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This Week In Techdirt History: February 22nd – 28th

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Five Years Ago This week in 2021, Australian news sites were reacting bizarrely to Facebook’s withdrawal from sharing news in the country, just before Facebook caved and decided to restore news links. The whole ordeal was surrounded by silly reactions so we pointed to the best summary of everything, and also looked at how it […]

Explosions heard in Dubai, Abu Dhabi as Iran conducts strikes against Gulf Arab states

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Tehran has expanded the confrontation beyond its borders, striking American military assets across several Gulf...

China faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity gains from AI with labor displacement risks due to automation, which could trigger an economic spiral (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
China faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity gains from AI with labor displacement risks due to automation, which could trigger an economic spiral  —  Days after back-flipping AI humanoids dazzled China with a new year performance alongside dancers, a small research firm jolted US markets …

Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra, and the €1,999 Leica-branded Leitzphone, all featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, in Europe (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra, and the €1,999 Leica-branded Leitzphone, all featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, in Europe  —  It's just launched in Europe, joined by the larger, more photography-focused Xiaomi 17 Ultra.

Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device that works with both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub, and the €300 Xiaomi Watch 5, in Europe (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device that works with both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub, and the €300 Xiaomi Watch 5, in Europe  —  Xiaomi today launched a slew of gadgets ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona including a camera-focused flagship smartphone …

Claude hit #2 on Apple's US App Store, hours after the DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it bounced between #20 and #50 for much of February (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Claude hit #2 on Apple's US App Store, hours after the DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it bounced between #20 and #50 for much of February  —  Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence assistant app jumped to the No. 2 slot on Apple's chart of top U.S. free apps late on Friday …

Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect  —  Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday

Q&A with Reiner Pope, a former Google TPU architect and CEO of MatX, which designs specialized chips for LLMs, on the limitations of current AI chips, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)

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John Collison / Cheeky Pint:
Q&A with Reiner Pope, a former Google TPU architect and CEO of MatX, which designs specialized chips for LLMs, on the limitations of current AI chips, and more  —  Reiner Pope is the co-founder and CEO of MatX, designing specialized chips for Large Language Models.

Apple Launched iPhone 16e One Year Ago Today

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One year ago today, Apple launched the iPhone 16e, a new entry-level model that brought Apple Intelligence support and a modern design to the company's most affordable iPhone.

The Pentagon's fight with Anthropic sparks fears in Silicon Valley and the Capitol of a fundamental shift in the balance of power between DC and the AI industry (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

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Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
The Pentagon's fight with Anthropic sparks fears in Silicon Valley and the Capitol of a fundamental shift in the balance of power between DC and the AI industry  —  Trump was silent on another threat that Hegseth had delivered to Anthropic earlier this week, when he suggested DOD would invoke …

The real breakthrough in robotics is foundation models — not hardware

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Physical AI, also known as embodied AI, is purported to be the next evolution in the quest to build autonomous

The post The real breakthrough in robotics is foundation models — not hardware appeared first on The New Stack.

Perplexity Computer wows, Karpathy kills vibe coding, and OpenAI replaces Anthropic at the Pentagon

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I’m Matt Burns, Director of Editorial at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments.

The post Perplexity Computer wows, Karpathy kills vibe coding, and OpenAI replaces Anthropic at the Pentagon appeared first on The New Stack.

Top Stories: Apple's 'Big Week' Ahead, iPhone Colors, and More

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Get ready for an onslaught of Apple news! Ahead of a "special Apple experience" for the media on Wednesday, there will be several days of announcements coming from the company with Tim Cook confirming that things will kick off on Monday.


We're expecting a number of product announcements next week, but we're also continuing to look ahead at what we can expect with iPhone and Mac updates later this year. Software development is also continuing with iOS 26.4 proceeding through beta testing, so read on below for all the details!

Top Stories

Apple Teases 'A Big Week Ahead' With Announcements Starting Monday

Dario Amodei says "we are patriotic Americans" and Anthropic fears some AI uses could clash with American values as AI's potential gets "ahead of the law" (Jo Ling/CBS News)

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Jo Ling / CBS News:
Dario Amodei says “we are patriotic Americans” and Anthropic fears some AI uses could clash with American values as AI's potential gets “ahead of the law”  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Hours after a bitter feud between the Pentagon and Anthropic ended …

How India's outsourcing industry, which employs 6M+ people and is worth nearly $300B, is racing to adapt as AI promises to automate white-collar work (New York Times)

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New York Times:
How India's outsourcing industry, which employs 6M+ people and is worth nearly $300B, is racing to adapt as AI promises to automate white-collar work  —  Artificial intelligence promises to automate the white-collar work that made India a tech powerhouse.  The country is racing to adapt before it's too late.

Astronomers solve decades-old mystery of conflicting dust sizes in massive stars

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Some stars don’t just shine; they also manufacture the raw ingredients of future worlds. In...

OpenAI’s Sam Altman proposes new framework for US military AI deployment

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman has come out to defend rival Anthropic against concerns with working with...

China’s BYD unveils ‘world’s longest-range EV’ with 644-mile claim, 64% performance jump

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China’s BYD is positioning its Denza brand at the top of the range race with...

Moon dust to bases: New 3D laser technique could be the future of lunar bases

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Scientists from Ohio State University have shown that laser 3D printing could be used to...

In a first, scientists spot 200-million-year-old star system before adulthood

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Astronomers already know how planetary systems are born and how they look once they are...

AI's deflationary impact on India's IT industry, which has never seen a decline in software exports in 24 years, will likely take years to fully materialize (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)

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Manish Singh / India Dispatch:
AI's deflationary impact on India's IT industry, which has never seen a decline in software exports in 24 years, will likely take years to fully materialize  —  The cost of electricity does not run an enterprise.  —  A post written as a fictional memo from June 2028 by short-seller Citrini …

US and Israel launch major strikes on Iran over nuclear standoff

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In a video message released on social media early Saturday, President Donald Trump announced that...

US’ AI data centers could consume 4x more power by 2030, new facility to tackle the surge

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A U.S. lab has announced the launch of the Next-Generation Data Centers Institute (NGDCI), a...

Tests of 12+ AI-detection tools show many capable of spotting basic fakes, but struggle with complex images; few analyze video, and most identified fake audio (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

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Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
Tests of 12+ AI-detection tools show many capable of spotting basic fakes, but struggle with complex images; few analyze video, and most identified fake audio  —  Artificial intelligence detectors are increasingly used to check the veracity of

US Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade (Dell Cameron/Wired)

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Dell Cameron / Wired:
US Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade  —  A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers.  Now congressional Democrats …

Sources: TSMC urges clients to apply for N2 production allocation as far out as Q2 2027, with large capacity allotments nearly sold out for the next two years (Tim Culpan/Culpium)

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Tim Culpan / Culpium:
Sources: TSMC urges clients to apply for N2 production allocation as far out as Q2 2027, with large capacity allotments nearly sold out for the next two years  —  [Exclusive] Clients are being asked to finalize their requirements into mid 2027, with larger customers already booking capacity over the next two to three years.

Anthropic's dispute with the DOD raises critical questions for US military partners like Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and Palantir, which work closely with Anthropic (Wired)

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Wired:
Anthropic's dispute with the DOD raises critical questions for US military partners like Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and Palantir, which work closely with Anthropic  —  Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.

Coupang reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.8B, below $8.9B est., and a net loss of $26M, versus $131M net profit in Q4 2024, hurt by fallout from a data breach (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Coupang reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.8B, below $8.9B est., and a net loss of $26M, versus $131M net profit in Q4 2024, hurt by fallout from a data breach  —  E-commerce giant Coupang (CPNG.N) swung to a fourth-quarter loss on Thursday and reported revenue below analysts' estimates …

Trump Settles With Isaac Hayes’ Estate Over Use Of Music During The Campaign

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One of the unfortunate knock on effects of being generally insufferable is that many people don’t want to be associated with you in any way. And when you’re both insufferable and happen to be the most divisive American political figure in modern history, all the more so. And that is certainly why, during both of […]

97% performance after 2,000 hours: China’s new polymer solar cells offer 19.1% efficiency

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Researchers in China have developed a new type of polymer solar cells that deliver a...

What to Expect From Apple's Big Week: iPhone 17e, Low-Cost MacBook, New iPads, and More

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Starting on Monday, we're going to get our first major product announcements of 2026. Apple CEO Tim Cook teased a "big week ahead" with an "Apple Launch" hashtag, plus Apple has media events scheduled in New York, Shanghai, and London on Wednesday, March 4. We're expecting the iPhone 17e, an all-new low-cost MacBook, and minor refreshes to the Mac and iPad lines.

Low-Cost MacBook

The NFL Won A Lawsuit Over Its Bluesky Ban. Its Social Media Strategy Is Still A Loser

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Full disclosure up front: I sit on the board of Bluesky. That said, I had absolutely no idea this lawsuit existed until recently. Which, honestly, tells you something about how much of a legal non-event it was. But the underlying story here—about the NFL treating social media the way it treats television broadcast rights—is worth […]

Under a Paramount-WBD merger, two struggling media giants would unite

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Can two declining companies form a profitable one?

Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

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Burke Holland works on GitHub Copilot by day and codes with his AI agents always. Early January, Burke posted about how Opus 4.5 changed everything. We were all still buzzing from the holiday-season 2x usage bump Claude gave us, and Opus 4.5 felt like a genuine step function in capability. Burke and I get into all the details. Opus 4.5 may have started the fire, but GPT-5.3 Codex is certainly living up to the hype.

Red Hat introduces its first out and out AI platform

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Red Hat has been deploying AI in the enterprise for some time. For example, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) now

The post Red Hat introduces its first out and out AI platform appeared first on The New Stack.

Whistleblower: ICE Has Slashed Its Training Program And Its Boss Is Lying To Congress About It

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ICE can’t keep up with the baseline set by resident ghoul/White House advisor Stephen Miller. Miller has demanded 3,000 arrests per day, which he presented as the minimum he would be satisfied with. To reach this goal, tons of talent from other federal law enforcement agencies have been added to the mix. The results have […]

AI-Fueled Development Pushes Open-Source Risk to Extremes: Report

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Could Apple's OLED iPad Mini Finally Be a Kindle Killer?

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With a similar screen size and easy, one-handed grip, the iPad mini has always been the Apple device that overlaps most with dedicated e-readers. Now, amid rumors pointing to an OLED display for the next generation, could the ‌iPad mini‌ finally replace devices such as the Kindle and Kobo?


The shift from LCD to OLED could make the ‌iPad mini‌ far more appealing as a reading device. OLED panels allow each pixel to turn off individually, producing true blacks and extremely high contrast.

Text can appear sharper and more defined against a dark background, pa [...]

Apple Music Coming to Chocolate Bars

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Apple is working with German confectionary brand Ritter Sport to offer a unique Apple Music promotion.


The collaboration, branded as "Limited Edition Ritter Sport x ‌Apple Music‌," involves promoting iconic albums on Ritter Sport's iconic 100g square chocolate bars (via Macerkopf). There will be a QR code on the back of each bar that links directly to the album on ‌Apple Music‌ and provides a free trial subscription to the service.

Ritter Sport and ‌Apple Music‌ have selected five albums that have shaped German music history across different genres, including Cro's "RAOP," Marteria's "Happy for the Future II," Scorpions' "C [...]

Verizon Continues To Make Phone Unlocking Annoying (With The Trump FCC’s Help)

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Earlier this year we noted how the Trump FCC, at the direct request of wireless phone giants, destroyed popular phone unlocking rules making it easier and cheaper to switch wireless carriers. The rules, applied via spectrum acquisition and merger conditions after years of activism, required that Verizon unlock your phone within 60 days after purchase so […]

Daily Deal: The 2026 Microsoft Office Pro Bundle

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The 2026 Microsoft Office Pro Bundle has 8 courses to help you master essential Office skills. Courses cover Access, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and more. It’s on sale for $25. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all sales from Techdirt Deals helps support Techdirt. The products featured do […]

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir

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If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged that suing a small independent magazine over unflattering-but-accurate reporting would only guarantee that millions more people read it. And yet, here we are. […]

MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 17 and an Anti-Reflective Fresh Coat Screen Protector From Astropad

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For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Astropad to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an iPhone 17 and an anti-reflective Fresh Coat screen protector from Astropad to go along with it.


Fresh Coat is a screen protector that Astropad created with an optical-grade anti-reflective coating to reduce glare and provide a better iPhone viewing experience. The technology cuts reflections by 75 percent, while improving contrast and keeping colors vibrant. Unlike other anti- [...]

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Get $100 Off Apple Watch Series 11, Plus Save on iPhone 17 TechWoven Cases and More

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This week we tracked quite a few deals across numerous Apple products, including low prices on Apple Watch Series 11, AirPods Max, and iPhone 17 TechWoven cases, all of which are still available today. You'll also find great discounts on portable power stations and Samsung's new Galaxy S26 smartphones below.

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

Apple Watch Series 11

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Two More Studio Display 2 Upgrades Leaked in New Report

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Macworld's Filipe Espósito today again reported that Apple appears to be developing two new Studio Display models with different specs.


Based on lines of code in "internal Apple files," which likely refers to a macOS Tahoe Kernel Debug Kit that leaked online last year, Espósito continues to believe that both of the new Studio Display models will feature ProMotion, enabling up to a 120Hz refresh rate, as well as HDR support for increased brightness and dynamic range.

For the higher-end Studio Display, the report has revealed two more potential upgrades that had yet to be rumored until now, including superior speakers and more and/or higher-spec port [...]

Netflix cedes Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount: “No longer financially attractive”

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Netflix shares jumped following the announcement.

How to downgrade from macOS 26 Tahoe on a new Mac

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Most new Macs can still be downgraded with few downsides. Here's what to know.

Harness Readies Resilience Testing Platform to Make Applications More Robust

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Apple TV's Second-Largest Market Is Brazil, Says Eddy Cue

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Apple's SVP of services Eddy Cue has revealed that Brazil is Apple TV's second-largest market by subscriber count and its fastest-growing, in an interview with Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo (via 9to5Mac).


Speaking on the sidelines of Apple's recent media event in Santa Monica where the company previewed its 2026 content slate, Cue acknowledged that Apple has yet to produce any original [...]

Apple says it has "a big week ahead." Here's what we expect to see.

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Apple is taking an "ain't broke/don't fix" approach to most of its gadgets.

With Netflix Retreat, Trump Ally Larry Ellison Will Soon Own Warner Brothers, HBO, CNN, CBS, Paramount, Discovery, And Part Of TikTok

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Netflix has retreated from its protracted bidding war with Larry Ellison for control of Warner Brothers, giving the Trump ally likely control of Warner, CNN, and HBO. In a statement, Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said that Paramount’s latest offer made the acquisition financially irresponsible: “The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder […]

Apple Asks Judge to Toss Fraud Claims Over Siri AI, Epic Compliance

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Apple has asked a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit accusing the company of defrauding shareholders by overstating Siri's Apple Intelligence capabilities and misrepresenting its compliance with the Epic Games App Store injunction.


At WWDC in June 2024, Apple previewed two of Siri's most anticipated Apple Intelligence upgrades – personal context and onscreen awareness. The features were supposed to arrive as part of iOS 18 and were promoted the same year when launching the iPhone 16 models, but Apple is still working on them. In 2025, CEO Tim Cook acknowledged in 2025 that developing a "more personal" Siri was "taking a bit longer than we thought."

The delay led Apple to be accused in a March 2025 [...]

Blender iPad App Development Halted as Android Tablets Get Priority

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Blender's work on a native iPad version of its open source 3D creation suite has been shelved, according to the development team.


Back in July, Blender revealed that it was developing for iPad, with an iPad Pro version of its desktop software coming first, complete with a fully-featured multitouch interface and support for Apple Pencil Pro. No release date was announced at the time.

Now it doesn't look like that's about to happen anytime soon. In January, a status update appeared on Blender's GitHub page for iPad development saying that the project is on hold until further notice.

No reason for [...]

Netflix Walks Away From Warner Bros Deal, Paramount Set to Take Over

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Netflix has dropped out of the takeover battle for Warner Bros. Discovery, putting Paramount Skydance on course to win the whole WBD business.


The world's largest streaming service had been pegged to land a deal in which it would acquire Warner Bros., HBO, and HBO Max in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $72 billion in equity and $82.7 billion, including debt. But after Paramount submitted a final offer, valuing WBD at $111bn including debt, Netflix declined to match it.

In an announcement on Thursday, Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said:

The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder val

I Learned Traffic Optimization Before I Learned Cloud Computing. It Turns Out the Lessons Were the Same.

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Toxic combinations: when small signals add up to a security incident

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Minor misconfigurations or request anomalies often seem harmless in isolation. But when these small signals converge, they can trigger a security incident known as a toxic combination. Here’s how to spot the signs.

We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript

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The Web streams API has become ubiquitous in JavaScript runtimes but was designed for a different era. Here's what a modern streaming API could (should?) look like.

The most-seen UI on the Internet? Redesigning Turnstile and Challenge Pages

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We serve 7.6 billion challenges daily. Here’s how we used research, AAA accessibility standards, and a unified architecture to redesign the Internet’s most-seen user interface.

Bringing more transparency to post-quantum usage, encrypted messaging, and routing security

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Cloudflare Radar has added new tools for monitoring PQ adoption, KT logs for messaging, and ASPA routing records to track the Internet's migration toward more secure encryption and routing standards.

ASPA: making Internet routing more secure

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ASPA is the cryptographic upgrade for BGP that helps prevent route leaks by verifying the path network traffic takes. New features in Cloudflare Radar make tracking its adoption easy.

2 Months Into 2026 We Are Over Half 2025’s Total Count Of Measles Cases

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Measles. Yes, yes, I know you’re sick of hearing about it. For that, though, you must lay the blame at the feet of Donald Trump, RFK Jr., and this entire administration of clown-tools that isn’t bothering to do anything about what has become the worst continuous outbreak of the disease in America in several decades. […]

Ways to dramatically reduce Go binary size

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#​591 — February 27, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly

What's Coming in the M5 MacBook Air

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Along with the low-cost MacBook, Apple could introduce a refreshed version of the MacBook Air next week. Most of the focus will be on the new machine, but the ‌MacBook Air‌ is expected to get some useful internal updates.

M5 Chip

Razer Launches MagSafe-Compatible Laptop Sleeve for Charging Your iPhone and AirPods

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Razer today introduced a new 16-inch laptop sleeve that has an integrated wireless charging feature for smartphones and other small devices like earbuds. Priced at $130, the sleeve includes two MagSafe-compatible wireless charging zones, so it can charge an iPhone and AirPods at the same time.


The wireless charger is integrated into the top of the laptop sleeve, and the magnets serve as a clasp when the sleeve is closed and being used to transport a laptop. Power is delivered through a USB-C cable that can be plugged into a 30W+ power adapter or a Mac.

Charging speeds are limited to 15W, so you won't get full speed wireless chargin [...]

Apple-Supported Aliro 1.0 Smart Lock Standard Officially Released

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The Connectivity Standards Alliance, which includes Apple, today released the Aliro 1.0 specification. Aliro is a new standard aimed at improving the way that smart door locks work with smartphones and wearables.


Aliro supports interoperability between mobile devices, wearables, and access control readers, so smart locks can work with any smartphone or wearable device without the need for a dedicated app. It is aimed at improving smart locks for the home, but also for corporate offices, universities, and hotels.

Apple, Google, and Samsung support Aliro, and Aliro-enabled locks will be able to be added to wallet apps on iPhone and Android devices. Major smart home companies that produce smart locks have also signed on to support Aliro. The Alliance says that Ap [...]

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Let Fly The Claudes Of War, With Casey Newton

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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 […]

Apple Releases visionOS 26.3.1 to Fix Multiview Flicker Issue in Apple TV App

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Apple today released visionOS 26.3.1, a minor update to the visionOS 26 operating system. visionOS 26.3.1 comes two weeks after the launch of visionOS 26.3.


‌visionOS 26‌.3 can be downloaded on all Vision Pro headsets by navigating to the Settings app, selecting the General section, and choosing the Software Update option. To install an update, the Vision Pro headset needs to be removed, and there is a software progress bar available on the exterior EyeSight display.

According to Apple's release notes for the update, it fixes a flicker issue that could happen when watching sports content with MultiView in the Apple TV app.
This article, " [...]

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 238 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 238 includes fixes and updates for Animations, CSS, Editing, Forms, Networking, Rendering, Scrolling, SVG, Web API, Web Inspector, WebAssembly, and WebRTC.

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

New Low-Cost iPad Coming Next Week: What to Expect

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One of the new products that we could see next week is a refreshed version of the low-cost iPad. As with the iPad Air, we're not expecting major changes, but it is expected to get some meaningful internal upgrades.

Design

DRAM Shortage Will Cause 'Seismic Shift' in Smartphone Market, But Apple Will Be Less Affected

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Global memory scarcity will cause a 13 percent drop in smartphone sales in 2026, according to IDC (via Bloomberg). DRAM is in short supply because AI companies are buying huge quantities of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for servers in data centers, and manufacturers are prioritizing HBM instead of the memory used in consumer devices.


IDC says that the global memory supply has been drained into next year, putting smartphone makers in a tough spot. Prices have spiked because there's not enough memory to meet production needs, which will cause a smartphone market "crisis like no other."

Smartphone makers are expected to ship 1.1 billion devices in 2026, down from 1.26 billion in 20 [...]

From vibes to engineering: How AI agents outgrew their own terminology

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Andrej Karpathy probably didn’t set out to retire “vibe coding” just a year after popularizing it, but time and technological

The post From vibes to engineering: How AI agents outgrew their own terminology appeared first on The New Stack.

Malicious NPM Package Gets Downloaded 50K Times Before Discovery

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Apple Releases Xcode 26.3 With Support for AI Agents From Anthropic and OpenAI

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After several weeks of testing, Apple today released Xcode 26.3, an update that allows developers to use tools like Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex for app creation directly in Xcode.


With support for agentic coding, Xcode can complete more complex app development tasks autonomously. Apple worked with Anthropic and OpenAI to configure their agents for use in Xcode and to ensure that AI models can access a full range of Xcode features.

Agents are able to create new files, examine code structure of a project, build a project directly and run tests, take image snapshots to check their work, and access Apple's full, up-to-date developer documentation.

Along with OpenAI and Anthropic models, Xcode 26.3 is compatible with any agent or tool that uses the open standard Model Context Protocol. < [...]

Netdata is a seriously impressive server monitoring tool

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Every once in a while, I come across a tool that makes me lean back and go, “Wooo, that’s cool!”

The post Netdata is a seriously impressive server monitoring tool appeared first on The New Stack.

The agent pull request flood is here. If you run Istio, you’re halfway to solving it.

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Agentic workflows are rapidly accelerating the volume of pull requests, and validation is quickly becoming the most critical bottleneck. Teams

The post The agent pull request flood is here. If you run Istio, you’re halfway to solving it. appeared first on The New Stack.

Digital Transformation at Santander: How Platform Engineering is Revolutionizing Cloud Infrastructure

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Santander faced a significant technical challenge in managing an infrastructure that processes billions of daily transactions across more than 200 critical systems. The solution emerged through an innovative platform engineering initiative called Catalyst, which transformed the bank's cloud infrastructure and development management. This post analyzes the main cases, benefits, and results obtained with this initiative.

Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today

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Google's new image model replaces the previous versions immediately.

Google’s Nano Banana 2 promises Flash speeds with Pro results

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Google on Thursday launched the latest version of its Nano Banana image generation model, which promises to improve upon last

The post Google’s Nano Banana 2 promises Flash speeds with Pro results appeared first on The New Stack.

Using LLMs to amplify human labeling and improve Dash search relevance

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How we train Dash's search ranking models with a mix of human and LLM-assisted labeling.

Observability platform migration guide: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Fluent Bit

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Observability platform migrations are rarely simple. You’re still balancing risk (don’t break on-call), scope (don’t try to move everything at

The post Observability platform migration guide: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Fluent Bit appeared first on The New Stack

Security Flaws in Anthropic’s Claude Code Risk Stolen Data, System Takeover

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Why the secret to scaling AI isn’t a better model, it’s a simpler foundation

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A recent study from MIT’s NANDA initiative highlights a persistent challenge in enterprise AI adoption. Despite heavy investment and experimentation,

The post Why the secret to scaling AI isn’t a better model, it’s a simpler foundation appeared first on The New Stack.

Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI

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We are at an inflection point in enterprise IT. For the last decade, “modernization” has been synonymous with containerization —

The post Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI appeared first on The New Stack.

Claude Code Remote Control Keeps Your Agent Local and Puts it in Your Pocket

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Cursor Cloud Agents Get Their Own Computers — and 35% of Internal PRs to Prove It

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The Future of AI in Software Quality: How Autonomous Platforms are Transforming DevOps

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How OPA Changed Our Go-No-Go Forever

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The Great Infrastructure Migration: Why Teams are Moving From Manual Provisioning to Autonomous Platforms

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The Galaxy S26 is faster, more expensive, and even more chock-full of AI

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Samsung's Galaxy S26 series is available for preorder today and ships on March 11.

6,000 AWS accounts, three people, one platform: Lessons learned

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This post describes why ProGlove chose a account-per-tenant approach for our serverless SaaS architecture and how it changes the operational model. It covers the challenges you need to anticipate around automation, observability and cost. We will also discuss how the approach can affect other operational models in different environments like an enterprise context.

WebAssembly is everywhere. Here’s how it works

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If you’re familiar with building web applications in the last few years, you’ve probably heard of WebAssembly (Wasm). And if

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VAST Data tackles the enterprise AI trust gap

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The biggest obstacle to shipping AI agents in the enterprise isn’t model quality. It’s trust. Or at least that’s the

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RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

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RAM represented about 15 to 18 percent of PC costs last quarter, HP said.

The Linux Foundation reveals the “ugly” secret of how open source is draining your budget

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Companies actively investing in open source are seeing massive returns, while those treating it as “freeware” are drowning in technical

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In the driver’s seat: How Google Conductor AI actually stays under control

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Google wants to give developers a comprehensive, functional AI software development toolkit. As such, this month the company has added

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What happens to a database when the user is an AI agent

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In the past, we judged enterprise databases by how useful they were to people like us. We rated them on

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WBD says Paramount’s new higher offer could be “superior” to Netflix's

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WBD's board is still reviewing the offer.

Anthropic accelerates its Cowork enterprise play

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When it’s not distracted by negotiations with the Pentagon, Anthropic’s focus has long been on the enterprise. On Tuesday, it

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Databases weren’t built for agent sprawl – SurrealDB wants to fix it

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AI agents don’t slot neatly into the way enterprise data stacks were designed. A typical agent needs transactional state (e.g.,

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RCCLX: Innovating GPU Communications on AMD Platforms

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We are open-sourcing the initial version of RCCLX – an enhanced version of RCCL that we developed and tested on Meta’s internal workloads. RCCLX is fully integrated with Torchcomms and aims to empower researchers and developers to accelerate innovation, regardless of their chosen backend. Communication patterns for AI models are constantly evolving, as are hardware [...]

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