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| Apple: |
Apple refreshes the 14" and 16" MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max: up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing, up to 2x faster SSD speeds, and 1TB of base storage — The world's best pro laptop raises the bar again with blazing-fast CPU and GPU performance, plus up to 2x faster SSD speeds and 1TB of starting storage
More: Daring Fireball, Apple on YouTube, MacRumors, MacStories, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, Michael Tsai, ZDNET, Android Headlines, CNBC, TechEBlog, SlashGear, Mashable, CGMagazine, PhoneArena, BGR, The Mac Observer, Redmond Pie, New York Post, iPhone in Canada, Rolling Out, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, Moneycontrol, Cult of Mac, Six Colors, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, iClarified, and AppleInsider
X: @stevemoser, @vadimyuryev, @rjonesy, @leyeconnect, @joshkale, @markgurman, @awnihannun, @neilcybart, @avstorm, @classicii_mrmac, @markgurman, @gregjoz, @lukemiani, @mkbhd, @samsheffer, @nandoprince93, @ijustine, @brandonbutch, @vadimyuryev, @brandonbutch, @markgurman, @avstorm, @thekitze, @markgurman, @michaelgofman, and @elder_plinius. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski. Bluesky: @tcarmody
Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/mac, r/macbookpro, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils the M5 MacBook Air in 13" and 15" sizes, boosting its starting price by $100 to $1,099 and doubling base storage to 512GB, shipping from March 11 — Apple has officially announced the new M5 MacBook Air. While the starting price has increased by $100, it now comes with double …
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X: @mkbhd, @nathievr, @segalink, @mweinbach, @alz_zyd_, @joannastern, @raywongy, @leakerapple, and @adrianweckler. LinkedIn: Christy Jones
Forums: r/macgaming, r/technology, r/hardware, r/macbook, and r/apple
| Apple: |
Apple updates the $1,599+ Studio Display and unveils a $3,299+ 27" 5K Studio Display XDR, with a 120Hz refresh rate, a mini-LED backlight, and up to 2,000 nits — Studio Display XDR is the world's best pro display, featuring a 27-inch 5K Retina XDR display with a mini-LED backlight …
More: AppleInsider, MacStories, 9to5Mac, Neowin, DigiTimes, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Six Colors, Appleosophy, TidBITS, MobileSyrup, The Mac Observer, XDA Developers, Imaging Resource, Curb Cuts, Mashable, CNET, Tailosive Tech on YouTube, AppleInsider, PetaPixel, Trusted Reviews, Digital Trends, Geeky Gadgets, MacRumors, PCMag, Business Standard, iPhone in Canada, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Mac Observer, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, TechRadar, Moneycontrol, MacTech.com, iClarified, 9to5Mac, The Verge, VideoCardz.com, MacTrast, Engadget, The Apple Post, The Shortcut, and FlatpanelsHD
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LinkedIn: Brad Ford, Antoine Rosset, Scott Joyce, and Lance Lin. Bluesky: @johnspurlock.com. Mastodon: @viticci@mastodon …
Forums: Hacker News, r/HiDPI_monitors, r/Monitors, r/macbookpro, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Apple: |
Apple unveils the M5 Pro and M5 Max, offering a new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture, a next-generation up-to-40-core GPU with Neural Accelerators, and more — Built using the new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture, M5 Pro and M5 Max feature an advanced CPU, a next-generation GPU with Neural Accelerators …
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Forums: r/MacStudio, r/hardware, r/macbookpro, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Engadget: |
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X: @markgurman and @markgurman
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
OpenAI's red lines within its DOD agreement are built upon legal language that the NSA has redefined over decades to permit the things they appear to prohibit — Within hours on Friday, the Pentagon blacklisted one AI company for refusing to drop its safety commitments on surveillance … | Wall Street Journal: |
More: Gizmodo, The Information, Forbes, and The Hill
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
More: LASST. X: @valhalla_dev, @scaling01, and @sean_from_earth
Bluesky: @carnage4life and @kevincollier
Forums: r/technology and r/politics
| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
More: Platformer, Futurism, The Guardian, The Economic Times, New York Times, The Decoder, Observer, New York Post, Slate, MS NOW, Breitbart, Times of India, Financial Times, and Axios
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @linh.social, @langdongrant, and @wittywebhandle
Forums: r/UnderReportedNews, r/politics, r/BetterOffline, r/news, and r/technology
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic recently surpassed $19B in run-rate revenue, up from $9B at the end of 2025 and roughly $14B a few weeks ago — Anthropic PBC is on track to generate annual revenue of almost $20 billion, a projection based on current performance, more than doubling its run rate from late last year … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down; two other members of the Qwen team also leave — Alibaba's Qwen AI project has lost one of its most visible technical leaders just a day after the Chinese tech giant unveiled its new Qwen 3.5 open-weight small models.
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, and VentureBeat
X: @justinlin610, @kxli_2000, @cherry_cc12, @huybery, @wzhao_nlp, @kxli_2000, @yuchenj_uw, @xianbao_qian, @himanshustwts, @chujiezheng, @beffjezos, @natolambert, @frontier_foid, @youjiacheng, @bryancsk, @crystalsssup, @tydsh, @altryne, @kevinsxu, @phequals7, @jeremyphoward, @teortaxestex, and @scaling01
| 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, AppleInsider, Nextgov/FCW, Mobile EDR Security, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Risky Business, CyberScoop, Boing Boing, and Help Net Security
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LinkedIn: Etizaz Mohsin and Patrick Wardle
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Forums: Hacker News, r/hacking, r/ios, r/blackhat, r/TrueReddit, r/iphone, and Slashdot
| The Keyword: |
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, which it says delivers “enhanced performance” at a fraction of the cost of larger models and outperforms 2.5 Flash — Get best-in-class intelligence for your highest-volume workloads. … Today, we're introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite …
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines — Google will let users of its Android mobile operating system set up custom calling cards and share their live location in messages …
More: The Keyword, The Keyword, The Keyword, Moneycontrol, 9to5Google, ZDNET, Android Police, Android Authority, Skift, Droid Life, TechCrunch, Android Headlines, Thurrott, and How-To Geek
X: @natlungfy and @mishaalrahman
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
More: Android Authority, Digital Trends, and Android Developers Blog
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant, which it says delivers more accurate answers and better-contextualized results when searching the web, for all ChatGPT users — Today, we're releasing an update to ChatGPT's most-used model that makes everyday conversations more consistently helpful and fluid.
More: The Register, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, Gizchina, Neowin, Decrypt, and The Decoder
X: @openai, @openai, @luke_metro, @christinahkim, @iruletheworldmo, @kimmonismus, @therealadamg, @mweinbach, @openai, @nickaturley, @tukifromkl, @kimmonismus, @sauers_, @tszzl, @thezvi, and @kareldoostrlnck
Forums: Hacker News, r/just4ochat, r/therapyGPT, r/accelerate, and r/OpenAI
| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
More: Moneycontrol, TechCrunch, The New Stack, 9to5Mac, Crypto Briefing, iClarified, Digit, and Sherwood News
Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz, @tcarmody, and @paularmstrongtbd
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being “threatened and undermined” by banks, following their opposition to 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.
More: Gizmodo, DL News, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, The Hill, The Block, Bloomberg, Politico, Raw Story, and BeInCrypto
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
An internal DHS document shows CBP used location data sourced from the online ad industry to track phone locations; ICE has bought access to similar tools — Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' precise movements over time …
More: Wired, Gizmodo, and Electronic Frontier Foundation
X: @leahlibresco, @adamscochran, and @tysonbrody
Bluesky: @eff.org, @sesmith.lol, @marypcbuk, @tyleraking.com, @cdt.org, @campuscodi.risky.biz, and @josephcox
Forums: r/technology, r/TrueReddit, and r/politics
| Andre Revilla / Engadget: |
X announces a policy change suspending users from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without disclosure — The new policy is the platform's first rule requiring any kind of AI content disclosure. — X will suspend creators …
More: 404 Media, Decrypt, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Social Media Today, The Wrap, and Crypto Briefing
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Intel says board chair Frank Yeary, who has served on the board since 2009, will retire after Intel's annual meeting in May and be replaced by Craig Barratt — Intel (INTC.O) said on Tuesday that board chair Frank Yeary plans to retire following the company's annual meeting in May and will be replaced by Craig Barratt.
More: Intel, Tom's Hardware, Reuters, Silicon Valley Business …, DigiTimes, Bloomberg, and Tech in Asia
| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
TikTok USDS says users “may temporarily experience lags in posting content” due to an issue at Oracle's Ashburn data center, the second Oracle outage in a month — TikTok users in the US may experience lag while trying to post content until the outage is resolved.| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in outages — OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub, Microsoft's popular code repository that lets software engineers store …
More: Reuters. X: @theprimeagen, @cgtwts, @nickadobos, @metacriticcap, and @bilaltwovec. Forums: Slashdot
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon tells users it is shutting down the Wondery podcast app and Wondery+ subscription service “in the coming months”; some shows will be available on Audible — Amazon is pulling the plug on the Wondery dedicated podcast app and subscription service.| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
More: Audible.com, CNET, Deadline, MobileSyrup, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, and Digital Trends. X: @rakeshsfnyc
| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years — The multiyear pact gives Meta access to content for training and to retrieve information for users of its AI tools| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization that will have an ultra-flat structure and help bolster Meta's superintelligence efforts — New teams will have ‘flat structure’ with up to 50:1 ratio of individual contributors to managers
More: PYMNTS.com, The Information, DigiTimes, and Business Insider
X: @dangrover, @growing_daniel, @varunram, and @meghanbobrowsky
| Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: |
KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic EHR, raised $27.4M led by HealthX Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $55M — The new funding brings the company's total raise to more than $55 million. — Global Investing — KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic EHR …
More: FinSMEs, HIT Consultant, Chicago Business Journal, Ventureburn, Pulse 2.0, KeyCare, and Axios. Bluesky: @sagaciousai
| 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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
TikTok won't add E2EE to DMs because it would prevent police and safety teams from reading messages if needed, saying it wants to protect young users from harm — 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.
Forums: Hacker News and r/privacy
| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
CrowdStrike reports Q4 revenue up 23% YoY to $1.31B, vs. $1.30B est., a profit of $38.7M, compared with a loss of $86.3M a year earlier — The cybersecurity company posted a profit of $38.7 million, or 15 cents a share, compared with a loss of $86.3 million, or 35 cents a share, a year earlierSponsor Posts
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