Apple's Environmental Chief Lisa Jackson Retiring After 13 Years

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Apple recently announced that its environmental chief Lisa Jackson would be retiring this month, and today she was removed from the company's leadership page.


Since 2013, Jackson served as Apple's Vice President of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook. In this role, she oversaw Apple's renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives. Apple aims to become carbon neutral across its entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life cycle by 2030.

Jackson also led Apple's [...]

Game Publisher Bans Working With Devs That Use Any AI, Rather Than Banning Bad Uses Of AI

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I’m going to start this post off with two rhetorical questions. My position is simple: anyone answering “yes” to either of those questions is out of the conversation when I’m involved. Dogmatic approaches like those aren’t right, they’re not smart, they’re not helpful, and they will never produce any progress or interesting discussion. They’re a […]

Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing complex, announced in 2022, that it says will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US (Glenn Coin/Syracuse Post-Standard)

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Glenn Coin / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing complex, announced in 2022, that it says will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US  —  Clay, N.Y. — At the edge of a 1,400-acre tract of swamp, forest and former farmland just north of Syracuse, Micron Technology

These 5 Apple Products Will Reportedly Be Upgraded With OLED Displays

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Apple plans to upgrade the iPad mini, MacBook Pro, iPad Air, iMac, and MacBook Air with OLED displays between 2026 and 2028, according to DigiTimes.


Bloomberg's Mark Gurman previously reported that the iPad mini and MacBook Pro will receive an OLED display as early as this year, but he does not expect the MacBook Air to adopt the technology until 2028 at the earliest.

A new iPad Air is expected to be released this year, but Gurman said it will have an LCD display. He [...]

Grid operator PJM plans to require large data centers to either bring their own power generation or curtail electricity use to prevent a large-scale outage (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Grid operator PJM plans to require large data centers to either bring their own power generation or curtail electricity use to prevent a large-scale outage  —  Grid operator PJM Interconnection on Friday unveiled a plan to manage surging power demand from data centers that Big Tech needs …

US firm’s new facility to build 1,500 tons of Iron Nitride permanent magnets annually

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World’s first full-scale Iron Nitride permanent magnet facility is set to be built in Sartell,...

Sources: suppliers of parts for Nvidia's H200 chips have paused production after Chinese customs officials blocked shipments of the AI processors (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Sources: suppliers of parts for Nvidia's H200 chips have paused production after Chinese customs officials blocked shipments of the AI processors  —  Parts makers concerned about whether Beijing will allow imports of AI processors  —  Suppliers of parts for Nvidia's H200 chips …

The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)

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Dara Kerr / The Guardian:
The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area  —  Win for Memphis activists who say ‘Colossus’ facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities

Sources: leaders at Thinking Machines Lab confronted Barret Zoph over an alleged relationship with another employee, who is no longer at the lab, in summer 2025 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

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Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Sources: leaders at Thinking Machines Lab confronted Barret Zoph over an alleged relationship with another employee, who is no longer at the lab, in summer 2025  —  Leaders at Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab confronted the startup's cofounder and former CTO, Barret Zoph …

Kaizen! Let it crash (Friends)

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Gerhard is back for Kaizen 22! We're diving deep into those pesky out-of-memory errors, analyzing our new Pipedream instance status checker, and trying to figure out why someone in Asia downloads a single episode so much.

Anthropic makes Claude Cowork available to $20/month Pro subscribers, after launching it for Max users, and says Pro users may hit their usage limits sooner (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)

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Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget:
Anthropic makes Claude Cowork available to $20/month Pro subscribers, after launching it for Max users, and says Pro users may hit their usage limits sooner  —  Pro subscribers can have Claude can handle simple tasks on their computer.  —  Claude Cowork, Anthropic's AI assistant for taking

3D-printed passive cooling system cools data centers without fans or pumps

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Data centers are under growing pressure as demand for computing power rises and cooling systems...

California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding the company halt the generation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and CSAM (Julianna Bragg/Axios)

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Julianna Bragg / Axios:
California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding the company halt the generation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and CSAM  —  California's attorney general on Friday sent a cease and desist letter to xAI, demanding the company immediately halt the creation …

As scrutiny mounts, US grants Tesla more time in Full Self-Driving probe

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Tesla’s bet on autonomous driving keeps getting more expensive for customers and more complicated for...

Report Says AI That Hallucinated A Cop Into A Frog Is Making Utah Streets ‘Safer’

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AI can be useful. But so many people seem to feel it’s nothing more than an unpaid intern you can lean on to do all the work you don’t feel like doing yourself. (And the less said about its misuse to generate a webful of slop, the better.) Like everyone everywhere, police departments are starting […]

Google says it's appealing the US v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and asks a court to pause some of the remedies during the appeal (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Google says it's appealing the US v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and asks a court to pause some of the remedies during the appeal  —  In the meantime, it's asking a court to pause remedies meant to restore competition.

Sources: Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered US digital asset bank, is seeking to raise $200M to $400M, ahead of a possible IPO in 2027 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Sources: Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered US digital asset bank, is seeking to raise $200M to $400M, ahead of a possible IPO in 2027  —  Anchorage Digital, whose affiliate is the first federally chartered US digital-asset bank, is seeking to raise fresh capital as it explores …

Even AI has bills to pay: OpenAI to roll out ads in ChatGPT for free users

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OpenAI said it would start showing ads in ChatGPT to some U.S. users, marking a...

Sources: Google is in talks with broadband operator Radiate to set up a JV to hold their fiber assets; Stonepeak Partners will invest $1B to support the deal (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Google is in talks with broadband operator Radiate to set up a JV to hold their fiber assets; Stonepeak Partners will invest $1B to support the deal  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google is in talks with Radiate, a broadband operator backed by Stonepeak Partners, to set up a joint venture …

Arcjet’s Python SDK Embeds Security in Code

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Security platform provider Arcjet has launched a Python SDK to bring application-layer security directly into code. The SDK, now in

The post Arcjet’s Python SDK Embeds Security in Code appeared first on The New Stack.

NoFap Founder Sued Pornhub, UCLA, and Scientists While Intimidating Journalists.

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Alexander Rhodes, the founder of the pornography addiction self-help group NoFap and repeat plaintiff, sued the parent company of Pornhub, Aylo, along with the University of California Los Angeles, two scientists, and an academic publisher for defamation. Filed in a court of common pleas in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and since removed to federal court by […]

Claude Code represents a "ChatGPT moment repeated" and an "extinction-level event" for horizontal software companies focused on human-oriented consumption (Doug OLaughlin/Fabricated Knowledge)

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Doug OLaughlin / Fabricated Knowledge:
Claude Code represents a “ChatGPT moment repeated” and an “extinction-level event” for horizontal software companies focused on human-oriented consumption  —  The age of PDF is over.  The time of markdown has begun.  Why Memory Hierarchies are the best analogy for how software must change.

All-New Apple Store Now Open in Downtown Montréal

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Apple's Sainte-Catherine store in Montréal, Canada has a new home at the northeast corner of Rue Saint-Catherine and Rue de la Montagne. The location officially opened to the public today, and the first people who visited received a complimentary tote bag and toque (the Canadian term for what Americans call a beanie), the latter of which will come in handy given Montréal's temperature is currently hovering around -15ºC (5ºF).


The store spans the first floor of a historic building that was extensively renovated for Appl [...]

UK flies first autonomous, uncrewed helicopter with over one-tonne payload capacity

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British aviation crossed a major milestone this week as the UK’s first truly autonomous full-size...

Sources: ElevenLabs seeks to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $11B, four months after a secondary share sale that valued it at $6.6B (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Sources: ElevenLabs seeks to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $11B, four months after a secondary share sale that valued it at $6.6B  —  Fundraising would transform company into UK's most highly valued AI start-up  —  ElevenLabs is in talks for new funding that would almost double …

2026 Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show: Watch the Trailer Now

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In September, Apple and the NFL announced that Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show on Sunday, February 8. The performance will take place at Levi's Stadium, in Santa Clara, California.


Super Bowl LX will air on NBC and stream on Peacock and NFL+, with live coverage set to start at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Bad Bunny's performance will likely begin around 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time, depending on how the game progresses.

Apple Music today shared the official trailer for the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show:

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Cloudflare Acquires Team Behind Open Source Framework Astro

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Cloudflare announced Friday it will acquire the Astro Technology Company team, which is responsible for the open source JavaScript web

The post Cloudflare Acquires Team Behind Open Source Framework Astro appeared first on The New Stack.

Some top California Democrats join Governor Gavin Newsom in opposing a ballot initiative led by a healthcare union seeking a one-time 5% tax on $1B+ in assets (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:

Trump’s ‘Free Speech’ Presidency Racked Up 200 Censorship Attempts In Its First Year

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We’ve said it before, and we’ll keep saying it because apparently it needs repeating: Donald Trump is not a free speech president. He just plays one on TV while doing the exact opposite behind the scenes. And in front of the scenes. And basically everywhere. Over and over and over again. Nora Benavidez at Free […]

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says the agency is examining Big Tech's acqui-hires to make sure "they are not an attempt to get around" its merger review process (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says the agency is examining Big Tech's acqui-hires to make sure “they are not an attempt to get around” its merger review process  —  The US Federal Trade Commission is taking a closer look at moves by major tech companies to hire away the employees …

How Etsy Uses LLMs to Improve Search Relevance

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Ever searched for something specific, only to be met with results that are close, but not quite? On Etsy’s Search Relevance team, that frustration is exactly what we are tackling. Our goal is simple yet ambitious: to help buyers find exactly what they’re looking for, and to help sellers reach the people seeking their special products.

Search plays a central role in that mission. Historically, Etsy’s search models have relied heavily on engagement signals – such as clicks, add-to-carts, and purchases – as proxies for relevance. These signals are objective, but they can also be biased: popular listings get more clicks, even when they’re not the best match for a specific query.

To address this, we introduce semantic relevance as a complementary perspective to engagement, capturing how well a listing aligns with a buyer’s intent as expressed in their query. We developed a Semantic Relevance Evaluation and Enhancement Framework, powered by large language models (LLMs). It

RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives

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GPU makers may prioritize more profitable models; large SSDs are harder to find.

TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in the US and Brazil, offering vertical serialized shows for free without ads or paywalls for now (Business Insider)

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Business Insider:
TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in the US and Brazil, offering vertical serialized shows for free without ads or paywalls for now  —  - TikTok has rolled out a new micro drama app in the US and Brazil called PineDrama.  — The app's feed looks a lot like TikTok's …

Welcome To The Resistance… Grand Juries?

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The DOJ can’t indict a ham sandwich these days. That old saying doesn’t ring as true as it used to now that most of the DOJ’s work is just vindictive prosecutions. It’s not just cases being tossed because DOJ prosecutors weren’t legally appointed to their positions. This dates back to the early parts of last […]

Daily Deal: The Complete Superstar Photographer Bundle

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The Complete Superstar Photographer Bundle has 11 courses to help take your photography skills to the next level. Two course start you off with the basics of photography and how to take advantage of your DSLR camera. Other courses focus on lighting and posing techniques, how to photograph landscapes, food, portraits, and groups, night photography […]

ChatGPT Introduces Lower-Priced Subscription Tier, Ads Coming Soon

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OpenAI today announced that its lower-priced ChatGPT Go subscription tier is now available worldwide, with U.S. pricing set at $8 per month.


ChatGPT Go provides expanded access to ChatGPT's latest model, GPT‑5.2 Instant, with 10× more messages, file uploads, and image creation allowed compared to the free tier. ChatGPT Go also offers longer memory than the free tier, so that ChatGPT can remember more information about you for a longer period.

ChatGPT now offers three subscription tiers worldwide:

• ChatGPT Go: $8/month


• ChatGPT Plus: $20/month


• ChatGPT Pro: $200/month

AI-trained quadruped robot walks rough, low-friction terrain without human input

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A quadruped robot has learned to walk across slippery, uneven terrain entirely through simulation, without...

You Might Not Know This, but Your NAS Might Be a Good Docker Server

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Recently, I procured a Zettlab AI NAS. This was mostly to be used to house a metric ton of video

The post You Might Not Know This, but Your NAS Might Be a Good Docker Server appeared first on The New Stack.

Survivors of Swiss ski resort fire treated with skin grown from their own cells

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Survivors of Switzerland’s devastating Crans-Montana fire disaster who suffered severe burns are being treated with...

NASA to modify two F-15 fighter jets to support development of silent supersonic X-59

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The US Air Force has given NASA two retired F-15 jets to boost the space...

The Case For A 100-Justice Supreme Court

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With the current mess that the US is in, there has been plenty of talk of “what comes after” and how to think about the big structural changes needed to prevent another authoritarian from taking over and abusing all the levers of power for corruption and self-enrichment. There are many different issues to address, but […]

The MacRumors Show: Apple Creator Studio and Gemini-Powered Siri

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On this year's first episode of The MacRumors Show, we take a look at CES 2026, Apple Creator Studio, and the confirmation that Google Gemini will power the next-generation version of Siri.

Apple Now Facing Unprecedented Competition for Chip Supply

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Apple increasingly has to compete with other companies for chips made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), as surging demand for artificial intelligence reshapes capacity and customer priority.


According to a detailed report published by semiconductor analyst Tim Culpan on his blog Culpium, Apple is no longer guaranteed preferential access to leading-edge manufacturing capacity at TSMC, marking a notable change after more than a decade in which Apple's chips were central to the foundry's expansion strategy. Apple is now competing directly with AI-focused customers such as Nvidia and AMD for supply, particularly at the most advanced process nodes.

AI accelerators consume substantially more wafer area per u [...]

iOS 26.4 Will Add These 9 New Emoji to Your iPhone

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Last year, the Unicode Consortium previewed some of the new emoji that are expected to be added to the iPhone with iOS 26.4 in March or April.


Here are nine of the new emoji:

• Trombone


• Treasure Chest


• Distorted Face


• Hairy Creature (aka Bigfoot or Sasquatch)


• Fight Cloud


• Apple Core


• Orca


• Ballet Dancers


• Landslide

SLMs vs. LLMs: Why Smaller AI Models Win in Business

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Enterprise AI inherited the consumer model of AI, but it’s the wrong one for most business-to-business (B2B) problems. In the

The post SLMs vs. LLMs: Why Smaller AI Models Win in Business appeared first on The New Stack.

Rolls-Royce turns to aseismic bearings to de-risk small nuclear reactor during earthquakes

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Rolls-Royce SMR, the company tasked with building the next generation of nuclear reactors in the...

Orchestration: The Key to Integrating AI with Legacy Systems

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In today’s enterprise landscape, AI may dominate the conversation, but legacy systems still underpin mission-critical operations for many — if

The post Orchestration: The Key to Integrating AI with Legacy Systems appeared first on The New Stack.

Amazon Should Buy Anthropic, AI Doctors, Metaverse RIP

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Original Content

• Amazon should buy Anthropic.

• I wasn’t really sure what hardned images were, let alone “distroless,” so Tony and I were lucky to get William on this week’s Tanzu Catsup to sort it out. We also discuss how it fits into platform engineering. If you can’t be bothered, here’s an excerpt on optimizing Helm charts.

• After the Dream, Software Defined Talk #555 - This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start?

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Take Up to $130 Off M4 Mac Mini, Plus Deals on AirTag, AirPods Max, and More

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This week's best Apple deals include big discounts on AirTag, AirPods Max, and Mac mini. We're also tracking great sitewide sales at Satechi, Samsung, and Best Buy, with discounts on everything from Mac-compatible monitors to TVs, headphones, and more.

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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Memory for AI Agents: A New Paradigm of Context Engineering

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For today’s AI agents, memory is a moat. Every conversation counts, but traditional large language models (LLMs) are stateless —

The post Memory for AI Agents: A New Paradigm of Context Engineering appeared first on The New Stack.

CNCF Dragonfly Speeds Container, Model Sharing with P2P

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The Dragonfly project, an open source peer-to-peer image and file distribution system, has graduated from the ‘s program for incubating

The post CNCF Dragonfly Speeds Container, Model Sharing with P2P appeared first on The New Stack.

Astro is joining Cloudflare

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The Astro Technology Company team — the creators of the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare. We’re doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-driven websites, today and in the years to come.

Nvidia DGX Spark: The New Stack Developer’s Guide

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The ability to run large AI models locally defines the next frontier of developer productivity. Without desktop-class AI compute, data

The post Nvidia DGX Spark: The New Stack Developer’s Guide appeared first on The New Stack.

Trump FCC Helps Verizon Make It Harder For You To Switch Wireless Carriers

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Last May we noted how Verizon was lobbying the Trump administration to eliminate rules making it easier to switch mobile providers (and bring your phone with you). And as usual with the pay-to-play Trump administration, the Trump FCC is tripping over itself to give Verizon what it wants. The Trump FCC says it is eliminating […]

Meet the 2025 DevOps Dozen Award Winners

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Apple's OLED MacBook Pro Launch Moves Closer With Panel Production

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Development of Apple's rumored OLED MacBook Pro took another forward step this month when the next-generation production line responsible for manufacturing its displays commenced operation.


Samsung Display is expected to make the panels for Apple's MacBook Pro, and has invested heavily in an 8.6-generation OLED production line located at its Asan campus in South Korea.

An 8.6G fab uses much larger glass substrates than the OLED lines used for smartphones, which allows multiple laptop-sized panels to be cut from a single sheet. This improves yields and lowers costs, which is just what Apple needs if OLED is to replace mini-LED in the MacBook Pro.

The line is designed around rigid OLED panels with oxide TF [...]

Establishing DevOps for Mainframe Applications

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FinOps Meets DevOps: Engineering Cost Ownership in 2026

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After the Dream - Software Defined Talk #555

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This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast: This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start?

Watch the video (above), or if you prefer traditional podcasts, subscribe to it.

Relevant to your interests, Friday

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• Texas judge throws out second lawsuit over CrowdStrike outage | Computer Weekly - “the plaintiff’s claims were dismissed in their entirety in part because the shareholders had failed to establish any plausible motive of intent to commit securities fraud on CrowdStrike’s part.”
• How Daimler Trucks North America built a living knowledge graph of its business - ”Analyze our recent warranty claims, correlate them with all available datasets, and tell me

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Goes over lots of use cases for AI at a grocer. Some internal facing ones:

The platform provides Kroger workers with a single point of access to check their shift schedule, request time off, set shift availability and view their pay stubs from one mobile app, according to a video Kroger played during the panel. And from this, Kroger’s store leaders can get real-time labor data insights as well as view their shift changes, pending punches and time-off approvals

🔗 Kroger taps Google Gemini, announces more key AI moves

iPhone Fold and iPhone 18 Pro Models Set to Debut A20 Pro Chip

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Apple's foldable iPhone will share the same next-generation A20 Pro chip as the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max models when it debuts this September, according to industry analyst Jeff Pu.


In his latest investor note, Pu outlined the projected specifications for all three premium devices that will take center stage this fall, with the regular iPhone 18 and more affordable iPhone 18e models not expected to debut until spring 2027 as part of Apple's new split-launch strategy.

Powered by the A20 Pro chip, the iPhone Fold and iPhone 18 Pro models will showcase TSMC's new 2nm process, N2, boasting performance improvements that could be up to 15 percent faster and 30 percent more efficient than A19 chips.

Moreover, the A20 Pro chips will be packaged with TSMC's Wafer-Level Multi-Chip Module [...]

RFK Jr.’s FDA Removed A Webpage Of Warnings About Bogus Autism Treatments

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Welcome to year two of the unmitigated disaster that is RFK Jr. being in charge of Health and Human Services and its child agencies. To call Kennedy an anti-vaxxer is not remotely controversial any longer, and probably never was. To state that he’s a corrupt peddler of misinformation from which he has, likely still is, […]

Go 1.26 RC2, Go 1.25.6, and Go 1.24.12 released

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#​585 — January 16, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: We’ve Hit Grok Bottom

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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 […]

The New Threats: Attackers Don’t Just Break In, They Blend In

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These days, malicious actors succeed not by breaking systems, but by blending into them. Increasingly, the intruder looks like a

The post The New Threats: Attackers Don’t Just Break In, They Blend In appeared first on The New Stack.

Beats' Latest Ad Campaign Features Baseball Superstar Shohei Ohtani

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Apple's Beats brand is no stranger to collaborations with big-name celebrities on marketing campaigns, and the brand's latest effort involves Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani.


The new campaign created in collaboration with photographer Daniel Sannwald features a massively oversized Ohtani sporting Beats products in various Los Angeles settings.

Against iconic LA backdrops, each image amplifies Ohtani's scale—not just physically, but metaphorically. He becomes an elevated figure of pride, strength, and aspiration. Through dramatic scale and surreal energy, the campaign transforms LA into Ohtani's playground—a cityscape where sport and culture intersect.

Beats' choice to pair its most iconic products with Ohtani in this visual story was deliberate. As an LA-born brand rooted in sports, mus

Start Small and Go Big With Open Source Gonzo for Observability

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Logs are essentially a language, and if you throw the right information into a large language model (LLM), it can

The post Start Small and Go Big With Open Source Gonzo for Observability appeared first on The New Stack.

GitLab Delivers on AI Agents Promise to Automate DevOps Workflows

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Solving the Problems That Accompany API Sprawl With AI

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API sprawl hides both security dangers and missed opportunities. If an organization has more APIs than it can easily keep

The post Solving the Problems That Accompany API Sprawl With AI appeared first on The New Stack.

When protections outlive their purpose: A lesson on managing defense systems at scale

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User feedback led us to clean up outdated mitigations. See why observability and lifecycle management are critical for defense systems.

The post When protections outlive their purpose: A lesson on managing defense systems at scale appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

ScyllaDB’s New Cloud Challenges DynamoDB Cost, Performance

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High-performance database system provider has launched a new database cloud service that promises to rival the performance of ‘ DynamoDB

The post ScyllaDB’s New Cloud Challenges DynamoDB Cost, Performance appeared first on The New Stack.

Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal

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Spotify claims the higher fees will help "benefit artists."

Apple Adjusts Trade-In Values for iPhones, Macs, and More

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Apple today updated its trade-in values for select iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch models. Trade-ins can be completed on Apple's website, or at an Apple Store.


The charts below provide an overview of Apple's current and previous trade-in values in the United States, according to the company's website. Most of the values declined slightly, but some of the Mac values increased.

iPhone

iPhone 18 Pro Launching Later This Year With These 12 New Features

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While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are not expected to launch for another eight months, there are already plenty of rumors about the devices.


Below, we have recapped 12 features rumored for the iPhone 18 Pro models, as of January 2026:

1. The same overall design is expected, with 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch display sizes, and a "plateau" housing three rear cameras


2. Under-screen Face ID (rumored by multiple sources)

Are people avoiding iOS 26 because of Liquid Glass? It’s complicated.

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Liquid Glass is controversial, but adoption rates aren't as low as they seem.

Hacking Workshop for February 2026

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For next month, I'm scheduling 2 or 3 discussions of Amit Langote's talk, Hacking Postgres Executor For Performance, given at PGConf India 2025. 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 Amit for agreeing to attend the sessions.Read more »

Air France Announces New Apple TV Perks

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Air France today announced that passengers can now watch select Apple TV shows for free during its long-haul flights, with more than 45 hours of content available. This is referring to the streaming service known as Apple TV+ until last year.


The complimentary in-flight selection includes the first three episodes of Ted Lasso, The Morning Show, Severance, Prehistoric Planet, The Snoopy Show, and more. The shows are accessible on each passenger's individual screen, in French and English.

Air France has also started offering one week of free access to Apple TV content via its new high-speed Wi-Fi portal, for streaming on your own [...]

Level 3 AI Collaboration: The Sweet Spot for Developers

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This is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of “AI for the Enterprise: The Playbook for Developing and Scaling Your AI

The post Level 3 AI Collaboration: The Sweet Spot for Developers appeared first on The New Stack.

Many Bluetooth devices with Google Fast Pair vulnerable to “WhisperPair” hack

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Even Google's own earbuds are vulnerable to the Fast Pair hack.

New Studio Display or Pro Display XDR Spotted in Regulatory Database

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An unreleased Apple monitor with the model number A3350 surfaced in a Chinese regulatory database today, according to a filing viewed by MacRumors.


The filing is likely for Apple's next-generation Studio Display or Pro Display XDR, but there is not enough information to determine which one it will be.

The listing does reveal that the new model will be equipped with a high-performance LCD display. The existing Studio Display and Pro Display XDR both have an LCD panel, so unfortunately this information does not help to pinpoint things. However, it does seemingly rule out an OLED display for this new model in particular.

There have been reports about a new Studio Display being in the works, with rumored features including [...]

The Next DevOps Frontier: Governing Models, Agents and Code

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Spotify Increasing Subscription Prices in the US Again

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Spotify today announced a price increase in the United States, Estonia, and Latvia, marking the company's third U.S. price increase in less than three years.


The company revealed the changes in a post published on its website earlier today, stating that Premium subscribers in the affected markets will receive an email over the coming month explaining how the new pricing will apply to their accounts. Spotify said that the revised prices will take effect on subscribers' next billing date, while new customers will see the updated pricing immediately when signing up on spotify.com/premium.

In the United States, Spotify is increasing the cost of every major P [...]

60% of Code Is AI-Generated—Are We in Trouble?

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Opera One R3 Gains Music-Reactive UI Theme and 4-Way Split Screen

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Opera has updated its flagship browser, introducing a rebuilt AI engine and expanded multitasking features, as well as an animated UI theme that reacts to music playing in the browser.


The browser's AI assistant now uses architecture borrowed from Opera's experimental Neon browser, which the company says delivers 20% faster responses. Notably, the AI can now operate within the context of specific tabs or tab groups, so it doesn't mix up information across different browsing sessions. There's also a new YouTube integration that lets the AI analyze videos to find specific moments or summarize content.

Meanwhile, split-screen mode has been expanded from two tabs to four, with horizontal and grid l [...]

Verizon Offering $20 Credit After Major Outage, Here's How to Get It

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Verizon today announced it will be offering customers a $20 account credit after a major outage on Wednesday, and action is required to receive it.


The carrier said affected customers can accept the credit by logging into the My Verizon app, but it might take some time before this option shows up in the app. Affected customers will receive a text message when the credit is available.

On average, Verizon says the $20 credit covers multiple days of service.

"This credit isn't meant to make up for what happened," it said. "But it's a way of acknowledging your time and showing that this ma [...]

StyleX vs. Tailwind: Meta’s Take on CSS-in-JS Maintainability

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Tailwind has been in the news lately, as it struggles to keep its doors open in the AI era. But

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Get an AirTag 4-Pack for Just $64.98 on Amazon

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Apple's AirTag 4-Pack has dropped to $64.98 this week on Amazon, down from the original price of $99.00. Free shipping options have a delivery estimate around January 20, while Prime members should be able to get it delivered a few days sooner.

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Overall, this is a solid second-best price on the AirTag 4-pack that's within $2 of the Amazon all-time low price, which we last tracked during the holiday season. We're not tracking any notable deal [...]

AppGuard Critiques AI Hyped Defenses; Expands its Insider Release for its Next-Generation Platform

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Building a GenAI-RAG Runbooks-Based ChatOps Assistant in AWS Bedrock With MS Teams Integration for Incident Management

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Lessons from 2 Years of Integrating AI into Development Workflows

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Two years ago, I started experimenting with AI-assisted development tools. Today, they’re embedded into daily workflows across our engineering organization.

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Human Native is joining Cloudflare

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Cloudflare acquires Human Native, an AI data marketplace specialising in transforming content into searchable and useful data, to accelerate work building new economic models for the Internet.

Stop Wasting AI Investment on a Broken Change Approval Process

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Change approval has been a constraining force on software delivery for decades. With teams adopting AI coding assistants and agents,

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60% of you Java people are living dangerously

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Check this out from my pal DaShaun: in May of 2025, 60% of Spring Boot downloads were for versions no longer supported by the open-source project. That’s a lot. Too much, really.

I can see how it happens. You get an app into production, it runs fine, and then you moveon to the next thing. Meanwhile, the version drifts into “End of Life” territory. OSS support ends (like way back in mid-2023 for the Spring version DaShaun mentioned). If you’re running that today without a commercial contract, you are missing over a dozen essential security patches. Or hoping you can handle it yourself…

Better options are:

1. Upgrade: Move to the supported versions (Spring Boot 3.x or the new 4.x). We have a tool, the Application Advisor, that automates a massive chunk of this migration. I’ve seen DaShaun kick this off with one app with people in an afternoon, doing the work of a team of five roving upgr

Wikipedia turns 25 and shares a glimpse into the lives of its volunteer editors

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It's been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it's come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articles that get almost 15 billion views each month. To celebrate, the Wikimedia Foundation - the nonprofit that backs […]

2025: The Year of the Return of the Ada Programming Language?

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In 2025, the Ada programming language made what might be considered a comeback. (But don’t call it one! Yet.) Last

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Experts Hail Anthropic’s $1.5M Python Security Commitment

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Anthropic‘s $1.5 million investment in Python security is both self-interested and smart, analysts say, addressing a critical vulnerability in the

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Open Source Whamm: Use WebAssembly To Monitor and Fix Running Apps

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Whamm is designed to allow users to instrument their WebAssembly (or Wasm) applications with a programming language or code, or

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The GitHub problem (and other predictions) (Friends)

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Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft's GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz' 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the rise of vector databases, and are we about to pay more for AI than people?!

Adapting the Facebook Reels RecSys AI Model Based on User Feedback

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We’ve improved personalized video recommendations on Facebook Reels by moving beyond metrics such as likes and watch time and directly leveraging user feedback.  Our new User True Interest Survey (UTIS) model, now helps surface more niche, high-quality content and boosts engagement, retention, and satisfaction. We’re doubling down on personalization, tackling challenges like sparse user data [...]

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