Afroman Wins: Jury Rules Mocking Cops Who Raided Your Home Is Protected Speech

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As we wrote just yesterday, the defamation trial brought by seven Adams County, Ohio deputies against rapper Afroman was going about as well for the officers as their original botched raid on his home. Today we can report the inevitable conclusion: the jury sided entirely with Afroman, clearing him of all liability after just hours […]

Waymo says its fleet hit 170M+ miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Waymo says its fleet hit 170M+ miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers  —  Waymo says its robotaxis are involved in 92 percent fewer crashes causing serious injuries or worse than human drivers.

Cursor launches Composer 2, an AI agent trained solely on coding-related data to perform autonomous, lengthy coding tasks, to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Cursor launches Composer 2, an AI agent trained solely on coding-related data to perform autonomous, lengthy coding tasks, to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI  —  Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startup for coding, is set to release a more efficient AI model for software development …

Alphabet's X spins out Anori, which seeks to streamline building approvals through a unified platform for developers and city regulators, with $26M in funding (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

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Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Alphabet's X spins out Anori, which seeks to streamline building approvals through a unified platform for developers and city regulators, with $26M in funding  —  For more than a decade, Alphabet's X moonshot factory has been quietly trying to fix one of the world's most

Cursor’s Composer 2 beats Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks at a fraction of the price

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Cursor on Thursday released Composer 2, the third generation of its in-house coding model. The model outperforms Anthropic’s Opus 4.6

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DoorDash launches Tasks, a new app that pays delivery couriers in some markets to submit video clips and complete other tasks for training AI models (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
DoorDash launches Tasks, a new app that pays delivery couriers in some markets to submit video clips and complete other tasks for training AI models  —  DoorDash Inc. is paying delivery couriers in some markets to submit video clips and complete other digital tasks to help improve artificial intelligence … </

Sampling: the philosopher’s stone of distributed tracing

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In modern observability, distributed tracing is often considered the most expressive signal. It can be used to capture much of

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Letters: industry groups pushed back after India proposed in January that Apple, Google, and others consider pre-installing biometric ID app Aadhaar on phones (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Letters: industry groups pushed back after India proposed in January that Apple, Google, and others consider pre-installing biometric ID app Aadhaar on phones  —  India's government privately proposed in January that firms like Apple, Samsung and Google consider pre-installing …

Checkmarx Adds Orchestration Framework to DevSecOps Platform

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Claros, which aims to cut data center energy losses by using voltage regulators that provide power directly to servers' main processors, raised a $30M seed (Ben Geman/Axios)

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Ben Geman / Axios:
Claros, which aims to cut data center energy losses by using voltage regulators that provide power directly to servers' main processors, raised a $30M seed  —  Claros, a startup with tech that minimizes energy waste at data centers, closed a $30 million seed round co-led by General Catalyst and Red Cell Partners.

Chinese lab claims first humanoid robot control using space-based satellite inference

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A Chinese laboratory has reportedly demonstrated the control of a humanoid robot via space-based computing. ...

China deploys AI aerial refueling system after deadly US tanker crash amid Iran war

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Days after a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in western Iraq on March 12,...

MLB makes Polymarket its official prediction markets platform, giving it exclusive data access; Polymarket will restrict contracts that pose "integrity risk" (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
MLB makes Polymarket its official prediction markets platform, giving it exclusive data access; Polymarket will restrict contracts that pose “integrity risk”  —  On the cusp of opening day and und

Adobe launches Firefly Custom Models in public beta, letting users train AI image generators on their own assets; the custom models are private by default (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Adobe launches Firefly Custom Models in public beta, letting users train AI image generators on their own assets; the custom models are private by default  —  Firefly custom models analyze your assets to preserve character designs and emulate illustration and photography styles.

US: NANO’s advanced nuclear fuel transportation solution achieves design milestone

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A New York-based company has taken a significant step to develop a proprietary, optimized transportation...

New test shows 100% ammonia can power gas turbines without carbon emissions

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GE Vernova and Japan’s IHI Corp. have achieved a world-first by successfully testing 100% ammonia...

OpenAI agrees to acquire Astral, which makes Python tools for developers, to integrate its team into Codex, and says Codex has 2M+ users, up 3x since January (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)

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Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg:
OpenAI agrees to acquire Astral, which makes Python tools for developers, to integrate its team into Codex, and says Codex has 2M+ users, up 3x since January  —  OpenAI plans to acquire Astral, a startup that makes Python tools for developers, marking the ChatGPT maker's latest investment …

UBTech’s goal to mass-produce 10,000 humanoid robots by 2026 gets Siemens backing

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Chinese robotics firm UBTech has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Siemens Digital Industries Software...

The UK CMA launches an investigation into Adobe, saying early membership cancellation fees for certain products might be in breach of consumer protection laws (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)

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Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal:
The UK CMA launches an investigation into Adobe, saying early membership cancellation fees for certain products might be in breach of consumer protection laws  —  The probe will assess Adobe terms and if customers get clear, timely information 

New lead-free material turns motion into power for greener electronic devices

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Scientists at Osaka Metropolitan University have created high-performance, lead-free piezoelectric thin films directly on standard...

SpyCloud’s 2026 Identity Exposure Report Reveals Explosion of Non-Human Identity Theft

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World-first commercial quantum orbital cloud for unhackable comms planned by Swiss firm

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Semiconductor maker SEAL SQ plans to build the world’s first commercial quantum spatial orbital cloud...

Google co-founder Sergey Brin raises his total contribution to $45M for the Building a Better California Super PAC, which opposes a proposed 5% billionaire tax (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)

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Dara Kerr / The Guardian:
Google co-founder Sergey Brin raises his total contribution to $45M for the Building a Better California Super PAC, which opposes a proposed 5% billionaire tax  —  Sergey Brin gives $25m on top of $20m he's already given to Super Pac trying to block state's proposed 5% wealth tax

Deeptune, which builds high-fidelity reinforcement learning environments that simulate professional workflows for AI agents, raised a $43M Series A led by a16z (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

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Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune:
Deeptune, which builds high-fidelity reinforcement learning environments that simulate professional workflows for AI agents, raised a $43M Series A led by a16z  —  AI startup Deeptune has raised a $43 million Series A to build what it calls “training gyms” for AI agents, Fortune has learned exclusively.

David Zaslav Will Soon Get $550 Million For Disastrous Warner Bros Reign

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Brunchlords can only fail upward. It’s physics. Warner Brothers CEO David Zaslav is poised to get as much as $550 million in compensation and tax reimbursement as the company prepares to be acquired by Larry Ellison’s CBS/Paramount: “Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, is set to receive $34.2 million in cash severance; $517.2 […]

Uber plans to invest $1.25B in Rivian through 2031, contingent on meeting autonomy milestones, starting with $300M at signing, to deploy 50K Level 4 robotaxis (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Uber plans to invest $1.25B in Rivian through 2031, contingent on meeting autonomy milestones, starting with $300M at signing, to deploy 50K Level 4 robotaxis  —  The companies say they plan on deploying 10,000 autonomous Rivian R2 vehicles by 2031. … Uber and Rivian are joining forces …

The US NHTSA escalates its investigation into Tesla's FSD to an "engineering analysis", which could result in a recall campaign or other enforcement action (Ryan Felton/Wall Street Journal)

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Ryan Felton / Wall Street Journal:
The US NHTSA escalates its investigation into Tesla's FSD to an “engineering analysis”, which could result in a recall campaign or other enforcement action  —  The probe covers about 3.2 million Tesla

Building a Kubernetes-native pattern for AI infrastructure at scale

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When AI developer and ops teams first adopt large models on Kubernetes, the focus is usually on getting something to

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Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek says the company cut ~12% of its workforce, or ~180 roles, saying the layoffs target roles that "do not adapt" as it integrates AI (Brian Danga/The Block)

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Brian Danga / The Block:
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek says the company cut ~12% of its workforce, or ~180 roles, saying the layoffs target roles that “do not adapt” as it integrates AI  —  Quick Take  — Crypto.com cut about 12% of its workforce, or roughly 180 roles based on a previously disclosed headcount of over 1,500 employees.

113 million-year-old dinosaur fossil turns out to be new turkey-sized species

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Almost every child in South Korea has grown up with Dooly: a pint-sized, emerald-green dinosaur...

TCL’s German QLED ban puts pressure on TV brands to be more honest about QDs

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"This is a serious warning shot."

US Navy’s 100,000-ton nuclear-powered warship exits Iran war after onboard fire

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The USS Gerald R. Ford, the U.S. Navy’s most advanced nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is departing...

‘World’s smallest’ atomic clock could improve drone swarm timing, China team claims

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China has unveiled a breakthrough in precision timing with the mass production of the world’s...

Open SWE Captures the Architecture That Stripe, Coinbase and Ramp Built Independently for Internal Coding Agents

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U.S. District Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Against RFK, HHS For Its Vaccine Schedule Changes

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It was mere days ago that we were discussing an interesting lawsuit brought by the American Academy of Pediatrics, among others, challenging RFK Jr. and HHS for violating the Administrative Procedures Act in making changes to the CDC’s ACIP panel and immunization schedules. If you’re not up on what the APA is and does, the […]

Afroman’s Defamation Trial Is Going About As Well For The Deputies As Their Original Raid Did

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We’ve been following the saga of Afroman (real name Joseph Foreman) and the Adams County Sheriff’s Office for a few years now, and I’m delighted to report that the defamation trial is currently underway and it is delivering everything you could possibly hope for, starting with this absolutely astounding suit that he’s wearing in court […]

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Internet Coin-op

Arcjet Extends Runtime Policy Engine to Block Malicious Prompts

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The Worst Sheriff You Know Just Made A Great Point (About Trump’s Anti-Migrant Actions)

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Obviously, this headline owes everything to The Onion, which generated this masterpiece years ago: And so it is here: someone you’d never think would oppose fascism and bigotry deciding to speak up, despite knowing he could have just kept his head down and maintained his position as Sheriff For Life in Polk County, Florida. I’m […]

Google, Microsoft and Peers Donate to Support Overloaded Open Source Maintainers

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Hacking Workshop for April/May 2026

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I'm planning to hold a single hacking workshop for April and May combined, covering Masahiko Sawada's talk, Breaking away from FREEZE and Wraparound, given at PGCon 2022. 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 to Sawada-san for agreeing to join us.

AI-powered event response for Amazon EKS

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In this post, you'll learn how AWS DevOps Agent integrates with your existing observability stack to provide intelligent, automated responses to system events.

Friend Bubbles: Enhancing Social Discovery on Facebook Reels

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Friend bubbles in Facebook Reels highlight Reels your friends have liked or reacted to, helping you discover new content and making it easier to connect over shared interests. This article explains the technical architecture behind friend bubbles, including how machine learning estimates relationship strength and ranks content your friends have interacted with to create more [...]

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The Jehovah’s Witnesses Are Back Abusing Copyright Law To Unmask Their Critics. Again.

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EFF announced last week that it has stepped in to defend yet another anonymous Jehovah’s Witness critic from having their identity exposed through bogus copyright claims. The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society — the organizational arm of the Jehovah’s Witnesses — has sent DMCA subpoenas to both Google and Cloudflare seeking information to unmask […]

Daily Deal: The Modern No-Code Development Bundle

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The Modern No-Code Creator Bundle is an extensive online curriculum specifically developed to enable individuals to construct professional websites, applications & automated workflows without the necessity of writing any code. It has five courses, covering leading no-code platforms and tools like ChatGPT, Mendix, and Tabnine. It is ideally suited for novices and non-technical professionals, empowering […]

Spacelift Intelligence Vibe-Codes Infrastructure

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The AI revolution will be open-sourced

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At CES 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made the case that AI will proliferate when open innovation is activated across

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Java 26 lands without an LTS badge. Here’s why developers should care anyway.

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released Java 26 on Tuesday, the opening day of its JavaOne 2026 conference in Redwood Shores, Calif., continuing the platform’s

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Trump Has Racked Up At Least 157 Extrajudicial Boat Strike Murders In The Last 6 Months

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The boat strike program the Trump administration is engaged in isn’t actually supported by law. Even his own in-house counsel can’t seem to agree on what justification to use. Shortly after being threatened with a little congressional oversight, the Office of Legal Counsel shrugged together a legal memo that basically said that the less of […]

Chainguard has a fix for the open source packages your AI agents keep grabbing

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As AI coding assistants and autonomous agents dramatically accelerate software development, they’re introducing a security problem that most organizations aren’t

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Sauce Labs wants to solve an AI-created problem nobody wanted to work on

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AI code-generation tools have compressed software development cycles, but testing hasn’t kept up. Sauce Labs thinks it has found an

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Komodor Extends Reach of AI SRE Orchestration Framework

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Capital One deprecated an AI tool it once championed. Its DevEx chief says that’s the point.

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How could you possibly ensure you are providing the right tools and processes to 14,000 engineers? How do you even

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Introducing Custom Regions for precision data control

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We are expanding Regional Services with new pre-defined regions and the launch of Custom Regions. Customers can now define precise geographical boundaries for data processing, tailored to meet their compliance and performance needs.

Pete Hegseth: We Can’t Wait For Larry Ellison To Turn CNN Into Another Right Wing Propaganda Mill

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We’ve noted repeatedly how the U.S. authoritarian right is buying up all of our new and old media companies because they’re trying to mimic what Viktor Orban created in Hungary. Namely, a media where all the major outlets are owned by rich autocratic allies, who spew propaganda 24/7 while the government strangles real, independent journalism […]

Scaling Btrfs to petabytes in production: a 74% cost reduction story

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At Chronosphere, we saved 74% of our storage costs by moving petabytes of time-series data from ext4 to Btrfs, the

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Why your observability bill keeps growing (and it’s not your vendor’s fault)

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Over the past year, I have spoken with dozens of engineering teams about their observability pipelines and analyzed their production

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Policy as Code for Cost Control, Not Just Compliance

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Full Circle: Katie Perry Gets Her Trademark Back In Australia, Court Says No Risk Of Confusion

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It’s been a long and winding road to mostly get us right back to where we started in the battle between pop star Katy Perry and Aussie clothing designer Katie Perry. If you’re not familiar with this saga, here is a brief summary. Note that I will be mostly using only Katy and Katie when […]

Ranking Engineer Agent (REA): The Autonomous AI Agent Accelerating Meta’s Ads Ranking Innovation

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Meta’s Ranking Engineer Agent (REA) autonomously executes key steps across the end-to-end machine learning (ML) lifecycle for ads ranking models. This post covers REA’s ML experimentation capabilities: autonomously generating hypotheses, launching training jobs, debugging failures, and iterating on results. Future posts will cover additional REA capabilities. REA reduces the need for manual intervention. It manages [...]

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Chainguard thinks most DevOps teams are solving container security the hard way

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Chainguard OS is great, but what if you want to customize your own Linux? Now, with the Chainguard OS Package,

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 mini and nano are built for the subagent era

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On Tuesday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and nano, two smaller models designed for tasks that agentic AI systems delegate: codebase searches,

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WebMCP turns any Chrome web page into an MCP server for AI agents

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About two weeks ago, I posted about websites returning Markdown to make life easier for AI agents. While agents are already quite

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GitHub Copilot’s effect on collaboration has stunned researchers

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Generative AI tools like GitHub Copilot are not just speeding up coding; they are quietly rewiring how software developers divide

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How we optimized Dash's relevance judge with DSPy

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We used DSPy to turn prompt engineering for our relevance judge into a measurable, automated optimization loop, improving task performance, cost, and how reliably it works in production.

The security hole that every enterprise AI deployment has (but nobody looks for)

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The anti-automation glitterati may now be preparing for a new swathe of naysaying as agentic AI services are brought to

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After three months, Samsung is ending sales of the $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold

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Samsung didn't offer an explanation for its decision, but it's not exactly a surprise.

What is KubeVirt and why it’s growing

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KubeVirt is an open-source project that brings virtual machines into the Kubernetes control plane, letting teams run VMs and containers

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Harness Extends AI Security Reach Across Entire DevOps Workflow

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Switch 2's new "Handheld Mode Boost" can run original Switch games at 1080p

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Switch games running at 720p can look worse on the Switch 2's 1080p display.

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: Private and performant

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If you want to spend $1,300 on a phone, it might as well be this one.

The AI blind spot debt: the hidden cost killing your innovation strategy

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In today’s AI rush, I’ve seen even the most disciplined organizations find it nearly impossible to enforce the hard-won lessons

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Sauce Labs Makes AI Agent for Creating and Running Tests Available

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Firefighting drones head to Aspen—can they suppress a blaze before humans arrive?

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Seneca's drones carry foam, fly at night, and don't need an on-site pilot.

Managed OpenClaw bids to kill hidden token tax on AI agents

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Featherless is a serverless platform specialist that provides API-based access to open-source AI models via a supporting infrastructure. The concept

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Why agentic AI stalls in production — and how a control plane fixes it

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For SREs, platform engineers, and AI/ML teams, agentic AI makes many promises that are hard to ignore. Autonomous agents that

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Your database is about to become an AI tool. Is it ready?

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For 25 years, I’ve watched the database sit behind layers of protection: firewalls, VPNs, connection poolers, role-based access, and even

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From monolith to global mesh: How Uber standardized ML at scale

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Introduction: the scaling wall In 2015, Uber’s growth was outpacing its infrastructure. As the company evolved from a luxury car

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AI Brain Fry, Zombie Projects, and Gentleman Vibe Coders - Related to your interests, Monday

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KubeCon EU is next week, in Amsterdam, and I’m talking at VMUG Amsterdam tomorrow about what private equity does to enterprise software companies. If you’re at RAI, come say hi. AI might have written some of the below; we’re still working on keeping it under control for “helpful” content generation.

Related to your interests

• When Using AI Leads to Brain Fry - In my experience, it’s not so much AI doing this as AI being a tool that makes people so productive that they experience getting a lot of shit done. Being hyper-productive is exhausting, but in a good way like (so I am told) exercising is exhausting but ultimately “good.” // Related: ‘AI brain fry’ affects employees managing too many agents - Those who reported having to maintain a high degree of AI oversight reported spending 14 percent more mental ene

Making AI Write Android Code Our Way: A Practical Guide to Agent Skills

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Turning knowledge into reusable AI agent instructions for a small, fast-moving team.

We're a small Android team at Medium, just a handful of engineers maintaining and evolving the Medium Android app. Our codebase follows Clean Architecture with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Hilt, Apollo GraphQL, and a growing number of feature modules. Like most Android teams, we have strong opinions about how code should be structured: where ViewModels get their data, how analytics events flow, how feature flags are checked, what a "new screen" looks like from Fragment to preview function.

The problem? Those opinions lived in PR review comments, Slack threads, and the heads of engineers who'd been around long enough to know the patterns. When AI coding assistants arrived, they could generate Kotlin code but not our Kotlin code. The output was gener

Nvidia brings together AI labs to build the next generation of open base models

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Nvidia on Monday announced the Nemotron Coalition at its GTC conference. This new coalition of AI labs will pool expertise,

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Nvidia’s NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails

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At its annual GTC conference, Nvidia on Monday announced the Nvidia Agent Toolkit, which brings together open models, runtimes, open

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Standing up for the open Internet: why we appealed Italy’s "Piracy Shield" fine

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Cloudflare is appealing a €14 million fine from Italian regulators over "Piracy Shield," a system that forces providers to block content without oversight. We are challenging this framework to protect the Internet from disproportionate overblocking and lack of due process.

Cursor built a fleet of security agents to solve a familiar frustration

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Cursor‘s security team has built a fleet of AI agents that continuously monitor and secure the company’s codebase, and it

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Anthropic doubles Claude usage outside peak hours — but it won’t last forever

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AI labs keep searching for ways to pull developers deeper into their ecosystems. The latest move comes from Anthropic, which

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Apple’s AirPods Max 2 bring H2 chip, boosted ANC in April for $549

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Apple's over-head headphones get an update after over five years.

COMMENT to the MCP Rescue

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The COMMENT command has been in Postgres for decades. It allows text descriptions to be attached to almost any database object. During its long history, it was mostly seen as a nice-to-have addition to database schemas, allowing administrators and developers to more easily understand the schema. Tools like pgAdmin allow you to assign and view comments on database objects.

Now, in the AI era, there is something else that needs to understand database schemas — MCP clients. Without database object comments, MCP clients can only use the database schemas, object names, and constraints. With database comment

Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web’s homepage

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Today, I’m talking with Jim Lanzone, who is the CEO of Yahoo. It’s basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story, but the short version of it is that a long time ago Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and basically everything has gone sideways since. You’ll hear Jim refer […]

Why AI workloads are breaking traditional Kubernetes observability strategies

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For most platform engineering and ITOps teams, the ability to orchestrate containerized workloads at scale has transformed development organizations. But

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Using Tools: A Meeting Scheduler

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Introduction

LLMs are great, but they are trained on public data sets. In some cases, you need the LLM to use data that’s not publicly available or that’s frequently changing. There are several ways to make such data available to LLMs:

• Tool/function calls
• Retrieval-augmented generation (aka RAG)
• MCP

In coding agents, you can also add skills.

In this post we’ll focus on function calling.

How Does It Work?

When interacting with an LLM, you can provide a description of available tools if the model supports tool calling. If the LLM reasons that the best answer is to use one of the tools, it will return a reply that contains a tool call with the parameters to use. Then you make the function call and return the answer back to the LLM.

Aether OS is a computer in a browser built for the AT Protocol

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Aether OS puts a full-fledged desktop in your browser that ties directly into the AT Protocol. That means it connects to your Bluesky account and other public records. It offers a pretty full suite of apps, 42 in total, covering text editing, task management, and social media. There's even a rudimentary tracker for making chiptunes, […]

The fast rise and epic fall of Clubhouse

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In 2020 and 2021, the social media world seemed to be on the verge of complete change. A new app called TikTok was ascendant, bringing a whole new kind of vertical video to phones everywhere. And another app - not as popular, but growing fast, and already hugely influential among the tech set - looked […]

Wordle’s creator made a fun new puzzle game

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 119, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your agents are well, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Pixar's future and flight MH370 and sports gambling […]

10+ New Features Coming in iOS 27

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We're only three months away from Apple's WWDC 2026 event, which will see the company unveil iOS 27. With the fully revamped version of Siri possibly delayed until September, iOS 27 is shaping up to be the update we wanted iOS 26 to be.


There will be new Apple Intelligence features, updates for the iPhone Fold, and more, with the latest rumors summarized below.

Foldable iPhone Features

Apple Kicks Off 50th Anniversary With Surprise Alicia Keys Concert in New York

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Apple mysteriously shut down its Grand Central Terminal store in New York City today, and it turns out it was for an impromptu Alicia Keys concert to celebrate Apple's upcoming 50th anniversary.


Apple quietly invited select YouTubers and members of the media (including MacRumors) to the store location, but kept the performer secret until Alicia Keys took the stage. Preparations for the concert started yesterday, with Apple setting up a stage, audio equipment, and lights, complete with Keys' signature pink piano.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, marketing chief Greg Joswiak, retail head Deirdre O'Brien, and hardware engineering boss John Ternus were at the Grand C [...]

Adobe settles DOJ cancellation fee lawsuit, will pay $75 million penalty

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Adobe says it will also give customers who "qualify" free services but is vague on details.

iFixit Teardown: MacBook Neo Has Most Accessible Mac Battery in Over a Decade

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Repair site iFixit did its traditional teardown on the MacBook Neo, and was pleasantly surprised with the laptop's repairability. "We haven't been as happy about a MacBook since 2012," says iFixit.

MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 17 Pro and 25W Qi Charger From Lululook

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For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Lululook to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an iPhone 17 Pro and a 25W Qi2.2 3-in-1 Charger from Lululook to go along with it.


Priced at $79, Lululook's 3-in-1 Charging Station is able to charge an iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch at the same time. It features Qi 2.2 support and certification, so it is able to charge the iPhone [...]

Subscribers to Amazon Prime Video with ads lose 4K support on April 10

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Amazon says its service requires "significant investment."

M5 MacBook Air review: Still the best MacBook for almost everybody

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The M5 MacBook Air is a minor upgrade, but minor upgrades add up over time.