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💻 Apple launches $599 MacBook Neo

🤖 OpenAI launches GPT-5.3 Instant

👀 OpenAI is building a GitHub rival

📱 US government iPhone hacking toolkit leaks to criminals and spies

☢️ Polymarket removes nuclear detonation betting markets

🎮 PlayStation is reportedly moving away from PC ports

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• Apple announced the MacBook Neo, a new $599 laptop that replaces the 13-inch MacBook Air as the company's entry-level option, priced far below the $1,099 M5 MacBook Air.
• The MacBook Neo uses an Apple A18 Pro processor with a six-core CPU and five GPU cores instead of an M-series chip, and is limited to 8GB of memory.
• It goes up for preorder today with availability on March 11 in four colors — silver, indigo, blush, and citrus — through Apple's stores and third-party retailers.

• OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Instant, a new model designed to cut down on the "cringe" and "preachy disclaimers" that made ChatGPT sound condescending, especially when users were just looking for information.
• The GPT-5.2 Instant model annoyed users so much with phrases like "you're not broken" and unsolicited reminders to breathe that some people canceled their subscriptions over the tone.
• OpenAI said the GPT-5.3 update focuses on tone, relevance, and conversational flow — areas that don't show up in benchmarks but directly affect how frustrating ChatGPT feels to talk to.

• OpenAI is reportedly developing a code-hosting platform that would compete directly with GitHub, though the project is still in early development and the company plans to sell it to existing customers.
• The move follows months of severe GitHub service outages, including network faults that degraded GitHub Actions, broke Copilot connections, and caused Azure configuration problems across multiple regions.
• Building a GitHub rival puts OpenAI in direct conflict with Microsoft, which owns GitHub, holds a major stake in OpenAI, and provides the Azure cloud infrastructure OpenAI depends on.

• A set of iPhone hacking tools reportedly linked to the U.S. government has leaked and spread to Russian spies and financially motivated hackers in China, according to Google and iVerify.
• Google first spotted the exploit kit, called Coruna, in February 2025 and found it can hack iPhones running iOS 13 through 17.2.1 by chaining together 23 separate vulnerabilities.
• The tools can compromise an iPhone simply through visiting a malicious website in a "watering hole" attack, bypassing the phone's defenses without requiring any other action from the target.

• Polymarket has taken down its betting markets on nuclear weapon detonation, apparently because of the current conflict with Iran and growing scrutiny over insiders trading on war.
• The removal follows criticism after a trader reportedly made more than $400,000 betting on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro's ouster shortly before the U.S. operation that led to his capture.
• The CFTC proposed rules in 2024 that would bar exchanges from listing event contracts tied to war, terrorism, or assassination, and plans to issue clearer guidance soon.

• Sony's PlayStation division is reportedly pulling back from releasing its PS5 games on PC, a shift that includes cancelling a planned PC port of Ghost of Yōtei, according to Bloomberg.
• The move reverses Sony's earlier goal of having half its games on PC and mobile by 2025, after PlayStation ports like Horizon and God of War reportedly didn't sell particularly well.
• By returning to console exclusives, Sony may be trying to avoid the kind of confused strategy that has muddled Xbox's brand identity after its aggressive multiplatform push in recent years.

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• Trump administration weighs forcing China's Tencent to sell its stakes in Epic Games, Riot Games, and Supercell — meetings held over security risk ahead of China summit with Xi Jinping LINK

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• Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives LINK

• TikTok says it won’t introduce end-to-end encryption for DMs LINK

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff, Calls Backlash ‘Really Painful’ LINK

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• FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger "a lot cleaner" than defunct Netflix deal LINK

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