there are several exciting features, including the new interactive interpreter. This interpreter

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Mazda Annoys Owners By Making Remote Start A Subscription

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One foundational belief of the “right to repair” movement is that consumers should actually own the technology they pay for. Unfortunately that’s increasingly not the case when it comes to carmakers, who are utterly insistent on not only charging people a flat retail price for a vehicle — but are also increasingly charging you additional […]

Eleven things to know about in the Windows 11 2024 Update

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A look at some of the changes and odds and ends in this year's Windows release.

How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?

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Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon (ZIRP), smaller versions of this tale played […]

Intel’s Core Ultra 200S CPUs are its biggest desktop refresh in three years

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CPUs bring Core Ultra features to desktops, with similar performance caveats.

We’re All Just Looking for Connection

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We’ve been working to bring components of Quip’s technology into Slack with the canvas feature, while also maintaining the stand-alone Quip product. Quip’s backend, which powers both Quip and canvas, is written in Python. This is the story of a tricky bug we encountered last July and the lessons we learned along the way about […]

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AWS Adds Support, Drops Prices, for Redis-Forked Valkey

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Cloud giant has expanded support for Valkey, the -backed open source fork of the previously-open source . In March, Redis

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Amazon, Apple make a deal to offer Apple TV+ in a Prime bundle

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Both Amazon and Apple want to be your core service.

Atlassian’s New AI Product Gives Developers Access to Agents

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Atlassian, the creators of Jira, released a generative AI product called Rovo that features pre-configured AI agents and the ability

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Former Apple hardware chief Dan Riccio is retiring

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He's not the first Apple exec to take a multi-stage approach to retirement.

OSI Finalizes a ‘Humble’ First Definition of Open Source AI

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After nearly three years of planning, including community meetings and a months-long global “roadshow” to gather feedback, the Open Source

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Man learns he’s being dumped via “dystopian” AI summary of texts

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"No longer in a relationship; wants belongings from the apartment," Apple AI summarized.

OpenTelemetry Challenges: Handling Long-Running Spans

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OpenTelemetry (OTel) has taken the observability landscape by storm, and for good reason! At some point in the last decade,

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The Moneyball approach (Interview)

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John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. He's early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since John's acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to GitHub, which laid the foundation for these moves.

Start Securing Decentralized Clouds With Confidential VMs

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Despite constant improvements in encryption and cybersecurity, data breaches are becoming more frequent year after year. But it’s not just

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Prime Security to Apply AI Guardrails to DevSecOps Workflows

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Agents Shift GenAI From Order Takers to Collaborators

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From the use of modular components to the well-defined rules and syntax of programming languages, the way we build applications

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More Release Note Details

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Over the years, we occasionally get requests for more detail on release note items, particularly for the major release notes. Historically, our only response was to tell people to view the SGML/XML file used to generate the web and PDF versions of the release notes. In the file, above each release note item, is a comment block which contains the commit headers responsible for the item, e.g.:

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Author: David Rowley <drowley(at)postgresql(dot)org>
2024-01-23 [b262ad440] Add better handling of redundant IS [NOT] NULL quals
Author: David Rowley <drowley(at)postgresql(dot)org>
2024-04-12 [3af704098] Fix IS [NOT] NULL qual optimization for inheritance tabl
-->

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CIQ Unveils a Version of Rocky Linux for the Enterprise

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On Oct. 8, 2024, CIQ announced the launch of Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC). This is an enterprise-grade version of

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Sonatype Report Surfaces Software Supply Chain Security Challenges

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Upcoming DevOps Events to Attend in 2024

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SpyCloud Embeds Identity Analytics in Cybercrime Investigations Solution to Accelerate Insider and Supply Chain Risk Analysis & Threat Actor Attribution

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