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Bitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)

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Liz Napolitano / CNBC:
Bitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns  —  Bitcoin performance over the past year.

Skyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M+ Series C at a $1.15B valuation (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

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Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Skyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M+ Series C at a $1.15B valuation  —  Skyryse, an El Segundo, California-based aviation automation startup, has raised more than $300 million in a Series C investment …

Anthropic Research Shows Trade-Off Between AI Productivity and Developer Mastery

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Apple Continues Improving Apple Support App's AI Assistant

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Apple is continuing to improve the AI Support Assistant that it is testing in the Apple Support app, introducing new functionality in the latest update.


In addition to answering questions about Apple devices and services and providing device-specific help, Apple says the Support Assistant is able to help run diagnostics to show details about a device's health and performance.

The Apple Support app now has a more informative interface for the Support Assistant, and the tab for accessing the feature has an updated "Ask" label with a new icon instead of a "Chat" label. Apple is no longer calling the Support Assistant an "Early Preview," suggesting it is now available in a more official capacity.

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At the Cisco AI Summit, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company plans to build GPUs and has already hired a chief GPU architect (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

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Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
At the Cisco AI Summit, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company plans to build GPUs and has already hired a chief GPU architect  —  Intel (INTC.O) CEO Lip-Bu Tan on Tuesday said the company plans to build graphics processing units (GPUs), the category of chip popularized by Nvidia (NVDA.O).

Nintendo Switch is the second-bestselling game console ever, behind only the PS2

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Switch 2 has already beaten the Wii U and is on its way to overtaking GameCube.

Turns Out They Didn’t Really Want You To Bring Your Whole Self To Work

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For years, we watched Silicon Valley executives perform elaborate corporate theater about “values” and “belonging” and “bringing your whole self to work.” If you were skeptical that any of that was real, well, congrats. Aaron Zamost, a longtime tech communications exec, has a piece in the NY Times that should be required reading for anyone […]

Ares Interactive, which makes cross-platform, free-to-play games with plans for a new baseball game in 2026, raised a $70M Series A led by General Catalyst (Craig Chapple/PocketGamer.biz)

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Craig Chapple / PocketGamer.biz:
Ares Interactive, which makes cross-platform, free-to-play games with plans for a new baseball game in 2026, raised a $70M Series A led by General Catalyst  —  Company president Mike DeLaet discusses how the ambitious company aims to scale, potential acquisitions and the opportunities for Baseball Hits 26

OpenAI Shifts Toward Autonomous Team Model with Codex Desktop Launch

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Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle

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Learn Raspberry Pi and start building Amazon Alexa projects with The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle. Catered for all levels, these project-based courses will get you up and running with the basics of Pi, before escalating to full projects. Before you know it, you’ll be building a gaming system to play old Nintendo, […]

Apple brings agentic coding to Xcode 26.3, allowing developers to use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and integrates support for MCP (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple brings agentic coding to Xcode 26.3, allowing developers to use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and integrates support for MCP  —  Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode.  On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3, which will allow developers to use agentic tools …

YH-1000S: China’s colossal uncrewed cargo aircraft completes first flight

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China’s hybrid autonomous transport aircraft, the YH-1000S, successfully completed its maiden flight on Sunday in...

Tomorrow.io raised $175M at a $1B+ valuation to deploy an AI-driven LEO satellite network for weather forecasting, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Meir Orbach / CTech:
Tomorrow.io raised $175M at a $1B+ valuation to deploy an AI-driven LEO satellite network for weather forecasting, bringing its total funding to ~$500M  —  DeepSky constellation aims to replace aging government infrastructure and close global forecasting gaps.

Sources: Alphabet plans a new complex in Bengaluru, India, which can accommodate up to 20K extra staff, amid US visa restrictions and proposed H-1B fee hikes (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Alphabet plans a new complex in Bengaluru, India, which can accommodate up to 20K extra staff, amid US visa restrictions and proposed H-1B fee hikes  —  Alphabet Inc. is plotting to dramatically expand its presence in India, with the possibility of taking millions of square feet …

Apptopia: ChatGPT's US market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% between Jan. 2025 and Jan. 2026; Gemini rose from 14.7% to 25.1%, Grok rose from 1.6% to 15.2% (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

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Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Apptopia: ChatGPT's US market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% between Jan. 2025 and Jan. 2026; Gemini rose from 14.7% to 25.1%, Grok rose from 1.6% to 15.2%  —  Google, Grok are gaining ground on ChatGPT as the chatbot market expands.  —  ∙ Paid  —  OpenAI's rivals are cutting into ChatGPT's lead.

Xcode 26.3 Lets AI Agents From Anthropic and OpenAI Build Apps Autonomously

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With Xcode 26.3, Apple is adding support for agentic coding, allowing developers to use tools like Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex right in Xcode for app creation.


Agentic coding will allow Xcode to complete more complex app development tasks autonomously. Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI models have been available for use in Xcode since Apple added intelligence features in Xcode 26, but until now, AI was limited and was not able to take action on its own. That will change with the option to use an AI coding assistant.

AI models can access more of Xcode's features to work toward a project goal, and Apple worked directly with Anthropic and OpenAI to configure their agents for use in Xcode. Agents can [...]

Moltbook: Hype or the Singularity?

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Hysteria continues to build over Moltbook, the so-called AI Agent social network. If you believe Elon Musk, Moltbook is at

The post Moltbook: Hype or the Singularity? appeared first on The New Stack.

MN Police Chief Intervenes To Free A US Citizen Arrested By Federal Officers

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No doubt this will be spun as some form of Minnesota-specific obstruction, but until that happens, let’s just appreciate the fact that not all cops are willing to be appendages of the Trump administration’s bigoted migrant purge. Here are the details, courtesy of Minnesota Public Radio: MPR News has learned that the police chief in […]

Lotus Health, which uses AI to offer free, 24/7 primary care in 50 languages, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins, taking its funding to $41M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Lotus Health, which uses AI to offer free, 24/7 primary care in 50 languages, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins, taking its funding to $41M  —  A growing number of people are asking OpenAI's ChatGPT and other LLMs about their health, often discovering that the chatbots provide remarkably useful medical insights.

AI agent social network Moltbook grew from 30K+ users on January 30 to 1.5M+ on February 2; researchers say some of the viral posts were likely human-scripted (Hayden Field/The Verge)

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Hayden Field / The Verge:
AI agent social network Moltbook grew from 30K+ users on January 30 to 1.5M+ on February 2; researchers say some of the viral posts were likely human-scripted  —  Ordinary social networks face a constant onslaught of chatbots pretending to be human.  A new social platform for AI agents …

Walmart hits a $1T market cap in intraday trading after a stock surge fueled in part by enthusiasm for its e-commerce growth and automation and AI investments (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)

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Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal:
Walmart hits a $1T market cap in intraday trading after a stock surge fueled in part by enthusiasm for its e-commerce growth and automation and AI investments  —  Retailer joins a select group of mostly tech companies with a 13-figure valuation  —  Retail

Apple Gives Final Warning to Home App Users

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


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

Apple explains how to upgrade the Home app on the iPhone, iPad, or Mac:< [...]

LexisNexis-owner Relx, Thomson Reuters, and other media and financial stocks fell 10%+ after Anthropic launched Claude Cowork tools that automate legal work (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
LexisNexis-owner Relx, Thomson Reuters, and other media and financial stocks fell 10%+ after Anthropic launched Claude Cowork tools that automate legal work  —  New Anthropic legal tool sends shares in companies including S&P Global and Intuit sliding  —  US tech stocks fell sharply …

Apple Music Replay 2026 Now Available

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Apple Music subscribers can now access their Replay 2026 playlist, which is rolling out to users who meet Apple's minimum listening requirements for the year.


As in previous years, Replay 2026 ranks your most-played songs on ‌Apple Music‌ from 1 to 100, updating weekly as your listening habits evolve throughout 2026. Apple typically activates Replay in early February, once January listening data has finished processing, allowing subscribers to track their music activity well ahead of the traditional year-end recap.

Unlike a static summary released in December, Replay primarily functions as an evolving playlist. From its first appearance in February, rankings refresh every weekend, gradually building a complete picture of your top songs across t [...]

Why Kubernetes is retiring Ingress NGINX

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We warned you! Today, Ingress NGINX is still being used by 50% of Kubernetes users to manage incoming traffic, but it’s

The post Why Kubernetes is retiring Ingress NGINX appeared first on The New Stack.

Seattle-based Overland AI, which builds off-road robots and autonomous vehicles for the US military, raised $100M led by 8VC, taking its total funding to $142M (Jen Judson/Bloomberg)

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Jen Judson / Bloomberg:
Seattle-based Overland AI, which builds off-road robots and autonomous vehicles for the US military, raised $100M led by 8VC, taking its total funding to $142M  —  The Seattle-based defense firm Overland AI Inc. has raised $100 million in new funding to help accelerate the use of robots …

Grindr is testing Edge, a subscription tier with AI-powered personalized matches and insights, no ads, and more, with prices ranging from $80 to $220 per week (Henry Chandonnet/Business Insider)

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Henry Chandonnet / Business Insider:
Grindr is testing Edge, a subscription tier with AI-powered personalized matches and insights, no ads, and more, with prices ranging from $80 to $220 per week  —  - Grindr is testing a new AI subscription tier called “Edge.”  The pilot prices are steep, ranging from $80 to $200 a week.

Crypto.com launches prediction market platform OG ahead of the Super Bowl, following 40-fold WoW growth in its event contracts business over the past six months (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)

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Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg:
Crypto.com launches prediction market platform OG ahead of the Super Bowl, following 40-fold WoW growth in its event contracts business over the past six months  —  Crypto.com is launching a dedicated platform, OG, for prediction markets just days before the Super Bowl, the company said Tuesday.

No Major Design Changes Coming to iPhone 18 Models, Leaker Claims

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The iPhone 18 lineup will not feature signifiant design changes, according to the leaker known as "Fixed Focus Digital."


The Weibo user claims that since the iPhone 17 lineup proved to be successful with high sales, the ‌iPhone 18‌ models likely won't have major changes to their appearance. Rather than promoting design changes, Apple is apparently likely to heavily emphasize advancements made with the A20 and A20 Pro chip, which will likely be the first 2nm Apple silicon chips. This upgrade is anticipated to be a key point of discussion around the new devices later this year.

The [...]

iOS 26.3 and iOS 26.4 Will Add These New Features to Your iPhone

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We are still waiting for the iOS 26.3 Release Candidate to come out, so the first iOS 26.4 beta is likely still at least a week or two away. Following beta testing, iOS 26.4 will likely be released to the general public in March or April.


Below, we have recapped known or rumored iOS 26.3 and iOS 26.4 features so far.

iOS 26.3

iPhone to Android Transfer Tool

Valentine's Day Deals: Get Low Prices on AirPods, iPad, Apple Watch, and More

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We're just over one week away from Valentine's Day, which falls on Saturday, February 14 this year. Similar to years past, many third-party Apple resellers and accessory companies have opened up notable discounts on Apple products and accessories to coincide with the holiday.

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.

Additionally, there are a few solid discounts on Apple products like AirPods, Apple Watch, and iPad. In this article you'll find deals from third-party retailers collected first, including special Valentine's Day themed sales from AT&T, ZAGG, Casely, and more.

Valentine's Accessory Sales

'Humans of Apple TV'

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A new ad is out today for the Apple TV streaming service, and it focuses on the humans involved in making the shows and films, ranging from actors to production crews to makeup artists. The video shows a gallery of photos from the sets of various Apple TV shows, including The Studio, Severance, Pluribus, Ted Lasso, and others.

Apple Seemingly Avoiding Latest Chip Tech for New iPhones and Macs

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Apple is expected to use TSMC's base 2-nanometer N2 process rather than the newer N2P variant for its upcoming A20 and M6 chips, according to the China Times.


Apple is rumored to launch the A20 chip with new iPhone models in the fall, and the M6 family of Apple silicon chips in redesigned MacBook Pro models featuring OLED displays later this year. The latest report claims that the company will not move to TSMC's most advanced 2-nanometer manufacturing variant for these chip generations.

TSMC's 2-nanometer family marks the company's transition from FinFET transistors to gate-all-around technology, which is intended to impro [...]

Improve global upload performance with R2 Local Uploads

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Local Uploads on R2 reduces request duration for uploads by up to 75%. It writes object data to a nearby location and asynchronously copies it to your bucket, all while data is available immediately.

US Air Force successfully tests low-cost, mass producible Rusty Dagger cruise missiles

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In January, the US Air Force successfully conducted the first live-warhead test of the Extended...

World’s first ‘biomimetic AI robot’ Moya debuts with 92% human-like walking accuracy

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A humanoid robot that walks, maintains eye contact, and displays subtle facial expressions has drawn...

Apple's Studio Display 2 Reportedly on Track to Launch This Year With These New Features

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Apple plans to release a new version of the Studio Display "in the first half of 2026," according to the latest word from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


In his Power On newsletter on Sunday, Gurman noted that inventory of the current Studio Display is running low on Apple's online store and at its retail stores, although this has generally been the case for a while now. Extended shipping estimates on Apple's online store can sometimes hint at an upcoming product refresh.

Last month, an unreleased Ap [...]

‘Birth of science’: Particle accelerator decodes ancient Greek star map hidden in text

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Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first telescope...

Whoops, Websites Realize That Killing Their Comment Sections Was A Mistake

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So for years we pointed out how the trend of news websites killing off their comment section (usually because they were too cheap or lazy to creatively manage them) was counterproductive. One, it killed off a lot of local community value and engagement created within your own properties. Two, it outsourced anything vaguely resembling functional conversation with […]

In a first, US team unveils secrets of TRISO nuclear fuel using neutron beams

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US scientists have gained a first-of-its-kind view inside advanced nuclear fuel by using neutron scattering...

US scientists develop wood-based thermal material for sustainable buildings

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Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a wood-based material that regulates building temperatures...

Report: OLED MacBook Pro to Launch This Year

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Apple's first MacBook Pro models with OLED displays will launch in the fourth quarter of 2026, according to Korea's The Elec.


Samsung Display will reportedly begin mass production of eighth-generation OLED displays for the device in May. Samsung is planing to ship two million of these displays to Apple by the end of the year. The panel will be sent to Foxconn from the third quarter of 2026 for assembly into the final machines.

Some components for the device are said to still be in development, since Apple has been changing the design of some parts to reduce manufacturing costs. China's BOE is also hoping to supply Apple with OLED displays for the ‌MacBook Pro‌, [...]

150 million plants: World’s first Large Plant Model unveiled by US robotics firm

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US startup Carbon Robotics has unveiled what it says is the world’s first Large Plant...

Video: China’s humanoid robot becomes world’s first to walk 130,000 steps in -53°F

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China’s humanoid robot maker Unitree has showcased a major cold-weather milestone, with its G1 robot...

China’s LimX to boost humanoid ‘brain’ and embodied robot research with new funding

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Chinese robotics firm LimX Dynamics has raised about $200 million in Series B funding to...

Powerful US Navy laser weapon successfully neutralizes drone threats at sea

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The US Navy has revealed new details about a laser weapon test conducted last fall,...

Why Responsible AI Isn’t Optional in DevOps — it is the Next Frontier of Ownership

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Relative to your interests, Tuesday

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• Codex App - OpenAI’s Claude Code competitor.
• U.S tech backlash grows as countries and startups seek alternatives - Big revealed preferences tests coming up here.
• Related, the investor angle: “Europe is hitting the kills witch on some U.S. tech.”

Why Data Contracts Need Apache Kafka and Apache Flink

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Bot-Driven Development: Redefining DevOps Workflow

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What is OPA (Open Policy Agent)?

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The Problem’s Not Your Monitoring Tools, It’s Your Workflow

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Top 15 DevOps Trends to Watch in 2026

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This is how the new announcement economy works. You declare a massive number. The headlines write themselves. The stock moves. Mission accomplished." Whether the deal actually closes becomes almost irrelevant. The momentum already happened." As a generalized marketing strategy: “my doctrine is that velocity has replaced authority as the organizing principle of information. What and who moves fastest wins. Truth and facts are optional and get lost in the race to dominate attention.

🔗 OpenAI and the New Announcement Economy

The CDC Has Mysteriously Frozen Vaccine Databases Without Explanation

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In any war, information is power. Be it kinetic wars, cyberwarfare, or information wars, data is everything. And since RFK Jr. has clearly declared war on vaccines in America, it’s not a huge surprise that he is looking to control information about vaccines. Or, as it turns out, simply sweep that information away. Nearly half […]

Apple Stops Signing iOS 26.2, Blocking Downgrades From iOS 26.2.1

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Apple today stopped signing iOS 26.2, which means that iPhone users who have updated to iOS 26.2.1 are no longer able to downgrade to the earlier version of iOS. Apple released iOS 26.2.1 last week with support for the AirTags 2.


Software "signing" means that it has passed the server-side verification check that Apple performs when a user downloads a new version of iOS on an ‌iPhone‌. An update can't be installed unless it passes the verification check.

Apple does not show users earlier versions of iOS once an upgrade has come out, but when software is still signed, it is possible to downgrade using the macOS Finder on a Mac or the Apple Devices app on a Windows PC. Unt [...]

Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 236 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 236 includes fixes and updates for CSS, Forms, HTML, Images, Media, Rendering, SVG, Web API, and WebRTC.

The current ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release is compatible with machines running macOS Sequoia and [...]

Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features

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The Firefox browser is gaining options to turn off AI enhancements, Mozilla said today. Firefox users who prefer to browse without artificial intelligence will be able to turn off several AI features that Mozilla has added over the last several months.


Here's what can be disabled:

• Translations, which help you browse the web in your preferred language.


• Alt text in PDFs, which add accessibility descriptions to images in PDF pages.


• AI-enhanced tab grouping, which suggests related tabs and group names.


• Link previews, which show key points before you open a link.


• AI chatbot in the sidebar, which lets you use your chosen chatbot as you browse, including options like Anthrop

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation For Propaganda

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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St. Paul Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office.  A short while later, the White […]

Durable Execution: Build reliable software in an unreliable world

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Software reliability is a persistent problem for developers because IT systems are built on unreliable components: hardware degrades; software has

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Streaming service Crunchyroll raises prices weeks after killing its free tier

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Sony has made streaming anime pricier since buying Crunchyroll.

Unlocking AI’s full potential: Why context is everything

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AI is ubiquitous in both the consumer and enterprise sectors. Yet few organizations are realizing AI’s full potential. Why? AI

The post Unlocking AI’s full potential: Why context is everything appeared first on The New Stack.

ICE, CBP Brag About Stealing A Legally-Impossible $14,000 From US Citizens At The Minneapolis Airport

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Let’s just clear the air right up front: this is just the government mugging Somalis because they’re currently at the top of Trump’s shitlist. Prior to last month’s escalation (and subsequent murder) because some white MAGA shitbird became famous for supposedly uncovering a whole lot of Somali-based fraud in Minneapolis, Minnesota, it’s possible ICE would […]

AirTag 2 Hands-On: What's New and Should You Upgrade?

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Apple just released the second-generation AirTag, five years after the original model debuted. There's been a lot of time for Apple to come up with improvements, so we thought we'd test out the new model to see what's changed, and whether it's worth upgrading from the first-generation ‌AirTag‌.

Why enterprise businesses should adopt immutable Linux for the desktop

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If you’ve been a part of the Linux community for even a brief period, over the past few years, chances

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Chainguard admitted Factory 1.0 was “brittle.” Here’s how 2.0 fixes it.

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The new, revised Factory 2.0 swaps out 1.0’s fragile, event-driven pipeline with a self-healing system powered by a new open

The post Chainguard admitted Factory 1.0 was “brittle.” Here’s how 2.0 fixes it. appeared first on The New Stack.

Anker's New 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger With 25W Qi2.2 Fast Charging is Now Available for $120

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Anker today launched its latest charger for the iPhone, the Anker Prime Wireless Charging Station. It's a 3-in-1 charger that can charge an ‌iPhone‌ at up to 25W, fast charge an ‌iPhone‌, and charge AirPods, too.


The Prime Wireless Charging Station features Qi2.2 support, which lets a compatible MagSafe ‌iPhone‌ charge at up to 25W. It's the same speed as Apple's ‌MagSafe‌ charger, and it is 10W faster than the standard Qi2 ‌MagSafe‌ chargers.

The iPhone 16 and [...]

OpenAI’s Codex desktop app is all about managing agents

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OpenAI is betting that coding agents are outgrowing the terminal. The company launched a macOS desktop app on Monday for its Codex

The post OpenAI’s Codex desktop app is all about managing agents appeared first on The New Stack.

The tech monoculture is finally breaking (News)

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Jason Willems believes the tech monoculture is finally breaking, Don Ho shares some bad Notepad++ news, Tailscale's Avery Pennarun pens a great downtime apology, Milan Milanović explains why you can only code 4 hours per day, and Addy Osmani on managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code.

Six Months Of ‘AI CSAM Crisis’ Headlines Were Based On Misleading Data

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Remember last summer when everyone was freaking out about the explosion of AI-generated child sexual abuse material? The New York Times ran a piece in July with the headline “A.I.-Generated Images of Child Sexual Abuse Are Flooding the Internet.” NCMEC put out a blog post calling the numbers an “alarming increase” and a “wake-up call.” […]

Apple's Beautiful Store in Barcelona Will Be Temporarily Closed Soon

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Apple's impressive Passeig de Gràcia store in the heart of Barcelona, Spain will be temporarily closed for unspecified improvements starting Saturday, February 14 at 8 p.m. local time, according to the store's official page.

Apple Passeig de Gràcia

Ongoing RAM crisis prompts Raspberry Pi's second price hike in two months

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The more RAM the Pi board has, the more its price is increasing.

Apple Releases iOS 16.7.14 to Address iPhone X and iPhone 8 Emergency Call Issue in Australia

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Apple today released iOS 16.7.14 to address an iOS 16.7.13 issue that caused some older iPhones in Australia to be unable to connect to emergency services.


The update is available for the iPhone 8, ‌iPhone‌ 8 Plus, and ‌iPhone‌ X models, and it will allow these devices to place calls to emergency services in Australia. Apple's release notes say that iOS 16.7.14 fixes a mobile network problem that prevented emergency calls.

After Apple released iOS 16.7.13 last week, it became clear that the software interfered with the emergency call situation in Australia, which [...]

Survey Surfaces Disconnect Between DevOps Metrics and Business KPIs

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FBI Raids Fulton County, Georgia To Seize Ballots On Behalf Of A Guy Who Refuses To Believe He Lost The 2020 Election

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Trump’s going to win the election he lost, no matter what he has to do to make that happen. Surrounding himself with a better set of sycophants this time around has really allowed him to gain some ground in his “be the despot you wish to see in the world” efforts. His top appointees are […]

Daily Deal: Rosetta Stone (All Languages)

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Embark on the journey of language learning with the Rosetta Stone unlimited subscription for all languages. Rosetta Stone has been the go-to software for language learning for the past 27 years. With its immersive and intuitive training method, you might be reading, writing, and speaking a new language with confidence in no time. Get access […]

Apple Releases macOS 11, watchOS 10, and watchOS 9 Updates to Keep iMessage and FaceTime Working on Older Devices

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Apple today released macOS 11.7.11, watchOS 10.6.2, and watchOS 9.6.4 for older Macs and Apple Watches that are not able to run the current watchOS and macOS 26.


According to Apple's release notes, the updates extend the certificate that features like device activation, iMessage, and FaceTime use. The certificate update ensures that these functions will continue to work after January 2027.

On the Mac, the update can be installed through the Settings app, while on the Apple Watch, the updates can be installed through the Apple Watch app on iPhone.

watchOS 9.6.4 and the update that preceded it are the final versions of watchOS that support devices like the ‌iPhone‌ 8, ‌iPh [...]

Intel Panther Lake Core Ultra review: Intel's best laptop CPU in a very long time

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Intel manages big boosts to CPU and GPU speed without blowing up battery life.

Will Apple Raise iPhone Prices Due to Skyrocketing Memory Chip Prices?

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There has been a lot of discussion lately about skyrocketing memory chip prices, and how that might impact the iPhone and other Apple devices.


For those who are not caught up to speed, prices for both DRAM and NAND storage chips have been surging lately due to increased demand from companies building out AI servers. Nvidia has reportedly surpassed Apple as chipmaker TSMC's biggest customer as a result of this boom, despite record-breaking iPhone sales last quarter.

The demand for memory chips for AI servers is so high right now that reports have indicated that chipmakers such as TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix cannot keep up with su [...]

Beyond automation: Dynatrace unveils agentic AI that fixes problems on its own

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AI unsurprisingly took center stage during the keynotes and throughout much of Dynatrace Perform 2026, the annual user conference last week

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Relevant to your interests, Monday

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I’m at cfgmgmtcamp today and tomorrow, in Ghent. Later today, I have a talk, and then a live Software Defined Interviews recording, with returning guest Andrew Clay Shafer.

• Americans can expect to live longer than ever, per the latest CDC data - ”newborn Americans in 2024 could expect to live to 79 on average”
• CIOs will underestimate AI infrast

Enterprise ROI continues to be elusive, but 48% of surveys say they've been cutting humans

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AI is still stuck in “efficiency mode.” In many organizations, a technology organization leads AI efforts and is treated as a cost center. Those CIOs are incentivized to optimize for efficiency, not growth. The result is predictable: Tech-led AI strategies deliver productivity improvements, but not transformation. Equally concerning is that technology and AI executives tell us their business partners can’t articulate what they want from AI beyond saving money. That leadership gap bleeds over into the measurement of AI value. While most agree that AI boosts productivity, only 13% report positive EBITDA impact, and fewer than a third link AI contributions to P&L. Without financial accountability, AI becomes an endless pilot treadmill — producing activity without outcomes. To shift AI from incremental savings to strategic advantage, business leaders must step in, define value in P&L terms, and own the linkage between AI-driven productivity and financial performance. But:

S3 is the new network: Rethinking data architecture for the cloud era

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For decades, distributed databases have been built around the assumption that storage will live close to compute. The farther data

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How Yelp Built a Back-Testing Engine for Safer, Smarter Ad Budget Allocation

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Introduction Modern advertising platforms are fast-paced and interconnected: even small adjustments can have ripple effects on how ads are shown, how budgets are spent, and the value advertisers get from their ad spend. At Yelp, Ad Budget Allocation means splitting each campaign’s spend between on‑platform inventory (our website, mobile site, and app) and off‑platform inventory (the Yelp Ad Network). We optimize this split to meet advertisers’ performance goals while growing overall revenue. Due to the complexity of the budget allocation system and its feedback loop, even small changes can lead to unexpected system‑wide effects. To help us safely evaluate changes,...

Liya Linux proves high performance doesn’t require a command line

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Any Linux distribution claiming that it wants to make Linux easy and accessible to the general public, as well as

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50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the ‘software pirates’

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Just months after his 20th birthday, Bill Gates had already angered the programmer community. As the first home computers began

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Beating context rot in Claude Code with GSD

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Until now, I’ve generally only used LLM tools with existing projects. Attempts to create detailed projects from scratch via agentic

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Related to your interests, Saturday

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• Your Life is the Sum Total of 2,000 Mondays - “If your life is going to be 80% Mondays and their equivalents, the design specifications for Monday matter more than the design specifications for your vacation.”
• The State Of GenAI And Consumers For 2026 -
• As agentic AI ascends, companies are grappling with control - “If they can’t generate that experience for the cust

The shift left hangover: Why modern platforms are shifting down to cure developer fatigue

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Over the last decade, “shift left” became the mantra of high-performing engineering organizations. The premise was sound: Move testing, security,

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The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K

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With virtually no content and limited benefits, 8K TVs were doomed.

Natural born SaaS killers (Friends)

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We discuss the buzz around Clawdbot / MoltBot / OpenClaw, how app subscriptions are turning into weekend hacking projects, why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street, and what it all means.

Sovereign failover – Design for digital sovereignty using the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

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This post explores the architectural patterns, challenges, and best practices for building cross-partition failover, covering network connectivity, authentication, and governance. By understanding these constraints, you can design resilient cloud-native applications that balance regulatory compliance with operational continuity.

Anthropic brings plugins to Cowork

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Anthropic is extending Cowork with a plugin system that bundles skills, connectors, slash commands, and sub-agents, giving non-developers the kind

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Google’s AI advantage: why crawler separation is the only path to a fair Internet

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Google's dual-purpose crawler creates an unfair AI advantage. To protect publishers and foster competition, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority must mandate crawler separation for search and AI.

When AI fails: The new reality of incident management

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If 2025 was the year of AI adoption, with 88% of organizations now using AI across at least one business

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Why the forward-deployed engineer is tech’s hottest job

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Your LinkedIn is suddenly filled with posts and job ads for the forward-deployed engineer (FDE) role. What does that even

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Forget VMware and VirtualBox: This should be your new VM manager

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For decades, I used VirtualBox for all my virtual machine (VM) needs. I could use it as a graphical user

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Building vertical microfrontends on Cloudflare’s platform

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Deploy multiple Workers under a single domain with the ability to make them feel like single-page applications. We take a look at how service bindings enable URL path routing to multiple projects.

Inside Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device ever

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"Selfishly, a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves."

Relevant to your interests, Friday

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• A Coxswain on Your Shoulder - AI as executive coach. Primary tip: listen more before you ask questions.
• Big Blue Poised To Peddle Lots Of On Premises GenAI -
• Welcome to the last 18 months of labor-intentive services - “Legacy delivery models focused on bums-on-seats aren’t relevant anymore, and services firms must reinvent themselves to survive. Those who don’t will quickly find themselves obsolete, as 75% of the Global 2000 recently declared in our Pulse Study”
• Deploying Moltbot (Formerly Clawdbot) - Good round-up of Clawdbot/Moltbot.