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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
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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
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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
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X: @mkbhd, @aapltree, @vadimyuryev, @_orangera1n, @mweinbach, @mattmoniz, @bengeskin, @mweinbach, @vadimyuryev, @mweinbach, and @vadimyuryev
Forums: r/MacStudio, r/hardware, r/macbookpro, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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, Nextgov/FCW, Mobile EDR Security, AppleInsider, PCMag, 9to5Mac, Boing Boing, CyberScoop, Risky Business, and Help Net Security
X: @patrickwardle and @a_greenberg
LinkedIn: Etizaz Mohsin and Patrick Wardle
Bluesky: @joparkerbear, @ssg.dev, @couts, and @agreenberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/TrueReddit, r/hacking, r/ios, r/iphone, r/Malware, r/blackhat, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| 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: Benzinga, Reuters, Bloomberg, and VentureBeat
X: @justinlin610, @kxli_2000, @huybery, @kxli_2000, @cherry_cc12, @wzhao_nlp, @yuchenj_uw, @xianbao_qian, @natolambert, @youjiacheng, @himanshustwts, @chujiezheng, @beffjezos, @frontier_foid, @bryancsk, @crystalsssup, @tydsh, @altryne, @kevinsxu, @phequals7, @jeremyphoward, @teortaxestex, and @scaling01
| 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.
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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, 9to5Google, Moneycontrol, Android Authority, ZDNET, Android Police, and Skift
X: @natlungfy and @mishaalrahman
| Wall Street Journal: |
All-hands: Sam Altman defended OpenAI's DOD deal, called the backlash “painful”, and said OpenAI is considering a deal to deploy AI on NATO classified networks — Startup's deal to do classified work with Defense Department drew backlash from staff and other AI researchers
More: Gizmodo, The Guardian, New York Post, The Information, The Hill, Forbes, Financial Times, and Axios
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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Bluesky: @timzero4 and @carnage4life
Forums: r/technology and r/politics
| 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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| 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: 9to5Google, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Decrypt, Gizchina, The Decoder, PCMag, and Neowin
X: @openai, @openai, @nickaturley, @kimmonismus, @christinahkim, @iruletheworldmo, @therealadamg, @mweinbach, @openai, @tukifromkl, @luke_metro, @kimmonismus, @sauers_, @tszzl, @thezvi, and @kareldoostrlnck
Forums: Hacker News, r/just4ochat, r/therapyGPT, r/OpenAI, and r/accelerate
| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
More: Moneycontrol, The Indian Express, TechCrunch, The New Stack, Crypto Briefing, iClarified, Sherwood News, MacRumors, and Digit
Bluesky: @tcarmody, @paularmstrongtbd, and @daniloc.xyz
| 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, @cdt.org, @tyleraking.com, @marypcbuk, @campuscodi.risky.biz, and @josephcox
Forums: r/technology, r/TrueReddit, and r/politics
| 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.| 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.| 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: XDA Developers, Reuters, Digit, and Neowin
X: @cgtwts, @nickadobos, @metacriticcap, @bilaltwovec, and @theprimeagen
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| 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, Moneycontrol, Livemint, TechCrunch, Decrypt, Social Media Today, Crypto Briefing, and The Wrap
| 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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Security researchers successfully prompted the AI behind a Utah prescription renewal pilot to reclassify meth as an “unrestricted therapeutic”, and more — Security researchers used relatively simple jailbreaking techniques to trick the AI system powering Utah's new prescription refill bot.
Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| 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 … | Reuters: |
Lockheed Martin to follow US federal ban on Anthropic, as government contracting attorneys say defense contractors are expected to comply with the DOD's order — U.S. defense contractors, like Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), are expected to follow the Pentagon's order to purge Anthropic's prized AI tools …
More: The Information, Benzinga, Runtime, and Federal News Network
| 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.| 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, Deadline, CNET, Digital Music News, Android Authority, and MobileSyrup. 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 toolsSponsor Posts
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