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

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

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Nintendo of America sues the US government, seeking a refund with interest for tariffs that the company says Trump implemented in "unlawful" EOs (Nicole Carpenter/Aftermath)

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Nicole Carpenter / Aftermath:
Nintendo of America sues the US government, seeking a refund with interest for tariffs that the company says Trump implemented in “unlawful” EOs  —  Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade  —  Nintendo of America is suing the United States government …

An interview with Pentagon AI head Emil Michael about Anthropic leaking to the media to win anti-Trump users, dealing with Amodei and his "politburo", and more (Pirate Wires)

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Pirate Wires:
An interview with Pentagon AI head Emil Michael about Anthropic leaking to the media to win anti-Trump users, dealing with Amodei and his “politburo”, and more  —  despite anthropic frustrating the admin with its blogging and very slow ‘politburo’ of ethicists, emil michael …

Apple on MacBook Neo Design: 'We're Certainly Not Making Any Compromises'

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While the MacBook Neo starts at just $599, or an even lower $499 for college students, Apple has insisted that it did not make any design compromises.


"It's undeniably a MacBook, we're certainly not making any compromises on the design and that's really important," said Apple's vice president of industrial design Molly Anderson, in an interview with architecture and design publication Dezeen.

Anderson added that "it was important" for the MacBook Neo "to be quintessentially a MacBook."

Chiefly, the MacBook Neo is made from aluminum, not plastic.

"It wasn't just a redes [...]

Nintendo challenges Trump tariffs in court, seeks refunds with interest

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Nintendo of America has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government over tariffs introduced during...

Robot performs prostate surgery across 1,500 miles between London and Gibraltar

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A surgeon in London has successfully removed a patient’s prostate in Gibraltar using a remotely...

Anthropic’s Statement To The ‘Department Of War’ Reads Like A Hostage Note Written In Business Casual

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We’ve been covering the ongoing saga of the Trump administration’s attempt to destroy Anthropic for the sin of having modest ethical guidelines around its AI technology. The short version: Anthropic said it didn’t want its AI making autonomous kill decisions without human oversight. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded by declaring the company a supply chain […]

OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from its research project Aardvark to automate vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation (Sam Sabin/Axios)

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Sam Sabin / Axios:
OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from its research project Aardvark to automate vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation  —  OpenAI is rolling out Codex Security, an AI-powered application security agent that finds, validates and proposes fixes for vulnerabilities.

Daily Deal: The Ultimate Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows License + Windows 11 Pro Bundle

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Microsoft Office 2021 Professional is the perfect choice for any professional who needs to handle data and documents. It comes with many new features that will make you more productive in every stage of development, whether it’s processing paperwork or creating presentations from scratch – whatever your needs are. Office Pro comes with MS Word, […]

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

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

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Google and Amazon join Microsoft in saying they will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Google and Amazon join Microsoft in saying they will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk  —  Google said it will continue offering Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology for clients, excluding for defense work …

Marvell stock jumps 20%+ after the chip company reported Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $2.2B and issued strong guidance citing growing AI demand (Lola Murti/CNBC)

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Lola Murti / CNBC:
Marvell stock jumps 20%+ after the chip company reported Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $2.2B and issued strong guidance citing growing AI demand  —  Marvell shares ripped 20% higher on Friday as the company posted an earnings beat and issued strong guidance, expecting robust artificial intelligence demand to continue.

Securing the Strait: How France’s nuclear-powered carrier challenges Iran’s blockade

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France has deployed its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean in response...

How prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are aggressively targeting college students through fraternity partnerships and student influencers (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
How prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are aggressively targeting college students through fraternity partnerships and student influencers  —  Kalshi and Polymarket pour money into deals with social-media influencers and students, who try to parlay rumors, insider information into cash; 'We know this shouldn't be allowed'

Pentagon names ex-DOGE employee Gavin Kliger as Chief Data Officer to lead its AI efforts; Kliger previously reposted white supremacist Nick Fuentes' content (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)

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Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Pentagon names ex-DOGE employee Gavin Kliger as Chief Data Officer to lead its AI efforts; Kliger previously reposted white supremacist Nick Fuentes' content  —  The Pentagon on Friday named as Chief Data Officer a computer scientist who aided billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to overhaul …

Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (Joe Tidy/BBC)

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Joe Tidy / BBC:
Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people  —  Around 10 million people had their data stolen when Transport for London (TfL) was hacked in 2024, the BBC has discovered, making it one of the biggest hacks in British history.

Oregon Federal Judge Says ICE’s Warrantless Arrests Are Illegal

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ICE has been telling itself all it needs to do is write its own paperwork and it can do whatever it wants. Memos — passed around secretively and publicly acknowledged by no one but whistleblowers — told ICE agents they don’t need judicial warrants to arrest people or enter people’s homes. All they need — […]

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

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

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OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of ChatGPT Adult Mode, originally planned for Q1, to focus on higher priorities, like gains in intelligence (Alex Heath/Sources)

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Alex Heath / Sources:
OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of ChatGPT Adult Mode, originally planned for Q1, to focus on higher priorities, like gains in intelligence  —  “People's habits are not solidified” Liz Reid has one of the hardest jobs in tech.  She runs Google Search, arguably the best business ever built …

The MacRumors Show: Apple Announces MacBook Neo and More

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss Apple's concentrated week of announcements that saw the introduction of 10 new products.

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

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Apple Discontinued These 15 Products This Week

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Amid its introduction of 10 new devices this week, Apple discontinued over a dozen of its products dating back to 2019.


Apple this week announced the iPhone 17e, refreshed iPad Air models with the M4 chip, MacBook Air models with the M5 chip, MacBook Pro models with the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, two new Studio Display models, and the all-new MacBook Neo. Simultaneously, these 15 products were removed from Apple's lineup to make way for [...]

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

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

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Robinhood debuts its $658.4M venture fund on the NYSE, pricing the IPO at $25 per share, offering retail investors access to private companies like Databricks (Manya Saini/Reuters)

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Manya Saini / Reuters:
Robinhood debuts its $658.4M venture fund on the NYSE, pricing the IPO at $25 per share, offering retail investors access to private companies like Databricks  —  Robinhood (HOOD.O) debuted its flagship $658.4 million venture fund on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday …

‘Noise-powered’ design uses heat for computing, can beat classical system’s power efficiency

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Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a design and training framework that...

Best Apple Deals of the Week: First Discounts Hit All of Apple's New Products, Including MacBook Neo and More

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It's Apple pre-order week, and we're already tracking solid discounts across every new product that was announced this week. This includes free Best Buy gift cards when ordering the new MacBook Neo, Air, and Pro, plus the first cash discounts on M4 iPad Air on Amazon.

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.

Pre-Order Discounts

• What's the deal? Save on pre-orders for iPhone 17e, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook Neo, and iPad

Here's How Much Faster MacBook Air Gets With M5 Chip vs. M4 Chip

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We now know how much faster the new MacBook Air with the M5 chip is compared to the previous model with an M4 chip, courtesy of a Geekbench 6 result shared by TechRadar's Lance Ulanoff. However, given the 14-inch MacBook Pro and the iPad Pro were already updated with the M5 chip last year, the result is not too surprising.


Ulanoff ran Geekbench on a MacBook Air with an M5 chip, which has a 10-core CPU. The laptop achieved a score of 17,073 for multi-core CPU performance, whereas the MacBook Air with an M4 chip has an average multi-core score of 14,731, so the new model is up to 15% faster than the previous generation. This is in line with what Appl [...]

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

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

Hayden AI, which raised $180M for its traffic management system, sues its ex-CEO Chris Carson Jr. for allegedly using its data to start a competitor and more (William Hicks/San Francisco Business ...)

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William Hicks / San Francisco Business Times:
Hayden AI, which raised $180M for its traffic management system, sues its ex-CEO Chris Carson Jr. for allegedly using its data to start a competitor and more  —  A San Francisco AI startup best known for giving drivers tickets for bus lane infractions has filed an explosive lawsuit …

Non-destructive method to visualize real-time EV battery health through metal casings

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A battery’s internal life is a stubborn mystery: it functions perfectly until, without warning, it...

Get Up to $100 Off the New M4 iPad Air When Pre-Ordering on Amazon

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Amazon today is joining in on the pre-order discounts for the M4 iPad Air, introducing up to $100 off these brand new models. These exceed the discounts we tracked at Best Buy earlier in the week, with discounts available on every model of the M4 iPad Air at Amazon without the need of a membership.

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.

Specifically, Amazon has up to $80 off the 11-inch M4 iPad Air and up to $100 off the 13-inch M4 iPad Air. All of these discounts have been automatically applied and [...]

MacBook Neo: Here's Which Models Are Selling Out

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If you want a MacBook Neo delivered on launch day next week, you might want to act fast, as the laptop is beginning to sell out for March 11 delivery.


MacBook Neo pre-orders began March 4, and the initial delivery date was March 11. But now, Apple's online store in the U.S. shows that some MacBook Neo orders placed today are estimated to be delivered between March 16 and March 30.

Here are the estimated delivery dates for each configuration as of 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time:

• 256GB/Blush: March 16 — March 23


• 256GB/Citrus: March 11


• 256GB/Indigo: March 11


• 256GB/Silver: Marc

Mozilla says Claude Opus 4.6 found 100+ bugs in Firefox in two weeks in January, 14 of them high-severity, more than the bugs typically reported in two months (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

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Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Mozilla says Claude Opus 4.6 found 100+ bugs in Firefox in two weeks in January, 14 of them high-severity, more than the bugs typically reported in two months  —  New AI-powered tools are increasingly adept at spotting flaws.  Hacking experts worry they will be go

Apple's 'HomePad' Now Rumored to Launch Even Later Than Expected

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Apple's long-rumored smart home hub device will launch in the fall of 2026, according to the leaker and prototype collector known as "Kosutami."


In a new post on X, Kosutami said that the device, colloquially dubbed the "HomePad," is now set to arrive in the fall of 2026. The fall runs from September to December, and usually coincides with Apple's busiest release period of the year.

Apple has reportedly been working on the device for several years, with the aim for it to serve as a centralized location for controlling smart home products, listening to music and podcasts, making video calls [...]

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

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

3x more longevity: High purity salt can boost metal lifespan in molten salt nuclear reactors

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Researchers have found that untreated salts can create major challenges for molten salt reactors. A...

The Double Whammy Of The CBS, Warner Brothers Mergers Will Be A Layoff Nightmare

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You might recall that Paramount and CBS had only just started to lay off workers in the wake of the merger with David Ellison’s Skydance. Now, after Ellison (or more accurately his dad and the Saudis) dramatically overpaid for Warner Brothers ($111 billion plus numerous incentives), the overall debt load at the company is so […]

Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40B, its largest-ever borrowing denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40B, its largest-ever borrowing denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI  —  SoftBank Group Corp. is seeking a loan of as much as $40 billion to mostly help finance its investment in US tech giant OpenAI …

Engineering impossible: 10 most expensive technologies ever built by mankind

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Every civilization leaves behind artifacts that serve as souvenirs and legacies of its time on...

World-first: US firm plans to house data centers inside floating wind turbine platforms

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US startup Aikido, has unveiled AO60DC, a global first-of-its-kind floating offshore wind turbine that also...

China team grows world’s rarest millimeter-sized ‘hexagonal’ diamond crystal

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After decades of debates over the existence and properties of one of the world’s most...

‘World-first accelerator-driven nuclear reactor’ nears as China eyes ‘1000-year’ energy source

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Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have begun the final installation of superconducting...

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

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Indonesia says it will ban "high-risk" platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, and Roblox, for children under 16 from March 28 (Associated Press)

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Associated Press:
Indonesia says it will ban “high-risk” platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, and Roblox, for children under 16 from March 28  —  Indonesia will ban social media for children under 16, Communication and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid said Friday.

US regulators say banks don't need to hold extra capital against losses when dealing with blockchain-based securities, calling their rules "technology neutral" (Reuters)

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Reuters:
US regulators say banks don't need to hold extra capital against losses when dealing with blockchain-based securities, calling their rules “technology neutral”  —  U.S. banking regulators clarified on Thursday that banks should not have to hold additional capital against losses …

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

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When to use AI for writing, and when it't totally acceptable

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

From: “LLMs Are Antithetical to Writing and Humanity”

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

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

How about work that isn’t bullshit?

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

Trump Administration Using Gross Video Game Footage To Cheerlead Its War Efforts

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We should all know by now that this iteration of the Trump administration absolutely loves using pop culture imagery, including that of video games, to help message its horrible policies. Want to gloat about ICE terrorizing American cities and generally pissing everyone off when they’re not too busy perforating innocents? Let’s use images from Pokémon […]

Apple Announces New Collaboration With Sydney Opera House

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Apple and the Sydney Opera House today announced a yearlong collaboration to help inspire the next generation of creatives in Australia. The effort will expand access to initiatives that support art, design, and culture in the country.


Through this collaboration, Apple and the Opera House will focus on interactive programming and experiences for young people in Australia. Apple said it will be the founding partner of a new international children's festival being presented later this year. Apple will also support the Opera House's Centre for Creativity and explore new ways to enhance Opera House programming and experiences through technology.

From March 25 to March 27, [...]

First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In: Here's How It Compares to the M1 MacBook Air

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Benchmarks for the new MacBook Neo surfaced today, and unsurprisingly, CPU performance is almost identical to the iPhone 16 Pro. The ‌MacBook Neo‌ uses the same 6-core A18 Pro chip that was first introduced in the iPhone 16 Pro, but it has one fewer GPU core.


The ‌MacBook Neo‌ earned a single-core score of 3461 and a multi-core score of 8668, along with a Metal score of 31286.

Here's how the Neo's scores compare to ‌iPhone 16‌ Pro and other devices that make apt comparisons: [...]

How Go 1.26 stack allocation optimizations beat hand-optimized code

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

Apple's M5 Max Chip Achieves a New Record in First Benchmark Result

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The first Geekbench 6 result for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip surfaced today, and Apple has achieved record-breaking performance.


In this unconfirmed result, the M5 Max with an 18-core CPU achieved a score of 29,233 for multi-core CPU performance, which tops the 27,726 score achieved by the Mac Studio's M3 Ultra chip with a 32-core CPU. M5 Max is now the fastest Apple silicon chip ever, and it even topped every other consumer PC processor in the Geekbench database.

In terms of multi-core CPU performance, the M5 Max is up to 5% faster than the M3 Ultra, and up to 14% to 15% faster than the M4 Max chip with a 16-core CPU.

[...]

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

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

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The (Content Moderation) Eras Tour

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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 a special episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Ben and Mike discuss […]

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

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

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OpenAI Rewrites Contract, Anthropic Returns to Negotiate—The Chaos Continues

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In less than a week, the Pentagon blacklisted an AI company for having ethics, declared it a supply chain risk, watched its preferred replacement face a massive user revolt, and then sat down to amend the replacement’s contract to address the very concerns the blacklisted company had been raising all along. Meanwhile, the blacklisted company […]

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

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Problems viewing products and checking out.

Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Corey Lewandowski’s Role In DHS Contracts

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem misled Congress on Tuesday about the powers of her controversial top aide Corey Lewandowski, according to records reviewed by ProPublica and four current and former DHS officials. Lewandowski has an unusual role at DHS, where he is not a paid government […]

Apple Seeds Revised Third Betas of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 to Developers, New Public Betas

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Apple today seeded revised third betas of the upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming three days after Apple provided the initial beta to developers. Apple has also released a new version of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 for public beta testers.


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

iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 add multiple new features to the ‌iPhone‌ and the ‌iPad‌. A Playlist Playground feature in Apple Music lets you generate songs for [...]

Missing From Apple's Announcements: iPad 12 With Apple Intelligence

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In his newsletter over the weekend, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said Apple was likely to announce at least some but possibly not all of the following products between March 2 and March 4: the iPhone 17e, MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, updated entry-level iPad and iPad Air models, and a lower-cost MacBook with an iPhone chip.


As it turns out, Apple announced nearly all of those products, with the sole exception being an updated entry-level iPad. In fact, we got two more products on top, in the form of an updated Studio Display and a higher-end Studio Display XDR.

Apple i [...]

Mac Studio 512GB RAM Option Disappears Amid Global DRAM Shortage

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Apple quietly updated Mac Studio configuration options this week, removing the 512GB memory upgrade. As of yesterday, there is no option to purchase a ‌Mac Studio‌ with 512GB RAM, with the machine now maxing out at 256GB.


The ‌Mac Studio‌ starts with 36GB RAM, but there were upgrades ranging from 48GB to 512GB, with the higher tier upgrades limited to the M3 Ultra chip. Now there are options ranging from 48GB to 256GB, with wait times into May for the 256GB upgrade.

Apple has also raised the price for the 256GB RAM upgrade option. It used to cost $1,600 to go from 96GB to 256GB on the high-end M3 Ultra machine, but now it costs $2,000. 512GB was $4,000 when it was available.

Apple has likely removed the o [...]

Download Apple's New MacBook Neo Wallpapers

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While the MacBook Neo does not launch until next week, Apple's colorful new wallpapers designed for the laptop are included in the macOS 26.3.1 update for it.


MacBook Neo is available in Blush, Citrus, Indigo, and Silver finishes, and there is a Mac wallpaper available for each, with download links below:

• Blush


• Citrus


• Indigo

Judges To AG Pam Bondi: It’s OK For The Gov’t To Dox People, But Not OK For People To Dox Gov’t Employees?

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Yet another one to add to the “it’s OK if we do it” file for the Trump administration. This administration is cool with censoring speech, nationalizing elections, seizing the means of production, and blackmailing law firms and universities. It would be heated AF if any other administration did these things, but since it’s the one […]

Daily Deal: Babbel Language Learning (All Languages)

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Become a language expert with a Babbel Language Learning subscription. With the app, you can use Babbel on desktop and mobile, and your progress is synchronized across devices. Want to practice where you won’t have Wi-Fi? Download lessons before you head out, and you’ll be good to go. However you choose to access your 10K+ […]

AirTag 1 Gets Major Discount With 4-Pack at $64

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Apple's first-generation AirTag 4-Pack has dropped to $64.00 this week on Amazon, down from the original price of $99.00. Free shipping options have a delivery estimate around March 10, while Prime members should be able to get it delivered a few days sooner.

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.

Overall, this is a solid second-best price on the AirTag 4-pack that's within $1 of the Amazon all-time low price. Deals on the 1-Pack have been fluctuating for a few days and are curre [...]

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro

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

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Apple Explains 'MacBook Neo' Name

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Until a last-minute leak revealed the MacBook Neo name, it was widely assumed that Apple's lower-cost MacBook would simply be named "MacBook." After all, Apple offered a plain "MacBook" from 2006 to 2012, and again from 2015 to 2019. In the end, Apple did go with MacBook Neo branding, and it has explained why in a new interview.


In short, Apple said MacBook Neo sounds fresh.

"We wanted something that felt fun and friendly, and fresh, and felt like it really suited the spirit of this product," said Colleen Novielli, a Mac product marketing director, in conversation [...]

Survey Sees DevOps Workflows Evolving in the Age of AI

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

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Apple's latest iPad Air is a minor upgrade over last year's model, but there are still some changes worth noting beyond a new chip.


The eighth-generation ‌iPad Air‌ builds on the foundation of last year's model with a series of specific upgrades focused on performance, memory, and connectivity. While the overall design and experience remains the same, the newer model introduces Apple's M4 chip, additional unified memory, Apple-designed wireless hardware, and support for newer connectivity standards. Here's everything that differs between the 2025 and 2026 ‌iPad Air‌ models:

Apple's Brand New M4 iPad Air Gets First Cash Discount at Best Buy, Up to $50 Off

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It's Apple pre-order week, and we've already covered all of the offers you can find on iPhone 17e, MacBook Neo, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro. In addition to these deals, Best Buy is providing $40 in savings on the new 128GB Wi-Fi M4 iPad Air, with My Best Buy Plus/Total members getting an extra $10 off.

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.

With this discount, all shoppers can get the 128GB Wi-Fi M4 iPad Air for $559.00, down from $599.00. If you ha [...]

iPhone 17e Has 8GB of RAM as Expected

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Apple does not advertise RAM amounts in iPhones, but MacRumors has confirmed this information through Apple's developer tool Xcode.


Like the iPhone 16e, the iPhone 17e is equipped with 8GB of RAM, according to the Xcode data. This was the expected amount of RAM, and it is the minimum required for a device to be compatible with Apple Intelligence.

This means both the standard iPhone 17 model and the lower-end iPhone 17e are equipped with the A19 chip and 8GB of RAM. However, the iPhone 17e has a slightly limited 4-core GPU, while the iPhone 17 has a 5-core GPU.

iPhone 17e can be pre-ordered now and launches on Wednesday, March 11.

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

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

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

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

Sam Altman wonders: Could the government nationalize artificial general intelligence?

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“It has seemed to me for a long time it might be better if building AGI were a government project,”

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How Automatic Return Routing solves IP overlap

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Automatic Return Routing (ARR) solves the common enterprise challenge of overlapping private IP addresses by using stateful flow tracking instead of traditional routing tables. This userspace-driven approach ensures return traffic reaches the correct origin tunnel without manual NAT or VRF configuration.

A QUICker SASE client: re-building Proxy Mode

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By transitioning the Cloudflare One Client to use QUIC streams for Proxy Mode, we eliminated the overhead of user-space TCP stacks, resulting in a 2x increase in throughput and significant latency reduction for end users.

Why enterprise software development needs air traffic control

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How platform orchestration solves the AI tool fragmentation crisis without sacrificing developer choice Imagine being a CIO today. Your developers

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Google and Epic announce settlement to end app store antitrust case

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The era of the 30 percent app store cut has ended.

AerynOS is a Linux distribution geared toward performance and bulletproof updates

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There are thousands upon thousands of Linux distributions, so when a new flavor comes into being, the first thing I

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OpenAI’s Codex is now on Windows

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OpenAI’s Codex agentic coding app is now available on Windows. To say Codex has been a hit for OpenAI would

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Codenotary Previews AI Platform to Autonomously Detect and Remediate IT Issues

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MacBook Neo hands-on: Apple build quality at a substantially lower price

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The Neo won't be for everyone, but Apple has managed to preserve a premium feel.

GSMA Open Gateway offers developers one API for 300+ mobile networks

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Developers care about protocols, standards, and specifications — a little. But it’s not what keeps them up at night. Your

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The AI Shift: Why RISC-V is poised to challenge Arm and x86

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The RISC-V standard has evolved and matured to the extent that performance drawbacks have largely disappeared compared with the long-tried

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Why traditional ITOps is failing to keep up with the unique nature of AI incidents

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If 2025 was the year of AI adoption, with 88% of organizations now using AI across at least one business

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pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?

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I'm proposing a very ambitious patch set for PostgreSQL 19. Only time will tell whether it ends up in the release, but I can't resist using this space to give you a short demonstration of what it can do. The patch set introduces three new contrib modules, currently called pg_plan_advice, pg_collect_advice, and pg_stash_advice.

DragonflyDB CEO: Most real-time AI infrastructure was built for a different era

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The business case for real-time AI is clear. Personalization drives engagement, real-time inference drives revenue, and context-rich machine learning is

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Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion

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Downdetector and Speedtest - the free platforms that allow people on the web to quickly check internet speeds or see if an online platform may be down - will soon have a new owner. On Tuesday, the consulting and IT services provider Accenture announced that it has agreed to acquire the Ookla-owned platforms from Ziff […]

Cloud repatriation is hard. Here’s how to build a self-service developer platform that works.

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As more organizations move workloads back on-premises, they find themselves caught in a conundrum: How do they close the gap

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Google Pixel 10a review: The sidegrade

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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Sonar Unfurls Framework for Managing DevOps Workflows in the Age of AI

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When AI Gets It Wrong: The Insecure Defaults Lurking in Your Code

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Eclipse Foundation reports Open VSX hits 300 million monthly downloads

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The Eclipse Foundation this week announced that Open VSX, the open source extension registry for tools built on the VS

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Always-on detections: eliminating the WAF “log versus block” trade-off

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Cloudflare is introducing Attack Signature Detection and Full-Transaction Detection to provide continuous, high-fidelity security insights without the manual tuning of traditional WAFs. By correlating request payloads with server responses, we can now identify successful exploits and data exfiltration while minimizing false positives.

Aikido Security bets on AI to make software secure itself

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While traditional penetration testing relies on manual or point-in-time assessments, often delivered weeks after software has already shipped, software security

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The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple's long-awaited colorful, lower-cost MacBook

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Cute, colorful laptop takes the place of the old $599 M1 MacBook Air.

Unleash raises $35M, launches Impact Metrics to govern feature rollouts at AI speed

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Four years is a long time in technology. But in AI, it’s more like an eternity. When Unleash last raised

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Mind the gap: new tools for continuous enforcement from boot to login

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Cloudflare’s mandatory authentication and independent MFA protect organizations by ensuring continuous enforcement, from the moment a machine boots until sensitive resources are accessed.

Why the “bible” of data systems is getting a massive rewrite for 2026

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How Martin Kleppmann’s iconic book is evolving for AI and cloud-native architectures Since its release in 2017, Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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Chainguard Expands Repository to Add More Secure Open Source Libraries

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