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Mimic, which helps businesses detect, deflect, and quickly recover from ransomware attacks, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed led by Ballistic Ventures (Ryan Naraine/SecurityWeek)

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Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek:
Mimic, which helps businesses detect, deflect, and quickly recover from ransomware attacks, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed led by Ballistic Ventures  —  A new Silicon Valley startup called Mimic is coming out of the shadows with a hefty $27 million seed-stage funding round led by Ballistic Ventures.

Trader Joe’s To Pay Legal Fees To Employee Union Over Its Bullshit Trademark Lawsuit

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It’s been nearly a year, but I won’t pretend that the outcome of this isn’t quite satisfying. Last summer, grocerer Trader Joe’s filed an absolute bullshit lawsuit against the union for its own employees claiming that the name of and merchandise sold by the union represented trademark infringement and would cause confusion with the public […]

Japan's PM Fumio Kishida unveils an international voluntary framework for regulation and use of generative AI and says 49 countries and regions have signed up (Associated Press)

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Associated Press:
Japan's PM Fumio Kishida unveils an international voluntary framework for regulation and use of generative AI and says 49 countries and regions have signed up  —  Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled an international framework for regulation and use of generative AI on Thursday …

Hubble Network, which is building a satellite network for Bluetooth devices, says it has made a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite for the first time (Aria Alamalhodaei/TechCrunch)

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Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch:
Hubble Network, which is building a satellite network for Bluetooth devices, says it has made a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite for the first time  —  Hubble Network has become the first company in history to establish a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite …

Onur Aksoy, who pleaded guilty to selling fake Cisco equipment on Amazon and eBay from 2013 to 2022, making over $100M, is sentenced to over six years in prison (Michael Kan/PCMag)

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Michael Kan / PCMag:
Onur Aksoy, who pleaded guilty to selling fake Cisco equipment on Amazon and eBay from 2013 to 2022, making over $100M, is sentenced to over six years in prison  —  Some of the networking equipment sold by 40-year-old Onur Aksoy 'ended up in US hospitals, schools, and highly sensitive military …

Microsoft adds deputy chief information security officers within its product groups after a spate of cyberattacks, but declines to identify the new officials (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Microsoft adds deputy chief information security officers within its product groups after a spate of cyberattacks, but declines to identify the new officials  —  Ann Johnson named deputy security officer to oversee outreach and communication about company's security

X tweaks its block feature to let users see replies to their posts even by users who have blocked them, with the aim of identifying and reporting "bad content" (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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Karissa Bell / Engadget:
X tweaks its block feature to let users see replies to their posts even by users who have blocked them, with the aim of identifying and reporting “bad content”  —  Blocking will no longer hide your catty replies.  —  Elon Musk has made no secret that he's not a fan of the block button.

Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 30% YoY to $378.6M, vs. $373.7M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates; NET drops 13%+ after hours (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 30% YoY to $378.6M, vs. $373.7M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates; NET drops 13%+ after hours  —  The San Francisco-based security company estimated that revenue would total $393.5 million to $394.5 million in the second quarter …

Apple reports Q2 revenue down 8.1% YoY to $16.4B in Greater China, down 12.7% YoY to $6.3B in Japan, and down 17.2% YoY to $6.7B in the rest of Asia-Pacific (Nikkei Asia)

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Nikkei Asia:
Apple reports Q2 revenue down 8.1% YoY to $16.4B in Greater China, down 12.7% YoY to $6.3B in Japan, and down 17.2% YoY to $6.7B in the rest of Asia-Pacific  —  Japan and Asia-Pacific leads revenue decline in the January-March quarter  —  PALO ALTO, California — Apple CEO Tim Cook describe

Apple's 2025 M4 MacBook Air: What to Expect

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Apple is working to introduce a new fourth-generation Apple silicon chip across the Mac lineup, and while the first M4 Macs are coming in 2024, the MacBook Air won't get updated until 2025.


This guide highlights everything that we know about the next-generation ‌MacBook Air‌ so far.

M4 Chips

Pro-Cop Coalition With No Web Presence Pitches Report Claiming Criminal Justice Reforms Are To Blame For Higher Crime Rates

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Because it sells so very well to a certain percentage of the population, ridiculous people are saying ridiculous things about crime rates in the United States. And, of course, the first place to post this so-called “news” is Fox News. An independent group of law enforcement officials and analysts claim violent crime rates are much higher than […]

Apple Watch's AFib history feature gets FDA approval for use in clinical studies, the first digital health tech qualified under FDA's MDDT program (Sudz Niel Kar/MyHealthyApple)

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Sudz Niel Kar / MyHealthyApple:
Apple Watch's AFib history feature gets FDA approval for use in clinical studies, the first digital health tech qualified under FDA's MDDT program  —  The FDA today announced that it has qualified the Apple Watch AFib ( Atrial Fibrillation) history feature as an MDDT (Medical Device Development Tools).

Apple’s Q2 2024 earnings reveal a drop in iPhone, iPad sales

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Services growth looked rosy as Apple's hardware revenue in China slowed.

Block plans to invest 10% of its gross profit from bitcoin products each month into bitcoin purchases; its $220M BTC investment grew by ~160% to $573M as of Q1 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

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Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
Block plans to invest 10% of its gross profit from bitcoin products each month into bitcoin purchases; its $220M BTC investment grew by ~160% to $573M as of Q1  —  - Jack Dorsey's digital payments firm lifts 2024 profit outlook  — Bitcoin is best candidate for open money protocol: Dorsey

Apple's Q2 2024 Earnings Call Takeaways

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Apple today held its earnings call for the second fiscal quarter of 2024 (first calendar quarter), with Apple CEO Tim Cook and Apple CFO Luca Maestri providing us with some details on Apple's performance, Vision Pro sales, services growth, AI plans, and other topics.


We've highlighted the most interesting takeaways from today's earnings call.

Next Week's Announcements

Generative AI

Apple not making major AI news at upcoming product event, WWDC still expected venue [Updated] (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

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Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple not making major AI news at upcoming product event, WWDC still expected venue [Updated]  —  Update: It turns out Tim Cook was misunderstood in the CNBC story.  The full quote in context does not imply an AI software announcement at next week's hardware event, although Apple does infuse its silicon with AI readiness.

Apple Q2: revenue from Services, which includes Apple TV+ and Apple Music, rose 14% YoY to $23.9B, vs. $23.27B estimated, an all-time record (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple Q2: revenue from Services, which includes Apple TV+ and Apple Music, rose 14% YoY to $23.9B, vs. $23.27B estimated, an all-time record  —  The Apple Services segment generated $23.87 billion, up 14.2%, for the quarter ended March 30, topping analyst forecasts of $23.12 billion.

Tim Cook on Generative AI: 'We Have Advantages That Will Differentiate Us'

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During today's earnings call covering the second fiscal quarter of 2024, Apple CEO Tim Cook again spoke about Apple's work on generative AI. He said that Apple has "advantages" that will "differentiate" the company in the era of AI, and some "very exciting things" will be shared with customers in the near future.

We continue to feel very bullish about our opportunity in generative AI. We are making significant investments and we're looking forward to sharing some very exciting things with our customers soon.

We believe in the transformative power and promise of AI and we believe we have advantages that will differentiate us in this new era, including Apple's unique combination of seamless hardware, software and services

Coinbase reports Q1 net revenue up 116% YoY to $1.59B, vs. $1.32B est., net income of $1.18B, consumer transaction revenue of $935M, up 99% QoQ (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Coinbase reports Q1 net revenue up 116% YoY to $1.59B, vs. $1.32B est., net income of $1.18B, consumer transaction revenue of $935M, up 99% QoQ  —  - Consumer transaction revenue almost doubled from last quarter  — Urges ‘caution in extrapolating’ results so far this quarter

Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone down 10% YoY to $45.96B, Mac up 4% to $7.45B, iPad down 17% to $5.56B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 10% to $7.91B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone down 10% YoY to $45.96B, Mac up 4% to $7.45B, iPad down 17% to $5.56B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 10% to $7.91B  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook waves to journalists after his meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 17, 2024.

Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone down 10% YoY to $45.96B, Mac up 4% to $7.45B, iPad down 17% to $5.56B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 10% to $7.91B (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

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Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone down 10% YoY to $45.96B, Mac up 4% to $7.45B, iPad down 17% to $5.56B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 10% to $7.91B  —  - Stock has sharply underperformed amid weak growth trends  — Capital returns will be a focus ahead of upcoming AI event

Apple Reports 2Q 2024 Results: $23.6B Profit on $90.8B Revenue

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Apple today announced financial results for the second fiscal quarter of 2024, which corresponds to the first calendar quarter of the year.


For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $90.8 billion and net quarterly profit of $23.6 billion, or $1.53 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $94.8 billion and net quarterly profit of $24.1 billion, or $1.52 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Apple set an all-time quarterly record for Services revenue at $23.9 billion, but iPhone revenue dropped by over $5 billion compared to the year-ago quarter.

Gross margin for [...]

Wyden Presses FTC To Crack Down On Rampant Auto Industry Privacy Abuses

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Last year Mozilla released a report showcasing how the auto industry has some of the worst privacy practices of any tech industry in America (no small feat). Massive amounts of driver behavior is collected by your car, and even more is hoovered up from your smartphone every time you connect. This data isn’t secured, often […]

Atlassian Taps AI to Automate Software Engineering Workflows

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Unreleased Beats Pill Speaker Teased by F1 Driver Daniel Ricciardo

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Following this past weekend's sighting of NBA superstar LeBron James carrying an unreleased Beats speaker reminiscent of the former Beats Pill, F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo has also been seen teasing the unreleased speaker at this week's Grand Prix stop in Miami.


Details on the unreleased speaker remain unknown, but it features a similar pill-shaped design to the rest of the Pill family and includes a lanyard that has not been present on previous models. The most recent model in the Pill family was discontinued in 2022, and this new one will likely include a USB-C port, updated Bluetooth specs, and oth [...]

Bipartisan Group Of Senators Introduce New Terrible ‘Protect The Kids Online’ Bill

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Apparently, the world needs even more terrible bills that let ignorant senators grandstand to the media about how they’re “protecting the kids online.” There’s nothing more serious to work on than that. The latest bill comes from Senators Brian Schatz and Ted Cruz (with assists from Senators Chris Murphy, Katie Britt, Peter Welch, Ted Budd, […]

AWS Adds Generative AI Tool to Automate Tasks for Developers

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week make generally available an instance of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant capable of executing complex workflows on behalf of application developers. Doug Seven, general manager and director of AI developer experiences at AWS, said Amazon Q Developer employs the reasoning engines within large language models (LLMs) to automate […]

Does containerization affect the performance of databases?

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This post has been provided by DML community sponsor ApeCloud The wave of database containerization is on the rise, as clearly shown in Fig.1. Databases and analytics are now a major part...

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Wear OS’s big comeback continues; might hit half of Apple Watch sales

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Counterpoint Research projects 27 percent market share this year to Apple's 49.

Axon Wants Its Body Cameras To Start Writing Officers’ Reports For Them

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Taser long ago locked down the market for “less than lethal” (but still frequently lethal) weapons. It has also written itself into the annals of pseudoscience with its invocation of not-an-actual-medical condition “excited delirium” as it tried to explain away the many deaths caused by its “less than lethal” Taser. These days Taser does business […]

Daily Deal: The Complete ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence OpenAI Training Bundle

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The Complete ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence OpenAI Training Bundle has 4 beginner-friendly courses to help you become more comfortable with the capabilities of OpenAI and ChatGPT. You’ll learn how to write effective prompts to get the best results, how to create blog posts and sales copy, and how to create your own chatbots. It’s on sale […]

Apple will bring sideloading and other EU-mandated changes to iPadOS this fall

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Company also updates fee policy for devs who don't use Apple's App Store.

How Mobile App Quality Can Be Improved With AI

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The pandemic created an interesting dynamic, from a developer’s perspective: Even though more people were home on higher-speed connections, there

The post How Mobile App Quality Can Be Improved With AI appeared first on The New Stack.

Dealing With Chaos: A Guide for Leaders Feeling Overwhelmed at Work

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Many engineering leaders’ work can be best described as “everything happens so much:” All your work is urgent; there are

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Siri on HomePod Seems to Have Forgotten How to Give the Time

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At some point in the last 24 hours, Siri on the HomePod and the HomePod mini seems to have forgotten how to relay the time. When asking ‌Siri‌ "what time is it?" ‌Siri‌ is unable to answer and directs users to the iPhone.


"I found some web results, I can show them if you ask again from your ‌iPhone‌," is ‌Siri‌'s full response to the time question. If you ask what time it is in a specific location, ‌Siri‌ is able to respond, and ‌Siri‌ on ‌iPhone‌, iPad, and Mac provides th [...]

Was There A Trojan Horse Hidden In Section 230 All Along That Could Enable Adversarial Interoperability?

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There’s a fascinating new lawsuit against Meta that includes a surprisingly novel interpretation of Section 230. If the court buys it, this interpretation could make the open web a lot more open, while chipping away at the centralized control of the biggest tech companies. And, yes, that could mean that the law (Section 230) that […]

OpenTofu Amiable to a Terraform Reconciliation

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For OpenTofu co-maintainer, Sebastian Stadil the news of IBM acquiring HashiCorp was not exactly a surprise. Like the rest of

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Rethinking Identity and Access for Cloud Native

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The identity and access management (IAM) market is a behemoth: hundreds of vendors and a projected $19 billion market in

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Apple Confirms iPadOS Will Get Same EU App Changes as iOS This Fall

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Apple today confirmed that it will be bringing all of the app ecosystem changes made to iOS in the European Union to iPadOS in the fall. Earlier this week, the European Commission said that iPadOS is also a gatekeeper platform under the Digital Markets Act.


EU developers will be able to distribute iPad apps outside of the App Store using alternative app marketplaces or websites, and all of the same terms will apply. The Core Technology Fee will be charged for apps that are distributed outside of the ‌App Store‌ and have more than one million first annual installs, though there are exceptions for small developers, which [...]

Apple Tweaks EU Core Technology Fee to Avoid Bankrupting Unexpectedly Viral Apps

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Apple today announced that it is tweaking the terms of the 0.50 euro Core Technology Fee (CTF) that apps distributed using the new EU business terms must pay, introducing a solution that would keep small apps that go viral from being charged unreasonable fees.


First, independent and small developers who earn no revenue at all will not have to pay the CTF. Students, hobbyists, and freeware app developers who distribute free apps and earn no money will not be charged the fee. Developers will need to declare their non-commercial status on an annual basis, and to maintain this status, developers must have no revenue in or out of the App Store for their app product.

Second, to address fears of the CTF causing outrageous fees for an app that suddenly g [...]

Amazon Discounts Popular Accessories From Anker, Eufy, and Jackery

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Today we're tracking a few deals offered by Anker, Eufy, and Jackery, including a wide array of wall chargers, Bluetooth trackers, and other USB-C accessories. All of the product [...]

Valkey: A Redis Fork With a Future

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SEATTLE — The free license that offers under its new license is not a great deal, says the lead contributor

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iPhone 15 and 15 Plus Proving Less Popular With Buyers This Year

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Apple's iPhone 15 Pro models were its most purchased smartphones in the U.S. in the first quarter of this year, according to the latest Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) report.


The ‌iPhone 15 Pro‌ and Pro Max accounted for 22% and 23% of all iPhones sold in Q1 2024, for a 45% combined share. The iPhone 15 Plus took a 9% share of all iPhones sold, while the ‌iPhone 15‌ and iPhone 14 were the third most popular, each taking 14% of the share.

The ‌iPhone 15 Pro‌ and Pro Max share hardly changed compared t [...]

April updates for Windows 10 and 11 break some VPN software, Microsoft says

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VPN connection bug affects all supported versions of Windows 10, 11, and Server.

7 Tips for Fostering Stronger Communication in Outsourced Projects

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Picture this: It’s the night before a major software release and you are sitting there reflecting on the project, and

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Flaw in R Creates Supply Chain Security Risks

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Developers already under siege by attacks on the software supply chain have another worry after researchers uncovered a high-severity security

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LayerX Security Raises $24M for its Browser Security Platform, Enabling Employees to Work Securely from Any Browser, Anywhere

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How to Enable Stolen Device Protection on iPhone

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When Apple released iOS 17.3 in January, it introduced a Stolen Device Protection feature to provide iPhone users with added security. This article explains what it does, why you might want to turn it on, and how to go about doing so.


In 2023, reports began emerging about a new method thieves were using to steal iPhones and access users' highly sensitive data. Thieves would surreptitiously spy on their victims in public while they entered their passcode, before going on to steal the device. With the passcode known to them, criminals could empty bank accounts, steal passwords, and make the iPhone untraceable.

Enter, Stolen Device Protection

Nurses Say Hospital Adoption Of Half-Cooked ‘AI’ Is Reckless

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We’ve noted repeatedly that while “AI” (language learning models) hold a lot of potential, the rushed implementation of half-assed early variants are causing no shortage of headaches across journalism, media, health care, and other sectors. In part because the kind of terrible brunchlord managers in charge of many institutions primarily see AI as a way […]

Anthropic Announces Claude AI Chatbot App for iPhone and iPad

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AI safety and research company Anthropic has announced the launch of its Claude iOS app, offering users easier access to the conversational agent from their iPhone.


Similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT, the Claude chatbot operates by processing large amounts of text data to understand and generate human-like responses. Its architecture is based on machine learning techniques including large language models (LLMs).

Whereas ChatGPT is foremost designed for versatility and scalability, Anthropic says its focus is on creating a "steerable" AI so that users can direct the model's style and content more effectively, thereby mitigating potential harmful outputs and biases from the outset.

The AI c [...]

Apple Watch AFib History Feature Qualified by FDA to Evaluate Medical Devices

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Apple's atrial fibrillation (AFib) history feature on Apple Watch has been qualified by the FDA under its Medical Device Development Tools (MDDT) program, the first digital health technology feature of its kind to do so.


Since 2022, Apple Watch has supported AFib History, which allows users diagnosed with atrial fibrillation to view an estimate of how frequently their heart is in this type of irregular rhythm.

The feature analyzes pulse rate data collected by a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor to identify episodes consistent with AFib and provides the user with a retrospective estimate of AFib burden (a measure of the amount of time spent in AFib during past Apple Watch wear). Apple says the feature is intended for individuals [...]

5 Lessons From LinkedIn’s First Foray Into GenAI Development

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Every IT company today must be trying to incorporate generative AI into their own apps, hopefully in such a way

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Catholic AI Priest Stripped Of Priesthood After Some Unfortunate Interactions

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Artificial Intelligence is all the rage these days, so I suppose it was inevitable that major world religions would try their holy hands at the game eventually. While an unfortunate amount of the discourse around AI has devolved into doomerism of one flavor or another, the truth is that this technology is still so new […]

Golang: How To Use the Go Install Command

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The Go language has a special command that is used to compile and install a binary package for your application

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Google Paid Apple $20 Billion in 2022 to Be Default Safari Search Engine

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Google paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 to be the default search engine for Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, reports Bloomberg. The information was revealed in court documents Google provided in its antitrust dispute with the United States Department of Justice.


The DoJ has accused Google of having a monopoly on search, and in the lawsuit against Google, the search engine deal with Apple has been a major focus. In November, lawsuit documents indicated that Google was paying 36 percent of the tot [...]

The REPORT Act: Enhancing Online Child Safety Without the Usual Congressional Nonsense

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For years and years, Congress has been pushing a parade of horrible “protect the children online” bills that seem to somehow get progressively worse each time. I’m not going through the entire list of them, because it’s virtually endless. One of the most frustrating things about those bills, and the pomp and circumstance around them, […]

All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week

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Disappointing streaming changes are happening so fast that it's hard to keep up.

Linux: How the Kernel Interacts with Hardware

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When understanding the structure of a computer system, it helps to think of it as containing four major subsystems. These

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Check Out This Apple Watch iPad Demo Unit From 2014

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With the 10th anniversary of the Apple Watch approaching, we thought it would be fun to take a look back at an interesting bit of Apple Watch history.


After the Apple Watch was announced in 2014, and before it became available in 2015, Apple sent out custom Apple Watch iPad demo kiosks to retail stores. The Apple Watch and ‌iPad‌ units used for these devices were specially designed, had custom software, and represent the first and only time that an Apple Watch was able to pair with an ‌iPad‌.

AppleDemoYT, known for sourcing rare prototypes, shared images and detailed information about the demo units with MacRumors, offering up detailed insight on the lengths Apple went to for th [...]

How to play Netflix’s cloud games without waiting for an invitation

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Want to try the nine games that Netflix now streams from cloud servers directly to your laptop, desktop, or TV? Officially, you’re supposed to wait until the beta rolls out more broadly, but for now, there may be an easier way.

If you fire up a desktop web browser, log in to Netflix, and click these links, you should be able to start playing, even if you don’t see any of these games listed normally.

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RecurrentGemma: An Open Language Model For Smaller Devices

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Large language models (LLMs) have been making a huge impact during the last couple of years, in particular with the

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Hacking on PostgreSQL is Really Hard

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Hacking on PostgreSQL is really hard. I think a lot of people would agree with this statement, not all for the same reasons. Some might point to the character of discourse on the mailing list, others to the shortage of patch reviewers, and others still to the difficulty of getting the attention of a committer, or of feeling like a hostage to some committer's whimsy. All of these are problems, but today I want to focus on the purely technical aspect of the problem: the extreme difficulty of writing reasonably correct patches.

API Trends: Platform Engineering, the Unbundling and AI’s Role

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Navigating through the cacophony of marketing hype to pinpoint what truly matters for developers can be challenging. Recently, at Ambassador,

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iOS 18 Rumor: Calendar App to Feature Integration With Reminders App

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Starting with iOS 18, the Calendar app on the iPhone will feature integration with the Reminders app, according to information obtained by AppleInsider.


The report claims that iPhone users will be able to schedule and organize reminders directly within the Calendars app, without needing to open the Reminders app. Reminders are expected to be visible within the Day, Week, and Month calendar views.

The change will extend to the Mac with macOS 15, the report says.

The same publication recently reported that the Calculator and Notes app will also be integrate [...]

3 Reasons Data Engineers Are the Unsung Heroes of GenAI

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Over the last 18 months, advancements in generative AI have created an insatiable appetite among boards and business leaders. As

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Postman Makes AI Tool for API Management Platform Available

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Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app

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It sounds like the company is now blocking access from "bootleg" APKs.

Spring Forward: Broadcom’s App Advisor Eases Spring Upgrades

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Broadcom’s VMware is launching a new tool called “Application Advisor” to help automate the process of upgrading Spring applications to

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The BASIC programming language turns 60

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Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.

GitHub Preview of Copilot Workspaces Advances AI Agenda

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5 tips to supercharge your developer career in 2024

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From mastering prompt engineering to leveraging AI for code security, here’s how you can excel in today's competitive job market.

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iOS 17.5 makes it less of a hassle to send your iPhone into Apple for repairs

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Feature currently only works on iPhones, and not iPads, Macs, or Apple Watches.

Will the New iPad Pro Really Have the M4 Chip?

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While Apple's upcoming iPad Pro models have been expected to feature the M3 chip for over a year, recent reports have unexpectedly suggested that the new devices will instead feature the as-yet-unannounced M4 chip.

WebAssembly Adoption: It’s Complicated, Says CNCF Survey

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WebAssembly has traveled a rocky road to adoption in its seven years of existence, especially given its promise of “build once,

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MacRumors 2024 Blood Drive

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MacRumors is pleased to announce our Fifteenth Annual MacRumors Blood Drive, throughout the month of May 2024. Let's save lives together by encouraging donations of blood, platelets, and plasma. While most blood drives are specific to a geographic location, our blood drive is online and worldwide. Anyone can participate.


Over the past 14 years, MacRumors Blood Drives have recorded donations of 1,305 units of blood, platelets, and plasma, cheered for donors, and celebrated new signups for the organ donor and bone marrow registries. We've heard from hundreds of forum members who donate or whose lives were saved by the donations of strangers.

This year's featured donor is user Neil.gtis, a three-yea [...]

Could Terraform Return to Open Source Under IBM’s Ownership?

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‘s pending acquisition of HashiCorp amid HashiCorp’s zealous copyright enforcement for Terraform raises questions about a potential shift back to

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Amazon's Apple Watch Sale Includes $60 Off 2nd Gen SE and $100 Off Series 9

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Amazon today has the 40mm GPS Apple Watch SE for $189.00, down from $249.00. This is just $10 higher compared to the all-time low price on the wearable, and it's available in the Silver, Midnight, and Starlight Aluminum Case options.

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.

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LG TVs Gain Support for Dolby Atmos With Apple Music

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LG has updated its Apple Music app to support Dolby Atmos, making it the first smart TV manufacturer to do so (via FlatpanelsHD).


The change allows users to experience immersive audio that enhances the spatial perception of sound, previously achievable only with external hardware. The feature was confirmed to be operational on the LG GX OLED TV from the 2020 lineup, with expectations that it will work on all LG TVs that are compatible with Dolby Atmos from 2020 onwards.

While the TV's built-in speakers can utilize this new capability, LG suggests that the best audio experience is achieved with a compatible surround sound system, which can take advantage of the [...]

Automatically Generate Types for Your PostgreSQL Database

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I’ve been doing a lot of work in and around PostgreSQL for JavaScript developers lately, and my general understanding is

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It’s getting harder to get Google Search to show AR animals

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Remember Google’s AR search, which can make augmented reality bugs, dinos, neat NASA objects like the Apollo 11 command module, and buildings appear atop the real world through the lens of your phone? On Monday, 9to5Google noticed they seemed to be disappearing, as it was only able to find a handful of the extensive collection that Google has built up over the years.

My editor, Richard Lawler, saw the same thing on his Pixel 8 Pro — as did I when I checked my Pixel 6. But when I searched in Safari on my iPhone 15 Pro, th

This Is Why Infra Teams Should Care About Platform Engineering

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A growing number of infrastructure teams, especially in the enterprise, are increasingly under pressure, bringing many engineering organizations to the

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LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming

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LinkedIn is now in the gaming business. Starting today, users on the LinkedIn mobile app or on desktop can play one of three different games — Pinpoint, Queens, and Crossclimb. You’ll be able to play each game once per day, and after your daily session, you’ll get access to all kinds of metrics including your high score and daily streak, different leaderboards, and who in your networks has also played. The games are available here under the LinkedIn News and My Network section on desktop or the

Ryan Dahl: From Node.js and Deno to the ‘Modern’ JSR Registry

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Ryan Dahl keeps finding new approaches to familiar tech. More than once, he’s played a central role in the evolution

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The Problems With Golden Templates That No One Wants to Talk About

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Castro leans into indie (Interview)

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This week we’re joined by Dustin Bluck to discuss his acquisition of the well known (and beloved) Castro podcast app to take it indie-focused once again. As previous users of Castro, we were excited to dig into the details behind this popular podcast client to see what’s next, how the deal was done, a peek into the code, and where exactly this indie and creator focused podcast app can go.

The Purpose of Life

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Snyk Adds Second ASPM Tool to Portfolio

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Fine-tuning AWS ASGs with Attribute Based Instance Selection

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This is the next installment of our blog series on improving our autoscaling infrastructure. In the previous blog posts (Open-sourcing Clusterman, Recycling kubernetes nodes) we explained the architecture and inner-working of Clusterman. This time we are discussing how attribute based instance selection in the autoscaling group has helped us make our infrastructure more reliable and cost effective, while also decreasing the operation overhead. This will also cover how these changes enabled us to migrate from Clusterman to Karpenter. (Spoiler alert: Karpenter blog post is coming soon!) Motivation At Yelp we run most of our workload on AWS spot instances, and...

Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

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145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.

Become a Data on Kubernetes Ambassador in 2024

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The Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) is thrilled to announce that we will be accepting applications for the DoKC Ambassadors Program starting May 1st. The DoK Ambassadors program was created...

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‘Opinionated’? You Should Contribute to The New Stack

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Not long after I started working in the tech industry, I discovered that technologists have a special relationship with the

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Apache Flink Gets Some Observability With Datorios

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If something goes awry in a data streaming system, the corrections must be made as quickly as possible. After all,

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AWS S3 storage bucket with unlucky name nearly cost developer $1,300

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Amazon says it's working on stopping others from "making your AWS bill explode."

Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms from sounding

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If your iPhone hasn't been waking you up lately, you're not alone.

FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks

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“Deceptive advertising and misinformation posed a risk to public health."

New Spotify Portal for Backstage Eases Platform Engineering

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LONDON — When Pia Nilsson arrived at the audio streaming company Spotify in 2016, she marveled at what she saw

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Latest Google layoffs hit the Flutter and Python groups

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The groups supported developers both inside and outside of Google.

Node.js 22 Release Improves Developer Experience

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A new WebSocket client and a new V8 compiler are among the updates to Node.js 22, in the first of

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Improving LLM Output by Combining RAG and Fine-Tuning

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Large language models (LLM) and conversational AI have great potential to make applications easier to use, particularly for new users.

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CI/CD Observability: A Rich New Opportunity for OpenTelemetry

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Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) are the backbone of modern software delivery, but there’s still limited visibility into their

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