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Framework's RAM prices climbing on a "monthly cadence," with more hikes to come

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And Framework expects things to get worse before they get better.

Your RAG System is probably image-blind, but it doesn’t have to be

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In the race to deploy generative AI, most enterprises have mastered “text RAG” to chat with PDFs and spreadsheets. However,

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Bondi Spying On Congressional Epstein Searches Should Be A Major Scandal

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Yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee. Among the more notable exchanges was when Rep. Pramila Jayapal asked some of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims who were in the audience to stand up and indicate whether Bondi’s DOJ had ever contacted them about their experiences. None of them had heard from the Justice […]

It took two years, but Google released a YouTube app on Vision Pro

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App arrives months after Google requested takedowns of third-party options.

Ever, which says it is the first "AI-native, full-stack" retail marketplace for electric vehicles, raised a $31M Series A led by Eclipse (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

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Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
Ever, which says it is the first “AI-native, full-stack” retail marketplace for electric vehicles, raised a $31M Series A led by Eclipse  —  If you want to buy or sell a used EV right now, what's the first step you'd take?  —  A startup called Ever wants to be the answer to that question.

Apple Releases New Beta Firmware for AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods 4

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Apple today released new beta firmware for the AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, and AirPods 4. The firmware is limited to developers at the current time, and it has a build number of 8B5034f.


Apple is not testing any iOS updates right now, so it is unclear what's in the AirPods firmware beta.

With iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe, Apple added a beta firmware update installation option that's available from the AirPods settings interface when the AirPods are connected to an [...]

Anthropic says its run-rate revenue hit $14B, growing over 10x annually in the past three years, and Claude Code's run-rate revenue hit $2.5B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Anthropic says its run-rate revenue hit $14B, growing over 10x annually in the past three years, and Claude Code's run-rate revenue hit $2.5B  —  OpenAI has the largest private tech fundraising round on record.  Rival Anthropic now has the second.  —  Anthropic announced on Thursday …

Anthropic raised a $30B Series G from GIC, Coatue, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Nvidia, and others at a $380B post-money valuation (Anthropic)

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Anthropic:
Anthropic raised a $30B Series G from GIC, Coatue, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Nvidia, and others at a $380B post-money valuation  —  We have raised $30 billion in Series G funding led by GIC and Coatue, valuing Anthropic at $380 billion post-money.  The round was co-led by D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX.

Spotify says AI is helping it speed up coding and product velocity and its best developers "have not written a single line of code since December" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify says AI is helping it speed up coding and product velocity and its best developers “have not written a single line of code since December”  —  Has AI coding reached a tipping point?  That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during …

Sources: Palo Alto Networks ordered the removal of direct attributions to China from a Unit 42 report on a hacking campaign over fears of retaliation from China (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Sources: Palo Alto Networks ordered the removal of direct attributions to China from a Unit 42 report on a hacking campaign over fears of retaliation from China  —  Palo Alto Networks (PANW.O) opted not to tie China to a global cyberespionage campaign the firm exposed last week over concerns …

ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn’t Do What DHS Says It Could, Deployed It Anyway

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The DHS and its components want to find non-white people to deport by any means necessary. Of course, “necessary” is something that’s on a continually sliding scale with Trump back in office, which means everything (legal or not) is “necessary” if it can help White House advisor Stephen Miller hit his self-imposed 3,000 arrests per […]

Resource-sharing modular robots cut failure risk, boost reliability, and scale

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EPFL researchers have built a modular robot that becomes more reliable as it gains more...

VS Code becomes multi-agent command center for developers

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With its Visual Studio Code (VS Code) January 2026 release (v1.109), Microsoft is making the code editor “the home for

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Daily Deal: The 2026 Complete Firewall Admin Bundle

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Transform your future in cybersecurity with 7 courses on next‑level packet control, secure architecture, and cloud‑ready defenses inside the 2026 Complete Firewall Admin Bundle. Courses cover IT fundamentals, topics to help you prepare for the CompTIA Server+ and CCNA exams, and more. It’s on sale for $25. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and […]

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 237 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

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Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser.


‌Safari Technology Preview‌ 237 includes fixes and updates for Accessibility, CSS, DOM, HTML, Networking, Rendering, SVG, Web API, Web Authentication, Web Extensions, Web Inspector, and WebRTC.

The current ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release is compatible with machines [...]

ServiceNow is acquiring Pyramid Analytics, which makes business intelligence and analytics tools, sources say for hundreds of millions; Pyramid has raised $200M (Globes)

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Globes:
ServiceNow is acquiring Pyramid Analytics, which makes business intelligence and analytics tools, sources say for hundreds of millions; Pyramid has raised $200M  —  The acquisition price is estimated to be a few hundred million dollars, giving investors a low return.

GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is OpenAI's first AI model to run on chips from Nvidia rival Cerebras; OpenAI says Codex has more than 1M weekly active users (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is OpenAI's first AI model to run on chips from Nvidia rival Cerebras; OpenAI says Codex has more than 1M weekly active users  —  OpenAI is releasing its first artificial intelligence model that runs on chips from semiconductor startup Cerebras Systems Inc. …

OpenAI launches a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller version of GPT-5.3-Codex that it claims generates code 15 times faster, for Pro users (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

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David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI launches a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller version of GPT-5.3-Codex that it claims generates code 15 times faster, for Pro users  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — OpenAI targets “conversational” coding, not slow batch-style agents.  — Big latency wins: 80% faster roundtrip, 50% faster time-to-first-token.

Letter: the EU launched a new probe into Google for potentially "artificially increasing the clearing price" of ad auctions "to the detriment of advertisers" (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Letter: the EU launched a new probe into Google for potentially “artificially increasing the clearing price” of ad auctions “to the detriment of advertisers”  —  Google, the target for billions of euros in European Union antitrust fines, has been hit by a fresh EU probe …

OpenAI’s new Codex Spark model is built for speed

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OpenAI’s new here model is a bit of a departure for the company’s family of Codex software development models: its

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How low-bit inference enables efficient AI

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Making products like Dropbox Dash accessible to individuals and businesses means tackling new challenges around efficiency and resource use.

US DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater says she is leaving, in a departure viewed as a victory for tech giants over some of MAGA's more populist voices (Axios)

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Axios:
US DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater says she is leaving, in a departure viewed as a victory for tech giants over some of MAGA's more populist voices  —  Gail Slater on Thursday said she is leaving the Justice Department, where she led the antitrust division.

YouTube launches an app for the Apple Vision Pro, with standard videos, 180° and 360° videos, and YouTube Shorts; devices with the M5 chip can play 8K videos (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

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Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
YouTube launches an app for the Apple Vision Pro, with standard videos, 180° and 360° videos, and YouTube Shorts; devices with the M5 chip can play 8K videos  —  Starting today, an official YouTube app is available on the Apple Vision Pro, allowing you to watch videos on a theater-sized screen …

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Goes To Washington DC, Gets Section 230 Completely Backwards

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You may have heard last week that actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to Washington DC and gave a short speech at an event put on by Senator Dick Durbin calling for the sunsetting of Section 230. It’s a short speech, and it gets almost everything wrong about Section 230. Watch it here: Let me first say […]

Opaque, which offers enterprise tools for data privacy in AI workflows, raised a $24M Series B at a $300M valuation, bringing its total raised to $55.5M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

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Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
Opaque, which offers enterprise tools for data privacy in AI workflows, raised a $24M Series B at a $300M valuation, bringing its total raised to $55.5M  —  Confidential artificial intelligence platform provider Opaque Systems Inc. today announced that it has raised $24 million in new funding …

YouTube Launches on Apple Vision Pro

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Starting today, an official YouTube app is available on the Apple Vision Pro, allowing you to watch videos on a theater-sized screen with immersive visionOS Environments.


Every video on YouTube is available in the new, standalone visionOS app, including standard videos, 180° videos, 360° videos, and YouTube Shorts. And on the newer Apple Vision Pro with the M5 chip, you can even watch YouTube videos in 8K.

Apple Vision Pro users can access their YouTube subscriptions, playlists, watch history, and more.

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MiniMax releases M2.5, claiming the model delivers on the "intelligence too cheap to meter" promise, priced at $0.30/1M input tokens and $1.20/1M output tokens (MiniMax)

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MiniMax:
MiniMax releases M2.5, claiming the model delivers on the “intelligence too cheap to meter” promise, priced at $0.30/1M input tokens and $1.20/1M output tokens  —  Today we're introducing our latest model, MiniMax-M2.5.  —  Extensively trained with reinforcement learning …

Waymo begins deploying its next-gen Ojai robotaxis, which it says can better navigate in harsh weather, starting with employees and their guests in SF and LA (CNBC)

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CNBC:
Waymo begins deploying its next-gen Ojai robotaxis, which it says can better navigate in harsh weather, starting with employees and their guests in SF and LA  —  Waymo on Thursday said it has begun using its sixth-generation driverless system to provide robotaxi rides to employees on Ojai vehicles …

Ukraine develops low-cost laser-based weapon to counter Russian drone swarms

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Ukraine has developed a prototype laser-based weapon to bring down Russian drone swarms. Dubbed Sunray,...

Sony launches the $330 WF-1000XM6 earbuds, with AI-powered beamforming mics for enhanced voice call clarity, improved ANC, and hands-free Gemini on Android (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

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Chris Welch / Bloomberg:

Trump-class warships to fast-track powerful laser weapons rollout across US Navy

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The US Navy’s chief has fully supported directed energy weapons (DE), declaring that the advanced...

How intelligent orchestration transforms software innovation

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The software industry reached an inflection point in November and December 2025. Three breakthrough AI model releases, Gemini 3 by

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Apple's M5 iPad Pro Hits Multiple Record Low Prices on Amazon [Updated]

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Amazon this week is offering discounts across the M5 iPad Pro lineup, including both 11-inch and 13-inch models. Every deal on the 11-inch M5 iPad Pro that we're tracking below is a match of the all-time low price on these tablets.

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.

The highlight this time around is a return of a low price on the 256GB Wi-Fi 11-inch M5 iPad Pro, which is on sale for [...]

The hidden reason database debt is ten times harder to fix than code

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Technical debt is an inevitable byproduct of software development as complexity grows. However, unlike stateless application code, the stateful nature

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iOS 27 Will Add These New Features to Your iPhone

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While the first beta of iOS 27 is still four months away, there are already plenty of rumors about new features that will be included in the update.


Below, we recap iOS 27 rumors so far:

• Siri Chatbot: iOS 27 will reportedly include a full-out Siri chatbot that you can have back-and-forth conversations with. This would make Siri more like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. Due to delays, iOS 27 might also include at least some personalized Siri features that were announced back in 2024.


• New Apple Intelligence Features:

Arcjet SDKs Make It Simpler for Developers to Include Security Functions

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Europe’s most powerful rocket to lift off with four boosters for Amazon mission

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Europe will launch its most powerful rocket to date, the four-booster Ariane 64, from French...

Woot Takes 70% Off Solo/Braided Loops for Your Apple Watch

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Woot this month is back with a massive sale on Solo Loop and Braided Solo Loop bands for Apple Watch, with prices that match the previous record low Woot deals on these bands.

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

You can get the Solo Loop for just $14.99 ($34 off) and the Braided Solo Loop for $29.99 ($69 off). All bands in this sale are in brand new condition and come with a one-year Apple limited warranty.

Entire B-52 bomber fleet can be nuclear capable if ordered: US Global Strike Command

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The U.S. can restore nuclear capability to the entire B-52 bomber fleet, according to its...

Introducing Markdown for Agents

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The way content is discovered online is shifting, from traditional search engines to AI agents that need structured data from a Web built for humans. It’s time to consider not just human visitors, but start to treat agents as first-class citizens. Markdown for Agents automatically converts any HTML page requested from our network to markdown.

Apple Takes Full Control of 'Severance' in Surprise Deal

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Apple has fully acquired the rights to its hit Apple TV series "Severance," bringing future seasons and content in-house under Apple Studios, Deadline reports.


Apple is said to have acquired the intellectual property and all rights to Severance from Fifth Season in a deal valued at just under $70 million. Apple previously licensed "Severance" from Fifth Season. More than six years after ‌Apple TV‌ launched, Apple Studios now produces roughly half of the platform's slate.

The move transitions the series from an externally produced show to a fully in-house Apple Studios production, with Fifth Season remaining attached as an executive producer going [...]

ShareChat hit a billion features per second, then it had to make it 10x cheaper

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“Great system…now please make it 10 times cheaper.” That’s not exactly what the ShareChat team wanted to hear after completing

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US: New polymer-based cold-resistant EV battery maintains power even at extreme -40°F

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When the polar vortex gripped Chicago in early 2024, the city’s electric vehicle charging stations...

Donald Trump Is VERY EXCITED About All Of Our Shitty Right Wing Broadcasters Merging Into One Bigger, Even Shittier Company

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Trump 1.0 took a hatchet to media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades of bipartisan collaboration, prohibited local broadcasters and media from growing too large, trampling smaller (and more diversely-owned) competitors underfoot. The result of their destruction has been a rise in local news deserts, a surge in right wing propaganda outlets pretending to […]

300 MWe lead-cooled nuclear reactor with 968°F high-temp output advances with new deal

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The EAGLES Consortium and French developer newcleo have signed a collaboration agreement to develop the...

Google and Mercedes-Benz back humanoid robot Apollo in new global funding drive

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US robotics firm Apptronik is expanding its presence of humanoid robots on factory floors with...

‘World’s smallest autopilot’ tech turns any drone into an intelligent war machine

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London Defence R&D is developing a tiny autopilot system that can “transform any class of...

Force multiplied: 7 technologies merging man and machine for next-gen super soldier

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Next-generation super soldier technologies combine advanced equipment, software, and biotechnology to enhance a soldier’s strength,...

Tomb Raider Reboot Launches on iOS and Android

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Feral Interactive has announced the release of Tomb Raider on iOS and Android. Originally released in 2013 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Tomb Raider has been fully rebuilt for iOS and Android.


Coinciding with the franchise's 30th anniversary, this reboot of the console version includes the complete original campaign and all 12 DLC packs featuring extra upgrades, outfits, and a bonus Challenge Tomb.

In case you need reminding, here's the blurb:

Tomb Raider tells the story of Lara Croft's journey from novice explorer to battle-scarred heroine. Shipwrecked on a mysterious island and armed only with her instincts, to survive she must overcome her limits and be reborn a legend.

The island's forest canopy hides murderous cultists, rampaging mercenaries, crumbling t

Tim Cook Faces FTC Warning Over Apple News Curation

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Apple has been issued a warning letter from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, urging it to review its content curation for Apple News so as to ensure that it is not suppressing conservative publications.


In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, seen by the Financial Times, FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson cites recent press coverage of a report from conservative media watchdog Media Research Center (MRC), which claimed that Apple has promoted "leftist outlets" in its content choices.

The report in question by the MRC said that in January, Apple News "refrained from using any right-leaning outlets in the top 20 articles of its morning editions between Jan. 1 and Jan. 31, 2026." The outlets named in the report include Fox [...]

Secure DevOps at Scale: Integrating SRE, DevSecOps and Compliance

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When Open Networks Meet AI Coding: A Tsunami of Smart Enterprise Apps

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Apple Stores See iPhone 16e, iPad Air Shortages as New Models Near

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Apple's retail inventory of iPhone 16e and iPad Air models has reportedly dwindled to almost nothing as the company inches towards the release of new versions of both devices. They are expected to launch in the coming weeks.


In a post on X (Twitter), Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman said that stock of iPhone 16e models has "basically dried out," while the iPad Air is seeing shortages as well, based on what his Apple retail contacts are telling him.

Just this past weekend, Gurman reported that the iPhone 17e is set to launch "imminently" with four new features, including the A19 chip, MagSafe connectivity, Apple's new cellular C1X mode [...]

Related to your interests, Thursday

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• Why it was a Boston vacation.
• Europe set to treble sovereign cloud investment - “European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.” More context:
• Sovereign Computing, panel - This was a great panel, very detailed on topics and actually trying to figure out what to do, talking through hurdles, etc.
• Anthropic’s breakout moment: how Claude won busines

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Ask yourself: which lock-in would an enterprise CFO prefer: Being locked into a CRM that holds 15 years of customer data, process customizations, and institutional context that would take two years and $50 million to migrate? Or, being locked into a foundation model that could be swapped for a competitor by changing an API endpoint?

🔗 The $285 Billion ‘SaaSpocalypse’ Is the Wrong Panic

Dr. Oz: Vaccine Mandates Are Bad. I’ll Just Beg People To Get Vaccinated Instead.

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I want to say a little something upfront in this post, so that there is no misunderstanding. While I’ve spent a great deal of time outlining why I think RFK Jr. and his cadre of buffoons at HHS and its child agencies are horrible for America and her people’s health, I do understand some of […]

Will Apple Music Get AI Playlists in iOS 27?

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AI features are expanding to all kinds of apps, and it's getting difficult to find a service that hasn't embraced AI. Lately, AI playlists in music apps have been growing in popularity, and it's plausible that we'll see Apple adopt the trend in the near future.

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Anthropic's Claude Gets More Free Features as OpenAI Starts Showing Ads in ChatGPT

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Anthropic today said that customers who use Claude without a subscription can create files, use connectors, and access skills, all of which are features that used to require a paid plan.


The announcement comes two days after OpenAI said that it was starting to roll out ads for ChatGPT users who don't have a paid subscription, or who use the most affordable Go plan.

Anthropic last week promised to keep Claude ad-free, potentially luring ChatGPT users to Claude. The new free options appear to be a continuation of its effort to target people who don't want to see ads when using a chatbot.

Fre [...]

T-Mobile Launches Beta for Free Real-Time Call Translation on Any Phone

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T-Mobile today announced a new live translation feature that allows conversations to be translated in real-time when calling someone from any phone on the T-Mobile network.


Live translation does not require any apps, and it is a free service that T-Mobile is offering in a beta capacity. T-Mobile users can sign up to test live translation on the T-Mobile website, with limited spots available.

The feature works with more than 50 languages, and voice conversations are translated for each speaker "almost instantly." T-Mobile says that users can speak how they normally do on calls, with live translation detecting the languages and voices that are speaking for a natural conversation.

Live translation is built into the T-Mobi [...]

The Policy Risk Of Closing Off New Paths To Value Too Early

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Artificial intelligence promises to change not just how Americans work, but how societies decide which kinds of work are worthwhile in the first place. When technological change outpaces social judgment, a major capacity of a sophisticated society comes under pressure: the ability to sustain forms of work whose value is not obvious in advance and […]

You can’t fire a bot: The blunt truth about AI slop and your job

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Matan-Paul Shetrit puts it bluntly: “If you generate slop, I’m not blaming the AI, I’m blaming you.” As Director of

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U.S. TikTok Introduces 'Local Feed' to Surface Nearby Events and Content

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The U.S. version of TikTok is being updated with a new community-focused "Local Feed," according to a blog post shared by the TikTok USDS Joint Venture.


The Local Feed is designed to let TikTok users "discover and connect with content, businesses, and services" wherever they are. Available from a tab on the TikTok home screen, the feed features content related to travel, events, restaurants, and shopping, plus posts from nearby small businesses and local creators.

TikTok U.S. says that posts are selected based on location, the topic of the content, and when the content was posted. TikTok users who want access to the Local Feed will need to turn on precise location.

"This approach is consistent with how many modern apps use location today [...]

CodeHunter API Integrates Deterministic AI Models into DevSecOps Workflows

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Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

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He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.

Peter Mandelson Invokes Press Harassment Protections To Dodge Questions About His Support Of Jeffrey Epstein

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Peter Mandelson—the former UK cabinet minister who was just sacked as Britain’s ambassador to the United States over newly revealed emails with Jeffrey Epstein—has found a novel way to avoid answering questions about why he told a convicted sex offender “your friends stay with you and love you” and urged him to “fight for early […]

iOS 26.3 Features: Everything New in iOS 26.3

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Apple released iOS 26.3 today, and while it doesn't have as many features as iOS 26.1 or iOS 26.2, there are still a couple of new additions worth knowing about.

Transfer to Android

Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

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Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder's journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what's going to prod, what's not, and why he's (at least for a bit) back to coding by hand.

"Windows 11 26H1" is a special version of Windows exclusively for new Arm PCs

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Arm PCs have enjoyed special treatment from Microsoft for the past two years.

New Siri Runs Into Problems, Features Could Be Pushed to iOS 26.5 and iOS 27

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Apple has "run into snags" testing the more personalized, smarter version of Siri that's planned for iOS 26.4, reports Bloomberg. Because of the issues, the upcoming ‌Siri‌ features will be spread across several upcoming iOS releases and won't all come in the spring iOS 26.4 update.


Apple could postpone some or all of the new ‌Siri‌ features until iOS 26.5, an update planned for May, and iOS 27, which will launch this September.

We've been waiting on the Apple Intelligence version of ‌Siri‌ since iOS 18, when Apple deb [...]

Google recovers "deleted" Nest video in high-profile abduction case

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Users only get three hours of free Nest video storage, but Google can retrieve videos much later.

Bluefin Linux: ChromeOS simplicity meets Linux power

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Imagine you could use an operating system that’s as easy as ChromeOS, while also being as powerful as Linux. What

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Apple releases iOS 26.3 with updates that mainly benefit non-Apple devices

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It's getting a little easier to move from iOS to Android, if that's your thing.

10 iPhone Tips and Tricks You Probably Didn't Know About

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No matter how well you think you know your iPhone, there are always tons of hidden features and shortcuts that you aren't aware of, or might have forgotten about. We've rounded up 10 useful ‌iPhone‌ features that are worth knowing about to make using your ‌iPhone‌ just a little more pleasant.

1. Alarms in Reminders - You can set an alarm for a reminder, so you get a pop-up that has to be snoozed or dismissed rather than just a notification.


2. Adaptive Power Mode - Adaptive Power Mode is a setting yo

The System Of Checks And Balances Doesn’t Work When One Branch Refuses To Play By The Rules

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Technically — TECHNICALLY! — we still have a system that relies on three co-equal branches to ensure that any single branch can’t steamroll the rest of the system (along with the nation it’s supposed to serve) to seize an unequal amount of power. Technically. What we’re seeing now is something else entirely. The judicial branch […]

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

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

Update Now: iOS 26.3 and macOS Tahoe 26.3 Fix Dozens of Security Vulnerabilities

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Apple today released iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, and macOS Tahoe 26.3, all of which largely focus on bug fixes and security improvements. Apple says that the updates address dozens of vulnerabilities, including one that is known to have been actively exploited.


That vulnerability in the dyld dynamic link editor could allow for the execution of arbitrary code, and Apple says the bug may have been exploited in an "extremely sophisticated attack" against targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 26.

An attacker with memory write capability may be able to execute arbitrary code. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may ha

Smart home PSA: Apple's "new architecture" for Home app becomes mandatory today

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Updated Home app is required for Matter support and some types of accessories.

Apple Releases iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3

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Apple today released iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3, the latest updates to the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 operating systems that came out in September. The new software comes almost two months after Apple released iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2.


The new software can be downloaded on eligible iPhones and iPads over-the-air by going to Settings > General > Software Update.

According to Apple's release notes, iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3 include unspecified bug fixes and security updates, but there are a couple features that Apple didn't highlight.

The updates add a tool for transitioning from an Apple device to an Android device. Tr [...]

Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.3

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Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26.3, the third major update to the ‌macOS Tahoe‌ operating system. ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.3 comes two months after Apple released macOS Tahoe 26.2.


Mac users can download the new software by opening up the System Settings app and navigating to the Software Update section.

According to Apple's release notes, ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.3 focuses on bug fixes and security updates rather than new features, so it is a smaller update than some of the other releases we've had.

In the next couple of weeks, Apple will begin testing ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4, an update that is expected to be much more feature p [...]

Your infrastructure is evolving, but is your operational framework still stuck in the past?

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Major service outages are becoming more frequent, more severe, and taking longer to resolve. According to recent survey data, the

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The Death of Traditional Testing: Agentic Development Broke a 50-Year-Old Field, JiTTesting Can Revive It

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WHAT IT IS The rise of agentic software development means code is being written, reviewed, and shipped faster than ever before across the entire industry. It also means that testing frameworks need to evolve for this rapidly changing landscape. Faster development demands faster testing that can catch bugs as they land in a codebase, without [...]

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Insights from our executive roundtable on AI and engineering productivity

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From Claude Code to Cursor, we're big adopters of AI coding tools at Dropbox. The early results have been promising, but there are still a lot of open questions about how to work with these tools most effectively and where they can have the most impact. To push this conversation forward, we hosted an executive roundtable at our San Francisco studio. Here's how it went.

How AI Helps Teams Track Dependencies and Reduce Delivery Risk

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Rein Security Emerges to Analyze Reachability of Application Vulnerabilities

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Former GitHub CEO Bets $60M That Developer Tools Need a Factory Reset for the AI Age

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Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn't need new platforms

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For your enterprise AI projects, what you want now is resilience. I’m using that term from a paper called “AI as a Normal Technology." There, resilience means " taking actions now to improve our ability to deal with unexpected developments in the future.” There’s a lot of great thinking in that paper, but I want to narrow it down to what management at companies should be doing with AI-driven projects and strategies.

What these executives should do now is put in places systems, policies, and tools to explore, learn, and then apply AI. The system they use should have less to do with bui

Query Database Using Plain English

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Introduction

In this post you’ll see how you can create a system that allows users to query a relational database using plain English. This allows users not familiar with SQL or business intelligence systems to get insights from data.

Setting Up

If you want to follow along, you’ll need to clone the code from the GitHub repo. This will download the code, and the database file containing the data (bikes.ddb)

Note: The data is from the Austin Bike Share dataset.

62% of enterprises now use Java to power AI apps

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According to a new report released today, an increasing number of enterprises are using Java as a foundational language for

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CodeRabbit Adds DevOps Planning and Review Tool for AI Prompts

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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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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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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.

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.

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 enterprises 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?

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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

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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.

Survey: Java Developers Wrestling With Massive Amounts of Technical Debt

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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

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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

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