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Q&A with CEO Jim Lanzone on Yahoo being "very profitable", its new AI search engine, focusing on sports content, including original video and podcasts, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with CEO Jim Lanzone on Yahoo being “very profitable”, its new AI search engine, focusing on sports content, including original video and podcasts, and more  —  Today, I'm talking with Jim Lanzone, who is the CEO of Yahoo.  —  It's basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story …

Open models will largely lose if they keep chasing closed frontier AI models; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)

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Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI:
Open models will largely lose if they keep chasing closed frontier AI models; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents  —  Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models.  —  Article voiceover

Nvidia says game developers have full "artistic control over DLSS 5's effects", following backlash alleging that the AI rendering tech altered source material (Tyler Wilde/PC Gamer)

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Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer:
Nvidia says game developers have full “artistic control over DLSS 5's effects”, following backlash alleging that the AI rendering tech altered source material  —  The first demo for Nvidia's new AI rendering technique doesn't do much to combat the percep

Alibaba launches Wukong, an enterprise AI platform that coordinates multiple AI agents to handle complex tasks like document editing, currently in beta (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Alibaba launches Wukong, an enterprise AI platform that coordinates multiple AI agents to handle complex tasks like document editing, currently in beta  —  Alibaba Group (9988.HK) on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence platform for enterprises targeting automation …

Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models (Mistral AI)

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Mistral AI:
Mistral releases Small 4, its first model to unify reasoning, multimodal, and coding capabilities of its flagship Magistral, Pixtral, and Devstral models  —  Today, we are announcing Mistral Small 4.  This model is the next major release in the Mistral Small family.

The Temu People Asked A Sports Reporter To Not Use Its Name As Shorthand For Crap Quality

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Normally, a post about the signing of an NFL free agent wouldn’t make it anywhere near these here Techdirt pages. Today, that is not the case. The site For The Win posted a mildly interesting report on the Tennessee Titans signing wide receiver Wan’Dale Robinson to a 4 year, $78 million contract. But wait, you’re […]

A reporter details harassment and death threats from gamblers who stand to win a Polymarket bet if he would change his report on a missile impact in Israel (Emanuel Fabian/The Times of Israel)

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Emanuel Fabian / The Times of Israel:
A reporter details harassment and death threats from gamblers who stand to win a Polymarket bet if he would change his report on a missile impact in Israel  —  Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel's military correspondent to change his r

Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination software to credit unions and other financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination software to credit unions and other financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A  —  In 2023, after three years of building an automotive lending startup, Fuse co-founders Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa realized that LLMs could modernize something …

Nvidia expands AI push with new chips, data centers and space computing tech

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NVIDIA has unveiled a new generation of AI infrastructure centered on its Vera CPU and...

NVIDIA-backed startup seeks nod for 88,000-satellite AI data center network

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A Nvidia-backed startup is seeking U.S. approval to launch tens of thousands of satellites in...

How Disney Imagineering built an Olaf robot, set to arrive at Disneyland Paris this month, and taught it to move via reinforcement learning and simulation (Jacob Krol/TechRadar)

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Jacob Krol / TechRadar:
How Disney Imagineering built an Olaf robot, set to arrive at Disneyland Paris this month, and taught it to move via reinforcement learning and simulation  —  The

In an all-hands meeting, Fidji Simo described plans to shift OpenAI's strategy around coding and business users, urging staff to avoid "side quests" (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

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Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
In an all-hands meeting, Fidji Simo described plans to shift OpenAI's strategy around coding and business users, urging staff to avoid “side quests”  —  A top leader urges staff not to be distracted by ‘side quests’ as the company plans shift of resources to coding, enterprise businesses

RoboForce, which is developing robotics systems to perform physically demanding industrial work, raised $52M led by YZi Labs, bringing its total funding to $67M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

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Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
RoboForce, which is developing robotics systems to perform physically demanding industrial work, raised $52M led by YZi Labs, bringing its total funding to $67M  —  Robotics startup RoboForce Inc. announced today that it has raised $52 million in new funding to accelerate …

America’s Diminished Place In The World And The Consequences Of Not Impeaching

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It has long been clear: Trump needs to be removed from office before he can inflict even more damage than he already has. But he doesn’t just need to be stopped; for America to have a future he also needs to be repudiated. Impeachment speaks to each need, to both make clear his behavior is […]

Nvidia announces the Nemotron Coalition, which includes Thinking Machines Lab, Cursor, and Mistral, to develop an open model trained on Nvidia DGX Cloud (Sebastian Moss/DatacenterDynamics)

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Sebastian Moss / DatacenterDynamics:
Nvidia announces the Nemotron Coalition, which includes Thinking Machines Lab, Cursor, and Mistral, to develop an open model trained on Nvidia DGX Cloud  —  Locking in open source support  —  Nvidia has launched an open AI model development coalition, named Nemotron, and w

Nscale acquires American Intelligence & Power, which owns a 2,250-acre data center campus in West Virginia, where it plans to build up to 8GW of compute by 2031 (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

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Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Nscale acquires American Intelligence & Power, which owns a 2,250-acre data center campus in West Virginia, where it plans to build up to 8GW of compute by 2031  —  Cloud computing startup Nsc

COMMENT to the MCP Rescue

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The COMMENT command has been in Postgres for decades. It allows text descriptions to be attached to almost any database object. During its long history, it was mostly seen as a nice-to-have addition to database schemas, allowing administrators and developers to more easily understand the schema. Tools like pgAdmin allow you to assign and view comments on database objects.

Now, in the AI era, there is something else that needs to understand database schemas — MCP clients. Without database object comments, MCP clients can only use the database schemas, object names, and constraints. With database comment

Heat sources can trick thermal cameras into seeing obstacles that aren’t there

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Thermal cameras help drones and autonomous vehicles detect obstacles when visibility is poor. But new...

Austin-based Ironlight, which is building a regulated marketplace for tokenized securities, raised a $21M Series A; its platform received FINRA approval in 2025 (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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Ryan Lawler / Axios:
Austin-based Ironlight, which is building a regulated marketplace for tokenized securities, raised a $21M Series A; its platform received FINRA approval in 2025  —  Ironlight, which is building a regulated marketplace for tokenized securities, raised $21 million in Series A funding …

Manus introduces My Computer, a Windows and macOS app that enables its AI agent to interact directly with the user's local files, tools, and apps (Manus)

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Manus:
Manus introduces My Computer, a Windows and macOS app that enables its AI agent to interact directly with the user's local files, tools, and apps  —  Until today, Manus has lived entirely in the cloud.  —  The cloud sandbox has served Manus well.  Inside an isolated, secure environment …

Roche says it has deployed 3,500+ Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, which it calls "the greatest announced GPU footprint available to a pharmaceutical company" (Sebastian Moss/DatacenterDynamics)

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Sebastian Moss / DatacenterDynamics:
Roche says it has deployed 3,500+ Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, which it calls “the greatest announced GPU footprint available to a pharmaceutical company”  —  Building on previous Genentech-Nvidia partnership  —  The fifth-la

RIP TriFold? Samsung may kill $2,899 triple foldable sales after just three months

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Looks like Huawei might be edging ahead in the triple-fold race. While the Huawei Mate...

A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case

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We’ve been covering the growing parade of lawyers submitting AI-hallucinated case citations to courts for a while now. It keeps happening, and courts keep having to deal with it. But the pattern is usually the same: a careless attorney uses ChatGPT to draft a brief, the fake citations get spotted by the opposing side or […]

12-time world champion in robot soccer wins German Cup with Booster K1 humanoids

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Twelve-time RoboCup world champion B-Human has recently added another title to its record, after securing...

Nvidia brings together AI labs to build the next generation of open base models

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Nvidia on Monday announced the Nemotron Coalition at its GTC conference. This new coalition of AI labs will pool expertise,

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Nvidia’s NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails

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At its annual GTC conference, Nvidia on Monday announced the Nvidia Agent Toolkit, which brings together open models, runtimes, open

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Trump Gets $10 Billion Kickback To The Treasury For Offloading TikTok To His Billionaire Buddies

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We’ve discussed at length how Trump’s “fix” for TikTok’s problems basically involved forcing the sale of the platform to his greedy billionaire buddies (with the help of pathetic Democrats). The deal fixed none of the real issues Trumpland pretended to be concerned about (national security, privacy, propaganda), and China still maintains a significant ownership stake. […]

Donut Lab solid-state battery powers electric motorcycle 10% to 70% in 9 minutes

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Donut Lab has published results from its fourth battery test with Verge Motorcycles, demonstrating ultra-fast...

Standing up for the open Internet: why we appealed Italy’s "Piracy Shield" fine

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Cloudflare is appealing a €14 million fine from Italian regulators over "Piracy Shield," a system that forces providers to block content without oversight. We are challenging this framework to protect the Internet from disproportionate overblocking and lack of due process.

Cursor built a fleet of security agents to solve a familiar frustration

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Cursor‘s security team has built a fleet of AI agents that continuously monitor and secure the company’s codebase, and it

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Anthropic doubles Claude usage outside peak hours — but it won’t last forever

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AI labs keep searching for ways to pull developers deeper into their ecosystems. The latest move comes from Anthropic, which

The post Anthropic doubles Claude usage outside peak hours — but it won’t last forever appeared first on The New Stack.

ICE Officers Admit To Arrest Quotas During Court Testimony

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It’s not that arrest and ticket quotas don’t exist. They do. They always have. They always will. It’s that they’re illegal. Courts have repeatedly criticized quotas because they create incentives so perverse they’d make /b/ board denizens uncomfortable. Since they’re presumptively illegal, most law enforcement agencies will use any word but “quota” to describe these. […]

Daily Deal: Mag 3 Ultra Qi2 25W 3-in-1 Foldable Charger

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Power all your Apple essentials-without the clutter. The Mag 3 Ultra Qi2 25W 3-in-1 Foldable Charger delivers fast charging for your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods all at once. The new Qi2 25W makes charging 70% faster, reaching from 0 to 50% in just 30 minutes! Magnetic charging also lets you power up your Apple […]

US releases A-10 Warthog footage and confirms B-52 night strikes in Operation Epic Fury

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As Operation Epic Fury enters its third week, the US military has released new imagery...

Apple’s AirPods Max 2 bring H2 chip, boosted ANC in April for $549

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Apple's over-head headphones get an update after over five years.

Turns Out The DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Kinda Sensitive About It

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Much of last week I had been working on a different article than the one this became. The American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, and the American Council of Learned Societies — all plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities over DOGE’s mass grant cancellations — had uploaded the full […]

New 4D vision chip can help robots, drones track distance and speed of moving objects

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Researchers at Pointcloud GmbH in Zürich, Switzerland, have packed advanced 4D sensing technology — once...

Why AI workloads are breaking traditional Kubernetes observability strategies

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For most platform engineering and ITOps teams, the ability to orchestrate containerized workloads at scale has transformed development organizations. But

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Turkey’s 680-mph ‘loyal wingman’ drone proves strike power with guided bomb test

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Turkish defense firm Baykar has completed live-fire trials of its Bayraktar Kızılelma unmanned fighter jet....

China’s DEEP Robotics unveils robot horse with 110-lb payload carrying capacity

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In a striking fusion of high-tech engineering and cultural celebration, DEEP Robotics has officially unveiled a limited-edition robot...

Anthropic makes a pricing change that matters for Claude’s longest prompts

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Anthropic announced Friday that the 1-million-token context window for Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now generally available,

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When Code Becomes Cheap, Engineering Becomes Governance

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Gemini CLI Plan Mode Separates Thinking From Doing — and Makes Read-Only the Default

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Microsoft Locks Down Discord Server After People Wouldn’t Stop Making Fun Of AI ‘Microslop’

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We’ve noted how Microsoft is a little sensitive about AI slop at the moment. Back in January, CEO Satya Nadella wrote a well-circulated blog post lamenting critics of “AI slop” and demanding the public simply move past such conversations. It was relatively innocuous, but wasn’t received well for some valid reasons. One problem is that […]

Agents write code. They don’t do software engineering.

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Long-running and background coding agents have hit a new threshold. When an agent runs for hours, manages its own iteration

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The Green Side of Observability: Why Less Data Can Mean More Insight

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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Aether OS is a computer in a browser built for the AT Protocol

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Aether OS puts a full-fledged desktop in your browser that ties directly into the AT Protocol. That means it connects to your Bluesky account and other public records. It offers a pretty full suite of apps, 42 in total, covering text editing, task management, and social media. There's even a rudimentary tracker for making chiptunes, […]

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Nimrod with a comment about the lack of checks and balances for RFK Jr.: Observation If a member of organized crime were to manage to get themself elected President, they would probably try to delegitimize the legal system, law enforcement and government authority in […]

A beginner’s guide to vibe coding

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

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

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

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The fast rise and epic fall of Clubhouse

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In 2020 and 2021, the social media world seemed to be on the verge of complete change. A new app called TikTok was ascendant, bringing a whole new kind of vertical video to phones everywhere. And another app - not as popular, but growing fast, and already hugely influential among the tech set - looked […]

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

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

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Why AI systems are failing in familiar ways

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

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

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

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

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

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TypeScript 6.0 RC arrives as a bridge to a faster future

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wordle’s creator made a fun new puzzle game

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 119, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your agents are well, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Pixar's future and flight MH370 and sports gambling […]

10+ New Features Coming in iOS 27

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We're only three months away from Apple's WWDC 2026 event, which will see the company unveil iOS 27. With the fully revamped version of Siri possibly delayed until September, iOS 27 is shaping up to be the update we wanted iOS 26 to be.


There will be new Apple Intelligence features, updates for the iPhone Fold, and more, with the latest rumors summarized below.

Foldable iPhone Features

Survey: AI Coding Exacerbates Existing DevOps Workflow Issues

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

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

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Apple Kicks Off 50th Anniversary With Surprise Alicia Keys Concert in New York

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Apple mysteriously shut down its Grand Central Terminal store in New York City today, and it turns out it was for an impromptu Alicia Keys concert to celebrate Apple's upcoming 50th anniversary.


Apple quietly invited select YouTubers and members of the media (including MacRumors) to the store location, but kept the performer secret until Alicia Keys took the stage. Preparations for the concert started yesterday, with Apple setting up a stage, audio equipment, and lights, complete with Keys' signature pink piano.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, marketing chief Greg Joswiak, retail head Deirdre O'Brien, and hardware engineering boss John Ternus were at the Grand C [...]

Adobe settles DOJ cancellation fee lawsuit, will pay $75 million penalty

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Adobe says it will also give customers who "qualify" free services but is vague on details.

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

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

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iFixit Teardown: MacBook Neo Has Most Accessible Mac Battery in Over a Decade

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Repair site iFixit did its traditional teardown on the MacBook Neo, and was pleasantly surprised with the laptop's repairability. "We haven't been as happy about a MacBook since 2012," says iFixit.

MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 17 Pro and 25W Qi Charger From Lululook

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For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Lululook to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an iPhone 17 Pro and a 25W Qi2.2 3-in-1 Charger from Lululook to go along with it.


Priced at $79, Lululook's 3-in-1 Charging Station is able to charge an iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch at the same time. It features Qi 2.2 support and certification, so it is able to charge the iPhone [...]

Subscribers to Amazon Prime Video with ads lose 4K support on April 10

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Amazon says its service requires "significant investment."

M5 MacBook Air review: Still the best MacBook for almost everybody

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The M5 MacBook Air is a minor upgrade, but minor upgrades add up over time.

The MacRumors Show: MacBook Neo First Impressions

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

Mac Trade-Ins Surge Amid MacBook Neo Launch

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


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

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

The scale of increase is notic [...]

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

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

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iPhone 17 Pro is Now Part of MLB History

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


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

Apple's First Foldable Displays Nearing Mass Production

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


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

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

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

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

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Apple is Up to Something Secret in New York

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


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

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

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

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


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

Display Crease

From legacy architecture to Cloudflare One

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

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

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

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The Risk Profile of AI-Driven Development

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Parallels Confirms MacBook Neo Can Run Windows in a Virtual Machine

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


From Parallels' updated knowledge base article:

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

Apple TV Claims First F1 Viewership Victory Over ESPN

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


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

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

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

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


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

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

How eBPF and OpenTelemetry Have Simplified the Observability Function

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

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

Anthropic's Claude Can Now Create Interactive Visuals Directly in Conversations

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Anthropic's Claude chatbot has been updated with support for inline visual content that will help it provide clearer answers.

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

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

Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Highlights

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Google will soon bring Chrome to ARM64 Linux

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

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iPhone 17e Hands-On: What's New and What's Not

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Apple's latest low-cost iPhone launched yesterday, and we picked up the iPhone 17e to see how it compares to the iPhone 16e that came before it, and how it measures up to the iPhone 17 lineup.

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

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

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New Perplexity APIs give developers access to agentic workflows and orchestration

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

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Anthropic’s Claude can now draw interactive charts and diagrams

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

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Google Maps Adds Gemini AI-Powered 'Ask Maps' Feature and 3D Immersive Navigation

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Google today added Gemini AI to Google Maps, enabling a new Ask Maps feature. Gemini in maps can answer complex, real-world questions that Google says "a map could never answer before."


There is a new Ask Maps button where Google Maps users can get answers to specific questions like "is there a public tennis court with lights on that I can play at tonight?" Google says that finding information like that would have taken a lot of sifting through reviews in the past, but now Google Maps can provide an answer with a custom map.

The feature can be used for trip planning, and it is able to provide tailored responses based on prior searches or saved information in the app. Google Maps can build a trip i [...]

AI Is Forcing DevOps Teams to Rethink Observability Data Management

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