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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Jacob Krol / TechRadar:
How Disney Imagineering built an Olaf robot, set to arrive at Disneyland Paris this month, and taught it to move via reinforcement learning and simulation  —  The next-gen robot arrives at Disneyland Paris this month  —  It's been less than five months since Walt Disney Imagineering showed off …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10 Audio Improvements in Apple's New AirPods Max 2

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Apple refreshed the AirPods Max today, and the main new addition is an H2 chip that replaces the H1 chip. The H2 chip has previously been used in the AirPods 4 and the AirPods Pro 2 and later, but it's new to the AirPods Max. It brings multiple audio improvements alongside an updated high dynamic range amplifier.


We've listed all of the audio features that are new to the AirPods Max according to Apple.

• Active Noise Cancellation - The AirPods Max 2 have up to 1.5x more active noise cancellation because of the more powerful H2 chip and a new computational audio algorithm that detects and counters external sound.


• Adaptive Audio - Th

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

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

COMMENT to the MCP Rescue

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

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

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

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

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

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

Manus introduces My Computer, a desktop application that enables its AI agent to interact directly with the user's local files, tools, and applications (Manus)

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

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

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

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

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

Nvidia says BYD, Geely, Isuzu, and Nissan will use its Drive Hyperion AV platform, and that Uber will launch Hyperion-powered robotaxis across 28 cities by 2028 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Nvidia says BYD, Geely, Isuzu, and Nissan will use its Drive Hyperion AV platform, and that Uber will launch Hyperion-powered robotaxis across 28 cities by 2028  —  The chipmaker has been at the center of simmering trade tensions between the US and China.

Nvidia unveils Space-1 Vera Rubin for orbital data centers, saying its GPU delivers up to 25x more AI compute for space-based inferencing compared to the H100 (Sebastian Moss/DatacenterDynamics)

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Sebastian Moss / DatacenterDynamics:
Nvidia unveils Space-1 Vera Rubin for orbital data centers, saying its GPU delivers up to 25x more AI compute for space-based inferencing compared to the H100  —  Will be used by Aetherflux, Axiom Space, Kepler Comms, Planet, Sophia Space & Starcloud  —  Nvidia has developed a space-specific module of it

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

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

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

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

US startup Reflection AI is working with South Korea's Shinsegae Group to build a 250MW data center in South Korea, sources say in a several-billion-dollar deal (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
US startup Reflection AI is working with South Korea's Shinsegae Group to build a 250MW data center in South Korea, sources say in a several-billion-dollar deal  —  The Trump administration is using AI chips and mode

Nvidia announces NemoClaw, which combines the OpenClaw agent platform with components of Nvidia's Agent Toolkit to add privacy and security controls (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)

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Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack:
Nvidia announces NemoClaw, which combines the OpenClaw agent platform with components of Nvidia's Agent Toolkit to add privacy and security controls  —  At its annual GTC conference, Nvidia on Monday announced the Nvidia Agent Toolkit, which brings together open models, runtimes, open skills …

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

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

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Nvidia’s NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Apple's First Lightning iPhone is Now Obsolete

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The iPhone 5 that launched back in 2012 is now considered obsolete, according to Apple's list of vintage and obsolete products. Apple moved the iPhone 5 and the 8GB iPhone 4 from the vintage list to the obsolete list today.


A device is "vintage" when it has been five years since it was last distributed for sale, and "obsolete" at the seven-year mark, though Apple sometimes stretches its timelines. For vintage products, Apple retail stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers can provide repairs if the required parts are available. Devices that are obsolete are generally not eligible for repair and Apple stops providing repair components.

Apple released the iPhone 5 in 2012 and discontinued it in 2013 after launching the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c. The iPhone 5 [...]

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

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

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

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

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ICE Officers Admit To Arrest Quotas During Court Testimony

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AirPods Max 2 Reveal iOS 26.4 Launch Date

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Apple today introduced the second-generation version of its over-ear AirPods Max headphones, and some of the software requirements in the fine print give us some insight into when Apple's iOS 26.4 update will be released to the public.


To use several of the added features like Live Translation, the AirPods Max 2 will need to be paired with an iPhone running iOS 26.4, an iPad running iPadOS 26.4, or a Mac running macOS Tahoe 26.4.

The AirPods are set to launch in early April, which means iOS 26.4 and its sister updates will need to launch during the same time frame. iOS 26.4 will be here by the first week of April, and it could even launch [...]

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

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

AirPods Max 2's Digital Crown Has a Useful New Feature

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While the new AirPods Max 2 have the same overall design as the previous AirPods Max, the Digital Crown has received a small but useful upgrade.


On the AirPods Max 2, a new Camera Remote feature allows you to press the Digital Crown to take a photo and start or stop video recording while using Apple's Camera app or compatible third-party camera apps on an iPhone or iPad.

Apple says this feature requires AirPods Max 2 that are running the latest firmware and paired with iPhone and iPad models running iOS 26.4 or iPadOS 26.4 or later. Those software versions are still in beta testing, but they will be released in time for the AirPods Max 2 launch in early April, barring any unforeseen delays.

Here are a [...]

Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web’s homepage

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Today, I’m talking with Jim Lanzone, who is the CEO of Yahoo. It’s basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story, but the short version of it is that a long time ago Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and basically everything has gone sideways since. You’ll hear Jim refer […]

Apple Acquires Final Cut Pro Plugin Company MotionVFX

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Apple today acquired MotionVFX, a major developer of plugins, visual effects, and motion graphics tools for Final Cut Pro.


MotionVFX is a Polish software company founded by Szymon Masiak in 2009. It creates high-quality plugins, transitions, templates, and visual effects (VFX) for video editors, specializing in tools for Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Apple Motion. From MotionVFX's website today:

We are extremely excited to share that MotionVFX is joining the Apple team to continue to empower creators and editors to do their best work.

For over 15 years, we've been on a mission to create world-class, visually inspiring content and effects for video editors. From the very beginning, we’ve been all about

Apple's M4 iPad Air Drops to New Low Prices on Amazon, Get Up to $100 Off

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Last week, Amazon introduced discounts on the brand new M4 iPad Air, and you can still get up to $100 off these brand new models today. Additionally, Amazon has deepened the discounts on a few of these models, and all remain in stock with free delivery around March 21.

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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 do not require a coupon code [...]

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

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

What Hasn't Changed With AirPods Max 2

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The AirPods Max 2 feature the H2 chip, improved Active Noise Cancellation, and Adaptive Audio capabilities, but the design and much of the hardware remains unchanged.


Most notably, the overall industrial design is identical. AirPods Max 2 retain the same aluminum ear cups, stainless steel headband frame, telescoping arms, and knit mesh canopy introduced with the original model. The dimensions, weight, and overall construction appear to be unchanged, meaning the headphones look and feel the same as previous versions. The knit mesh canopy is also the same despite criticism over time that the fabric can stretch or lose tension with prolonged use.

The Smart Case has also [...]

AirPods Max 1 vs. AirPods Max 2 Buyer's Guide: 25+ Differences Compared

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Apple has now announced the AirPods Max 2, bringing the first major hardware upgrade to Apple's over-ear headphones since their debut. So how does the new model compare with both earlier versions of ‌AirPods Max‌?


In late 2020, Apple announced the AirPods Max, a whole new AirPods variant with an over-ear design. In September 2024, the company refreshed the AirPods Max's selection of color options and swapped the Lightning port for USB-C, enabling 24-bit, 48 kHz lossless audio over a wired connection.

Now, with the arrival of the ‌AirPods Max 2‌, Apple has introduced a far more substantial upgrade than the 2024 refresh. The new m [...]

Why AI workloads are breaking traditional Kubernetes observability strategies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Apple Announces AirPods Max 2 With H2 Chip and More

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Apple today unveiled AirPods Max 2, with key upgrades including the H2 chip, increased active noise cancellation, improved sound quality, and features such as Adaptive Audio, Conversation Awareness, Voice Isolation, and Live Translation.


The new AirPods Max have the same overall design as the previous generation, with most of the new features coming from the upgrade to the H2 chip:

- Adaptive Audio adjusts the levels of ANC and Transparency in response to the environment automatically to optimize the audio experience.

- Conversation Awareness helps lower content volume and reduce background noise when a user starts speaking to someone nearby.

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AirPods Pro 3 Available for $209.99 on Amazon This Week

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Amazon today has the AirPods Pro 3 available for $209.99, down from $249.00. This is only about $10 higher when compared to the Amazon all-time low price, which has been hard to come by in recent weeks.

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This model of the AirPods Pro launched in September 2025 and has 2x better Active Noise Cancellation than the previous generation, better audio quality, a revised fit that's meant to improve comfort and stability, Live Translation fo [...]

When Code Becomes Cheap, Engineering Becomes Governance

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

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

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

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

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

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Apple Original Film 'F1' Wins Oscar for Best Sound

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Apple's original film "F1: The Movie" yesterday won an Oscar for Best Sound at the 98th Academy Awards.


The film, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joseph Kosinski, received four Oscar nominations in total, including Best Picture. "F1" has already picked up multiple honors across the industry, including Best Editing and Best Sound at the Critics Choice Awards and Best Sound at the BAFTA Film Awards.

The film stars Brad Pitt as a once-promising Formula 1 driver whose career was nearly ended by a crash in the 1990s. Decades later, he returns to the sport after being recruited by his former teammate to help save a struggling team, partnering with an ambitious rookie driver. [...]

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

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

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

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

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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

iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

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In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reiterated that iOS 27 will be similar to 2009's Mac OS X Snow Leopard, in the sense that one of Apple's biggest priorities is bug fixes for improved performance and stability.


During WWDC 2008's State of the Union, Apple showed a slide that said Mac OS X Snow Leopard had "0 new features," as it opted to focus on performance and stability improvements. Technically, the update did include some smaller new features, but Apple was overwhelmingly focused on bug fixes and under-the-hood changes on the Mac.

"We've built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our [...]

A beginner’s guide to vibe coding

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

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Apple's 2026 Studio Display Hits New Low Prices on Amazon at Up to $100 Off

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Apple just launched the new line of Studio Displays this month, and today Amazon has introduced the first discount on the Standard Glass model with Tilt-Adjustable Stand. You can get this Studio Display for $1,499.00, down from $1,599.00, a new all-time low price.

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Last week, Amazon had some initial launch discounts on a few Nano-Texture models of the Studio Display, but only one of these remains. You can still get the Nano-Texture mod [...]

Apple is Aiming to Add a System-Wide Liquid Glass Slider to iOS 27

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In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the latest internal version of iOS 27 does not have major Liquid Glass design changes, but there might be a new system-wide setting for precisely adjusting the look of the interface.


iOS 26.1 lets you choose between "Clear" and "Tinted" options for Liquid Glass, with the "Tinted" look adding more opacity to user interface elements. And with iOS 27, which is expected to be released later this year, Apple might go even further.

[...]

MacBook Neo 2 With a Touch Screen Has Gone From Yes to Maybe to No

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A second-generation MacBook Neo with a touch screen has gone from a yes to a maybe to a no, according to rumors.


In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said Apple has yet to decide whether to bring touch-screen support to any Macs beyond the next high-end MacBook Pro, which is expected to be released [...]

No Major Changes to Liquid Glass Expected Across iOS 27 and macOS 27

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Apple's new Liquid Glass interface introduced across iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, and its other latest software platforms is apparently here to stay.


In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the latest internal versions of iOS 27 and macOS 27 do not have major Liquid Glass design changes. He also mentioned how Apple's new software design chief, Steve Lemay, was "a driving force" behind Liquid Glass and was "deeply involved in its development."

Lemay joined Apple in 1999. He succeeded Alan Dye, who [...]

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

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

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The fast rise and epic fall of Clubhouse

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

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

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

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Why AI systems are failing in familiar ways

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

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

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

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

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

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TypeScript 6.0 RC arrives as a bridge to a faster future

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

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Get the New Book 'Apple: The First 50 Years' on Sale for Launch Week

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This week, tech columnist David Pogue launched a new book called "Apple: The First 50 Years." On Amazon, you can get the new book for $39.30 in hardcover, down from $50.00, the best price we've seen so far on the book.

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The book explores the first five decades of Apple's history, including interviews with 150 key people who shaped Apple into what it is today, like Steve Wozniak, John Sculley, Jony Ive, and mo [...]

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

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

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

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

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Top Stories: Apple's 50th Anniversary, New and Upcoming Products, and More

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After Apple's big week of announcements, this week saw all of the new products officially become available, so reviewers and general users alike are now getting their hands on them and putting them through their paces.


Apple also started ramping up plans for celebrating the company's 50th anniversary coming up on April 1, with Tim Cook sharing a letter addressing the milestone and the company even hosting a brief musical appearance by Alicia Keys at its Grand Central Terminal store in New York City, so read on below for all the details on these stories and more!

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Apple Announces 50th Anniversary Plans

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

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

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Wordle’s creator made a fun new puzzle game

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

Apple to Host 50th Anniversary Celebrations Around the World

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Apple today announced that it will be celebrating its upcoming 50th anniversary by hosting gatherings "around the world" throughout the month of March.


Apple's 50th anniversary is on April 1, 2026. The company has yet to reveal exactly where and when it will be hosting additional celebrations, but possibilities include major cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tokyo.

"Each gathering highlights human creativity and ingenuity in action, and showcases the remarkable things people can do when they have the right Apple products in their hands," said Apple, in a press release.

"Stay tuned for more updates," said Apple.

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10+ New Features Coming in iOS 27

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


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

Foldable iPhone Features

Survey: AI Coding Exacerbates Existing DevOps Workflow Issues

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Amazon says its service requires "significant investment."

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

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

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

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

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

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From legacy architecture to Cloudflare One

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

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

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

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The Risk Profile of AI-Driven Development

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How eBPF and OpenTelemetry Have Simplified the Observability Function

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

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

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

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

Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Highlights

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Google will soon bring Chrome to ARM64 Linux

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

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