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After Elon Musk warned that "advertisers who post ads that are ugly, shrill, strident or overstate claims about their product will be barred from advertising" on X earlier this month, the platform now appears to be using a jarring animated arm that reaches across the screen to draw attention to the "promote" button while users […]

Virgin Galactic's new spaceship is here, dubbed "Apeiron" by popular vote from a public poll. Apeiron is the first of the company's new Delta-class spacecraft, but it isn't slated to launch for nearly another year. Earlier this week, Virgin Galactic announced another delay in its launch timeline: The lead Spaceship's first commercial spaceflight is now […]

A subsidiary of Elon Musk's xAI is offering to buy up homes in a Mississippi neighborhood, as long as residents don't join a lawsuit targeting the company's nearby data center and power plant, according to a report from The Guardian. A realtor going door-to-door in the Southaven neighborhood reportedly told one resident that xAI plans […]

The MacBook Neo now starts at $649 on Apple's Education Store, up $150 from its initial $499 education starting price. As reported earlier by MacRumors, the student discount for the Neo received a $50 price bump in recent days, following a $100 price bump back in June. Apple's budget MacBook is now just $50 off […]

It's hard to make an Xbox controller that stands out these days, especially one that's expensive, due to a wealth of great semi-affordable options. Still, 8BitDo's $150 Ultimate 3E is a bold controller that holds its own against other feature-packed options. It's made for Xbox and PC gamers who want a deeper level of customization […]

Sony announced a new Prism Collection line of PlayStation 5 accessories today that revisits "the iconic see-through trend of the late '90s in a fresh, modern way" for its DualSense wireless controllers and matching console covers for the PS5 that reveal some of their internal components. The Prism Collection is launching with three color options […]

Halloween isn’t even here yet, but it’s never too early to start thinking about holiday decorations, especially when there are already deals on smart, programmable lights. If you want your house, tree, fireplace, or whatever else to stand out this year, Govee’s Christmas String Lights 2 are on sale starting at $74.99 ($25 off) at […]

Five ground rules for an agent loop with reliability at its core: state machine first, host and runner split, errors as outcomes, atomic history, 3-way tests.

The root-cause fix will take weeks; protection can’t wait

What happens when AI agents generate more experiences than you do? Explore the concept of a super second brain and its implications for identity.

Claude Duet, Grok Bot, Muse and Dots compared on price, availability, approvals and connectors, with hands-on tests of the one I could use from India.

If you teach an AI agent to work the way you do, have you built your replacement or your best tool? Why that copy should belong to you.

Learn how Nanbeige4.3-33B compares with Qwen3.8, Gemma4, and Muse-Glimmer across coding, reasoning, and agentic AI benchmarks.

AI makes building more accessible, but not automatically valuable. See how Lean thinking helps reduce waste, validate quality, and retain human judgment.

I built an AI bot that turns about 200 school emails into one daily digest: what it can read, what it must never do, and the quiet failures that became rules.

Can an AI second brain truly understand you? Explore five layers of fidelity, from memories and values to decisions and self-correction.

The hidden risk of AI at work is not just getting decisions wrong but it is losing the skills that make an organization uniquely good at getting them right.

Is SKIP LOCKED enough for reliable background jobs? Explore leases, heartbeats, fencing tokens, and idempotency in PostgreSQL queues.

How Red Bull weaponized consumer FOMO, bought a Formula 1 team for a single dollar, and turned global sports fandom into billions of retail sales.

See how a minimal PostgreSQL RAG stack competed on MuSiQue and BRIGHT, using hybrid search, Claude, and systematic experiments to avoid pipeline complexity.

Why blockchain immutability fails human psychology, how ACH and ISO 20022 handle errors, and how ERC-4337 smart accounts build a crypto undo button.

Claude Duet runs on a cloud VM, checks your apps every few hours and asks before anything irreversible. How it works and when a DIY agent wins.

An FBI-honored cyber chief, a 57M BAM Chinese deal, and Russian propaganda ties: the secret contracts of Dodik’s digital insider.

No audience? Learn how to get your first SaaS users: find buyers, message them respectfully, launch in directories, publish content and track results.

I gave NVIDIA's new small model five tools, 60 prompts and no GPU. It picked the right tool every time, and a full spoken turn took about 4.5 seconds.

A software engineer reflects on how AI agents took over coding, debugging, and code reviews, raising questions about the future of engineering.

Who is liable when an AI agent pays? LaFinteca CEO Dmytro Rukin on consent, VRP, Pix Automático and who should carry the loss in agentic payments.

Human beings struggle with emergency communication. Chatbots can help—if people take them seriously.

ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.

The base model—without thrusters or the flight system—will likely cost several times that amount to buy. “I’m going to do everything in my power to get the flying one,” says one customer.