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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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| 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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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple's MacBook Neo has two USB-C ports with different specs: one is USB-C 3 with up to 10 Gb/s transfer speeds, and the other is USB-C 2, limited to 480 Mb/s — The MacBook Neo's two USB-C ports have two different specifications, with one being limited to USB 2 speeds.
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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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| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members — The marketplace was one of the world's largest hubs for cybercrime with more than 142,000 members.
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Forums: r/hacking and r/cybersecurity
| 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 …
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| Hyunsu Yim / Reuters: |
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Google announces an Android app store program and lower developer fees to resolve Epic's antitrust litigation and comply with new rules in Europe and elsewhere — Alphabet Inc.'s Google unveiled a new system for apps on its Android phones and tablets Wednesday, agreeing to easier access …
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LinkedIn: Aurash Mahbod and Lee Rawles
Bluesky: @nicetopatrick and @zhugeex.com
| 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.
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| 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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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Tencent-owned Finnish game company Supercell says it is cooperating with a CFIUS security probe of Tencent's data practices — Supercell Oy, the Finnish game company owned by Tencent Holdings Ltd., said it's cooperating with a US government security probe of its Chinese parent's data practices.
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| Financial Times: |
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Forums: r/fuckepic and r/gachagaming
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's recent $30B investment in OpenAI “might be the last time” it invests in the company, because OpenAI is “going to go public” — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company's recent $30 billion investment in OpenAI “might be the last time” … | 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, iVerify, TechCrunch, Decrypt, Militarnyi, HotHardware, iDrop News, Android Headlines, Nextgov/FCW, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Risky Business, Boing Boing, and CyberScoop
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LinkedIn: Brian Murphy, Etizaz Mohsin, and Patrick Wardle
Bluesky: @joparkerbear and @ssg.dev
Forums: r/technology, r/hacking, r/TrueReddit, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Google Pixel 10a review: long battery life and a good camera with no bump, but weak gaming performance and barely an upgrade from the Pixel 9a — Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. — Google's budget Pixels have long been a top recommendation for anyone who needs a phone …
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| 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.| 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
| 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 …
More: PYMNTS.com and The Ankler
| 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| Jasper Goodman / Politico: |
Sources: President Trump met with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on March 3 before publicly bashing banks for their GENIUS Act stance, echoing Coinbase's position — President Donald Trump met privately on Tuesday with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong before publicly backing the company's position …
More: CoinDesk, Benzinga, Cointelegraph, ZyCrypto, Blockchain.News, and Bitcoin Magazine
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
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