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Beginners guide to vibe coding

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We talk a lot about vibe coding. And to be honest, I’d heard the term far too many times before

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Apple's 2026 Studio Display Hits New Low Prices on Amazon at Up to $100 Off

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Apple just launched the new line of Studio Displays this month, and today Amazon has introduced the first discount on the Standard Glass model with Tilt-Adjustable Stand. You can get this Studio Display for $1,499.00, down from $1,599.00, a new all-time low price.

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Last week, Amazon had some initial launch discounts on a few Nano-Texture models of the Studio Display, but only one of these remains. You can still get the Nano-Texture mod [...]

ChatGPT helps create groundbreaking cancer treatment after dog’s diagnosis

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Eight-year-old dog Rosie, once abandoned in bushland, found a new lease on life when Sydney...

Tether, flush with cash, has been investing in diverse sectors ranging from sleep tech company Eight Sleep to humanoid robotics company Neura Robotics (PitchBook)

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PitchBook:
Tether, flush with cash, has been investing in diverse sectors ranging from sleep tech company Eight Sleep to humanoid robotics company Neura Robotics  —  Beyond fintech and crypto startups, Tether has now backed a mattress-maker and a humanoid robotics specialist.

MacBook Neo 2 With a Touch Screen Has Gone From Yes to Maybe to No

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A second-generation MacBook Neo with a touch screen has gone from a yes to a maybe to a no, according to rumors.


In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said Apple has yet to decide whether to bring touch-screen support to any Macs beyond the next high-end MacBook Pro, which is expected to be released [...]

Chasing Pi to infinity: 314 trillion digits calculated in a 110-day computing marathon

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Numbers rarely make headlines, but pi has a habit of doing exactly that. The famous...

No Major Changes to Liquid Glass Expected Across iOS 27 and macOS 27

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Apple's new Liquid Glass interface introduced across iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, and its other latest software platforms is apparently here to stay.


In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the latest internal versions of iOS 27 and macOS 27 do not have major Liquid Glass design changes. He also mentioned how Apple's new software design chief, Steve Lemay, was "a driving force" behind Liquid Glass and was "deeply involved in its development."

Lemay joined Apple in 1999. He succeeded Alan Dye, who [...]

Ex-Snowflake engineers say there’s a blind spot in data engineering — so they built Tower to fix it

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AI coding assistants might have made it easier to generate software, but getting that code to run reliably — packaging

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Remains of lost 2,000-year-old Roman fortlet found in backyard in Scotland

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A routine archaeological survey uncovered a previously unknown Roman fortlet from the Antonine Wall beneath...

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 […]

Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the war in Iran push pro-Iranian views, often exaggerating its military capabilities and sophistication (New York Times)

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New York Times:
Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the war in Iran push pro-Iranian views, often exaggerating its military capabilities and sophistication  —  A torrent of fake videos and images generated by artificial intellig

A practical guide to the 6 categories of AI cloud infrastructure in 2026

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Platform teams and AI engineers are facing an unprecedented wave of decision paralysis. The rollout of NVIDIA’s Blackwell and GB200

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World’s largest: 721-foot sailing cruise ship sets new speed record during sea trials

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The Orient Express Corinthian, set to become the world’s largest sailing cruise ship, measures 721...

US’ refueling plane that crashed in Iraq had no parachutes, six soldiers lost their lives

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Following the crash of a US Boeing KC-135 “Stratotanker” refueling jet in Iraq on Thursday (March 12),...

Japan plans 621-mile range Type-12 missiles to bring Taiwan Strait within strike reach

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Japan has begun to deploy its homemade Type 12 truck-mounted anti-ship missile systems near the East China...

In a first, astronomers detect dry ice hiding in the dusty torus of the Butterfly Nebula

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The death of a star is usually thought to be a violent and hostile place,...

The gaming industry is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties, from job losses to rising console prices due to the global RAM shortage (Helen Vogelsong-Donahue/Wired)

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Helen Vogelsong-Donahue / Wired:
The gaming industry is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties, from job losses to rising console prices due to the global RAM shortage  —  From the global RAM shortage driving up console prices to job loss in the industry, gaming is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties.

Zendesk agrees to acquire Forethought, which makes AI-powered customer support software, for an undisclosed sum; Forethought has raised $115M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Zendesk agrees to acquire Forethought, which makes AI-powered customer support software, for an undisclosed sum; Forethought has raised $115M  —  Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, a company that builds software to automate customer service interactions, the companies announced on Wednesday.

San Francisco's housing market is seeing a big rebound, driven by the AI boom; Apartment List says rents rose 14% YoY in February, the fastest growth in the US (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

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Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal:
San Francisco's housing market is seeing a big rebound, driven by the AI boom; Apartment List says rents rose 14% YoY in February, the fastest growth in the US  —  After a yearslong slump, there's now a real-estate frenzy.  'It's just skyrocketed,' says one house hunter.

Finnish scientists show green hydrogen production possible with semiconductor electrodes

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Researchers have revealed that semiconductor electrodes can achieve green hydrogen production. They found that semiconductor...

2,000-year-old bronze drum reveals cultural practice in southwestern China

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The Cultural Relics Management Department announced that a farmer in China, while working, stumbled upon...

Takeaways from the 2026 Game Developers Conference: a high volume of job seekers amid layoffs, AI was the hot buzzword, more outsourcing than ever, and more (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

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Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:

A preview of Nvidia's 2026 GTC, which kicks off on March 16, where the company is expected to unveil new agentic-optimized CPUs, a CPU-only rack, and more (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

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Katie Tarasov / CNBC:
A preview of Nvidia's 2026 GTC, which kicks off on March 16, where the company is expected to unveil new agentic-optimized CPUs, a CPU-only rack, and more  —  Nvidia's graphics processing units have been the hottest-selling chips for years, but the sudden advent of agentic artificial intelligence …

Drones caused a Qatari Helium-producing energy hub to shutter; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says the closed hub makes up ~33% of global Helium production (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)

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Ines Ferré / Yahoo Finance:
Drones caused a Qatari Helium-producing energy hub to shutter; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says the closed hub makes up ~33% of global Helium production  —  It's not just oil.  —  The near-standstill in the Strait of Hormuz is raising fears of a pr

Why AI systems are failing in familiar ways

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With the introduction of AI-assisted coding tools and agents, many people hoped we’d solve all the problems for human teams.

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China designs dexterous wheeled robot concept to support lunar research station by 2035

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Engineers in China are exploring a new robotic system designed to operate as a versatile...

This Week In Techdirt History: March 8th – 14th (Plus: A Note On Your Feedback)

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Before we get started: last week, I asked for your feedback on the weekend posts and some possible changes we’re considering going forward. The dominant theme of the responses was that lots of people like the Comment posts just the way they are, but can take or leave these History posts. We’re still mulling over […]

Kaiko: cumulative trading volume on crypto exchange Hyperliquid's perpetual oil futures surged to ~$7.3B on March 12 from $339M on February 28 amid the Iran war (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

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Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Kaiko: cumulative trading volume on crypto exchange Hyperliquid's perpetual oil futures surged to ~$7.3B on March 12 from $339M on February 28 amid the Iran war  —  A new generation of investors doesn't want to wait for the traditional market open  —  While

Tromjaro is a free-trade Linux distribution with plenty to offer

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Imagine having an OS that won’t track you, push ads on you, and not force “free” trials on you. Sounds

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Sources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month (The Information)

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The Information:
Sources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month  —  ByteDance has put on hold the global launch of its latest video-generation model, Seedance 2., due to a string of copyright disputes …

TypeScript 6.0 RC arrives as a bridge to a faster future

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TypeScript 6.0 Release Candidate (RC) is here, and in some ways, it’s the most consequential release since the project hit

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A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes "because it plays better"; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles (Gautam Mukunda/Bloomberg)

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Gautam Mukunda / Bloomberg:
A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes “because it plays better”; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles  —  Whatever you think about whether artificial intelligence is coming for your job, it has already mastered one corporate skill: hogging the credit.

Get the New Book 'Apple: The First 50 Years' on Sale for Launch Week

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This week, tech columnist David Pogue launched a new book called "Apple: The First 50 Years." On Amazon, you can get the new book for $39.30 in hardcover, down from $50.00, the best price we've seen so far on the book.

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The book explores the first five decades of Apple's history, including interviews with 150 key people who shaped Apple into what it is today, like Steve Wozniak, John Sculley, Jony Ive, and mo [...]

MCP’s biggest growing pains for production use will soon be solved

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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as one of the key building blocks of the agentic AI stack, serving

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AI layoffs are here, the MCP vs API debate, and the rise of the Mac Mini-powered Agent

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

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Top Stories: Apple's 50th Anniversary, New and Upcoming Products, and More

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After Apple's big week of announcements, this week saw all of the new products officially become available, so reviewers and general users alike are now getting their hands on them and putting them through their paces.


Apple also started ramping up plans for celebrating the company's 50th anniversary coming up on April 1, with Tim Cook sharing a letter addressing the milestone and the company even hosting a brief musical appearance by Alicia Keys at its Grand Central Terminal store in New York City, so read on below for all the details on these stories and more!

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Apple Announces 50th Anniversary Plans

TSMC's N3 logic wafer capacity has become one of the AI industry's biggest constraints, which could push customers to explore greater foundry diversification (SemiAnalysis)

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SemiAnalysis:
TSMC's N3 logic wafer capacity has become one of the AI industry's biggest constraints, which could push customers to explore greater foundry diversification  —  TSMC N3 Wafer Shortages, Memory Constraints, Datacenter Bottlenecks, Supply Chain Wars Winner  —  Ivan Chiam, Myron Xie, Ray Wang, and 3 others

Andrej Karpathy’s 630-line Python script ran 50 experiments overnight without any human input

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On the night of March 7, Andrej Karpathy pushed a 630-line Python script to GitHub and went to sleep. By

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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 […]

An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

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Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more  —  Plus, why an H100 is worth more today than 3 years ago  —  Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, provides a deep dive …

An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI-powered tools of war, now being used in Iran (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

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Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:

Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens control; Roskomnadzor data shows average daily traffic is down ~20% in March compared to February (Anastasia Stognei/Financial Times)

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Anastasia Stognei / Financial Times:
Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens control; Roskomnadzor data shows average daily traffic is down ~20% in March compared to February  —  Outages mark new phase in government campaign against internet freedom  —  Moscow is experiencing mass mobile internet blackouts …

Apple to Host 50th Anniversary Celebrations Around the World

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Apple today announced that it will be celebrating its upcoming 50th anniversary by hosting gatherings "around the world" throughout the month of March.


Apple's 50th anniversary is on April 1, 2026. The company has yet to reveal exactly where and when it will be hosting additional celebrations, but possibilities include major cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tokyo.

"Each gathering highlights human creativity and ingenuity in action, and showcases the remarkable things people can do when they have the right Apple products in their hands," said Apple, in a press release.

"Stay tuned for more updates," said Apple.

17-time Grammy Award-winning m [...]

At The WBC: Mark DeRosa Screwed Up & Then MLB Streisanded The Story

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The World Baseball Classic is currently going on and I absolutely adore it. Essentially a World Cup for baseball, 20 nations are playing against one another in a banger of a tune-up for the Major League Baseball season. It’s a flamboyant delight, with cultural celebrations such as the Italian team doing a shot of espresso […]

The IRS’s Verification System for Sharing Taxpayer Data With ICE Would Have Accepted ‘Don’t Care 12345’ as a Valid Address

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We’re a couple weeks late to this one, but it deserves more attention than it received. As the Washington Post first reported, a federal judge has found that the IRS violated federal law 42,695 times when it handed over confidential taxpayer addresses to ICE last summer. But the raw number, staggering as it is, undersells […]

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

Survey: AI Coding Exacerbates Existing DevOps Workflow Issues

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Roblox Rolls Out AI-Powered Real-Time Rephrasing Of Profanity Within Chat

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The power of the latest generation of AI systems is such that previously impractical applications are not just possible, but scalable. For example, moving beyond basic early AI text translation tools, it is now possible to use live translation to communicate in another language in real time. For many people that will be a real […]

NanoClaw and Docker team up to isolate AI agents inside MicroVM sandboxes

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Like the idea of OpenClaw-style agents, but their insecurity makes you sweat? The combo of NanoClaw and Docker Sandboxes may

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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.

F-Droid says Google’s Android developer verification plan is an ‘existential’ threat to alternative app stores

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Attention, any developers hoping to sell their apps to the world’s 3.3 billion Android phones. “Google is changing the way

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Trump Rolls Out White Carpet For White Migrants

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Roughly a year ago — as Trump was trying to turn anti-genocide protests into deportable antisemitism — his administration made it clear it was only willing to support white people with antisemitic views. The administration threw some anti-Israel filters into the mix for DHS vetting of incoming migrants, blending them with the anti-Trump filters that […]

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.

Daily Deal: Luminar Mobile for iOS And Android

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Luminar Mobile is your all-in-one creative companion designed for iOS, Android OS, and Chrome OS. Powered by an intuitive, touch-responsive interface, it lets you enhance photos effortlessly—anytime, anywhere. Whether you’re adjusting lighting, perfecting portraits, or adding artistic flair, Luminar Mobile delivers pro-level results in the palm of your hand. It’s on sale for $20. Note: […]

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.

Ninth Circuit Guts California’s Kids Code Once Again

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It’s been a little while since we last wrote about California’s deeply problematic “Age Appropriate Design Code,” which tried to force internet companies into taking blatantly unconstitutional steps to pressure companies into magically preventing all “harms” to kids. The law has bounced between the district court and the Ninth Circuit multiple times — and yesterday, […]

The MacRumors Show: MacBook Neo First Impressions

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss first impressions of the MacBook Neo, Studio Display XDR, and iPhone 17e.

Mac Trade-Ins Surge Amid MacBook Neo Launch

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Apple this week saw an unusual surge of Mac trade-ins amid the launch of the MacBook Neo.


A reliable source speaking to MacRumors revealed that the quantity of Macs traded in at Apple retail stores this week increased over 100% compared to previous weeks, likely driven by demand for the ‌MacBook Neo‌ and M5 MacBook Air.

Older, low-end models dominated this week's trade-ins, suggesting that customers are upgrading to the ‌MacBook Neo‌ and the M5 ‌MacBook Air‌, rather than the new MacBook Pro models with the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.

The scale of increase is notic [...]

Patch Me If You Can: AI Codemods for Secure-by-Default Android Apps

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Even seemingly simple engineering tasks — like updating an API — can become monumental undertakings when you’re dealing with millions of lines of code and thousands of engineers, especially if the changes are security-related. Nowhere is this more apparent than in mobile security, where a single class of vulnerability can be replicated across hundreds of [...]

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iPhone 17 Pro is Now Part of MLB History

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Back in September, the Apple TV streaming service's broadcast of the pivotal Boston Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers game at Fenway Park incorporated live footage captured with the iPhone 17 Pro, and now the device has been enshrined in MLB history.


Apple this week announced that the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has added one of the four iPhone 17 Pro devices that captured the Red Sox clinching a postseason berth with a thrilling walk-off win over the Tigers to its permanent collection in Cooperstown, New York. More details are available [...]

Apple's First Foldable Displays Nearing Mass Production

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Advanced display panels destined for Apple's first foldable iPhone are reportedly nearing mass production.


The Weibo leaker known as "Instant Digital" today said that Samsung Display is set to begin mass production of OLED panels for the first foldable iPhone in May 2026. Meanwhile, the user "Fixed Focus Digital" claims that the foldable iPhone's screen may be flatter than many of the existing foldable devices currently on sale, suggesting that Apple has largely solved th [...]

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Launch Deals Hit Brand New M4 iPad Air, M5 MacBook Air, and More

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This week was Apple launch week, and we're already seeing solid markdowns on the new M4 iPad Air, M5 MacBook Air, and more. Additionally, below you'll find deals on AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation and Apple Watch Series 11.

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Low-Code’s New Frontier: Tailored Solutions for Each Industry

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Apple is Up to Something Secret in New York

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Apple's retail store at the Grand Central Terminal in New York is temporarily closed, but the reason why remains a mystery.


As seen in photos shared by Parker Ortolani, Apple's space on the Main Concourse's East Balcony is covered up with temporary walls and curtains. There is also temporary lighting and audio equipment set up, and a video shared on social media appears to show that Apple is or was recording some sort of production.

Apple is clearly up to something, but exactly what remains anyone's guess. It could be recording a special video that will be part of its [...]

iPhone Fold: 5 Things We Learned This Week About Apple's Foldable

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It's been a big week for foldable iPhone rumors. In case you missed any of them, here are five developments that we've covered over the last few days.


Apple is expected to launch the iPhone Fold this September. For everything else we know, be sure to check out our dedicated roundup.

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Trump DOJ Wimps Out On Ticketmaster, Again Revealing Hollowness Of MAGA ‘Antitrust’

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Last election season, you might recall how the Trump campaign lied to everyone repeatedly about how his second administration would “rein in big tech,” and be a natural extension of the Lina Khan antitrust movement. As we noted at the time, that was always an obvious fake populist lie, but it was propped up anyway […]

The “files are all you need” debate misses what’s actually happening in agent memory architecture

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When you look at how top engineering teams actually build agent memory systems, a pattern emerges: There is a filesystem

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The Risk Profile of AI-Driven Development

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Parallels Confirms MacBook Neo Can Run Windows in a Virtual Machine

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Parallels Desktop virtualization software is compatible with the new MacBook Neo, according to an update from the company – but Windows VM performance will depend on your intended use case.


From Parallels' updated knowledge base article:

Parallels Desktop runs on MacBook Neo in basic usability testing. The Parallels Engineering team has completed initial testing and confirmed that Parallels Desktop installs and virtual machines operate stably on MacBook Neo. Full validation and performance testing is ongoing, and additional compatibility statement will follow if required.

Apple TV Claims First F1 Viewership Victory Over ESPN

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Apple TV aired the first Formula 1 race of the 2026 season last weekend following an exclusive streaming rights partnership for five years, and Apple senior VP of services Eddy Cue is already calling it a win for the company.


Cue told The Hollywood Reporter that viewership for last week's Australian Grand Prix was up year over year compared to the 2025 race, which aired on ESPN.

"The 2026 Formula 1 season on Apple TV is off to a strong start, with fans responding positively and viewership up year over year for the first weekend, exceeding both F1 and Apple ex [...]

Apple to Cut App Store Developer Fees in China From March 15

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Apple has announced it is lowering App Store developer fees in China from March 15, with commission rates for standard in-app purchases (IAPs) set to change to 25%, down from 30%.


In an update on its Developer blog, Apple also said the commission rate for qualifying IAPs under the App Store Small Business Program and Mini Apps Partner Program (and auto-renewals of IAP subscriptions after the first year) will be 12%, down from the current 15%.

Apple said the changes are a result of "discussions with the Chinese regulator," indicating the move is to avoid regulatory intervention. A report [...]

How eBPF and OpenTelemetry Have Simplified the Observability Function

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From legacy architecture to Cloudflare One

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Learn how Cloudflare and CDW de-risk SASE migrations with a blueprint that treats legacy debt as an application modernization project.

MAHA Institute: Nix The Entire Childhood Vaccine Schedule

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If you agree with me that what RFK Jr. has done at HHS — particularly when it comes to altering vaccine schedules, approvals, research, and access — is bad well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Kennedy rode Trump’s coattails, building his own Make America Health Again (MAHA) movement on the back of the wider MAGA […]

How Go 1.26's smarter `go fix` rewrites deprecated function calls

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#​593 — March 13, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Writing Some Wrongs

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]

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My grandfather was mildly obsessed with organizing and documenting the history of his life: a memoir about a career in the military from 1938 to ~1975, growing up in a Depression era Oklahoma “dirt farm.”

There was also geology. I think all old people have that project. Us soon to be old Gen-X’ers have more records around than probably any human in history, especially the nerds. Soon, we’ll all be obsessively organizing the equivalent of our 40 year slides and boxes of receipts. Personal digital gnolling.

Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Highlights

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What if we could identify interesting listening moments from your year, and tell you a story about them?

The post Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Highlights appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers

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Trade group callls out HP for latest Dynamic Security firmware update.

Before you let AI agents loose, you’d better know what they’re capable of

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For enterprises, agentic AI systems potentially allow staff responsibilities to shift from execution to judgment, oversight, and strategy. This creates

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Google will soon bring Chrome to ARM64 Linux

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Google on Thursday announced that it will finally launch Chrome for ARM64 Linux devices in the second quarter of 2026.

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SurePath AI advances MCP policy controls to tighten the cable on AI’s USB-C

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AI needs governance. Amid the exponential growth of predictive, generative, and agentic artificial intelligence, humans everywhere have repeatedly asked, “Is

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New Perplexity APIs give developers access to agentic workflows and orchestration

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On the heels of last month’s Perplexity Computer launch, the company on Thursday announced an expansion of the Perplexity API

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Anthropic’s Claude can now draw interactive charts and diagrams

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Anthropic’s Claude has always been great at coding and working with text, but where Google and OpenAI invested heavily in

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AI Is Forcing DevOps Teams to Rethink Observability Data Management

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Why AI-driven operations are pushing governance beyond a compliance issue and into an operational priority

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Board members and senior executives are pushing hard to accelerate AI adoption. As a result, significant numbers of organizations have

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Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks

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Neo is the first MacBook in a long time with an easily replaceable keyboard.

Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion

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AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions.

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WordPress launches an in-browser website creator

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WordPress.org is launching a new tool that lets you create a private website directly in your browser, according to an announcement on Wednesday. You can access the tool by heading to my.WordPress.net, which opens up a workspace where you can start building a website without signing up to WordPress, choosing a hosting plan, or selecting […]

Runpod report: Qwen has overtaken Meta’s Llama as the most-deployed self-hosted LLM

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The rise of agentic AI services has enabled the enterprise technology market to blossom with a new, fully evolved set

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Google Maps gets its biggest navigation redesign in a decade, plus more AI

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Google Maps is about to get more chatty and immersive.

Gloo built a faith-based AI platform that already has secular interest

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AI models have gotten a lot better at avoiding hallucinations, and the frontier labs tend to put strict guardrails around

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Sorry, Charlie, StarKist Wants AI With Good Taste

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Zero Downtime Multicloud Migrations for Observability Control Planes

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Announcing Cloudflare Account Abuse Protection: prevent fraudulent attacks from bots and humans

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Blocking bots isn’t enough anymore. Cloudflare’s new fraud prevention capabilities — now available in Early Access — help stop account abuse before it starts.

14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns

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Most of the devices are made by Asus and are located in the US.

JetBrains Launches Air and Junie CLI to Blend Traditional IDE with AI Agents

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