A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

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Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic  —  Emil Michael made his name in Silicon Valley a decade ago as an aggressive dealmaker for a startup — Uber Technologies Inc. …

German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100M led by Prosus, a source says at a $900M valuation; Flink was reportedly valued at $5B in May 2022 (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

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Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg:
German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100M led by Prosus, a source says at a $900M valuation; Flink was reportedly valued at $5B in May 2022  —  Flink SE raised funds in a round that values the firm at $900 million, in a sign that the grocery delivery startup has stabilized …

US lab’s high-purity gas conversion, purification systems to boost quantum material production

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A Washington-based laboratory has taken a major step that can help boost production of quantum...

Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it was "open to strategic co-operation" with more AI groups, having recently added Perplexity to its mobile OS (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

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Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it was “open to strategic co-operation” with more AI groups, having recently added Perplexity to its mobile OS  —  Korean giant's device chief says its future Galaxy devices will host multiple models as users mix and match AI tools

Guild.ai, which helps companies develop, deploy, and observe AI agents, raised a $14M seed and $30M Series A, both led by GV, and is now valued at $300M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Chris Metinko / Axios:
Guild.ai, which helps companies develop, deploy, and observe AI agents, raised a $14M seed and $30M Series A, both led by GV, and is now valued at $300M  —  Guild.ai, a startup helping companies develop AI agents, has raised $44 million in a seed and Series A and is now valued at $300 million …

Documents show two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth over $100M, to be cut for being related to DEI (Jennifer Schuessler/New York Times)

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Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Documents show two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth over $100M, to be cut for being related to DEI  —  Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the

As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors  —  The proliferation of cheap, powerful GPS jammers has airline operators, shipping firms and militaries alike scrambling for navigation alternatives

Apple Adds Three Executives to Leadership Page

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Apple on Friday added three new executive profiles to its leadership page for Jennifer Newstead, Molly Anderson, and Steve Lemay.

• Jennifer Newstead, Senior Vice President and General Counsel: Newstead is Apple's top lawyer, overseeing all legal matters. She assumed the position on March 1, succeeding Katherine Adams, who had held the position since 2017. Prior to joining Apple, Newstead served as Meta's chief legal officer for six years.


• Molly Anderson, Vice President of Industrial Design: Anderson and

China determines chemical make-up of the moon’s far side using AI, reveals evolutionary history

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Recent advances in AI are helping scientists unlock new secrets about the Moon’s far side,...

Apple's Strange TikTok Videos Capturing Gen Z's Attention

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Apple is promoting the MacBook Neo with a series of intentionally strange TikTok videos that are successfully capturing Gen Z's attention.


Since Thursday, Apple has been posting the videos in sets of three, with each video corresponding to one of the MacBook Neo's Blush, Citrus, and Indigo color options. The laptop also comes in Silver, so there may be a final set of videos tomorrow.

Some of the videos show a lemon receiving a FaceTime call from a lime, the Mac's Finder app icon blushing, and iconic footage from the original Macintosh's introduction in 1984. Other videos are more abstract, with one showing citrus fruit in fizzy water and another [...]

Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)

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Daniel Boffey / The Guardian:
Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub  —  Iran's targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric

This Week In Techdirt History: March 1st – 7th

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Five Years Ago This week in 2021, while AT&T was apparently committed to being comically hypocritical about Section 230, Utah was prematurely trying to dance on 230’s grave with a new and extremely horrible “free speech” bill that was a disaster in the making, and we had Ron Wyden and Chris Cox on the Techdirt […]

Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir (Nancy Scola/Politico)

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Nancy Scola / Politico:
Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir  —  NEW YORK CITY — Alex Bores had known for a while that a political operation called Leading the Future, funded …

Related to your interests - Week of March 2nd, 2025

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The Links

Claude, without me asking, rewrote many of my original description below. Enjoy!

• Pentagon Leverages AI in Iran Strikes Amid Feud With Anthropic - One artillery unit doing the work of 2,000 staff with a team of just 20 people. Anthropic didn’t want their model used for this; the Pentagon used it anyway. The future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed between PR statements and actual weapons targeting.

• Anthropic’s Pentagon Feud Accelerates Push Into Consumer Market - Claude’s free active users grew 60%+ and daily signups grew 4x since the start of the year. Apparently nothing boosts consumer signups like a military controversy.

New Presentation

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I just gave a new presentation at SCALE titled The Wonderful World of WAL. I am excited to have a second new talk this year. (I have one more queued up.)

I have always wanted to do a presentation about the write-ahead log (WAL) but I was worried there was not enough content for a full talk. As more features were added to Postgres that relied on the WAL, the talk became more feasible, and at 103 slides, maybe I waited too long.

I had a full

NanoClaw can stuff each AI agent into its own Docker container to deal with OpenClaw’s security mess

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On the one hand, I feel a bit conflicted pointing out the recognised security issues with OpenClaw, even as serious

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Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

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Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract  —  Caitlin Kalinowski, who had been leading hardware and robotic engineering teams at OpenAI since November 2024, announ

Sources: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro, which wants to sell updated versions of 1990s consoles like the Nintendo 64, is in talks to raise funding at a $1B valuation (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Sources: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro, which wants to sell updated versions of 1990s consoles like the Nintendo 64, is in talks to raise funding at a $1B valuation  —  From AI weapons to Game Boys, defence tech billionaire is in talks to raise funds for new gaming venture ModRetro

2,000-year-old Bruchhauser Stein was ritual site of ‘supra-regional importance’: Study

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A fortified settlement once found itself here, on a scenic hillfort in Germany known as...

Is AI Killing Open Source Software?

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“It’s complicated” can be used to describe relationships and how AI works — or doesn’t — with open source development.

The post Is AI Killing Open Source Software? appeared first on The New Stack.

Ancient sea ice salt may have helped lock Earth into global deep freeze

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Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth may have experienced one of the...

China's commerce ministry warns of global chip shortages due to "new conflicts" between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese subsidiary (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

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Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
China's commerce ministry warns of global chip shortages due to “new conflicts” between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese subsidiary  —  China's commerce ministry on Saturday raised the possibility of another global semiconductor supply chain crisis due to “new conf

4x more missile production: US firm’s rocket output set to expand rapidly after Trump’s push

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Major US defense contractors have agreed to dramatically expand missile production, claiming manufacturers will increase...

Financial figures shared with prospective investors: Anduril expects its revenue to grow 100% in 2026 to ~$4.3B, and its operating loss to rise by ~50% to $1.2B (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

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Cory Weinberg / The Information:
Financial figures shared with prospective investors: Anduril expects its revenue to grow 100% in 2026 to ~$4.3B, and its operating loss to rise by ~50% to $1.2B  —  Weapons maker Anduril expects to roughly double revenue this year to about $4.3 billion, while its operating loss would rise …

A profile of Simile, which offers "agentic twins" modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research for companies like CVS and Gallup (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

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Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Simile, which offers “agentic twins” modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research for companies like CVS and Gallup  —  AI startup Simile offers ‘agentic twins’ modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market r

Open-source coding agents like OpenCode, Cline, and Aider are solving a huge headache for developers

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AI coding agents are proliferating, but the economics of running large language models (LLMs) are breaking down as developers juggle

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OpenAI GPT-5.4 launches, AI gets its own jobs report, Claude surges after U.S. ban

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

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Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

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Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:

Best Apple Deals of the Week: First Discounts Hit All of Apple's New Products, Including MacBook Neo and More

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It's Apple pre-order week, and we're already tracking solid discounts across every new product that was announced this week. This includes free Best Buy gift cards when ordering the new MacBook Neo, Air, and Pro, plus the first cash discounts on M4 iPad Air on Amazon.

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.

Pre-Order Discounts

• What's the deal? Save on pre-orders for iPhone 17e, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook Neo, and iPad

Top Stories: MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e, Studio Display XDR, and More

Summary:
What a week for Apple news! Across Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week, Apple unveiled a total of seven new products, including low-cost iPhone and MacBook options, new displays, and refreshes for the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iPad Air.


Check out our recap with links to all of our coverage from the three days, and read on below for details on each of the new products!

Top Stories

Apple Announces $599 'MacBook Neo' With A18 Pro Chip

‘World’s largest’: Record-breaking clutch of 47 Mesozoic crocodile eggs unearthed in Brazil

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In a famous fossil bed in Brazil, researchers have discovered a new treasure of three...

Japanese supercomputer challenges 45-year-old theory about how sun-like stars spin

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For nearly half a century, astronomers have believed that stars like our sun eventually change...

US Army awards contract to advance ultra-high speed missile tracking with new system

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Global defense technology giant, AeroVironment (AV), has recently been awarded a $97 million U.S. Army...

China’s BYD EV catches fire: Driver narrowly escapes burning cabin as traffic got stuck

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Preliminary findings from a technical inspection carried out at a BYD service center indicate that...

Hypersonic missiles may slip past US-made defenses as Iran strikes Israel: Chinese study

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims that some of its “hypersonic” missiles and drones...

A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

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Bobby Allyn / NPR:
A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow  —  There's one word Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is loath to say: Polymarket.  —  Like a politician swiping his never-to-be-spoken …

Iceland Foods Finally Surrenders In Trademark Fight With Iceland, The Country

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The ten year war over Iceland is over and Iceland has come out the victor. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, be prepared to listen to a whole bunch of stupid. In 2016, we wrote about Iceland Foods, a UK grocer, which had somehow convinced the EU to give it a trademark for […]

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI

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About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron—a story about a dystopian society that enforces “equality” by handicapping anyone who excels—and the AI detection tool […]

Utah’s Proposal To Tax Online Pornography Is A Civil Liberties Disaster Waiting To Happen

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Republican lawmakers in Utah have long been on the cutting edge of shitty policymaking when it comes to regulating the internet. The latest chapter in that legacy is a proposed tax on porn and adult content purchased in the state’s digital space. Originally proposed by a pair of Republican lawmakers in the Utah state legislature […]

OutSystems CEO on how enterprises can successfully adopt vibe coding

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Everybody is building AI agents. But the enterprises actually shipping them to production are learning that an agent on its

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Anthropic and OpenAI are battling for the best open-source maintainers

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The open-source maintainer sits at the center of the modern software ecosystem, with the libraries they build often deep within

The post Anthropic and OpenAI are battling for the best open-source maintainers appeared first on The New Stack.

iPhone 17e Benchmarks Reveal A19 Chip Performance With a Tiny Catch

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The first benchmarks for the iPhone 17e surfaced in the Geekbench 6 database today, offering a closer look at the A19 chip's performance.


For multi-core CPU performance, the highest score the iPhone 17e achieved so far is 9,241. As expected, this is nearly identical to the standard iPhone 17 model with the A19 chip, which has an average multi-core score of 9,249.

There is one tiny catch, as the iPhone 17e has a 4-core GPU, whereas the iPhone 17 has a 5-core GPU. With one fewer GPU core, the iPhone 17e obviously has slightly lower graphics performance, with the device achieving Metal scores of around 31,000 to 31,500 in [...]

IT-Tools brings many useful developer tools into one convenient location

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How many tools do you use as a developer? I’m guessing that the answer is “many.” There are token generators,

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Anthropic’s Statement To The ‘Department Of War’ Reads Like A Hostage Note Written In Business Casual

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We’ve been covering the ongoing saga of the Trump administration’s attempt to destroy Anthropic for the sin of having modest ethical guidelines around its AI technology. The short version: Anthropic said it didn’t want its AI making autonomous kill decisions without human oversight. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded by declaring the company a supply chain […]

Daily Deal: The Ultimate Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows License + Windows 11 Pro Bundle

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Microsoft Office 2021 Professional is the perfect choice for any professional who needs to handle data and documents. It comes with many new features that will make you more productive in every stage of development, whether it’s processing paperwork or creating presentations from scratch – whatever your needs are. Office Pro comes with MS Word, […]

Nearly half of all companies now use Rust in production, survey finds

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A decade into tracking the Rust programming language, the 2025 State of Rust Survey, released this week, paints a picture

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Apple on MacBook Neo Design: 'We're Certainly Not Making Any Compromises'

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While the MacBook Neo starts at just $599, or an even lower $499 for college students, Apple has insisted that it did not make any design compromises.


"It's undeniably a MacBook, we're certainly not making any compromises on the design and that's really important," said Apple's vice president of industrial design Molly Anderson, in an interview with architecture and design publication Dezeen.

Anderson added that "it was important" for the MacBook Neo "to be quintessentially a MacBook."

Chiefly, the MacBook Neo is made from aluminum, not plastic.

"It wasn't just a redes [...]

Oregon Federal Judge Says ICE’s Warrantless Arrests Are Illegal

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ICE has been telling itself all it needs to do is write its own paperwork and it can do whatever it wants. Memos — passed around secretively and publicly acknowledged by no one but whistleblowers — told ICE agents they don’t need judicial warrants to arrest people or enter people’s homes. All they need — […]

Long-term support for Linux releases gets a new lease on life

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If you want to keep your Linux instances safe and secure, your best course is to use Long Term Support

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Why AI-Generated Code Is Raising the Stakes for Secrets Management

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The case for running AI agents on Markdown files instead of MCP servers

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A venture capitalist is running his entire company on twelve Markdown files. No web application. No workflow engine. No orchestration

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The MacRumors Show: Apple Announces MacBook Neo and More

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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss Apple's concentrated week of announcements that saw the introduction of 10 new products.

Apple Discontinued These 15 Products This Week

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Amid its introduction of 10 new devices this week, Apple discontinued over a dozen of its products dating back to 2019.


Apple this week announced the iPhone 17e, refreshed iPad Air models with the M4 chip, MacBook Air models with the M5 chip, MacBook Pro models with the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, two new Studio Display models, and the all-new MacBook Neo. Simultaneously, these 15 products were removed from Apple's lineup to make way for [...]

Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

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Announcements this week were mostly business as usual, but Apple isn't immune.

Here's How Much Faster MacBook Air Gets With M5 Chip vs. M4 Chip

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We now know how much faster the new MacBook Air with the M5 chip is compared to the previous model with an M4 chip, courtesy of a Geekbench 6 result shared by TechRadar's Lance Ulanoff. However, given the 14-inch MacBook Pro and the iPad Pro were already updated with the M5 chip last year, the result is not too surprising.


Ulanoff ran Geekbench on a MacBook Air with an M5 chip, which has a 10-core CPU. The laptop achieved a score of 17,073 for multi-core CPU performance, whereas the MacBook Air with an M4 chip has an average multi-core score of 14,731, so the new model is up to 15% faster than the previous generation. This is in line with what Appl [...]

From the endpoint to the prompt: a unified data security vision in Cloudflare One

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Cloudflare One unifies data security from endpoint to prompt: RDP clipboard controls, operation-mapped logs, on-device DLP, and Microsoft 365 Copilot scanning via API CASB.

Get Up to $100 Off the New M4 iPad Air When Pre-Ordering on Amazon

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Amazon today is joining in on the pre-order discounts for the M4 iPad Air, introducing up to $100 off these brand new models. These exceed the discounts we tracked at Best Buy earlier in the week, with discounts available on every model of the M4 iPad Air at Amazon without the need of a membership.

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

Specifically, Amazon has up to $80 off the 11-inch M4 iPad Air and up to $100 off the 13-inch M4 iPad Air. All of these discounts have been automatically applied and [...]

The Double Whammy Of The CBS, Warner Brothers Mergers Will Be A Layoff Nightmare

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You might recall that Paramount and CBS had only just started to lay off workers in the wake of the merger with David Ellison’s Skydance. Now, after Ellison (or more accurately his dad and the Saudis) dramatically overpaid for Warner Brothers ($111 billion plus numerous incentives), the overall debt load at the company is so […]

MacBook Neo: Here's Which Models Are Selling Out

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If you want a MacBook Neo delivered on launch day next week, you might want to act fast, as the laptop is beginning to sell out for March 11 delivery.


MacBook Neo pre-orders began March 4, and the initial delivery date was March 11. But now, Apple's online store in the U.S. shows that some MacBook Neo orders placed today are estimated to be delivered between March 16 and March 30.

Here are the estimated delivery dates for each configuration as of 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time:

• 256GB/Blush: March 16 — March 23


• 256GB/Citrus: March 11


• 256GB/Indigo: March 11


• 256GB/Silver: Marc

Apple's 'HomePad' Now Rumored to Launch Even Later Than Expected

Summary:
Apple's long-rumored smart home hub device will launch in the fall of 2026, according to the leaker and prototype collector known as "Kosutami."


In a new post on X, Kosutami said that the device, colloquially dubbed the "HomePad," is now set to arrive in the fall of 2026. The fall runs from September to December, and usually coincides with Apple's busiest release period of the year.

Apple has reportedly been working on the device for several years, with the aim for it to serve as a centralized location for controlling smart home products, listening to music and podcasts, making video calls [...]

On-Call Rotation Best Practices: Reducing Burnout and Improving Response

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Can QA Reignite its Purpose in the Agentic Code Generation Era?

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When to use AI for writing, and when it's totally acceptable

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If you’re dyslexic and just trying to communicate more clearly in writing, or you’ve got a bullshit job and you just want to get your bullshit job’s bullshit tasks out of the way so you can move on to more meaningful endeavors, or at least move past the day-to-day slog that permeates your workday and serves no real purpose other than to pay the bills, then I cede; I cannot fault you.

From: “LLMs Are Antithetical to Writing and Humanity”

As I like to say, if it’s bullshit work, let the bullshit artist do it.

I think we can all agree on cheese on that one.

How about work that isn’t bullshit?

One objection to AI driven writing and learning is that it’s too easy. I’m leering of the Protestant take on work and learning: if it’s not pai

Trump Administration Using Gross Video Game Footage To Cheerlead Its War Efforts

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We should all know by now that this iteration of the Trump administration absolutely loves using pop culture imagery, including that of video games, to help message its horrible policies. Want to gloat about ICE terrorizing American cities and generally pissing everyone off when they’re not too busy perforating innocents? Let’s use images from Pokémon […]

Apple Announces New Collaboration With Sydney Opera House

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Apple and the Sydney Opera House today announced a yearlong collaboration to help inspire the next generation of creatives in Australia. The effort will expand access to initiatives that support art, design, and culture in the country.


Through this collaboration, Apple and the Opera House will focus on interactive programming and experiences for young people in Australia. Apple said it will be the founding partner of a new international children's festival being presented later this year. Apple will also support the Opera House's Centre for Creativity and explore new ways to enhance Opera House programming and experiences through technology.

From March 25 to March 27, [...]

How Go 1.26 stack allocation optimizations beat hand-optimized code

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#​592 — March 6, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

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Meta accused of "concealing the facts" about smart glass users' privacy.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The (Content Moderation) Eras Tour

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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 a special episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Ben and Mike discuss […]

First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In: Here's How It Compares to the M1 MacBook Air

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Benchmarks for the new MacBook Neo surfaced today, and unsurprisingly, CPU performance is almost identical to the iPhone 16 Pro. The ‌MacBook Neo‌ uses the same 6-core A18 Pro chip that was first introduced in the iPhone 16 Pro, but it has one fewer GPU core.


The ‌MacBook Neo‌ earned a single-core score of 3461 and a multi-core score of 8668, along with a Metal score of 31286.

Here's how the Neo's scores compare to ‌iPhone 16‌ Pro and other devices that make apt comparisons: [...]

Apple's M5 Max Chip Achieves a New Record in First Benchmark Result

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The first Geekbench 6 result for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip surfaced today, and Apple has achieved record-breaking performance.


In this unconfirmed result, the M5 Max with an 18-core CPU achieved a score of 29,233 for multi-core CPU performance, which tops the 27,726 score achieved by the Mac Studio's M3 Ultra chip with a 32-core CPU. M5 Max is now the fastest Apple silicon chip ever, and it even topped every other consumer PC processor in the Geekbench database.

In terms of multi-core CPU performance, the M5 Max is up to 5% faster than the M3 Ultra, and up to 14% to 15% faster than the M4 Max chip with a 16-core CPU.

[...]

One developer, team power: The future of AI-driven DevSecOps

Summary:

Every conversation about AI in software delivery circles back to the same core idea: Give engineers better AI tools, and

The post One developer, team power: The future of AI-driven DevSecOps appeared first on The New Stack.

Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems

Summary:
Problems viewing products and checking out.

Apple Seeds Revised Third Betas of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 to Developers, New Public Betas

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Apple today seeded revised third betas of the upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming three days after Apple provided the initial beta to developers. Apple has also released a new version of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 for public beta testers.


Registered developers and public beta testers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update.

iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 add multiple new features to the ‌iPhone‌ and the ‌iPad‌. A Playlist Playground feature in Apple Music lets you generate songs for [...]

Missing From Apple's Announcements: iPad 12 With Apple Intelligence

Summary:
In his newsletter over the weekend, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said Apple was likely to announce at least some but possibly not all of the following products between March 2 and March 4: the iPhone 17e, MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, updated entry-level iPad and iPad Air models, and a lower-cost MacBook with an iPhone chip.


As it turns out, Apple announced nearly all of those products, with the sole exception being an updated entry-level iPad. In fact, we got two more products on top, in the form of an updated Studio Display and a higher-end Studio Display XDR.

Apple i [...]

Mac Studio 512GB RAM Option Disappears Amid Global DRAM Shortage

Summary:
Apple quietly updated Mac Studio configuration options this week, removing the 512GB memory upgrade. As of yesterday, there is no option to purchase a ‌Mac Studio‌ with 512GB RAM, with the machine now maxing out at 256GB.


The ‌Mac Studio‌ starts with 36GB RAM, but there were upgrades ranging from 48GB to 512GB, with the higher tier upgrades limited to the M3 Ultra chip. Now there are options ranging from 48GB to 256GB, with wait times into May for the 256GB upgrade.

Apple has also raised the price for the 256GB RAM upgrade option. It used to cost $1,600 to go from 96GB to 256GB on the high-end M3 Ultra machine, but now it costs $2,000. 512GB was $4,000 when it was available.

Apple has likely removed the o [...]

Download Apple's New MacBook Neo Wallpapers

Summary:
While the MacBook Neo does not launch until next week, Apple's colorful new wallpapers designed for the laptop are included in the macOS 26.3.1 update for it.


MacBook Neo is available in Blush, Citrus, Indigo, and Silver finishes, and there is a Mac wallpaper available for each, with download links below:

• Blush


• Citrus


• Indigo

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro

Summary:

OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-5.4, the next version of its frontier model. The company calls it its “most capable and

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AirTag 1 Gets Major Discount With 4-Pack at $64

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Apple's first-generation AirTag 4-Pack has dropped to $64.00 this week on Amazon, down from the original price of $99.00. Free shipping options have a delivery estimate around March 10, while Prime members should be able to get it delivered a few days sooner.

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

Overall, this is a solid second-best price on the AirTag 4-pack that's within $1 of the Amazon all-time low price. Deals on the 1-Pack have been fluctuating for a few days and are curre [...]

Survey Sees DevOps Workflows Evolving in the Age of AI

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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.

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.

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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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.

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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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.

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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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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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.

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 […]

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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