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IDC: global smartphone shipments will fall 12.9% YoY to 1.12B units in 2026, the market's largest-ever decline, as surging memory prices drive up device costs (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

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Kritika Lamba / Reuters:
IDC: global smartphone shipments will fall 12.9% YoY to 1.12B units in 2026, the market's largest-ever decline, as surging memory prices drive up device costs  —  The global smartphone market is poised to suffer its biggest decline ever in 2026, sinking to a more than decade low in ship

Malicious NPM Package Gets Downloaded 50K Times Before Discovery

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Some AI policymakers and lawyers warn that DOD's threats to Anthropic are contradictory and could chill partnerships between the government and Silicon Valley (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

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Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
Some AI policymakers and lawyers warn that DOD's threats to Anthropic are contradictory and could chill partnerships between the government and Silicon Valley  —  Dean Ball, a former AI adviser in the Trump administration, said the Pentagon is contradicting itself by forcing Anthropic …

Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity is partnering with brands like Gap, Visa, and Tinder to market its World ID human verification product (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)

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Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity is partnering with brands like Gap, Visa, and Tinder to market its World ID human verification product  —  Tools for Humanity aims to promote World ID beyond the tech and crypto sets via partnerships with household names  —  Sam Altman's project …

Scientists build AI robots to make smart clothing easier to sort, reuse and recycle

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Researchers in Germany have launched a new initiative to develop an AI-powered robotic system for...

“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 [...]

Apple says iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have become the first consumer devices NATO approved for use up to the "restricted" level of classified data (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)

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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET:
Apple says iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have become the first consumer devices NATO approved for use up to the “restricted” level of classified data  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — iPhone and iPad are approved to handle NATO ‘restricted’ classified data.

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 […]

Sources: US semiconductor companies face worsening rare earth shortages, as shipments still rarely make it to the US despite an October 2025 detente with China (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Sources: US semiconductor companies face worsening rare earth shortages, as shipments still rarely make it to the US despite an October 2025 detente with China  —  Suppliers to U.S. aerospace and semiconductor firms face worsening rare earth shortages, with two turning away some clients &

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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Viture, which ranked top in XR glasses shipments in the US in Q3 2025, per IDC, raised $100M, bringing its funding in the past six months to $200M (Charlie Fink/Forbes)

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Charlie Fink / Forbes:
Viture, which ranked top in XR glasses shipments in the US in Q3 2025, per IDC, raised $100M, bringing its funding in the past six months to $200M  —  Viture has closed another $100 million financing round, bringing its total capital raised in the past six months to more than $200 mi

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.

A Greek court sentences four people, including spyware maker Intellexa's founder, to prison, for using spyware to target journalists, politicians, and others (Nektaria Stamouli/Politico)

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Nektaria Stamouli / Politico:
A Greek court sentences four people, including spyware maker Intellexa's founder, to prison, for using spyware to target journalists, politicians, and others  —  Greece's “Predatorgate” scandal is one of Europe's biggest political crises over the use of hacking software.

Driverless truck startup Einride raised a $113M PIPE at a $1.35B pre-money valuation, down from $1.8B initially attached to its upcoming SPAC deal (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Driverless truck startup Einride raised a $113M PIPE at a $1.35B pre-money valuation, down from $1.8B initially attached to its upcoming SPAC deal  —  Einride has secured an oversubscribed $113 million PIPE (private investment in public equity) ahead of its public debut that's expected for the first half of 2026.

Encord, whose software helps companies developing AI models manage training data for robots and other uses, raised $60M at a $500M pre-money valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)

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Rocket Drew / The Information:
Encord, whose software helps companies developing AI models manage training data for robots and other uses, raised $60M at a $500M pre-money valuation  —  Companies developing AI models to power humanoid and other robots have been hard at work collecting videos and other data for training their models …

Google says Nano Banana 2 can create images with a resolution ranging from 512px to 4K, and will become the default image generation model in the Gemini app (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google says Nano Banana 2 can create images with a resolution ranging from 512px to 4K, and will become the default image generation model in the Gemini app  —  Google today announced the latest version of its popular image generation model, Nano Banana 2.  The new model, which is technically …

World’s largest private hypergrid nears construction after US approves clean air permit

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The US has paved the way for the world’s largest 11-gigawatt private power grid after...

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 " [...]

Sources: PayPal isn't in talks to sell itself, to Stripe or anyone, and has been preparing for months for a potential activist campaign or unwanted takeover bid (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)

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Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Sources: PayPal isn't in talks to sell itself, to Stripe or anyone, and has been preparing for months for a potential activist campaign or unwanted takeover bid  —  The Scoop  —  PayPal isn't currently in talks to sell itself — to Stripe or anyone else — and has been working for months …

Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with faster image generation, advanced world knowledge, and precision text rendering and translation (Naina Raisinghani/The Keyword)

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Naina Raisinghani / The Keyword:
Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with faster image generation, advanced world knowledge, and precision text rendering and translation  —  Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.

Quantum computers go multi-dimensional as China-led team develops four-state photon gate

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Researchers have taken a significant step to make quantum computers multi-dimensional. Classical computer only works...

Nvidia stock is down 4%+ in intraday trading, as investor concerns around the AI infrastructure boom dampen enthusiasm about its better-than-expected earnings (CNBC)

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CNBC:
Nvidia stock is down 4%+ in intraday trading, as investor concerns around the AI infrastructure boom dampen enthusiasm about its better-than-expected earnings  —  Watch CNBC's full interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang after earnings and guidance beat  —  Nvidia shares dropped 5% on Thursday …

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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Rowspace, which builds AI tools for PE firms and hedge funds to organize unstructured data for decision-making, launches with $50M in seed and Series A funding (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

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Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Rowspace, which builds AI tools for PE firms and hedge funds to organize unstructured data for decision-making, launches with $50M in seed and Series A funding  —  After meeting in graduate school at MIT, Michael Manapat and Yibo Ling embarked on different career paths.

US: Bus-sized detector rules out sterile neutrino’s existence with 95% certainty

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A bus-sized neutrino detector housed at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the US has...

OpenAI says it will make London its largest research hub outside of the US, without giving specific details; OpenAI's European headquarters are in Dublin (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters)

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Sam Tabahriti / Reuters:
OpenAI says it will make London its largest research hub outside of the US, without giving specific details; OpenAI's European headquarters are in Dublin  —  ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Thursday that it would make London its largest research hub outside the United States …

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

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‘World-first’ ammonia-fueled marine engine passes key validation test for green shipping

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Swiss marine power company WinGD has announced that its ammonia-fueled X-DF-A engine has passed a...

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 [...]

New microrobot swarms use whirlpools to lift objects 45,000 times heavier

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Researchers have commanded swarms of magnetic microrobots to manipulate, rotate, and assemble objects without ever...

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 […]

China claims breakthrough with world’s first ducted ton-class ‘flying saucer’ eVTOL

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A range of eVTOLs, including a UFO-shaped aircraft, was put on display in China, showcasing...

Futuristic gadgets: Top 7 movie devices engineers are bringing to life in the real world

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Films have always had a penchant for imagining technologies that were meant for ages beyond...

Mother-daughter duo discovers world’s largest coral colony in Australia

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In a remarkable display of “people power,” a mother-daughter team of citizen scientists has identified...

US lab scales nuclear testing to 1,340°F to advance next-gen reactor efficiency

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Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have unveiled a breakthrough testing...

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,

The post Why the secret to scaling AI isn’t a better model, it’s a simpler foundation appeared first on The New Stack.

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 —

The post Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple Reportedly Agrees to 100% Price Hike on Samsung Memory Chips

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Apple has agreed to pay Samsung twice as much for the LPDDR5X memory chips that it needs for ongoing iPhone 17 production, claims a report from Korean outlet Dealsite.


According to the report's sources, Apple recently held emergency meetings with Samsung's semiconductor division to negotiate delivery volumes of RAM for the first half of this year. The 12GB LPDDR5X modules used in the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro have already roughly doubled in price since early 2025, rising from around $30 to approximately $70.

Samsung is said to have originally planned to push for a 60% price increase on LPDDR5X modules supplied to Apple. Instead, however, Samsung opened with a 100% markup as a negotiating tactic – and Apple apparently accepted it on the spot. [...]

Apple Maps Launches F1 Tracks Guide Ahead of 2026 Season

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Apple Maps has been updated with a new guide called "2026 Formula 1 Tracks Around the World," ahead of the new season which is being streamed exclusively on Apple TV in the United States.


Spotted by 9to5Mac within the Apple TV Formula 1 Channel, the guide offers an immersive way to explore the circuits, starting with Albert Park in Australia, with more 3D circuit experiences to be added as the season progresses.

The Albert Park circuit map highlights turn numbers, grandstands, and a three-dimensional model of the F1 pit building. The experience also doubles as a navigation tool for those attending the Australian Grand Prix, with walking directions to key locations.

The track [...]

Apple in Talks With Banks to Launch Apple Pay in India This Year

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Apple is in talks with major Indian banks as it prepares to introduce Apple Pay in the country sometime in the middle of 2026, reports Bloomberg.


Apple is said to be in discussions with ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and Axis Bank, according to people with knowledge of the matter who spoke to the publication.

The report corroborates a story in January by Business Standard that said Apple Pay was preparing to go live in the Indian market before the end of the year. The Times of India also earlier reported the India plans for Apple Pay.

Today's report says A [...]

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 Pokémon People Care About IP More Than Anything Else, Including Human Life

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It will only take a few moments perusing all the headlines of posts we’ve done on the collective group that owns the Pokémon properties to know that they really, really care about intellectual property. It doesn’t matter if it’s patents, copyright, or trademark, these people will wield it all if they sniff out even the […]

App Store and iTunes Store Experiencing Issues

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Some customers are having problems with the App Store, Mac App Store, and iTunes Store, according to Apple's System Status page.


The three services have been experiencing issues since 7:22 p.m. Eastern Time. Not all users are affected, but if you've been having trouble accessing or downloading apps, the outage is the reason why.

We'll update this article when the problems have been resolved.

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

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We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that will inevitably be breached. Every single time. And every single time it happens, the politicians who mandated these systems and the companies that […]

M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro: What to Expect

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Apple is working on a new MacBook Pro that could launch next week ahead of the "Special Experience" planned for March 4, so we thought we'd highlight all of the rumors about the device so far.

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M5 Max and M5 Pro Chip

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.

Techdirt Podcast Episode 445: The Vision For The Decentralized Internet

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Support us on Patreon » Late last year, Mike was a guest on Seb Agertoft’s Humans in the Loop podcast for a wide-ranging discussion all about restoring the promise of the decentralized internet. That interview was just released, and we’re dropping the whole conversation here as well on this week’s episode of the Techdirt Podcast. You […]

macOS 27: All the Rumors So Far

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macOS 27 is still months away, but there are already a handful of rumors about the upcoming software update, as outlined below.


We expect the first beta of macOS 27 to be seeded to developers during WWDC 2026 in June, and a public beta to follow in July. Following beta testing, the update should be released to all users with a compatible Mac in September.

macOS 26 is known as macOS Tahoe, but the name of macOS 27 has yet to leak.

Siri Upgrades

Arm Aims to Foster Software Engineering Ecosystem

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Administration Says DHS Can Demand Social Media Info From Legal Immigrants And US Citizens

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Well, we always knew it would come to this. In a blow to the First Amendment and privacy, the Trump administration last week approved a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plan to collect social media handles from people applying to change their immigration status. The new requirement, which was approved for one year, comes after the administration has […]

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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Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing Surveillance

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The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any restrictions for their use. Anthropic should stick by their principles and refuse to allow their technology to be used in the two ways they have publicly […]

Daily Deal: CyberTraining 365 Online Academy

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CyberTraining 365 is the best training destination for you and your team. Here you can Master Cyber Security techniques such as Analyzing Malware, Penetration Testing, Advanced Persistent Threats, Threat Intelligence Research, Reverse Engineering, and much more. This online academy offers 3,877 up-to-date modules on all the latest technologies and industry standards. These courses are aligned […]

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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Why OpenTelemetry Is Paving the Way for the Rise of the Observability Warehouse

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Samsung Launches Galaxy S26 Ultra With Built-In Privacy Display and New AI Features

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Samsung today announced its newest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra. Samsung's latest devices are focused on AI, and Samsung says they have the most "intuitive, proactive, and adaptive Galaxy AI features" to date.

West Virginia’s Anti-Apple CSAM Lawsuit Would Help Child Predators Walk Free

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West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey wants you to think he’s protecting children. His press release says so. His legal complaint opens with the genuinely horrific line that Apple has, in internal communications, described itself as the “greatest platform for distributing child porn.” He makes sure you know that Google made 1.47 million CSAM reports […]

Leaker Says Apple's Lower-Cost MacBook Will Have These 8 Limitations

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Apple is expected to unveil its long-rumored lower-cost MacBook next week. Given it will be more affordable, this MacBook model will obviously have some reduced specs and compromises compared to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.


While we are still waiting for Apple to announce the new MacBook, a leaker has shared eight alleged limitations to expect, based on an internal version of Apple's Kernel Debug Kit for a macOS Tahoe beta, leaked online last year.

Here are the alleged limitations they outlined in a post on Chinese social media platform Weibo and in an email to MacRumors:

• Lower max display brightness: The leake

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

The post In the driver’s seat: How Google Conductor AI actually stays under control appeared first on The New Stack.

The AI Productivity Paradox: How Developer Throughput Can Stall

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iPhone 17 Pro Gets 24x Zoom With Sandmarc's New Tetraprism Lens

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California-based accessory maker Sandmarc has launched a new Tetraprism 72mm Lens for iPhone that adds 3x optical magnification on top of the iPhone 17 Pro's built-in tetraprism telephoto camera.


The iPhone 17 Pro's 48 MP Fusion Telephoto offers a true 4× optical zoom at a 100mm equivalent focal length. When combined with Sandmarc's 72mm lens, which adds genuine optical magnification on top, it can extend effective zoom up to 24x on the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max. According to Sandmarc, users get 12x optical zoom at full 48MP resolution, or up to 24x at 24MP.

Sandmarc claims the multi-element, multi-coated glass construction preserves sharpness and color accuracy at [...]

Higher-End AirPods Pro With 'Apple Intelligence' Rumored to Launch This Year

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While the AirPods Pro 3 launched less than six months ago, it has been rumored that Apple plans to unveil new AirPods Pro this year.


Instead of AirPods Pro 4, it has been rumored that the new AirPods Pro will be a higher-end version of the AirPods Pro 3. This would be similar to the regular AirPods 4, which are available in two versions, with and without active noise cancellation.

According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, and multiple other sources in the Apple rumor scene, the new AirPods Pro will be equipped with tiny infrared cameras that can " [...]

EU Reveals Apple Made a Tiny Acquisition Last Year

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In October 2025, Apple notified the European Commission that it would be acquiring invrs.io LLC's sole employee, and certain assets from the company. Following a four-month waiting period, the European Commission published this information this week.


That sole employee appears to be Martin Schubert, according to his LinkedIn profile. Schubert founded invrs.io in 2023 to advance AI-guided design, initially focusing on optical and photonics technologies for AR/VR, data centers, and more.

"Invrs develops open-source frameworks for photonics research, providing standardized simulation challenges and a public leaderboard for benchmarking and comparing design results," reads a notice on the Europe [...]

More Lower-Cost MacBook Details Surface Ahead of 'Apple Experience' Next Week

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Apple is expected to unveil up to five new products next week, including a lower-cost MacBook, and a few more details about the laptop surfaced today.


According to supply chain sources who spoke to DigiTimes, the entry-level MacBook will indeed be launching in March. The report said volume shipments of the laptop to Apple are projected to begin next month. Quanta Computer is expected to be the primary assembler of this new model, and Foxconn is expected to join in later.

Mass production was originally slated to begin in late 2025, but the timeframe was pushed back to the first quarter of 2026, the [...]

Get AirPods Max for $99 Off on Amazon

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Amazon this week is back with a notable discount on the USB-C AirPods Max, available for $449.99 in all five colors, down from $549.00. This is one of the first times in a few weeks that we've tracked every color of the AirPods Max on sale at $99 off.

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.

Compared to past deals, this is the best price we've tracked so far in 2026 on the AirPods Max, and an overall second-best price on the headphones. Current delivery est [...]

iPhone Fold Crease Measurements Revealed as Device Hits Production

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Apple has submitted production line orders for its upcoming foldable iPhone, effectively confirming that the device will launch this year, claims a Chinese leaker.


According to the Weibo account "Fixed Focus Digital," assembly lines recently received the orders from Apple, which has apparently allowed the leaker to learn the crease measurements for the device's 7.8-inch inner display.

The crease depth is said to have been controlled to under 0.15 mm. Crease depth refers to how deep the groove or indentation at the fold is. A smaller number means the crease is shallower and less noticeable to the eye and to the touch.

The crease angle is said to be under 2.5 degrees. Crease angle describes how sharp the fold line appears when the display i [...]

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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Apple's Second Retail Store in Mumbai Opens This Thursday

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Apple has previewed Apple Borivali, its sixth store to open in India, and the company's second store in Mumbai. The store opens on Thursday, February 26, at 1 p.m. IST.


The store is in Sky City Mall, a large new shopping and entertainment complex in Borivali East, located off the Western Express Highway near the Devipada Metro Station in the Khande Rao Dongari area of the city.

"We're thrilled to open Apple Borivali, and bring the best of Apple to life for even more customers in India," said Deirdre O'Brien, Apple's senior vice president of Retail and People. "We're so inspired by the creativity and enthusiasm of communities across India, and our dedicated team membe

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

The post OpenTelemetry roadmap: Sampling rates and collector improvements ahead appeared first on The New Stack.

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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The Pentagon’s Anthropic problem is every enterprise’s AI problem

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The Pentagon’s standoff with Anthropic raises a question for any CTO building on a single frontier AI model: If access changed

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Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs

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Panasonic was one of the last Japanese companies still manufacturing TVs.

The mythical agent-month (News)

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Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new MCP server that's quite efficient, and Elliot Bonneville thinks the only moat left is money.

AWS creates a sandbox for its agent experiments

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(AWS) is launching a dedicated GitHub organization for its most experimental agentic AI work. On Monday, the company launched Strands

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Hank Green will gladly take billionaire money for education videos

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Today, I’m talking with Hank Green, a longtime friend of Decoder and the cofounder and now former owner of Complexly, an online education company he started with his brother John in 2012. I say former owner because Hank and John have just converted Complexly into a nonprofit and given up their ownership of the company […]

Coding agents are only as good as the signals you feed them

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The industry has spent the last few years optimizing AI agents’ code-generation capabilities. The focus has been on expanding context

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Cloudflare One is the first SASE offering modern post-quantum encryption across the full platform

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We’ve upgraded Cloudflare One to support post-quantum encryption by implementing the latest IETF drafts for hybrid ML-KEM into our Cloudflare IPsec product. This extends post-quantum encryption across all major Cloudflare One on-ramps and off-ramps.

This simple infrastructure gap is holding back AI productivity

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Organizations are investing heavily in AI, with some allocating up to 8% of their total revenue in AI tools for

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