Why WebAssembly won’t replace Kubernetes but makes Helm more secure

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My gut reaction has often been to compare WebAssembly to Kubernetes. Flash back to over four years ago: Then, I

The post Why WebAssembly won’t replace Kubernetes but makes Helm more secure appeared first on The New Stack.

US, Israel strike secret Natanz nuclear facility, no radiation leak reported, claims Iran

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A joint strike by the US and Israel targeted Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility early Friday,...

Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

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Richard Nieva / Forbes:
Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom  —  One of the most popular ways to view the Epstein Files, an interface called Jmail that mimics a Gmail inbox, is hosted on Guillermo Rauch's $9.3 billion unicorn Vercel.

2,100-year-old Greek bullet with sarcastic inscribed message found in Israel

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A 2,100-year-old sling bullet with a sarcastic inscribed message “learn” attached was found in the...

Chinese automotive giant achieves 11-minute full charge milestone with sodium-ion tech

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Chinese automotive giant BAIC Group says it has developed a sodium-ion battery prototype that it...

Apple Wanted to Buy Halide to Boost iPhone 18 Pro's Camera App—Now There's a Lawsuit

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Apple's plans to enhance the iPhone 18 Pro's Camera app led it to consider acquiring Halide, but the talks ultimately collapsed and were followed by a fierce legal dispute between the startup's co-founders, according to The Information reports.


In the summer of 2025, Apple reportedly held discussions to acquire Lux Optics, the developer behind the popular iPhone camera apps Halide, Kino, and Spectre. The company concluded that it could get a better offer from Apple in the future following updates to the app. Two months after the talks concluded without a deal, Apple set about recruiting Lux's co-founder and designer Sebastian de [...]

Apple TV Is Now Almost 20 Years Old

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The Apple TV is now almost two decades old amid rumors of the announcement of a new model.


Today marks 19 years Apple launched the original ‌Apple TV‌. Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the ‌Apple TV‌ at Macworld Expo in January 2007 alongside the original iPhone, but it didn't launch until March.

The ‌‌Apple TV‌ was initially previewed as the "iTV." The device allowed users to wirelessly stream movies, TV shows, music, and photos from their Mac or PC directly to their TV. Unlike today, there was no App Store or third-party app support, and the experience was centered almost entirely around iTunes-purchased or synced media.

The ‌Apple TV‌ was c [...]

Top Stories: AirPods Max 2, iOS 27 and iPhone Fold Rumors, and More

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Just when you thought Apple was done with product announcements for a little while, this week saw one last drop with the AirPods Max 2 making their appearance.


This week also saw fresh rumors about iOS 27 coming later this year while an iOS 26.4 release looks to be right around the corner, and Apple kicked off a series of events around the world in celebration of the company's upcoming 50th anniversary, so read on below for all the details on these stories and more!

Top Stories

Apple Announces AirPods Max 2 With H2 Chip and More

Apple Bucks China's Smartphone Slump With 23% Sales Jump

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Apple saw a 23% year-over-year increase in iPhone sales in China during the first nine weeks of 2026, significantly outperforming a broader market decline driven by weak demand and rising component costs, according to Counterpoint Research.


China smartphone sales apparently fell by 4% year-over-year in the first nine weeks of 2026. Within this environment, Apple emerged as the fastest-growing major vendor, with iPhone sales rising 23% compared to the same period in 2025. Counterpoint attributed Apple's impressive performance partly to a combination of e-commerce discounts and the inclusion of the standard iPhone 17 in government subsidy programs aimed at stimulatin [...]

Cursor beats Opus at 10x less, Meta’s agent goes rogue, and the 300-page Trump America AI Act

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

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Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it doubled down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage as its commercial business soars (Steven Levy/Wired)

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Steven Levy / Wired:
Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it doubled down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage as its commercial business soars  —  As business soars, Palantir is doubling down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage—and attracting customers who agree.

Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to stop Anthropic's momentum with business customers (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to stop Anthropic's momentum with business customers  —  OpenAI plans to almost double its headcount by the end of the year as it accelerates a push to sell to businesses and gain ground …

China’s tool cuts scramjet simulation from years to weeks, boosts hypersonic arms development

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Chinese scientists can now reportedly have developed new simulation software that can reduce scramjet engine...

US to scale up submarine production with $900 million AI-driven automated factories

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The United States Navy is reportedly planning to spend $900 million to use automation to...

A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments (Chang Che/The Guardian)

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Chang Che / The Guardian:
A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments  —  How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots?  I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out

Gravitational waves may leave directional imprints in atomic light, here’s proof

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Gravitational waves are usually hunted by measuring distance—how space itself stretches and shrinks ever so...

Scientists develop bio-based graphene foams that can be used to build aerospace objects

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The search for materials that combine high performance with environmental responsibility has led researchers toward...

Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam

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Hidden, but seen.

Universal recipes for startup success are impossible: once good ideas are widely adopted, founders converge on the same moves, erasing any competitive moats (Jerry Neumann/Colossus)

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Jerry Neumann / Colossus:
Universal recipes for startup success are impossible: once good ideas are widely adopted, founders converge on the same moves, erasing any competitive moats  —  Startup pundits sold us a failed science of entrepreneurship.  The Red Queen offers something better.

A review of Polymarket's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts, as the betting market presents itself as "News 2.0" (New York Times)

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New York Times:
A review of Polymarket's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts, as the betting market presents itself as “News 2.0”  —  A review of the betting market's social media feeds found it has published

Nvidia Chief Software Architect Jonathan Ross discusses the $20B Nvidia-Groq deal; sources say Groq's annual revenue was near $100M at the time of the deal (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)

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Phoebe Liu / Forbes:
Nvidia Chief Software Architect Jonathan Ross discusses the $20B Nvidia-Groq deal; sources say Groq's annual revenue was near $100M at the time of the deal  —  The Christmas Eve agreement—billed as Nvidia's biggest deal in its three-decade history—landed at a precarious moment for Groq.

Exceeding Mach 5 : US firm to launch 20 hypersonic test flights with latest funding boost

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California based Rocket Lab Corporation has received a $190 million contract for a block buy...

A Model For HHS: New Mexico Measles Outbreak Was Curtailed With Mass Vaccination Campaign

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With RFK Jr. and his version of HHS entirely out to lunch on the ongoing measles issue in America, it’s been left to states and local medical professionals to try to figure out how to do combat with one of the most infectious diseases on the planet. In a sane world with a real, big […]

Smartphone-sized wearable brings portable cancer therapy at 50% lower cost

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Researchers have developed a portable compression sleeve that could replace bulky post-cancer swelling therapy machines...

Super Micro names VP DeAnna Luna as acting chief compliance officer, after SMCI closed down 33% on March 20 amid a chip smuggling scandal (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Super Micro names VP DeAnna Luna as acting chief compliance officer, after SMCI closed down 33% on March 20 amid a chip smuggling scandal  —  Super Micro Computer Inc., the AI computing provider at the center of a smuggling scandal, is working to shore up its compliance operations …

A US judge dismisses a lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing Altman of sexual abuse from 1997 to 2006, as the claims expired in 2008, but says she can refile (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A US judge dismisses a lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing Altman of sexual abuse from 1997 to 2006, as the claims expired in 2008, but says she can refile  —  A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing the billionaire OpenAI chief executive of sexually a

NASA’s X-59 flies again as testing for quiet supersonic jet expands in 2026

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NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft completed its second test flight, marking the start of an...

Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals, including HPE's Juniper deal (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals, including HPE's Juniper deal  —  Mike Davis pushed DOJ officials to approve his deals—and went over their heads if they pushed back

Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once the military has deployed it, denying DOD accusations that Anthropic could tamper with models during war (Paresh Dave/Wired)

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Paresh Dave / Wired:
Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once the military has deployed it, denying DOD accusations that Anthropic could tamper with models during war  —  The Department of Defense alleges the AI developer could manipulate models in the middle of war.  Company executives argue that's impossible.

Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military (David Jeans/Reuters)

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David Jeans / Reuters:
Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military  —  Palantir's (PLTR.O) Maven artificial intelligence system will become an official program of record, Deputy Secretary …

The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)

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Tim Starks / CyberScoop:
The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks  —  It echoes earlier alerts from the Netherlands and Germany, and is the latest to warn about targeting of Signal users and others.  —  Learn more.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals throws out a 2024 FTC order barring Intuit from advertising TurboTax products as "free" when many taxpayers are ineligible (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals throws out a 2024 FTC order barring Intuit from advertising TurboTax products as “free” when many taxpayers are ineligible  —  A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out a Federal Trade Commission order barring TurboTax maker Intuit (INTU.O) …

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

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When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with something disarming: agreement. “I want to support the basic part of this,” she said, the shared goal of protecting young people online. Because that is not controversial: everyone […]

The US Department of Energy announces a partnership with SoftBank and its affiliate SB Energy to develop a 10 GW data center with its own power supply in Ohio (Associated Press)

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Associated Press:
The US Department of Energy announces a partnership with SoftBank and its affiliate SB Energy to develop a 10 GW data center with its own power supply in Ohio  —  The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a public-private partnership to develop a major data center with its own power supply …

iOS 26.4: Top 10 New Features Coming to Your iPhone

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iOS 26.4 isn't the major update with new Siri features that we hoped for, but there are some useful quality of life improvements, and a little bit of fun with an AI playlist generator and new emoji characters.

• Playlist Playground - Apple Music has a Playlist Playground option that lets you generate playlists from text-based descriptions. You can include moods, feelings, activities, or make up something entirely nonsensical and let the AI figure out what you mean.


• Ambient Music widget - Apple added a widget for the built-in Ambient Music feature in iOS, so it's quicker to play background sounds. You can choose Sleep, Chill, Productivity, and Wellbeing

Microsoft keeps insisting that it's deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11

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"Reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points" is one of Microsoft's action items.

AI can write your infrastructure code. There’s a reason most teams won’t let it.

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For this episode of The New Stack Agents, I sat down with Marcin Wyszynski, the technical co-founder of Spacelift and

The post AI can write your infrastructure code. There’s a reason most teams won’t let it. appeared first on The New Stack.

Fifth Circuit: Actually, Putting The Ten Commandments In Schools Is Probably Fine

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Last June, the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court upheld a lower court’s ruling declaring a Louisiana law mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools to be a violation of the Constitution. This decision made immediate sense, given that courts elsewhere in the nation (including the US Supreme Court) had repeatedly ruled that laws […]

Apple's Special-Edition Nike Powerbeats Pro 2 Now Available

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The special-edition Nike Powerbeats Pro 2 are now available to order on Apple.com in the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., and a handful of other countries. These headphones are the same as the regular Powerbeats Pro 2, except they have a two-tone design consisting of black and Nike's signature Volt neon green-yellow color.


Aside from the Nike-focused design, these are the same ‌Powerbeats Pro‌ 2 that were introduced last year, with the signature Powerbeats wraparound earhooks for stability, Active Noise Cancelling with Transparency mode, built-in heart rate monit [...]

Opinionated Platforms, Private Models, & Essential Dev Tooling

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Making Ads Count: Using MMoE and Auxiliary Tasks to Better Connect Buyers & Sellers

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When buyers search on Etsy, they need to quickly and easily find the perfect item. At the same time, sellers need to be confident their unique products are being seen by the right customers. Our Ads Search ranking model, which is built on a multitask learning foundation, is the critical link in this connection. Recently, we identified an opportunity to drive more meaningful buyer engagement by enhancing our model’s ability to predict purchase intent. We achieved this via a dual-pronged improvement: introducing Multigate Mixture of Experts (MMoE) to our model architecture and leveraging add-to-cart as an auxiliary signal. By providing our downstream systems with more accurate predictions, we improved matching in our marketplace, surfacing more relevant listings for buyers while helping sellers reach customers who are genuinely interested in their products.

Background

When a buyer searches for an item on Etsy, we want them to find exactly what they’re looking

Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Just Training A Generation In The Art Of The Workaround

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We’ve been covering Australia’s under-16 social media ban since before it went into effect, first noting the confusion and obvious implementation problems as pretty much everyone realized it was a total mess, and then documenting how the ban was actively harming kids with disabilities by cutting them off from critical support communities. None of this […]

Daily Deal: The 2026 C# Course Bundle

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The 2026 C# Course Bundle offers 8 courses that cover everything C#. You’ll master the fundamentals, explore object-oriented programming, and start building your own apps in no time. It’s on sale for $40. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all sales from Techdirt Deals helps support Techdirt. […]

China is winning the open source AI race — but a US company still controls everything underneath

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Most of the AI spotlight shines on the biggest models from the biggest labs — Claude from Anthropic, GPT from

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Best Apple Deals of the Week: AirPods Pro 3 Hit $199.99 Lowest Price on Amazon

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The highlights of this week in Apple deals include the return of an all-time low price on AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Series 11, and ongoing launch discounts on all of Apple's new products. You'll also find a few early accessory deals from Amazon's Big Spring Sale below.

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The MacRumors Show: Surprise AirPods Max 2 Announcement

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss Apple's surprise announcement of the AirPods Max 2 this week.

Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphone

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Amazon's second smartphone could forego an app store.

Black Man Shot By Cops Dies After White Cop Suffering An ‘Anxiety Attack’ Snags Ambulance

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Black Lives Matter. All Cops Are Bastards. These are not temporary catchphrases. These are universal and forever. And leave it to a cop to ensure we never forget either of these concepts. A foot pursuit that ended in the shooting of Connecticut resident Dyshan Best would otherwise just be a footnote in cop history if […]

M5 MacBook Air vs. M5 MacBook Pro Buyer's Guide

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Both the MacBook Air and entry-level MacBook Pro now feature the M5 chip, so how do the latest models compare?


While the 13-inch ‌MacBook Air‌ starts at $1,099 and the 15-inch model at $1,299, moving to the 14-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ requires spending at least $300 more. For some buyers, the extra cost is unnecessary; for others, the Pro's ability to sustain performance, along with its more advanced display and expanded I/O, meaningfully change the experience in ways the Air cannot match even with higher configurations.

With the introduction of the MacBook Neo as a new entry-leve [...]

Why the ‘glorified host’ for AI is exactly the Kubernetes we need

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I recently caught a post from Hyperframe Research that asked a question many of us in the cloud-native trenches have

The post Why the ‘glorified host’ for AI is exactly the Kubernetes we need appeared first on The New Stack.

MacBook Neo Charging Test: Here's Which Apple Charger is the Fastest

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While the MacBook Neo is not "fast-charge capable," according to Apple's tech specs, the laptop can still charge faster with certain Apple chargers.


Apple includes its 20W USB-C Power Adapter with the MacBook Neo (except in the UK and the EU, where the laptop does not ship with a charger at all), but a new charging test has revealed that Apple's 35W Dual USB-C Port Compact Power Adapter is a better choice if you want the fast [...]

OpenAI 'Superapp' to Merge ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas Browser

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OpenAI has a Mac "superapp" in development that unifies its ChatGPT app, Codex coding platform, and Atlas browser, reports The Wall Street Journal ($).


The idea behind the all-in-one app is to simplify the user experience, following the launch of several standalone products, some of which haven't resonated with OpenAI's customers. The company is also trying to bounce back after the recent successes of its main rival, Anthropic.

OpenAI executives are said to be looking at areas it can deprioritize while it focuses on creating agentic AI capabilities within the new superapp that can work autonomously on a user's computer to carry out various tasks like writing code and analyzin [...]

Major SteamOS update adds support for Steam Machine, even more third-party hardware

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Both AMD- and Intel-based hardware is getting better support in SteamOS 3.8.

Apple's 50th Anniversary Celebrations Headed to Australia

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Apple and the Sydney Opera House in Australia recently announced a collaboration, and it turns out this will tie into Apple's 50th-anniversary celebrations.


On his Instagram page earlier this week, Australian composer Bailey Pickles said Apple asked him to compose and perform music for its upcoming 50th-anniversary celebration at the Opera House, where Apple will soon be illuminating artwork.

From March 25 to March 27, the Opera House's eastern sails will be illuminated with artwork created in the Procreate app on the iPad by a group of 10 emerging Australian artists. Through free Today at Apple sessions earlier this month, the public also had th [...]

OpenAI acquires Astral to bring open source Python developer tools to Codex — but details are still fuzzy

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OpenAI this week announced its acquisition of Astral to bring the startup’s open source Python developer tools into the Codex

The post OpenAI acquires Astral to bring open source Python developer tools to Codex — but details are still fuzzy appeared first on The New Stack.

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

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Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web. People loved Google's trustworthy "10 blue links" search experience and its unspoken promise: The website you click is the website you get. Now, Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. […]

Why flat Kubernetes networks fail at scale

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Rethinking network security hierarchies for cloud-native platforms Kubernetes networking is powerful. Its flexibility lets teams connect hundreds of microservices across

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Apple Made Nearly $900 Million From Generative AI Apps Last Year

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Apple collected nearly $900 million in App Store fees from generative AI apps in 2025, according to data from analysis firm AppMagic, covered by The Wall Street Journal ($).


The overwhelming majority of Apple's AI app commission revenue came courtesy of ChatGPT downloads leading to subsequent subscriptions, which alone accounted for around 75 percent of the above total. Elon Musk's Grok app came a distant second, making up just 5 percent of the revenue.

Apple is now said to be on course to earn $1 billion in generative app revenue this year. Given how behind the company is in the AI race, highlighted by the sluggish progress of its enhanced Siri rollout, it's a tidy sum indeed.

O [...]

Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch

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Apple's CEO Tim Cook today said the Mac just had its "best launch week ever for first-time Mac customers," which suggests that the new MacBook Neo has been a hit with customers buying their first laptops or switching from Windows.


Apple released the MacBook Neo last Wednesday, March 11. In the U.S., pricing starts at just $599 for the general public and an even lower $499 for college students. The laptop is powered by a version of the iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip, and it is available in colorful finishes like Citrus, Blush, and Indigo, alongside traditional Silver.

Apple also released MacBook Air models with the M5 chip and MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max [...]

From pillars to platform: How open observability data is changing the industry

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As the observability industry pivots from proprietary systems to open frameworks, the traditional “pillars” of metrics, logs, and traces are

The post From pillars to platform: How open observability data is changing the industry appeared first on The New Stack.

Brendan Carr Crafting ‘Patriotic’ Call Center Onshoring Plan To Provide Cover For Mass Looming Telecom Layoffs

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When he’s not busy trampling free speech, crushing the First Amendment, and destroying media consolidation and consumer protection standards, Brendan Carr has other hobbies. Like helping the telecom industry patriotically sell a brutal coming wave of new layoffs caused by the kind of industry consolidation he regularly rubber stamps. Carr recently began circulating plans for […]

Linux kernel scale is swamping an already-flawed CVE system

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Linux kernel developers operate under constraints that very few other open source community maintainers experience. Evolving the capabilities of the

The post Linux kernel scale is swamping an already-flawed CVE system appeared first on The New Stack.

It's real, enterprises just need to do the CISO work and SRE work

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After using Claude more and more for task in my personal life, my current zinger analyst take on the Squawk Box would be: “OpenAI talks about business strategy, Anthropic just does it.” It’s really getting close to a sci-fi personal assistant. It takes A LOT of work to get your rig (or “harness”) setup, and to continually tune it, but it’s amazing.

Once CEO’s get their hands on this for a week, and the IT departments and CISOs figure it out, it’ll be amazing in enterprise life…again, not just for programmers, but for everyone.

The biggest benefit will be less meetings, less having to be a meat-mouse for executives who can’t or won’t make their own slides, and finally getting CRM and ERP “business analytics” nailed.

You know, until we get used to productivity benefits in 6 months and then just hate it like we do all enterprise software, because we want the next impossible thing.

The SaaS Observability Era is Ending: Why BYOC Is the Future of Telemetry

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Greater Than Zero: The Anti-AI Pushback On Gaming Preservation Efforts Makes No Sense

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There is an old axiom you will have heard of before: don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If we wanted to boil this down to a math equation, it might be described as something like: 0 < any positive integer. It’s not a difficult concept to grasp, typically, until you add […]

templUI brings shadcn-style components to Go and templ

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Perplexity Can Now Access Your Apple Health Data to Answer Medical Questions

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AI company Perplexity today introduced Perplexity Health, a suite of connectors that allow Perplexity to access your health data.


Perplexity suggests that the feature is useful for aggregating health data from across different portals, apps, and devices. It is able to track metrics and trends over time across biomarkers, with information shown on a personalized dashboard.

When asked a health-related question, Perplexity Health can answer based on medical records, lab results, and wearable data. With Perplexity Computer (Perplexity's AI agent tool), AI agents can use health information to build personalized fitness plans, nutrition plans, and more. Perplexity Health on Computer is rollin [...]

Hermès Now Sells $1,250+ MagSafe Chargers Wrapped in Calfskin Leather

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Luxury brand Hermès has a new series of MagSafe-compatible chargers for the iPhone and Apple Watch, with prices that are higher than the cost of an iPhone 17 Pro Max.


The $1,250 Paddock Solo Charger is a magnetic charger that works with a single device, while the $1,750 Paddock Duo can charge an Apple Watch and iPhone at the same time. The $1,750 Paddock Yoyo is also a dual charger, but it has a USB-C cable that wraps around the charger for travel purposes.

Hermès [...]

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Money For Nothing And Clicks For A Fee

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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 […]

ITC Judge Rules Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Workaround Does Not Infringe Masimo Patents

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Apple's current blood oxygen sensing implementation in the U.S. does not infringe on patents owned by Masimo and Apple will not face a revived import ban, a U.S. International Trade Commission judge said this week (via Reuters).


After Apple was found to have violated Masimo's patents related to blood oxygen sensing, the Apple Watch faced a U.S. import ban that caused Apple to briefly pause sales of the device in December 2023 before Apple earned a temporary stay. Apple disabled blood oxygen sensing in January 2024, and was able to [...]

Migrating Etsy’s database sharding to Vitess

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Etsy has maintained a sharded MySQL architecture since around 2010. This database cluster contains most of Etsy’s online data and is made up of ~1,000 tables distributed across ~1,000 shards. Over the last 16 years, it has grown significantly: combined, these tables have over 425 TB of data and receive roughly 1.7 million requests per second.

Etsy engineers access our MySQL data through a proprietary object-relational mapping (ORM). The ORM has a corresponding model for each MySQL table. When a table is sharded, its rows are partitioned among different databases known as shards. Each shard has identical table schemas and contains a distinct subset of all rows. Sharded tables require a unique id field to be designated on the model as the “shardifier id” which determines the shard for each record.

Shardifier ids are designed to co-locate related data in order to minimize the number of databases we need to rely on for a given query. For example, all records related to a single shop or user are

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here’s What We Need to Do.

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We’ve all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much advertisers know about our lives. You’re right to be disturbed. Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly track peoples’ locations, new reporting has confirmed. For years, the internet advertising industry has been […]

Secure Code Warrior AI Agent Applies Policies to AI Generated Code

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Google Working on Native Gemini AI App for Mac to Rival ChatGPT and Claude

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Google is developing a native Gemini app for the Mac, reports Bloomberg. Right now, Mac users who want to use Google's Gemini AI have to use a web browser, but that will change with a dedicated Mac app.


Google competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI have dedicated Mac apps for their chatbots, potentially making Claude and ChatGPT more convenient to use than Gemini.

Google shared an early version of the Gemini app with beta testers this week to get feedback, but it's not clear when it might launch. Google has not provided release date information for the Gemini Mac app, and testers were told that the app only has "critical features," suggesting there's more to come before release. [...]

Powering the agents: Workers AI now runs large models, starting with Kimi K2.5

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Kimi K2.5 is now on Workers AI, helping you power agents entirely on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform. Learn how we optimized our inference stack and reduced inference costs for internal agent use cases.

Analyst: Foldable iPhone Likely to Ship in December, iPhone 18 Plus is Possible Next Year

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In a research note for investment bank Barclays earlier this month, Apple analyst Tim Long said his supply chain sources mentioned the possibility of the iPhone 18 base model being announced in March next year, rather than in September this year. This split launch has been widely rumored by multiple sources in recent months.


More interestingly, Long dropped two unique pieces of information.

First, he said shipments of the rumored foldable iPhone will likely begin in December this year, a few months after the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max launch in the usual September ti [...]

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How Slack Rebuilt Notifications 📣

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Introduction 🔔  At Slack, notifications are how teams stay in the loop, but they can also become overwhelming when not designed with intention. Our goal was to make staying informed feel effortless. We set out to rebuild one of Slack’s most complicated systems from the ground up by bringing calm, consistency, and clarity to the…

Backend Development in 2026: What’s Changed, What Matters, and What to Learn Next

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Overview of Backend Development Backend development, often called server-side development, involves building and overseeing applications that run on computers controlled

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Jellyfish AI development study: The real sting has yet to land

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Developers are adopting and eschewing AI coding tools depending on their trust in the new automation mantra, the level of

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OpenAI Bolsters AI Coding with Acquisition of Python Toolmaker Astral

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Meta decides not to kill Horizon Worlds VR after all

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VR will be on life support while mobile remains the focus, though.

Apple Urges iPhone Users Running Outdated iOS Versions to Update Immediately

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Apple today urged iPhone users who are running iOS 13 or iOS 14 to upgrade to iOS 15 to protect themselves from being hacked through malicious web content.


In a support document, Apple highlights recent reports about hacking tools that are effective against older versions of iOS. Hackers are using iOS exploit kits known as "Coruna" and "DarkSword," which can take advantage of vulnerabilities in iOS 13 through iOS 17.2.1.

"If your iPhone doesn't have the latest software, update iOS to protect your data," Apple says.

Apple has patched the vulnerabilities as they have come to light over the last several months, so users who have already [...]

Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

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The "advanced flow" will be available before verification enforcement begins later this year.

Despite hardware limits, Parallels supports running Windows on MacBook Neo

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"8GB unified memory is the minimum practical configuration."

Lineaje Adds Ability to Automatically Apply Governance Policies to AI Components

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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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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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Checkmarx Adds Orchestration Framework to DevSecOps Platform

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

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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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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."

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

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Internet Coin-op

Arcjet Extends Runtime Policy Engine to Block Malicious Prompts

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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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Spacelift Intelligence Vibe-Codes Infrastructure

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