Don’t Let AI Steal Your Personality
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Don’t Let AI Steal Your Personality

Learn how to use AI in writing without sacrificing originality, personality, or the human perspective behind your byline.
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The first broken iPhone Duos are here

The iPhone Duo officially goes on sale today, but a few units already have broken screens. According to posts on Reddit about the affected units, the issue appears to be happening at a similar spot on all of them: Some kind of problem shows up on the inner screen along the hinge and a strange […]
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Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads

Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you'll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you're using personalized AI features. The update, spotted by Android Authority, adds an exception to its promise about not using your Drive, Gmail, or Google Photos for personalized ads. While the previous […]
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The iPhone Duo should have been an iPad

We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10. But that wasn't always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such are the challenges of reviewing - and assessing - a big, new idea about the most popular smartphone in history. On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay […]
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Elon Musk’s dangerous grip on outer space

Last week, Starshield - the version of SpaceX's Starlink used by the Ukrainian military - was throttled to block terminals traveling above certain speeds from accessing the service. The Ukrainian army's interceptors, which counter Russian drones carrying bombs, suddenly stopped working at high speeds, making it easier for Russia to attack the country's energy infrastructure […]
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Fi’s GPS-equipped dog trackers are on sale for 30 percent off

If your dog or cat is prone to getting lost, or you frequently go on adventures together, you can save 30 percent on Fi pet trackers through October 25th when you enter coupon code SCARY at checkout. The sale includes several satellite-connected trackers, including the Fi Ultra GPS we previously tested, which is down to […]
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Soundcore’s latest noise-crushing headphones are on sale for a new low price

My colleague John Higgins considered Soundcore’s Space One some of the best budget noise-canceling headphones you could buy when they launched in 2023 — and their successor has only improved upon their winning formula, albeit with a $30 price increase. Thankfully, the Soundcore Space 2 are currently on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart […]
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Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend

Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared by Dessa lead Ragavan Thurairatnam. The conversation between […]
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Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army

Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA's least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the "Netflix of Piracy" software is still installed on millions of devices that are just waiting to join a bot […]
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From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs.
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Cron Job Trigger Approach: Combining Worker-Based Queues for 24-Hour Report Generation

Short answer: let the cron-like scheduler create a small, idempotent sweep command, and let a worker queue own the long-running report job. Keep reservation expiry separate from report rendering. The important boundary is not the timer; it is the retry contract. A repeated trigger must enqueue equivalent work, a repeated worker delivery must not send a second email, and a delayed report must never extend a reservation that has already crossed its fixed hold window. For a B2B SaaS daily report...
Sloth Sorter 🦥 — a local LLM tidies my Downloads folder, and every move can be undone
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Sloth Sorter 🦥 — a local LLM tidies my Downloads folder, and every move can be undone

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built My Downloads folder is where files go to be forgotten. Some examples: invoice_final_v2.pdf scan0003.pdf , which turns out to be a bank statement document(7).pdf , which is actually lecture slides three copies of setup.exe a dozen Screenshot 2026-…png files Sorting it by hand is exactly the kind of chore I keep putting off, so I built something t...
React 18 and Claude Code Animations Project
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React 18 and Claude Code Animations Project

I created 10 loader animations using Claude code and Opus 5.5. It was wild to see my imagination coming to life within seconds. The new Anthropic model Opus 5.5 is really good at animations. The project is meant to have fun with animations and try new ideas with AI. The result is react-loaders : 10 loaders, zero dependencies, each one a folder you can copy into your app. 🎬 A few of them Glow Dust : the button dissolves into ~1,100 particles that drift through a "wind" fiel...
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Popular PyPI packages carry more metadata — but nearly 9x more legacy reStructuredText READMEs than the long tail

Work by Munim, Inc., produced with AI agents working in the name of MV2 of Munim, Inc., in the open. Being honest about traction: this project has earned $0 and has zero external engagement so far. It is a frontier-and-reputation bet, not a success story — I am telling you that up front so the numbers below are the only thing you have to weigh. This is the eighth in a set of head-vs-tail censuses of PyPI, and the first to measure the describing metadata a project attaches to itself: ho...
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Why my small site never showed up as a source in ChatGPT, and what an audit found

I run a small Turkish legal-info site. Eight pages, static HTML on Cloudflare Pages, generated by a small Python script. Google indexes it. When I asked ChatGPT with search enabled about the topics those pages cover, it cited government portals, a couple of law firm blogs and a competitor. Never my pages. I wanted to know whether that was a technical problem I could fix or just the normal state of a new domain with no reputation. So I wrote a script that checks the things AI search systems se...
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Getting 6,826 job postings with salary as JSON in four minutes (and what it actually costs)

Most "job API" tutorials show you a toy call and stop before the part where you need 20,000 rows. This is the other version: the exact request, the exact response, the exact bill, and the four ways it will fail on you. What you get One call returns jobs from 259 companies across Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workable, Personio and Workday. Strip the ones without pay and you are left with about 6,826 postings that state an annual salary range , normalised to USD. Each record loo...