Anthropic launches Claude Code Security, which "scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches"; cybersecurity stocks fall (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

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Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Anthropic launches Claude Code Security, which “scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches”; cybersecurity stocks fall  —  Shares of cybersecurity software companies tumbled Friday after Anthropic PBC introduced a new security feature into its Claude AI model.

Survey: Adoption of AI Software Testing Slowed by Trust Issues

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Code Metal, which uses AI to let engineers translate legacy code into modern languages, raised a $125M Series B led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1.25B valuation (Lauren Goode/Wired)

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Lauren Goode / Wired:
Code Metal, which uses AI to let engineers translate legacy code into modern languages, raised a $125M Series B led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1.25B valuation  —  The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can't come at the cost of new bugs.

NanoClaw’s answer to OpenClaw is minimal code, maximum isolation

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Gavriel Cohen built NanoClaw, a lightweight alternative to OpenClaw, in a weekend after learning about security flaws in the popular agentic framework.

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Trump Says He’s Just Going To Make Some Shit Up To Justify Nationalizing The Election Process

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Trump couldn’t accept the fact that he lost the 2020 election. So he stood idly by (if you believe his narrative) or urged on (if you believe your own eyes and ears) his supporters to raid the Capitol building to seize the election from the electorate. If that meant killing his own vice president, so […]

Daily Deal: The Academy of Game Art Bundle

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The Academy of Game Art Bundle teaches you the basics of how to create video game art. You’ll learn how to use Inkscape to create logos, 2D backgrounds, pre-defined modules, UI designs, and characters. A course on using DragonBones will teach you how to animate your characters as well. The bundle is on sale for […]

A US judge rejects Tesla's bid to overturn a $243M jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash, a blow for Tesla as it faces a growing wave of lawsuits (Fred Lambert/Electrek)

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Fred Lambert / Electrek:
A US judge rejects Tesla's bid to overturn a $243M jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash, a blow for Tesla as it faces a growing wave of lawsuits  —  A federal judge has rejected Tesla's bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida …

Sources: Google may invest $100M in Fluidstack at a $7.5B valuation and has backstopped crypto miners that are building datacenters, seeking to expand TPU use (Wall Street Journal)

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Google may invest $100M in Fluidstack at a $7.5B valuation and has backstopped crypto miners that are building datacenters, seeking to expand TPU use  —  As more AI companies consider Google's chips, the company wants to use deals with external partners to expand the potential market

96% of developers don’t trust AI code: Here’s a step toward the fix

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The narrative surrounding software development has shifted dramatically over the last six months. The industry has moved past the initial

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The reason big tech is giving away AI agent frameworks

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As someone who had a front-row seat to the container orchestration wars, I am watching the same movie play out

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Fake Data, Upcoming Book, and the Political Economy of AI

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The world is on fire – and I’ve often been at a loss for how to constructively contribute to public discourse. For decades, I have shared knowledge gained through fieldwork to offer a different perspective on complex sociotechnical matters. Too often these days, I find myself banging my head against the wall while navigating the […]

Tech stocks rise slightly from their morning lows after the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump lacked the authority to impose sweeping global tariffs (Adam Levine/Barron's Online)

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Adam Levine / Barron's Online:
Tech stocks rise slightly from their morning lows after the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump lacked the authority to impose sweeping global tariffs  —  Shares of tech goods makers rose off their morning lows on news of the h

Newsmax Didn’t Like Its NewsGuard Rating, So The FTC Attacked NewsGuard, And Now NewsGuard Is Suing

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We’ve written a few times now about how the GOP’s “free speech warriors” have been waging an absolutely absurd campaign against NewsGuard, a company whose entire business model is… expressing opinions about the reliability of news sources. You know, speech. The kind of thing that’s supposed to be protected by that First Amendment thing the […]

Peak XV, which split from Sequoia in 2023, raised $1.3B across new India- and Asia-focused funds, bringing its total assets under management to over $10B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Peak XV, which split from Sequoia in 2023, raised $1.3B across new India- and Asia-focused funds, bringing its total assets under management to over $10B  —  Peak XV announced on Friday that it has raised $1.3 billion across new India and Asia-focused funds.

Claude's C Compiler shows AI elevates the role of human judgment and vision; it's a milestone, but closely mirrors LLVM/GCC, and hard codes things to pass tests (Chris Lattner/Modular Blog)

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Chris Lattner / Modular Blog:
Claude's C Compiler shows AI elevates the role of human judgment and vision; it's a milestone, but closely mirrors LLVM/GCC, and hard codes things to pass tests  —  Compilers occupy a special place in computer science.  They're a canonical course in computer science education.  Building one is a rite of passage.

The MacRumors Show: What's Coming at the 'Apple Experience'?

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We talk through everything to expect at Apple's upcoming "Experience" on March 4, on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show.

The growing war over Seedance 2.0’s ‘digital heist’

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Recent launch of ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 has introduced a volatile phase in the artificial intelligence...

Sources: OpenAI has 200+ people working on a family of AI devices, including a smart speaker priced from $200 to $300, possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp (The Information)

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The Information:
Sources: OpenAI has 200+ people working on a family of AI devices, including a smart speaker priced from $200 to $300, possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp  —  OpenAI has more than 200 people working on a family of AI-powered devices that will include a smart speaker and possibly smart glasses …

US unveils ‘world’s first’ irradiated molten salt research facility for next-gen reactors

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The National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) has officially unveiled its Molten Salt Thermophysical Examination Capability...

Avantos, which makes an AI-native client management system for financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A led by Bessemer, taking its total funding to $35M (Minh Le/Tech in Asia)

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Minh Le / Tech in Asia:
Avantos, which makes an AI-native client management system for financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A led by Bessemer, taking its total funding to $35M  —  Avantos, a company developing an AI-native system for financial institutions, announced the completion of a US$25 million series …

Three Upcoming Apple Products Seemingly Spotted in macOS 26.3 Code

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macOS 26.3 hints at Apple's rumored lower-cost MacBook, and two new Studio Display models, according to Macworld's Filipe Espósito.


Espósito found the following codenames within macOS 26.3's source code, and he revealed the upcoming products that they likely correspond with, based on previous reporting from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and others.

The codenames:

• J700: Lower-cost MacBook


• J427: A new Studio Display


• J527: A new, higher-end Studio Display

OpenAI says users aged 18 to 24 account for nearly 50% and under-30s represent 80% of ChatGPT messages in India; 35% of chats are related to professional tasks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says users aged 18 to 24 account for nearly 50% and under-30s represent 80% of ChatGPT messages in India; 35% of chats are related to professional tasks  —  OpenAI seems to have found product-market fit with young Indians.  The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years …

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Get Up to $1,200 Off Samsung's Best Monitors and More

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This week's best Apple-related deals include multiple third-party retailer accessory sales from Samsung, Nomad, Dell, and Otterbox. We're also tracking one of the first big price discounts on the iPhone Air MagSafe Battery in our recap of the week's best deals below.

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

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• What's the deal? Save on Samsung monitors, TVs, and more


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Pepper, which offers a digital storefront for independent food distributors, raised a $50M Series C led by Lead Edge Capital, taking its total funding to $100M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Chris Metinko / Axios:
Pepper, which offers a digital storefront for independent food distributors, raised a $50M Series C led by Lead Edge Capital, taking its total funding to $100M  —  Pepper, a business platform developer for independent food distributors, raised a $50 million Series C led by Lead Edge Capital …

Chinese researchers’ 78-qubit processor slows quantum chaos to delay information loss

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Scientists at the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have directly observed...

Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens

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The Cloudflare API has over 2,500 endpoints. Exposing each one as an MCP tool would consume over 2 million tokens. With Code Mode, we collapsed all of it into two tools and roughly 1,000 tokens of context.

True source of magnetic effect in altermagnetism found, questioning faster computing claims

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Researchers in the United States have found the true source of a magnetic effect, a...

Scott Myers, the head of Snap's AR glasses subsidiary Specs, leaves after six years; sources say Myers left after a "blow-up" with Evan Spiegel over strategy (Alex Heath/Sources)

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Alex Heath / Sources:
Scott Myers, the head of Snap's AR glasses subsidiary Specs, leaves after six years; sources say Myers left after a “blow-up” with Evan Spiegel over strategy  —  My chat with CEO Dylan Field ahead of today's earnings call.  Also: Snap loses its head of Specs right before the big launch …

Rumored Colors for Low-Cost MacBook Were Originally Tested for 2022 MacBook Air Redesign

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Apple tested color options for the 2022 MacBook Air redesign that are said to be similar to the finishes planned for its forthcoming low-cost MacBook, according to a Chinese leaker.


Apple is expected to announce its rumored low-cost MacBook at an event on March 4, with the device coming in a selection of bold color options that are believed to include yellow, green, and blue – as seen on Apple's invite graphic.

In a post on Weibo, the account known as "Instant Digital" says Apple originally planned to offer the same kind of light, playful color scheme for the MacBook Air with M2 chip.

Indeed, back in [...]

NASA pumps massive 2.8 million liters of fuel for historic Artemis 2 rehearsal

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NASA has cleared a major hurdle on the path back to the moon.  On Thursday...

Department Of Education Forced To Back Off Illegal Plan To Be Racist, Sexist Assholes

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One recurring theme of this era: folks who actually choose to stand up to this bumbling kakistocracy of hateful failsons usually tend to win if they stick together. Those that prematurely bend the knee in abject cowardice (like say, CBS, countless law firms, or numerous university administrators) will hopefully be remembered for it. It happened […]

US Navy plans new anti-radiation missile with longer range for F-18 and F-35 jets

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The US Navy is seeking industry input for a next-generation Advanced Emission Suppression Missile (AESM),...

US Air Force to accelerate B-21 raider production to boost stealth bomber fleet

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The US Air Force and Northrop Grumman are nearing an agreement to speed up production...

Why the era of relying on dozens of “purpose-built” databases is finally coming to an end

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What will drive the next wave of innovation in enterprise applications? Ask the experts, and you’ll likely hear a similar

The post Why the era of relying on dozens of “purpose-built” databases is finally coming to an end appeared first on The New Stack.

155 mm: China mounts its largest-ever naval gun on trials ship for bombardment test

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China appears to be moving closer to testing what could become the largest modern naval...

US advanced molten salt reactors move closer to deployment with new nuclear fuel

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The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Kairos Power have launched a...

Toyota Canada to deploy 7 humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics tasks

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Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) announced its plans to deploy humanoid robots at its manufacturing...

Sources: SoftBank plans to form a consortium to build a $33B power plant in Ohio, set to produce 9.2 GW for AI data centers, as part of the US-Japan trade deal (Nikkei Asia)

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Nikkei Asia:
Sources: SoftBank plans to form a consortium to build a $33B power plant in Ohio, set to produce 9.2 GW for AI data centers, as part of the US-Japan trade deal  —  TOKYO — SoftBank Group will form a consortium to carry out a $33 billion gas-fired power plant project in the U.S. …

iPhone Fold: Launch, Pricing, and What to Expect From Apple's Foldable

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Apple is expected to launch a new foldable iPhone this year, based on multiple rumors and credible sources. The long-awaited device has been rumored for years now, but signs increasingly suggest that Apple will release its first foldable device in 2026.

Automating everything but changing how people work - Relative to your interests, Friday

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Enterprise AI apps (or lack thereof), ROI surveys, CFO budget pivots, agile’s stubborn relevance, platform engineering vs. private cloud, Heroku’s freeze, IRS tech cuts, and Europe hedging on AI tools

Related to your interests

General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B it previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B it previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024  —  General Catalyst, a Silicon Valley-based venture firm with more than $43 billion in assets under management …

AWS Just Turned “Deploy to AWS” Into a Five-Word Prompt

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When DevOps Meets the Cloud: A Real-World Transformation Story

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You Can Feel It Coming - Software Defined Talk

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This week, we discuss personal AI hype cycles, bottoms-up adoption, and “The Modern Stack” simplifying cloud. Plus, thoughts on new cars and the dogs that ride in them.

See the traditional podcast listing for links and more.

Progressive Delivery, with Heidi Waterhouse - Software Defined Interviews

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See the traditional podcast version for more and Heidi links.

Why it's great to be a Spring developer now, and how to make it even better - State of Spring, 2026

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This is a talk I give at the start of Spring workshops we do. Here is the recording. The point is to show people that being a Java and Spring developers is fantastic right now. Here’s the description:

Spring developers are in a strange position in 2026: everything is changing: AI, platform engineering, enterprise architecture. And yet Spring keeps getting stronger.

In this talk, Coté walks through why this is actually a great moment to be a Spring developer, especially in large organizations. He looks at:

• How AI code generation is changing Java and Spring development
• Why enterprise momentum still matters
• The role of platforms in making Spring teams faster
• Where private AI, model b

Why AI Makes Requirements a Runtime Artifact

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Google rejected 1.75M policy-violating Android apps and blocked 80K+ developer accounts from Google Play in 2025, down from 2.36M apps and 158K accounts in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google rejected 1.75M policy-violating Android apps and blocked 80K+ developer accounts from Google Play in 2025, down from 2.36M apps and 158K accounts in 2024  —  Fewer bad actors are targeting Google Play with malicious apps, the company says, a shift that the tech giant credits …

What to do About AI’s Forced Rethink of Reliability in Modern DevOps

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Best review of The Sound and The Fury, in Mad Men, s2e11: “Sex is good. This book is just OK.”

Management is always eager to "reduce costs."

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The real story lies “in collapsing headcount growth expectations, from 6% in 2025 to just 2% in 2026 with just 21% of CFOs planning staff increases of 4% to 9%, down from 31% last year,” Nauman Abbasi, vice president analyst in Gartner’s finance practice, said in the release. “This marks a structural pivot from labor expansion to optimization driven by automation and AI that deliver productivity gains without proportional increases in headcount.”

🔗 Most CFOs expect larger IT budgets, ‘collapsing’ staff growth: Gartner

Meanwhile: 6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom

Say you love business logic without saying "business logic."

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Model Eats the Software: Why the Marginal Cost of Enterprise Software Approaches Zero

More on agentic AI changing the software business from Jason Hoffman:

Andreessen specifically predicted that Salesforce would disrupt Oracle. Fourteen years later, Oracle is roughly 2.5x the size of Salesforce. Salesforce sells application logic – workflows, configurations, business rules. Oracle sells infrastructure – databases, middleware, cloud compute. The application layer was always the vulnerable part. The infrastructure layer was always the durable part. Software ate the world. Then it sat around all gluttonous and bloated. Frozen reasoning."

Also, it was the incumbents who did all the eating.

And, a proposal for using AI as the UI and business logic layer for enterprise apps:

First, right n

AI still not good at basic knowledge worker workflows, which is likely an apps problem

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Here is one account of AI being shit at multi-step activate outside of coding:

I think my request of “Hey Gemini, show me a list of all the articles I wrote over the last year and arrange them into categories by subject” is a straightforward one, and I came away from this experience surprised that Gemini shipped these features as bleeding edge AI to customers when it never really delivered for me.

I have the same experience, weekly. In general, using AI for this kind search and analytics has been bad and more time consuming than just doing it myself.

It is especially bad when you hook it up to other services like docs and email.

It works pretty well with plain text files. I think why it works there is that it writes scripts to search and chunk the text. That is, it’s doing non-AI work to search docs and others. Perhaps it’s good at orchestrating text work like

Trump Wants An Airport Renamed After Him While His Company Trademarks Those Same Names

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Remember how Donald Trump was going to “drain the swamp” as president? The idea, spilling out from his first campaign for president, was that Washington was horribly corrupt, that politicians and unelected government stooges were making money from their positions of power, and that even politician’s families were in on the grift. The only reason […]

iPhone's Emergency SOS via Satellite Feature Helped Rescue Skiers Caught in Lake Tahoe Avalanche

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Six skiers who survived the avalanche near Lake Tahoe on Tuesday used the Emergency SOS via satellite feature on the iPhone to get help, reports The New York Times. Emergency SOS via satellite lets ‌iPhone‌ users communicate with emergency responders via text when a cellular or Wi-Fi connection is not available.


The skiers were able to stay connected to the Nevada County Sheriff's Office for several hours while rescue efforts were coordinated. "One of my personnel was communicating with one of the guides over a four-hour period, giving information back to the Nevada sheriff's office and coordinating what rescues could be permitted," said Don O'K [...]

The Go team debates AI-generated contributions

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#​590 — February 20, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly

New York’s New 3D Printing Law, As Written, Is Extremely Harmful And Annoying

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The good folks over at Adafruit are raising the alarm about a new New York State 3D printing law that could greatly imperil the public’s freedom to tinker and could generally make life way more annoying for the schools, libraries, hospitals, small businesses, hobbyists, and garages that utilize 3D printers. New York’s 2026–2027 executive budget […]

M1 MacBook Air Out of Stock at Walmart as Lower-Cost MacBook Nears

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Apple's older MacBook Air with the M1 chip is now out of stock on Walmart's website in the U.S., amid rumors of a new lower-cost MacBook coming soon.

A colorful MacBook (concept)

The developer as conductor: Leading an orchestra of AI agents with the feature flag baton

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Last month, just a few weeks after Dynatrace finalized its acquisition of DevCycle, Michael Beemer of Dynatrace and Andrew Norris,

The post The developer as conductor: Leading an orchestra of AI agents with the feature flag baton appeared first on The New Stack.

Google Chrome Gets Built-In Split View and PDF Annotations

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Google has added three new features to the Chrome desktop browser, including split view for multitasking, PDF annotations, and a Save to Google Drive option.


Split view for Chrome is a built-in tool that supports using two tabs at the same time side-by-side. Google says that it provides a more streamlined, flexible way to work. There is a split view icon in Chrome that can be clicked to enter the new view.

With PDF annotations, the Chrome PDF Viewer can be used to highlight text, insert signatures, and add notes.

The Save to Google Drive feature is meant to make it easier for users to locate their downloads. PDFs can be saved to Google Drive from Chrome without redownloading and re-uploading [...]

Want an easy way to manage Podman containers? Here it is.

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You’ve heard of Docker Desktop, right? Of course you have. Docker Desktop is a user-friendly GUI app that simplifies managing

The post Want an easy way to manage Podman containers? Here it is. appeared first on The New Stack.

The essential shift every ITOps leader must make to survive an unrelenting stream of incidents

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High-profile IT incidents are becoming more frequent and more severe. A single hour of downtime for a revenue-generating service could

The post The essential shift every ITOps leader must make to survive an unrelenting stream of incidents appeared first on The New Stack.

AI agents are accelerating vulnerability discovery. Here’s how AppSec teams must adapt.

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It has never been easier to quickly and at scale find security vulnerabilities. Linus’s Law, Eric Raymond’s famous dictum about

The post AI agents are accelerating vulnerability discovery. Here’s how AppSec teams must adapt. appeared first on The New Stack.

Wikipedia Grapples With New Challenges From AI

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Wikipedia celebrated its 25th birthday last month. Given the centrality of Wikipedia to so much activity online, it is hard to remember (or to imagine, for those who are younger) a time without Wikipedia. The latest statistics are impressive: That’s testimony to the global nature of Wikipedia. But there’s something else, not mentioned there, that is of great […]

Rubik’s WOWCube adds complexity, possibility by reinventing the puzzle cube

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Technology is a double-edged sword in the $399 Rubik's Cube-inspired toy.

Apple TV Sports Content Including F1, MLS, and Friday Night Baseball Coming to Bars and Restaurants

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Apple has inked a deal with EverPass Media to bring Apple TV sports content to EverPass customers in the United States. EverPass is a company that bundles premium sports content for restaurants, hotels, casinos, sports bars, and other businesses that want to air sporting events.


EverPass will now be able to offer Formula 1, Major League Soccer, and Major League Baseball content to its customers at no additional cost through the main EverPass Core content package. That package also includes Paramount+'s UEFA Champions League, Prime Video's Thursday Night Football, NBA, WNBA and [...]

How your LLM is silently hallucinating company revenue

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LLMs are accelerating work across engineering disciplines, from generating React components and building backend APIs to noodling with SQL. But

The post How your LLM is silently hallucinating company revenue appeared first on The New Stack.

Rising identity complexity: How CISOs can prevent it from becoming an attacker’s roadmap

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Identity has always been the thread that stitches enterprise IT together, but the nature of that identity has changed dramatically.

The post Rising identity complexity: How CISOs can prevent it from becoming an attacker’s roadmap appeared first on The New Stack.

Before We Blame AI For Suicide, We Should Admit How Little We Know About Suicide

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Warning: This article discusses suicide and some research regarding suicidal ideation. If you are having thoughts of suicide, please call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or visit this list of resources for help. Know that people care about you and there are many available to help. When someone dies by […]

Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro is mostly great

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

The post Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro is mostly great appeared first on The New Stack.

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

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

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

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

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

Daily Deal: The Complete Big Data And Power BI Bundle

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prometheus and OpenTelemetry finally play nice

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

The post Prometheus and OpenTelemetry finally play nice appeared first on The New Stack.

Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising

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

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

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

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


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

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

Rivian Releases Apple Watch App

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


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

Rivian also offers an Apple Watch complication, allowing you to view the vehicle's charge level at a glance on your watch face.
[...]

Dell's Sitewide Sale Discounts Alienware Monitors and More

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

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

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

Apple Watch: 15 Tips Every Owner Needs to Know

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

Bounce Between Two Apps

Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes (Interview)

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

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

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


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

Report: Meta Revives Smartwatch Plans to Take On Apple Watch

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


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

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

The smartwatch cou [...]

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

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


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

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

Test Automation Strategy for Growing Software Teams

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

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

Hacking Workshop for March 2026

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

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

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

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Checkmarx Extends Vulnerability Detection to AI Coding Tool from AWS

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

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

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

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

iOS 26.4 Brings CarPlay Support for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini

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


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

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

GitHub Tests AI Agents to Handle Repository Upkeep

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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6 agentic knowledge base patterns emerging in the wild

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

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