1,000-year-old hunt for legendary lost city of Madinat al Zāhira might be over

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Have archaeologists finally found the legendary lost palace-city of Madinat al-Zāhira? A new study suggests...

MacBook Pro Buyers Now Facing Up to a Two-Month Wait Ahead of New Models

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MacBook Pro availability is tightening on Apple's online store, with select configurations facing up to a two-month delivery timeframe in the United States.


A few 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro configurations with an M4 Pro chip are not facing any shipping delay, but estimated delivery dates for many configurations with an M4 Max chip range from February 6 to February 24 or even later. At the extreme end, all built-to-order 14-inch MacBook Pro configurations with a 16-core M4 Max chip and 128GB of RAM are estimated to be delivered as late as March 17 on Apple's online store.

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B+ in 2025 (Sarah Friar/OpenAI)

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Sarah Friar / OpenAI:
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B+ in 2025  —  We launched ChatGPT as a research preview to understand what would happen if we put frontier intelligence directly in people's hands.

Bring Back Ops Pride (xpost)

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Cross-posted from “Bring Back Ops Pride“ “Operations” is not a dirty word, a synonym for toil, or a title for people who can’t write code. May those who shit on ops get the operational outcomes they deserve. I was planning to write something else today, but god dammit, I got nerd-sniped. Last week I published […]

iOS 27 Will Add These 8 New Features to Your iPhone

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iOS 27 is still many months away, but there are already plenty of rumors about new features that will be included in the software update.


The first beta of iOS 27 will be released during WWDC 2026 in June, and the update should be released to all users with a compatible iPhone in September.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that iOS 27 will be similar to Mac OS X Snow Leopard, in the sense that Apple is apparently focused on improving "quality and underlying performance." However, there will still be some new features, with many of them expected to fall under the Apple Intelligence umbrella.

Below, we have recapped eight rumored iOS 27 features in bold text:

• A more personalized version of Siri is expected to l

Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a "Claude bender" (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)

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Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal:
Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a “Claude bender”  —  Developers and hobbyists are comparing the viral moment for Anthropic's Claude Code to the launch of generative AI

Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor (New York Times)

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New York Times:
Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor  —  Stores of all kinds are using artificial intelligence to sell everything from luxury handbags to hay for horses.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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This week, both our winners on the insightful side come in response to Tom Homan’s complaints about people calling ICE murderers. In first place, it’s Bloof with a translation of his words: ‘People need to be civil and helpful when masked thugs come for their friends and neighbours, and to just follow orders like good […]

CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 "liquidation cascade" (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

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Helene Braun / CoinDesk:
CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 “liquidation cascade”  —  Over 13.4 million tokens have been erased between mid-2021 and 2025, according to a new analysis by CoinGecko.  —  What to know:

Summary:

Where there is saxophone, synth is sure to follow.

China develops ion implanters to reduce reliance on overseas chip suppliers

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China has made a major stride in semiconductor technology with the development of a highly...

Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Summary:

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web  —  A report from market intelligence firm Similarweb suggests that Meta's Threads is now seeing more daily usage than Elon Musk's X on mobile devices.

RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate  —  Runpod, an AI app hosting platform that launched four years ago, has hit a $120 million annual revenue run rate, founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh tell TechCrunch.

Sources: Sequoia is planning a big investment in Anthropic, joining a round led by GIC and Coatue, which are investing $1.5B each; Anthropic aims to raise $25B+ (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Summary:

George Hammond / Financial Times:
Sources: Sequoia is planning a big investment in Anthropic, joining a round led by GIC and Coatue, which are investing $1.5B each; Anthropic aims to raise $25B+  —  Silicon Valley investor to write first cheque for AI start-up after recent leadership overhaul

Get Up to $200 Off M5 iPad Pro on Amazon, Starting at $899.99

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Amazon this weekend is offering discounts across the M5 iPad Pro lineup, including both 11-inch and 13-inch models. The highlight this time around is a return of a low price on the 256GB Wi-Fi 11-inch M5 iPad Pro, which is on sale for $899.99, down from $999.00.

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.

Many [...]

Cobalt honeycomb magnet shows how quantum spin liquids might be engineered

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Most magnets are predictable. Cool them down, and their tiny magnetic moments snap into place...

Mageia Harkens Back to the Glory Days of Mandrake Linux

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I’ve been using Linux since 1997. As the ’90s came to a close, there were so many new distributions coming

The post Mageia Harkens Back to the Glory Days of Mandrake Linux appeared first on The New Stack.

Structures 3D printed inside living human cells that has one-fifth width of a human hair

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Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, roughly...

Q&A with SiFive co-founder Krste Asanović, who was part of the original team that developed RISC-V, on creating a company that builds IP around RISC-V, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/More Than Moore)

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Dr. Ian Cutress / More Than Moore:
Q&A with SiFive co-founder Krste Asanovi&cacute, who was part of the original team that developed RISC-V, on creating a company that builds IP around RISC-V, and more  —  Update: SiFive just announced today that it has partnered with NVIDIA for NVLink Fusion on RISC-V. It's a big step, and we'll be covering that separately.

Repair Advocates Name CES 2026’s Most Anticonsumer Tech

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The Repair Association is a U.S. advocacy group fighting for customers’ “Right to Repair.” If you buy something, you should

The post Repair Advocates Name CES 2026’s Most Anticonsumer Tech appeared first on The New Stack.

Could ‘alien-looking’ giant airship over Chinese city transform wind farms worldwide?

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The successful launch and testing of a giant airship-come-wind-turbine earlier this month has prompted discussion...

Pompeii’s first baths were extremely dirty, study reveals people bathed in filthy waters

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A new study has investigated the bathwater in the legendary and technologically advanced city of...

India's largest retailer Reliance Retail says its daily quick commerce orders peaked at 1.6M in Q4 2025; market leader Blinkit averaged 2.4M daily orders in Q3 (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)

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Manish Singh / India Dispatch:
India's largest retailer Reliance Retail says its daily quick commerce orders peaked at 1.6M in Q4 2025; market leader Blinkit averaged 2.4M daily orders in Q3  —  The rest of the industry is not feeling it.  —  India's largest retail chain is reporting impressive growth in quick commerce, but the industry is not buying it.

Destroyed planet? Giant iron bar found in the Ring Nebula may be a vaporized planet

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Have you ever seen a cloud made of iron? You may not believe it, but...

UK-built tiny sailing robots collect first-ever data from live Category 5 hurricane at sea

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UK-based oceangoing drone manufacturer Oshen has made history by collecting live data from inside a...

How to use AI for solo roleplaying with Dungeons & Dragons

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Here’s my talk from AI for the Rest of Us:

What the goblins can teach us about enterprise AI. // I’ve learned what agentic AI is by fighting goblins, talking with trolls, and buy custom made boots from gnomes. After a few years of playing solo D&D with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc., playing the role of a DM, I started writing little plugins (Model Context Protocol servers) to give the ChatDM. This is much better than writing agentic AI for insurance claims apps! But, you can learn patterns and ways of using UI that are applicable to the more boring, well, practical applications of AI. D&D is incredibly complex, arguably, more complex than most any “enterprise application.” If the robot can play D&D, it can play ERP. The programming part of this isn’t important, instead, it’s interesting to see what’s possible, how AIs wo

UK-made super strong materials to shield fusion reactors from sun-level extreme heat

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The UK’s ambitious goal to switch on a prototype fusion power plant by 2040 has...

US firm proves deep borehole technology for next-gen reactor waste two miles down

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Positioning deep boreholes as a viable alternative for nuclear waste disposal, Deep Isolation has become...

A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering 285M+ views on YouTube since November 2025 (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

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Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering 285M+ views on YouTube since November 2025  —  A documentary about Google DeepMind has become wildly popular.  Before he turned his attention to AI, the film's dir

OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

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Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models  —  Former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage, who has just founded a new nonprofit institute called AVERI that is ad

Atlantic Council: China-led cross-border digital currency platform mBridge, still a prototype, has processed 4,000+ cross-border transactions totaling $55.5B (Marc Jones/Reuters)

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Marc Jones / Reuters:
Atlantic Council: China-led cross-border digital currency platform mBridge, still a prototype, has processed 4,000+ cross-border transactions totaling $55.5B  —  Transactions on a new China-led digital currency platform have surged to over $55 billion, a new report shows …

Listen Labs, whose AI tools help Microsoft and others run customer research and interviews, raised a $69M Series B led by Ribbit Capital at a $500M+ valuation (Iain Martin/Forbes)

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Iain Martin / Forbes:
Listen Labs, whose AI tools help Microsoft and others run customer research and interviews, raised a $69M Series B led by Ribbit Capital at a $500M+ valuation  —  The San Francisco-based company, which has run more than 1 million customer interviews with its automated AI tools …

Mannheim, Germany-based osapiens, a provider of ESG compliance software, raised a $100M Series C from Decarbonization Partners at a $1.1B valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

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John Reynolds / Tech.eu:
Mannheim, Germany-based osapiens, a provider of ESG compliance software, raised a $100M Series C from Decarbonization Partners at a $1.1B valuation  —  The $100m Series C was funded solely by Decarbonization Partners, the joint venture between BlackRock and Temasek.

David Sacks and top MAGA influencers are publicly opposing House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast's proposed AI OVERWATCH Act to regulate AI chip sales to China (Axios)

Summary:

Axios:
David Sacks and top MAGA influencers are publicly opposing House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast's proposed AI OVERWATCH Act to regulate AI chip sales to China  —  But the accusations are flying fast.  — “The AI Overwatch Act (H.R. 6875) may sound like a good idea, but when you examine it closely …

This Week In Techdirt History: January 11th – 17th

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Five Years Ago This week in 2021, we wrote about how critics of Section 230 should rethink their position considering their biggest allies were Senators Hawley and Cruz, while former FCC boss Tom Wheeler was continuing to misunderstand and misrepresent Section 230 and the challenges of content moderation. Amazon’s decision to kick Parler off its […]

Astro Redesigns Its Development Server

Summary:

Astro — whose acquisition by Cloudflare was announced on Friday — on Wednesday released its first beta of Astro 6,

The post Astro Redesigns Its Development Server appeared first on The New Stack.

Apple's M4 Mac Mini Hits $499 Low Price on Amazon

Summary:
Amazon is discounting a few models of Apple's M4 Mac mini this weekend, starting at $499.00 for the model with 16GB RAM/256GB SSD, down from $599.00. Discounts reach up to $129 off in these sales, and this time around there is also a discount on the M4 Pro model.

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.

In terms of the 16GB/256GB SSD model, this is a solid second-best price. You can also get the M4 Mac mini with 16GB RAM/512GB SSD for [...]

The Future of AI in SRE: Preventing Failures, Not Fixing Them

Summary:

For years, site reliability engineering (SRE) has centered on one mission: keeping systems healthy while everything else — code, configurations

The post The Future of AI in SRE: Preventing Failures, Not Fixing Them appeared first on The New Stack.

Top Stories: Apple Creator Studio, Google Gemini-Powered Siri, and More

Summary:
We have our first Apple product announcement of 2026, and it's a software subscription known as Apple Creator Studio featuring Apple's video, audio, and image editing apps, as well as some AI-powered features and premium content for iWork apps and Freeform.


In other news this week, Apple made it official that next-generation Siri will leverage Google Gemini, while we got the second round of betas for iOS 26.3 and other updates, so read on below for all the details on these stories and more!

Top Stories

Apple Introduces New 'Creator Studio' Bundle of Apps for $129 Per Year

A Developer’s Guide to Marshaling Data With JSON

Summary:

While code and data interplay with each other to form running programs, we still tend to concern ourselves more with

The post A Developer’s Guide to Marshaling Data With JSON appeared first on The New Stack.

Meta’s layoffs leave Supernatural fitness users in mourning

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Supernatural has had its staff cut and won’t receive any more content updates.

Relevant to your interests, Saturday

Summary:

• The rise of ‘micro’ apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them - Another go at LowCode: “It is a new era of app creation that is sometimes called micro apps, personal apps, or fleeting apps because they are intended to be used only by the creator (or the creator plus a select few other people) and only for as long as the creator wants to keep the app. They are not intended for wide distribution or sale.”
• Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT - Finally ads coming to AI land. P

Apple's Environmental Chief Lisa Jackson Retiring After 13 Years

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


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

Jackson also led Apple's [...]

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

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

These 5 Apple Products Will Reportedly Be Upgraded With OLED Displays

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


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

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

Kaizen! Let it crash (Friends)

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

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

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

Arcjet’s Python SDK Embeds Security in Code

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

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

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

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

All-New Apple Store Now Open in Downtown Montréal

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


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

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

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


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

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

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Cloudflare Acquires Team Behind Open Source Framework Astro

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

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

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

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

How Etsy Uses LLMs to Improve Search Relevance

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome To The Resistance… Grand Juries?

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

Daily Deal: The Complete Superstar Photographer Bundle

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

ChatGPT Introduces Lower-Priced Subscription Tier, Ads Coming Soon

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


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

ChatGPT now offers three subscription tiers worldwide:

• ChatGPT Go: $8/month


• ChatGPT Plus: $20/month


• ChatGPT Pro: $200/month

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

Summary:

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

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

The Case For A 100-Justice Supreme Court

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

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

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

Apple Now Facing Unprecedented Competition for Chip Supply

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


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

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

iOS 26.4 Will Add These 9 New Emoji to Your iPhone

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


Here are nine of the new emoji:

• Trombone


• Treasure Chest


• Distorted Face


• Hairy Creature (aka Bigfoot or Sasquatch)


• Fight Cloud


• Apple Core


• Orca


• Ballet Dancers


• Landslide

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

Summary:

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

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

Orchestration: The Key to Integrating AI with Legacy Systems

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

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

Amazon Should Buy Anthropic, AI Doctors, Metaverse RIP

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Original Content

• Amazon should buy Anthropic.

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

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

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

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

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

AirTag

• What's the deal? Take $34 off AirTag 4-Pack


• Where can I get it?

Memory for AI Agents: A New Paradigm of Context Engineering

Summary:

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

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

CNCF Dragonfly Speeds Container, Model Sharing with P2P

Summary:

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

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

Astro is joining Cloudflare

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

Nvidia DGX Spark: The New Stack Developer’s Guide

Summary:

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

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

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

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

Meet the 2025 DevOps Dozen Award Winners

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

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


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

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

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

Establishing DevOps for Mainframe Applications

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FinOps Meets DevOps: Engineering Cost Ownership in 2026

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After the Dream - Software Defined Talk #555

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

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

Relevant to your interests, Friday

Summary:

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

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

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


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

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

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

Go 1.26 RC2, Go 1.25.6, and Go 1.24.12 released

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

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

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Beats' Latest Ad Campaign Features Baseball Superstar Shohei Ohtani

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


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

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

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

Start Small and Go Big With Open Source Gonzo for Observability

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

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GitLab Delivers on AI Agents Promise to Automate DevOps Workflows

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Solving the Problems That Accompany API Sprawl With AI

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

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

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

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ScyllaDB’s New Cloud Challenges DynamoDB Cost, Performance

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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


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

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

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

Hacking Workshop for February 2026

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For next month, I'm scheduling 2 or 3 discussions of Amit Langote's talk, Hacking Postgres Executor For Performance, given at PGConf India 2025. If you're interested in joining us, please sign up using this form and I will send you an invite to one of the sessions. Thanks to Amit for agreeing to attend the sessions.Read more »

Air France Announces New Apple TV Perks

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


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

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

Level 3 AI Collaboration: The Sweet Spot for Developers

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

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

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

The Next DevOps Frontier: Governing Models, Agents and Code

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

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

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

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

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

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