Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro is mostly great

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Google on Thursday launched the latest version of its Gemini Pro model. While it’s not the best at every task,

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Toronto-based chip startup Taalas, which hardwires AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, raised $169M, bringing its total funding to $219M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

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Max A. Cherney / Reuters:
Toronto-based chip startup Taalas, which hardwires AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, raised $169M, bringing its total funding to $219M  —  Toronto-based chip startup Taalas said on Thursday it had raised $169 million and has developed a chip capable …

Sources: AMD agrees to backstop a $300M loan from Goldman Sachs for Crusoe to buy AMD AI chips, the first known case of AMD chips used as debt collateral (The Information)

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The Information:
Sources: AMD agrees to backstop a $300M loan from Goldman Sachs for Crusoe to buy AMD AI chips, the first known case of AMD chips used as debt collateral  —  Chipmaker AMD is pursuing the same growth-driving strategy that has boosted sales at rival Nvidia: lending its financial support to upstart cloud providers buying its chips.

Twilio’s A2H is a new protocol that helps agents talk to humans

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Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a proliferation of frameworks and protocols for agentic AI tools. There is

The post Twilio’s A2H is a new protocol that helps agents talk to humans appeared first on The New Stack.

Fossil discovery reveals specialized fish-eating adaptations in new dinosaur species

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A team of 20 paleontologists has announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species, Spinosaurus...

Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results  —  Reddit announced on Thursday that it's testing a new AI search tool that takes community recommendations and matches them with products …

It Looks Like The FBI Straight Up Lied To A Judge To Get Permission To Seize Georgia Voting Records

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Earlier this month, the FBI decided it was going to help Donald Trump steal back the election he’s claimed for half-a-decade was stolen from him. The state whose Secretary of State was asked directly by the outgoing president in January 2021 to “find 11,780 votes” was raided by Trump 2.0, who still somehow thinks he […]

Daily Deal: The Complete Big Data And Power BI Bundle

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The Complete Big Data and Power BI Bundle has 5 courses to help you learn how to effectively sort, analyze, and visualize all of your data. Courses cover Power BI, Power Query, Excel, and Access. It’s on sale for $40. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all […]

iPhone 16e Long-Term Review: What to Know Before the iPhone 17e Launches

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As we approach the launch of the iPhone 17e, MacRumors videographer Dan Barbera decided to take a look back at the iPhone 16e. He goes over what it's been like using Apple's budget ‌iPhone‌ over the past 12 months, and whether it's worth choosing over one of Apple's more expensive models.

Apple Sued by West Virginia for Allegedly Allowing CSAM Distribution Through iCloud

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West Virginia's Attorney General JB McCuskey today announced a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of knowingly allowing iCloud to be used to distribute and store child sexual abuse material (CSAM). McCuskey says that Apple has opted to "do nothing about it" for years.

"Preserving the privacy of child predators is absolutely inexcusable. And more importantly, it violates West Virginia law. Since Apple has so far refused to police themselves and do the morally right thing, I am filing this lawsuit to demand Apple follow the law, report these images, and stop re-victimizing children by allowing these images to be stored and shared," Attorney General JB McCuskey said.

Cleveland-based Eagle Wireless, which makes cellular modules used in IoT devices, raised a $30M Series B as the US seeks to reduce its reliance on China (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Chris Metinko / Axios:
Cleveland-based Eagle Wireless, which makes cellular modules used in IoT devices, raised a $30M Series B as the US seeks to reduce its reliance on China  —  Eagle Wireless, a cellular module manufacturer, raised a $30 million Series B from Asymmetric Capital Partners and The O.H.I.O. Fund …

Prometheus and OpenTelemetry finally play nice

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The often-misunderstood controversies regarding Prometheus and OpenTelemetry arise more from technical incompatibilities that have since been resolved. Without going into

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Video: New control system makes bipedal robots 81% more stable on uneven ground

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Humanoid robots are getting better at catching themselves before they fall. Researchers at Georgia Tech...

Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising

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When we kicked this off, we weren’t trying to ship an “AI feature.” We were trying to fix a structural...

The post Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

MLS 2026 Season Begins February 21 on Apple TV With Free Access for Subscribers

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The 31st Major League Soccer season is set to begin on Saturday, February 21, with games set to be available through the Apple TV subscription service. ‌Apple TV‌ subscribers in more than 100 countries can access MLS matches with no blackouts and no additional fees.


Apple used to charge $14.99 per month or $99 for the MLS Season Pass, but the Season Pass was removed for the 2026 season to give all ‌Apple TV‌ subscribers access for free. MLS is aiming to expand its fanbase and make content easier to access through its partnership with Apple.

Apple says that MLS on ‌Apple TV‌ will include Walmart Satu [...]

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’

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Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were “related to DEI.” That’s what the newly released proposed amended complaint from the Authors Guild against the US government reveals about how DOGE […]

New York pulls a proposal that would have allowed for robotaxi services outside NYC, a setback for Waymo, which wants to hit 1M paid weekly US rides by 2026 end (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
New York pulls a proposal that would have allowed for robotaxi services outside NYC, a setback for Waymo, which wants to hit 1M paid weekly US rides by 2026 end  —  New York Governor Kathy Hochul has pulled a proposal that would have allowed for commercial robotaxi services outside New York City …

Inside the "gay tech mafia" that mixes social and professional lives, as investors, entrepreneurs, and executives detail gay influence in Silicon Valley (Zoë Bernard/Wired)

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Zoë Bernard / Wired:
Inside the “gay tech mafia” that mixes social and professional lives, as investors, entrepreneurs, and executives detail gay influence in Silicon Valley  —  Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley.  WIRED investigates.  —  No one can say exactly when, or if, gay men started running Silicon Valley.

Rivian Releases Apple Watch App

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As expected, electric vehicle maker Rivian today released an Apple Watch app, providing R1S and R1T drivers with convenient features on their wrist.


The app lets you choose up to four one-tap controls for locking or unlocking doors, opening or closing the windows, opening the front or rear trunks, sounding the vehicle's alarm, and more. In addition, you can turn the Apple Watch's Digital Crown to adjust the vehicle's cabin temperature and battery charging target in the app.

Rivian also offers an Apple Watch complication, allowing you to view the vehicle's charge level at a glance on your watch face.
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Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro, which it says is "a step forward in core reasoning", for all users in the Gemini app; the .1 increment is a first for Google (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro, which it says is “a step forward in core reasoning”, for all users in the Gemini app; the .1 increment is a first for Google  —  In November, Google introduced Gemini 3 Pro in preview, with Gemini 3 Flash following a month later.

US: New gel-based electrolyte boosts anode-free EV batteries, retains 80% capacity

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Researchers at the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new...

Austin-based Ownwell, which helps homeowners appeal property taxes, raised a $50M Series B, including $30M in equity, bringing its total equity funding to $54M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:
Austin-based Ownwell, which helps homeowners appeal property taxes, raised a $50M Series B, including $30M in equity, bringing its total equity funding to $54M  —  Ownwell, an AI-powered startup that appeals property taxes on behalf of homeowners, has secured $50 million in financing …

ZaiNar, a developer of a GPS alternative that uses Wi-Fi and 5G to provide location data, raised $10M at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $100M (Katie Roof/The Information)

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Katie Roof / The Information:
ZaiNar, a developer of a GPS alternative that uses Wi-Fi and 5G to provide location data, raised $10M at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $100M  —  Over the last two years, investors and researchers have flocked to startups helping bring AI into the physical world …

End of data decay? Microsoft’s ‘glass plates’ can store data for 10,000 years

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Researchers at Microsoft have developed a method to store massive amounts of digital information inside...

Dell's Sitewide Sale Discounts Alienware Monitors and More

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Dell has a big sale running this week on multiple product categories, and it includes accessories not only from Dell but also Alienware, Logitech, Bose, and JBL. We're primarily focusing on monitors in this sale, but you can also find up to $900 off laptops, PCs, and more.

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

In regards to the monitor deals, you'll find up to $200 off select monitors from multiple brands in this event. This includes popular Alienware gaming monitors, like the 27-inch Alienware 4K QD-OLED Gaming Monitor for $699.99, down from $ [...]

Apple Watch: 15 Tips Every Owner Needs to Know

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Apple Watch is now eleven generations in, and packed with useful features that are easy to miss at first glance. To help you get more out of your new device, we've rounded up 15 practical tips you might not have discovered yet, including a few that long-time users often overlook.

Bounce Between Two Apps

West Virginia's AG sues Apple for allegedly violating consumer protection law by not implementing tools like PhotoDNA to detect CSAM stored and shared on iCloud (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

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Kalley Huang / New York Times:
West Virginia's AG sues Apple for allegedly violating consumer protection law by not implementing tools like PhotoDNA to detect CSAM stored and shared on iCloud  —  The state's attorney general said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday that the company declined to use tools that recognize the material stored on iCloud.

Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes (Interview)

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Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he's built selling SDKs that help others build very good whiteboards (and more) with tldraw's high-performance web canvas. Along the way, we discuss the excitement/fear we share about keeping our agents busy, how SDK and infra companies are affected differently by agentic software than SaaS companies, how Steve is approaching the coming era of internal tooling, what will happen when we equip LLMs with an infinite canvas, and more.

US particle accelerators turn nuclear waste into electricity, cut radioactive life by 99.7%

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Researchers at the DOE’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are advancing two high-stakes projects aimed...

FreeForm, which is building an AI native 3D printing system that uses 18 lasers to fuse metal powders into precision components, raised a $67M Series B (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

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Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
FreeForm, which is building an AI native 3D printing system that uses 18 lasers to fuse metal powders into precision components, raised a $67M Series B  —  Tech investors haven't given up on the dream of making physical products with the same speed and ease as coding software.

French firm’s sodium test rig to replicate nuclear reactor’s temperatures reaching 1,382°F

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A French company is taking a key step in the development of its sodium-cooled, high-temperature...

Canada’s silicon drone battery doubles flight time with 50% faster charging to rival China

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A Canadian battery materials company has just demonstrated that its new silicon-boosted drone battery can...

Apple's C1X Modem Faces First Reported Failure in iPhone Air

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A reported hardware failure affecting Apple's new in-house C1X 5G modem in the iPhone Air has surfaced online, marking the first known real-world incident involving the company's own baseband technology.


The ‌iPhone Air‌ is the first iPhone model to ship with the Apple's internally designed C1X 5G modem, replacing Qualcomm's X75 modem used across the iPhone 16 lineup. The transition to Apple-designed modems follows years of development after Apple acquired Intel's smartphone modem business in 2019 and began building its own baseband engineering teams and intellectual property portfolio with the goal of reducing reliance on Qualcomm and in [...]

US firms’ ‘wall of steel’ to provide high-tech shield for shipping and oil, Navy missions

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Two US defense firms are teaming up to build a high-tech “wall of steel” in...

Amsterdam-based Stacks, which builds AI software to automate accounting workflows, raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed, after a €10M seed in 2025 (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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Ryan Lawler / Axios:
Amsterdam-based Stacks, which builds AI software to automate accounting workflows, raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed, after a €10M seed in 2025  —  Stacks, which builds AI software to automate accounting workflows, raised $23 million in Series A funding, CEO Albert Malikov tells Axios exclusively.

China claims lead with world’s first land-based scramjet hypersonic missile

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China has surpassed the US in the race to develop practical scramjet-powered land-based systems, according...

CBS Decides That NOT Airing Associates Of Sex-Trafficking Pedophiles Would Be Woke

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We’ve noted how Bari Weiss’ tenure at CBS (or what’s left of it) isn’t really going very well. Hired by Trump-allied billionaire Larry Ellison to turn what’s left of CBS into a right wing extraction class-friendly agitprop mill, Weiss has been accosted on all sides for her clumsy mismanagement, ham-fisted enabling of government censorship, uninteresting […]

ByteDance is currently hiring for nearly 100 US-based roles within its Seed AI team across San Jose, LA, and Seattle to develop LLMs, drug discovery, and more (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)

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Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
ByteDance is currently hiring for nearly 100 US-based roles within its Seed AI team across San Jose, LA, and Seattle to develop LLMs, drug discovery, and more  —  Chinese tech giant ByteDance Ltd. is hiring in the US for nearly 100 open roles within its artificial intelligence division …

Mobile gaming company Scopely buys a majority stake in Istanbul-based studio Loom, maker of puzzle game Pixel Flow!; a source says the deal values Loom at $1B+ (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Mobile gaming company Scopely buys a majority stake in Istanbul-based studio Loom, maker of puzzle game Pixel Flow!; a source says the deal values Loom at $1B+  —  “It's been a privilege to have a front row seat to the team's rapid growth and success and see them become the latest Turkish startup … <

Klarna reports Q4 revenue up 38% YoY to $1.08B and a $26M net loss, down from a $40M net profit in Q4 2024; KLAR is down 66%+ since its September 2025 NYSE IPO (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)

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Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times:
Klarna reports Q4 revenue up 38% YoY to $1.08B and a $26M net loss, down from a $40M net profit in Q4 2024; KLAR is down 66%+ since its September 2025 NYSE IPO  —  Swedish fintech's share price has plummeted by two-thirds since September IPO  —  Klarna shares slumped by a quarter on Thursday …

Massive 13-foot shark found patrolling freezing Antarctic seabed for the first time

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Antarctica has always been the ultimate gatekeeper. Its waters are famously shark-free, or so the...

Report: Meta Revives Smartwatch Plans to Take On Apple Watch

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Meta is set to release its first smartwatch this year featuring health-tracking and built-in Meta AI, reports The Information.


The smartwatch, which would compete directly with Apple Watch and other brands, is the result of a revived project that Meta canceled in 2022 amid broader spending cuts at its Reality Labs hardware division.

The original project involved plans to release three different camera-equipped watch models, but it doesn't sound like they will be part of the company's future product lineup. The new watch is code-named "Malibu 2."

The smartwatch cou [...]

Could Apple Demo Immersive F1 on Vision Pro at Its March 4 Event?

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Apple's upcoming March 4 media event could include a demo of immersive Formula 1 content on Apple Vision Pro, Daring Fireball's John Gruber has suggested.


The timing appears to be what's sparked the idea. The 2026 F1 season kicks off in Australia on March 8, just four days after the "Apple Experience" set to be held in New York, London, and Shanghai.

Apple became the exclusive U.S. broadcast partner for Formula 1 [...]

Test Automation Strategy for Growing Software Teams

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Vinay Prasad: The One Man Roadblocking An mRNA Flu Vaccine

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Dr. Vinay Prasad is currently the FDA’s top vaccine regulator. He’s also one of many medical goons hand-picked by RFK Jr. to help lead his decidedly anti-vaxxer movement. In fact, the last time we discussed Prasad, it was over his selective censorship attempts at avoiding public criticism for his anti-vaxxer nonsense. If you show clips […]

First I wrote the wrong book, then I wrote the right book (xpost)

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I’m not sure whether to say “thank you” or “HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME”, but this one goes out to all the people who sent me advice on buying software last fall. This is the second in a two-part episode. The first part ended on a ✨cliffhanger!!!✨ — so if you missed the […]

Hacking Workshop for March 2026

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For next month's hacking workshop, I'm scheduling 2 or 3 discussions of Tomas Vondra's talk, Performance Archaeology, given at 2024.PGConf.EU. If you're interested in joining us, please sign up using this form and I will send you an invite to one of the sessions. Thanks as always to Tomas for agreeing to attend the sessions.

Anthropic: You can still use your Claude accounts to run OpenClaw, NanoClaw and Co.

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OpenClaw, NanoClaw, and the various other personal AI agents that are all the hype right now can quickly burn through

The post Anthropic: You can still use your Claude accounts to run OpenClaw, NanoClaw and Co. appeared first on The New Stack.

“Free” Surveillance Tech Still Comes At A High And Dangerous Cost

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Surveillance technology vendors, federal agencies, and wealthy private donors have long helped provide local law enforcement “free” access to surveillance equipment that bypasses local oversight. The result is predictable: serious accountability gaps and data pipelines to other entities, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), that expose millions of people to harm. The cost of “free” surveillance tools — […]

Checkmarx Extends Vulnerability Detection to AI Coding Tool from AWS

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How Close Can AI Get To Writing A Techdirt Post?

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I’ve talked on Techdirt about just a few of my AI-related experiments over the past few years, including how I use it to help me edit pieces, which I still write myself. I still have no intention of letting AI write for me, but as the underlying technology has continued to level up, every so […]

Beyond vibe coding: the case for spec-driven AI development

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AI is drowning codebases in machine-written output, but without a strategic framework, we aren’t just innovating; we’re automating the creation

The post Beyond vibe coding: the case for spec-driven AI development appeared first on The New Stack.

Judge Highlights Government Fuckery In Ruling Over Migrant Detainees’ Due Process Rights

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The ICE surge in Minneapolis, Minnesota was instigated by a far-right click bait artist and encouraged by the president’s portrayal of Somali immigrants as “garbage” people from a “garbage” country. And those were some of the nicer words Trump used to describe the people his agencies would be hunting down first. Several weeks later, a […]

5 changes to know about in Apple's latest iOS, macOS, and iPadOS betas

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The 26.3 updates were mostly invisible; these changes are more significant.

Brendan Carr’s Abuse Of FCC ‘Equal Opportunity’ Rule Completely Blows Up In His Face

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Yesterday we noted how CBS fecklessly tried to prevent Stephen Colbert from broadcasting an interview with Texas Democratic State Representative James Talarico. Which, as you’ve probably already seen, resulted in the interview on YouTube getting way more viewers than it would have normally, and Texas voters flocking to Google to figure out who Talarico is: […]

Daily Deal: Luminar Neo Bundle

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The Luminar Neo Bundle includes a one time purchase of the software, an introductory course on how to use it, and 6 add-ons. Luminar Neo is an easy-to-use photo editing software that empowers photography lovers to express the beauty they imagined using innovative tools. Luminar Neo was built from the ground up to be different […]

iOS 26.4 Brings CarPlay Support for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini

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With iOS 26.4, CarPlay users will be able to use third-party chatbots with ‌CarPlay‌. AI services like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT will be accessible through the ‌CarPlay‌ system for the first time.


Apple's ‌CarPlay‌ Developer Guide [PDF] lists voice-based conversational apps as a supported app type starting with iOS 26.4. Apple is implementing a new voice control screen that will let apps provide visual feedback for voice-based conversational apps.

AI apps that integrate ‌CarPlay‌ will need to add support for the voice control screen while voice-based services are active. There is a specific entitlement for voice-based co [...]

GitHub Tests AI Agents to Handle Repository Upkeep

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Samsung Expands Monitor Sale With Up to 58% Off on Amazon

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Last week, we started tracking a big Samsung sale on Amazon, including the return of the all-time low price on the newest Smart Monitor. This week, Samsung has expanded this sale to include even more monitors at all-time low prices, and it still includes the 32-inch Smart Monitor M9 for $1,299.99, down from $1,599.99.

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.

This model of the Smart Monitor launched last summer, and today's sale is a match of the best price we've ev [...]

iOS 26.4's New CarPlay Video Feature Shown in Action

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Back at WWDC 2025, Apple revealed that it was planning to allow CarPlay users to watch video via AirPlay in their vehicles while they are not driving, and the first beta of iOS 26.4 suggests the feature may be nearing availability.


There are several new references to CarPlay video streaming functionality within the iOS 26.4 beta's source code. The feature is not yet visible to users, but software developer Thomas Dye managed to get it working to some extent in Xcode's CarPlay simulator on the Mac, and he showed it off in a recent YouTube video ( [...]

iPhone 17 Pro Max Curiously Becomes Most Traded-In Smartphone

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New trade-in data indicates that Apple's iPhone 17 Pro Max has rapidly become the single most traded-in smartphone.


According to a new report from SellCell, Apple's latest flagship iPhone has quickly risen to the top of the independent trade-in market, accounting for 11.5% of all devices appearing in the top-20 trade-in rankings just months after release. The analysis is based on SellCell internal trade-in data and secondary market pricing trends gathered from 40 independent ‌iPhone‌ buyers.

The ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max's share of the top-20 trade-in rankings increased from about 5.1% in late Nove [...]

Is your on-call rotation quietly burning out top talent?

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On-call work is a fact of life for IT operations (ITOps) teams, but as systems complexity and business pressure mount,

The post Is your on-call rotation quietly burning out top talent? appeared first on

Google's Pixel 10a arrives on March 5 for $499 with specs and design of yesteryear

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Google's new budget phone is here, but don't expect a big upgrade.

M5 iPad Pro Hits New Record Low Prices on Amazon, Starting at $799.99 [Updated]

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Apple's 11-inch M5 iPad Pro has hit new all-time low prices today on Amazon, starting at $799.99 for the 256GB Wi-Fi 11-inch iPad Pro, down from $999.00. As of writing, we're only tracking low prices on the 11-inch model of the M5 iPad Pro.

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.

Amazon also has the 512GB Wi-Fi 11-inch iPad Pro for & [...]

Low-Cost MacBook Expected on March 4 in These Colors

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Apple will announce its rumored low-cost MacBook at its event on March 4, with the device coming in a selection of bold color options, according to a known leaker.


Earlier this week, Apple announced a "special Apple Experience" for the media in New York, London, and Shanghai, taking place on March 4, 2026 at 9:00am ET.

Posting on Weibo, the leaker known as "Instant Digital" said that the color scheme of the Apple logo graphic used for the upcoming "Apple Experience" should match the colors of the new entry-level Mac. The invite graphic sh [...]

What a ‘Good Plan’ Really Means for AI Coding Agents

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10 Reasons to Wait for Apple's iPhone 18 Pro

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Apple's iPhone development roadmap runs several years into the future and the company is continually working with suppliers on several successive iPhone models at the same time, which is why we often get rumored features months ahead of launch. The iPhone 18 series is no different, and we already have a good idea of what to expect for the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max.


One thing worth noting is that Apple is reportedly planning a major change to its iPhone release cycle this year, adopting a two-phase rollout starting with the iPhone 18 series. That means the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and iPhone Fold will be released in September 2026, followed by the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e in spring 2027.


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Tool Fragmentation is Breaking Delivery Context — Here’s What Teams are Learning

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6 agentic knowledge base patterns emerging in the wild

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AI agents have become the software industry’s latest fascination. Backed by large language models (LLMs), this new class of AI

The post 6 agentic knowledge base patterns emerging in the wild appeared first on The New Stack.

Secrets Management Failures in CI/CD Pipelines

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Perplexity Abandons AI Advertising Strategy Over Trust Worries

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AI company Perplexity is stepping away from advertising over concerns that it will erode user trust, despite moves by rivals to introduce ads as an alternative money-making strategy.


Perplexity was one of the first AI services to embrace ads in 2024, after it ran tests where sponsored answers appeared under the chatbot's answers. That approach however was phased out last year, and executives at the company now say they don't plan to revisit it, according to the Financial Times.

"A user needs to believe this is the best possible answer, to keep using the product and be willing to pay for it," a Perplexity executive told the publication.

The report follows OpenAI's move [...]

Apple Music Connect Launches as Promotional Resource for Labels and Distributors

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Apple has launched Apple Music Connect, a new resource for labels, distributors, and partners to manage promotional assets, upload press photos, and help coordinate how artists' music and marketing materials are presented across the streaming service.


The new online hub includes a range of tools and services for music labels, including:

• Promote: Creates promotional artwork and visual assets to support releases across Apple Music surfaces and external channels.


• Apple Music Pitch: A way to submit detailed information about upcoming releases for editorial and playlist consideration.


• Media Requests: A place for uploading and managing press photos and assets re

Where are the enterprise AI apps? Part n + 1

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Outside of programming, there’s still a dearth of enterprise AI apps, it seems. Palo Alto’s CEO:

“Consumers are far outstripping enterprise for the moment, but we expect enterprise will surely and slowly get on that bandwagon,” he said on the company’s Q2 earnings call. … “Right now … tell me how many enterprise AI apps are you using which are driving tremendous amounts of throughput,” he asked, and answered himself “I can’t think of anything but coding apps.”

Yes, but… Corey Quinn says enterprises are grabbing up all the GPU use they can from AWS:

In other words, I can confirm these claims. AWS isn’t getting ahead of its skis here; customers are legitimately asking for all the GPUs they can get their hands on.

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Martin Fowler told me the second edition should be shorter (it’s twice as long) (xpost)

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90% new material, a clearer mission, and a rogues gallery of contributors. The second edition of Observability Engineering is almost done. Originally posted here. Last week I got to meet Martin Fowler for the first time in person. This was an exciting moment for me. Martin ranks high on my personal pantheon; he is, so far as […]

Rumor: Apple to Announce Multiple New Products in First Week of March

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Apple on Monday invited selected journalists and content creators to a "special Apple Experience" on Wednesday, March 4 in New York, London, and Shanghai. And now, rumors are surfacing about Apple's broader plans for that week.


Daring Fireball's John Gruber today guessed that Apple will announce new products on a day-by-day basis from Monday, March 2 through Wednesday, March 4:

What strikes me is that March 4 — the "experience" day — is a Wednesday. So my spitball guess is that they announce all these products via Newsroom press releases, day-by-day. Like, say, the iPhone 17e on Monday, ne

iOS 26.4 Beta Tidbits: Hidden Features You May Have Missed

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There is a long list of new features in the iOS 26.4 beta, many of which we highlighted yesterday, but we've since discovered several other smaller changes that Apple made in the software.

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Simplify managing your Docker compose files with this handy tool

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The Docker run command is a great introduction to running containers. It’s simple, it’s quick, and it’s fairly easy to

The post Simplify managing your Docker compose files with this handy tool appeared first on The New Stack.

From notebooks to nodes: Architecting production-ready AI infrastructure

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The transition from running machine learning models in Colab notebooks to operational, high-traffic applications requires significant changes in infrastructure setup.

The post From notebooks to nodes: Architecting production-ready AI infrastructure appeared first on The New Stack.

The “funhouse mirror”: How AI reflects the hidden truths of your software pipeline

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AI is the epitome of moving fast and breaking things. But where has the rigor gone, asks Thoughtworks CTO Rachel

The post The “funhouse mirror”: How AI reflects the hidden truths of your software pipeline appeared first on The New Stack.

Anthropic’s new Claude Sonnet 4.6 promises Opus-level coding at Sonnet pricing

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Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Sonnet 4.6, the latest version of its mainstream model. This new version promises to almost

The post Anthropic’s new Claude Sonnet 4.6 promises Opus-level coding at Sonnet pricing appeared first on The New Stack.

RAM shortage hits Valve's four-year-old Steam Deck, now available "intermittently"

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Forget launching new stuff—Valve is even having problems with existing hardware.

Your AI strategy is built on layers of API sediment

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“The API landscape is a mess, and very few people understand it,” Kin Lane, API industry veteran and founder of

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CredShields Contributes to OWASP’s 2026 Smart Contract Security Priorities

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Attention, Autonomy, and AI in the Critical Path - Related to your interests - February 17th, 2026

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• “‘CEO said a thing!’ journalism” - fantastic new phrase!
• How AI Is Redefining Product Teams - What do product managers do in AI code gen land?
• NatWest hails progress after £1.2bn spent on tech last year, but true AI transformation to come

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Your Boss Doesn’t Know What to Do With AI

Enterprise AI Has a Product-Market Fit Problem. Enterprise AI isn’t stalled because the models are weak. It’s stalled because we haven’t discovered product-market fit inside the enterprise yet.

You don’t find real AI value by theorizing in workshops. You find it by running experiments for months inside your actual systems - against real data - in a governed environment.

That requires a platform.

Without one, AI pilots turn into disconnected experiments, shadow infrastructure, and compliance risk. With one, experimentation compounds into institutional learning.

In this video, I break down:

• Why enterprise AI is still in discovery mode
• Why experimentation must be long-running, not one-off
• How governance enables innovation instead of blocking it
• Why a secure platform foundation is the baseline for AI ROI

If you’re thinking about AI strategy, plat

Cline CLI 2.0 Turns Your Terminal Into an AI Agent Control Plane

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All the Claw things (News)

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Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is "claw done right", MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died.

Python virtual environments: isolation without the chaos

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Installing packages globally isn’t always a good idea. Different tools inside an application can require specific versions of features, functions,

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There's a lot of business logic in Java, decades worth...

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We have invested a lot in domain models, some of which are even very good. And, to be able to leverage that as we move to the new world is really, really important." Rod Johnson.

Source: “GenAI Grows Up: Building Production-Ready Agents on the JVM," Rod Johnson, GOTO, October 1st, 2025.

That reminds me of this gem:

Google’s Conductor Now Reviews the Code it Helps You Write

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Prompt Injection Isn’t Just a Chat Problem — It’s a DevOps Threat

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Range-Over Functions in Go

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Iteration has long been one of the more fragmented areas of Go, with developers relying on ad hoc patterns to traverse custom data structures. This article explores the range-over-functions experiment, a proposed evolution of the language that introduces a standardized iterator model while preserving Go’s familiar for range syntax. Using the new iter package and sequence abstractions, it shows how iteration logic can be expressed more clearly, flexibly, and idiomatically. Originally published in April 2024, the concepts remain highly relevant as Go continues to evolve toward more expressive yet simple language features.

cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source

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At FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels, Belgium, Daniel Stenberg, creator of the popular open source data transfer program, cURL, described AI as

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OpenClaw is being called a security “Dumpster fire,” but there is a way to stay safe

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In a blog earlier this February, Snyk engineers said they scanned the entire ClawHub (the OpenClaw marketplace) and found that

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HackerOS is what a Linux enthusiast’s OS should be

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There are over 1,000 Linux distributions on the market. Throw a rock into the tech pond, and I guarantee that

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Arcjet reaches v1.0, promises stable security for JavaScript apps

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Arcjet this week released v1.0 of its JavaScript SDK, moving it from beta to a stable, production-ready API. Arcjet’s security

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Han shot first (Friends)

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Our ol' friend, Brett Cannon, is back to talk all things Python. But first! Star Wars, Machete Order, Lost, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Murderbot, Ted Lasso, Project Hail Mary, David Attenborough, perpetual voice rights, and the AI uncanny valley.

The first Android 17 beta is now available on Pixel devices

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Don't expect big changes yet.

AI Is Normal Now - The Enterprise Is Not

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Original Content

• Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn’t need new platforms - I’ve been circling a theme this week after reading “AI as a Normal Technology” (Spring, 2025). This is some stream of conscious on it.

• Enterprises are gonna enterprise-y, especially with AI. Also available in LinkedIn, if you prefer that kind of thing.

• A series of OODA loops, Software Defined Talk #559 - This week, we discuss the future of SaaS, OpenAI vs. Anthropic strategies, and cloud capex. Plus, when will yo

Tanzu Catsup: The Risk of Relying on AI for Platform Engineering

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Internal development teams and executives are increasingly looking at AI to automate the creation of internal developer platforms. However, cobbling together open-source components with AI is a far cry from building a scalable, secure, and “enterprise-grade” environment. In this conversation, we explore why betting your internal infrastructure on AI-generated platforms is a high-stakes risk and why human-led architecture still dictates the long-term success of a platform.

There’s also an excerpt.