Salesforce Freezes Heroku Feature Development, Signals Long-Term Shift

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On Section 230’s 30th Birthday, A Look Back At Why It’s Such A Good Law And Why Messing With It Would Be Bad

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This past weekend Section 230 turned 30 years old. In those 30 years it has proven to be a marvelous yet misunderstood law, often gravely, as too many, including in Congress and the courts, mistakenly blame it for all the world’s ills, or at least those that happen in some connection with the Internet. When […]

Radioactive space can host building blocks of life, asteroid Bennu samples reveal

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A new study offers a look at how the building blocks of life might have...

Apple's Regent Street Store Reopening Soon After One-Month Closure

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Apple has announced that its flagship Regent Street store in London, England reopens on Saturday, February 14, at 10 a.m. local time.


The store has been temporarily closed for "refurbishment" since Monday, January 12. The extent of the changes remains to be seen.

It is not yet clear if Apple made any changes that will be visible to customers. In some cases, Apple only updates a store's fixtures or back-of-house area, resulting in no visible differences to customers when business resumes.

Apple first opened up shop on London's world-famous Regent Street in 2004. The store was [...]

Lasers scan chemicals in 200-year-old Darwin jars without breaking them at 95% accuracy

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Lasers are now helping scientists peer inside some of the world’s most fragile scientific treasures...

ChatGPT Now Has Ads for Free and Go Tier Users

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U.S. ChatGPT users who have a free account or a low-cost Go subscription will start seeing ads starting today, according to OpenAI.


Ads will be limited to the Free and Go subscription tiers, and will be shown to logged-in adult users. OpenAI does not plan to show ads to minors, and the company claims that ads will not influence the answers that ChatGPT provides. OpenAI also says it will not provide advertisers with content from ChatGPT conversations.

OpenAI is not profitable, and the free and Go tier options require "significant infrastructure and ongoing investment." OpenAI is funding that work through ads, and it says that customers who do not want to see ads can upgrade to a Plus or Pro plan. There's also an option to opt out of ads in exchange for fe [...]

OpenAI says ads in ChatGPT are not eligible to appear near "sensitive or regulated topics like health, mental health or politics" (Madison Mills/Axios)

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Madison Mills / Axios:
OpenAI says ads in ChatGPT are not eligible to appear near “sensitive or regulated topics like health, mental health or politics”  —  ChatGPT is testing ads for some U.S. users on both the free and Go subscription tiers, its most affordable offerings.

OpenAI says it has started testing ads in ChatGPT in the US for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go tiers and that the ads do not change ChatGPT answers (OpenAI)

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OpenAI:
OpenAI says it has started testing ads in ChatGPT in the US for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go tiers and that the ads do not change ChatGPT answers  —  Ads that support free access and don't change ChatGPT answers.  —  Today, we're beginning to test ads in ChatGPT in the U.S …

Is Open Source in Trouble?

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BRUSSELS — First, the bad. I would argue that current open source practices and usage are not sustainable, or at

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Vouch for an open source web of trust (News)

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Mitchell Hashimoto's trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement, NanClaw is an alternative to OpenClaw, and Sophie Koonin can't wrap her head around so many people going so hard on LLM-generated code.

Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons

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Here’s what’s strange about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that made the open internet possible: Both sides of the traditional political spectrum hate it. But for opposite reasons. That, alone, should highlight that something is wrong in their analysis. Republicans hate it because they say it lets websites censor conservative speech. […]

Daily Deal: AdGuard Personal or Family Plan

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Welcome to the world of seamless browsing with AdGuard Personal or Family plans. This intuitive ad blocker offers an unparalleled web experience, powered by its three core features: an advanced ad-blocking module, a comprehensive privacy protection tool, and a robust parental control system. Say goodbye to annoying banners, intrusive pop-ups, and disruptive video ads as […]

Lyft launches teen accounts in the US more than two years after Uber, with safety features such as PIN verification, real-time tracking, and audio recordings (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Lyft launches teen accounts in the US more than two years after Uber, with safety features such as PIN verification, real-time tracking, and audio recordings  —  Lyft on Monday officially launched teen accounts nationwide in a bid to match competitor Uber.  —  CEO David Risher addressed …

Israeli firm reveals update to next-gen logistics robot that learns from humans

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Mentee Robotics has released a teaser for its latest update, the Mentee Bot V3.1. The...

Neara, which builds digital twins of critical infrastructure to help prepare for disasters, raised a AU$90M Series D, a source says at a AU$1.1B valuation (Rhiannon Hoyle/Wall Street Journal)

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Rhiannon Hoyle / Wall Street Journal:
Neara, which builds digital twins of critical infrastructure to help prepare for disasters, raised a AU$90M Series D, a source says at a AU$1.1B valuation  —  Australian startup's customers include Southern California Edison and Cent

Reflections On Section 230’s Past, Present, And Future On Its 30th Anniversary

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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 became law thirty years ago today, on February 8, 1996. Buried in a corner of that sprawling law was Section 230, a law that says websites aren’t liable for third-party content. Section 230 didn’t receive much attention when it was passed, but it has since emerged as one of Congress’ most important […]

Sources: Alphabet has attracted more than $100B of orders for a bond sale that's expected to be about $15B (Brian W Smith/Bloomberg)

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Brian W Smith / Bloomberg:
Sources: Alphabet has attracted more than $100B of orders for a bond sale that's expected to be about $15B  —  Alphabet Inc. has attracted more than $100 billion of orders for a bond sale that's expected to be about $15 billion, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.

Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by MrBeast and last valued at $5.2B, acquires Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app (Valida Pau/The Information)

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Valida Pau / The Information:
Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by MrBeast and last valued at $5.2B, acquires Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app  —  Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, has agreed to buy Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app, the companies plan to announce Monday.

Building Prometheus: How Backend Aggregation Enables Gigawatt-Scale AI Clusters

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We’re sharing details of the role backend aggregation (BAG) plays in building Meta’s gigawatt-scale AI clusters like Prometheus. BAG allows us to seamlessly connect thousands of GPUs across multiple data centers and regions. Our BAG implementation is connecting two different network fabrics – Disaggregated Schedule Fabric (DSF) and Non-Scheduled Fabric (NSF). Once it’s complete our AI [...]

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Autodesk sues Google for allegedly infringing its Flow trademark as the name of Google's AI filmmaking tool (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Autodesk sues Google for allegedly infringing its Flow trademark as the name of Google's AI filmmaking tool  —  Google (GOOGL.O) has been sued by Autodesk (ADSK.O) for allegedly infringing its “Flow” trademark to market competing AI-enabled software used to make movies, TV shows and video games.

macOS: Share a Link That Jumps to a Specific Line on a Webpage

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Sometimes when you share a webpage link with someone, you just want to bring their attention to a specific passage or sentence to make your point, rather than have them read through the entire article.


In 2020, Google added a function to its Chrome browser called Scroll to Text Fragment (STTF) that helps you achieve this. It allows URLs to link directly to any visible text on a page. You may have seen it work in Google Search, where clicking on a link in your returned results takes you to a highlighted passage of text further down the page.

Google later added the feature to the Chromium codebase, so most other popular Chromium browsers like Edge, Opera, Brave, and Vivaldi also support it. Here's how it works.

Copy Link With Highlight in Safari

M3 iPad Air Gets First Big Discounts of 2026 With Up to $140 Off Select Models

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Amazon this week has introduced a few notable discounts across the M3 iPad Air lineup, with as much as $140 off select tablets. These are among the first big discounts we've tracked on the iPad Air in 2026, with prices starting at $489.99 for the 128GB Wi-Fi 11-inch iPad Air, down from $599.00.

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.

These deals are all solid second-best prices on the M3 iPad Air, but it's been well over a month since we last tracked record low [...]

Monday.com's stock plunges 20%+ after the project management software company issued weak Q1 guidance, as it battles rising pressure from agentic AI tools (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Monday.com's stock plunges 20%+ after the project management software company issued weak Q1 guidance, as it battles rising pressure from agentic AI tools  —  Monday.com's stock plummeted more than 21% on Monday after the project management platform issued weak guidance as it grapples …

OWC Introduces Discounts on Newest Thunderbolt 5 Docks and Hubs

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OWC recently kicked off a new sale offering big discounts on a variety of USB-C docks, external drives and enclosures, and Mac accessories. This includes $40 off OWC's new Thunderbolt 5 Hub, available for $149.99, down from $189.99.

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

This new hub adds more Thunderbolt 5 ports to your Mac, PC, or iPad Pro setup, with support for Thunderbolt 5, Thunderbolt 4, Thunderbolt 3, USB4, and USB-C devices. There's also a deal on OWC's 11-Port Thunderbolt 5 Dock, which is available for [...]

Samsung Planning to Follow iPhone 18 Pro's Variable Aperture Camera

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Samsung is planning to follow Apple in adding a variable aperture to its smartphone cameras, Korea's ET News reports.


A variable aperture allows the camera to adjust the amount of light that reaches the sensor. This means that in dark environments, the aperture can be opened to receive more light, while in light environments, it can be closed to prevent over-exposure. It also should provide users with greater control over depth of field, which refers to how sharp a subject appears in the foreground compared to the background.

The iPhone 18 Pro and ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro Max are now widely expected to feature an upgraded main camera with a variable aperture. In [...]

Sources: Alphabet plans to sell a rare 100-year sterling bond, as Big Tech companies borrow more to fund their capex growth; IBM sold a 100-year bond in 1996 (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Sources: Alphabet plans to sell a rare 100-year sterling bond, as Big Tech companies borrow more to fund their capex growth; IBM sold a 100-year bond in 1996  —  Deal comes as Google parent steps up AI borrowing rush with $15bn sale of dollar bonds  —  Alphabet has lined up banks to sell …

Studio Display 2: The Latest Rumors About Apple's Next Monitor

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Apple reportedly plans to release a new Studio Display in the first half of 2026, and there have been plenty of rumors about the monitor lately.


Below, we recap the latest Studio Display 2 rumors:

• In his Power On newsletter on Sunday, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said he was told the new Studio Display "looks quite similar to the current one," so that seemingly rules out any major design changes.


• It has twice been rumored that the Studio Display 2's

Report: Imminent Apple hardware updates include MacBook Pro, iPads, and iPhone 17e

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High-end Macs and less-expensive iPhones and iPads are all on the docket.

Workday announces CEO Carl Eschenbach is stepping down and will be replaced by the company's co-founder, Aneel Bhusri, effective immediately; WDAY drops 6%+ (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Workday announces CEO Carl Eschenbach is stepping down and will be replaced by the company's co-founder, Aneel Bhusri, effective immediately; WDAY drops 6%+  —  Workday on Monday announced that CEO Carl Eschenbach is stepping down from his role and will be replaced by the company's co-founder, Aneel Bhusri, effective immediately.

Databricks raised $5B in equity financing and $2B in debt at a $134B valuation and says its annualized revenue crossed $5.4B for the January quarter, up 65% YoY (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Databricks raised $5B in equity financing and $2B in debt at a $134B valuation and says its annualized revenue crossed $5.4B for the January quarter, up 65% YoY  —  Databricks said Monday it has raised $5 billion in funding and $2 billion in new debt capacity at a $134 billion valuation.

Chainguard’s AI-powered factory hits 500 million builds

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Just a week after announced Chainguard Factory 2.0, the company has hit a major milestone that demonstrates the scale of

The post Chainguard’s AI-powered factory hits 500 million builds appeared first on The New Stack.

How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2)

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In Part 2, we will peek under the hood at the tooling that makes the Spotify release process possible. 

The post How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2) appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

EU officials and tech executives inaugurate a €2.5B chips research hub in Belgium; ASML and Imec emphasized that the US is dependent on European chip tech (Pieter Haeck/Politico)

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Pieter Haeck / Politico:
EU officials and tech executives inaugurate a €2.5B chips research hub in Belgium; ASML and Imec emphasized that the US is dependent on European chip tech  —  LEUVEN, Belgium — The rest of the world including the U.S. relies on Europe for essential chipmaking technology, officials and executives said Monday.

Gather AI, which builds "curious" AI for drones and cameras to autonomously monitor warehouses, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total funding to $74M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Gather AI, which builds “curious” AI for drones and cameras to autonomously monitor warehouses, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total funding to $74M  —  Gather AI, a startup that offers an AI platform for warehouse cameras and drones, has raised a $40 million Series B funding round led by Smith Point Capital.

Apple Says These 7 U.S. States Plan to Offer iPhone Driver's Licenses

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In select U.S. states, residents can add their driver's license or state ID to the Apple Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch, and then use it to display proof of identity or age at select airports and businesses, and in select apps.


The feature is currently available in 13 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, and it is expected to launch in at least seven more in the future.

To set up the feature, open the Wallet app and tap on the plus sign in the top-right corner. Next, select Driver's License and ID Cards and follow the steps.

Supported States

• Arizona (since

Source: Apollo nears a ~$3.4B loan deal to a Valor-led investment vehicle to buy Nvidia chips for leasing to xAI; through fall 2025, xAI was burning $1B+/month (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

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Miles Kruppa / The Information:
Source: Apollo nears a ~$3.4B loan deal to a Valor-led investment vehicle to buy Nvidia chips for leasing to xAI; through fall 2025, xAI was burning $1B+/month  —  Apollo Global Management, one of Wall Street's biggest private credit firms, is nearing a deal to lend about $3.4 billion …

Discord says it will roll out age verification globally from March to access some content; all accounts will have a "teen-appropriate experience by default" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

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Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Discord says it will roll out age verification globally from March to access some content; all accounts will have a “teen-appropriate experience by default”  —  Beginning in March, all accounts will have a “teen-appropriate experience by default.”

AI takes over Super Bowl ads as tech firms spend millions to dominate the Big Game

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Artificial intelligence (AI) emerged as one of the dominant themes at this year’s Super Bowl,...

Taiwan plans 2,500-ton warship fleet, monster C-130J planes to counter China threat

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Taiwan is looking to bolster its defenses amid escalating military threats from China. The nation is...

Lesser-known Petalite emerges as a strategic mineral for future lithium supply

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Australian researchers are exploring new ways to unlock lithium from petalite, a lesser-known mineral that...

The smart trick that lets diesel submarines stay hidden underwater: Explained

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Diesel-powered submarines present a challenge that may seem paradoxical at first. Their engines require oxygen...

AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You'

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Apple's next-generation AirPods Pro will feature cameras to see around a user, according to the leaker and prototype collector known as "Kosutami."


In a new post on X, Kosutami said that the next AirPods Pro will be able to see around the wearer, presumably via cameras in each earbud. Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that the 2026 AirPods Pro will feature a "more significant" hardware upgrade in the form at least one tiny infrared camera. He previously said AirPods with infrared cameras could recognize hand gestures and provide an [...]

Whoops: ‘AI’ Toy Company Leaks Chat Logs, Personal Data Of 50,000 Toddlers

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My biggest complaints with AI tend to be with the human beings who are rushing language learning models into mass adoption without doing their basic due diligence. Like AI toy maker Bondu, the creator of “AI” enabled stuffed animals, which recently left the stored chat logs children have with their polyester-filled automated friends openly available […]

3D-printed nuclear batteries could power long-duration space, defense missions

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In the crushing depths of the ocean or the vacuum of deep space, one of...

Here's Jony Ive's Ferrari Luce EV Interior and Interface Design

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In 2021, Ferrari and its parent company Exor announced a multi-year creative partnership with LoveFrom, the design firm co-founded by Apple's former design chief Jony Ive and fellow designer Marc Newson. Now, in an event held at the Transamerica Pyramid, not far from LoveFrom's studio in San Francisco, Ferrari has shared the first results of that collab by unveiling the interior and interface of its first fully electric car, named "Luce" (Italian for "light").

Video: US humanoid robot hits perfect cartwheel and backflip with steady balance

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Boston Dynamics is nearing the end of its testing cycle for its Atlas humanoid ‘research...

How AI coding makes developers 56% faster and 19% slower

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There’s a growing body of research around AI coding assistants with a confusing range of conflicting results. This is to

The post How AI coding makes developers 56% faster and 19% slower appeared first on The New Stack.

YouTube Music Rolling Out Premium Paywall for Song Lyrics

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YouTube Music is making users pay for lyrics. Originally introduced in 2020 as a free feature, song lyrics now sit behind a paywall – as part of a YouTube Premium or Music Premium subscription.


As spotted by 9to5Google, in the latest update currently rolling out, the Lyrics tab on the Now Playing screen displays the warning message, "You have [x] views remaining. Unlock lyrics with Premium."

Users get five free lyrics before a subscription is required. After that, users only see the first few lines, while the rest are blurred.

Google has been testing the change with a small subset of users for a few months alrea [...]

Will AI Kill the OSS Star?

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Mercedes-AMG plans 1,000+ hp electric SUVs as it doubles down on EV power

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Mercedes-AMG has doubled down on its electric future with fresh details about a high-performance electric...

Google Launches Developer Knowledge API to Give AI Tools Access to Official Documentation

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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iOS 27 to Focus on Bug Fixes, Performance, and Design Tweaks

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Apple's new software updates to be previewed at 2026's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) could be relatively modest, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman claims.


In today's "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that iOS 27 will be unveiled at WWDC this year, and while it will deliver further Apple Intelligence improvements, the event will be "a fairly muted affair this year." The headline new software features will apparently be a "more personalized [...]

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone with a comment about ICE and CBP stealing money from citizens at the Minneapolis airport: Dear Democrats in leadership positions: There is no reforming or retraining this level of institutional rot. Your centrist asses need to start demanding the abolishment of […]

How to Watch Super Bowl For Free Today: iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV

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Super Bowl LX is today, and there is a way for U.S. viewers to watch for free. Our instructions below are focused on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, but this method will of course work across a variety of devices.


2026's Super Bowl has the New England Patriots facing the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, with the kickoff time scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time / 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. These two teams already met in the 2015 Super Bowl, which ended in a Patriots championship.

The big game is airing on NBC and streaming on Peacock Premium today.

One way to stream the 2026 Super Bowl for free on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV in the U [...]

The Future of Apple Fitness+ Remains 'Under Review'

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The future of Apple Fitness+ remains "under review," according to the latest word from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. However, he did not share any specific details.


"If I were to guess, Apple will ultimately meld its Health app with Fitness+ in some fashion — perhaps offering it as a combined subscription," said Gurman.

Gurman recently reported that Apple has scaled back plans for a separate Apple Health+ subscription service, which would have provided AI-powered health recommendations. However, he [...]

Here Are Tim Cook's Full Remarks About Apple's 50th Anniversary Plans

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In a recent all-hands meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook told employees to "stay tuned" about the company's plans for its upcoming 50th anniversary. Apple was founded on April 1, 1976, so the company will turn 50 in a few more months.


Following a snippet last week, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has since shared Cook's full remarks:

I've been unusually reflective lately about Apple because we have been working on what do we do to mark this moment — 50 years. It's an extraordinary accomplishment. We've been going back through old archives, old photographs. We've been going back th

Amazon Discounts Anker's Newest Prime Chargers

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Earlier this week, Anker debuted its new Prime 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station with a launch discount on Amazon. If ordered this week, you can clip the on-page coupon on Amazon to get the accessory for $119.99, down from $149.99.

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

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

IDEcline: How the world’s most powerful coding tools became second-class citizens overnight

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During the early phase of my career, I used to spend eight hours a day inside the Visual Studio IDE.

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New MacBook Pros Could Now Arrive in March

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New MacBook Pro models with the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips could arrive as soon as Monday, March 2, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


In today's "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that the release of new ‌MacBook Pro‌ models is tied to the release of macOS Tahoe 26.3. The launch is said to be slated for as early as the week of March 2. He added that the M4 Pro and M4 Max models on [...]

Report Reveals iOS 26.4 Beta Release Date

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Apple is set to release the first beta version of iOS 26.4 later this month, providing the first real-world look at the Apple Intelligence features promised at WWDC 2024, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman claims.


Gurman revealed the timing in his "Power On" newsletter. Barring further delays, the first beta version of iOS 26.4 is apparently set to release to developers during the week of February 23. The update will "include some components" of the long-anticipate [...]

iPad 12 and iPad Air 8 Reportedly Coming Soon

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Apple is planning to launch new iPad and iPad Air models in the near future, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.


Writing in today's "Power On" newsletter, Gurman explained that updated iPads are "coming soon," including a new entry-level ‌iPad‌ and a new ‌iPad Air‌. Both devices are not expected to feature design changes or major enhancements, instead focusing on new chips. The 12th-generati [...]

Gurman: iPhone 17e Launch 'Imminent' With Four New Features

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Apple's iPhone 17e is set to launch "imminently" with at least four new features, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


In the latest edition of his "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that the new lost-cost ‌iPhone‌ will feature the A19 chip first introduced with the iPhone 17 last year. The device will also address one of the most glaring omissions from the current generation and add [...]

Relative to your interests, Saturday morning

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• The Draw Boy - Remove a bottleneck (usually humans), and supply can meet demand. New demand is created, people but more, new things are invented, people but those. New roles are often created to handle the new businesses.
• It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines - Weird. The off-shoring jobs angle is ponderous.
• The top 1,000 Roblox creators earned an average of $1.3 million last year
• 40 Forgotten Realms novels at name your own price; I paid €25. Excellent deal here if you’re into this kind of thing. Getting the five books of the Brimstone Ang

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If everyone can ship software, what will distinguish the successful companies from the apps that are lost in the noise? It’s no longer enough to just spend more time coding, or to be the first with a good idea.

I think it’s going to become even more important to grow other aspects of running a software business:

• Marketing
• Customer support
• Documentation
• Building trust
• Servers (speed)

Of course I’ll be writing a lot of code too, adding features, fixing bugs. But that’s the bare minimum now.

🔗 What to grow

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

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Five Years Ago This week in 2021, the attacks on Section 230 were coming fast, with a Columbia law professor spewing blatantly false information in the Wall Street Journal and Joe Lieberman calling for its repeal, followed by the Democrats introducing the dumpster fire that was the SAFE TECH Act, which we dug into in […]

Docker versus Nix: The quest for true reproducibility

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When conducting performance benchmarks, the ultimate goal is an apples-to-apples comparison. Docker, widely recognized as one of the most brilliant

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How WebAssembly and Web Workers prevent UI freezes

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We’ve all experienced a frozen web page followed by endless refreshing, frustrated sighs, and the occasional foot stomp, only to

The post How WebAssembly and Web Workers prevent UI freezes appeared first on The New Stack.

How GSD turns Claude into a self-steering developer

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The speed at which ClawdBot MoltBot OpenClaw climbed in popularity was quite phenomenal, and for good reason: It has an

The post How GSD turns Claude into a self-steering developer appeared first on The New Stack.

Memory-Safe Jule language emerges as C/C++ alternative

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With the U.S. government and other institutions calling for the use of memory-safe programming languages in critical systems, Jule, a

The post Memory-Safe Jule language emerges as C/C++ alternative appeared first on The New Stack.

AI Reality Bites, Wall Street Panics, and Everyone Becomes an Architect

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Original Content

A few things since last time:

• Kubernetes use rising, large organizations slowest to adapt, not many people train their own AI model or deploy new AI models frequently - my highlights from the most recent CNCF state of stuff survey.

• Enterprise ROI is elusive - maybe ROI is just headcount chopping, not revenue growth and “transformation” - Executives continue to say they don’t know how to measure ROI for AI, and/or that it’s low. Despite that: “Our survey reveals a troubling disconnect: 48% of firms have already cut headcount due to AI.” I round up a few surveys with some link-commentary. Also, here’s an additional link on that topic.

• There was a tech freakout

Reminder: Don’t Believe The NFL’s Lies About Its Super Bowl Trademarks

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It’s been several years since we last did this, but I’d like to remind you all that the National Football League plays a lot of make believe when it comes to what its trademarks for the “Super Bowl” do and do not allow it to do in terms of enforcement. Thanks largely to media outlets […]

Former Federal Judge: ICE’s Home Raiding Policy Violates A Basic Constitutional Right

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This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents continued to use aggressive and sometimes violent methods to make arrests in its mass deportation campaign, including breaking down doors in Minneapolis homes, a bombshell report from the Associated Press on Jan. 21, […]

DOJ’s Frivolous Boasberg Complaint Dismissed—While Nobody Can Explain How DOJ Got The ‘Evidence’ It Never Provided

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Back in August, we wrote about the Department of Justice’s unprecedented decision to file a judicial misconduct complaint against D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg. The complaint, which Attorney General Pam Bondi tweeted about in what was itself likely a violation of the law governing such complaints, accused Boasberg of violating judicial ethics by… privately expressing […]

It's a renaissance woman's world (Friends)

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Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she's helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. Wait, moon vacuums?!

Veracode Extends Package Firewall Reach to Microsoft Artifacts

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Operant AI targets ‘shadow’ AI agents with real-time security platform

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As AI agents fan out across enterprise apps, APIs, and data stores, they’re creating a security blind spot: autonomous systems

The post Operant AI targets ‘shadow’ AI agents with real-time security platform appeared first on The New Stack.

Is the SaaSpocalypse nigh? The era of paying for software seats may be ending.

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In December 2024, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appeared on the BG2 podcast and made a prediction that felt provocative and

The post Is the SaaSpocalypse nigh? The era of paying for software seats may be ending. appeared first on The New Stack.

How AI Is Expanding Who Gets to Build Infrastructure

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How Homepage simplifies monitoring your self-hosted services

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Slowly but surely, I’ve been migrating over to self-hosted services so I can finally cut the cord to third parties.

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Qodo Adds Multiple AI Agents to Code Review Platform

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Beyond Test Case Generation: How to Create Intelligent Quality Ecosystems

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pg_lake comes to Snowflake Postgres: What it means for open standards

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The pg_lake extension, which was initially released to the open source community in November, is now natively available in Postgres,

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The 10-Layer Monitoring Framework That Saved Our Clients From 3 a.m. Pages

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Is Claude Opus 4.6 the Best Security Researcher Ever?

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Two theories of the AI investor spook-out

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First, there is the fear that AI generated apps will replace existing software companies. This from Benji Edwards at Ars:

These releases occurred during a week of exceptional volatility for software stocks. On January 30, Anthropic released 11 open source plugins for Cowork, its agentic productivity tool that launched on January 12. Cowork itself is a general-purpose tool that gives Claude access to local folders for work tasks, but the plugins extended it into specific professional domains: legal contract review, non-disclosure agreement triage, compliance workflows, financial analysis, sales, and marketing.<

Relative to your interests, Friday

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• A Perfect Match for Big Data: VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service and Tanzu Greenplum
• MCP Auth made easier in Spring - doing auth in MCP has always been a shit-show.
• The AI Free Lunch is Over - Links to several analyst surveys on enterp

Does Go have a 'boilerplate tax'?

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#​588 — February 6, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly

How Convera built fine-grained API authorization with Amazon Verified Permissions

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In this post, we share how Convera used Amazon Verified Permissions to build a fine-grained authorization model for their API platform.

Where on Earth is vibe coding taking off the most?

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Despite talk of its impending demise, the vibe coding craze appears to be alive and well, particularly in Europe. A new study by

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The one structural shift CISOs must make before AI outpaces their security strategy

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Enterprise CISOs are stuck at a crossroads. Their budgets aren’t growing fast enough, AI is sucking up every bit of

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Open source USearch library jumpstarts ScyllaDB vector search

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ScyllaDB recently added vector search capabilities underpinned by USearch, an open source clustering and vector search library. The addition of

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The enterprise is not ready for “the rise of the developer”

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Asked what enterprises aren’t ready for as AI advances, Sean O’Dell of Dynatrace offers a prediction — and before doing

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex helped build itself

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OpenAI’s new GPT-5.3-Codex model is the company’s most capable agentic coding model yet. However, unlike previous Codex models, it focuses

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Google hints at big AirDrop expansion for Android "very soon"

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AirDrop came to the Pixel 10 last year, and more Android phones will join the party in 2026.

Anthropic debuts Opus 4.6 with standout scores for solving hard problems that other AIs miss

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Anthropic launched Opus 4.6 on Thursday, an update to its flagship Opus model that delivers major improvements over its predecessor—and

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It took a researcher fewer than 2 hours to hijack OpenClaw

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All those security fears about the OpenClaw AI agent and its social network, Moltbook, are already proving true, according to

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10 strategies to reduce MCP token bloat

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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has reached an inflection point. While some MCP deployments are still in the experimentation phase,

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Steam Machine and Steam Frame delays are the latest product of the RAM crisis

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Valve says it still hopes to ship both devices "in the first half of the year."

2025 Q4 DDoS threat report: A record-setting 31.4 Tbps attack caps a year of massive DDoS assaults

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The number of DDoS attacks more than doubled in 2025. The network layer is under particular threat as hyper-volumetric attacks grew 700%.