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Web Page Crawler Revealed - tracking down requests from Contabo GmbH
The story is a technical breakdown attempting to trace a series of crawlers from Contabo GmbH. Edited the title to be more clear.
This feels relevant here but I struggled with tagging this. I welcome suggestions for how to tag it better!
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🌍 Wired
Some iPhone Duo Models Are Breaking. iFixit’s Teardown Might Explain Why
The repair company iFixit released its repairability rating for Apple’s very first foldable iPhone. It comes as users report a wave of cracked-screen issues.


🌍 Wired
The US Government Is Hiding a Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans
Two US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

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Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Reveals What’s Under the Hood
Anthropic on Monday filed documents ahead of a blockbuster IPO that offers insight into the company’s financials, risk factors, and views on the future of AI.
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Apple updates the iPad Mini with a larger OLED display
Apple announced a new iPad Mini with a larger, 8.5-inch OLED display. The company revealed the new device just days before its "Pro and tell" event on Wednesday. The iPad Mini starts at $699 for the Wi-Fi-only model, and $849 for Wi-Fi and cellular. At 5.4mm thick, the iPad Mini is thinner and lighter than […]
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Can AI help solve the COBOL code crisis?
What do the IRS, banks, airlines, and government infrastructure around the world have in common? They're all running on systems propped up by antique computer code that nobody dares touch, lest everything come crashing down. OpenAI thinks it may have a solution. On October 19th, the company touted "substantial improvements" in its latest AI models' […]
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Anthropic’s IPO filing lays out a plan to ‘revolutionize every area of human endeavor’ with AI
Anthropic has filed its S-1 prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, preparing the company behind Claude to beat OpenAI to the punch with an IPO. In a filing with the SEC, Anthropic said it plans to list on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol "ANT." The AI company confidentially filed with the SEC […]
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Kevin Roose is AGI-pilled. Why aren’t you?
Today, I’m talking to Kevin Roose, journalist and author of the new book The AGI Chronicles, which details the recent and explosive transformation of the AI industry. Kevin was a longtime New York Times reporter and host of the popular podcast Hard Fork, but he and friend of the show Casey Newton just left the […]
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Remarkable’s refurbished Paper Pro Move bundle is over $100 off
The Remarkable Paper Pro Move is essentially a digital notepad, with a skinny 7.3-inch E Ink screen that’s easy to hold one-handed to jot down notes or ideas. At $449 new, it’s not exactly cheap, but buying refurbished is a way to save, as always. Remarkable itself offers the refurbished Paper Pro Move for that […]
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Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra update fixes reboot and display bugs
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra was blighted by some nuisance bugs at launch, but now the company has released some new firmware to resolve them. The October 22 release addresses three issues notable issues in particular: screen flickering, unexpected restarts, and lengthy reboot times, alongside unspecified "additional bug fixes and general performance improvements," according to Microsoft's […]
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T-Mobile’s new plans include swappable subscription perks
T-Mobile is launching new "T-Mix" plans that bundle wireless service with subscriptions to services like Netflix, Apple TV, YouTube Premium, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, device promotions, and more, as reported earlier by Fierce Network. The Standard plan starts at $55 / month (with autopay) for one line and one "Pick," which you can change up […]
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Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India. In a message to employees, Microsoft chief people officer Amy Coleman writes that this gives staff members "the opportunity to leave Microsoft with financial support and career planning resources" as the company looks to trim staff without another […]
🌍 TechCrunch
Tesla turns to Turo to boost adoption of Full Self-Driving (Supervised)
Eligible Turo hosts will also get a one-month free trial of Tesla's FSD software.
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Matiks raises $10M to expand its math and puzzle gaming platform
Matiks has introduced a new platform for users to create games using AI.
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Apple unveils new iPad mini with OLED display and faster A20 Pro chip
The new iPad mini features a thinner and lighter design than its predecessor.
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Anthropic officially files for its public debut
Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.
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Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees, reports say
The buyout offers mark Microsoft's latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce.
🌍 Dev.to
Stop Fighting Ngrok Limits: Architecting a Secure Local Webhook Relay with Node.js & WebSockets
If you build fintech, e-commerce, or SaaS platforms, you already know the pain of testing webhooks locally.
You integrate Stripe, Paystack, or GitHub. You need your local API to catch incoming POST requests. You fire up a local tunneling tool like ngrok. It works perfectly—until your free session expires, your URL changes, and you have to update your payment provider's dashboard all over again.
I got tired of the connection limits, the dropped sockets, and the constant URL rotation. I need...
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Running DiffusionGemma Locally on an RTX 5090 with vLLM: The One-Time Pioneer Cost of Bleeding-Edge Model Bleeding-Edge GPU
Introduction
In the previous post I covered keeping a home RTX 5090 (Blackwell) alive 24/7 against the GSP hang. This time it's about the model that runs on top of it — a record of standing up Google's diffusion language model DiffusionGemma locally on that 5090.
Let me lead with the conclusion. It's genuinely fast — roughly ~300 tok/s by feel. But the surrounding ecosystem is still immature (Open WebUI's web search doesn't integrate, among other things), so it earned a place as an...
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The invitation is an APK
Originally published on the Dunime blog.
How wedding cards and traffic challans became India's most personal malware, and what an investigation has to capture.
The file arrives from an uncle's number, in the family group, a week before a wedding everyone knows about. It ends in .apk, not .pdf. Nobody checks.
Through 2025 and into 2026, the most effective mobile malware in India has not needed an exploit. It needs a reason to be opened. Wedding invitations, pending RTO challans,...

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Cloud Workspace Launcher: A Smarter Way to Manage Browser Workspaces
A project by Team NOVUS | Colossal-a-Pitch Finals
Introduction
Almost everyone who works or studies on a computer has faced this problem: too many browser tabs open at once.
One tab has documentation, another has a GitHub repository, a few contain research papers, and others are related to completely different tasks. When it’s time to switch projects or close the browser, finding everything again can become frustrating.
This made us think about a simple question: What if we could save ...
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Build Your First REST API With Node.js and Express in 30 Minutes
Introduction
A REST API is a way for a frontend, a mobile app, or another service to ask your server for data, and to send data back. Node.js with Express is a good first choice for learning APIs because the setup is small and the concepts transfer to other backend frameworks.
In this post, you will build a tiny users API with two routes: one to list users, and one to add a user.
Step 1: Set up the project
Create a folder, then run:
npm init -y
npm install expr...
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NetSuite Next and Your Integrations: What Changes and What Doesn't
Originally published on integrationstars.com . Based on Oracle's NetSuite Next FAQ as read on October 23, 2026.
NetSuite Next is Oracle's AI-powered next generation of NetSuite, with a refreshed interface and an assistant called Ask Oracle. For integrations, Oracle's FAQ says it is the same platform: the same data, roles, permissions, workflows and customizations, and the same connectivity through pre-built NetSuite connectors, SuiteCloud and the NetSuite Integration Platform. Most custom s...
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Handing over a website without leaving a mess: a checklist we wish every project started with
Most website problems we get asked about aren't really technical. They're handover problems wearing a technical costume.
Across the communities we follow, the same story keeps coming back in different clothes. A volunteer takes over the site for a small professional club from someone who ran it for many years, and asks how to set things up so the club owns it, not whoever happens to hold the passwords. An agency owner asks who is supposed to own updates once a project is "done". A client fi...