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| Tom's Hardware: |
Apple unveils the $599+ MacBook Neo, with a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, an A18 Pro chip, side-firing speakers, a 1080p webcam, two USB-C ports, and Touch ID — Apple debuts a new entry-level MacBook at just the right time — Apple finally took the wraps off its long-rumored budget laptop.
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Apple's MacBook Neo uses the A18 Pro that launched in its iPhone 16 range, alongside 8GB of RAM and a headphone jack; Apple discontinued its 12" MacBook in 2019 — The entry-level MacBook could help Apple compete with Chromebooks and low-cost Windows laptops.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
The MacBook Neo is $599 with 256GB of storage and $699 with Touch ID and 512GB of storage, available in citrus, silver, indigo, and blush colors — Apple Inc. rolled out the $599 MacBook Neo in its biggest push yet into low-end laptops, aiming to challenge Windows PCs and Chromebooks for budget-minded shoppers.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
MacBook Neo hands-on: a new product category for Apple, and it doesn't look budget with a vibrant display and aluminum body, but the keyboard is a bit flimsy — But of course, it's light on specs. … It's just fascinating to see the company tackle an entirely new category …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Verge, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, and The Mac Observer
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony no longer plans to release its big single-player PlayStation 5 games on PC, a major strategy shift that sees it returning to console exclusivity — The video-game publisher no longer plans to put out PC ports of PlayStation games such as ‘Ghost of Yotei’
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Bluesky: @jasonschreier and @jasonschreier
| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Polymarket removes long-running markets that let users bet on if a nuclear weapon will be detonated, amid the Iran strikes; a 2025 contract had $1.7M+ in volume — Nuclear weapon-themed markets aren't new on the prediction market platform, but public outcry about the contracts has apparently forced the platform to delete them.
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| Amy Fan / New York Times: |
Analysis: since 2025's end, Polymarket users rarely bet large sums on US strikes by the next day; the day before the Iran strikes, 150+ accounts made such bets — Polymarket users placed hundreds of bets of at least $1,000 predicting an imminent American strike, raising concerns about insider trading.
More: PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, and crypto.news
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| Reuters: |
Sources: some investors push Anthropic to de-escalate its DOD dispute and avoid the “supply-chain risk” designation; source: some Anthropic-DOD talks continue — Some Anthropic investors are racing to contain fallout from the AI research lab's dispute with the Pentagon …
More: The Milli Chronicle and Semafor
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic recently passed $19B in run-rate revenue, up from $9B at the end of 2025 and ~$14B a few weeks ago, as its clash with the US DOD casts doubt — Anthropic PBC is on track to generate annual revenue of almost $20 billion, a projection based on current performance … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
More: Times of India, Financial Times, CNBC, and Axios
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| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
A US lawsuit says Gemini sent a man to find an android body it could inhabit, before he died by suicide; Google says it sent him to crisis hotlines “many times” — A new lawsuit alleges Google's chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit.
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Google, CNET, RTÉ, Futurism, Engadget, Semafor, The Guardian, Mercury News, The Keyword, Time, Bloomberg Law, and New York Post
Forums: r/technology and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Washington Post: |
Sources: the US used Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated with Claude, to find and prioritize 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran — Advanced AI technology is identifying targets in Iran and quickly prioritizing them, supporting the massive military operations carried out by U.S. and Israeli forces.
More: Slate, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Financial Times
Bluesky: @willoremus.com, @baileymcc, @jaylyall, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @duhe, and @convergingriskslab. Forums: r/technology
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5.4, with an “extreme” reasoning mode and a 1M-token context window, matching past models but up from GPT-5.2's 400K — OpenAI's next GPT model is coming—and soon, according to a person with knowledge of it.| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Apple changes its CPU terminology alongside the M5 Pro and M5 Max, renaming “performance cores” to “super cores” and “efficiency cores” to “performance cores” — One of the most surprising parts of Apple's announcement on Tuesday of new M5 Pro …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government — A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more.
More: Google Cloud Blog, TechCrunch, iVerify, The Register, Decrypt, HotHardware, New York Post, Nextgov/FCW, AppleInsider, Phandroid, The Overspill, Silicon Republic, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Risky Business, Boing Boing, CyberScoop, and Help Net Security
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Bluesky: @joparkerbear, @ssg.dev, and @couts
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/hacking, r/TrueReddit, r/ios, r/iphone, r/Malware, r/blackhat, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down, and two other team members leave; one contributor says “I know leaving wasn't your choice” — Alibaba's Qwen AI project has lost one of its most visible technical leaders just a day after the Chinese tech giant unveiled …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, VentureBeat, and Business Standard
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Trump says “the GENIUS Act is being threatened and undermined by the banks”, which are holding the CLARITY Act hostage, as they oppose stablecoin yield payouts — U.S. President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the banking industry is trying to undermine the stablecoin bill he signed into law last year.
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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
TikTok says it won't add E2EE to DMs because it would prevent police and its safety teams from reading messages when needed and it wants to protect young users — TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) - the controversial privacy feature used by nearly all its rivals - arguing it makes users less safe.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/nottheonion, r/privacy, and Slashdot
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Corning unveils Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3 for smartphones, promising better protection against years of drops, first launching on the upcoming Motorola Razr Fold — Corning has announced Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3, a new upgrade to smartphone cover glass that promises protection against years of drops …
More: Corning, SammyGuru, Droid Life, and Digital Trends
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the White House is debating whether to allow Tencent to maintain stakes in US and Finnish video game companies; Tencent holds a 28% stake in Epic Games — Chinese company's investments in ‘Fortnite’ creator Epic Games and other creators have faced long-running US security review
More: Reuters, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Tom's Hardware, Blockonomi, Game World Observer, Video Games Chronicle, Gamereactor UK, Benzinga, PocketGamer.biz, and TechNode
Forums: r/fuckepic and r/gachagaming
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Arda, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew to automate manufacturing using AI, is raising $70M at a $700M valuation — Bob McGrew is raising $70 million to fund a startup making software platform to help run autonomous factories| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
The Media Trust report: online ads surpassed email as the primary malware channel in 2025, accounting for 60%+ of all observed malware and phishing campaigns — Follow Lara O'Reilly … - Online ads leapfrogged email as the primary channel for malware in 2025, per a new report.
More: The Record, Cyber Security News, Yahoo Finance, and Malwarebytes
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Eight Sleep, which sells smart mattress accessories to track sleep patterns and adjust temperatures, raised $50M at a $1.5B valuation, up from $500M in 2021 — Sleep tech company Eight Sleep today said that it has raised $50 million in a strategic round led by Tether Investments at a valuation of $1.5 billion.
More: Tether, DL News, FinSMEs, The Block, CoinDesk, Blockchain.News, Blockonomi, Tech Funding News, Crunchbase News, and Ventureburn
| Vivian Wang / New York Times: |
Unlike in the West, Chinese policymakers and the public seem more optimistic about AI, likely because Chinese tech companies focus on real-world applications — Chinese policymakers and the public have expressed high levels of optimism about A.I., even as many in the West worry …
Bluesky: @cipher-db
| Hyunsu Yim / Reuters: |
An OpenAI spokesperson says Sam Altman misspoke in saying OpenAI was looking to deploy on all NATO classified networks, adding he meant “unclassified networks” — OpenAI is considering a contract to deploy its AI technology on North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) …
More: Blockonomi, iLounge, Gizmodo, The Information, CNBC, and Wall Street Journal
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Epic v. Google: the companies propose a settlement that would have Google share its Play Store app catalog with rivals and allow alternate app stores on Android — Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Epic Games Inc. proposed a new settlement Wednesday to resolve a long-running antitrust case between the two companies.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Neura Robotics, which is building cognitive, humanoid robots for logistics, is raising ~€1B in a funding round backed by Tether at a ~€4B valuation — German startup Neura Robotics is raising about €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in a funding round backed … | Wall Street Journal: |
Kraken says its banking unit won “master account” access to the US Fed's core payment systems, making it the first crypto company that can move money like banks — ‘Master account’ approval gives firm access to the same payment rail as thousands of banks and credit unions
More: Decrypt, Ledger Insights, PYMNTS.com, Business Wire, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Inc.com, Crypto Briefing, Benzinga, Blockonomi, Crypto in America, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, Bitcoin Magazine, CoinDesk, and ZeroHedge News
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
A top Call of Duty leaker, TheGhostOfHope on X, says he'll stop after Activision “legally demanded” he “stop leaking and disseminating confidential information” — TheGhostOfHope is complying with legal demands to stop disseminating confidential information.
More: Kotaku, Video Games Chronicle, Dexerto, and KitGuru
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