How To Think About AI: Is It The Tool, Or Are You?

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We live in a stupidly polarizing world where nuance is apparently not allowed. Everyone wants you to be for or against something—and nowhere is this more exhausting than with AI. There are those who insist that it’s all bad and there is nothing of value in it. And there are those who think it’s all […]

Daily Deal: Nix Mini 3 Color Sensor

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Instantly become a color expert with the Nix Mini 3 Color Sensor. This portable device puts all paint fan decks in your pocket, offering access to over 200,000 brand-name paint colors and essential color codes like RGB, HEX, and CMYK. Perfect for designers, contractors, and homeowners. The Mini 3 features Bluetooth connectivity, Debris and splash […]

Google launches advanced privacy hub to purge sensitive IDs and explicit leaks

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Google has launched a major expansion of its digital safety suite to coincide with Safer...

CodeRabbit Adds DevOps Planning and Review Tool for AI Prompts

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World’s largest nuclear plant restarts 1,356MW reactor after Fukushima shutdown

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Japan has taken a major step in its nuclear recovery after restarting unit 6 at...

Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

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Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:
Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel  —  - Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made jokes about ICE during an employee event, internal messages show.  — Some employees took to Slack to express anger and disappointment.

Heart Month Apple Watch Activity Challenge Launching on Valentine's Day

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To recognize Heart Month, Apple is launching a new February Apple Watch activity challenge. Apple Watch owners can earn a special award by completing a workout to fill their Exercise ring on Saturday, February 14, which is Valentine's Day.

Close your exercise ring on Valentine's Day, February 14, to earn this award. Your heart will love you for it.

The hunt for truly zero-CVE container images

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Vendors chasing “zero-CVE” container images on top of traditional Linux distributions are running into structural limits in upstream release models.

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Tech Oversight Project: ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial, Meta paid for 3,500+ ads on CNN, Fox, and others to promote Instagram's Teen Accounts (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)

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Annie Bang / Bloomberg:
Tech Oversight Project: ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial, Meta paid for 3,500+ ads on CNN, Fox, and others to promote Instagram's Teen Accounts  —  Instagram owner Meta Platforms Inc. has paid for thousands of television commercials to promote its safety work with teens ahead …

The RISC architecture frontier: Is eBPF ready for ARM64 and RISC-V?

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The Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF)  has continued on an adoption path that extends its integral role in observability, security,

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Sen. Blackburn Gets Shitty Because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Attended An Awards Show Where ICE Was Criticized

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I don’t understand sycophancy. Never have. I don’t know what it gets you in the long run other than a reputation for subservience. That’s worth nearly nothing in the open market. The only people who will hire you are people most people would never want to work for. And yet, that is pretty much the […]

Facebook rolls out the ability for users to animate their profile picture and to restyle Stories or Memories using preset options or a text-based AI prompt (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Facebook rolls out the ability for users to animate their profile picture and to restyle Stories or Memories using preset options or a text-based AI prompt  —  With preset animations, you can have a still photo wave to your friends or put on a party hat.

Alibaba’s RynnBrain smashes 16 robotics records, tops Google and NVIDIA AI models

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Alibaba has entered the race to build “physical AI” with a new model designed to...

Sam Bankman-Fried, who is serving 25 years for fraud, files a long-shot request for a new trial, says new witness testimony could refute the prosecution's case (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

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Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Sam Bankman-Fried, who is serving 25 years for fraud, files a long-shot request for a new trial, says new witness testimony could refute the prosecution's case  —  FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed a long-shot request for a new trial on the charges for which he's currently serving …

Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do

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PCs without the new certificates could eventually have trouble booting new OSes.

Newo, which offers AI voice and text agents that act as always-on front desks for SMBs, raised a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $32M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

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Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
Newo, which offers AI voice and text agents that act as always-on front desks for SMBs, raised a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $32M  —  Artificial intelligence voice infrastructure startup Newo Inc. announced today that it has raised $25 million in new funding …

Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot certificates for older PCs before they start to expire later in 2026; Secure Boot was first introduced in 2011 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot certificates for older PCs before they start to expire later in 2026; Secure Boot was first introduced in 2011  —  Devices that don't receive new Secure Boot certificates may miss out on future security updates.

Hey Rep. Gonzales, Finish The Thought: What About That Five-Year-Old US Citizen?

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Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales from Texas went on Face the Nation on Sunday and said a lot of silly things, doing his best as a loyal Trump foot soldier to defend the indefensible, to make sense of the nonsensical, and to lie about all the rest. However, I wanted to focus on one bit of […]

Sources: KPMG negotiated a 14% lower fee for its 2025 audit by threatening to find a new accountant if Grant Thornton didn't pass on its cost savings from AI (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)

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Stephen Foley / Financial Times:
Sources: KPMG negotiated a 14% lower fee for its 2025 audit by threatening to find a new accountant if Grant Thornton didn't pass on its cost savings from AI  —  Big Four accounting firm's move to cut fees for its own audit comes amid debate over pricing model

Gary Shapiro plans to step down as CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, the owner and producer of the annual CES conference in Las Vegas, after 35+ years (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Gary Shapiro plans to step down as CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, the owner and producer of the annual CES conference in Las Vegas, after 35+ years  —  President Kinsey Fabrizio to succeed Shapiro as CEO effective May 1  —  Gary Shapiro is exiting as CEO of the Consumer Technology Association …

Sources: Spain-based Multiverse, which shrinks LLMs to reduce energy and compute costs, is in talks to raise ~€500M at a €1.5B+ valuation and has hit €100M ARR (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Spain-based Multiverse, which shrinks LLMs to reduce energy and compute costs, is in talks to raise ~€500M at a €1.5B+ valuation and has hit €100M ARR  —  Multiverse Computing SL, a Spanish artificial intelligence software company, is in discussions to raise about €500 million …

Upgraded Google safety tools can now find and remove more of your personal info

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The Results About You tool is getting an upgrade.

Singapore blames China-backed hacking group UNC3886 for an 11+ months-long cyber-espionage campaign that targeted its four largest telecommunication companies (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Singapore blames China-backed hacking group UNC3886 for an 11+ months-long cyber-espionage campaign that targeted its four largest telecommunication companies  —  Singapore's government has blamed a known Chinese cyber-espionage group for targeting four of its top telecommunication companies as part of a months-long attack.

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max Prices: Here's What Rumors Say

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Apple is aiming for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max to have the same starting prices as the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, according to Jeff Pu, an equity analyst with investment firm GF Securities.


In a research note today, obtained by MacRumors, Pu said his firm's recent "supply chain research" indicates that Apple is focused on "cost management," in an attempt to keep the starting prices of the iPhone 18 Pro models either "unchanged" or at a "similar level" compared to the iPhone 17 Pro models.

In the U.S., the iPhone 17 Pro starts at $1,099 and the iPhone 17 Pro Max starts at $1,199.

For example, Pu believes that Apple has been negotiating with Samsung and SK Hynix to achieve relatively "favorable" memory chip deals, amid [...]

Reco, which makes AI agents that monitor SaaS environments for threats, raised a $30M Series B led by Zeev Ventures, taking its total funding to ~$85M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Meir Orbach / CTech:
Reco, which makes AI agents that monitor SaaS environments for threats, raised a $30M Series B led by Zeev Ventures, taking its total funding to ~$85M  —  The funding aims to expand platform reach amid rising Shadow AI usage and regulatory scrutiny.  —  Cybersecurity company Reco …

Vega, which uses AI to find security threats in cloud services and data storage, raised a $120M Series B at a $700M valuation, taking its total funding to $185M (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Vega, which uses AI to find security threats in cloud services and data storage, raised a $120M Series B at a $700M valuation, taking its total funding to $185M  —  Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data, but legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store …

Make HomePod Alert You to Smoke Alarms

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Thanks to Apple's Sound Recognition feature, the HomePod mini and second-generation HomePod can send you notifications when they recognize smoke or carbon monoxide alarm sounds. Keep reading to learn how it works.


With Sound Recognition, HomePod can detect the sound of a smoke or carbon monoxide alarm in your home, and alert you by sending a notification to your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch.

It's a neat addition if you don't own a smart detector, although Apple warns that the feature should not be relied upon "in circumstances where users may be harmed or injured," or in "high-risk or emergency situations."

The Sound Recognition feature is accessible in the Home app. If your Home system is connected to a smart camera, it will also display live video of your home, so you can see what's [...]

Sources: crypto exchange Kraken has fired its CFO, Stephanie Lemmerman, ahead of its long-awaited IPO; Lemmerman joined Kraken from Dapper Labs in November 2024 (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

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Ian Allison / CoinDesk:
Sources: crypto exchange Kraken has fired its CFO, Stephanie Lemmerman, ahead of its long-awaited IPO; Lemmerman joined Kraken from Dapper Labs in November 2024  —  Kraken has moved chief financial officer Stephanie Lemmerman to a strategic advisory role, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Doc: the EU proposes banning crypto transactions with Russia to prevent the circumvention of sanctions through platforms like A7 and stablecoins like A7A5 (Andy Bounds/Financial Times)

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Andy Bounds / Financial Times:
Doc: the EU proposes banning crypto transactions with Russia to prevent the circumvention of sanctions through platforms like A7 and stablecoins like A7A5  —  Brussels also wants to prohibit some trade with Kyrgyzstan, in first use of new powers against sanctions circumvention

GitHub’s former CEO launches a developer platform for the age of agentic coding

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When GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke left the Microsoft-owned company in August of 2025, he said he did so to return

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GitLab CEO on why AI isn’t helping enterprise ship code faster

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AI coding assistants are making developers more productive at writing code. But why aren’t most enterprises actually delivering more software?

The post GitLab CEO on why AI isn’t helping enterprise ship code faster appeared first on The New Stack.

The EU grants Google unconditional antitrust approval for Google's $32B acquisition of cybersecurity startup Wiz, saying it does not raise competition concerns (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU grants Google unconditional antitrust approval for Google's $32B acquisition of cybersecurity startup Wiz, saying it does not raise competition concerns  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google gained unconditional EU antitrust approval on Tuesday for its $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz …

Apple Arcade Adding These Four Games in March

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Apple today announced four new games coming to Apple Arcade in March, along with three major updates to existing titles on the service.



The four new games heading to ‌Apple Arcade‌ next month are as follows:

• Oceanhorn 3: Legend of the Shadow Sea: A new 3D action-adventure RPG set nearly 1,000 years after Oceanhorn 2, featuring island exploration, titan battles, puzzles, and cross-platform play on the iPhone,

TiDB and the rise of the AI-native database

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When enterprises talk about artificial intelligence, the attention usually points to models: larger parameters, faster inference, cheaper tokens. But we

The post TiDB and the rise of the AI-native database appeared fir

Rivian Planning to Launch Apple Watch App

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Electric automaker Rivian is preparing to launch a dedicated Apple Watch app that will allow owners to access and control their vehicles directly from their wrist.


Rivian is planning to release a companion Apple Watch app as part of its upcoming 2026.03 software update, according to release notes posted by RivianTrackr. The update is tied to version 3.9 of the Rivian mobile app, which has not yet been released on the App Store.

The release notes say that the update will allow owners to remotely access and control their vehicles from the Apple Watch, including locking and unlocking doors, venting windows, and sounding the alarm. Users can use the Digital Crown to set a target state of charge or adjust the [...]

Get an Apple Watch SE 3 for Just $219 on Amazon

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Amazon this week is taking $30 off the Apple Watch SE 3, starting at $219.00 for the 40mm GPS model. These are second-best prices on the SE 3, but it's been over a month since we last tracked record low prices, so this is a good opportunity for anyone who's been waiting for a deal.

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 also get the 44mm GPS Apple Watch SE 3 on sale for [...]

Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment

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Alphabet becomes first tech company to issue 100-year bonds in nearly three decades.

Apple Expected to Launch These 10+ Products Over the Coming Months

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It has been a slow start to 2026 for Apple product launches, with only a new AirTag and a special Apple Watch band released so far. We are still waiting for MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, the iPhone 17e, a lower-cost MacBook with an iPhone chip, long-rumored updates to the Apple TV and HomePod mini, and much more.


Apple is expected to release/update the following products in the first half of 2026:

• iPhone 17e: A spec-bumped successor to the iPhone 16e, with rumored upgrades including an A19 chip, MagSafe, and Apple's C1X and

Rolls-Royce launches hydrogen-ready modular power plants to back up wind and solar

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Rolls-Royce has launched a new range of modular gas engine power plants designed to strengthen...

Survey: Java Developers Wrestling With Massive Amounts of Technical Debt

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Small nuclear reactors could replace fossil plants after key supply win

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Terra Innovatum Global N.V., an Italian developer of micro-modular reactors, has confirmed that it has...

Frontier supercomputer maps 3D turbulence at record 35 trillion grid points

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US researchers have conducted the largest 3D simulation of turbulence in history on Frontier, a...

Ex-SpaceX engineer plans to fly satellite using water-powered propulsion system

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Space startup General Galactic aims to fly a satellite using only water for in-orbit propellant....

US largest particle collider wraps up final run after 25 years of discoveries

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The largest particle collider in the US, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), has completed...

Reminder: Update Your Apple Home App Immediately to Avoid Issues

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In 2022, Apple introduced a new Apple Home architecture that is "more reliable and efficient," and the deadline to upgrade and avoid issues is today.


In an email last week, Apple gave customers a final reminder to upgrade their Home app by February 10, 2026. Apple says users who do not upgrade may experience issues with accessories and automations, or lose access to their smart home in the app entirely. In addition, users who do not upgrade will miss out on newer features like robot vacuum cleaner support, and they will not receive important security fixes and performance improvements.

Apple explains how to upgrade the Home app on the iPhone, iPad, or Mac:

Brendan Carr Launches Fake Investigation Of ABC’s ‘The View’ Because They Haven’t Adequately Coddled Trumpism

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FCC boss Brendan Carr is back with yet another fake “investigation” of media outlets he deems insufficiently deferential to radical (and increasingly unpopular) right wing ideology. This time it involves Carr launching a phony non-investigation of ABC’s The View. The crime? They apparently didn’t kiss MAGA Republican ass with enough zeal: “The Federal Communications Commission […]

China claims first successful test of wireless brain-computer interface in space

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A China-based team of researchers has reportedly completed the “world’s first in-orbit verification” of a...

US may need 500 next-gen fighters and bombers to counter China: Report

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A new policy paper from the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies argues that the U.S....

DuckDuckGo Adds AI Voice Chat to Duck.ai With Privacy Protections

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DuckDuckGo has announced new voice chat capabilities for Duck.ai, the private AI chatbot platform it launched last March.


The new feature lets users have real-time voice conversations with large language models (LLMs) through an encrypted relay connection. OpenAI provides the LLMs that power voice chats, but DuckDuckGo says that neither it nor OpenAI stores any audio after conversations end.

"Voice chats in Duck.ai are private, anonymized by us, and never used to train the underlying AI," the company said in its announcement. OpenAI is also contractually limited in how it can use voice chat data. Here's how DuckDuckGo describes the service:

DuckDuckGo protects your audio stream

Vibe coding is passé. Karpathy has a new name for the future of software.

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The vibe coding guy is back, and this time he’s talking about “agentic engineering.” Andrej Karpathy, who last year this

The post Vibe coding is passé. Karpathy has a new name for the future of software. appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple, Google Commit to Fairer App Store Practices in UK

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Apple and Google have agreed to a series of changes aimed at making their app stores fairer for developers, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced today.


The concrete commitments come after the CMA found the two companies had a duopoly and designated them as having "strategic market status" in mobile platforms last October. The designation is not a finding of wrongdoing, but gives UK regulators new powers to demand specific changes to boost competition in the mobile market.

Under the agreed terms published by the CMA [...]

OpenAI's Jony Ive-Designed Device Delayed to 2027

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OpenAI's first Jony Ive-designed hardware device won't ship to customers until next year, new court filings show (via Wired).


The motion stems from a trademark infringement lawsuit filed last year by audio device startup iyO. The company sued OpenAI after the latter acquired io, a startup founded by Apple's former design chief.

OpenAI's original stated goal was to ship the ChatGPT-powered device before the end of 2026. But in the latest filing, the company said its first hardware device won't ship to customers before the end of February 2027. O [...]

iPhone 17 Pro's Cosmic Orange Color Linked to 38% China Sales Jump

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Apple's iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max have been runaway hits in China, but their success has little to do with new AI or camera features – it's largely down to the color. Or at least, that's according to a new report.


The Cosmic Orange finish made available exclusively on Apple's high-end Pro models has been widely dubbed "Hermès orange" by Chinese consumers who associate the vivid hue with the French luxury brand's signature color.

The Financial Times reports that videos showcasing the orange iPhones have gone viral on Chinese social media since the devices launched in September.

"It sounds simple, but it's the external obvious changes to design, which includes the introduction of a shout-out orange [...]

Newly Public Emails Sure Make It Look Like RFK Jr. Lied To Congress About His Trip To Samoa In 2019

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Way back in 2018, a series of events in Samoa brought about the country’s worst measles outbreak in years. It started in July of that year when two 1-year old children who were given a measles vaccine subsequently died. While anti-vaxxers around the world gleefully jumped into action to blame the vaccine for those deaths, […]

5th Circuit Says Due Process Rights For Immigrants No Longer Exist In Its Jurisdiction

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Trump and his supporters clearly believe migrants have no constitutional rights. But that’s simply not true. They have the same rights as citizens for one truly obvious reason: a government could choose to declare certain people non-citizens in order to strip them of their rights. That would be highly problematic in a nation that’s almost […]

YouTube TV Gets Cheaper Sports, News, and Entertainment Bundles

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YouTube is splitting YouTube TV into a selection of tailored YouTube TV Plans, allowing subscribers to pay less for a smaller selection of channels. "TV should be easy," reads the blog post announcing the change.


There are 10+ new plans across Sports, News, Entertainment, and Family, at prices that are $11 to $28 below the $82.99 per month cost for a full YouTube TV subscription. New subscribers will have access to lower prices for the first three months to a year, and a 10-day trial is available. Existing subscribers can downgrade to one of the more affordable plans.

• Sports Plan - $64.99 per month, or $54.99 per month for new subscribers (1-year discount). Includes all major broadca

A practical systems engineering guide: Architecting AI-ready infrastructure for the agentic era

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The shift from traditional AI pipelines toward agentic systems marks one of software engineering’s most important evolutions. Instead of static

The post A practical systems engineering guide: Architecting AI-ready infrastructure for the agentic era appeared first on The New Stack.

NBC Hid The Boos For JD Vance. Where’s Trump’s ‘Unfair Editing’ Lawsuit?

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If you watched NBC’s prime time broadcast of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, you saw Vice President JD Vance in the stands at San Siro Stadium in Milan with his wife, Usha. The commentary team said “JD Vance” and moved on. Pleasant enough. But if you were watching literally any other country’s broadcast—or […]

Salesforce Freezes Heroku Feature Development, Signals Long-Term Shift

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

ChatGPT Now Has Ads for Free and Go Tier Users

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


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

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

Is open source in trouble?

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First, the bad. I would argue that current open-source practices and usage are unsustainable, or at the very least, there is

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Vouch for an open source web of trust (News)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

Copy Link With Highlight in Safari

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

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

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

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

OWC Introduces Discounts on Newest Thunderbolt 5 Docks and Hubs

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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


Below, we recap the latest Studio Display 2 rumors:

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


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

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

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

Chainguard’s AI-powered factory hits 500 million builds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Will AI Kill the OSS Star?

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

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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

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

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Relative to your interests, Saturday morning

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

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

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

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

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

🔗 What to grow

Docker versus Nix: The quest for true reproducibility

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

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How WebAssembly and Web Workers prevent UI freezes

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

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How GSD turns Claude into a self-steering developer

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

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

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

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

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Original Content

A few things since last time:

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

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

• There was a tech freakout

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

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

Veracode Extends Package Firewall Reach to Microsoft Artifacts

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

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

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

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

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How AI Is Expanding Who Gets to Build Infrastructure

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How Homepage simplifies monitoring your self-hosted services

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

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Qodo Adds Multiple AI Agents to Code Review Platform

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Beyond Test Case Generation: How to Create Intelligent Quality Ecosystems

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

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

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Two theories of the AI investor spook-out

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

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

Relative to your interests, Friday

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

Does Go have a 'boilerplate tax'?

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

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

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

Where on Earth is vibe coding taking off the most?

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

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