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Paris-based Waiv, which uses AI to enable more precise testing of cancer, raised $33M after spinning out of AI diagnostics and drug discovery platform Owkin (Martin Coulter/Sifted)

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Martin Coulter / Sifted:
Paris-based Waiv, which uses AI to enable more precise testing of cancer, raised $33M after spinning out of AI diagnostics and drug discovery platform Owkin  —  French healthtech aims to revolutionise cancer screening  —  Waiv, a Paris-based medical testing startup spun out of biotech unicorn Owkin …

Anthropic says Claude can now generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly in a conversation, available to all users in beta (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Anthropic says Claude can now generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly in a conversation, available to all users in beta  —  Claude will automatically generate interactive visuals based on your conversation, or you can ask it directly, too.

Sources: Greenoaks founder Neil Mehta is pitching an endowment-type fund to Silicon Valley billionaires to influence CA politics, aiming to raise $100M to $500M (Bloomberg)

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Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks

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Neo is the first MacBook in a long time with an easily replaceable keyboard.

Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion

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AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions.

The post Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only "Sassy" option, which it says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only “Sassy” option, which it says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content  —  Amazon's AI assistant Alexa+ is getting another new personality.  On Thursday, the company announced it's expanding …

European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, including loot boxes (Robert Purchese/Eurogamer.net)

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Robert Purchese / Eurogamer.net:
European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, including loot boxes  —  Loot boxes and in-game purchases targeted.  —  Follow EA Sports FC 27  —  Video game age-ratings are about to change in Europe.

Microsoft says EVP of Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, plans to retire on July 1 after 35+ years at Microsoft and promotes four of his direct reports to EVP (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says EVP of Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, plans to retire on July 1 after 35+ years at Microsoft and promotes four of his direct reports to EVP  —  The leaders of Windows and Office are now getting promoted and report directly to Satya Nadella.

World’s most advanced supercomputers decode nuclear reactor turbulence to advance safety

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At Argonne National Laboratory, researchers are trading in old-school approximations for raw supercomputing power, proving...

WordPress launches an in-browser website creator

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WordPress.org is launching a new tool that lets you create a private website directly in your browser, according to an announcement on Wednesday. You can access the tool by heading to my.WordPress.net, which opens up a workspace where you can start building a website without signing up to WordPress, choosing a hosting plan, or selecting […]

iPhone 17e vs. iPhone 16 Buyer's Guide: Which Low-Cost iPhone Should You Choose?

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The iPhone 17e just joined the iPhone lineup. Apple continues to sell the iPhone 16 as an alternative low-cost option, and while the two devices share many core features, there are still more than 25 differences between them to be aware of.


Following the launch of the iPhone 17 lineup and the iPhone Air, Apple discontinued the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, and reduced the price of the ‌iPhone 16‌ and ‌iPhone 16‌ Plus by $100.

The ‌iPhone 17e‌ and ‌iPhone 16‌ now represent the two least expensive iPhone models available directly [...]

Ukraine's defense minister says Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train AI models (Max Hunder/Reuters)

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Max Hunder / Reuters:
Ukraine's defense minister says Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train AI models  —  Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train drone AI software, the defence minister said on Thursday, as Kyiv seeks to harness the experience …

BackOps, which makes automation tools for supply chain operations, raised a $26M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

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Natalie Breymeyer / Axios:
BackOps, which makes automation tools for supply chain operations, raised a $26M Series A led by Theory Ventures  —  BackOps, which makes automation tools for supply chain operations, raised a $26 million Series A round, CEO Sean McCarthy tells Axios exclusively.

7 affordable drone defense systems countering aerial threats today

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The rapid spread of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has created a major challenge for...

Bumble jumps 30%+ after reporting Q4 revenue above estimates and unveils an AI-driven app overhaul to lure back users; BMBL is down 90% since its 2021 IPO (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

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Kritika Lamba / Reuters:
Bumble jumps 30%+ after reporting Q4 revenue above estimates and unveils an AI-driven app overhaul to lure back users; BMBL is down 90% since its 2021 IPO  —  Bumble (BMBL.O) shares jumped more than 40% in early trading on Thursday after the company posted upbeat fourth-quarter revenue …

Qdrant, which develops an open-source vector search engine for production AI systems, raised a $50M Series B led by AVP (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

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Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu:
Qdrant, which develops an open-source vector search engine for production AI systems, raised a $50M Series B led by AVP  —  Qdrant develops a vector search engine designed for production AI systems, enabling teams to configure retrieval, ranking, and filtering to support scalable applications such as semantic search and AI workflows.

Smart robot uses 3D vision to locate lost objects in homes 30% more efficiently

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A search robot developed by researchers in Germany can reportedly track missing objects in homes...

Tel Aviv-based Bold, which uses AI agents to secure enterprise devices like laptops from cyberattacks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding (Robert Scammell/Business Insider)

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Robert Scammell / Business Insider:
Tel Aviv-based Bold, which uses AI agents to secure enterprise devices like laptops from cyberattacks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding  —  Follow Robert Scammell … - Israeli cybersecurity startup Bold has raised $40 million and emerged from stealth.

Disney+ is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney+ (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Disney+ is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney+  —  Disney+ is starting to roll out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to U.S. users on its mobile app.  First announced in January …

Samsung's Monitor Sale Includes Free Copy of Resident Evil Requiem, Plus TV and Galaxy Deals

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Samsung introduced the newest line of Galaxy products last month, including the S26 smartphones and Galaxy Buds4. Today, you can find a few discounts on some of these products, plus savings on Samsung's most popular monitors and TVs, with notable markdowns on products like The Frame TVs.

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Oro Labs, which uses AI to streamline corporate procurement, raised a $100M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

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Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
Oro Labs, which uses AI to streamline corporate procurement, raised a $100M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital  —  Oro Labs, a Silicon Valley startup that uses artificial intelligence to automate companies' procurement processes, has raised $100 million in new venture capital funding.

Apple Says 'Hello' With New Instagram Account

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Apple is already on Instagram, where it primarily shares photos and videos for its Shot on iPhone campaign, but the company is expanding its horizons.


Apple today launched another Instagram account called Hello Apple (@helloapple), where it will share company news, stories, product marketing, and more. The account will showcase how Apple products inspire creativity and help to make a difference in everyday lives, and it will highlight work from Apple's creator community.

Apple said the account will occasionally provide behind-the-scenes peeks too, so fans will want to follow along to learn something new.

"Our stories, and yours," the accou [...]

MacBook Neo Teardown: Modular Ports, Glue-Less Battery, Zero Tape

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A teardown of the new MacBook Neo by Australian YouTube repair channel Tech Re-Nu reveals what may be the most modular and repair-friendly Mac laptop in recent times.


The Neo is shown being taken apart in just six minutes, suggesting Apple has prioritized simplicity across the board, using standard Torx screws (T3, T5, and T8) and a clean cable routing design.

To open the aluminum body, eight screws on the bottom are loosened, similar to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Inside, a tiny motherboard sits, surrounded by a stripped-back internal layout with minimal parts and no hinge covers.

The battery is secured by 18 screws and lifts straight out – there are no stretch-release adhesive tabs, and no sticky glue holding it in [...]

Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable reaches $400M in ARR, up from $300M in January; rival Cursor hit $2B in annualized revenue in February, per a source (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable reaches $400M in ARR, up from $300M in January; rival Cursor hit $2B in annualized revenue in February, per a source  —  Swedish startup Lovable has hit $400 million in annual recurring revenue, as companies and users flock to artificial intelligence tools …

US scientists turn simple umbrella into strike drone-killer using ‘FlyTrap’

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Researchers in the United States have found a simple way to deceive strike drones. The...

MacBook Neo's Keyboard Can Be Replaced Individually in Major Change

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Apple has published its MacBook Neo repair manual, and it reveals some big repairability news: the keyboard can be replaced individually.


For many years, replacing the keyboard in a MacBook has required replacing the entire Top Case, which refers to the top half of the aluminum shell surrounding the keyboard. For example, the latest MacBook Air has a "Top Case with Keyboard" part, and the latest MacBook Pro models have a "Top Case with Battery and Keyboard" part.

For the MacBook Neo, there are separate Keyboard, Keyboard with Touch ID, and Top Case parts, and Apple shows how to replace the keyboard [...]

Palm-sized magnet rivals world’s most powerful coils for first time, hits 42 tesla

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Researchers at ETH Zürich have built the most powerful miniature superconducting magnets ever demonstrated, potentially...

Crypto accounting startup Cryptio raised a $45M Series B led by BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global and reports having 450+ clients, including Circle (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Crypto accounting startup Cryptio raised a $45M Series B led by BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global and reports having 450+ clients, including Circle  —  As large enterprises invest in blockchain technology, they quickly discover the need for accounting software that can help them track a growing hoard of digital assets.

AIKO launches 25% efficient solar modules promising 90% output after 3 decades

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The world is currently busy electrifying almost everything. Household energy demand has surged, driven by...

Apple Announces 50th Anniversary Plans

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Apple today announced that it will celebrate the company's 50th anniversary over the coming weeks, but it has yet to reveal any specific plans.


Apple was founded on April 1, 1976, so the company will turn 50 on April 1, 2026.

"While Apple is known for looking forward, this milestone offers a special moment to reflect on the journey that has brought the company here, to celebrate the people and communities who have thought different with us, and to honor the enduring values that continue to guide our work," said Apple, in a press release.

Apple said its celebrations will recognize the "creativity, innovation, and impact that people around the world have made possible with Appl [...]

Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares '50 Years of Thinking Different' Letter

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Apple CEO Tim Cook today shared a "50 Years of Thinking Different" letter, ahead of the company's 50th anniversary on April 1, 2026.


The letter touches on the upcoming 50th anniversary and says that "the world is moved forward by people who think different." For those unaware, "Think Different" was a famous advertising slogan used by Apple in the late 1990s to early 2000s.

"At Apple, we're more focused on building tomorrow than remembering yesterday," said Cook, in the letter. "But we couldn't let this milestone pass without thanking the millions of people who make Apple what it is today."

Apple announced that it [...]

Runpod report: Qwen has overtaken Meta’s Llama as the most-deployed self-hosted LLM

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The rise of agentic AI services has enabled the enterprise technology market to blossom with a new, fully evolved set

The post Runpod report: Qwen has overtaken Meta’s Llama as the most-deployed self-hosted LLM appeared first on The New Stack.

Chinese defense firm claims it intercepted radio signals from US B-2 bomber over Iran

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A private company in China claims it intercepted radio signals from US B-2 stealth bombers...

Why is US eyeing Ukraine’s low-cost interceptor drones to counter Iran’s Shahed

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For years, the Ukrainians have warned allies that the future battlefield would not be dominated...

Amazon Introduces First Cash Discounts on New MacBook Air and MacBook Pro

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Apple's new M5 MacBook Air and M5 Pro/M5 Max MacBook Pro just launched yesterday, and now Amazon has the first cash discounts on these models. You'll find $49 off nearly every new MacBook model on Amazon, without the need of a membership or clipping a coupon.

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.

Before today, the only offers we were tracking were Best Buy gift cards with the purchase of a new MacBook. This makes Amazon's discounts the first cash markdowns on Apple's new products that we've seen so far. [...]

US scientists reach milestone in imaging nuclear fuel under extreme accident stress

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Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the US have devised a new...

Google Maps gets its biggest navigation redesign in a decade, plus more AI

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Google Maps is about to get more chatty and immersive.

David Ellison Pinky Swears CNN Will Retain Editorial Independence, Points To CBS

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We’ve already all seen what the Ellison family’s version of “editorial independence” looks like over at CBS, where contrarian troll Bari Weiss has turned the already very Republican friendly news giant into a safe space for right wing zealots and autocrats. All overseen by a Brendan Carr chosen censor tasked with ensuring the channel always […]

US firm fires missiles at twice the speed of sound from pickup truck launcher

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A U.S. defense startup has completed a key missile demonstration that could strengthen counter-drone defenses...

Gloo built a faith-based AI platform that already has secular interest

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AI models have gotten a lot better at avoiding hallucinations, and the frontier labs tend to put strict guardrails around

The post Gloo built a faith-based AI platform that already has secular interest appeared first on The New Stack.

Foldable iPhone's 12GB RAM to Be Supplied by Samsung

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Apple's first foldable iPhone will feature 12GB of RAM supplied by Samsung, with the latter set to begin DRAM shipments in the second quarter of this year in line with Apple's production schedule.


Korea-based media outlet The Bell reports that Samsung was able to negotiate a substantially higher price than previous memory contracts with Apple, owing to tightening global memory supply amid the AI server build-out.

The price of a 12GB LPDDR5X module, which is already used in the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro, has risen sharply from around $30 at the beginning of 2025 to roughly $70 at the start of this year.

Despite Apple's typical multi-vendor strategy, the company is said to be expan [...]

iPhone Fold Said to Come in These Three Storage Options

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The storage capacity options for Apple's upcoming book-style foldable iPhone have allegedly leaked, along with their approximate pricing.


According to the Weibo-based leaker Instant Digital, Apple will offer iPhone Fold storage capacities in the following three tiers:

• 256GB – ~$2,320


• 512GB – ~$2,610


• 1TB – ~$2,900

Sorry, Charlie, StarKist Wants AI With Good Taste

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Zero Downtime Multicloud Migrations for Observability Control Planes

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Announcing Cloudflare Account Abuse Protection: prevent fraudulent attacks from bots and humans

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Blocking bots isn’t enough anymore. Cloudflare’s new fraud prevention capabilities — now available in Early Access — help stop account abuse before it starts.

Beavers Are Not Moose: Buc-ee’s Sues Competitor Over Cartoon Moose Branding

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Alright, I think it might be time for a wellness check on the people running Buc-ee’s. I realize that these chain of gas and convenience stores has a strange cult following in the south. I won’t pretend to understand why that is, but whatever. Unfortunately, the company also appears to be run by a bunch […]

MacBook Air With OLED Display is Still Years Away

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Apple is planning to launch a MacBook Air with an OLED display, but it won't come for several years after the MacBook Pro is updated with OLED screen technology.


We're not going to see an OLED ‌MacBook Air‌ until at least 2028, according to Bloomberg. Large, high-quality OLED displays are expensive, and it will take some time for the technology to come down in price enough that it can be used in Apple's midrange devices.

Apple brought OLED to the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro models in 2024, introducing the first larger-sized OLED [...]

EFF To Court: Don’t Make Embedding Illegal

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Who should be directly liable for online infringement – the entity that serves it up or a user who embeds a link to it? For almost two decades, most U.S. courts have held that the former is responsible, applying a rule called the server test. Under the server test, whomever controls the server that hosts […]

Friday Night Baseball Returns to Apple TV on March 27 for 2026 MLB Season

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Weekly MLB games are set to return to the Apple TV subscription service on Friday, March 27, Apple said today. The fifth Friday Night Baseball season will begin with the Los Angeles Angels facing off against the Houston Astros, followed by the Cleveland Guardians playing against the Seattle Mariners.


‌Apple TV‌ will air weekly MLB doubleheaders each Friday during the 25-week 2026 season. MLB fans in 60 countries and regions will be able to watch the games with enhanced production quality and expert commentary.

"'Friday Night Baseball' on Apple TV continues to elevate how fans experience the game," sa

Apple Releases New Versions of iOS for Older iPhones

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Apple today released iOS 16.7.15, iPadOS 16.7.15, iOS 15.8.7, and iPadOS 15.8.7, updates designed for older iPhones and iPads that are not able to run newer versions of iOS and iPadOS.


iPhone and iPad users can install the updates by opening up the Settings app, going to General, and selecting the Software Update option. Those with automatic updates turned on will see the new software installed automatically in the coming days.

According to Apple's release notes, the updates include important security fixes.

Apple has committed to providing security updates for iPhones for at least five years after launch, but often Apple pr [...]

14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns

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Most of the devices are made by Asus and are located in the US.

JetBrains Launches Air and Junie CLI to Blend Traditional IDE with AI Agents

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Windows 11's Steam Deck-ish, streamlined Xbox gaming UI comes to all PCs in April

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Running Windows on gaming handhelds is currently a blessing and a curse.

The U.S. Built A Blueprint To Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Images from the missile strike in southern Iran were more horrifying than any of the case studies Air Force combat veteran Wes J. Bryant had pored over in his mission to overhaul how the U.S. military safeguards civilian life. Parents wept over their children’s bodies. Crushed […]

iPhone Fold to Feature iPad-Style Multitasking and Layouts

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The upcoming foldable iPhone that Apple plans to debut this September will operate like a cross between an iPhone and an iPad, reports Bloomberg.


When the device is opened up, the UI will have an iPad-like layout that supports multitasking with two apps side-by-side. No iPhone to date has supported running multiple apps on the display at the same time, beyond simple picture-in-picture mode features.

Many apps will feature sidebars on the left of the display, and developers will be given tools to adapt their existing apps for the new interface.

The ‌iPad‌ interface makes sense because the iPhone F [...]

Hands-On With the New MacBook Neo

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Happy MacBook Neo launch day! Apple's $599 notebook is finally here, and we picked one up to take a look at the new machine and share some first impressions.

From Tailnet to platform (Interview)

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Adam talks with Tailscale co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer David Carney about where Tailscale is headed next: TSIDP, TSNet, multiple tailnets, and Aperture. They get into clickless auth (via TSIDP), TSNet apps, multiple tailnets for isolation and control, and Aperture, Tailscale’s private AI gateway for API key management, observability, and agent security.

Galileo releases Agent Control, a centralized guardrails platform for enterprise AI agents

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Galileo, a company known for its AI observability and guardrails technology, on Wednesday released Agent Control, an open source control

The post Galileo releases Agent Control, a centralized guardrails platform for enterprise AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.

Watch: Apple's Lesser-Known Co-Founder Ronald Wayne to Appear at Event Tonight

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Following the release of his new book Apple: The First 50 Years, tech columnist David Pogue is hosting an Apple at 50: Five Decades of Thinking Different event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California tonight.


The event will be live streamed on YouTube for free, starting at 7 p.m. Pacific Time.

"From the early garage days of the 1970s, to the heyday of the Macintosh in the 1980s, to Apple's transformation in the 2000s with the iPhone, the program will explore how Apple repeatedly redefined itself while holding fast to a distinctive vision," the Computer History Museum s [...]

Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes

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Last month we reported on a strange story in two strange parts: first, a coder had his AI agent create an entire smear campaign against a coding repository volunteer because he rejected AI code. Second, an Ars Technica journalist named Benj Edwards used a bunch of quotes made up by ChatGPT in a story about […]

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B open model for large-scale AI systems

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Ahead of its flagship GTC conference next week, Nvidia on Wednesday launched the second model in its open-weight Nemotron 3

The post Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B open model for large-scale AI systems appeared first on The New Stack.

A DOGE Bro Allegedly Walked Out Of Social Security With 500 Million Americans’ Records On A Thumb Drive And Expected A Pardon If Caught

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From the very beginning of the DOGE saga, many of us raised alarms about what would happen when a bunch of inexperienced twenty-somethings were handed unfettered access to the most sensitive databases in the federal government with essentially zero oversight and zero adherence to the security protocols that exist for very good reasons. We wrote […]

Daily Deal: The 2026 Ultimate Web Development And Coding Bundle

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Learn key concepts, from data preprocessing to building and evaluating models, with hands-on projects to cement your skills with the 2026 Ultimate Web Development and Coding Bundle. The 13 courses cover C++, Pythong, HTML5, Git and GitHub, Power BI, MySQL, and more. It’s on sale for $40. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and […]

New Apple Studio Displays Double Internal Storage to 128GB

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The Apple Studio Display and ‌Studio Display‌ XDR are equipped with A19 and A19 Pro chips, respectively, and each display has 128GB of internal NAND storage.


With A-series chips, the Studio Displays run an iOS-based operating system, which is what the internal storage space is used for. The A19 and A19 Pro handle camera processing for the Center Stage camera, color calibration, USB and Thunderbolt device management, spatial audio, and more.

Storage space is necessary for the existing software, downloading new firmware updates over time, and perhaps for diagnostics, but the storage is not used for user-facing features.

The prior-generation ‌Studio Display‌ [...]

Tetrate launches open source marketplace to simplify Envoy adoption

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Agentic AI development company Tetrate has launched Built on Envoy, a free and open source extensions marketplace for Envoy. Envoy

The post Tetrate launches open source marketplace to simplify Envoy adoption appeared first on The New Stack.

Microsoft’s VS Code team moved to weekly releases after 10 years of monthly — and credits AI for making it possible

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Earlier this year, Pierce Boggan, the Product Lead for VS Code and GitHub Copilot at Microsoft, quietly dropped a bombshell

The post Microsoft’s VS Code team moved to weekly releases after 10 years of monthly — and credits AI for making it possible appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple Vision Pro is Getting the 'World's Most Advanced Flight Simulator'

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X-Plane, which is advertised as being the "world's most advanced flight simulator," is coming to Apple's Vision Pro in the next month or so.


The upcoming visionOS 26.4 update adds support for NVIDIA's CloudXR 6.0 platform, and this will enable Vision Pro users to wirelessly stream immersive PC games from NVIDIA RTX-powered servers via Wi-Fi, including the flight simulator X-Plane 12. According to Justin Ryan, the simulator will stream at up to 4K at 120 FPS.

Vision Pro users will be able to connect their own flight simulation hardware for an immersi [...]

Intel shores up its desktop CPU lineup with boosted Core Ultra 200S Plus chips

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New CPUs are a bit faster and a bit cheaper than the ones they replace.

JetBrains names the debt AI agents leave behind

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Developers have spent years fighting technical debt. Now there’s a new variant accumulating in codebases, and many teams don’t even

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Apple Ties Samsung as Top Smartphone Maker in 2025

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Apple and Samsung produced nearly the same number of smartphones in 2025, tying for the top position in global smartphone production, according to a new report from TrendForce.


Global smartphone production reached approximately 1.254 billion units in 2025, rising 2.5% year over year. The research firm says Apple and Samsung each produced nearly 240 million smartphones during the year, tying for the top position in global production.

TrendForce says the smartphone market in the first half of 2025 benefited from China's government subsidy programs, which stimulated demand, while the second half of the year was supported by the traditional seasonal peak driven by new flagship smartphone launches.

Apple's production inc [...]

“Self-healing” IT? HPE research explores how AI-trained models can catch silent infrastructure failures

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The volume of data and noise that comes with enterprise IT complexity leaves operations teams struggling to understand how to

The post “Self-healing” IT? HPE research explores how AI-trained models can catch silent infrastructure failures appeared first on The New Stack.

Immigration Officers Continue To Lie About Their Murders

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Flooding cities with federal officers more used to dealing with border crossings and customs enforcement has led to multiple killings by these officers. They’re not trained to do what they’re being ordered to do. And their new hires aren’t being given the training they need because, apparently, the job of ejecting non-whites from this country […]

The 2 failures with AI coding that are creating security bottlenecks

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Code assistants have fallen short of the “10x engineers” we expected. A recent GitLab survey of DevOps practitioners found that

The post The 2 failures with AI coding that are creating security bottlenecks appeared first on The New Stack.

The MySQL Shadow

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For much of Postgres's history, it has lived in the shadow of other relational systems, and for a time even in the shadow of NoSQL systems. Those shadows have faded, but it is helpful to reflect on this outcome.

On the proprietary side, most database products are now in maintenance mode. The only database to be consistently compared to Postgres was Oracle. Long-term, Oracle was never going to be able to compete against an open source development team, just like Sun's Solaris was

MacBook Pro to Receive 'Major Upgrade' by Early Next Year

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Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today said the MacBook Pro will receive a "major upgrade" with an OLED display by early next year.


In a blog post, Kuo said the new MacBook Pro will be released between late 2026 and early 2027.

With an OLED display, the MacBook Pro would have better image quality compared to the current models with LCD displays and mini-LED backlighting. Advantages of OLED displays include more vivid colors, higher contrast ratio, and wider viewing angles, and they can be more power efficient depending on the content being displayed.

The next-generation MacBook Pro is expected to feature [...]

Publish your data, AI techniques, and agentic engineering work on Towards Data Science

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If you’re reading The New Stack, there’s a good chance you’ve already done something worth writing about: built an agent

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Slashing agent token costs by 98% with RFC 9457-compliant error responses

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Cloudflare now returns RFC 9457-compliant structured Markdown and JSON error payloads to AI agents, replacing heavyweight HTML pages with machine-readable instructions. This reduces token usage by over 98%, turning brittle parsing into efficient control flow.

The Observability Bill is Coming Due – and AI Wrote Most of It

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AI Security for Apps is now generally available

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Cloudflare AI Security for Apps is now generally available, providing a security layer to discover and protect AI-powered applications, regardless of the model or hosting provider. We are also making AI discovery free for all plans, to help teams find and secure shadow AI deployments.

Things Going Great At Ellison’s Paramount As President Gets Mired In Accusations Of Press Manipulation And Leaking Company Info

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The President of Larry Ellison’s “new and improved” Paramount, Jeff Shell, has been conspicuously absent from recent events heralding the company’s problematic acquisition of Warner Brothers. The reason? Shell is being accused by a “whistleblower” and former partner of leaking company info, including early word of the company’s $7.7 billion August 2025 deal to obtain […]

Gemini Code Assist Gets Agent Auto-Approve, Inline Diffs, and Custom Commands to Speed Up the Core Coding Loop

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Microsoft Azure Skills Plugin Gives AI Coding Agents a Playbook for Cloud Deployment

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Anthropic Code Review Dispatches Agent Teams to Catch the Bugs That Skim Reads Miss

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"Feminization" and Deming

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The term “feminization” is, as the kids used to say, “suss,"[^1] but this reminds me of one of the points John Willis made in his Deming work.

There was a huge influx of women in corporate work/factories during WWII, and also lots of rapid process change. It was all wildly successful - proven by a clear outcome of winning the war! Then the men came back, patted the women (and Deming-ites) on the head and said “that’s nice, now back to normal…”

Original: Money, Talent, and the War Test: What WWII’s Female Labor Surge Says About “Feminization”

[1]: It usually, effectively, ends up meaning “being better,” or,

DOJ Lawyer: RFK Jr.’s Authority Shall Not Suffer Any Checks & Balances From The Courts

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I’ve spent a lot of digital ink detailing just how bad RFK Jr. has been in his post at HHS. Everything from his attempts to entirely remake vaccine policies in the country, to his neutered response to the ongoing measles outbreak in the country, up to and including his attempts to strong-arm the entire federal […]

Amazon calls engineers for a “deep dive” internal meeting to discuss “GenAI”-related outages

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A normally optional, routine Amazon meeting turned serious when the brand’s top retail executive summoned engineers to discuss a series

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Big change brings big change (News)

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This week's been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it's seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally playing DOOM. We've also got a heartfelt take on what it feels like to be a 10x engineer in the age of AI, plus some cool new tools like Handy for speech-to-text and web haptics. Oh, and new MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max are up for pre-order. Try not to impulse buy (or do).

With its latest Phi-4 reasoning model, Microsoft reckons bigger isn’t always better

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The dominant trend in artificial intelligence of late has been clear: bigger models, more data, more compute. But the cost

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Report: Lower Performing Software Engineering Teams Benefit More from AI

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Nvidia plans NemoClaw launch, an open-source platform for AI agents

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Nvidia is planning to launch NemoClaw, an open-source platform for AI agents, next week. The product is reportedly already being

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How to deploy an AI server on your Debian/Ubuntu server

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Whenever I use AI, I always opt to go with a locally installed instance. The reason for that is twofold.

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With GridGain acquisition, MariaDB bets on in-memory computing and Apache Ignite

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MariaDB is one of the stalwarts of the open-source database world. Born out of the MySQL fork following Oracle’s acquisition of

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Apple MacBook Neo review: Can a Mac get by with an iPhone’s processor inside?

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8GB of RAM is a bummer, but this $599 laptop cuts most of the right corners.

Investigating multi-vector attacks in Log Explorer

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Log Explorer customers can now identify and investigate multi-vector attacks. Log Explorer supports 14 additional Cloudflare datasets, enabling users to have a 360-degree view of their network.

Building a security overview dashboard for actionable insights

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Cloudflare's new Security Overview dashboard transforms overwhelming security data into prioritized, actionable insights, empowering defenders with contextual intelligence on vulnerabilities.

The AI Infrastructure crisis: When ambition meets ancient systems

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Artificial Intelligence has become a core capability in modern software systems, powering applications such as personalized recommendations, fraud detection, medical

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When Developer Workflow Discipline Isn’t Enough thectoadvisor.com/blog/2026… Selling cross-silo enterprise infrastructure stuff is very difficult:

These are platform engineering objections. And they’re coming from a team the vendor never talked to. Because the vendor optimized their story for developer adoption. They have research that tells them developers love this. What they don’t have is a conversation with the platform team that has to decide whether this can actually be operationalized inside a real enterprise environment."

It’s pretty much always devs versus ops in enterprises. They need organizational therapy from the top, and then the tools.

Translating risk insights into actionable protection: leveling up security posture with Cloudflare and Mastercard

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Cloudflare will be integrating Mastercard’s RiskRecon attack surface intelligence capabilities to help you eliminate Internet-facing blind spots while continuously monitoring and closing security gaps.

Your Data is Made Powerful By Context (so stop destroying it already) (xpost)

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Your Data Is Made Powerful By Context (so stop destroying it already) In logs as in life, the relationships are the most important part. AI doesn’t fix this. It makes it worse. (cross-posted) After twenty years of devops, most software engineers still treat observability like a fire alarm — something you check when things are already […]

Testing Apple's 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new "performance" cores

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M5 Pro Max's "performance" CPU cores definitely aren't just rebranded E-cores.