Sauce Labs wants to solve an AI-created problem nobody wanted to work on

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AI code-generation tools have compressed software development cycles, but testing hasn’t kept up. Sauce Labs thinks it has found an

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Israeli startup Raven, which offers runtime monitoring and intervention in attacks as they unfold inside applications, raised a $20M seed (CTech)

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CTech:
Israeli startup Raven, which offers runtime monitoring and intervention in attacks as they unfold inside applications, raised a $20M seed  —  The Israeli startup aims to secure applications at runtime as threats accelerate.  —  Cybersecurity startup Raven has raised $20 million …

Paraform, which connects tech companies with specialized recruiters, raised a $40M Series B led by Scale VP (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

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Natalie Breymeyer / Axios:
Paraform, which connects tech companies with specialized recruiters, raised a $40M Series B led by Scale VP  —  Paraform, a platform that connects tech companies with specialized recruiters, raised a $40 million Series B, CEO John Kim tells Axios exclusively.

The UK government withdraws a proposal to let AI companies train on copyrighted works, unless creators opt out, after a backlash from artists like Dua Lipa (Graham Fraser/BBC)

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Graham Fraser / BBC:
The UK government withdraws a proposal to let AI companies train on copyrighted works, unless creators opt out, after a backlash from artists like Dua Lipa  —  The UK government has backtracked on its position on copyright and AI, stating it must take time to “get this right”.

Beautiful.ai, which makes AI tools to design presentation slides, raised $45M in non-dilutive financing from GC's Customer Value Fund and says it is profitable (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Chris Metinko / Axios:
Beautiful.ai, which makes AI tools to design presentation slides, raised $45M in non-dilutive financing from GC's Customer Value Fund and says it is profitable  —  Beautiful.ai, a presentation software startup, has taken a $45 million non-dilutive financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund …

Sources: Kraken has paused its IPO plans, amid the downturn in crypto markets since October, and may revisit a listing when market conditions improve (CoinDesk)

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CoinDesk:
Sources: Kraken has paused its IPO plans, amid the downturn in crypto markets since October, and may revisit a listing when market conditions improve  —  Kraken's parent company filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC in November regarding the proposed initial public offering

Komodor Extends Reach of AI SRE Orchestration Framework

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Advanced Navigation, which makes AI-assisted hardware to let ships and aircraft navigate even when GPS is jammed, raised a $110M Series C at a $1B+ valuation (Stuart Condie/Wall Street Journal)

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Stuart Condie / Wall Street Journal:
Advanced Navigation, which makes AI-assisted hardware to let ships and aircraft navigate even when GPS is jammed, raised a $110M Series C at a $1B+ valuation  —  Advanced Navigation builds artificial intelligence-assisted hardware that prov

Capital One deprecated an AI tool it once championed. Its DevEx chief says that’s the point.

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How could you possibly ensure you are providing the right tools and processes to 14,000 engineers? How do you even

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RunSybil, whose AI agent runs continuous autonomous penetration testing on live apps to find and document vulnerabilities, raised $40M led by Khosla Ventures (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

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Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
RunSybil, whose AI agent runs continuous autonomous penetration testing on live apps to find and document vulnerabilities, raised $40M led by Khosla Ventures  —  RunSybil, an AI cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to automatically hack co

Google, iVerify, and Lookout researchers discover DarkSword, a hacking tool used by Russia-sponsored and other hackers to target iOS 18 via Ukrainian websites (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Google, iVerify, and Lookout researchers discover DarkSword, a hacking tool used by Russia-sponsored and other hackers to target iOS 18 via Ukrainian websites  —  A powerful iPhone-hacking technique known as DarkSword has been discovered in use by Russian hackers.

300 million flight hours later, GE Aerospace refines its most advanced jet engine

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Thirty years ago, GE Aerospace transformed commercial aviation with a material swap that most passengers...

Stripe and Paradigm-backed blockchain startup Tempo launch the Machine Payments Protocol, which uses Tempo's new blockchain to handle AI agents' transactions (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Stripe and Paradigm-backed blockchain startup Tempo launch the Machine Payments Protocol, which uses Tempo's new blockchain to handle AI agents' transactions  —  The fintech giant Stripe along with Tempo, a blockchain startup incubated by the payments company as well as the venture firm Paradigm …

Investigation: the US FedRAMP authorized Microsoft service GCC High to handle sensitive government data in 2024, despite years of concerns about its security (ProPublica)

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ProPublica:
Investigation: the US FedRAMP authorized Microsoft service GCC High to handle sensitive government data in 2024, despite years of concerns about its security  —  Zero Trust: Inside Microsoft's Cybersecurity Failures  —  Reporting Highlights  — “Cloud First”: To move federal agencies to the cloud …

US’ nuclear firm gets safety design approval for isotope reactor initiative

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A California-based company has reached an important milestone in its advanced nuclear energy development efforts....

Israeli startup Tenzai says its AI hacking agent beat 99% of 125K participants at six competitions, using tailored OpenAI and Anthropic models and costing $5K (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

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Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Israeli startup Tenzai says its AI hacking agent beat 99% of 125K participants at six competitions, using tailored OpenAI and Anthropic models and costing $5K  —  An Israeli startup let its AI loose in advanced cyber games.  It did better than 125,000 humans.

Jensen Huang dismisses social media criticism of DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, asserting that claims that the generative AI tech homogenizes games are "completely wrong" (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

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Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:
Jensen Huang dismisses social media criticism of DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, asserting that claims that the generative AI tech homogenizes games are “completely wrong”  —  The CEO says artistic control remains with developers. … At a pr

Sources: Apple stops vibe coding apps from pushing updates, citing rules on running code; Replit thinks Apple may approve opening AI-generated apps in a browser (The Information)

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The Information:
Sources: Apple stops vibe coding apps from pushing updates, citing rules on running code; Replit thinks Apple may approve opening AI-generated apps in a browser  —  Apple has quietly prevented AI vibe coding apps such as Replit and Vibecode, which help people create games and other applications …

US clears flying taxis for limited use as FAA launches nationwide pilot program

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The grind towards operational, commercial flying taxis might finally come to an end this summer....

US likely deploying more radar aircraft to Middle East amid Iran’s drone, missile threat

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A group of U.S. Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft appears to be rapidly deploying toward...

Sources: Fluidstack withdraws from a €10B, 1GW AI data center project in Bosquel, France, and a Mistral-tied project south of Paris, as it pivots toward the US (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

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Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Sources: Fluidstack withdraws from a €10B, 1GW AI data center project in Bosquel, France, and a Mistral-tied project south of Paris, as it pivots toward the US  —  Cloud-computing startup Fluidstack Ltd. has pulled out of a high-profile €10 billion ($11.5 billion) …

Introducing Custom Regions for precision data control

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We are expanding Regional Services with new pre-defined regions and the launch of Custom Regions. Customers can now define precise geographical boundaries for data processing, tailored to meet their compliance and performance needs.

US’ new CRAFT tech allows real-time control of 3D-printed material strength, durability

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Researchers have unveiled a technology called CRAFT — Lithographic Crystallinity Regulation in Additive Fabrication of...

World’s first quantum battery prototype built, charges faster as it gets larger

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Researchers at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University in Australia, along with those at...

The EU unveils EU Inc., a single bloc-wide proposal that lets companies incorporate in 48 hours, to help European startups compete with US and Chinese rivals (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The EU unveils EU Inc., a single bloc-wide proposal that lets companies incorporate in 48 hours, to help European startups compete with US and Chinese rivals  —  The European Union has unveiled a red-tape-cutting plan dubbed “EU Inc.” to boost the emergence of companies that could compete on the world stage with US and

Pete Hegseth: We Can’t Wait For Larry Ellison To Turn CNN Into Another Right Wing Propaganda Mill

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We’ve noted repeatedly how the U.S. authoritarian right is buying up all of our new and old media companies because they’re trying to mimic what Viktor Orban created in Hungary. Namely, a media where all the major outlets are owned by rich autocratic allies, who spew propaganda 24/7 while the government strangles real, independent journalism […]

New fully compostable robot survives over 1 million uses then disappears in soil

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Global electronic waste reached approximately 62 million metric tons in 2022, with soft robots—widely applied...

Scaling Btrfs to petabytes in production: a 74% cost reduction story

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At Chronosphere, we saved 74% of our storage costs by moving petabytes of time-series data from ext4 to Btrfs, the

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US Navy’s USS Tortuga warship returns to sea after 10 years for major system tests

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The USS Tortuga (LSD-46) has returned to sea for the first time in nearly a...

Why your observability bill keeps growing (and it’s not your vendor’s fault)

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Over the past year, I have spoken with dozens of engineering teams about their observability pipelines and analyzed their production

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US 3D printing breakthrough could speed approval of next-gen nuclear reactor parts

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New research led by the US Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) could speed up approval of...

South Korean firm unveils robotic hand with human-scale dexterity at under 2 lb

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Robotic brains have reached near-genius levels, but their hands remain clumsy. Most robots still struggle...

Policy as Code for Cost Control, Not Just Compliance

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Full Circle: Katie Perry Gets Her Trademark Back In Australia, Court Says No Risk Of Confusion

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It’s been a long and winding road to mostly get us right back to where we started in the battle between pop star Katy Perry and Aussie clothing designer Katie Perry. If you’re not familiar with this saga, here is a brief summary. Note that I will be mostly using only Katy and Katie when […]

Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The Trump administration is loosening restrictions on the sharing of law enforcement information with the CIA and other intelligence agencies, officials said, overriding controls that have been in place for decades to protect the privacy of U.S. citizens. Government officials said the changes could give the […]

Techdirt Podcast Episode 446: Mike & Karl Talk AI

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Support us on Patreon » There’s a notion that pops up in the comments here on Techdirt that Mike and our writer Karl Bode are deeply opposed in their opinions on AI and engaged in an epic ongoing debate. Alas, the truth is a little less spectacular: while they might have some differences of opinion here […]

Ranking Engineer Agent (REA): The Autonomous AI Agent Accelerating Meta’s Ads Ranking Innovation

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Meta’s Ranking Engineer Agent (REA) autonomously executes key steps across the end-to-end machine learning (ML) lifecycle for ads ranking models. This post covers REA’s ML experimentation capabilities: autonomously generating hypotheses, launching training jobs, debugging failures, and iterating on results. Future posts will cover additional REA capabilities. REA reduces the need for manual intervention. It manages [...]

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Chainguard thinks most DevOps teams are solving container security the hard way

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Chainguard OS is great, but what if you want to customize your own Linux? Now, with the Chainguard OS Package,

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The SAFE Act Is An Imperfect Vehicle For Real Section 702 Reform

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The SAFE act, introduced by Senators Mike Lee and Dick Durbin, is the first of many likely proposals we will see to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2008—and while imperfect, it does propose a litany of real and much-needed reforms of Big Brother’s favorite surveillance authority.  The irresponsible 2024 […]

OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 mini and nano are built for the subagent era

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On Tuesday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and nano, two smaller models designed for tasks that agentic AI systems delegate: codebase searches,

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WebMCP turns any Chrome web page into an MCP server for AI agents

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About two weeks ago, I posted about websites returning Markdown to make life easier for AI agents. While agents are already quite

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GitHub Copilot’s effect on collaboration has stunned researchers

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Generative AI tools like GitHub Copilot are not just speeding up coding; they are quietly rewiring how software developers divide

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DOJ Prosecutors Somehow Manage To Secure Terrorism Convictions Against Anti-ICE Protesters

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The DOJ is filled with grossly incompetent prosecutors these days. It’s a bunch of subservients acting in obeisance to the zenith of gross incompetence: the current President of the United States. When not being sidelined by judges for not being legally appointed, the handpicked losers of Trump’s DOJ Revenge Squad are being shut out by […]

Daily Deal: The Academy of Game Art Bundle

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The Academy of Game Art Bundle teaches you the basics of how to create video game art. You’ll learn how to use Inkscape to create logos, 2D backgrounds, pre-defined modules, UI designs, and characters. A course on using DragonBones will teach you how to animate your characters as well. The bundle is on sale for […]

How we optimized Dash's relevance judge with DSPy

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We used DSPy to turn prompt engineering for our relevance judge into a measurable, automated optimization loop, improving task performance, cost, and how reliably it works in production.

The security hole that every enterprise AI deployment has (but nobody looks for)

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The anti-automation glitterati may now be preparing for a new swathe of naysaying as agentic AI services are brought to

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DOGE Didn’t Cut Government Waste. It Was Government Waste.

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Look, I get it. Government waste is real. Bureaucratic bloat is real. The desire to have a federal government that spends taxpayer money wisely and operates without unnecessary friction? That’s a pretty standard and quite reasonable desire in American politics. So when Elon Musk showed up promising he could cut $2 trillion in federal spending […]

After three months, Samsung is ending sales of the $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold

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Samsung didn't offer an explanation for its decision, but it's not exactly a surprise.

What is KubeVirt and why it’s growing

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KubeVirt is an open-source project that brings virtual machines into the Kubernetes control plane, letting teams run VMs and containers

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Harness Extends AI Security Reach Across Entire DevOps Workflow

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Switch 2's new "Handheld Mode Boost" can run original Switch games at 1080p

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Switch games running at 720p can look worse on the Switch 2's 1080p display.

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: Private and performant

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If you want to spend $1,300 on a phone, it might as well be this one.

The AI blind spot debt: the hidden cost killing your innovation strategy

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In today’s AI rush, I’ve seen even the most disciplined organizations find it nearly impossible to enforce the hard-won lessons

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Sauce Labs Makes AI Agent for Creating and Running Tests Available

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Firefighting drones head to Aspen—can they suppress a blaze before humans arrive?

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Seneca's drones carry foam, fly at night, and don't need an on-site pilot.

Managed OpenClaw bids to kill hidden token tax on AI agents

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Featherless is a serverless platform specialist that provides API-based access to open-source AI models via a supporting infrastructure. The concept

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Why agentic AI stalls in production — and how a control plane fixes it

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For SREs, platform engineers, and AI/ML teams, agentic AI makes many promises that are hard to ignore. Autonomous agents that

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Brendan Carr Pretends To Be Tough, Demands Broadcasters Support Disastrous War

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Brendan Carr is once again doing Brendan Carr stuff. Carr has threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of broadcasters that tell the truth about Trump’s disastrous war in Iran. In a post over at Elon Musk’s right wing propaganda website, Carr insists that news outlets that are “running hoaxes and news distortions” (read: telling the […]

Your database is about to become an AI tool. Is it ready?

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For 25 years, I’ve watched the database sit behind layers of protection: firewalls, VPNs, connection poolers, role-based access, and even

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From monolith to global mesh: How Uber standardized ML at scale

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Introduction: the scaling wall In 2015, Uber’s growth was outpacing its infrastructure. As the company evolved from a luxury car

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Java 26 Arrives With AI Integration and a New Ecosystem Portfolio — What It Means for DevOps Teams

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AI Brain Fry, Zombie Projects, and Gentleman Vibe Coders - Related to your interests, Monday

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KubeCon EU is next week, in Amsterdam, and I’m talking at VMUG Amsterdam tomorrow about what private equity does to enterprise software companies. If you’re at RAI, come say hi. AI might have written some of the below; we’re still working on keeping it under control for “helpful” content generation.

Related to your interests

• When Using AI Leads to Brain Fry - In my experience, it’s not so much AI doing this as AI being a tool that makes people so productive that they experience getting a lot of shit done. Being hyper-productive is exhausting, but in a good way like (so I am told) exercising is exhausting but ultimately “good.” // Related: ‘AI brain fry’ affects employees managing too many agents - Those who reported having to maintain a high degree of AI oversight reported spending 14 percent more mental ene

Making AI Write Android Code Our Way: A Practical Guide to Agent Skills

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Turning knowledge into reusable AI agent instructions for a small, fast-moving team.

We're a small Android team at Medium, just a handful of engineers maintaining and evolving the Medium Android app. Our codebase follows Clean Architecture with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Hilt, Apollo GraphQL, and a growing number of feature modules. Like most Android teams, we have strong opinions about how code should be structured: where ViewModels get their data, how analytics events flow, how feature flags are checked, what a "new screen" looks like from Fragment to preview function.

The problem? Those opinions lived in PR review comments, Slack threads, and the heads of engineers who'd been around long enough to know the patterns. When AI coding assistants arrived, they could generate Kotlin code but not our Kotlin code. The output was gener

The Temu People Asked A Sports Reporter To Not Use Its Name As Shorthand For Crap Quality

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Normally, a post about the signing of an NFL free agent wouldn’t make it anywhere near these here Techdirt pages. Today, that is not the case. The site For The Win posted a mildly interesting report on the Tennessee Titans signing wide receiver Wan’Dale Robinson to a 4 year, $78 million contract. But wait, you’re […]

Nvidia brings together AI labs to build the next generation of open base models

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Nvidia on Monday announced the Nemotron Coalition at its GTC conference. This new coalition of AI labs will pool expertise,

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Nvidia’s NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails

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At its annual GTC conference, Nvidia on Monday announced the Nvidia Agent Toolkit, which brings together open models, runtimes, open

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Standing up for the open Internet: why we appealed Italy’s "Piracy Shield" fine

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Cloudflare is appealing a €14 million fine from Italian regulators over "Piracy Shield," a system that forces providers to block content without oversight. We are challenging this framework to protect the Internet from disproportionate overblocking and lack of due process.

Cursor built a fleet of security agents to solve a familiar frustration

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Cursor‘s security team has built a fleet of AI agents that continuously monitor and secure the company’s codebase, and it

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Anthropic doubles Claude usage outside peak hours — but it won’t last forever

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AI labs keep searching for ways to pull developers deeper into their ecosystems. The latest move comes from Anthropic, which

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Apple’s AirPods Max 2 bring H2 chip, boosted ANC in April for $549

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Apple's over-head headphones get an update after over five years.

COMMENT to the MCP Rescue

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The COMMENT command has been in Postgres for decades. It allows text descriptions to be attached to almost any database object. During its long history, it was mostly seen as a nice-to-have addition to database schemas, allowing administrators and developers to more easily understand the schema. Tools like pgAdmin allow you to assign and view comments on database objects.

Now, in the AI era, there is something else that needs to understand database schemas — MCP clients. Without database object comments, MCP clients can only use the database schemas, object names, and constraints. With database comment

Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web’s homepage

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Today, I’m talking with Jim Lanzone, who is the CEO of Yahoo. It’s basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story, but the short version of it is that a long time ago Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and basically everything has gone sideways since. You’ll hear Jim refer […]

Why AI workloads are breaking traditional Kubernetes observability strategies

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For most platform engineering and ITOps teams, the ability to orchestrate containerized workloads at scale has transformed development organizations. But

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Anthropic makes a pricing change that matters for Claude’s longest prompts

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Anthropic announced Friday that the 1-million-token context window for Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now generally available,

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When Code Becomes Cheap, Engineering Becomes Governance

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Gemini CLI Plan Mode Separates Thinking From Doing — and Makes Read-Only the Default

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Agents write code. They don’t do software engineering.

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Long-running and background coding agents have hit a new threshold. When an agent runs for hours, manages its own iteration

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The Green Side of Observability: Why Less Data Can Mean More Insight

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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Using Tools: A Meeting Scheduler

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Introduction

LLM are great, but they are trained on public data sets. In some cases, you need the LLM to use data that’s not publicly available or that’s frequently changing. There are several ways to make such data available to LLMs:

• Tool/function calls
• Retrieval-augmented generation (aka RAG)
• MCP

In coding agents, you can also add skills.

In this post we’ll focus on function calling.

How Does It Work?

When interacting with a LLM, you can provide a description of available tools if the model supports tool calling. If the LLM reasons that the best answer is to use one of the tools, it will return a reply that contains a tool call with the parameters to use. Then you make the function call and return the answer back to the LLM.

Aether OS is a computer in a browser built for the AT Protocol

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Aether OS puts a full-fledged desktop in your browser that ties directly into the AT Protocol. That means it connects to your Bluesky account and other public records. It offers a pretty full suite of apps, 42 in total, covering text editing, task management, and social media. There's even a rudimentary tracker for making chiptunes, […]

A beginner’s guide to vibe coding

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We talk a lot about vibe coding. And to be honest, I’d heard the term far too many times before

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Ex-Snowflake engineers say there’s a blind spot in data engineering — so they built Tower to fix it

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AI coding assistants might have made it easier to generate software, but getting that code to run reliably — packaging

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The fast rise and epic fall of Clubhouse

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In 2020 and 2021, the social media world seemed to be on the verge of complete change. A new app called TikTok was ascendant, bringing a whole new kind of vertical video to phones everywhere. And another app - not as popular, but growing fast, and already hugely influential among the tech set - looked […]

A practical guide to the 6 categories of AI cloud infrastructure in 2026

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Platform teams and AI engineers are facing an unprecedented wave of decision paralysis. The rollout of NVIDIA’s Blackwell and GB200

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Why AI systems are failing in familiar ways

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With the introduction of AI-assisted coding tools and agents, many people hoped we’d solve all the problems for human teams.

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Wordle’s creator made a fun new puzzle game

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 119, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your agents are well, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Pixar's future and flight MH370 and sports gambling […]

10+ New Features Coming in iOS 27

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We're only three months away from Apple's WWDC 2026 event, which will see the company unveil iOS 27. With the fully revamped version of Siri possibly delayed until September, iOS 27 is shaping up to be the update we wanted iOS 26 to be.


There will be new Apple Intelligence features, updates for the iPhone Fold, and more, with the latest rumors summarized below.

Foldable iPhone Features

Survey: AI Coding Exacerbates Existing DevOps Workflow Issues

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Apple Kicks Off 50th Anniversary With Surprise Alicia Keys Concert in New York

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Apple mysteriously shut down its Grand Central Terminal store in New York City today, and it turns out it was for an impromptu Alicia Keys concert to celebrate Apple's upcoming 50th anniversary.


Apple quietly invited select YouTubers and members of the media (including MacRumors) to the store location, but kept the performer secret until Alicia Keys took the stage. Preparations for the concert started yesterday, with Apple setting up a stage, audio equipment, and lights, complete with Keys' signature pink piano.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, marketing chief Greg Joswiak, retail head Deirdre O'Brien, and hardware engineering boss John Ternus were at the Grand C [...]

Adobe settles DOJ cancellation fee lawsuit, will pay $75 million penalty

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Adobe says it will also give customers who "qualify" free services but is vague on details.

iFixit Teardown: MacBook Neo Has Most Accessible Mac Battery in Over a Decade

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Repair site iFixit did its traditional teardown on the MacBook Neo, and was pleasantly surprised with the laptop's repairability. "We haven't been as happy about a MacBook since 2012," says iFixit.

MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 17 Pro and 25W Qi Charger From Lululook

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For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Lululook to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an iPhone 17 Pro and a 25W Qi2.2 3-in-1 Charger from Lululook to go along with it.


Priced at $79, Lululook's 3-in-1 Charging Station is able to charge an iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch at the same time. It features Qi 2.2 support and certification, so it is able to charge the iPhone [...]

Subscribers to Amazon Prime Video with ads lose 4K support on April 10

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Amazon says its service requires "significant investment."

M5 MacBook Air review: Still the best MacBook for almost everybody

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The M5 MacBook Air is a minor upgrade, but minor upgrades add up over time.

The MacRumors Show: MacBook Neo First Impressions

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss first impressions of the MacBook Neo, Studio Display XDR, and iPhone 17e.

Mac Trade-Ins Surge Amid MacBook Neo Launch

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Apple this week saw an unusual surge of Mac trade-ins amid the launch of the MacBook Neo.


A reliable source speaking to MacRumors revealed that the quantity of Macs traded in at Apple retail stores this week increased over 100% compared to previous weeks, likely driven by demand for the ‌MacBook Neo‌ and M5 MacBook Air.

Older, low-end models dominated this week's trade-ins, suggesting that customers are upgrading to the ‌MacBook Neo‌ and the M5 ‌MacBook Air‌, rather than the new MacBook Pro models with the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.

The scale of increase is notic [...]

Patch Me If You Can: AI Codemods for Secure-by-Default Android Apps

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Even seemingly simple engineering tasks — like updating an API — can become monumental undertakings when you’re dealing with millions of lines of code and thousands of engineers, especially if the changes are security-related. Nowhere is this more apparent than in mobile security, where a single class of vulnerability can be replicated across hundreds of [...]

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iPhone 17 Pro is Now Part of MLB History

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Back in September, the Apple TV streaming service's broadcast of the pivotal Boston Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers game at Fenway Park incorporated live footage captured with the iPhone 17 Pro, and now the device has been enshrined in MLB history.


Apple this week announced that the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has added one of the four iPhone 17 Pro devices that captured the Red Sox clinching a postseason berth with a thrilling walk-off win over the Tigers to its permanent collection in Cooperstown, New York. More details are available [...]

Apple's First Foldable Displays Nearing Mass Production

Summary:
Advanced display panels destined for Apple's first foldable iPhone are reportedly nearing mass production.


The Weibo leaker known as "Instant Digital" today said that Samsung Display is set to begin mass production of OLED panels for the first foldable iPhone in May 2026. Meanwhile, the user "Fixed Focus Digital" claims that the foldable iPhone's screen may be flatter than many of the existing foldable devices currently on sale, suggesting that Apple has largely solved th [...]