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The 10 most nostalgic cards in Magic’s TMNT set

A lifelong TMNT superfan with no Magic experience picks the 10 most best cards from the Ninja Turtles set

Claude hit #2 on Apple's US App Store, hours after the DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it bounced between #20 and #50 for much of February (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Claude hit #2 on Apple's US App Store, hours after the DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it bounced between #20 and #50 for much of February  —  Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence assistant app jumped to the No. 2 slot on Apple's chart of top U.S. free apps late on Friday …

Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect  —  Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging …

Why did the US strike Iran?

Editor’s note, February 28, 2026, 12:05 pm ET: This article was originally published on February 19, in the lead-up to war in Iran and updated on February 28 after airstrikes had begun. President Donald Trump announced early Saturday morning that the US and Israel had launched an attack on Iran, saying the goal was to eliminate […]

Q&A with Reiner Pope, a former Google TPU architect and CEO of MatX, which designs specialized chips for LLMs, on the limitations of current AI chips, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)

John Collison / Cheeky Pint:
Q&A with Reiner Pope, a former Google TPU architect and CEO of MatX, which designs specialized chips for LLMs, on the limitations of current AI chips, and more  —  Reiner Pope is the co-founder and CEO of MatX, designing specialized chips for Large Language Models.