Sources: Apple's Siri upgrade has run into snags recently, possibly pushing some personalized Siri and other features from iOS 26.4 to iOS 26.5, due in May (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's Siri upgrade has run into snags recently, possibly pushing some personalized Siri and other features from iOS 26.4 to iOS 26.5, due in May  —  Apple Inc.'s long-planned upgrade to the Siri virtual assistant has run into snags during testing in recent weeks …

Bluefin Linux: ChromeOS simplicity meets Linux power

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Imagine you could use an operating system that’s as easy as ChromeOS, while also being as powerful as Linux. What

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Apple releases iOS 26.3 with updates that mainly benefit non-Apple devices

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It's getting a little easier to move from iOS to Android, if that's your thing.

OpenAI announced Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT via GenAI.mil; sources say the move came after months of deliberation among employees (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

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Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
OpenAI announced Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT via GenAI.mil; sources say the move came after months of deliberation among employees  —  THE SCOOP  —  OpenAI's announcement Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT came after months of deliberation …

10 iPhone Tips and Tricks You Probably Didn't Know About

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No matter how well you think you know your iPhone, there are always tons of hidden features and shortcuts that you aren't aware of, or might have forgotten about. We've rounded up 10 useful ‌iPhone‌ features that are worth knowing about to make using your ‌iPhone‌ just a little more pleasant.

1. Alarms in Reminders - You can set an alarm for a reminder, so you get a pop-up that has to be snoozed or dismissed rather than just a notification.


2. Adaptive Power Mode - Adaptive Power Mode is a setting yo

US Marine Corps to install ‘digital brain’ into YFQ-42A ‘wingman’ drone ahead of tests

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The US Marine Corps (USMC) announced it has selected General Atomics’ YFQ-42A aircraft “for evaluation...

Google releases Android 17 Beta 1, which requires developers to optimize apps for foldables and large screens, includes performance improvements, and more (Sanuj Bhatia/Android Central)

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Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central:
Google releases Android 17 Beta 1, which requires developers to optimize apps for foldables and large screens, includes performance improvements, and more  —  The beta that never was. … What you need to know  — Google has released Android 17 beta 1 shortly after wrapping up Android 16 QPR3 testing.

The System Of Checks And Balances Doesn’t Work When One Branch Refuses To Play By The Rules

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Technically — TECHNICALLY! — we still have a system that relies on three co-equal branches to ensure that any single branch can’t steamroll the rest of the system (along with the nation it’s supposed to serve) to seize an unequal amount of power. Technically. What we’re seeing now is something else entirely. The judicial branch […]

Daily Deal: The Ultimate Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows License + Windows 11 Pro Bundle

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Microsoft Office 2021 Professional is the perfect choice for any professional who needs to handle data and documents. It comes with many new features that will make you more productive in every stage of development, whether it’s processing paperwork or creating presentations from scratch – whatever your needs are. Office Pro comes with MS Word, […]

Update Now: iOS 26.3 and macOS Tahoe 26.3 Fix Dozens of Security Vulnerabilities

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Apple today released iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, and macOS Tahoe 26.3, all of which largely focus on bug fixes and security improvements. Apple says that the updates address dozens of vulnerabilities, including one that is known to have been actively exploited.


That vulnerability in the dyld dynamic link editor could allow for the execution of arbitrary code, and Apple says the bug may have been exploited in an "extremely sophisticated attack" against targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 26.

An attacker with memory write capability may be able to execute arbitrary code. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may ha

Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

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Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028  —  Meta Platforms Inc. said it will spend more than $10 billion to build a data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, ranking it among …

Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily personalize their feed by specifying topics in a public post that begins with "Dear Algo" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily personalize their feed by specifying topics in a public post that begins with “Dear Algo”  —  Meta on Wednesday debuted an AI feature called “Dear Algo” that lets Threads users personalize their content-recommendation algorithms.

Smart home PSA: Apple's "new architecture" for Home app becomes mandatory today

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Updated Home app is required for Matter support and some types of accessories.

Apple Releases iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3

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Apple today released iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3, the latest updates to the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 operating systems that came out in September. The new software comes almost two months after Apple released iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2.


The new software can be downloaded on eligible iPhones and iPads over-the-air by going to Settings > General > Software Update.

According to Apple's release notes, iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3 include unspecified bug fixes and security updates, but there are a couple features that Apple didn't highlight.

The updates add a tool for transitioning from an Apple device to an Android device. Tr [...]

Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.3

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Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26.3, the third major update to the ‌macOS Tahoe‌ operating system. ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.3 comes two months after Apple released macOS Tahoe 26.2.


Mac users can download the new software by opening up the System Settings app and navigating to the Software Update section.

According to Apple's release notes, ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.3 focuses on bug fixes and security updates rather than new features, so it is a smaller update than some of the other releases we've had.

In the next couple of weeks, Apple will begin testing ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4, an update that is expected to be much more feature p [...]

Apple Releases tvOS 26.3

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Apple today released tvOS 26.3, the third update to the tvOS operating system that came out last fall. tvOS 26.3 is available for the Apple TV 4K and the ‌Apple TV‌ HD, and it comes two months after Apple released tvOS 26.2.



tvOS 26.3 can be downloaded using the Settings app on the ‌‌‌Apple TV‌‌‌. Open up Settings and go to System > Software Update to get the new software. ‌‌‌Apple TV‌‌‌ owners who have automatic software updates activated will be upgraded to tvOS 26.3 automatically.

The tvOS 26.3 update includes bug fixes and security improvements, with full release notes for tvOS available through Apple's [...]

Apple Releases watchOS 26.3

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Apple today released watchOS 26.3, an update to the watchOS 26 operating system that came out in September. watchOS 26.3 comes two months after Apple released watchOS 26.2.


watchOS 26.3 can be downloaded for free on an iPhone running iOS 26.3 by opening up the Apple Watch app and going to General > Software Update, or initiating an update in the Settings app on the watch. To install the new software, the Apple Watch needs to have at least 50 percent battery and it needs to be placed on a charger.

According to Apple's release notes, watchOS 26.3 includes unspecified bug fixes and security updates, and there were n [...]

Apple Releases HomePod Software 26.3

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Alongside iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, and macOS Tahoe 26.3, Apple has released new HomePod 26.3 software for the ‌HomePod‌ and the HomePod mini. The update comes two months after Apple released ‌HomePod‌ Software 26.2.


According to Apple's release notes, ‌HomePod‌ Software 26.3 includes performance and stability improvements.

‌‌HomePod‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌ software is installed automatically on the ‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌HomePod‌‌‌‌ unless the feature is disabled‌‌‌‌, but the ‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌HomePod‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌ can also be manually updated in the Home app on iPho [...]

Apple Releases visionOS 26.3

Summary:
Apple today released visionOS 26.3, the third update to the visionOS 26 operating system that launched in September. visionOS 26.3 comes a month after Apple released visionOS 26.2.


‌visionOS 26‌.3 can be downloaded on all Vision Pro headsets by navigating to the Settings app, selecting the General section, and choosing the Software Update option. To install an update, the Vision Pro headset needs to be removed, and there is a software progress bar available on the exterior EyeSight display.

Apple's release notes say that visionOS 26.3 includes bug fixes and security improvements, and that the software is recommended for all Vision Pro users.

Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, adding nearly new 2,000 communities (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, adding nearly new 2,000 communities  —  Amazon Pharmacy, the retail giant's online pharmacy, plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 U.S. cities and towns …

Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)

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Tim De Chant / TechCrunch:
Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A  —  Inertia Enterprises has raised $450 million to build one of the world's most powerful lasers, which it hopes will serve …

An 18-Million-Subscriber YouTuber Just Explained Section 230 Better Than Every Politician In Washington

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Over the years, we’ve written approximately one million words explaining why Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is essential to how the internet functions. We’ve corrected politicians who lie about it. We’ve debunked myths spread by mainstream media outlets that should know better. We’ve explained, re-explained, and then explained again why gutting this law […]

Z.ai launches GLM-5, its flagship open-weight model, saying it has best-in-class performance among open-source models in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks (Z.ai)

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Z.ai:
Z.ai launches GLM-5, its flagship open-weight model, saying it has best-in-class performance among open-source models in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks  —  We are launching GLM-5, targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks.  Scaling is still one of the most important ways …

Never Miss Your Doorbell While Wearing Headphones on iPhone

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Noise-canceling headphones are great for blocking out distractions, but they can also block out sounds you actually need to hear, like a courier at the front door with your all-important package. Well, thanks to an Apple accessibility feature, your iPhone can do the listening for you and alert you when your doorbell rings.


Meet Sound Recognition, the feature in question that uses your iPhone's microphone to continuously monitor for specific sounds. When it detects one, you'll receive a notification that plays through your connected headphones, along with a vibration on your iPhone (or Apple Watch if you're wearing one).

The feature is primarily designed for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, but it's equally useful for anyone who works from home and regul [...]

Your infrastructure is evolving, but is your operational framework still stuck in the past?

Summary:

Major service outages are becoming more frequent, more severe, and taking longer to resolve. According to recent survey data, the

The post Your infrastructure is evolving, but is your operational framework still stuck in the past? appeared first on The New Stack.

The Death of Traditional Testing: Agentic Development Broke a 50-Year-Old Field, JiTTesting Can Revive It

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WHAT IT IS The rise of agentic software development means code is being written, reviewed, and shipped faster than ever before across the entire industry. It also means that testing frameworks need to evolve for this rapidly changing landscape. Faster development demands faster testing that can catch bugs as they land in a codebase, without [...]

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Insights from our executive roundtable on AI and engineering productivity

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From Claude Code to Cursor, we're big adopters of AI coding tools at Dropbox. The early results have been promising, but there are still a lot of open questions about how to work with these tools most effectively and where they can have the most impact. To push this conversation forward, we hosted an executive roundtable at our San Francisco studio. Here's how it went.

Source: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its employees; team lead Joshua Achiam will take on a "chief futurist" role (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Source: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its employees; team lead Joshua Achiam will take on a “chief futurist” role  —  OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its seven employees to other teams, Platformer has learned.

London-based commerce and payments infrastructure provider Rezolve Ai agrees to acquire London-based cashback rewards company Reward for $230M (PYMNTS.com)

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PYMNTS.com:
London-based commerce and payments infrastructure provider Rezolve Ai agrees to acquire London-based cashback rewards company Reward for $230M  —  Commerce and payments infrastructure provider Rezolve Ai has acquired U.K.-based cash-back rewards company Reward.  —  Get the Full Story

US targets 500kW Moon nuclear reactor by 2030; aims to power future space missions

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NASA could place a powerful 500-kilowatt-electric (kWe) nuclear reactor on the Moon by the end...

Samsung Smart Monitor M9 Hits Record Low Price on Amazon at $300 Off, Plus More Monitor Deals

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Samsung has introduced a few big discounts on its monitors, TVs, and more this week on Amazon, including the return of the all-time low price on the newest Smart Monitor. You can get the 32-inch Smart Monitor M9 for $1,299.99 on Amazon, 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 ever tracked, which is typically at Samsung.com. Today is on [...]

Google told advertisers that it is integrating shopping features into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

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Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg:
Google told advertisers that it is integrating shopping features into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini  —  Google is adding a way for consumers to buy things while seeking artificial intelligence-powered answers on search and in its Gemini chatbot …

Where Is AirTag 2's Missing Feature?

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Apple just introduced its second-generation AirTag, but one rumored feature failed to arrive with the new accessory.


The second-generation ‌AirTag‌ features 50% farther Precision Finding, upgraded Bluetooth with increased range, a 50% louder speaker, and more.

Back in August 2023, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported that the second-generation ‌AirTag‌ would have better integration with Apple's upcoming [...]

iPad Deals Include $50 Off 11th Gen Tablet, Available From $299

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Amazon this week is taking $50 off Wi-Fi models of Apple's 11th generation iPad. Prices start at $299.00 for the 128GB Wi-Fi iPad, down from $349.00, which is a solid second-best price on this model.

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.

Additionally, Amazon has the 256GB Wi-Fi iPad for $399.00 ($ [...]

Apple Supplier's Plans Fall Through, Macs and iPads May Be Impacted

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On an earnings call on Tuesday, Japanese company Sharp announced that the planned sale of one of its LCD display factories to its majority owner Foxconn has fell through, according to Nikkei Asia. As a result, the report said Sharp plans to halt production at the facility in August, and this decision may temporarily impact Apple.


If production ceases at Sharp's so-called "K2" factory in Kameyama, Japan, Taiwanese research firm TrendForce said that short-term supply of oxide LCD display panels for some MacBook and iPad models "could face disruption."

Apple is known for having excellent supply [...]

How AI Helps Teams Track Dependencies and Reduce Delivery Risk

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Source: to catch leakers, OpenAI security staff use a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack, email, and docs that cross-references news articles with access logs (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: to catch leakers, OpenAI security staff use a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack, email, and docs that cross-references news articles with access logs  —  Here at The Information, we're always trying to break through the hype to understand how folks are actually using AI in the real world.

TikTok US launches an opt-in Local Feed for content tied to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's current location, after changing its ToS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok US launches an opt-in Local Feed for content tied to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's current location, after changing its ToS  —  TikTok on Wednesday announced the launch of a new “Local Feed” in the U.S. version of the app, which displays content related to travel … </

Satechi's Essentials Sale Takes 20% Off Popular Qi2 Chargers, Bluetooth Trackers, and More

Summary:
Satechi recently kicked off a new sale that has essential accessories at 20 percent off for a limited time. To get this discount, enter the code ESSENTIALS20 at checkout on the accessories found in Satechi's "Essentials Tech Upgrade" collection.

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

This sale includes products like Qi2 wireless chargers, Bluetooth keyboards, USB-C hubs, Thunderbolt accessories, and more. Satechi provides free shipping on orders with a value that exce [...]

An OpenAI researcher who helped shape how models were built and priced says she quit after two years due to "deep reservations" about ads and OpenAI's strategy (Zoë Hitzig/New York Times)

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Zoë Hitzig / New York Times:
An OpenAI researcher who helped shape how models were built and priced says she quit after two years due to “deep reservations” about ads and OpenAI's strategy  —  This week, OpenAI started testing ads on ChatGPT.  I also resigned from the company after spen

Apple Acquires New Database App

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Apple acquired Canadian graph database company Kuzu last year, it has emerged.


The acquisition, spotted by AppleInsider, was completed in October 2025 for an undisclosed sum. The company's website was subsequently taken down and its Github repository was archived, as is commonplace for Apple acquisitions.

Kuzu was "an embedded graph database built for query speed, scalability, and easy of use." It offered Kuzu Explorer, a browser-based database that displayed datapoints as linked nodes. Apple had to inform the European Union of the acquisition owing to its significance, but there are few other details aroun [...]

A Dutch court orders an investigation into alleged mismanagement at Chinese-owned chip company Nexperia and upholds the suspension of CEO Zhang Xuezheng (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal)

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Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal:
A Dutch court orders an investigation into alleged mismanagement at Chinese-owned chip company Nexperia and upholds the suspension of CEO Zhang Xuezheng  —  Investigation set to prolong fight for control of a key automotive supplier  —  A Dutch co

Rein Security Emerges to Analyze Reachability of Application Vulnerabilities

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US Navy’s new facility to advance submarine-launched nuclear-capable missile systems

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The Naval Ordnance Test Unit in the United States has broken ground to pave the...

Former GitHub CEO Bets $60M That Developer Tools Need a Factory Reset for the AI Age

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Lunar Cold War: Elon Musk aims to build a city before China finishes its base on moon

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The race to reach the moon has just intensified with the entry of a new...

Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn't need new platforms

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For your enterprise AI projects, what you want now is resilience. I’m using that term from a paper called “AI as a Normal Technology." There, resilience means " taking actions now to improve our ability to deal with unexpected developments in the future.” There’s a lot of great thinking in that paper, but I want to narrow it down to what management at companies should be doing with AI-driven projects and strategies.

What these executives should do now is put in places systems, policies, and tools to explore, learn, and then apply AI. The system they use should have less to do with bui

Apple Home App Stops Working for Some Users as Update Now Required

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In 2022, Apple introduced a new Apple Home architecture that is "more reliable and efficient," and support for the old architecture has now ended.


As expected, the app is no longer working for some users.

Users who did not update the app by the February 10 deadline now see this message: "You're running an older version of Apple Home that is no longer supported. Update now to continue using the Home app with your Apple devices and other accessories."

"The members of your home will also need to update on their devices," the message adds.

[...]

Edison-inspired battery charges in seconds, endures 12,000 cycles for decades

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An international research collaboration co-led by UCLA has developed a nickel-iron battery prototype that recharges...

ChatGPT's Deep Research Mode Gets a Fullscreen Document Viewer

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OpenAI has updated its deep research feature in ChatGPT with a fullscreen document viewer that can be used to browse its AI-generated reports separately from the chat window.


The built-in tool includes a table of contents in a left-hand column that can be used to jump to specific parts of the document, while a right-hand column can still be expanded to show a list of citations.

The deep research mode has also picked up a couple of new options to help users focus research. From OpenAI's release notes:

We're introducing improvements to deep research in ChatGPT to help produce more accurate, credible reports with greater control. You can now focus research on specific websites and a larger collection of connecte

No place to hide: 5 powerful military satellites giving soldiers a ‘God View’

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During the Cold War, satellite reconnaissance was a powerful tool, albeit limited. High-resolution images of...

Video: Engineer turns swinging pendulum into a tiny battery that powers LEDs

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Engineer Tom Stanton, who also runs a YouTube channel with the same name, has done...

World’s first 3D-printed hypersonic airframe clears key vibration trials for Mach 7 speed

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Queensland-based Hypersonix Launch Systems has announced the successful completion of vibration testing on its DART...

Trump DOJ Launches Bunk Investigation Of Netflix Merger As a Favor To Larry Ellison

Summary:
We told you this was coming months ago. The Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) says it has initiated a broad investigation of Netflix’s business practices and it’s planned $82.7 billion merger with Warner Brothers. The Trump DOJ’s pretense is that they’re just suddenly really concerned about media consolidation and monopoly power (you’re to ignore the […]

Report: One in Four Smartphones Are Now iPhones

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Nearly one in four active smartphones worldwide are now iPhones, according to new data from Counterpoint Research.


The findings from Counterpoint's Smartphone Installed Base Tracker show that the global installed base of active smartphones grew 2% in 2025, driven primarily by lengthening replacement cycles and the continued circulation of second-life devices. Unlike shipment figures, which measure yearly sales, installed base data reflects the total number of devices currently in use, making it a key indicator of long-term platform choices.

App [...]

AirDrop-Quick Share Interoperability Expanding to More Android Phones

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Last November, Google announced a cross-platform feature that allows Google Pixel 10 and Apple device users to share files directly via Quick Share-AirDrop interoperability. Now, Google has confirmed that the feature is set to expand to Android phones more generally this year.


"Last year, we launched AirDrop interoperability," said Eric Kay, vice president of engineering for the Android platform, speaking during a recent Pixel Labs tour at Google's Taipei office. "In 2026, we're going to be expanding it to a lot more devices."

"We spent a lot of time and energy to make sure that we could build something that was compatible not only with iPhone but iPads and Macs. Now that we've proven it out, we're working

Chinese firm unveils ‘world’s first’ humanoid robot built for warehouse operations

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Chinese robotics player Geek+ has reportedly unveiled what it claims to be the “world’s first”...

Borehole nuclear: US firm’s mile-deep underground reactor gets funding boost

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US-based Deep Fission, the startup reimagining nuclear power by moving it a mile underground, announced...

M5 MacBook Air: Release Date, Features, and Performance Predictions

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The MacBook Air is Apple's most popular laptop – a thin, fanless machine that wields quiet power thanks to the efficiency of Apple silicon. While the M4 model isn't exactly old, attention is already turning to its successor.


Apple doesn't telegraph new product launches ahead of time, but we can draw a surprisingly clear picture of what to expect by looking at Apple's silicon roadmap, release cycles, and past upgrades.

Release Timing and Price

So, You’ve Hit An Age Gate. What Now?

Summary:
EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many people are asked to verify their age across the web, despite prominent cases of sensitive data getting leaked in the process. At some point, you may have been faced […]

Border Patrol Thug Greg Bovino Bitched About Being Asked To Be A Bit More Lawful Before Being Turfed To California

Summary:
Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino has been sent back to the border after making himself the Nazi scum face of the Trump administration’s brutal efforts to purge this country of as many non-white people as possible. Bovino made it clear what team he really wanted to play for before Trump was even sworn in for […]

Techdirt Podcast Episode 443: The Supreme Court’s Internet Cases

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Support us on Patreon » In the last few years, the Supreme Court has been paying a lot more attention to the internet than it ever has before, and the cases keep on coming. This is already having a big impact on how the internet functions, and it doesn’t look likely to stop any time soon. […]

62% of enterprises now use Java to power AI apps

Summary:

According to a new report released today, an increasing number of enterprises are using Java as a foundational language for

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How To Think About AI: Is It The Tool, Or Are You?

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We live in a stupidly polarizing world where nuance is apparently not allowed. Everyone wants you to be for or against something—and nowhere is this more exhausting than with AI. There are those who insist that it’s all bad and there is nothing of value in it. And there are those who think it’s all […]

Daily Deal: Nix Mini 3 Color Sensor

Summary:
Instantly become a color expert with the Nix Mini 3 Color Sensor. This portable device puts all paint fan decks in your pocket, offering access to over 200,000 brand-name paint colors and essential color codes like RGB, HEX, and CMYK. Perfect for designers, contractors, and homeowners. The Mini 3 features Bluetooth connectivity, Debris and splash […]

CodeRabbit Adds DevOps Planning and Review Tool for AI Prompts

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The hunt for truly zero-CVE container images

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Vendors chasing “zero-CVE” container images on top of traditional Linux distributions are running into structural limits in upstream release models.

The post The hunt for truly zero-CVE container images appeared first on The New Stack.

The RISC architecture frontier: Is eBPF ready for ARM64 and RISC-V?

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The Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF)  has continued on an adoption path that extends its integral role in observability, security,

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Sen. Blackburn Gets Shitty Because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Attended An Awards Show Where ICE Was Criticized

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I don’t understand sycophancy. Never have. I don’t know what it gets you in the long run other than a reputation for subservience. That’s worth nearly nothing in the open market. The only people who will hire you are people most people would never want to work for. And yet, that is pretty much the […]

Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do

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PCs without the new certificates could eventually have trouble booting new OSes.

Upgraded Google safety tools can now find and remove more of your personal info

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The Results About You tool is getting an upgrade.

GitHub’s former CEO launches a developer platform for the age of agentic coding

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When GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke left the Microsoft-owned company in August of 2025, he said he did so to return

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GitLab CEO on why AI isn’t helping enterprises ship code faster

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AI coding assistants are making developers more productive at writing code. But why aren’t most enterprises actually delivering more software?

The post GitLab CEO on why AI isn’t helping enterprises ship code faster appeared first on The New Stack.

TiDB and the rise of the AI-native database

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When enterprises talk about artificial intelligence, the attention usually points to models: larger parameters, faster inference, cheaper tokens. But we

The post TiDB and the rise of the AI-native database appeared fir

Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment

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Alphabet becomes first tech company to issue 100-year bonds in nearly three decades.

Survey: Java Developers Wrestling With Massive Amounts of Technical Debt

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Vibe coding is passé. Karpathy has a new name for the future of software.

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The vibe coding guy is back, and this time he’s talking about “agentic engineering.” Andrej Karpathy, who last year this

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A practical systems engineering guide: Architecting AI-ready infrastructure for the agentic era

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The shift from traditional AI pipelines toward agentic systems marks one of software engineering’s most important evolutions. Instead of static

The post A practical systems engineering guide: Architecting AI-ready infrastructure for the agentic era appeared first on The New Stack.

Salesforce Freezes Heroku Feature Development, Signals Long-Term Shift

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Is open source in trouble?

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First, the bad. I would argue that current open-source practices and usage are unsustainable, or at the very least, there is

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Vouch for an open source web of trust (News)

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Mitchell Hashimoto's trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement, NanClaw is an alternative to OpenClaw, and Sophie Koonin can't wrap her head around so many people going so hard on LLM-generated code.

Building Prometheus: How Backend Aggregation Enables Gigawatt-Scale AI Clusters

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We’re sharing details of the role backend aggregation (BAG) plays in building Meta’s gigawatt-scale AI clusters like Prometheus. BAG allows us to seamlessly connect thousands of GPUs across multiple data centers and regions. Our BAG implementation is connecting two different network fabrics – Disaggregated Schedule Fabric (DSF) and Non-Scheduled Fabric (NSF). Once it’s complete our AI [...]

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Report: Imminent Apple hardware updates include MacBook Pro, iPads, and iPhone 17e

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High-end Macs and less-expensive iPhones and iPads are all on the docket.

Chainguard’s AI-powered factory hits 500 million builds

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Just a week after announced Chainguard Factory 2.0, the company has hit a major milestone that demonstrates the scale of

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How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2)

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In Part 2, we will peek under the hood at the tooling that makes the Spotify release process possible. 

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How AI coding makes developers 56% faster and 19% slower

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There’s a growing body of research around AI coding assistants with a confusing range of conflicting results. This is to

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Will AI Kill the OSS Star?

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Google Launches Developer Knowledge API to Give AI Tools Access to Official Documentation

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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IDEcline: How the world’s most powerful coding tools became second-class citizens overnight

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During the early phase of my career, I used to spend eight hours a day inside the Visual Studio IDE.

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Relative to your interests, Saturday morning

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• The Draw Boy - Remove a bottleneck (usually humans), and supply can meet demand. New demand is created, people but more, new things are invented, people but those. New roles are often created to handle the new businesses.
• It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines - Weird. The off-shoring jobs angle is ponderous.
• The top 1,000 Roblox creators earned an average of $1.3 million last year
• 40 Forgotten Realms novels at name your own price; I paid €25. Excellent deal here if you’re into this kind of thing. Getting the five books of the Brimstone Ang

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If everyone can ship software, what will distinguish the successful companies from the apps that are lost in the noise? It’s no longer enough to just spend more time coding, or to be the first with a good idea.

I think it’s going to become even more important to grow other aspects of running a software business:

• Marketing
• Customer support
• Documentation
• Building trust
• Servers (speed)

Of course I’ll be writing a lot of code too, adding features, fixing bugs. But that’s the bare minimum now.

🔗 What to grow

Docker versus Nix: The quest for true reproducibility

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When conducting performance benchmarks, the ultimate goal is an apples-to-apples comparison. Docker, widely recognized as one of the most brilliant

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How WebAssembly and Web Workers prevent UI freezes

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We’ve all experienced a frozen web page followed by endless refreshing, frustrated sighs, and the occasional foot stomp, only to

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How GSD turns Claude into a self-steering developer

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The speed at which ClawdBot MoltBot OpenClaw climbed in popularity was quite phenomenal, and for good reason: It has an

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Memory-Safe Jule language emerges as C/C++ alternative

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With the U.S. government and other institutions calling for the use of memory-safe programming languages in critical systems, Jule, a

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AI Reality Bites, Wall Street Panics, and Everyone Becomes an Architect

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Original Content

A few things since last time:

• Kubernetes use rising, large organizations slowest to adapt, not many people train their own AI model or deploy new AI models frequently - my highlights from the most recent CNCF state of stuff survey.

• Enterprise ROI is elusive - maybe ROI is just headcount chopping, not revenue growth and “transformation” - Executives continue to say they don’t know how to measure ROI for AI, and/or that it’s low. Despite that: “Our survey reveals a troubling disconnect: 48% of firms have already cut headcount due to AI.” I round up a few surveys with some link-commentary. Also, here’s an additional link on that topic.

• There was a tech freakout

It's a renaissance woman's world (Friends)

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Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she's helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. Wait, moon vacuums?!

Veracode Extends Package Firewall Reach to Microsoft Artifacts

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

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

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