Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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A look at the OpenClaw craze in China: AI labs launch tools to help users set up OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts policies to support AI agents, and more (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
A look at the OpenClaw craze in China: AI labs launch tools to help users set up OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts policies to support AI agents, and more  —  Chinese software shares surged Monday after local government agencies joined tech leaders such as Tencent Holdings Ltd …

Advice to developers: make software that agents want, with API-first design, as AI agents, instead of humans, will become the primary users of future software (Aaron Levie/@levie)

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Aaron Levie / @levie:
Advice to developers: make software that agents want, with API-first design, as AI agents, instead of humans, will become the primary users of future software  —  Building for trillions of agents — Over the past few months, something big has started to happen with agents.

US’ breakthrough study reveals electric field can increase heat flow by nearly 300%

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Scientists in the United States have discovered an electric field method to improve heat flow...

Kalshi is trying to broaden its user base via targeted marketing, enlisting female influencers and others; 26% of users now are women, up from 13% in May 2025 (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
Kalshi is trying to broaden its user base via targeted marketing, enlisting female influencers and others; 26% of users now are women, up from 13% in May 2025  —  Kalshi wants to get more young women interested in the prediction-market plat

The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B+ on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

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Miles Kruppa / The Information:
The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B+ on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies  —  The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend more than $300 billion on data centers, chips and other AI investments …

Tim Cook Says Two Things Matter Most at Apple Ahead of Company's 50th Anniversary

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CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue interviewed Apple's CEO Tim Cook ahead of the company's 50th anniversary on April 1, 2026.


In the interview, Cook revealed the two things that are "essential" to Apple: people and culture.

"Yes, we have a lot of intellectual property and so forth, and that is important, but it's people that create that intellectual property," said Cook. "It's the culture that creates the innovation with the intellectual property."

"I think it's very difficult to replicate culture," added Cook. "It takes a long time, because you have to hire the right people. And then those people have to hire the right people, and you have to build a complete organization."
[...]

UK engineers develop world’s first blockchain-based ‘black box’ system for drones

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A team of student engineers from the University of Southampton has achieved a significant technological...

How some candidates for the US midterms are using social media posts and niche buzzwords on their websites to signal for support from crypto and AI super PACs (New York Times)

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New York Times:
How some candidates for the US midterms are using social media posts and niche buzzwords on their websites to signal for support from crypto and AI super PACs  —  The A.I. and crypto industries entered this year with nearly $250 million combined to spend on polit

UK firm’s 98% efficient hybrid transmission motor delivers record breaking performance

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A London-based company has unveiled a new high-efficiency hybrid transmission motor. With industry-leading efficiency of...

Archaeologists find first contextual evidence of Sudan’s King Arthur’s existence

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The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw made an astonishing discovery...

Asteroids with small moons can exchange rocks and dust in slow, gentle collisions

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Far from being static, binary asteroid systems are surprisingly dynamic. A team led by the...

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review)

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Harvard Business Review:
A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause “AI brain fry”, a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity  —  On New Year's Day, programmer Steve Yegge launched Gas Town, an open-source platform that lets users orchestrate swarms …

Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

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Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks  —  Ask about this article...  Like Google's Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 1.5, Uni-1 is built on an autoregressive transformer …

How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

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Emily Mason / Bloomberg:
How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical  —  Circle Internet Group Inc. and Stripe Inc. are racing to build payments systems for a world that doesn't exist yet …

Rethinking And Refreshing Techdirt’s Weekend Posts: We Want Your Feedback

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For many years now we’ve had two regular posts that come out on the weekends: our This Week In Techdirt History posts on Saturdays, and our Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week posts on Sundays. Sometimes we switch it up a little bit, replacing the history post with a special promotion or (as will be […]

The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of ill-informed decisions remains high (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of ill-informed decisions remains high  —  Intelligence, targeting and damage assessments are accelerating thanks to military versions of software now remaking business and daily life

Vibe code full-stack apps fast with TanStack Start

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It’s no secret that it’s gotten significantly easier to build applications in the last few years. And vibe coding is

The post Vibe code full-stack apps fast with TanStack Start appeared first on The New Stack.

China’s new quantum dot emitter produces ultra-pure photon pairs for quantum networks

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Over the past decade, researchers have become good at creating devices that emit single photons...

A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia  —  Over the past few months, several countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens.

OpenAI hardware chief resigns after AI models deployed on Pentagon’s classified networks

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OpenAI’s hardware lead, Caitlin Kalinowski, said she has stepped down from the company after raising...

ZyG, whose software coordinates AI agents across SEO, marketing, and more for DTC brands, raised a $58M seed co-led by Bessemer, Viola Ventures, and Lightspeed (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
ZyG, whose software coordinates AI agents across SEO, marketing, and more for DTC brands, raised a $58M seed co-led by Bessemer, Viola Ventures, and Lightspeed  —  When it comes to product innovation, global brands have an enormous advantage over smaller companies thanks to their massive scale &hell

Why is your Kubernetes cluster adding nodes when the dashboards look fine?

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Kubernetes has always been sensitive to bad inputs. What’s changed is how often teams are running into it. As more bursty workloads—especially inference—land on Kubernetes, a familiar

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Apple Planning 'MacBook Ultra' With Touchscreen and Higher Price

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Apple is planning to launch an all-new "MacBook Ultra" model this year, featuring an OLED display, touchscreen, and a higher price point, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.


Gurman revealed the information in his latest "Power On" newsletter. While Apple has been widely expected to launch new M6-series MacBook Pro models with OLED displays, touchscreen functionality, and a new, thinner design in the fourth quarter of 2026 for some time, Gurman today tur [...]

Apple Hoping to 3D-Print More Products

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Apple is hoping to 3D-print aluminum device enclosures in the future, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


In today's "Power On" newsletter, Gurman revealed that Apple is pushing to move to 3D-printed aluminum enclosures for for future devices. The MacBook Neo relies on a new aluminum manufacturing process that saves as much metal as possible to drive down costs and speed up production.

3D-printing aluminum enclosures would similarly enable [...]

MacBook Neo 2 Could Feature Touchscreen

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Apple's second-generation MacBook Neo will launch in 2027 and could feature a touchscreen, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.


Apple this week announced the ‌MacBook Neo‌, an all-new entry-level Apple laptop that starts at $599, with education pricing at $499. The ‌‌MacBook Neo‌‌ is designed to compete with lower-cost Windows laptops and Chromebooks, while expanding the Mac lineup with a substantially more affordable option.

Unlike every other Apple silicon Mac, the ‌‌MacBook Neo‌‌ is powered by the A18 Pro chip originally developed for the [...]

Apple Watch Series 11 Hits All-Time Low Prices on Amazon With $100 Off Nearly Every Aluminum Model

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Amazon this weekend has all-time low prices on the Apple Watch Series 11, with $100 discounts across numerous models of the smartwatch. We first started tracking the return of these deals last month, but this sale has now expanded with many more options on both 42mm and 46mm GPS models.

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.

You can get the 42mm GPS Apple Watch Series 11 for [...]

MacBook Neo thoughts, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via "Ultra" products; sources say Apple wants to use aluminum 3D-printing for Watch and iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
MacBook Neo thoughts, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via “Ultra” products; sources say Apple wants to use aluminum 3D-printing for Watch and iPhone  —  Apple has taken the wraps off its $599 MacBook Neo, entering new territory in a way that could shake u

Apple 'HomePad' to Offer Magnetic Snap-to-Wall Feature and More

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Apple's upcoming "HomePad" will offer a magnetic snap-to-wall feature and more, according to the leaker and prototype collector known as "Kosutami."


In a new post on X, Kosutami said that one of the HomePad prototypes features a MagSafe-like snap-to-wall capability, along with doorbell integration. It is said to be heavily reliant on Apple Intelligence. They apparently saw this prototype in person.

Apple has reportedly been working on the device for several years, with the aim for it to serve as a centralized loca [...]

Apple Still Has More New Macs Planned for 2026

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Apple is planning more Mac refreshes for the rest of the year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman writes.


In the latest edition of his "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that, following the introduction of the M5 MacBook Air, M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro, and ‌MacBook Pro‌, Apple is preparing for further Mac refreshes to complete the 2026 lineup.

These include an upgraded [...]

Apple Could Launch Three New 'Ultra' Devices This Year

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Apple is planning to launch at least three new "Ultra"-class devices this year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Writing in this weekend's "Power On" newsletter, Gurman explained that while the low-end of Apple's product lineups are now well-served by the Apple Watch SE, iPad 11, and MacBook Neo, there is "a more significant shift underway" toward higher-end, "Ultra" devices. Apple is planning to lau [...]

Snowflake Cortex Code CLI adds dbt and Apache Airflow support for AI-powered data pipelines

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Snowflake Cortex Code CLI, Snowflake’s coding agent that was announced at the end of February, recently added support for dbt

The post Snowflake Cortex Code CLI adds dbt and Apache Airflow support for AI-powered data pipelines appeared first on The New Stack.

2026 iMac Rumored to Come in New Colors

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Apple's upcoming 2026 iMac will be available in a refreshed selection of colors, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.


In today's "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that the next ‌iMac‌ will feature a new selection of colors. This could be the first true refresh of the device's color options in five years.

The ‌iMac‌ redesign introduced in 2021 uses a distinctive two-tone color design, where the color appears differently on the front and back of t [...]

A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can facilitate academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv (Elizabeth Gibney/Nature)

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Elizabeth Gibney / Nature:
A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can facilitate academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv  —  - Elizabeth Gibney  —  Search author on:  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  All major large language models (LLMs) …

Rare ‘return hoard’ of 409 Russian Revolution gold coins found beneath historic house

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Archaeologists have discovered one of the most significant hoards from the Russian Revolution buried beneath...

Fuel free interplanetary travel? ‘Photonic crystal’ sail could help laser beams push spacecraft

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Researchers from Tuskegee University, Alabama, have developed a new photonic crystal (a kind of nanostructured...

High-temperature superconducting dome ‘breakthrough’ mapped in nickelate crystals

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Physicists hunting for new superconductors often look for a very specific shape hidden in their...

A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

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Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic  —  Emil Michael made his name in Silicon Valley a decade ago as an aggressive dealmaker for a startup — Uber Technologies Inc. …

German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100M led by Prosus, a source says at a $900M valuation; Flink was reportedly valued at $5B in May 2022 (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

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Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg:
German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100M led by Prosus, a source says at a $900M valuation; Flink was reportedly valued at $5B in May 2022  —  Flink SE raised funds in a round that values the firm at $900 million, in a sign that the grocery delivery startup has stabilized …

Apple Adds Three Executives to Leadership Page

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Apple on Friday added three new executive profiles to its leadership page for Jennifer Newstead, Molly Anderson, and Steve Lemay.

• Jennifer Newstead, Senior Vice President and General Counsel: Newstead is Apple's top lawyer, overseeing all legal matters. She assumed the position on March 1, succeeding Katherine Adams, who had held the position since 2017. Prior to joining Apple, Newstead served as Meta's chief legal officer for six years.


• Molly Anderson, Vice President of Industrial Design: Anderson and

Apple's Strange TikTok Videos Capturing Gen Z's Attention

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Apple is promoting the MacBook Neo with a series of intentionally strange TikTok videos that are successfully capturing Gen Z's attention.


Since Thursday, Apple has been posting the videos in sets of three, with each video corresponding to one of the MacBook Neo's Blush, Citrus, and Indigo color options. The laptop also comes in Silver, so there may be a final set of videos tomorrow.

Some of the videos show a lemon receiving a FaceTime call from a lime, the Mac's Finder app icon blushing, and iconic footage from the original Macintosh's introduction in 1984. Other videos are more abstract, with one showing citrus fruit in fizzy water and another [...]

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

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Five Years Ago This week in 2021, while AT&T was apparently committed to being comically hypocritical about Section 230, Utah was prematurely trying to dance on 230’s grave with a new and extremely horrible “free speech” bill that was a disaster in the making, and we had Ron Wyden and Chris Cox on the Techdirt […]

Related to your interests - Week of March 2nd, 2025

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The Links

Claude, without me asking, rewrote many of my original description below. Enjoy!

• Pentagon Leverages AI in Iran Strikes Amid Feud With Anthropic - One artillery unit doing the work of 2,000 staff with a team of just 20 people. Anthropic didn’t want their model used for this; the Pentagon used it anyway. The future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed between PR statements and actual weapons targeting.

• Anthropic’s Pentagon Feud Accelerates Push Into Consumer Market - Claude’s free active users grew 60%+ and daily signups grew 4x since the start of the year. Apparently nothing boosts consumer signups like a military controversy.

New Presentation

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I just gave a new presentation at SCALE titled The Wonderful World of WAL. I am excited to have a second new talk this year. (I have one more queued up.)

I have always wanted to do a presentation about the write-ahead log (WAL) but I was worried there was not enough content for a full talk. As more features were added to Postgres that relied on the WAL, the talk became more feasible, and at 103 slides, maybe I waited too long.

I had a full

NanoClaw can stuff each AI agent into its own Docker container to deal with OpenClaw’s security mess

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On the one hand, I feel a bit conflicted pointing out the recognised security issues with OpenClaw, even as serious

The post NanoClaw can stuff each AI agent into its own Docker container to deal with OpenClaw’s security mess appeared first on The New Stack.

Is AI killing open-source software?

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“It’s complicated” can be used to describe relationships and how AI works — or doesn’t — with open source development.

The post Is AI killing open-source software? appeared first on The New Stack.

Open-source coding agents like OpenCode, Cline, and Aider are solving a huge headache for developers

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AI coding agents are proliferating, but the economics of running large language models (LLMs) are breaking down as developers juggle

The post Open-source coding agents like OpenCode, Cline, and Aider are solving a huge headache for developers appeared first on The New Stack.

OpenAI GPT-5.4 launches, AI gets its own jobs report, Claude surges after U.S. ban

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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.

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

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

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

Pre-Order Discounts

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

Top Stories: MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e, Studio Display XDR, and More

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What a week for Apple news! Across Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week, Apple unveiled a total of seven new products, including low-cost iPhone and MacBook options, new displays, and refreshes for the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iPad Air.


Check out our recap with links to all of our coverage from the three days, and read on below for details on each of the new products!

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Apple Announces $599 'MacBook Neo' With A18 Pro Chip

Iceland Foods Finally Surrenders In Trademark Fight With Iceland, The Country

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The ten year war over Iceland is over and Iceland has come out the victor. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, be prepared to listen to a whole bunch of stupid. In 2016, we wrote about Iceland Foods, a UK grocer, which had somehow convinced the EU to give it a trademark for […]

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI

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About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron—a story about a dystopian society that enforces “equality” by handicapping anyone who excels—and the AI detection tool […]

Utah’s Proposal To Tax Online Pornography Is A Civil Liberties Disaster Waiting To Happen

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Republican lawmakers in Utah have long been on the cutting edge of shitty policymaking when it comes to regulating the internet. The latest chapter in that legacy is a proposed tax on porn and adult content purchased in the state’s digital space. Originally proposed by a pair of Republican lawmakers in the Utah state legislature […]

OutSystems CEO on how enterprises can successfully adopt vibe coding

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Everybody is building AI agents. But the enterprises actually shipping them to production are learning that an agent on its

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Anthropic and OpenAI are battling for the best open-source maintainers

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The open-source maintainer sits at the center of the modern software ecosystem, with the libraries they build often deep within

The post Anthropic and OpenAI are battling for the best open-source maintainers appeared first on The New Stack.

iPhone 17e Benchmarks Reveal A19 Chip Performance With a Tiny Catch

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The first benchmarks for the iPhone 17e surfaced in the Geekbench 6 database today, offering a closer look at the A19 chip's performance.


For multi-core CPU performance, the highest score the iPhone 17e achieved so far is 9,241. As expected, this is nearly identical to the standard iPhone 17 model with the A19 chip, which has an average multi-core score of 9,249.

There is one tiny catch, as the iPhone 17e has a 4-core GPU, whereas the iPhone 17 has a 5-core GPU. With one fewer GPU core, the iPhone 17e obviously has slightly lower graphics performance, with the device achieving Metal scores of around 31,000 to 31,500 in [...]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

Oregon Federal Judge Says ICE’s Warrantless Arrests Are Illegal

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

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

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

The post Long-term support for Linux releases gets a new lease on life appeared first on The New Stack.

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

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

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

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The MacRumors Show: Apple Announces MacBook Neo and More

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

Apple Discontinued These 15 Products This Week

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MacBook Neo: Here's Which Models Are Selling Out

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


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

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

• 256GB/Blush: March 16 — March 23


• 256GB/Citrus: March 11


• 256GB/Indigo: March 11


• 256GB/Silver: Marc

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

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

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When to use AI for writing, and when it's totally acceptable

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

From: “LLMs Are Antithetical to Writing and Humanity”

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

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

How about work that isn’t bullshit?

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

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

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

How Go 1.26 stack allocation optimizations beat hand-optimized code

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Problems viewing products and checking out.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro

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

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Survey Sees DevOps Workflows Evolving in the Age of AI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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How Automatic Return Routing solves IP overlap

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

A QUICker SASE client: re-building Proxy Mode

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

Why enterprise software development needs air traffic control

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

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Google and Epic announce settlement to end app store antitrust case

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

AerynOS is a Linux distribution geared toward performance and bulletproof updates

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

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OpenAI’s Codex is now on Windows

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

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Codenotary Previews AI Platform to Autonomously Detect and Remediate IT Issues

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?

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

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

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

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Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion

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