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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-03-05.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • Google and Epic bury the hatchet: The Play Store tax drops to 20% (plus fees, naturally).
▸ • Anthropic gets ghosted by the Pentagon while OpenAI swoops in to steal the defense contract.
▸ • Bill Gates' TerraPower finally gets the green light to build a next-gen nuclear reactor in Wyoming.
After years of showing us its insides, Nothing's new 4A Pro features a metal, opaque back. It's a shocking pivot from 'transparent tech' to 'just a phone,' but at least the Glyph lights are still blinking.
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is done pouring cash into OpenAI and Anthropic. His explanation is vague, but it sounds a lot like 'we have enough leverage already, thanks.'
Apple is rolling out 'Transparency Tags' to identify AI-generated tracks. It's an opt-in system for labels, which means the most egregious deepfakes will definitely, totally volunteer to tag themselves. Right?
Google Search's Canvas tool now supports AI drafting and coding directly in the browser. It's another step toward making 'Googling it' synonymous with 'having Google do it for you.'
Anthropic is scrambling to save its relationship with the DoD after being flagged as a 'supply chain risk,' while OpenAI is reportedly sliding into the Pentagon's DMs to take their place. It's a high-stakes drama of safetyism vs. defense contracts, and right now, safety is losing.
Google and Epic Games have settled their antitrust brawl. The result? Google drops the Play Store commission to 20% (plus a 5% billing fee if you use your own system). It's a win for Epic, but Google still gets a cut of every transaction, proving the house always wins—just slightly less than before.
Forget LLMs; we now have LGMs. Researchers have released an open-source AI trained on trillions of DNA bases to identify genes and regulatory sequences. It's like ChatGPT for your chromosomes, but hopefully with fewer hallucinations about having six fingers.
A new implementation gets Nvidia's PersonaPlex 7B running locally on Mac using Swift and MLX. It supports full-duplex speech-to-speech, proving you don't need a heater-sized GPU to talk to your computer anymore.
NetBSD is getting 'Jails' for native resource control and isolation. It's a classic concept (FreeBSD says hi) brought to NetBSD to keep your processes from touching things they shouldn't.
Cloudflare is ditching the 'log vs. block' trade-off with new Attack Signature Detection. By correlating payloads with server responses, they claim to catch exploits without the manual tuning nightmares of traditional WAFs.
The chief of Space Command officially stated there are no UAPs in space, just 'comets and things.' Exactly what someone hiding space aliens would say.
A hacker built a DIY instant camera because buying film is too easy. It's a charming reminder that sometimes the best tech is the kind you cobble together with duct tape and code.