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Single coolant drop cools simulated computer chip hotspots by 30.6°F in 15 seconds

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University of Waterloo engineers developed a hybrid cooling method that pairs a water bath with...

Samsung Early Black Friday Event Brings Major Sales to Frame TVs and More

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Samsung recently kicked off its own early Black Friday sale, offering big sitewide discounts on TVs, monitors, storage accessories, Galaxy smartphones and watches, home appliances, and more.

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

Highlights from this event include quite a few models of The Frame TV on sale, including all-time low prices on The Frame Pro models. You can get the 2026 65-inch The Frame TV for [...]

100,000 rockets delivered: Lockheed boosts guided rocket output to nearly 14,000 a year

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Lockheed Martin has delivered its 100,000th Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rocket and reached...

Tel Aviv- and SF-based Edelbyte, which is building a data analytics platform optimized for AI agents, emerges from stealth with $70M across Series A and seed (Tim Keary/Forbes)

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Tim Keary / Forbes:
Tel Aviv- and SF-based Edelbyte, which is building a data analytics platform optimized for AI agents, emerges from stealth with $70M across Series A and seed  —  This voice experience is generated by AI.  Learn more. … Big data analytics is being reimagined for AI agents.

iPhone 18 Pro Max Wins Battery Test Involving 32 Smartphones

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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Max placed first overall in a battery comparison of 32 smartphones, with other iPhone models leading individual tests and matching significantly more expensive devices.


CNET assessed each phone using two tests totaling three hours and 45 minutes. One measured battery consumption during three hours of video streaming over Wi-Fi at maximum screen brightness. The other combined video playback, video calls, gaming, and social media use over 45 minutes. Both began at 100% charge, and the publication averaged the remaining percentages to produce its overall rankings.

The iPhone 18 Pro Max and Apple's first foldable, the iPhone Duo, each finished the mixed-use test with 99% remaining, sharing first pla [...]

Carbon from the cosmos? US scientists find clues in Hawaiian volcanic rocks

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Yale and Columbia researchers say most of Earth’s carbon may have come from the outer...

Google DeepMind launches AlphaGenome 2, trained on 100M+ cell profiles across 68 tissues to predict genetic mutation effects, for non-commercial research (Robert Hart/The Verge)

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Robert Hart / The Verge:
Google DeepMind launches AlphaGenome 2, trained on 100M+ cell profiles across 68 tissues to predict genetic mutation effects, for non-commercial research  —  DeepMind's new DNA model better predicts how mutations affect different cells, potentially opening paths to treatment.

Plurai, founded by former Nexar staffers to use synthetic data and digital twins of corporate IT environments to assess AI agents, raised a $13M seed (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

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Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
Plurai, founded by former Nexar staffers to use synthetic data and digital twins of corporate IT environments to assess AI agents, raised a $13M seed  —  AI agents are all the rage, but they're not quite as capable as their purveyors would have you believe.

CoreWeave tests AI integrations on its cloud before you migrate

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Moving an AI workload to another cloud means bringing more than a model and its data. Your serving layer, observability

The post CoreWeave tests AI integrations on its cloud before you migrate appeared first on The New Stack.

Rox, which develops AI agents to automate customer research and outreach, raised a $100M Series B co-led by General Catalyst and March at a $1.3B valuation (Morgan Chittum/Fortune)

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Morgan Chittum / Fortune:
Rox, which develops AI agents to automate customer research and outreach, raised a $100M Series B co-led by General Catalyst and March at a $1.3B valuation  —  Morgan Chittum here.  For decades, enterprise software giants like Salesforce have powered the workflows that keep the world's biggest businesses running.

Choosing QuePaxa, an unusual consensus algorithm

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Cloudflare is building an experimental consensus service using a never-before-deployed consensus algorithm, QuePaxa. In this post we explain how QuePaxa works and why we chose it.

U.S. Air Force upgrades F-16 radar test systems to check 160 antennas, 70 radomes a year

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Hill Air Force Base has upgraded two test systems used to verify F-16 radar components,...

After the US midterms, Palantir CEO Alex Karp pivots toward Democrats, describing his philosophy as progressive and acknowledging ICE's enforcement missteps (Politico)

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Politico:
After the US midterms, Palantir CEO Alex Karp pivots toward Democrats, describing his philosophy as progressive and acknowledging ICE's enforcement missteps  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner  —  Good Wednesday morning — and a special note of gratitude and thanks to all the vets on Veterans Day.

Light-powered catalyst delivers 200% more hydrogen peroxide with an atomic twist

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A new light-powered catalyst developed by German scientists increases hydrogen peroxide production by 200 percent...

An analysis of 42 interviews since 2022: after US chip restrictions, Jensen Huang's public rhetoric became more admiring of China and critical of export rules (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor)

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J.D. Capelouto / Semafor:
An analysis of 42 interviews since 2022: after US chip restrictions, Jensen Huang's public rhetoric became more admiring of China and critical of export rules  —  Jensen Huang's public rhetoric on China became more admiring, and his stance on export controls more critical …

300 GW: US military bases hold some of the largest untapped geothermal resources

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Project InnerSpace has identified significant geothermal energy potential across U.S. military installations, with more than...

AirTag 2 4-Pack Hits Record Low $69.99 Price Ahead of Black Friday

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One of the best early Black Friday deals has arrived, with Apple's AirTag 2 available for $69.99 on Amazon, down from $99.00. This deal is on the 4-Pack of the AirTag 2, and it's a match of the record low price for the accessory.

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.

We're also tracking a smaller deal on the AirTag 2 1-Pack, available for [...]

Rumored Apple Smart Glasses Mentioned in Supplier's Earnings Briefing

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Apple's rumored smart glasses and AirPods with cameras may have been referenced by Chinese manufacturing equipment supplier Quick Intelligent Equipment, according to a Securities Times report on the company's quarterly earnings briefing. The company claimed it has been involved in "Apple's AI glasses and new smart earphones projects," which could boost demand for its machine vision inspection equipment.

Apple is reportedly targeting a late 2027 launch for its first smart glasses, expected to help answer questions about the wearer's surroundings and translate languages. Apple is also reportedly developing [...]

14,388-mile nonstop: Airbus sets world record on 24-hour Australia–France flight

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An Airbus A350-1000ULR spent 24 hours and 24 minutes in the air on a nonstop...

Sources: Anthropic's IPO draws multiple times the orders for the shares available; a source says Dario Amodei and Jamie Dimon have a livestream event on Friday (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

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Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Sources: Anthropic's IPO draws multiple times the orders for the shares available; a source says Dario Amodei and Jamie Dimon have a livestream event on Friday  —  Anthropic PBC's initial public offering has drawn multiple times the orders for the shares available, according to people familiar …

US F-35 parts tracking failure raises questions over fighter jet fleet readiness

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The US is facing difficulties tracking millions of spare parts for its F-35 fighter jet...

26%-efficient copper solar cells tested to power 440-pound next-generation spacecraft

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SunDrive Solar, an Australian solar technology company, has begun work to test and integrate its...

Salt Lake City-based energy storage startup Torus raised a $500M Series C led by Magnetar to build shipping container-sized AI data centers at 1MW to 20MW sizes (Mark Chediak/Bloomberg)

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Mark Chediak / Bloomberg:
Salt Lake City-based energy storage startup Torus raised a $500M Series C led by Magnetar to build shipping container-sized AI data centers at 1MW to 20MW sizes  —  Torus, an energy-storage startup, said it raised $500 million in funding to help launch a new shipping container-sized product …

US firm’s throw-and-fly drone reaches 190 mph speed in strike demonstration

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A US defense startup has demonstrated a hand-launched drone striking an armored target, bringing its...

London-based AI chip startup Fractile raised $720M from Thrive, Founders Fund, and others, sources say at a $7B post-money valuation, up from ~$1.1B in May (George Hammond/Financial Times)

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George Hammond / Financial Times:
London-based AI chip startup Fractile raised $720M from Thrive, Founders Fund, and others, sources say at a $7B post-money valuation, up from ~$1.1B in May  —  London-headquartered company is one of a clutch of start-ups developing custom semiconductors for AI

Wesleyan Media Project: political campaigns spent ~$187M on ~300 AI-generated or AI-enhanced ads in the midterms; 90% of tracked AI ads were for GOP candidates (Loreben Tuquero/Poynter)

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Loreben Tuquero / Poynter:
Wesleyan Media Project: political campaigns spent ~$187M on ~300 AI-generated or AI-enhanced ads in the midterms; 90% of tracked AI ads were for GOP candidates  —  Deepfakes and AI-enhanced imagery became commonplace, but campaigns remained wary of voter backlash and the risks of misleading political content

Anthropic's IPO roadshow video: Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness will be "relics of the past" in "less than a decade" (@firesidealpha)

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@firesidealpha:
Anthropic's IPO roadshow video: Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness will be “relics of the past” in “less than a decade”  —  Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness will be relics of the past in less than a decade, and that “we can create an age of miracles”

Game developer House House confirms using AI during Big Walk's final development, sparking an intense debate among Independent Games Festival judges and jurors (Luke Plunkett/Aftermath)

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Luke Plunkett / Aftermath:
Game developer House House confirms using AI during Big Walk's final development, sparking an intense debate among Independent Games Festival judges and jurors  —  'We support the work of those who are trying to limit the harm generative AI is doing to videogames and our world …

German defense tech giant Helsing launches Clarity, an intelligence platform using military-customized AI agents to rival Palantir's Maven and Anduril's Lattice (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)

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Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media:
German defense tech giant Helsing launches Clarity, an intelligence platform using military-customized AI agents to rival Palantir's Maven and Anduril's Lattice  —  Platform uses AI agents to  —  Palantir has Maven, Anduril has Lattice, and now Helsing has... Clarity.

Sources: ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming says the company plans to launch a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks and reach the AI frontier by 2029-2030 (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:
Sources: ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming says the company plans to launch a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks and reach the AI frontier by 2029-2030  —  ByteDance Ltd. plans the release of a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks to augment its lead in AI video …

As Anthropic prepares to IPO, Amazon and Google collectively own 25%+; Amazon's $18B investment could reach $250B+ in value and Google's $33B could hit $140B (Karen Weise/New York Times)

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Karen Weise / New York Times:
As Anthropic prepares to IPO, Amazon and Google collectively own 25%+; Amazon's $18B investment could reach $250B+ in value and Google's $33B could hit $140B  —  Amazon and Google are the largest investors in the A.I. start-up, and their shares could gain hundre

Apple Chip Supplier TSMC Approves $1 Billion AI Investment

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Apple chip supplier TSMC has announced board approval to invest up to $1 billion in AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic. The decision allows TSMC to buy up to $500 million of shares in each company. The board also authorized up to $500 million to create a company that will invest in semiconductor businesses and the wider industry.

TSMC manufactures Apple's custom chips, while OpenAI and Anthropic are developing processors of their own. The investments deepen TSMC's ties with companies that compete with Apple for its most advanced manufacturing capacity, as well as in the AI space more broadly. OpenAI is rumored to be working on [...]

Make Apple Watch Listen for Sounds Like the Doorbell

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One of Apple's accessibility features on iPhone can listen for important sounds around you, such as a doorbell, siren or alarm, and it sends you a notification when it hears one. The feature has been extended to Apple's new Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 models, so the alert reaches your wrist even when your iPhone isn't with you.


It's especially useful for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, but it has everyday uses too. If you wear noise-cancelling headphones while working and don't want to miss the doorbell – if you're expecting a delivery, for example – your Apple Watch can alert you.

Sounds Your Apple Watch Can Detect

Use writing structure to detect AI writing, also mansplaining, and more

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A new paper on detecting AI writing. The robot summary: AI-written company blog posts give themselves away by their shape, not their words: they announce a thesis and a roadmap up front, pitch the subject as the modern fix for a legacy way of working, explain in a confident institutional voice and close by restating […]

Not sure, but fun to look at

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From Robert Brook

Wastebook, Wednesday Morning

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Stubbornly relevant VMs, Databricks in Amsterdam, American fridges could be next, and more.

Burnout by hyper-productivity, and how to deal with it

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You juggle. And all of a sudden you find yourself hopping between 20 threads, trying to keep all those contexts in your brain RAM. Until you can’t. Your brain gets exhausted, your focus smashes, and you don’t know anymore what you were doing, where you started, and where you were supposed to finish." 🔗 How […]

Maybe there’s net-zero job loss from AI

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Yes: The [German] Federal Employment Agency assumes that artificial intelligence leads to profound changes. According to her boss Andrea Nahles, about 800,000 jobs could be lost in the next 15 years. But: At the same time, a similar number of new jobs is likely to be created. The current data thus indicate less of an […]

'Apple Support Community' Permanently Closing on November 20

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Apple today announced that the long-running Apple Support Community discussion forums will be permanently closing on Friday, November 20.


Effectively immediately, the Apple Support Community forums are in a read-only state, with new posts no longer being accepted. The final message posted to the site appears to have been submitted at 5:49 p.m. Pacific Time today.

There is still a sign-in button, but it leads to an internal portal for Apple's corporate employees.

Apple's full notice added to the site:

The Apple Support Community will permanently close on November 20, 2026. Starting today, the site will no longer accept new po

Chinese Govt. Stacks Charges On Jailed Joshua Wong To Keep Him Imprisoned Another Decade

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The so-called National Security Law that the Hong Kong government ratified back in 2020 strikes again. This law, which broke the agreement made when the UK handed Hong Kong back to the Chinese government three decades ago, has since been used to jail and silence all kinds of pro-democracy voices that cause communists to shiver […]

Apple's Holiday Gift Guide Highlights iPhone Duo and More

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Apple this week updated its homepage in the U.S. and other countries to start promoting holiday gift suggestions as the shopping season approaches.


The website has colorful, festive imagery featuring Apple devices, along with suggestions on what you can buy for your loved ones and friends.

Apple's top highlighted products are its newest devices:

• iPhone 18 Pro - $1,199


• Apple Watch Series 12 - $399


• MacBook Pro - $1,999


• Apple HomeView - $299


• iPad

Three Workers Die at Tata iPhone Parts Plant in India

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Three contract workers died on Monday at a factory owned by Indian Apple supplier Tata Electronics, reports Reuters. The facility in Hosur, Tamil Nadu, manufactures components for the iPhone.


The workers were performing maintenance at a wastewater treatment plant at the Tata facility when they inhaled gas while inspecting a nano-filtration tank. The plant was operated by Nalco Water, and the workers were employed by a subcontractor.

Apple, Tata Electronics, and state officials will look into the incident, with Apple sending a "team" to assist in the investigation.

The incident did not affect iPhone production because the facility was closed for Diwali. [...]

iCloud Mail, Calendar, Contacts and More Experiencing Outage [Updated]

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Some iCloud services are experiencing an outage, according to Apple's System Status page. ‌iCloud‌ Calendar, ‌iCloud‌ Contacts, ‌iCloud‌ Mail, iWork for ‌iCloud‌, and Game Center are affected.


Apple says some users are experiencing issues with the services. The outage began at 5:49 p.m. Eastern Time.

Find My is also having problems and Apple says it may be slow or unavailable.

We'll update this article when the services are back online.

Update: As of 7:22 p.m. ET, the ‌iCloud‌ Mail, ‌iCloud‌ Calendar, and ‌iCloud‌ Contacts outages are listed as resolved. [...]

Apple's Claris Testing 'Harbor' App for Local AI on Macs

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Apple's Claris subsidiary is testing an app called Harbor, which turns Apple silicon Macs into a private AI server.


Harbor works with a single Apple silicon Mac, but it also supports connecting multiple Mac computers over Thunderbolt 5 to pool unified memory for larger models. Apple added RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 with macOS Tahoe 26.2, making clustering faster.

Harbor detects devices connected over Thunderbolt 5 and lets users browse for, download, and load open-weight models. It's described as an easy-to-use app with no manual configuration required.

Harbor turns your Mac into a private AI inference server. Run open-weight models locally on Apple silicon—your data never l

Seagate's new hybrid drive raises some old questions

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The FireCuda Forge revisits an old idea, with some familiar questions.

Why VPNs Are Worth Defending

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Developers of virtual private network (VPN) apps are reporting that their products are again being pulled from Apple’s App Store in Russia. This is an unacceptable crackdown on a vital tool to protect privacy and speech online. Why? VPNs give people a way to control their own online activities. When you visit a website through […]

Ring cameras go mobile as Amazon debuts AI-powered security drone and robot

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Amazon's roaming Ring Robotics devices will debut in late 2026 and early 2027.

iFixit's PROLED MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals Logo LEDs

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iFixit today took apart Apple's touchscreen PROLED MacBook Pro to see how Apple shed weight, what powers the logo, and how it compares to the 14-inch M6 ‌MacBook Pro‌.

Tone-Deaf Attorney General Todd Blanche Says ALPRs Aren’t A Privacy Concern

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Sure, this administration isn’t just tone-deaf, but life-deaf. But it must be pointed out that what AG Todd Blanche is doing here comes in opposition to members of his own party. Every since it became readily apparent that hundreds of law enforcement officers were regularly abusing access to ALPR (automatic license plate reader) databases to […]

Beyond Test Cards: A Fake Payment Provider for Testing at Scale

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Written by Savelii Kolesnikov, Jay Patel, and Ivanna Sivak

Background

Lyft processes billions in payments annually, and that volume continues to grow. Agentic coding has drastically accelerated feature development, but it raises the stakes for the one phase that cannot be rushed: ensuring the highest standards of reliability and correctness in critical payment systems.

Every payment platform eventually hits the same wall. Unit tests cover business rules, integration tests validate boundaries, and load tests push upstream limits, but standard testing stops the moment a

10 Free iPhone Duo Apps Worth Downloading

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We've done two rounds of iPhone Duo app picks so far, and now we're back with an overview of some of the best Duo apps you can get for free. MacRumors videographer Dan Barbera demos his suggestions for apps worth checking out.

Apple Releases New AirPods Firmware

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Apple today released new firmware for the AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4, AirPods 5, and AirPods Max 2. The firmware has a build number of 9B47, up from 9A348/9A350.


Apple has been beta testing the new firmware for the last several weeks, but hasn't yet offered details on what's included in the software. Apple has an AirPods support document that it will update with information soon.

Firmware updates can be downloaded by connecting the AirPods to an Apple device and connecting them to power. [...]

Anthropic wants Claude to be the front end for your entire enterprise app stack

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Anthropic is expanding Claude’s ability to work directly inside enterprise applications; it can now open full software interfaces, retrieve information,

The post Anthropic wants Claude to be the front end for your entire enterprise app stack appeared first on The New Stack.

From Pirates To Protesters, France Keeps Reaching For The Internet’s Choke Points

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Back during the Arab Spring in 2011, in which youth protests against various governments were celebrated in much of the Western World, we saw countries like Egypt move to shut down the internet in an effort to keep the public from communicating. I’ve been thinking about that a lot while following a series of stories […]

Pixel phones getting new icon styles, Create My Widget, and more in November Pixel Drop

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Spruce up your home screen with expanded custom icons and AI-generated widgets.

Daily Deal: Rosetta Stone Sapphire 1-Year Subscription

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Rosetta Stone Sapphire combines over 30 years of language-learning expertise with immersive technology designed to help you speak naturally and confidently in real-world situations. Trusted by millions of learners worldwide, Sapphire brings together structured lessons, pronunciation coaching, conversation practice, flashcards, and personalized learning tools in one complete platform. Built around Rosetta Stone’s proven Dynamic Immersion […]

Free video-streaming service Tubi lets users share curated watchlists now

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User-based recommendations could make it easier to find stuff to watch on Tubi.

Amazon Begins Early Black Friday Sale, Featuring Sitewide Discounts on Tech and Decor

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Amazon has joined in on early Black Friday deals this week, with sitewide savings across TVs, headphones, Amazon devices, Apple products, and much more. Another retailer offering a major early Black Friday sale right now is Best Buy.

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.

Amazon's official Black Friday sale is set to kick off next Thursday, November 19, but ahead of that time it's offering big early discounts for the season. The official Black Friday event will run thro [...]

Houston Mayor Ends ICE Cooperation After Governor Abbott Shits The Bed In The Mid-Terms

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Texas governor Greg “Piss Baby” Abbott lost his office during the mid-terms. What a shame. The guy who spent years engaging in attacks on free speech when not trying to turn all of Texas into a thin blue line finally got kicked to the curb by residents who were sick of both his shit and […]

Apple Announces Swift Student Challenge Ahead of WWDC 2027

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Apple today announced the Swift Student Challenge for 2027, with submissions set to be accepted from February 8 to February 28, 2027.


The Swift Student Challenge is an annual contest that gives young developers worldwide a chance to show off their creativity and app development skills by creating an app. Apple says students should submit an app built in Xcode or Swift Playground that can be experienced within three minutes.

Students can submit an app for any platform this year, which is new. In prior years, apps were designed for iOS devices.

Ahead of the contest, Apple is offering students tutorials and Meet with Apple online sessions to learn new coding intelligence features and get inspiration for their pro [...]

Next iPad Air Likely to Have These 10 New Features

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Earlier today, it was once again reported that the next-generation iPad Air will be equipped with an OLED display, albeit with a 60Hz refresh rate. That is not all, of course, with the new iPad mini announced last month likely providing us with a preview of some other upgrades coming to the iPad Air in the first half of 2027.


Below, we have outlined 10 new features that are likely for the next iPad Air:

• OLED display with more vivid colors and increased contrast ratio, but likely 60Hz still


• Thinner bezels around the display


• Nano-texture display option for reduced glare


• M5

iPad Mini 2021 vs. 2026 Buyer's Guide: Is It Worth Upgrading?

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Apple's eighth-generation iPad mini went on sale earlier this month with a larger OLED display, a thinner and lighter design, the A20 Pro chip, and water and dust resistance. If you still use the sixth-generation ‌iPad mini‌ from 2021, the upgrade also brings changes that debuted on the 2024 model, including Apple Intelligence, Apple Pencil Pro support, and twice the USB-C transfer speed.


The new ‌iPad min [...]

Hiring Junior Engineers

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Several people have asked me what the qualifications are for junior software engineers to be hired these days. This level is often referred to as “new grad,” but people with lots of different backgrounds, not just recent university graduates, can use the entry-level software engineering role as their first job in big tech.

For example, in my early career I worked as a generalist in nonprofit after studying environmental economics. Then, using experience managing a website as part of my job, coding personal projects, and going through a software bootcamp, I moved into a junior SWE role as the foundation of my career in engineering.

Once you’re in the SWE field, your background is not an overwhelming predictor of success in your job. So what is?

The #1 qualifier I look for in hiring junior software engineers is mindset and soft skills. Curiosity, humility, and eagernes

Your Algorithm: Giving People More Ways to Personalize Facebook Recommendations

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Your algorithm is a suite of AI-powered tools that makes Facebook recommendations more transparent and steerable, with a single editable view of the interests that shape Feed and Reels. We’re sharing how Your algorithm turns people’s natural language preferences into responsive recommendations, and how LLMs are tailored to specific tasks within the system. Traditionally, the [...]

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The post Your Algorithm: Giving People More Ways to Personalize Facebook Recommendations appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

How We Built TLX: A Hardware-Native GPU Compiler for Production ML at Scale

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Triton Low-Level Extensions (TLX), is an extension to Triton that helps engineers optimize GPU performance while preserving Triton’s productive programming model.  TLX introduces explicit warp-group and cluster-level orchestration, letting developers adopt new hardware capabilities without sacrificing velocity.  TLX has demonstrated performance improvements in RecSys training, RecSys inference, and large-scale LLM pretraining. Modern GPU architectures increasingly [...]

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The post How We Built TLX: A Hardware-Native GPU Compiler for Production ML at Scale appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

New Apple TV Sign Language Feature Announced

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Apple today announced a new accessibility feature for the Apple TV app that gives viewers the option to watch supported movies and shows with on-screen sign language interpretation. An interpreter will appear in the bottom-right corner of the screen, with the experience said to have been designed and tested by Deaf and native signers.


The feature is available in the Apple TV app on devices running iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, macOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2, and visionOS 27.2 or later.

American Sign Language (ASL) and British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation will be available for Being Heumann, which chronicles the s [...]

Self-service regional failover with Amazon Application Recovery Controller Region Switch and centralized ingress controls

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Application teams in regulated enterprises can execute self-service regional failover with Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region Switch, even behind centrally managed ingress proxy fleets. Learn how Transit Gateway peering, Route 53 Private Hosted Zones, and VPC Lattice preserve security controls while removing cross-team coordination during DR.

Google says Gemini 4 Carbon proved Signal’s encryption in weeks

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Google released Gemini 4 Carbon to paying developers Tuesday, positioning its newest frontier model above Gemini 4 Argon for complex

The post Google says Gemini 4 Carbon proved Signal’s encryption in weeks appeared first on The New Stack.

Disable Touch on MacBook Pro PROLED XDR and When Using Sidecar

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Apple has long rejected the idea of a touchscreen Mac, so moving ahead with one was always going to be a major shift in the company's thinking. In 2010, Steve Jobs argued that "touch surfaces don't want to be vertical," citing the arm fatigue that comes from repeatedly reaching up to a screen.

SpaceXSI quietly flips Grok API text watermarking to off by default

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The thorny issue of watermarking AI-generated text took an interesting turn this past week, with SpaceXSI seemingly U-turning on plans

The post SpaceXSI quietly flips Grok API text watermarking to off by default appeared first on The New Stack.

New CNCF report: 75% of cloud-native developers ship code with AI. Jonathan Bryce explains why.

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Today’s developers are AI-pilled. Cloud native developers even more so. That’

Nvidia has a Jensen Huang problem—and no obvious successor

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Huang faces a board probe as investors fret over Nvidia’s lack of a clear successor.

Trump Lied: Taxpayers Paid For Those Dodgy DOGE Bro Starlink Terminals Duct-Taped To The White House Roof

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Last year you might recall how Elon Musk’s dodgy DOGE bros illegally stole vast troves of government datasets. Some of these random, unqualified assholes stole data simply using USB drives. But you might recall how many of the DOGE bros had also installed Starlink terminals duct-taped to the White House roof (and the Eisenhower Executive […]

Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand

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Ukraine competes with Russia and data centers for China’s optical fiber supply.

Review: Apple's M6 MacBook Pro is good, but it's missing all the exciting stuff

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Per usual, the basic MacBook Pro lags behind the flagships where it counts.

Floor Plan

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From The Library of Congress

A living design system

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If you’ve software recently, you know that design is neglected – do you enjoy using the site are? Are you confused by it? That’s the from lack of good design. Why not get some help from everyone’s favorite little buddy? It’s a good example of how AI can be used to fix a problem and […]

Teens doing better

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Are smart phones actually not the devil’s work? [O]ver the last half-decade or so, the idea that there’s been a spiraling mental health crisis among teens has become so widely accepted we’ve moved on from freaking out about the pattern to debating its causes. One popular hypothesis, advanced by Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge, is […]

Wastebook for Tuesday

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VMs still running 53% of production, chicken sandwich wars, year-long vacations, and more.

Messing with a good thing for profits

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Changing ingredients to make chocolate cheaper and have a better shelf-life makes the chocolate both taste worse and not actually chocolate. But, perhaps, the alternative is chocolate priced at what it really costs, which would leave real chocolate to the rich. A sweet quandary! 🔗 Chocolate Is Getting Worse: Blind Test Scores Today’s Reese’s Cup […]

Gearing up for the datacenter wars

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The midterms gave Democrats a mandate against data centers, billionaire election spending and AI that threatens jobs, but a mandate against something isn’t a plan. If Congress repeats the three mistakes that sank social media regulation – no coherent goal, no fallback, and advocates working in silos – AI will end up regulated by courts […]

AI won’t fix your broken culture

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Most new enterprise technology requires you to change how you work to get full advantage and benefits. “Containers won’t fix your broken culture” and all that. There comes a time in all enterprise new technology where this point has to be made. The most valuable technology doesn’t let you improve how you’re currently working, it […]

The SaaSpocolyse was just too early, but it’ll creep back

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All around me, I see people creating software using LLM-powered code generators. They are doing it differently than traditional software developers. These people are not thinking about launching an app or a service or a platform. They do not have VC dollar signs in their eyes. They are just making software when they need it, […]

Is the White House hacked?

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A case that lax security and respect for policy has compromised Federal IT. Following good security practices requires trust and believe in the system you’re protecting: Because they’re too ignorant, corrupt, and victictive to believe in having a functional federal government, they don’t put much stock in stuff like multi-factor authentication (MFA) or Common Access […]

RFK Jr. Is Seeking To Spend Taxpayer Dollars On ‘Faith-Based’ Addiction Recovery Programs

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The injection and prioritization of religion into government institutions, specifically Christianity, is a very real thing. This sort of Christo-fascism shows up in a variety of ways. Attempts to inject Judeo-Christian icons and messages into public classrooms. Pete Hegseth’s attempt to create a “Religious Affairs” office at the Pentagon, likewise trying to claim that this […]

France Briefly Voted To Tax Data By The Gigabyte. It Lasted Five Days.

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There are times I wonder if the leaders of France and Australia have a secret bet to see which one of them can come up with worse internet policy than the other. Apparently it’s France’s turn. As a few sources have been reporting, French lawmakers slipped an amendment into the country’s budget bill that is […]

A $60 billion fintech hired a 14-year-old. Its CEO explains why.

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Ramp hired a 14-year-old intern after discovering an app he had built for fun that attracted attention from roughly a

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Theater Chains Pout About Shorter Streaming Release Windows, Refuse To Show David Fincher’s Latest Film

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Among the dated and dumb business concepts exposed as folly during the COVID-19 pandemic was the traditional Hollywood film release window, which originally involved a 90 day gap between the time a move appears in theaters and its streaming or DVD release (in France this window is even more ridiculous at three years). Opposition to […]

A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory management

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We verified the RAM numbers are real without sending any emails to OpenAI.

Transforming fleet analytics for Novus Hi-Tech through agentic AI

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Learn how Novus Hi-Tech, with the AWS Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering (PACE) team, built FleetGPT, an agentic AI solution on Amazon Bedrock that turns fleet IoT data into real-time safety interventions through natural language querying, automated investigation, and AI-powered driver voice calls, cutting road-behavior violations by 46% and drowsiness alerts by 55%.

How DeepL keeps closest-exit routing during maintenance with AWS Cloud WAN

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DeepL runs a multi-Region hybrid network across multiple AWS Regions and AWS Direct Connect locations. See how DeepL drains a single Direct Connect link for planned maintenance without packet loss or cross-Region rerouting, using AWS Cloud WAN and an on-premises AS_PATH prepend so every other Region keeps its closest-exit routing.

Anthropic launches Fable 5.2 with a price cut and stronger coding scores

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On Monday, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, the latest versions of its duo of flagship models. Like before,

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Google claims its new AI software cuts inference latency by over 90% — but there’s a catch

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Google’s eighth-generation TPU announcement on Monday included more than new chips, introducing TPU Sync, an open-source system designed to speed

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Cursor and Google join OpenAI in giving coding agents a voice. Claude Code stays silent.

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Two of the biggest players in the AI coding space are betting that developers want to talk to their agents

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Meta launches Muse Ember to take on Claude Haiku and GPT-6 Luna

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Meta on Monday debuted Muse Ember, a smaller, more efficient multimodal member of its Muse model family. The company is

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AI Product Management at Spotify: A View From Three Angles

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Almost every article or podcast about product management and AI refers to "the AI PM" as one job. But what...

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Fact-Checking at Scale: Building a More Accurate and Efficient Synopsis Factuality System

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By Shreya S Ramanujam, Yongce Li, Afshine Amidi, Sina Ghiassian, Benjamin Klein.

Introduction

Picture this — you’re home after a long day at work and can’t wait to catch up on Bridgerton. You log on to Netflix, search for “Bridgerton” and land on this screen:

If this sounds familiar, you already know what a synopsis is — it’s a short glimpse into what a viewer can expect to see in a show. We see two types of synopses here: a series-level synopsis describing the overarching plot, and multi

Extending LLDB to Debug Applications That Span CPUs and GPUs

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We built a vendor-neutral accelerator plugin architecture in lldb-server for debugging applications that span CPUs and GPUs. It separates shared debugger infrastructure from hardware-specific device control. The design represents the CPU and GPU as separate debugger processes while presenting them in one debugging session. Modern AI applications rarely execute in one place. A workload can [...]

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Medium is launching a new note-taking app called TK

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For the first time ever, Medium is becoming more than just a blogging platform. The company is launching a new app, called TK, that combines note taking and journaling with something resembling a private social network. The app is meant to get you writing more, and help you share that writing with friends and fans. […]

Why semantic layers will be essential for enterprise AI

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AI can find your data. It can’t read your mind. AI agents can already reach into your CRM, your warehouse,

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