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A civil subpoena shows the US DOJ is investigating Netflix for potential anticompetitive tactics as the agency probes the company's proposed acquisition of WBD (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
A civil subpoena shows the US DOJ is investigating Netflix for potential anticompetitive tactics as the agency probes the company's proposed acquisition of WBD  —  As it probes bids for Warner, the department is asking if the streamer has engaged in conduct that could make it a monopoly

Telly’s Plan For ‘Free’ Ad-Based TV Revolution Runs Into Quality Control Problems

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Back in 2023 we noted how a company named Telly proclaimed it had come up with a new idea for a TV: a free TV, with a second small TV below it, that shows users ads pretty much all of the time. While the bottom TV could also be used for useful things (like weather […]

China switches on world’s first 20MW wind turbine to feed power into the grid

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The world’s first 20-megawatt (MW) wind turbine, which is capable of powering more than 44,000...

Apple to Allow ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in CarPlay

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Apple is planning to bring new AI features to CarPlay, reports Bloomberg. Apple will allow third-party chatbot apps to integrate with ‌CarPlay‌, so AI services like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT will be accessible in the car for the first time.


‌CarPlay‌ already supports third-party apps, but the types of apps that are supported are limited. Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI aren't currently able to create ‌CarPlay‌ apps, so users are limited to using Siri voice controls in the vehicle.

With the change, ‌CarPlay‌ u [...]

Sources: Apple plans to allow third-party voice-controlled AI chatbots in CarPlay within the coming months; it won't let users replace CarPlay's Siri button (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to allow third-party voice-controlled AI chatbots in CarPlay within the coming months; it won't let users replace CarPlay's Siri button  —  Apple Inc. is preparing to allow voice-controlled artificial intelligence apps from other companies in CarPlay …

Veracode Extends Package Firewall Reach to Microsoft Artifacts

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Heroku says it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model", as it focuses on "helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI" (Nitin T Bhat/Heroku)

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Nitin T Bhat / Heroku:
Heroku says it is transitioning to a “sustaining engineering model”, as it focuses on “helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI”  —  Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support.

MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 17 and 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 one of Astropad's anti-reflective Fresh Coat screen protectors to go along with it.


Fresh Coat is a new kind of screen protector that Astropad designed with an optical-grade anti-reflective coating to reduce glare and provide a better iPhone viewing experience. The technology that Astropad is using cuts reflections [...]

Amazon's annual tax bill fell 87% YoY to $1.2B in 2025, as profits grew 45% to ~$90B, mostly due to GOP's depreciation breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill (Brian Faler/Politico)

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Brian Faler / Politico:
Amazon's annual tax bill fell 87% YoY to $1.2B in 2025, as profits grew 45% to ~$90B, mostly due to GOP's depreciation breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill  —  The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act.’

Boston Dynamics: building robots to do the jobs humans shouldn’t

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In this episode of Lexicon, we sit down with Aya Durbin, Director of Product for...

London-based Bound, an automated FX risk management platform, raised a $24.5M Series A led by AlbionVC as it seeks to expand across Europe (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

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Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu:
London-based Bound, an automated FX risk management platform, raised a $24.5M Series A led by AlbionVC as it seeks to expand across Europe  —  New funding will enable Bound to expand its automated FX hedging platform across Europe, helping businesses manage currency risk amid ongoing market volatility …

The CIA Erased The World Factbook With No Warning… And Told Everyone To ‘Stay Curious’

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For over half a century, the CIA’s World Factbook has been one of the most quietly useful things the federal government has ever produced. A comprehensive, regularly updated, freely available reference on every country in the world—population stats, government structures, economic data, geography, the works. It was the kind of thing that made you think, […]

Daily Deal: The Ultimate AWS Data Master Class Bundle

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The Ultimate AWS Data Master Class Bundle has 9 courses to get you up to speed on Amazon Web Services. The courses cover AWS, DevOPs, Kubernetes Mesosphere DC/OS, AWS Redshift, and more. It’s on sale for $40. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all sales from Techdirt […]

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Apple Watch Series 11 Get $100 Discounts Amid Valentine's Day and Super Bowl Sales

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This week we began tracking big savings thanks to Valentine's Day and Super Bowl sales, which include discounts on everything from iPhone 17 cases to monitors and TVs. You'll also find deals below on Apple Watch Series 11 and AirPods 4, with the best prices of the year so far on each.

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.

Valentine's Day Deals

How to Watch 2026 Super Bowl LX For Free on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV

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Super Bowl LX is this Sunday, February 8, and there is a way for U.S. viewers to watch for free. Our instructions below are focused on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, but this method will of course work across a variety of devices.


2026's Super Bowl has the New England Patriots facing the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, with the kickoff time on Sunday scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time / 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. These two teams already met in the 2015 Super Bowl, which ended in a Patriots championship.

The big game is airing on NBC and streaming on Peacock Premium this year.

One way to stream the 2026 Super Bowl for free on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Ap [...]

Operant AI targets ‘shadow’ AI agents with real-time security platform

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As AI agents fan out across enterprise apps, APIs, and data stores, they’re creating a security blind spot: autonomous systems

The post Operant AI targets ‘shadow’ AI agents with real-time security platform appeared first on The New Stack.

Crypto.com co-founder Kris Marszalek buys the domain AI.com for $70M, the highest disclosed price for a domain name, as he plans a site offering an AI agent (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

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Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Crypto.com co-founder Kris Marszalek buys the domain AI.com for $70M, the highest disclosed price for a domain name, as he plans a site offering an AI agent  —  Kris Marszalek plans to launch new site with a Super Bowl ad this weekend  —  The founder of cryptocurrency trading site Crypto.com …

Japan fusion startup completes ‘one-of-a-kind’ coil manufacturing machine

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Japan’s Helical Fusion has completed a one-of-a-kind coil manufacturing machine that could help it realize...

Facial Recognition Tech Used To Hunt Migrants Was Deployed Without Required Privacy Paperwork

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In the grand scheme of things — the wanton cruelty, the routine violations of rights, the actual fucking murders — this may only seem like a blip on the mass deportation continuum. But this report from Dell Cameron for Wired is still important. It not only explains why federal officers are approaching people with cellphones […]

NASA Now Allowing Astronauts to Bring Their iPhones on Space Missions

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on Wednesday announced that NASA astronauts will soon be permitted to fly with "the latest smartphones," beginning with the SpaceX Crew-12 and Artemis II missions over the next few months.


In an email, an Apple spokesperson said this will mark the first time the iPhone has been fully qualified for extended use in orbit and beyond.

NASA astronauts were previously not allowed to carry their own personal smartphones on space flights, but they did allow some approved DSLR cameras and other equipment. With smartphones, Isaacman said astronauts will be able to "capture special moments for their families and share inspiring images and video with the world."

It is unclear exactly which iPhone mode [...]

US to resurrect Cold War-era 190,000-square-foot nuclear plant after 30-year dormancy

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Infusing life into a Cold War-era nuclear plant which was dormant for three decades, the...

Sources: OpenAI is working with G42 to build a ChatGPT version tuned for the UAE that accommodates local language, political outlook, and speech restrictions (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

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Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Sources: OpenAI is working with G42 to build a ChatGPT version tuned for the UAE that accommodates local language, political outlook, and speech restrictions  —  The Scoop  —  Step Back  —  Reed's View  —  Know More  —  Notable  —

Kia electric hatch hits 250 miles in brutal winter test, charges to 80% in 33 minutes

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Kia’s electric hatch has delivered extraordinary range and charging performance in one of the world’s...

The MacRumors Show: All the New Macs Coming This Year

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We discuss all of the new Macs Apple is expected to release this year, starting with the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro, on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show.

Swift Student Challenge Submissions Now Open Ahead of WWDC 2026

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Apple today announced that submissions for the 2026 Swift Student Challenge are now open through Saturday, February 28.


The annual Swift Student Challenge gives eligible student developers around the world the opportunity to showcase their coding capabilities by using the Swift Playground or Xcode apps to create an interactive "app playground."

Apple said winners will be selected based on submissions that "demonstrate excellence in innovation, creativity, social impact, or inclusivity." A subset of [...]

Waymo says it is using DeepMind's Genie 3 to create realistic digital worlds for its autonomous driving technology to train on edge-case scenarios (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Waymo says it is using DeepMind's Genie 3 to create realistic digital worlds for its autonomous driving technology to train on edge-case scenarios  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo said it is using DeepMind's Genie 3 AI model to create realistic, digital worlds for its autonomous driving technology to train on edge-case scenarios.<

Is the SaaSpocalypse nigh? The era of paying for software seats may be ending.

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In December 2024, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appeared on the BG2 podcast and made a prediction that felt provocative and

The post Is the SaaSpocalypse nigh? The era of paying for software seats may be ending. appeared first on The New Stack.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reported a collective $1.1T backlog of cloud computing revenue in their latest quarterly earnings, including Microsoft's $625B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)

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Jon Keegan / Sherwood News:
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reported a collective $1.1T backlog of cloud computing revenue in their latest quarterly earnings, including Microsoft's $625B  —  APPLE OF ANOTHER'S AI  —  2H

How AI Is Expanding Who Gets to Build Infrastructure

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How Homepage simplifies monitoring your self-hosted services

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Slowly but surely, I’ve been migrating over to self-hosted services so I can finally cut the cord to third parties.

The post How Homepage simplifies monitoring your self-hosted services appeared first on The New Stack.

Analysis: Claude Code currently authors 4% of all public GitHub commits and is on track to cross 20% of all daily commits by the end of 2026 (Doug O'Laughlin/SemiAnalysis)

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Doug O'Laughlin / SemiAnalysis:
Analysis: Claude Code currently authors 4% of all public GitHub commits and is on track to cross 20% of all daily commits by the end of 2026  —  What It Is, How We Use It, Industry Repercussions, Microsoft's Dilemma, Why Anthropic Is Winning  —  Doug O'Laughlin, Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros, Jordan Nanos, and 2 others

Apple CEO Tim Cook Asked About Retirement Again, Here's What He Said

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In an all-hands meeting with employees on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook briefly touched on the topic of retirement, but he remained coy about his plans.


"I spend a lot of time thinking about who's in the room five years from now, 10 years from now," said Cook, who was taking questions, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. "I am obsessed with this — who's in the room 15 years from now."

A few months ago, the Financial Times reported that Apple was preparing for Cook to step down as soon as early 2026. However, Gurman has previously said that this t [...]

Spotify changes Developer Mode to require a Premium subscription and reduces the cap on test users per app from 25 to five, to curb AI-aided or automated usage (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Spotify changes Developer Mode to require a Premium subscription and reduces the cap on test users per app from 25 to five, to curb AI-aided or automated usage  —  Spotify is changing how its APIs work in Developer Mode, its layer that lets developers test their third-party applications using the audio platform's APIs.

AirTag 1 Gets Major Discounts With 1-Pack at $17 and 4-Pack at $64

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Apple's first-generation AirTag 4-Pack has dropped to $64.00 this week on Amazon, down from the original price of $99.00. Free shipping options have a delivery estimate around February 11, while Prime members should be able to get it delivered a few days sooner.

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

Overall, this is a solid second-best price on the AirTag 4-pack that's within $1 of the Amazon all-time low price. If you're shopping for a single AirTag, Amazon has the AirTag 1- [...]

UK firm’s ultra heavy-lift drone with micro jet turbines, 880-pound capacity takes flight

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A London-based company has created a new type of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drone....

SIA: chip sales hit $791.7B in 2025, up 25.6% YoY, with advanced Nvidia, AMD, and Intel chips accounting for $301.9B, up 40%; SIA expects $1T in 2026 chip sales (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
SIA: chip sales hit $791.7B in 2025, up 25.6% YoY, with advanced Nvidia, AMD, and Intel chips accounting for $301.9B, up 40%; SIA expects $1T in 2026 chip sales  —  Global semiconductor sales are expected to hit $1 trillion this year, the Semiconductor Industry Association said on Friday.

Football fever: Fans experience stress levels spike 41% on match days, study shows

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A new study led by Bielefeld University in Germany provides a fascinating look at “football...

Xiaomi SU7 EV battery retains 94.5% charge even after 165,000 miles of driving

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A user of the Xiaomi SU7 clocked a whopping 165,000 miles (265,000 km) with his...

How an appeal changed the way the USPTO assesses AI patents under the US Patent Act, signaling a shift toward more favorable treatment of AI and ML inventions (Matthew Carey/Bloomberg Law)

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Matthew Carey / Bloomberg Law:
How an appeal changed the way the USPTO assesses AI patents under the US Patent Act, signaling a shift toward more favorable treatment of AI and ML inventions  —  Over the past few months, the US Patent and Trademark Office has treated artificial intelligence and machine learning inventions …

MAGA Zealots Are Waging War On Affordable Broadband

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The Trump administration keeps demonstrating that it really hates affordable broadband. It particularly hates it when the government tries to make broadband affordable to poor people or rural school kids. In just the last year the Trump administration has: I’m sure I missed a few. This week, the administration’s war on affordable broadband shifted back […]

Fusion ‘breakthrough’ achieved with pulse shot million times faster than blink of an eye

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US-based Pacific Fusion has announced a major breakthrough in fusion research following four successful tests...

iPhone 18 Pro Max Rumored to Deliver Next-Level Battery Life

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The iPhone 18 Pro Max will feature a bigger battery for continued best-in-class battery life, according to a known Weibo leaker.


Citing supply chain information, the Weibo user known as "Digital Chat Station" said that the ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro Max will have a battery capacity of 5,100 to 5,200 mAh. Combined with the efficiency improvements of the A20 Pro chip, made with TSMC's 2nm process, the device could tout extremely impressive battery life. It is expected to be thicker than its predecessor to facilitate the larger battery.

The [...]

Boeing’s Ghost Bat drone gets hidden weapons, longer range for Indo-Pacific ops

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Boeing has revealed new details about the next-generation configuration of its MQ-28 Ghost Bat uncrewed...

Qodo Adds Multiple AI Agents to Code Review Platform

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The EU says that TikTok's "addictive design" is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

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Adam Satariano / New York Times:
The EU says that TikTok's “addictive design” is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings  —  European Union regulators said the app's infinite scroll and personalized algorithm led

Beyond Test Case Generation: How to Create Intelligent Quality Ecosystems

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Goldman Sachs says it has been working with Anthropic on AI agents to automate more roles at the bank, like trades, transactions, client vetting, and onboarding (Hugh Son/CNBC)

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Hugh Son / CNBC:
Goldman Sachs says it has been working with Anthropic on AI agents to automate more roles at the bank, like trades, transactions, client vetting, and onboarding  —  Goldman Sachs has been working with the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic to create AI agents to automate a growing number …

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Go cheap on innovation. Otherwise you just buy PowerPoints. Jana Werner on using tight timelines and small teams to force real progress.

From our interview with Jana Werner.

pg_lake comes to Snowflake Postgres: What it means for open standards

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The pg_lake extension, which was initially released to the open source community in November, is now natively available in  Postgres,

The post pg_lake comes to Snowflake Postgres: What it means for open standards appeared first on The New Stack.

The 10-Layer Monitoring Framework That Saved Our Clients From 3 a.m. Pages

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Is Claude Opus 4.6 the Best Security Researcher Ever?

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Two theories of the AI investor spook-out

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First, there is the fear that AI generated apps will replace existing software companies. This from Benji Edwards at Ars:

These releases occurred during a week of exceptional volatility for software stocks. On January 30, Anthropic released 11 open source plugins for Cowork, its agentic productivity tool that launched on January 12. Cowork itself is a general-purpose tool that gives Claude access to local folders for work tasks, but the plugins extended it into specific professional domains: legal contract review, non-disclosure agreement triage, compliance workflows, financial analysis, sales, and marketing.<

Relative to your interests, Friday

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• A Perfect Match for Big Data: VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service and Tanzu Greenplum
• MCP Auth made easier in Spring - doing auth in MCP has always been a shit-show.
• The AI Free Lunch is Over - Links to several analyst surveys on enterp

NIH Boss Jay Bhattacharya Breaks With RFK Jr. On Vaccines

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Echo chambers are generally bad. Any group making important decisions should have a certain level of diversity of thought to avoid groupthink. But I would argue that there are some stances that are so fundamental that it’s good when everyone is on the same page about them. Vaccines, for instance. It would be just the […]

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: C’est La Vile Content

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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.

Does Go have a 'boilerplate tax'?

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#​588 — February 6, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly

Apple Reportedly Scaling Back This Long-Rumored iOS 27 Feature

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iOS 27 will no longer include a long-rumored feature known as Apple Health+ inside Apple, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Apple Health+ was supposed to be a virtual health coach that could give users AI-powered health recommendations in the Apple Health app, based on their personal health data, the report said. The feature would have provided users with detailed health reports, videos that explained medical conditions and offered wellness tips, and more.

"The major new service would have combined new surveys and health assessments with data from Apple Watches and externa [...]

Apple Releases watchOS 11.6.2 With an Important Fix

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Apple today released watchOS 11.6.2 for the Apple Watch Series 6 through Series 10, Apple Watch SE 2, and Apple Watch Ultra and Ultra 2.


"This update provides important bug fixes and is recommended for all users," says Apple.

watchOS 11.6.2 will only appear on Apple Watch models that have not already been updated to watchOS 26 or later. There are no specific details available yet beyond Apple's vague release notes, so it is unclear what exactly the update includes.

Update: Apple says watchOS 11.6.2 "addresses a cellular network issue for Series 6, Series 7, Series 8, Series 9, Series 10, SE 2, Ultra, and Ultra 2 when establishing a connection to emergency services in Australia."

How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks To One Of The “Friends Of Trump”

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Days into President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, a cryptocurrency billionaire posted a video on X to his hundreds of thousands of followers. “Please Donald Trump, I need your help,” he said, wearing a flag pin askew and seated awkwardly in an armchair. “I am […]

How Convera built fine-grained API authorization with Amazon Verified Permissions

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In this post, we share how Convera used Amazon Verified Permissions to build a fine-grained authorization model for their API platform.

EU Spares Apple Maps and Apple Ads

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The European Commission today said it found that Apple Maps and Apple Ads should not be designated as "gateways" under the EU's Digital Markets Act.


In a press release, the European Commission said that Apple Maps and Apple Ads are not big enough individually to qualify as "important gateways between business users and end users," and therefore the platforms will not be subject to stricter regulations. This follows an investigation that began in late November.

"This assessment is based on a number of considerations, including that Apple Maps has a relatively low overa [...]

Where on Earth is vibe coding taking off the most?

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Despite talk of its impending demise, the vibe coding craze appears to be alive and well, particularly in Europe. A new study by

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Tim Cook Teases Plans for Apple's Upcoming 50th Anniversary

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Apple turns 50 this year, and its CEO Tim Cook has promised to celebrate the milestone. The big day falls on April 1, 2026.


"I've been unusually reflective lately about Apple because we have been working on what do we do to mark this moment," Cook told employees today, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. "When you really stop and pause and think about the last 50 years, it makes your heart sing. It really does. I promise some celebration."

Apple was founded on April 1, 1976, so the company will celebrate its 50th anniversary in a little less than two months from now.

While it is likely that Cook was referring to a celebration for Apple employees, the company will [...]

The one structural shift CISOs must make before AI outpaces their security strategy

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Enterprise CISOs are stuck at a crossroads. Their budgets aren’t growing fast enough, AI is sucking up every bit of

The post The one structural shift CISOs must make before AI outpaces their security strategy appeared first on The New Stack.

DHS Is Hunting Down Trump Critics. The ‘Free Speech’ Warriors Are Mighty Quiet.

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For years, we’ve been subjected to an endless parade of hyperventilating claims about the Biden administration’s supposed “censorship industrial complex.” We were told, over and over again, that the government was weaponizing its power to silence conservative speech. The evidence for this? Some angry emails from White House staffers that Facebook ignored. That was basically […]

Open source USearch library jumpstarts ScyllaDB vector search

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ScyllaDB recently added vector search capabilities underpinned by USearch, an open source clustering and vector search library. The addition of

The post Open source USearch library jumpstarts ScyllaDB vector search appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple CEO Tim Cook Promises to Lobby U.S. Government on Immigration

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In an all-hands meeting with employees today, Apple CEO Tim Cook promised to lobby the U.S. government on immigration, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Cook said he is "deeply distraught" with the U.S. government's current approach to immigration, and he promised to make his voice heard on the matter, the report said.

"For as long as I can remember, we have been a smarter, wiser, more innovative company because we've attracted the best and brightest from all corners of the world," Cook told employees, according to the report. Cook ensured that he would "continue to lobby lawmakers on this issue" going forward, per the report.

Cook said immigration is especia [...]

The enterprise is not ready for “the rise of the developer”

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Asked what enterprises aren’t ready for as AI advances, Sean O’Dell of Dynatrace offers a prediction — and before doing

The post The enterprise is not ready for “the rise of the developer” appeared first on The New Stack.

OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex helped build itself

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OpenAI’s new GPT-5.3-Codex model is the company’s most capable agentic coding model yet. However, unlike previous Codex models, it focuses

The post OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex helped build itself appeared first on The New Stack.

The Full Orwell: DOJ Weaponization Working Group Finally Gets Off The Ground

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I have to admit: the first one-and-a-half paragraphs of this CNN report had me thinking the Trump administration was shedding another pretense and just embracing its inherent shittiness. Justice Department officials are expected to meet Monday to discuss how to reenergize probes that are considered a top priority for President Donald Trump — reviewing the […]

iPhone 17e and iPad 12: New Features and Release Date Rumors Surface

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Japanese blog Mac Otakara today shared some alleged details about the iPhone 17e and iPad 12, which are both expected to be released within the next few months.


In February 2025, Apple discontinued the iPhone SE and released a new entry-level iPhone 16e. The device features a 6.1-inch OLED display, an A18 chip, Apple Intelligence, a single 48-megapixel rear camera, an Action button, a USB-C port, and more. The iPhone 17e would be the follow-up, spec-bumped model.

According to the report, which cites "reliable sources," the iPhone 17e will have a similar overall design as the iPhone [...]

Google hints at big AirDrop expansion for Android "very soon"

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AirDrop came to the Pixel 10 last year, and more Android phones will join the party in 2026.

Anthropic debuts Opus 4.6 with standout scores for solving hard problems that other AIs miss

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Anthropic launched Opus 4.6 on Thursday, an update to its flagship Opus model that delivers major improvements over its predecessor—and

The post Anthropic debuts Opus 4.6 with standout scores for solving hard problems that other AIs miss appeared first on The New Stack.

iPad Demand Surges as Apple Strengthens Grip on Tablet Market

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Apple expanded its lead in the global tablet market in late 2025 as overall shipments rebounded, according to new research from Omdia.


Global tablet shipments reportedly reached 162 million units in 2025, representing 9.8% year-over-year growth. The research firm said the strongest momentum occurred during the holiday quarter, when shipments reached 44 million units, also up 9.8% compared to the same quarter a year earlier. Omdia described the annual total as the highest shipment volume recorded since the surge in demand seen in 2020, partly caused by anticipation of memory supply constraints.

Apple was a key contributor to the market's late-year growth. Omdia says that [...]

iFixit Shares AirTag 2 Teardown, Here's What's New

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We were so busy covering Apple's earnings call last Thursday that iFixit's AirTag 2 teardown video that afternoon went under our radar until now.


For those who have yet to watch the video, iFixit opens up the AirTag 2 and reveals what is new inside, including a redesigned speaker that is up to 50% louder than the one in the previous AirTag, according to Apple. The teardown also provides a look at the AirTag 2's second-generation Ultra Wideband chip and more.

The overall design of the AirTag 2 is similar to the original version of the item tracking accessory.

It took a researcher fewer than 2 hours to hijack OpenClaw

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All those security fears about the OpenClaw AI agent and its social network, Moltbook, are already proving true, according to

The post It took a researcher fewer than 2 hours to hijack OpenClaw appeared first on The New Stack.

What to Expect From the iPhone 18 Pro After the Latest Rumor Reversal

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While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are not expected to launch for another seven months or so, there are already plenty of rumors about the devices.


It was initially reported that iPhone 18 Pro models would have fully under-screen Face ID, with only a front camera visible in the top-left corner of the screen. However, the latest rumors indicate that the devices will have only partially under-screen Face ID, which will result in a narrower Dynamic Island area.

Below, we have recapped 12 features rumored for the iPhone 18 Pro models, as of February 2026:

1. The sam

10 strategies to reduce MCP token bloat

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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has reached an inflection point. While some MCP deployments are still in the experimentation phase,

The post 10 strategies to reduce MCP token bloat appeared first on The New Stack.

Woot's Apple Watch Band Sale Has Solo/Braided Loops at Massive Discounts

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Woot this week 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.

Steam Machine and Steam Frame delays are the latest product of the RAM crisis

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Valve says it still hopes to ship both devices "in the first half of the year."

2025 Q4 DDoS threat report: A record-setting 31.4 Tbps attack caps a year of massive DDoS assaults

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The number of DDoS attacks more than doubled in 2025. The network layer is under particular threat as hyper-volumetric attacks grew 700%.

AI, open source, talent, and more, live at cfgmgmtcamp 2026, with Andrew Clay Shafer

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This week’s Software Defined Interviews episode was recorded live at #cfgmgmtcamp with Andrew Clay Shafer as a returning guest:

Spotting talent, getting innovation adoption and driving use, open source, AI, and developing taste - those are the major topics Andrew and I discussed this week at a live recording. Also, a framework for creating the perfect burger.

Also, if you’re a podcast traditionalist, here’s the audio-only version: https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/119

No Display? No Problem: Cross-Device Passkey Authentication for XR Devices

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We’re sharing a novel approach to enabling cross-device passkey authentication for devices with inaccessible displays (like XR devices). Our approach bypasses the use of QR codes and enables cross-device authentication without the need for an on-device display, while still complying with all trust and proximity requirements. This approach builds on work done by the FIDO [...]

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Setting Docker Hardened Images free (Interview)

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In May of 2025, Docker launched Hardened Images, a secure, minimal, production-ready set of images. In December, they made DHI freely available and open source to everyone who builds software. On this episode, we're joined by Tushar Jain, EVP of Engineering at Docker to learn all about it.

Survey Surfaces More Focus on Software Security Testing and API Security

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GitHub is letting developers choose between Copilot and its biggest rivals

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GitHub subscribers now have a choice of coding agents to help them create. In addition to GitHub’s own Copilot, users

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User blowback convinces Adobe to keep supporting 30-year-old 2D animation app

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Despite the about-face, some customers think "the damage is done."

Mastering millisecond latency and millions of events: The event-driven architecture behind the Amazon Key Suite

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In this post, we explore how the Amazon Key team used Amazon EventBridge to modernize their architecture, transforming a tightly coupled monolithic system into a resilient, event-driven solution. We explore the technical challenges we faced, our implementation approach, and the architectural patterns that helped us achieve improved reliability and scalability. The post covers our solutions for managing event schemas at scale, handling multiple service integrations efficiently, and building an extensible architecture that accommodates future growth.

The ‘weird’ things that happened when Clickhouse replaced C++ with Rust

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ClickHouse’s decision to shift parts of its codebase to Rust is a perfect storm: the convergence of a wildly popular

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MomentProof Deploys Patented Digital Asset Protection

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MCP-Powered Agentic AI in DevOps: Building Secure, Scalable Multi-Agent Pipelines for Autonomous SRE and Observability

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4 Security Risks of AI Code Assistants

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Netflix says users can cancel service if HBO Max merger makes it too expensive

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Eighty percent of HBO Max subscribers subscribe to Netflix, Sarandos tells Senate.

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.

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

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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

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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.

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.”

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.