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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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| 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 … | 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.
More: MacRumors, MacRumors, Benzinga, 9to5Mac, VideoCardz.com, PCMag, Tom's Guide, Mashable, and The Shortcut
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says the MacBook Neo is $599 with 256GB of storage and $699 with Touch ID and 512GB of storage, both 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.| 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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| 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.
More: Washington Post, 404 Media, Polymarket, Event Horizon, Bloomberg, Business Insider, and The Block
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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: Bloomberg, New Republic, and crypto.news
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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.| 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 … | 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, Engadget, The Guardian, Semafor, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Law, The Keyword, Time, and New York Post
Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence and r/technology
| 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, The Register, iVerify, TechCrunch, New York Post, Nextgov/FCW, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, PCMag, TechRadar, Benzinga, Phandroid, Risky Business, Boing Boing, CyberScoop, and Help Net Security
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/hacking, r/TrueReddit, r/ios, r/iphone, r/Malware, r/blackhat, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| 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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| 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 …
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| 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 the Iran strikes — 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.| 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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| 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) …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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| Reuters: |
Lockheed Martin plans to follow the US federal ban on Anthropic; government contracting lawyers say defense contractors are expected to comply with the US 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: CNBC and Capital Brief
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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| 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, Tom's Hardware, Game World Observer, GamesIndustry.biz, Blockonomi, The Information, Video Games Chronicle, PocketGamer.biz, TheGamer, Benzinga, and TechNode
Forums: r/fuckepic and r/gachagaming
| 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.
More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Engadget, and OnMSFT
Bluesky: @joetidy. Mastodon: @scottwilson@infosec.exchange. Forums: Hacker News, r/nottheonion, and r/privacy
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Corning unveils Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3 for smartphones, promising enhanced drop durability over multiple years, first launching on the new 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
| 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 and Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Forums: r/technology, r/TrueReddit, and r/politics
| Vivian Wang / New York Times: |
Unlike in the West, Chinese policymakers and the public appear to be much more optimistic about AI, likely due to a focus on real-world applications of AI — Chinese policymakers and the public have expressed high levels of optimism about A.I., even as many in the West worry …
Bluesky: @cipher-db
| 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, FinSMEs, The Block, CoinDesk, Blockonomi, Ventureburn, Crunchbase News, Axios, Refresh Miami, City A.M., and Tech Funding News
| 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.
More: TechRadar, The Register, The American Bazaar, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, and TechCrunch
X: @tiktokusdsjv and @oracle
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Security researchers successfully prompted the AI system 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
| 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, Yahoo Finance, Cyber Security News, and Malwarebytes
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Visa and Stripe's Bridge plan to expand their partnership to issue stablecoin-linked cards in 100+ countries; the cards are currently live in 18 countries — The world's biggest fintech and the world's largest payments network are expanding their stablecoin partnership.
More: Visa Inc, Blockonomi, and BeInCrypto
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