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Anthropic thinks “closing the loop” is the best path to AI triumph—and a recipe for “existential” threats to humanity.

The Edge is a welcome upgrade for longtime Fitbit users, but the missing NFC technology is a puzzling regression.

Track down your suitcase, car keys, and other essentials with this $23 Bluetooth tracker.

Instagram is announcing a big push into longform horizontal video, which the platform is calling "Features." Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has been against doing longform video on the platform "for a long time," he says in a six-and-a-half-minute video (here's the widescreen version) with VP of product Tessa Lyons, saying that "one of my concerns […]

When Sony announced the WH-1000XM4C headphones, I was perplexed. A product revamp usually includes at least one or two significant improvements. Or if it's a nostalgia play, it's from a decades-old product and not one that came out in 2020. Beyond a few minor tweaks, though, the XM4C are remarkably similar to their six-year-old namesake, […]

Last week, I sank into my living room couch and watched a bedraggled, nihilistic Matthew McConaughey take a drag of a cigarette in season 1 of True Detective. "You know, someone once told me time is a flat circle. Everything we've done, or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again." I […]

Anthropic has finally filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC, a document designed to give investors a look under the hood of its business, from how much its executives are making and plans for spending its IPO billions to the risks that could derail its ambitions. At more than 300 pages, there's a lot to […]

If you want a decent pair of noise-canceling earbuds without spending a fortune, Nothing’s Ear 3A are worth considering. The wireless earbuds offer a lot of features for the price, and they’re an even better value now that all four colors are on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy for $79 ($20 off), matching […]

Following reports of iPhone Duos with cracked and broken inside screens, often showing a bright line running from the center to the right side, Apple says in a statement to Bloomberg and 9to5Mac that it's aware of "an issue impacting the inner display" on a "small number of iPhone Duo units." If your iPhone Duo […]

The RealReal, a secondhand luxury fashion consignment retailer, said it's updating its bot defense system, effectively making it harder for AI agents to shop on its site. The change comes days after The Verge reported that an AI agent could be used to take advantage of The RealReal's item reserve system. On the retailer's website, […]

From the bright minds that brought you FTX Arena and NBA Top Shot NFT maketplace (where sales last month dropped to $762,781, which is a 99.66 percent decrease compared to the February 2021 peak of $226,350,843), the NBA announced Monday that it has new "preferred" prediction market deals for Kalshi and Polymarket, as well as […]

Apple has just released iOS 27.2, bringing Apple Pencil support to the iPhone Duo. The software update also includes an "Edge Light" feature for the iPhone Duo that's intended to illuminate your face during video calls. Apple previously said the iPhone Duo would add support for the Apple Pencil "later this year." The company's first […]

SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statement, SpaceX called it the “largest committed GPU financing” ever.

Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s making enterprise customers stickier.

Bedrock Robotics, which is now valued at $4.1 billion, is particularly focused on autonomous excavators, in part because of a growing shortage of skilled operators.

Fusion startups face a new challenge, one unrelated to plasma physics: Give the government shares in exchange for funding awards or go it alone?

A small number of early adopters of the much hyped new foldable phone from Apple have complained of screens cracking.

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine What I Built Every developer has a few ghosts in their package.json . A library you once leaned on every day, still installed somewhere, whose repository has not moved in years. Nobody announces when a project dies. The commits just stop, and one day you notice that the last thing anyone ever said to it was "Change hyperlink". For Día de los Muertos, families build an ofrenda: ...

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo: How Momentum Turns Random Walks into Efficient Sampling Most Bayesian models are easy to write down and hard to sample from. You can usually evaluate an unnormalised posterior density, or its gradient, but you cannot draw independent samples from it directly. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) solves this by constructing a chain whose long-run distribution is the target. The question is how efficiently that chain explores. Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is one of the ...

Most Next.js sites that don't rank aren't missing a secret trick. They're missing basics the framework already gives you: a unique title per page, one canonical URL, a sitemap with honest dates, and content that's actually in the HTML. This is the checklist I run on every App Router site, including this one. Each item comes with code you can copy. Short version: set metadataBase , give every page its own title and description, pick one canonical host, generate sitemap.ts and robots...

Server Actions are the nicest way to write mutations in Next.js. You write an async function, mark it "use server" , pass it to a form, and you're done: no API route, no fetch call, no loading-state plumbing. That convenience hides one fact you need to keep in mind every time: each exported Server Action is a public HTTP endpoint. Anyone can call it with a POST request, from anywhere, with any arguments, whether or not your UI shows the button. On real products I've moved sensitive oper...

On 21 October 2026, the PHP project released emergency updates for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 , now known as PHP2Shell . They let an attacker run commands on a web server with a single crafted request, without an account and without touching your site's own code. If your website, shop or admin panel runs on PHP, and that includes most WordPress, WooCommerce, Laravel, Drupal and Magento sites, this is worth ten minutes of your time today. Shor...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built FormSloth is a Chrome and Edge extension that fills repetitive forms from answers you write once. Hackathon sign-ups and scholarship forms keep asking the same things. Browser autofill handles name and email. It does nothing for "why do you want to join?" or "tell us about yourself", so those paragraphs get copied out of an old document every time. You write your answ...

More people now ask an assistant "who's a good web developer in Noida?" or "how much does a website cost?" instead of scrolling ten blue links. When the answer names three businesses, being one of them is the new page one. This is often called GEO (generative engine optimisation) or AEO (answer engine optimisation). Most of it is ordinary good SEO, plus a few things that now matter more than they used to. An honest caveat: none of the AI companies publish exactly how they choose so...

This is a standalone example for static Astro projects. The site where I measured it, straffesites.com , does not use the script in production. In October 2026, I did run it on a copy of that site's build to measure what a post-build step does to your Astro HTML. The script adds unique IDs to headings that do not have one yet and minifies the files with html-minifier-terser. Here is how to set it up, what the measurement showed, and what to watch out for. What do you need to get sta...

"Do we need a separate backend?" is one of the first questions on almost every new project I take on. Usually the honest answer is: not yet. Next.js can do most of what a small product's backend needs. But there are clear signs that a separate Node.js API is worth the extra moving parts, and it's much cheaper to spot them early. This post covers what each server-side feature in Next.js is actually for, where each one falls short, and when to add Express, NestJS or another service next to it...

Most slow sites don't have one big problem. They have many small waits, stacked in the wrong order. On one production app I cut the JavaScript bundle by about half, and the biggest gains showed up exactly where they matter most: on low-end phones on ordinary mobile connections. This is the playbook I use to find and fix those waits in a Next.js site, organised around the three numbers Google actually measures. The three metrics, and what "good" means Metric What it me...

Originally published on AI Stack Lab . Most "best AI scheduler" lists rank features. I care about two other questions: what is the tool actually allowed to move on your calendar, and what does it learn about your week while it does it? An assistant that sees every meeting title and invitee can also leak them, and an "AI scheduler" that only sends reminders is a different product from one that rearranges your day. Method note: on October 26, 2026 I read each vendor's pricing page and it...

Twenty questions, five assistants, one day. Asked by name they found us; asked for the job they mostly did not; and what they said about us came from copies of us, not from us. On 2026-10-24 we asked five AI assistants the same twenty questions, five of them by name: the studio's or our own product's. Asked by name, they found us. Asked for the job, they rarely did. Several quoted prices we had changed six days earlier, an old phone number, a wrong founding year, and another business's revie...

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