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US Air Force drone swaps AI software midflight in successful mission autonomy test

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The US Air Force has moved a step closer to treating combat drone software like...

Ion beams simulate decades of reactor damage 1,000x faster at 1/1000th the cost

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Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than conventional...

Spotify’s new $495 burial urn lets you play your personal playlist from the grave

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You must’ve heard of late-stage capitalism. Now get ready for afterlife capitalism. Spotify has partnered...

Sources: Saronic, which is building autonomous warships, is raising up to $1.5B at a ~$7.5B pre-money valuation; Saronic was last valued at $3.4B a year ago (The Information)

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The Information:
Sources: Saronic, which is building autonomous warships, is raising up to $1.5B at a ~$7.5B pre-money valuation; Saronic was last valued at $3.4B a year ago  —  Saronic, a startup that builds autonomous warships, is raising as much as $1.5 billion in a financing that would value the company …

6-meter catamaran 3D printed in 160 hours as monolithic open-water vessel

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V2 Group and Caracol AM have built what they call the first functional 6-meter-long monolithic...

New York's AG sues Valve over its use of loot boxes, accusing the game developer of violating state gambling laws and threatening to addict children to gambling (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
New York's AG sues Valve over its use of loot boxes, accusing the game developer of violating state gambling laws and threatening to addict children to gambling  —  New York's attorney general sued Valve, a video game developer whose franchises include Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Dota …

Alphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google; it will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)

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Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch:
Alphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google; it will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind  —  Google is moving further into physical AI by bringing a familiar robotics software platform under its wing.

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 […]

Snowflake reports Q4 product revenue up 30% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.18B est., and forecasts Q1 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

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Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Snowflake reports Q4 product revenue up 30% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.18B est., and forecasts Q1 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates  —  Snowflake (SNOW.N) forecast fiscal 2027 product revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, a sign that new clients are turning …

Zoom reports Q4 revenue up 5.3% YoY to $1.25B, vs. $1.23B est., online revenue up 2.6% to $489.7M, and forecasts Q1 adjusted profit per share below estimates (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

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Anhata Rooprai / Reuters:
Zoom reports Q4 revenue up 5.3% YoY to $1.25B, vs. $1.23B est., online revenue up 2.6% to $489.7M, and forecasts Q1 adjusted profit per share below estimates  —  Zoom Communications (ZM.O) forecast quarterly profit below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling intense competition …

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

Sources: DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess their reliance on Claude, a first step toward blacklisting Anthropic; Lockheed confirms it was contacted (Axios)

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Axios:
Sources: DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess their reliance on Claude, a first step toward blacklisting Anthropic; Lockheed confirms it was contacted  —  The Pentagon asked two major defense contractors on Wednesday to provide an assessment of their reliance on Anthropic's AI model …

AMD will buy $150M in Nutanix stock and provide up to $100M to fund joint initiatives to develop an infrastructure platform for powering AI applications (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
AMD will buy $150M in Nutanix stock and provide up to $100M to fund joint initiatives to develop an infrastructure platform for powering AI applications  —  Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will buy $150 million in Nutanix Inc. stock as part of a new partnership that also includes joint engineering and sales efforts.

Sources: DeepSeek did not share its upcoming V4 model with US chipmakers, including AMD and Nvidia, but granted early access to Chinese companies like Huawei (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Sources: DeepSeek did not share its upcoming V4 model with US chipmakers, including AMD and Nvidia, but granted early access to Chinese companies like Huawei  —  DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence lab whose low-cost model rattled global markets last year, has not shown U.S. chipmakers …

Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, vs. $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (Ian King/Bloomberg)

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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, vs. $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates  —  Nvidia Corp. failed to impress investors with its latest forecast, signaling that concerns about an overheated AI economy will continue to dog the company.

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 […]

Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, vs. $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

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Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, vs. $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program  —  Salesforce (CRM.N) forecast first-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, betting on strong demand &hell

Commercial 5G powers first haptic robot teleoperation, boosts feedback 40%

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NTT DOCOMO and Keio University have demonstrated high-precision remote robot control over a commercial 5G...

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

Leaked Thrive deck: $26.8B in AUM as of June 30, 2025, deal value peaked in Q4 2021, positive DPI for four early funds, including 2.4x for 2016's Thrive V, more (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

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Eric Newcomer / Newcomer:
Leaked Thrive deck: $26.8B in AUM as of June 30, 2025, deal value peaked in Q4 2021, positive DPI for four early funds, including 2.4x for 2016's Thrive V, more  —  We've got an inside look at Josh Kushner's Thrive Capital's performance View in browser EXCLUSIVE: Thrive Netted 2.4x DPI from 2016 Fund.

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.

Source: Google plans to test search changes in Europe, displaying results from competing vertical search services next to its own, seeking to avoid EU fines (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Source: Google plans to test search changes in Europe, displaying results from competing vertical search services next to its own, seeking to avoid EU fines  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google is poised to start testing changes to its search results to give rivals more prominence …

Anthropic acquires Vercept, whose Vy desktop agent lets users control a Mac or PC with natural language, to "advance Claude's computer use capabilities" (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Anthropic acquires Vercept, whose Vy desktop agent lets users control a Mac or PC with natural language, to “advance Claude's computer use capabilities”  —  Anthropic is acquiring Vercept, a Seattle startup founded by alumni of the Allen Institute for AI, in a move that illustrates …

New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of "junk" CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases (Katie McQue/The Guardian)

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Katie McQue / The Guardian:
New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of “junk” CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases  —  Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuit

Largest ALMA image ever sheds light on extreme star formation at Milky Way’s center

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A team of astronomers has captured the heart of our Milky Way galaxy like never...

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 […]

German scientists turn trash ash into CO2-binding concrete for sustainable construction

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German researchers have been developing a new technique to permanently bind carbon dioxide within municipal...

Sources: Thrive invested $1B in OpenAI in 2025 at a $285B valuation in a transaction akin to a call option; OpenAI was separately raising at a $830B valuation (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

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Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Thrive invested $1B in OpenAI in 2025 at a $285B valuation in a transaction akin to a call option; OpenAI was separately raising at a $830B valuation  —  Joshua Kushner's firm Thrive Capital recently inves

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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90-million-year-old tiny bird-like dinosaur’s skeleton unearthed in Argentina

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For ninety million years, a two-pound skeleton lay hidden in the red sandstones of Patagonia. ...

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

Nuclear can: UK firm’s 100-year shield lands deal for plutonium, special materials mission

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UK-based manufacturer LTi Metaltech has been awarded a contract worth over £45 million to produce...

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

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

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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 [...]

One Identity Appoints Michael Henricks as Chief Financial and Operating Officer

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US scientists solve Schrödinger’s 100-year-old theory of human color perception

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Researchers in the US have finally completed the missing mathematical pieces of theoretical physicist Erwin...

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 [...]

Hyper Coverage Of AOC’s ‘Um’ Non-Scandal Highlights How The U.S. Press Is Eager To Be Gamed By Bad Actors

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I’ve long written about how the U.S. establishment press no longer genuinely serves the public interest. Years of consolidation at the hands of (usually) rich, white, male, Conservative owners has resulted in a lazy U.S. press that reflects the interests of ownership. As a result you get a lot of feckless “he said, she said” […]

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

A Blog Post About COBOL Just Cost IBM $30 Billion. Here’s What Actually Happened.

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Trump Administration Makes The Conscious Choice To Make America Less Prepared For The Next Pandemic

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Way back in the ancient days of the year 2020, the world went through this pandemic thing called COVID-19. For those of you not old enough to remember such ancient history, it was a fairly significant health issue that caused a few disruptions throughout the world, including in these here United States. Trump was president […]

M4 iPad Air: What's New and When It's Coming

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Apple is planning to hold an "Experience" on March 4 for select members of the media, and in the days before the event, we're expecting several product refreshes. The iPad Air is one of the new devices that could get an update, so we thought we'd highlight what's coming.

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YouTube's More Affordable Premium Lite Plan Gets New Perks

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YouTube today updated its Premium Lite subscription plan with new features, including background play and downloads. Subscribers will be able to watch most videos ad-free offline and in the background.


Prior to now, downloads and background play were features that were limited to the more expensive Premium plan. YouTube Premium Lite is priced at $7.99 per month in the U.S., while YouTube Premium is priced at $13.99 per month.

YouTube Premium Lite removes ads from most, but not all videos, and it does not include ad-free access to the YouTube Music app. Most non-music content is ad-free with YouTube Premium Lite, though Shorts still have ads.

YouTube Premium removes ads from all v [...]

Immigrants Will Make America Great Again Faster Than Natural-Born Citizens

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There’s not a single conservative left in the GOP. The ideals that were formerly considered “conservative” — small government, fiscal responsibility, etc. — have been replaced by white Christian nationalism, water-carrying for would-be autocrats, and immense amounts of deficit spending for the sole purpose of making America whiter. That’s not the same as making it […]

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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iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max Expected to Feature Smaller Dynamic Island

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The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will have a smaller Dynamic Island, according to Bloomberg. Over the past year, there have been mixed rumors about whether the ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro models will continue to feature a ‌Dynamic Island‌ or have a hole punch camera with under screen Face ID and no ‌Dynamic Island‌, but the latest information suggests we're not getting rid of the ‌Dynamic Island‌ just yet.

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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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Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro Coming in 2026 With Dynamic Island and Redesigned macOS Controls

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The rumored touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro that Apple has in development will adopt the iPhone's Dynamic Island and a hole-punch camera, reports Bloomberg.


The ‌Dynamic Island‌ will replace the notch, leaving more available screen space for content. As with the ‌iPhone‌'s ‌Dynamic Island‌, the Mac ‌Dynamic Island‌ will be interactive and it will contextually expand based on the app or Mac feature in use.

Apple is updating macOS to make it more touch f [...]

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."

James Cameron Complains About Netflix/Warner Bros Merger, Doesn’t Acknowledge A Paramount Deal Would Be Much Worse

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We’ve explained in detail how Larry Ellison is trying to scuttle Netflix’s planned merger with Warner Brothers because he wants to buy CNN and HBO, and, as he’s doing with CBS (and now TikTok) turn them into a safe space for right wing zealots, autocrats, and oligarchs. He’s unsubtly trying to build the kind of […]

Apple Now Blocks 18+ App Downloads in Australia, Brazil, and Singapore Without Age Assurance

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Apple today provided an update on its age assurance tools for developers in Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Utah, and Louisiana. Developers in these areas will face new age assurance and parental consent obligations, and Apple's APIs will help them meet these upcoming requirements.


As of February 24, Apple is blocking users in Australia, Brazil, and Singapore from downloading apps rated 18+ unless they have been confirmed to be adults through an App Store age confirmation process that uses "reasonable methods." Age confirmation is done automatically through the ‌App Store‌, but developers may also need to independently confirm their users are adults with the Declared Age Range API.

I [...]

1Password Getting More Expensive Starting in March

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Popular password management app 1Password is set to get more expensive, with prices increasing on March 27, 2026. In an email sent out to customers today, 1Password said subscription prices will be going up $12 per year.


The individual plan will be $47.88, up from $35.88, while the family plan will be $71.88, up from $59.88. Pricing per month for the individual plan works out to $3.99 (up from $2.99), while the family plan will be $5.99 per month (up from $4.99).

1Password said that it needs to update its pricing to continue investing in new features and security updates.

Since 2005, 1Password has been on a mission to make security simple, reliable, and accessible for everyone. As the way people work and live online has evolved, so has 1Password.

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.

Apple Releases Second macOS Tahoe 26.4 Public Beta

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Apple today provided public beta testers with the second releases of upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.4, tvOS 26.4, and watchOS 26.4 updates for testing purposes. The public betas comes a day after Apple provided the beta to developers, and a week after Apple seeded the first betas.


After signing up for beta testing on Apple's beta site, public beta testers can download the updates using the Software Update section in the settings app for each update.

‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 includes several new features. The Compact tab layout has been reimplemented in Safari for those who missed having the option in earlier versions of ‌macOS Tahoe‌, and there is a new Char [...]

OpenTelemetry roadmap: Sampling rates and collector improvements ahead

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

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AWS Extends Agentic AI Capabilities of Kiro Developer Tool to Improve Code Quality

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Tim Cook Reflects on Joining Apple and Steve Jobs

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In an August 2024 letter published by The Steve Jobs Archive today, Tim Cook reflected on joining Apple and what he learned from working with Steve Jobs.


Jobs convinced Cook to join Apple in 1998, to help turn around the company:

I'll never forget that first conversation with Steve. At the time, Apple had been struggling and Steve was working to right a ship that had drifted in his absence. Many people doubted the company could survive, and I was warned that accepting a job there would come with risks. But when Steve spoke, any trepidation I harbored instantly dissolved. I had never met someone with so much passion and vision. He spoke with charisma and clarity—about a future where technology could unlock a wellspring of human creativity and potential, c

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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Harness Makes Registry for Integrating Artifacts into DevOps Workflows Available

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Sonos Planning Another App Overhaul With Live Activities Support

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Sonos is preparing a major update to its app that aims to simplify navigation and introduce iPhone Lock Screen controls using Live Activities, part of a broader effort to rebuild confidence after the company's troubled 2024 software overhaul, Bloomberg reports.


Sonos plans to roll out a series of optional changes to its ‌iPhone‌ and Android app in the coming months, with the company focusing on usability improvements, navigation, and more accessible playback controls. The update is expected to arrive gradually rather than as a sweeping redesign, reflecting a different release strategy following the company's widely criticize [...]

Sendmarc Releases DMARCbis Fireside Chat Featuring Co-Editor Todd Herr

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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.

The Hidden Security Risks in Modern JavaScript Frameworks and How React Teams Can Reduce Them

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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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GitOps Implementation at Enterprise Scale — Moving Beyond Traditional CI/CD

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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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Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents automatically make websites agent-ready

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Cloudflare, the well-regarded security and Content Delivery Network company, has launched a new feature called “Markdown for Agents” that automatically

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Wasm vs. JavaScript: Who wins at a million rows?

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By now it’s pretty clear that JavaScript needs WebAssembly (Wasm) to perform heavy computational tasks. In the past few weeks

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Does Platform Product Management & Design Really Happen? Or is it all just platform engineering? - Tanzu Catsup

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Most organizations treat infrastructure as a series of projects to be “completed,” but successful platform engineering requires a permanent product mindset. In this episode, we explore why platform teams need dedicated product management to balance competing priorities—like security, cost, and developer experience—and why the “why” scales much better than the “what” in large enterprises. We also dive into the often-overlooked role of designers in creating platform tools that developers actually want to use.

Tanzu Catsup is a weekly conversation about platform engineering, cloud-native operations, and building software in large organizations. We follow the work wherever it actually leads.

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Developers crave AI tools for various tasks beyond coding, but that’s only about 20% of their work. But, ops people freak out about security and control challenges, like cost, regulatory compliance, and usage tracking.

Why Kubernetes 1.35 is a game-changer for stateful workload scaling

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With Kubernetes 1.35, the In-Place Pod Resize feature has graduated to GA, and Vertical Pod Autoscaling InPlaceOrRecreate update mode has

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Claude Code comes to Roadmap, OpenClaw loses its head, and AI workslop

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I’m Matt Burns, Director of Editorial at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments,

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Beyond the vibe code: The steep mountain MCP must climb to reach production

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One thing I didn’t do last year was go to any Model Context Protocol (MCP) conferences, largely because I couldn’t

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Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

Meta's flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind

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The company asserts it will continue to make VR headsets, though.