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M3 vs. M4 iPad Air Buyer's Guide: All Differences Compared

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Apple's latest iPad Air is a minor upgrade over last year's model, but there are still some changes worth noting beyond a new chip.


The eighth-generation ‌iPad Air‌ builds on the foundation of last year's model with a series of specific upgrades focused on performance, memory, and connectivity. While the overall design and experience remains the same, the newer model introduces Apple's M4 chip, additional unified memory, Apple-designed wireless hardware, and support for newer connectivity standards. Here's everything that differs between the 2025 and 2026 ‌iPad Air‌ models:

Match eliminates the role of COO, putting Hesam Hosseini out of a job after 18 years with the dating app giant, as part of changes under CEO Spencer Rascoff (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Match eliminates the role of COO, putting Hesam Hosseini out of a job after 18 years with the dating app giant, as part of changes under CEO Spencer Rascoff  —  Tinder-owner Match Group announced on Thursday that it will eliminate the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) …

Stockholm-based Validio, whose agentic platform autonomously detects and resolves data quality issues, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total raised to $47M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Chris Metinko / Axios:
Stockholm-based Validio, whose agentic platform autonomously detects and resolves data quality issues, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total raised to $47M  —  Validio, an agentic data management platform, raised a $30 million Series A led by Plural, co-founder and CEO Patrik Liu Tran tells Axios Pro exclusively.

Revolut, which has about 70M clients in 40 markets, applies for a US bank charter and appoints former Visa executive Cetin Duransoy as its new US CEO (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Revolut, which has about 70M clients in 40 markets, applies for a US bank charter and appoints former Visa executive Cetin Duransoy as its new US CEO  —  Britain's Revolut applied for a U.S. bank charter and appointed former Visa (V.N) executive Cetin Duransoy as its new CEO for the United States …

US-made Hadley H13 rocket engine could power hypersonic aircraft and small rockets

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A US-based aerospace and defense company has successfully carried out the first hot-fire tests of...

Cylake, co-founded by Palo Alto Networks' Nir Zuk to develop an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that doesn't rely on the public cloud, raised a $45M seed (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Meir Orbach / CTech:
Cylake, co-founded by Palo Alto Networks' Nir Zuk to develop an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that doesn't rely on the public cloud, raised a $45M seed  —  Zuk founded the company with Wilson Xu, a longtime Palo Alto Networks engineering leader, and Ehud (Udi) Shamir, co-founder of SentinelOne.

Jets, drones could become highly maneuverable using design, flight lessons from hawks

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A study in the United States analyzed flight patterns of birds, and it could help...

Apple's Brand New M4 iPad Air Gets First Cash Discount at Best Buy, Up to $50 Off

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It's Apple pre-order week, and we've already covered all of the offers you can find on iPhone 17e, MacBook Neo, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro. In addition to these deals, Best Buy is providing $40 in savings on the new 128GB Wi-Fi M4 iPad Air, with My Best Buy Plus/Total members getting an extra $10 off.

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

With this discount, all shoppers can get the 128GB Wi-Fi M4 iPad Air for $559.00, down from $599.00. If you ha [...]

iPhone 17e Has 8GB of RAM as Expected

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Apple does not advertise RAM amounts in iPhones, but MacRumors has confirmed this information through Apple's developer tool Xcode.


Like the iPhone 16e, the iPhone 17e is equipped with 8GB of RAM, according to the Xcode data. This was the expected amount of RAM, and it is the minimum required for a device to be compatible with Apple Intelligence.

This means both the standard iPhone 17 model and the lower-end iPhone 17e are equipped with the A19 chip and 8GB of RAM. However, the iPhone 17e has a slightly limited 4-core GPU, while the iPhone 17 has a 5-core GPU.

iPhone 17e can be pre-ordered now and launches on Wednesday, March 11.

AWS launches Amazon Connect Health, an agentic AI tool that automates clinical documentation, billing and procedure coding, and patient identity verification (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

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Matt Day / Bloomberg:
AWS launches Amazon Connect Health, an agentic AI tool that automates clinical documentation, billing and procedure coding, and patient identity verification  —  Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud unit is launching AI tools for medical practices, the company's latest effort to broaden the reach …

Canada says Sam Altman agreed to take immediate steps to strengthen OpenAI's safety protocols around notifying police about potentially suspicious ChatGPT use (Paul Vieira/Wall Street Journal)

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Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal:
Canada says Sam Altman agreed to take immediate steps to strengthen OpenAI's safety protocols around notifying police about potentially suspicious ChatGPT use  —  Focus on steps regarding notifying police about potentially suspicious use of the com

This iOS Exploit Kit Has 23 Attacks – But Lockdown Mode Stops It Cold

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Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has a new report out about a powerful iOS exploit kit called "Coruna," which traveled from a surveillance vendor's customer to a Russian espionage group to Chinese cybercriminals, revealing a sophisticated exploit "supply chain" in the process.


Described as one of the most comprehensive iOS exploit toolkits to have been documented publicly, Coruna targets iPhones running iOS 13.0 through iOS 17.2.1, containing 23 exploits across four years of iOS versions.

According to GTIG, it was first spotted in February 2025, when it was used by a customer of a commercial surveillance vendor. By summer 2025, the same framework appeared in watering [...]

Apple's MacBook Neo is a serious threat to OEMs like HP, Lenovo, and Dell, as their $599 laptops seem inferior and Windows 11's reputation is at an all-time low (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Apple's MacBook Neo is a serious threat to OEMs like HP, Lenovo, and Dell, as their $599 laptops seem inferior and Windows 11's reputation is at an all-time low  —  MacBook Neo is official

Chickpeas grown in lunar soil simulant for first time could become food source on moon

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Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University have successfully grown...

New Apple TV and HomePod Mini Are Still Missing, Here's Why

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Apple this week unveiled seven products, ranging from the iPhone 17e to the MacBook Neo, but new Apple TV and HomePod mini models were not among them.


Given that there have been rumors about the next-generation Apple TV and HomePod mini since all the way back in late 2024, some customers are wondering why the devices have yet to launch, and the answer likely relates to Siri.

In September, Bloomberg's [...]

Brain tech startup Science Corp. raised $230M, a source says at a $1.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $489M, to commercialize its implant for blindness (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)

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Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg:
Brain tech startup Science Corp. raised $230M, a source says at a $1.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $489M, to commercialize its implant for blindness  —  Neurotechnology company Science Corp. raised $230 million from investors to commercialize its implant for blindness and develop even more advanced

Ending the "silent drop": how Dynamic Path MTU Discovery makes the Cloudflare One Client more resilient

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The Cloudflare One Client now features the ability to actively probe and adjust packet sizes. This update eliminates the problems caused by tunnel layering and MTU differences, providing more stability and resiliency.

Lio, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise procurement, including document reading and supplier evaluation, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

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Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Lio, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise procurement, including document reading and supplier evaluation, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z  —  Lio's co-founders know firsthand that procurement — the process enterprises use to purchase services from vendors — is often a bottleneck.

China's new five-year blueprint introduces an "AI+ action plan", mentions AI 50+ times, and outlines investments in quantum computing, 6G, embodied AI, and more (Reuters)

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Reuters:
China's new five-year blueprint introduces an “AI+ action plan”, mentions AI 50+ times, and outlines investments in quantum computing, 6G, embodied AI, and more  —  China's new five-year policy blueprint laid out its ambitions to aggressively adopt artificial intelligence throughout …

FCC Approves Cox, Charter Merger On Condition They Promise To Be More Racist

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Hey look everyone! More of that famous populism Trump rode into power on! The Trump FCC has announced they’re rubber stamping the approval of a merger between two of the nation’s biggest cable companies (Charter, Cox), creating the biggest cable company in the U.S. Struggling Americans were surely clamoring in support of their local shitty […]

macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update will "upgrade" your M5's CPU to new "super" cores

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In otherwise minor software update, macOS now uses M5's new nomenclature.

Nominal, which makes software for the defense, space, energy, and automotive sectors, raised an $80M Series B extension led by Founders Fund at a $1B valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

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Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg:
Nominal, which makes software for the defense, space, energy, and automotive sectors, raised an $80M Series B extension led by Founders Fund at a $1B valuation  —  Founders Fund is leading an $80 million investment in Nominal Inc., a startup aiming to modernize factories and make manufacturing more efficient.

Reclaim Security, which uses AI-driven automation to remediate threat exposures, raised a $20M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $6M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Chris Metinko / Axios:
Reclaim Security, which uses AI-driven automation to remediate threat exposures, raised a $20M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $6M seed  —  Reclaim Security, which uses AI-driven automation to remediate threat exposures, has raised $26 million in total funding, co-founder and CEO Barak Klinghofer tells Axios Pro.

Sam Altman wonders: Could the government nationalize artificial general intelligence?

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“It has seemed to me for a long time it might be better if building AGI were a government project,”

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3D-printed ‘beating heart’ offers new frontier in simulations

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Heart disease remains a primary cause of illness and mortality around the world. While minimally...

NYSE parent company ICE invests in crypto exchange OKX at a $25B valuation, without sharing the investment's size or terms, and will take a seat on OKX's board (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Ben Weiss / Fortune:
NYSE parent company ICE invests in crypto exchange OKX at a $25B valuation, without sharing the investment's size or terms, and will take a seat on OKX's board  —  Last summer, Haider Rafique flew out to Atlanta to meet with the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange.

US grave-robbing case traced to suspects through microscopic moss evidence

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A case involving systematic desecration of human remains at Burr Oak Cemetery, Illinois, surfaced in...

MacBook Neo Expected to 'Reshape' Laptop Market in Major Way

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Apple's new MacBook Neo could help the company grow notebook shipments by nearly 8% this year, even as the broader laptop market faces a hefty downturn, according to a new report from TrendForce.


The research firm estimates global notebook shipments will fall 9.2% year-over-year in 2026, with the potential for steeper declines if demand stays weak. Rising memory and CPU costs are said to have pushed most PC makers to pare back their product lines and play it safe with inventory. Meanwhile, Apple is going in the other direction.

Announced on Wednesday with a starting price of $599, the MacBook Neo is targeting the [...]

7 solid-state battery ideas that may boost EV range, safety, and charging speed

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Electric vehicles have advanced rapidly over the past decade, but battery technology remains the biggest...

Meta agrees to let rival "general purpose AI chatbots" access WhatsApp for a fee in Europe for a 12-month period to avoid potential interim measures from the EU (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Meta agrees to let rival “general purpose AI chatbots” access WhatsApp for a fee in Europe for a 12-month period to avoid potential interim measures from the EU  —  Artificial intelligence rivals will be allowed on WhatsApp for a year, Meta Platforms (META.O) said …

Iran allegedly painted helicopter decoy on ground to waste costly IDF missiles

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On March 4, footage went viral of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strike supposedly hitting...

Iran threatens strike on Dimona, the heart of Israel’s long-ambiguous nuclear program

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Iran has warned it could strike Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility if the United States and...

6.3-million-year-old glass fragments confirm massive cosmic collision in Brazil

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Scientists have officially confirmed the discovery of Geraisites: Brazil’s first-ever field of tektites.  These glassy...

NotebookLM Now Creates Cinematic Video Overviews Out of Your Notes

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Google's NotebookLM AI-based tool can now turn your research and notes into fully animated "cinematic" videos – an advancement over its original video overview feature that was introduced last year.


Before now, video overviews were limited to generating slideshows of your research and writing, but the new Cinematic Video Overview feature uses Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Veo 3 models to generate animated visuals "to help you learn and engage with the topics you care about," says Google.

Google says Gemini acts as a creative director, making hundreds of structural and stylistic decisions to best tell the story with your sources. It det [...]

Analysis: soaring NAND prices threaten Nintendo's software sales; the average games purchased per console came to 2.18 in December 2025, vs. 3.88 in March 2018 (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

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Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:

10 MWe steam turbine to boost next-gen sodium-cooled US nuclear reactor’s efficiency

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US-based Aalo Atomics has officially tapped energy technology giant Baker Hughes to provide the “power...

MacBook Neo Compatible With New Studio Displays, But There's a Catch

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Apple's low-cost MacBook Neo is compatible with the company's new Studio Displays, but its output will be scaled to 4K resolution at 60Hz.


Apple confirmed the compatibility and output limitation with 9to5Mac.

With pricing starting at $1,599, the regular Studio Display runs at 5K with a maximum 60Hz refresh rate. Meanwhile, the all-new 5K Studio Display XDR is capable of up to 120Hz and pricing starts at $3,299.

Apple [...]

Apple Music Rolling Out Disclosure Tags for AI-Made Songs

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Apple Music is rolling out a new metadata system called Transparency Tags, which indicates when AI has been used in the creation of music hosted on the platform.


According to Music Business Worldwide, Apple sent a newsletter to industry partners on Wednesday to explain how it will roll out the new set of metadata.

The system covers four categories including artwork, track, composition (lyrics), and music video. Labels and distributors can begin applying the tags immediately. Apple describes the tags as optional for now, noting that if omitted, no AI is assumed.

Apple sai [...]

How Automatic Return Routing solves IP overlap

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Automatic Return Routing (ARR) solves the common enterprise challenge of overlapping private IP addresses by using stateful flow tracking instead of traditional routing tables. This userspace-driven approach ensures return traffic reaches the correct origin tunnel without manual NAT or VRF configuration.

A QUICker SASE client: re-building Proxy Mode

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By transitioning the Cloudflare One Client to use QUIC streams for Proxy Mode, we eliminated the overhead of user-space TCP stacks, resulting in a 2x increase in throughput and significant latency reduction for end users.

ACIP To Discuss COVID ‘Vaccine Injuries’ Next Month, Despite That Not Being In Its Purview

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It was plainly obvious when RFK Jr. decided to fully remake ACIP, the CDC committee that advises the nation on immunization schedules and practices, that it was done so to place Kennedy sycophants that would enact his batshit theories on vaccinations. ACIP, now chockablock with anti-vaxxer, anti-science grift-gremlins, has been slowly chipping away at decades […]

macOS Will Alert You to MacBook Neo's USB-C Port Limitation

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The new MacBook Neo is equipped with two USB-C ports, but they are not the same. The left USB-C port supports USB 3 speeds of up to 10 Gb/s, while the right USB-C port closer to the trackpad is limited to USB 2 speeds of just 480 Mb/s. As a result, Apple says external display connectivity is supported on the left port only.


Given the ports are not labeled, this limitation could be an inconvenience. Fortunately, though, Daring Fireball's John Gruber said if you plug an external display into the incorrect port, macOS will alert you to use the other port.

Apple [...]

Apple Does Not Include a Charger With All New MacBooks in UK and EU

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None of the new MacBook Neo, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro models unveiled this week come with a charger in the UK and EU countries, such as Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. This change began with the base 14-inch MacBook Pro last year.


If you need a power adapter, you must purchase one separately during checkout or later.

In all other countries, Apple includes a charger in the box with these Macs, at no additional cost. In the U.S., for example, the MacBook Neo ships with Apple [...]

Apple's Biggest Week of 2026: Details on Every New Product Announced

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Across Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Apple unveiled seven new products, including low-cost iPhone and MacBook options, new displays, and refreshes for the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iPad Air.


We've rounded up all of our coverage from this week in case you missed any of the product announcements or details.

MacBook Neo

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Trump Officials Attended a Summit Of Election Deniers Who Want The President To Take Over The Midterms

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms. According to videos, photos and social media […]

Why enterprise software development needs air traffic control

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How platform orchestration solves the AI tool fragmentation crisis without sacrificing developer choice Imagine being a CIO today. Your developers

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20+ MacBook Neo Compromises: What You Give Up for Apple's Cheapest Mac

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The new MacBook Neo is Apple's most affordable Mac notebook, and at $599, it's priced the same as the iPhone 17e. For teachers and college students, it's even more affordable at $499.


To offer a Mac at such a low price, Apple had to make some compromises, and there are some features that the ‌MacBook Neo‌ is lacking compared to the next most expensive Mac notebook, the MacBook Air.

Processor

• A18 Pro Chip - Apple is using an A-series chip instead of an M-series chip in the Neo. It has the A18 Pro chip that Apple debuted in the

FTC Admits Age Verification Violates Children’s Privacy Law, Decides To Just Ignore That

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We’ve been pointing out the fundamental contradiction at the heart of mandatory age verification laws for years now. To verify someone’s age online, you have to collect personal data from them. If that someone turns out to be a child, congratulations: you’ve just collected personal data from a child without parental consent. Which is a […]

Apple's Two New Studio Display Models Feature Different A19 Chips

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Apple's press release and marketing materials for the new Studio Display and Studio Display XDR models do not mention which chips are inside the monitors, but MacRumors has confirmed this information in the latest Studio Display firmware.


The firmware reveals that the second-generation Studio Display is equipped with an A19 chip, while the Studio Display XDR has an A19 Pro chip, according to code reviewed by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris. Rumors had mentioned either the A19 chip or the A19 Pro chip, and it turns out that the two chips are split a [...]

Google and Epic announce settlement to end app store antitrust case

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The era of the 30 percent app store cut has ended.

Apple Releases iOS 18.7.6 to Address Australia Emergency Call Issue

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Apple today released iOS 18.7.6 for older devices, addressing an issue that caused some older iPhones in Australia to be unable to connect to emergency services.


According to Apple's release notes, the update fixes an issue that was preventing the iPhone XS and ‌iPhone‌ XR from properly connecting to emergency networks in Australia.

• This update addresses a mobile network issue for ‌iPhone‌ XS models and ‌iPhone‌ XR when establishing a connection to emergency services in Australia.

AerynOS is a Linux distribution geared toward performance and bulletproof updates

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There are thousands upon thousands of Linux distributions, so when a new flavor comes into being, the first thing I

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MacBook Neo Pre-Orders at Best Buy Include Free $25 Gift Card

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Earlier today we began tracking the first pre-order offers on the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, and now the MacBook Neo has joined in at Best Buy. If you pre-order the new low-cost MacBook Neo at Best Buy, you'll get a free $25 Best Buy gift card after purchase.

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

In order to get the deal, you need to pre-order any MacBook Neo model at Best Buy with a valid e-mail address. The e-gift card will be sent out after you receive the MacBook Neo, or after you pick it up in a Best Buy store.
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OpenAI’s Codex is now on Windows

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OpenAI’s Codex agentic coding app is now available on Windows. To say Codex has been a hit for OpenAI would

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Codenotary Previews AI Platform to Autonomously Detect and Remediate IT Issues

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Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 With Support for Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

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Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26.3.1, a minor update to the ‌macOS Tahoe‌ operating system that came out last September. ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.3.1 comes three weeks after Apple launched macOS Tahoe 26.3.


Mac users can download the new software by opening up the System Settings app and navigating to the Software Update section.

According to Apple's release notes for the update, it adds support for the new Studio Display and ‌Studio Display‌ XDR. Apple has also released a firmware update for the new displays.

The new monitors are available for pre-order and will [...]

Judge Says He’s Sick Of The Government’s Shit; Threatens To Make DHS, DOJ Testify Under Oath

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Of course, we’ll see what comes of this, but it’s starting to look like this administration won’t outlast this level of judicial scrutiny. It may have bullied its way past courts during Trump’s first year back in office, but now lines are being drawn. Whether or not those lines matter is an open question. But […]

New Studio Display and Studio Display XDR Will Have Day One Firmware Update

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Apple today released a new firmware update for the Studio Display and ‌Studio Display‌ XDR, two products that aren't set to launch until March 11.


The ‌Studio Display‌ Firmware 26.3 update is only for the new ‌Studio Display‌ options, and it is not available on the older model.

‌Studio Display‌ firmware can be updated by connecting the display to a Mac and going to System Settings > Software Update.

Pre-orders are available for the ‌Studio Display‌ and ‌Studio Display‌ XDR as of today. Prices start at $1,599.

Apple Releases Third macOS Tahoe 26.4 Public Beta

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Apple today provided public beta testers with the third release of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.4 update for testing purposes. The public beta comes a week after Apple seeded the second beta.


After signing up for beta testing on Apple's beta site, public beta testers can download the updates using the Software Update section in the settings app for each update.

‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 includes several new features. The Compact tab layout has been reimplemented in Safari for those who missed having the option in earlier versions of ‌macOS Tahoe‌, and there is a new Charge Limit feature that lets Mac users select a maximum charge level that ranges fro [...]

Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle

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Learn Raspberry Pi and start building Amazon Alexa projects with The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle. Catered for all levels, these project-based courses will get you up and running with the basics of Pi, before escalating to full projects. Before you know it, you’ll be building a gaming system to play old Nintendo, […]

MacBook Neo hands-on: Apple build quality at a substantially lower price

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The Neo won't be for everyone, but Apple has managed to preserve a premium feel.

Apple Releases iOS 26.3.1 and iPadOS 26.3.1 With Bug Fixes and Studio Display Support

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Apple today released iOS 26.3.1 and iPadOS 26.3.1, minor updates to the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 operating systems. The software comes three weeks after Apple released iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3.


The new software can be downloaded on eligible iPhones and iPads over-the-air by going to Settings > General > Software Update.

According to Apple's release notes, the update adds support for the new Studio Display and ‌Studio Display‌ XDR, and it includes unspecified bug fixes.

Apple is also beta testing iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4, [...]

GSMA Open Gateway offers developers one API for 300+ mobile networks

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Developers care about protocols, standards, and specifications — a little. But it’s not what keeps them up at night. Your

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The AI Shift: Why RISC-V is poised to challenge Arm and x86

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The RISC-V standard has evolved and matured to the extent that performance drawbacks have largely disappeared compared with the long-tried

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Why traditional ITOps is failing to keep up with the unique nature of AI incidents

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If 2025 was the year of AI adoption, with 88% of organizations now using AI across at least one business

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pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?

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I'm proposing a very ambitious patch set for PostgreSQL 19. Only time will tell whether it ends up in the release, but I can't resist using this space to give you a short demonstration of what it can do. The patch set introduces three new contrib modules, currently called pg_plan_advice, pg_collect_advice, and pg_stash_advice.

DragonflyDB CEO: Most real-time AI infrastructure was built for a different era

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The business case for real-time AI is clear. Personalization drives engagement, real-time inference drives revenue, and context-rich machine learning is

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Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion

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Downdetector and Speedtest - the free platforms that allow people on the web to quickly check internet speeds or see if an online platform may be down - will soon have a new owner. On Tuesday, the consulting and IT services provider Accenture announced that it has agreed to acquire the Ookla-owned platforms from Ziff […]

The Trump Administration Just Admitted Its War On Law Firms Was A Bluff. The Cowards Who Folded Already Paid The Price.

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We’ve said it over and over again on this site: when you stand up to the bully, the bully backs down. When you capitulate, you get nothing but a permanent stain and an invitation for more abuse. And here we are again. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump administration plans to abandon […]

Cloud repatriation is hard. Here’s how to build a self-service developer platform that works.

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As more organizations move workloads back on-premises, they find themselves caught in a conundrum: How do they close the gap

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Google Pixel 10a review: The sidegrade

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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Sonar Unfurls Framework for Managing DevOps Workflows in the Age of AI

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When AI Gets It Wrong: The Insecure Defaults Lurking in Your Code

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Eclipse Foundation reports Open VSX hits 300 million monthly downloads

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The Eclipse Foundation this week announced that Open VSX, the open source extension registry for tools built on the VS

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Always-on detections: eliminating the WAF “log versus block” trade-off

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Cloudflare is introducing Attack Signature Detection and Full-Transaction Detection to provide continuous, high-fidelity security insights without the manual tuning of traditional WAFs. By correlating request payloads with server responses, we can now identify successful exploits and data exfiltration while minimizing false positives.

Aikido Security bets on AI to make software secure itself

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While traditional penetration testing relies on manual or point-in-time assessments, often delivered weeks after software has already shipped, software security

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The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple's long-awaited colorful, lower-cost MacBook

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Cute, colorful laptop takes the place of the old $599 M1 MacBook Air.

Unleash raises $35M, launches Impact Metrics to govern feature rollouts at AI speed

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Four years is a long time in technology. But in AI, it’s more like an eternity. When Unleash last raised

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Mind the gap: new tools for continuous enforcement from boot to login

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Cloudflare’s mandatory authentication and independent MFA protect organizations by ensuring continuous enforcement, from the moment a machine boots until sensitive resources are accessed.

Brendan Carr Can’t Explain Why ‘Equal Time’ Rule Doesn’t Apply To Right Wing Radio

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We’ve noted repeatedly how Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr has been abusing the FCC’s “equal opportunity” (or “equal time”) rule to try and threaten daytime and late night talk shows with government retribution if they refuse to enthusiastically coddle Republicans. Late night shows had historically been exempt from the dated rules, which required that any […]

Why the “bible” of data systems is getting a massive rewrite for 2026

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How Martin Kleppmann’s iconic book is evolving for AI and cloud-native architectures Since its release in 2017, Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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Chainguard Expands Repository to Add More Secure Open Source Libraries

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Art Degrees, Sun Microsystems, and How Kubernetes Scales Contributions, with Josh Berkus - Software Defined Interviews #121

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Our interview for this week is up, it’s with Josh Berkus:

Whitney and Coté discuss with Josh Berkus (Red Hat, Kubernetes contributor) how liberal and fine arts degrees (philosophy, photography, sculpture, pottery) apply to tech careers. Berkus details how early hardware experience influenced his database performance work, noting hardware’s renewed relevance with AI and multi-arch computing. The conversation covers Sun Microsystems’ 1990s internet role, internal politics, and its MySQL/Postgres strategy. They examine open source’s shift from end-user to vendor-driven models, foundations' roles, and contributor incentives. Berkus describes Kubernetes release processes, contributor-experience programs, and its resilience to low-quality AI contributions.

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Unlocking Observability by Design With Inferred Schemas

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Defeating the deepfake: stopping laptop farms and insider threats

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Cloudflare One is partnering with Nametag to combat laptop farms and AI-enhanced identity fraud by requiring identity verification during employee onboarding and via continuous authentication.

Moving from license plates to badges: the Gateway Authorization Proxy

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Cloudflare’s Gateway Authorization Proxy adds support for identity-aware policies for clientless devices, securing virtual desktops, and guest networks without a device client.

Stop reacting to breaches and start preventing them with User Risk Scoring

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Cloudflare One now incorporates dynamic User Risk Scores into Access policies to enable automated, adaptive security responses. This update allows teams to move beyond binary "allow/deny" rules by evaluating continuous behavior signals from both internal and third-party sources.

OPM Musical Artist Gets Copyright Notice For Performing His Own Song

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It’s a tale as old as time, assuming time began a decade or two ago. A music artist who just wants to make and perform their craft gets on the internet and performs the song he or she created, only to receive some version of a copyright notice or warning, confusing the hell out of […]

Fuck ICE Says West Virginia Court, Threatening Fines And Contempt Charges

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The administration has burnt the “presumption of regularity” to a crispness normally reserved for conquered bridges succumbing to heat death. It is now well known that the Trump administration will do whatever it wants to do, whether or not it’s supported by law. And when the courts push back, the administration responds with implicit “fuck […]

How WebAssembly plugins simplify Kubernetes extensibility

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The integration of WebAssembly (Wasm) into the Helm ecosystem streamlines the orchestration of WASI-compliant binaries across disparate environments, including OCI

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How to clone a drive to an image with Clonezilla

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There will come a time when you need to not only back up your data, but also create an image

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N. Korean Famous Chollima Hackers Use Malicious npm Packages to Steal Data

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Why 83% of organizations reportedly trust open source with their most sensitive assets

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Internal access management (IAM) is seeing compounded growth in demand and adoption as a key component in zero trust and

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.3 Instant promises to dial down the cringe

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On the same day Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, OpenAI also launched a faster version of its GPT-5.3 family on

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How we rebuilt the search architecture for high availability in GitHub Enterprise Server

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Here's how we the search experience better, faster, and more resilient for GHES customers.

The post How we rebuilt the search architecture for high availability in GitHub Enterprise Server appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Yahoo is selling Engadget to Static Media

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Engadget, the long-running tech news website, has a new owner. Yahoo sold the publication to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later this March. (Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.) The deal hasn't yet been publicly announced, but a source familiar with the publication says […]

M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon

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Apple is using more chiplets and three types of CPU cores to make the M5 family.

Confluent adds A2A support, anomaly detection, and Queues for Kafka in major platform update

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Confluent recently unveiled support for the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, an open standard for inter-agent communication. The platform’s implementation of the

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Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, its fastest Gemini 3 model yet

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Two weeks after launching Gemini 3.1 Pro, its most capable AI model yet, Google on Tuesday launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite,

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Google’s Chrome browser moves to a two-week release cycle

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Google on Tuesday announced that its Chrome browser will move to a faster release cycle later this year, with a

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