News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It

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Last fall, I wrote about how the fear of AI was leading us to wall off the open internet in ways that would hurt everyone. At the time, I was worried about how companies were conflating legitimate concerns about bulk AI training with basic web accessibility. Not surprisingly, the situation has gotten worse. Now major […]

Apple Reveals How Many iPhones Are Running iOS 26

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Apple has shared updated iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 adoption figures, revealing how many iPhones and iPads are running those software versions.


These adoption numbers are based on iPhones and iPads that transacted on the App Store on February 12, 2026, according to Apple.

The statistics are as follows:

• 74% of all iPhones introduced in the last four years are running iOS 26.


• 66% of all iPhones are running iOS 26.


• 66% of all iPads introduced in the last four years are running iPadOS 26.


• 57% of all iPads are running iPadOS 26.

Was Titan born from a crash? This moon merger may have created Saturn’s rings

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Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have formed in a collision with another moon, and the...

Chinese scientists expand range of quantum communication network to 2,300 miles

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Scientists at Peking University in China have cracked how to build long-distance quantum communication networks....

Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more (Hayden Field/The Verge)

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Hayden Field / The Verge:
Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more  —  Former employees say the restructuring followed tensions over safety and being “stuck in the catch-up phase.”

TypeScript 6.0 Sets Stage for Performance-Focused 7.0

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MAGA’s Always Bogus “Antitrust Movement” Comes To A Screeching Halt With Firing Of Gail Slater

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The Trump administration has fired one of the few remaining members of the administration that had even a passing interest in antitrust enforcement. DOJ antitrust boss Gail Slater has been fired from the administration after having repeated contentious run ins with key officials. It’s the final nail in the coffin of the log-running lie that […]

Daily Deal: Hypergear 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock

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The Hypergear 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Dock is meticulously engineered to reduce the cable clutter and streamline your daily routine. Featuring 2 dedicated wireless charging surfaces, you can power up your phone and AirPods easily. In addition, you can charge your Apple Watch with the built-in charger mount. Stylish and compact, the dock is perfect for […]

Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to "a country of geniuses in a data center", how AI will diffuse through the economy, frontier lab profits, China, more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

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Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to “a country of geniuses in a data center”, how AI will diffuse through the economy, frontier lab profits, China, more  —  “That's why I'm sending this message of urgency”  —  Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from “a country of geniuses in a data center”.

PitchBook estimates that 25%+ of VC-backed unicorns have become "undercorns," startups once valued at $1B or more by VCs but now valued below that threshold (Dan Primack/Axios)

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Dan Primack / Axios:
PitchBook estimates that 25%+ of VC-backed unicorns have become “undercorns,” startups once valued at $1B or more by VCs but now valued below that threshold  —  New valuation data from PitchBook suggests that more than one-quarter of VC-backed “unicorns” have lost their horns …

The US DoD published and then deleted a document adding Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to a list of companies with alleged connections to the Chinese military (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

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Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
The US DoD published and then deleted a document adding Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to a list of companies with alleged connections to the Chinese military  —  The companies are among a number the Pentagon believes could pose a threat to American national security

Judge Accuses DOJ Of Telling Court To “Pound Sand,” In Case Over Venezuelans Sent To Salvadoran Concentration Camp

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Judge Boasberg got his vindication in the frivolous “complaint” the DOJ filed against him, and now he’s calling out the DOJ’s bullshit in the long-running case that caused them to file the complaint against him in the first place: the JGG v. Trump case regarding the group of Venezuelans the US government shipped off to […]

Sources: the US FTC accelerated a probe into whether Microsoft illegally monopolized the enterprise computing market with its cloud software and AI offerings (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: the US FTC accelerated a probe into whether Microsoft illegally monopolized the enterprise computing market with its cloud software and AI offerings  —  The US Federal Trade Commission is accelerating scrutiny of Microsoft Corp. as part of an ongoing probe into whether …

The MacRumors Show: Revamped Siri Delayed Again?

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We discuss the upcoming iPhone 17e and iPad models, as well as Apple's apparent issues finalizing the revamped version of Siri, on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show.

Sources: Binance has fired its employees in late 2025 who uncovered evidence that Iran received $1B+ through Binance between March 2024 and August 2025 (Fortune)

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Fortune:
Sources: Binance has fired its employees in late 2025 who uncovered evidence that Iran received $1B+ through Binance between March 2024 and August 2025  —  In 2023, the crypto exchange Binance pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering and know-your-customer laws as well as sanctions violations.

Text Shortcuts You Should Be Using on iPhone and Mac

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Apple's autocorrect on iPhone and iPad always aims to help when you're typing a message, but it's by no means perfect, and some of the replacements it continually spews out can be frustrating. Fortunately, Apple's software includes a feature called Text Replacement that allows you to specify what word or phrase replaces the specific text you type in.


Even if you haven't set up Text Replacement, you can try it out with Apple's pre-set example: In any app that accepts text input, type "Omw" followed by a space, and it will change to "On my way!" automatically.

The following steps guide you through the process of setting up your own handy shortcut phrases with text replacements on both iOS devices and Mac.

How to Set Up Text Replacement on iPhone

1. Launch th

Apple Now Testing Flip-Style Foldable iPhone

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Apple is testing a different kind of foldable iPhone with a flip-style design, according to a known leaker based in Asia.


Citing supposedly verifiable supply chain information, the Weibo user known as "Fixed Focus Digital" says that Apple has tested a flip-style foldable ‌iPhone‌. Such a device would compete with devices such as Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 7 and the modern-day Motorola Razr.

The rumored flip-device comes in addition to the wide foldable ‌iPhone‌ that is expected to launch later this year. Whether the flip-style foldable ‌ [...]

Five iPhone 18 Pro Features Revealed in New Report

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While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are still seven months away, an analyst has revealed five new features the devices will allegedly have.

Rumored color options for the iPhone 18 Pro models

• Smaller Dynamic Island: It has been rumored that Face ID's flood illuminator will be moved under the screen on the iPhone 18 Pro models, paving the way for a smaller Dynamic Island on the devices.

As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion (Alaina Demopoulos/The Guardian)

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Alaina Demopoulos / The Guardian:
As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion  —  Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion - on the eve of Valentine's Day, it's being turned off for good.  How will users cope?

US-built surrogate reactor-powered LEDs mimic nuclear fission with zero radiation

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Scientists in the US have developed a new glowing surrogate nuclear reactor that replaces dangerous...

Mainframe Code Modernization Patterns

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Open Source’s ‘Eternal September’, GitHub Keeps Maintainers Covered for All Seasons

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Anthropic adds Chris Liddell, a former Microsoft and GM exec who helped GM IPO and worked in Trump's first administration, to its board ahead of a potential IPO (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

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Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic adds Chris Liddell, a former Microsoft and GM exec who helped GM IPO and worked in Trump's first administration, to its board ahead of a potential IPO  —  The former Microsoft and GM executive Chris Liddell has previously worked for the Trump administration

AI Is Normal Now - The Enterprise Is Not

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Original Content

• Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn’t need new platforms - I’ve been circling a theme this week after reading “AI as a Normal Technology” (Spring, 2025). This is some stream of conscious on it.

• Enterprises are gonna enterprise-y, especially with AI. Also available in LinkedIn, if you prefer that kind of thing.

• A series of OODA loops, Software Defined Talk #559 - This week, we discuss the future of SaaS, OpenAI vs. Anthropic strategies, and cloud capex. Plus, when will yo

Tanzu Catsup: The Risk of Relying on AI for Platform Engineering

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Internal development teams and executives are increasingly looking at AI to automate the creation of internal developer platforms. However, cobbling together open-source components with AI is a far cry from building a scalable, secure, and “enterprise-grade” environment. In this conversation, we explore why betting your internal infrastructure on AI-generated platforms is a high-stakes risk and why human-led architecture still dictates the long-term success of a platform.

There’s also an excerpt.

February investor memo: Cohere hit ~$240M in ARR in 2025, above its $200M target, with QoQ growth of 50%+ and gross margins averaging around 70% throughout 2025 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
February investor memo: Cohere hit ~$240M in ARR in 2025, above its $200M target, with QoQ growth of 50%+ and gross margins averaging around 70% throughout 2025  —  Artificial intelligence startup Cohere has told investors that it's seeing momentum with enterprise customers, even as rivals like Google …

Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to sell game studio Moonton, the developer of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, to Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games for $6B to $7B (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to sell game studio Moonton, the developer of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, to Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games for $6B to $7B  —  ByteDance is in advanced talks to sell Shanghai Moonton Technology, the studio behind the popular mobile game Mobile Legends …

Best Apple Deals of the Week: AirPods and Apple Watch Low Prices Arrive on Amazon

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We're recapping this week's best Apple-related deals below, and it includes solid discounts on AirPods 4, AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Series 11, and a few sales from Samsung and Satechi.

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.

AirPods

• What's the deal? Take $30 off AirPods 4 and $39 off AirPods Pro 3


• Where can I get it?

Google warns that the EU risks undermining its own competitiveness drive with the "tech sovereignty package" the bloc is set to present in the spring (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

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Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
Google warns that the EU risks undermining its own competitiveness drive with the “tech sovereignty package” the bloc is set to present in the spring  —  Europe risks undermining its own competitiveness drive through curbs on US groups, tech company says

Relative to your interests, Friday afternoon

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• What’s a software CEO to do in the current climate? Here’s the urgent 2026 playbook - Playbook for software companies that are (forced to) switch from growth mode to normal company mode.
• Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation \ Anthropic - “Today, our run-rate revenue is $14 billion, with this figure growing over 10x annually in

US military vehicles to get powerful autonomous driving system that delivers flexibility

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A California-based company is set to create autonomous ground vehicles for the US Marine Corps....

Massive tiltable 6,000-square-feet wing sail to provide 10 percent fuel savings

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Oceanbird, a joint venture between Swedish marine technology firm Alfa Laval and shipping company Wallenius...

GitHub’s Agentic Workflows bring “continuous AI” into the CI/CD loop

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A lot of the hype around agents has been around writing code, but what if you could have an agent

The post GitHub’s Agentic Workflows bring “continuous AI” into the CI/CD loop appeared first on The New Stack.

Why 40% of AI projects will be canceled by 2027 (and how to stay in the other 60%)

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The agentic AI race is on, and most organizations are at risk of losing it. Not because they lack ambition,

The post Why 40% of AI projects will be canceled by 2027 (and how to stay in the other 60%) appeared first on The New Stack.

Shedding old code with ecdysis: graceful restarts for Rust services at Cloudflare

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ecdysis is a Rust library enabling zero-downtime upgrades for network services. After five years protecting millions of connections at Cloudflare, it’s now open source.

China shatters 3d printing speed record, fabricates objects in just 0.6 seconds

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In recent years, 3D printing has advanced rapidly. However, the technology has been trapped in...

macOS Tahoe Finder Bug Underscores Apple's Slipping UI Polish

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Apple released macOS Tahoe last September, but despite two point updates since then, it is still struggling to resolve an embarrassing interface issue in Finder that appears to have been introduced with its Liquid Glass redesign.


If you updated your Mac to macOS Tahoe and you prefer to work in Finder's column view, there's a good chance you've been frustrated by the glitch, which developer Jeff Johnson has been admirably tracking over on his blog.

First-ever plasma instability images at US lab bring fusion energy closer to reality

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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory researchers have captured, for the first time, detailed images of a...

US space firm schedules Mach 20 hypersonic demonstrator test for defense unit

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Rocket Lab will launch a hypersonic test mission aboard its HASTE rocket later this month...

US team unlocks nuclear fusion plasma control to prevent tokamak walls from melting

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Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have identified a new method to tame the...

CBS Staffers Jump Ship Ahead Of More Layoffs From Another Pointless Media Merger

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U.S. media mergers always follow the same trajectory. Pre-merger, executives promise all manner of amazing synergies and deal benefits. Post-merger, not only do those benefits generally never arrive, the debt from the acquisition spree usually results in significant layoffs, lower quality product, and higher rates for consumers. The Time Warner Discovery disaster was the poster child […]

China’s new nuclear‑powered attack submarine under construction, satellite images show

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Satellite imagery has revealed what analysts believe is China’s first example of the next-generation Type...

SRE vs. DevOps is a False Choice: Here’s the Unified Model That Works

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Meta Plans 'Name Tag' Facial Recognition for Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

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Meta plans to add a facial recognition feature to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, reports The New York Times ($).


According to people involved in the plans who spoke to the publication, the feature is internally called "Name Tag," and would let wearers identify people and get information about them via Meta's artificial intelligence assistant. Mark Zuckerberg reportedly wants the feature to differentiate the devices and to make the AI assistant in the glasses more useful.

According to an internal document seen by NYT, Facebook's parent company has been in discussions since early last year about releasing the feature, which carries obvious civil liberty and privacy ris [...]

How to ground AI agents in accurate, context-rich data

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AI agents are all the rage in enterprises today. CEOs and CTOs want them brought into their businesses ASAP to

The post How to ground AI agents in accurate, context-rich data appeared first on The New Stack.

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I use the HA HA! BUSINESS! meme a few times each decade. The original is pretty small and pixel’y, so I asked the robot to upscale it and it did a damn fine job:

Beyond Automation: How Generative AI in DevOps is Redefining Software Delivery

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A US court sentences Praetorian Group CEO Ramil Ventura Palafox to 20 years in prison for operating a $200M bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded 90K+ investors (Danny Park/The Block)

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Danny Park / The Block:
A US court sentences Praetorian Group CEO Ramil Ventura Palafox to 20 years in prison for operating a $200M bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded 90K+ investors  —  Quick Take  — Praetorian Group International CEO, Ramil Ventura Palafox, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for operating a $200 million bitcoin Ponzi scheme.

Baidu plans to let its search app's 700M MAUs opt-in to message OpenClaw and integrate OpenClaw's capabilities into its e-commerce business and other services (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

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Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Baidu plans to let its search app's 700M MAUs opt-in to message OpenClaw and integrate OpenClaw's capabilities into its e-commerce business and other services  —  BEIJING — Baidu plans to give users of its main smartphone app direct access to the wildly popular artificial intelligence tool OpenClaw …

Memo: Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses in 2026, saying the political tumult in the US would distract critics from the feature's release (New York Times)

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New York Times:
Memo: Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses in 2026, saying the political tumult in the US would distract critics from the feature's release  —  In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United Sta

AppleCare+ Coverage Launches in Indonesia

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Apple today announced the launch of AppleCare+ coverage in Indonesia, bringing the option of additional hardware protection and technical support to customers across the country.


Most Apple products come with a one-year limited warranty that covers hardware failures and manufacturing defects, and up to 90 days of complimentary technical support. AppleCare+ extends coverage for devices like iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Pro Display XDR, and Apple TV, including accidental damage protection for incidents like drops and spills, battery replacement when capacity drops below 80 percent, and 24/7 priority access to support.

"AppleCare brings peace of mind and mind to our cust

Companies like Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are letting workers cash out before their IPOs, a move once seen as taboo and lacking long-term commitment (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

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Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Companies like Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are letting workers cash out before their IPOs, a move once seen as taboo and lacking long-term commitment  —  Companies from Stripe to OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks and Spa

Microsoft’s AI-Powered Copyright Bots Fucked Up And Got An Innocent Game Delisted From Steam

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At some point, we, as a society, are going to realize that farming copyright enforcement out to bots and AI-driven robocops is not the way to go, but today is not that day. Long before AI became the buzzword it is today, large companies have employed their own copyright crawler bots, or employed those of […]

What's Next for the Mac Studio

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Apple is working on an updated version of the Mac Studio, and the new machine is expected to launch in the first half of 2026. We've rounded up what we know about the next-generation ‌Mac Studio‌ so far.

Design

The reason AI agents shouldn’t touch your source code — and what they should do instead

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Dynatrace is experiencing a major moment in its history. It’s expanding from an observability platform what might be described as

The post The reason AI agents shouldn’t touch your source code — and what they should do instead appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple Wins Third Jury Trial Against Optis, Avoiding Hundreds of Millions in Patent Damages

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Apple did not infringe on any patents owned by Texas-based company Optis Wireless, a jury ruled today. In a verdict shared by Reuters, the jury decided that Apple did not infringe any of the five LTE patents that Optis sued over back in 2019. If Optis had won, Apple could have faced hundreds of millions in damages.


Optis Wireless initially won $506 million from Apple in a 2020 jury trial, but the damages were thrown out after Apple appealed because the jury didn't calculate damages with an understanding of fair and reasonable essential patent (FRAND) terms. A second jury trial was held in 2021 to recalculate damages, and the jury awarded Optis $300 million. Apple again appealed, and t [...]

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Panic! At The Discord

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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 roundup of the latest news in online […]

Go 1.26 brings Green Tea GC, SIMD operations, and secret mode

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Apple Confirms Revamped Siri is Still Coming in 2026

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Apple is still planning to launch the smarter, more capable version of Siri in 2026, the company told CNBC today. Apple's statement comes just a day after Bloomberg reported Apple is having issues with the updated version of ‌Siri‌, leading to potential delays of the feature.


Apple initially intended to launch the Apple Intelligence-powered version of ‌Siri‌ in spring 2025, but right around when a debut was expected in March 2025, Apple said that Siri wasn't ready and needed more t [...]

Statistical language R is making a comeback against Python

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The latest iteration of the TIOBE Index of programming languages indicates that more specialized languages are creeping up on Python’s

The post Statistical language R is making a comeback against Python appeared first on The New Stack.

Bridging the Dev–Security Gap With Smarter Authorization

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Sony Launches $330 WF-1000XM6 Earbuds to Take on AirPods Pro 3

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Sony today announced a new set of earbuds that are designed to compete with the AirPods Pro 3. The $330 WF-1000XM6 Truly Wireless Earbuds feature Active Noise Cancellation with a 25 percent reduction in noise compared to the prior-generation XM5 earbuds, with improved performance in the mid-to-high frequency range that's common in everyday environments.


The earbuds use Sony's HD Noise Canceling Processor QN3e with an adaptive noise canceling optimizer and four microphones on each earbud to detect sound to cut out. The earbuds analyze external noise and wearing conditions in real time to improve noise canceling performance.

Sony's XM6 earbuds are smaller than the ‌AirPods Pro 3‌ because there i [...]

On Its 30th Birthday, Section 230 Remains The Linchpin For Users’ Speech

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For thirty years, internet users have benefited from a key federal law that allows everyone to express themselves, find community, organize politically, and participate in society. Section 230, which protects internet users’ speech by protecting the online intermediaries we rely on, is the legal support that sustains the internet as we know it. Yet as Section […]

Live Activities Taking Over Your Apple Watch? Here's the Fix

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In watchOS 26, the Smart Stack for your Apple Watch is pretty clever. The collection of widgets can be pulled up with a scroll of the Digital Crown, and shows you relevant information throughout your day. But sometimes, its eagerness to help can be a bit much, especially when it comes to Live Activities.


You're probably familiar with this scenario: You raise your wrist expecting to see your customized watch face, but it's been replaced by media playback controls because someone's watching your Apple TV, or a timer you set earlier for cooking that still has ages left to run. Live Activities in the Smart Stack can clearly be useful, but having them automatically take over your display isn't always ideal. Here's how to take back control:

1. Open Settings on your Apple Watch.


2. Tap

DIY PC maker Framework has needed monthly price hikes to navigate the RAM shortage

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And Framework expects things to get worse before they get better.

Your RAG System is probably image-blind, but it doesn’t have to be

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In the race to deploy generative AI, most enterprises have mastered “text RAG” to chat with PDFs and spreadsheets. However,

The post Your RAG System is probably image-blind, but it doesn’t have to be appeared first on The New Stack.

Bondi Spying On Congressional Epstein Searches Should Be A Major Scandal

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Yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee. Among the more notable exchanges was when Rep. Pramila Jayapal asked some of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims who were in the audience to stand up and indicate whether Bondi’s DOJ had ever contacted them about their experiences. None of them had heard from the Justice […]

It took two years, but Google released a YouTube app on Vision Pro

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App arrives months after Google requested takedowns of third-party options.

Apple Releases New Beta Firmware for AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods 4

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Apple today released new beta firmware for the AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, and AirPods 4. The firmware is limited to developers at the current time, and it has a build number of 8B5034f.


Apple is not testing any iOS updates right now, so it is unclear what's in the AirPods firmware beta.

With iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe, Apple added a beta firmware update installation option that's available from the AirPods settings interface when the AirPods are connected to an [...]

ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn’t Do What DHS Says It Could, Deployed It Anyway

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The DHS and its components want to find non-white people to deport by any means necessary. Of course, “necessary” is something that’s on a continually sliding scale with Trump back in office, which means everything (legal or not) is “necessary” if it can help White House advisor Stephen Miller hit his self-imposed 3,000 arrests per […]

VS Code becomes multi-agent command center for developers

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With its Visual Studio Code (VS Code) January 2026 release (v1.109), Microsoft is making the code editor “the home for

The post VS Code becomes multi-agent command center for developers appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 237 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

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Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser.


‌Safari Technology Preview‌ 237 includes fixes and updates for Accessibility, CSS, DOM, HTML, Networking, Rendering, SVG, Web API, Web Authentication, Web Extensions, Web Inspector, and WebRTC.

The current ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release is compatible with machines [...]

OpenAI’s new Codex Spark model is built for speed

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OpenAI’s new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark model is a bit of a departure for the company’s family of Codex software development models: its

The post OpenAI’s new Codex Spark model is built for speed appeared first on The New Stack.

How low-bit inference enables efficient AI

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Making products like Dropbox Dash accessible to individuals and businesses means tackling new challenges around efficiency and resource use.

YouTube Launches on Apple Vision Pro

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Starting today, an official YouTube app is available on the Apple Vision Pro, allowing you to watch videos on a theater-sized screen with immersive visionOS Environments.


Every video on YouTube is available in the new, standalone visionOS app, including standard videos, 180° videos, 360° videos, and YouTube Shorts. And on the newer Apple Vision Pro with the M5 chip, you can even watch YouTube videos in 8K.

Apple Vision Pro users can access their YouTube subscriptions, playlists, watch history, and more.

[...]

How intelligent orchestration transforms software innovation

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The software industry reached an inflection point in November and December 2025. Three breakthrough AI model releases, Gemini 3 by

The post How intelligent orchestration transforms software innovation appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple's M5 iPad Pro Hits Multiple Record Low Prices on Amazon [Updated]

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Amazon this week is offering discounts across the M5 iPad Pro lineup, including both 11-inch and 13-inch models. Every deal on the 11-inch M5 iPad Pro that we're tracking below is a match of the all-time low price on these tablets.

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.

The highlight this time around is a return of a low price on the 256GB Wi-Fi 11-inch M5 iPad Pro, which is on sale for [...]

The hidden reason database debt is ten times harder to fix than code

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Technical debt is an inevitable byproduct of software development as complexity grows. However, unlike stateless application code, the stateful nature

The post The hidden reason database debt is ten times harder to fix than code appeared first on The New Stack.

iOS 27 Will Add These New Features to Your iPhone

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While the first beta of iOS 27 is still four months away, there are already plenty of rumors about new features that will be included in the update.


Below, we recap iOS 27 rumors so far:

• Siri Chatbot: iOS 27 will reportedly include a full-out Siri chatbot that you can have back-and-forth conversations with. This would make Siri more like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. Due to delays, iOS 27 might also include at least some personalized Siri features that were announced back in 2024.


• New Apple Intelligence Features:

Arcjet SDKs Make It Simpler for Developers to Include Security Functions

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Woot Takes 70% Off Solo/Braided Loops for Your Apple Watch

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Woot this month is back with a massive sale on Solo Loop and Braided Solo Loop bands for Apple Watch, with prices that match the previous record low Woot deals on these bands.

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

You can get the Solo Loop for just $14.99 ($34 off) and the Braided Solo Loop for $29.99 ($69 off). All bands in this sale are in brand new condition and come with a one-year Apple limited warranty.

Introducing Markdown for Agents

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The way content is discovered online is shifting, from traditional search engines to AI agents that need structured data from a Web built for humans. It’s time to consider not just human visitors, but start to treat agents as first-class citizens. Markdown for Agents automatically converts any HTML page requested from our network to markdown.

ShareChat hit a billion features per second, then it had to make it 10x cheaper

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“Great system…now please make it 10 times cheaper.” That’s not exactly what the ShareChat team wanted to hear after completing

The post ShareChat hit a billion features per second, then it had to make it 10x cheaper appeared first on The New Stack.

Secure DevOps at Scale: Integrating SRE, DevSecOps and Compliance

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When Open Networks Meet AI Coding: A Tsunami of Smart Enterprise Apps

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Related to your interests, Thursday

Summary:

• Why it was a Boston vacation.
• Europe set to treble sovereign cloud investment - “European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.” More context:
• Sovereign Computing, panel - This was a great panel, very detailed on topics and actually trying to figure out what to do, talking through hurdles, etc.
• Anthropic’s breakout moment: how Claude won busines

You can’t fire a bot: The blunt truth about AI slop and your job

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Matan-Paul Shetrit puts it bluntly: “If you generate slop, I’m not blaming the AI, I’m blaming you.” As Director of

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CodeHunter API Integrates Deterministic AI Models into DevSecOps Workflows

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Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

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He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.

Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

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Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder's journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what's going to prod, what's not, and why he's (at least for a bit) back to coding by hand.

"Windows 11 26H1" is a special version of Windows exclusively for new Arm PCs

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Arm PCs have enjoyed special treatment from Microsoft for the past two years.

Google recovers "deleted" Nest video in high-profile abduction case

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Users only get three hours of free Nest video storage, but Google can retrieve videos much later.

Bluefin Linux: ChromeOS simplicity meets Linux power

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Imagine you could use an operating system that’s as easy as ChromeOS, while also being as powerful as Linux. What

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Apple releases iOS 26.3 with updates that mainly benefit non-Apple devices

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It's getting a little easier to move from iOS to Android, if that's your thing.

Smart home PSA: Apple's "new architecture" for Home app becomes mandatory today

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Updated Home app is required for Matter support and some types of accessories.

Your infrastructure is evolving, but is your operational framework still stuck in the past?

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Major service outages are becoming more frequent, more severe, and taking longer to resolve. According to recent survey data, the

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The Death of Traditional Testing: Agentic Development Broke a 50-Year-Old Field, JiTTesting Can Revive It

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WHAT IT IS The rise of agentic software development means code is being written, reviewed, and shipped faster than ever before across the entire industry. It also means that testing frameworks need to evolve for this rapidly changing landscape. Faster development demands faster testing that can catch bugs as they land in a codebase, without [...]

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Insights from our executive roundtable on AI and engineering productivity

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From Claude Code to Cursor, we're big adopters of AI coding tools at Dropbox. The early results have been promising, but there are still a lot of open questions about how to work with these tools most effectively and where they can have the most impact. To push this conversation forward, we hosted an executive roundtable at our San Francisco studio. Here's how it went.

Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn't need new platforms

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For your enterprise AI projects, what you want now is resilience. I’m using that term from a paper called “AI as a Normal Technology." There, resilience means " taking actions now to improve our ability to deal with unexpected developments in the future.” There’s a lot of great thinking in that paper, but I want to narrow it down to what management at companies should be doing with AI-driven projects and strategies.

What these executives should do now is put in places systems, policies, and tools to explore, learn, and then apply AI. The system they use should have less to do with bui

Query Database Using Plain English

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Introduction

In this post you’ll see how you can create a system that allows users to query a relational database using plain English. This allows users not familiar with SQL or business intelligence systems to get insights from data.

Setting Up

If you want to follow along, you’ll need to clone the code from the GitHub repo. This will download the code, and the database file containing the data (bikes.ddb)

Note: The data is from the Austin Bike Share dataset.