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In a newly released deposition in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, Musk attacked OpenAI's safety record, saying nobody "committed suicide because of Grok" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
In a newly released deposition in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, Musk attacked OpenAI's safety record, saying nobody “committed suicide because of Grok”  —  In a newly released deposition filed in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, the tech executive attacked OpenAI's safety record …

As part of the Amazon-OpenAI deal, the companies plan a "stateful runtime environment" for AWS, letting agents carry context forward to handle ongoing projects (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Ina Fried / Axios:
As part of the Amazon-OpenAI deal, the companies plan a “stateful runtime environment” for AWS, letting agents carry context forward to handle ongoing projects  —  A deal with OpenAI could put Amazon first to market with a new type of AI service for developers …

Apple Music Coming to Chocolate Bars

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Apple is working with German confectionary brand Ritter Sport to offer a unique Apple Music promotion.


The collaboration, branded as "Limited Edition Ritter Sport x ‌Apple Music‌," involves promoting iconic albums on Ritter Sport's iconic 100g square chocolate bars (via Macerkopf). There will be a QR code on the back of each bar that links directly to the album on ‌Apple Music‌ and provides a free trial subscription to the service.

Ritter Sport and ‌Apple Music‌ have selected five albums that have shaped German music history across different genres, including Cro's "RAOP," Marteria's "Happy for the Future II," Scorpions' "C [...]

Amazon is paying ~16x Microsoft's price per OpenAI percentage point, while getting none of Microsoft's exclusives, showing the cost of being late in AI (Om Malik/On my Om)

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Om Malik / On my Om:
Amazon is paying ~16x Microsoft's price per OpenAI percentage point, while getting none of Microsoft's exclusives, showing the cost of being late in AI  —  My word, the torrent of news keeps coming.  You have hardly had time to digest the news of the $30 billion raise by Anthropic …

OpenAI fired an employee for insider trading on prediction markets like Polymarket; Unusual Whales has flagged 77 suspected insider trades around OpenAI events (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

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Kate Knibbs / Wired:
OpenAI fired an employee for insider trading on prediction markets like Polymarket; Unusual Whales has flagged 77 suspected insider trades around OpenAI events  —  Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

Source: OpenAI expects to raise an additional $10B from financial investors by the end of March 2026, bringing its post-investment valuation to $850B (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: OpenAI expects to raise an additional $10B from financial investors by the end of March 2026, bringing its post-investment valuation to $850B  —  OpenAI expects to raise an additional $10 billion from financial investors by the end of March, adding to the $110 billion it's secured from SoftBank …

Two coalitions of workers, including employees of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, ask their companies to join Anthropic in refusing DOD's demands (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Two coalitions of workers, including employees of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, ask their companies to join Anthropic in refusing DOD's demands  —  Anthropic PBC got a vote of support from Silicon Valley workers for its increasingly contentious public-relations battle with the Pentagon …

Verizon Continues To Make Phone Unlocking Annoying (With The Trump FCC’s Help)

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Earlier this year we noted how the Trump FCC, at the direct request of wireless phone giants, destroyed popular phone unlocking rules making it easier and cheaper to switch wireless carriers. The rules, applied via spectrum acquisition and merger conditions after years of activism, required that Verizon unlock your phone within 60 days after purchase so […]

Daily Deal: The 2026 Microsoft Office Pro Bundle

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The 2026 Microsoft Office Pro Bundle has 8 courses to help you master essential Office skills. Courses cover Access, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and more. It’s on sale for $25. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all sales from Techdirt Deals helps support Techdirt. The products featured do […]

Court docs from a New Mexico trial reveal internal divisions at Meta as Instagram teen safety initiatives conflicted with growth and engagement goals (The Atlantic)

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The Atlantic:
Court docs from a New Mexico trial reveal internal divisions at Meta as Instagram teen safety initiatives conflicted with growth and engagement goals 

Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman says the AI music company hit 2M paid subscribers and $300M ARR; pitch deck: it had 1M paid subscribers in November 2025 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)

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Kristin Robinson / Billboard:
Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman says the AI music company hit 2M paid subscribers and $300M ARR; pitch deck: it had 1M paid subscribers in November 2025  —  The AI startup reports rapid growth, strong retention rates and rising engagement. … On Wednesday, Suno CEO …

OpenAI eyes global domination with $110B Amazon and NVIDIA raise, value hits $840B

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OpenAI has raised $110 billion in new funding at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, marking...

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir

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If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged that suing a small independent magazine over unflattering-but-accurate reporting would only guarantee that millions more people read it. And yet, here we are. […]

India-based Ultrahuman launches the $479 Ring Pro, available for pre-order globally, excluding the US, after the ITC ruled in favor of Oura in a patent dispute (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
India-based Ultrahuman launches the $479 Ring Pro, available for pre-order globally, excluding the US, after the ITC ruled in favor of Oura in a patent dispute  —  Ultrahuman on Friday unveiled a new smart ring with longer battery life and a redesigned form factor, as the Bengaluru-based wearable maker seeks …

MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 17 and an Anti-Reflective Fresh Coat Screen Protector From Astropad

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For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Astropad to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an iPhone 17 and an anti-reflective Fresh Coat screen protector from Astropad to go along with it.


Fresh Coat is a screen protector that Astropad created with an optical-grade anti-reflective coating to reduce glare and provide a better iPhone viewing experience. The technology cuts reflections by 75 percent, while improving contrast and keeping colors vibrant. Unlike other anti- [...]

Flux, which offers an AI-powered platform to design PCBs for electronic devices, raised $37M, including a $27M Series B led by 8VC and a $10M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

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Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Flux, which offers an AI-powered platform to design PCBs for electronic devices, raised $37M, including a $27M Series B led by 8VC and a $10M Series A  —  Senior Finance Reporter And Author Of Term Sheet  —  In 2018, Matthias Wagner was leading a 100-person Burning Man camp called Hotel California.

TMTG says it is in talks to spin off Truth Social into a public company, following the close of its previously announced merger with nuclear fusion startup TAE (Christine Wang/Axios)

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Christine Wang / Axios:
TMTG says it is in talks to spin off Truth Social into a public company, following the close of its previously announced merger with nuclear fusion startup TAE  —  Trump Media & Technology Group said Friday it is in talks to spin off Truth Social into a new publicly traded company.

German firm trials first 100% hydrogen marine engine with increased power density

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Germany-based Everllence has upgraded a research-engine test bench at its Augsburg site to enable hydrogen...

TikTok returns to Albania after a year-long ban, ostensibly linked to the death of a teenage boy, expired; Albania says TikTok has tightened safety measures (Reuters)

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Reuters:
TikTok returns to Albania after a year-long ban, ostensibly linked to the death of a teenage boy, expired; Albania says TikTok has tightened safety measures  —  Social media platform TikTok is back in Albania after a year-long ban expired this month, in a case illustrating the complexity …

Deepinder Goyal, who stepped down as Zomato's CEO, raised $54M at a $190M valuation for Temple, which aims to make high-performance wearables for elite athletes (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Deepinder Goyal, who stepped down as Zomato's CEO, raised $54M at a $190M valuation for Temple, which aims to make high-performance wearables for elite athletes  —  Weeks after stepping down as CEO from food delivery service Zomato and its parent Eternal, Indian entrepreneur Deepinder Goyal …

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Get $100 Off Apple Watch Series 11, Plus Save on iPhone 17 TechWoven Cases and More

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This week we tracked quite a few deals across numerous Apple products, including low prices on Apple Watch Series 11, AirPods Max, and iPhone 17 TechWoven cases, all of which are still available today. You'll also find great discounts on portable power stations and Samsung's new Galaxy S26 smartphones below.

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OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900M+ weekly active users, 50M+ consumer subscribers, and weekly Codex users have more than tripled since the start of the year to 1.6M (OpenAI)

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OpenAI:
OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900M+ weekly active users, 50M+ consumer subscribers, and weekly Codex users have more than tripled since the start of the year to 1.6M  —  AI demand is surging across consumers, developers, and businesses.  Meeting that demand and providing everyone access …

US-built nuclear reactor simulator to power cheaper microreactors and space tech

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Scientists in the US have recently developed a powerful new digital test bed, the Griffin...

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines with respect to AI use by the military, which are "an issue for the whole industry" (Axios)

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Axios:
Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines with respect to AI use by the military, which are “an issue for the whole industry”  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a memo to staff that he will draw the same red lines that sparked a high-stakes fight between rival Anthropic …

Two More Studio Display 2 Upgrades Leaked in New Report

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Macworld's Filipe Espósito today again reported that Apple appears to be developing two new Studio Display models with different specs.


Based on lines of code in "internal Apple files," which likely refers to a macOS Tahoe Kernel Debug Kit that leaked online last year, Espósito continues to believe that both of the new Studio Display models will feature ProMotion, enabling up to a 120Hz refresh rate, as well as HDR support for increased brightness and dynamic range.

For the higher-end Studio Display, the report has revealed two more potential upgrades that had yet to be rumored until now, including superior speakers and more and/or higher-spec port [...]

Netflix cedes Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount: “No longer financially attractive”

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Netflix shares jumped following the announcement.

How to downgrade from macOS 26 Tahoe on a new Mac

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Most new Macs can still be downgraded with few downsides. Here's what to know.

New method solves ‘buried interface’ problem to build large-area solar cells with 23.15% efficiency

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Researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) in China have improved...

Harness Readies Resilience Testing Platform to Make Applications More Robust

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New battery recharges using sunlight, releases hydrogen on discharge with 72% efficiency

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A new copolymer-based battery developed by researchers at Ulm and Jena universities in Germany stores...

Apple TV's Second-Largest Market Is Brazil, Says Eddy Cue

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Apple's SVP of services Eddy Cue has revealed that Brazil is Apple TV's second-largest market by subscriber count and its fastest-growing, in an interview with Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo (via 9to5Mac).


Speaking on the sidelines of Apple's recent media event in Santa Monica where the company previewed its 2026 content slate, Cue acknowledged that Apple has yet to produce any original [...]

China’s detachable power generator for pure electric cars could end EV range anxiety

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A Chinese company has introduced a detachable range-extending device designed to address one of the...

Apple says it has "a big week ahead." Here's what we expect to see.

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Apple is taking an "ain't broke/don't fix" approach to most of its gadgets.

Germany receives unmanned submarine built for anti-submarine warfare from Israel

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An Israeli firm has delivered an autonomous submarine to the German Navy, marking the first...

Rare Old Irish Goat proven to descend from 3,000-year-old Bronze Age herds

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Recent biomolecular research has confirmed that the Old Irish goat is more than just a...

With Netflix Retreat, Trump Ally Larry Ellison Will Soon Own Warner Brothers, HBO, CNN, CBS, Paramount, Discovery, And Part Of TikTok

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Netflix has retreated from its protracted bidding war with Larry Ellison for control of Warner Brothers, giving the Trump ally likely control of Warner, CNN, and HBO. In a statement, Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said that Paramount’s latest offer made the acquisition financially irresponsible: “The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder […]

Apple Asks Judge to Toss Fraud Claims Over Siri AI, Epic Compliance

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Apple has asked a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit accusing the company of defrauding shareholders by overstating Siri's Apple Intelligence capabilities and misrepresenting its compliance with the Epic Games App Store injunction.


At WWDC in June 2024, Apple previewed two of Siri's most anticipated Apple Intelligence upgrades – personal context and onscreen awareness. The features were supposed to arrive as part of iOS 18 and were promoted the same year when launching the iPhone 16 models, but Apple is still working on them. In 2025, CEO Tim Cook acknowledged in 2025 that developing a "more personal" Siri was "taking a bit longer than we thought."

The delay led Apple to be accused in a March 2025 [...]

Blender iPad App Development Halted as Android Tablets Get Priority

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Blender's work on a native iPad version of its open source 3D creation suite has been shelved, according to the development team.


Back in July, Blender revealed that it was developing for iPad, with an iPad Pro version of its desktop software coming first, complete with a fully-featured multitouch interface and support for Apple Pencil Pro. No release date was announced at the time.

Now it doesn't look like that's about to happen anytime soon. In January, a status update appeared on Blender's GitHub page for iPad development saying that the project is on hold until further notice.

No reason for [...]

Netflix Walks Away From Warner Bros Deal, Paramount Set to Take Over

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Netflix has dropped out of the takeover battle for Warner Bros. Discovery, putting Paramount Skydance on course to win the whole WBD business.


The world's largest streaming service had been pegged to land a deal in which it would acquire Warner Bros., HBO, and HBO Max in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $72 billion in equity and $82.7 billion, including debt. But after Paramount submitted a final offer, valuing WBD at $111bn including debt, Netflix declined to match it.

In an announcement on Thursday, Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said:

The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder val

I Learned Traffic Optimization Before I Learned Cloud Computing. It Turns Out the Lessons Were the Same.

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Toxic combinations: when small signals add up to a security incident

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Minor misconfigurations or request anomalies often seem harmless in isolation. But when these small signals converge, they can trigger a security incident known as a toxic combination. Here’s how to spot the signs.

We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript

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The Web streams API has become ubiquitous in JavaScript runtimes but was designed for a different era. Here's what a modern streaming API could (should?) look like.

The most-seen UI on the Internet? Redesigning Turnstile and Challenge Pages

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We serve 7.6 billion challenges daily. Here’s how we used research, AAA accessibility standards, and a unified architecture to redesign the Internet’s most-seen user interface.

Bringing more transparency to post-quantum usage, encrypted messaging, and routing security

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Cloudflare Radar has added new tools for monitoring PQ adoption, KT logs for messaging, and ASPA routing records to track the Internet's migration toward more secure encryption and routing standards.

ASPA: making Internet routing more secure

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ASPA is the cryptographic upgrade for BGP that helps prevent route leaks by verifying the path network traffic takes. New features in Cloudflare Radar make tracking its adoption easy.

2 Months Into 2026 We Are Over Half 2025’s Total Count Of Measles Cases

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Measles. Yes, yes, I know you’re sick of hearing about it. For that, though, you must lay the blame at the feet of Donald Trump, RFK Jr., and this entire administration of clown-tools that isn’t bothering to do anything about what has become the worst continuous outbreak of the disease in America in several decades. […]

Ways to dramatically reduce Go binary size

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#​591 — February 27, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly

What's Coming in the M5 MacBook Air

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Along with the low-cost MacBook, Apple could introduce a refreshed version of the MacBook Air next week. Most of the focus will be on the new machine, but the ‌MacBook Air‌ is expected to get some useful internal updates.

M5 Chip

Razer Launches MagSafe-Compatible Laptop Sleeve for Charging Your iPhone and AirPods

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Razer today introduced a new 16-inch laptop sleeve that has an integrated wireless charging feature for smartphones and other small devices like earbuds. Priced at $130, the sleeve includes two MagSafe-compatible wireless charging zones, so it can charge an iPhone and AirPods at the same time.


The wireless charger is integrated into the top of the laptop sleeve, and the magnets serve as a clasp when the sleeve is closed and being used to transport a laptop. Power is delivered through a USB-C cable that can be plugged into a 30W+ power adapter or a Mac.

Charging speeds are limited to 15W, so you won't get full speed wireless chargin [...]

Apple-Supported Aliro 1.0 Smart Lock Standard Officially Released

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The Connectivity Standards Alliance, which includes Apple, today released the Aliro 1.0 specification. Aliro is a new standard aimed at improving the way that smart door locks work with smartphones and wearables.


Aliro supports interoperability between mobile devices, wearables, and access control readers, so smart locks can work with any smartphone or wearable device without the need for a dedicated app. It is aimed at improving smart locks for the home, but also for corporate offices, universities, and hotels.

Apple, Google, and Samsung support Aliro, and Aliro-enabled locks will be able to be added to wallet apps on iPhone and Android devices. Major smart home companies that produce smart locks have also signed on to support Aliro. The Alliance says that Ap [...]

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Let Fly The Claudes Of War, With Casey Newton

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online […]

Apple Releases visionOS 26.3.1 to Fix Multiview Flicker Issue in Apple TV App

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Apple today released visionOS 26.3.1, a minor update to the visionOS 26 operating system. visionOS 26.3.1 comes two weeks after the launch of visionOS 26.3.


‌visionOS 26‌.3 can be downloaded on all Vision Pro headsets by navigating to the Settings app, selecting the General section, and choosing the Software Update option. To install an update, the Vision Pro headset needs to be removed, and there is a software progress bar available on the exterior EyeSight display.

According to Apple's release notes for the update, it fixes a flicker issue that could happen when watching sports content with MultiView in the Apple TV app.
This article, " [...]

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 238 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 238 includes fixes and updates for Animations, CSS, Editing, Forms, Networking, Rendering, Scrolling, SVG, Web API, Web Inspector, WebAssembly, and WebRTC.

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

New Low-Cost iPad Coming Next Week: What to Expect

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One of the new products that we could see next week is a refreshed version of the low-cost iPad. As with the iPad Air, we're not expecting major changes, but it is expected to get some meaningful internal upgrades.

Design

DOJ’s Losing Streak Continues Because Federal Officers Just Can’t Stop Lying

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I’ll take my joy where I can. And this iteration of the Trump DOJ continues to provide bright bursts of schadenfreude-tinted sunshine. Any competent DOJ can close cases. Any barely competent prosecutor can push a case past a grand jury. Any sufficiently slippery solicitor (mixing in some British for the sheer alliteration of it all) […]

DRAM Shortage Will Cause 'Seismic Shift' in Smartphone Market, But Apple Will Be Less Affected

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Global memory scarcity will cause a 13 percent drop in smartphone sales in 2026, according to IDC (via Bloomberg). DRAM is in short supply because AI companies are buying huge quantities of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for servers in data centers, and manufacturers are prioritizing HBM instead of the memory used in consumer devices.


IDC says that the global memory supply has been drained into next year, putting smartphone makers in a tough spot. Prices have spiked because there's not enough memory to meet production needs, which will cause a smartphone market "crisis like no other."

Smartphone makers are expected to ship 1.1 billion devices in 2026, down from 1.26 billion in 20 [...]

From vibes to engineering: How AI agents outgrew their own terminology

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Andrej Karpathy probably didn’t set out to retire “vibe coding” just a year after popularizing it, but time and technological

The post From vibes to engineering: How AI agents outgrew their own terminology appeared first on The New Stack.

Malicious NPM Package Gets Downloaded 50K Times Before Discovery

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“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool To Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. When county clerk Brianna Lennon got an email in November saying a newly expanded federal system had flagged 74 people on the county’s voter roll as potential noncitizens, she was taken aback. Lennon, who’d run elections in Boone County, Missouri, for seven years, had heard the […]

Apple Releases Xcode 26.3 With Support for AI Agents From Anthropic and OpenAI

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After several weeks of testing, Apple today released Xcode 26.3, an update that allows developers to use tools like Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex for app creation directly in Xcode.


With support for agentic coding, Xcode can complete more complex app development tasks autonomously. Apple worked with Anthropic and OpenAI to configure their agents for use in Xcode and to ensure that AI models can access a full range of Xcode features.

Agents are able to create new files, examine code structure of a project, build a project directly and run tests, take image snapshots to check their work, and access Apple's full, up-to-date developer documentation.

Along with OpenAI and Anthropic models, Xcode 26.3 is compatible with any agent or tool that uses the open standard Model Context Protocol. < [...]

iPhone and iPad Are First Consumer Devices Cleared for NATO Classified Data

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The iPhone and iPad can be used with NATO restricted level classified information after meeting NATO's information assurance requirements, Apple said today. No special software or settings are required.


Apple's devices are the first and only consumer mobile products that have reached this government certification level after security testing and evaluation by the German government. iPhones and iPads running iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 are now certified for use with classified data in all NATO nations [...]

Netdata is a seriously impressive server monitoring tool

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Every once in a while, I come across a tool that makes me lean back and go, “Wooo, that’s cool!”

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The agent pull request flood is here. If you run Istio, you’re halfway to solving it.

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Agentic workflows are rapidly accelerating the volume of pull requests, and validation is quickly becoming the most critical bottleneck. Teams

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Digital Transformation at Santander: How Platform Engineering is Revolutionizing Cloud Infrastructure

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Santander faced a significant technical challenge in managing an infrastructure that processes billions of daily transactions across more than 200 critical systems. The solution emerged through an innovative platform engineering initiative called Catalyst, which transformed the bank's cloud infrastructure and development management. This post analyzes the main cases, benefits, and results obtained with this initiative.

The DOJ ‘Forgot’ To Mention The Law Restricting Searches Of Journalists. The Judge Is Not Happy

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We wrote recently about the FBI’s pre-dawn raid on Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home, in which agents seized two laptops, a phone, a portable hard drive, a recording device, and even a Garmin watch. Natanson covers the federal workforce and had cultivated nearly 1,200 confidential sources across more than 120 government agencies. She was […]

Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today

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Google's new image model replaces the previous versions immediately.

Google’s Nano Banana 2 promises Flash speeds with Pro results

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Google on Thursday launched the latest version of its Nano Banana image generation model, which promises to improve upon last

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Using LLMs to amplify human labeling and improve Dash search relevance

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How we train Dash's search ranking models with a mix of human and LLM-assisted labeling.

Upcoming Apple Announcements Likely to Focus on Chip Refreshes

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Apple's imminent series of announcements will focus on chip updates, rather than redesigned devices, according to a known leaker.


In a new post, the Weibo leaker known as "Fixed Focus Digital" said Apple's scheduled announcements for next week focus on refreshed devices with basic generational chip upgrades, rather than more fundamental redesigns.

Earlier this month, Apple invited the media to an "Apple Experience" in New York, London, and Shanghai on Wednesday, March 4 at 9 a.m. Eastern Time. Today, Apple CEO Tim Cook teased " [...]

Samsung Introduces Pre-Order Discounts on Galaxy S26 Smartphones, Alongside TV and Monitor Deals

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Samsung this week debuted pre-orders for its newest line of Galaxy products, including the S26 smartphones and Galaxy Buds4. You can find a few early launch discounts on some of these products, plus discounts on Samsung's most popular monitors and TVs, with notable markdowns on products like The Frame TVs.

Galaxy Products

Observability platform migration guide: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Fluent Bit

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Observability platform migrations are rarely simple. You’re still balancing risk (don’t break on-call), scope (don’t try to move everything at

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Security Flaws in Anthropic’s Claude Code Risk Stolen Data, System Takeover

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Apple Teases 'A Big Week Ahead' With Announcements Starting Monday

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Apple CEO Tim Cook today teased "a big week ahead," with announcements starting Monday. His post included an #AppleLaunch hashtag with a colorful Apple logo, along with a short video that ultimately shows an Apple logo on the lid of a Mac.


Apple is reportedly planning a three-day stretch of product announcements from Monday, March 2 through Wednesday, March 4, with up to five new products expected to be unveiled, including a lower-cost MacBook, an iPhone 17e, and mor [...]

Trump FCC Demands ‘Pro-America’ Media Programming All Summer Long

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Most of Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr’s time lately has been split between destroying all consumer protection oversight and threatening media companies with fake investigations if they’re not appropriately deferential to our mad idiot king. The latter has tended to overshadow the former, but it’s all been an ugly combination of authoritarianism, regulatory capture, and […]

Why the secret to scaling AI isn’t a better model, it’s a simpler foundation

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A recent study from MIT’s NANDA initiative highlights a persistent challenge in enterprise AI adoption. Despite heavy investment and experimentation,

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Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI

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We are at an inflection point in enterprise IT. For the last decade, “modernization” has been synonymous with containerization —

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Claude Code Remote Control Keeps Your Agent Local and Puts it in Your Pocket

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Cursor Cloud Agents Get Their Own Computers — and 35% of Internal PRs to Prove It

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The Future of AI in Software Quality: How Autonomous Platforms are Transforming DevOps

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How OPA Changed Our Go-No-Go Forever

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The Great Infrastructure Migration: Why Teams are Moving From Manual Provisioning to Autonomous Platforms

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The Galaxy S26 is faster, more expensive, and even more chock-full of AI

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Samsung's Galaxy S26 series is available for preorder today and ships on March 11.

Arm Aims to Foster Software Engineering Ecosystem

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6,000 AWS accounts, three people, one platform: Lessons learned

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This post describes why ProGlove chose a account-per-tenant approach for our serverless SaaS architecture and how it changes the operational model. It covers the challenges you need to anticipate around automation, observability and cost. We will also discuss how the approach can affect other operational models in different environments like an enterprise context.

WebAssembly is everywhere. Here’s how it works

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If you’re familiar with building web applications in the last few years, you’ve probably heard of WebAssembly (Wasm). And if

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VAST Data tackles the enterprise AI trust gap

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The biggest obstacle to shipping AI agents in the enterprise isn’t model quality. It’s trust. Or at least that’s the

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RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

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RAM represented about 15 to 18 percent of PC costs last quarter, HP said.

The Linux Foundation reveals the “ugly” secret of how open source is draining your budget

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Companies actively investing in open source are seeing massive returns, while those treating it as “freeware” are drowning in technical

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In the driver’s seat: How Google Conductor AI actually stays under control

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Google wants to give developers a comprehensive, functional AI software development toolkit. As such, this month the company has added

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What happens to a database when the user is an AI agent

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In the past, we judged enterprise databases by how useful they were to people like us. We rated them on

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WBD says Paramount’s new higher offer could be “superior” to Netflix's

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WBD's board is still reviewing the offer.

Anthropic accelerates its Cowork enterprise play

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When it’s not distracted by negotiations with the Pentagon, Anthropic’s focus has long been on the enterprise. On Tuesday, it

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Databases weren’t built for agent sprawl – SurrealDB wants to fix it

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AI agents don’t slot neatly into the way enterprise data stacks were designed. A typical agent needs transactional state (e.g.,

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RCCLX: Innovating GPU Communications on AMD Platforms

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We are open-sourcing the initial version of RCCLX – an enhanced version of RCCL that we developed and tested on Meta’s internal workloads. RCCLX is fully integrated with Torchcomms and aims to empower researchers and developers to accelerate innovation, regardless of their chosen backend. Communication patterns for AI models are constantly evolving, as are hardware [...]

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DJI sues the FCC for “carelessly” restricting its drones

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DJI lawsuit says company has been "severely harmed by the FCC’s ruling."

How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week

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One engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command.

OpenTelemetry roadmap: Sampling rates and collector improvements ahead

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OpenTelemetry has evolved over the last few years to become the de facto standard of choice for a rapidly growing

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Most platform teams build products, but they don’t know it

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There is a failure mode so common in platform engineering that it barely gets mentioned anymore. A team ships a

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Meta could end up owning 10% of AMD in new chip deal

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AMD will supply 6 gigawatts' worth of chips to buttress Meta's AI efforts.

Why “automated” infrastructure might cost more than you think

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Somewhere in the organization, there’s a Jenkins job that nobody wants to touch. The job is mission-critical and deploys to

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