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Retro gaming is being overrun with AI

Retro video games are everywhere lately - especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser, Wind Waker on the iPhone, Super Smash Bros. in mixed reality. Over the past month or so, these kinds of unexpected projects have gone viral with incredible frequency thanks to new AI tools, as […]
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Brick’s new app blocker is designed for bedtime doomscrolling

Brick, the company behind the $59 gadget that blocks you from using apps on your phone, has launched a new device that's designed to help you cut back on doomscrolling in bed. The $129 Brick Night introduces a location-based element: instead of requiring you to tap your phone against the device, like the OG Brick, […]
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Netflix can’t fire its way out of this downward spiral

Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters assured investors this week that they have nothing to be concerned about. Sure, the company was going to lay off 1,000 employees, downsizing its product, tech, and legal departments, and was ousting its chief content officer, film chairman, and film vice president. But it had also hired a […]
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People are vibe coding their way to better TVs

Vibe coding has reached TVs. Social media is awash with posts from people using LLMs and open-source tools to remove ads and tracking, trim bloat so the OS runs faster, and even completely change the look and organization of their homescreens. While a lot of it is fun - one user turned their TV homescreen […]
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Apple revives the original iPod as an Apple Music easter egg

If you've been feeling nostalgic for your old iPod, you can head over to Apple Music's 404 page to listen to music on a virtual recreation of the first-generation iPod. The hidden iPod was spotted by users on social media on Friday. It's appropriately stocked with music from the early 2000s, like Coldplay's "Viva La […]
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Our best tips for using the iPhone Duo

The Duo is an entirely new kind of iPhone, so it comes with a bit of a learning curve. That's a wild thing to imagine, since the iPhone has had very few fundamental changes since its inception. But the Duo is built different. If you won the preorder lottery and managed to get your hands […]
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The Sigma FP2 brings significant upgrades to the ‘world’s smallest’ full-frame camera

Seven years after Sigma claimed its original fp was the world's smallest and lightest full-frame mirrorless camera, the company has announced a similarly compact follow-up with several welcome upgrades, including an improved sensor, an articulating LCD display, and longer battery life. But this time around, Sigma is only claiming its new FP2 is the "world's […]
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Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping

Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast Company. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the terms will go into effect on November 20th "to allow […]
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SpaceX’s mobile carrier push reportedly involves tapping into 80,000 cell sites

SpaceX is planning to access at least 80,000 cell sites as part of efforts to compete directly with Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, according to a report from Bloomberg. Sources tell the publication that SpaceX is in talks with Crown Castle Inc., one of the nation's largest cell tower owners. The move would give SpaceX access […]
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Feds want robotaxis to signal ‘I’m driving’ with cyan-colored lights

After years of debating how driverless cars should tell the world no one is at the wheel - flashing text, audio alerts, custom lights - the feds just stepped in with a single answer: cyan. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released proposed changes to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 108, specifically rewriting […]
Building Denge in 4 Hours: A Multilingual Wellness Tracking App
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Building Denge in 4 Hours: A Multilingual Wellness Tracking App

By Joud Kattaa Shikhoni and Jana Sweity Development time: 4 hours Built with: Replit, React, TypeScript, Express, and PostgreSQL Introduction Can we build a functional wellness tracking application in just four hours? That was the challenge behind Denge, a web application that brings nutrition, activity, hydration, sleep, and weight tracking into one place. The name Denge means “balance” in Turkish. We chose it because our project focuses on everyday habits rathe...
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Your Agent Can Pay. Can It Actually Buy the Right Product?

A shopping agent can execute a valid payment and still make a bad purchase. Imagine a buyer asks for two compact umbrellas, delivered to Singapore, within a total budget. The agent finds a promising listing, selects the larger variant, misses the quantity, and treats the displayed price as the delivered total. The wallet signs correctly. The payment succeeds. The buyer still gets the wrong outcome. This is a hypothetical example, not a customer story. It illustrates a useful boundary: ...
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Amazon Quick on a private network: PrivateLink's two planes and where they leak

When someone from compliance asks whether Amazon Quick "goes over the internet", the honest answer has two parts, and almost every design I have reviewed answers only one. User traffic into Quick uses PrivateLink interface endpoints. Quick's traffic out to your on-premises database, your private MCP server or your internal API uses something else: ENIs that Quick itself injects into your VPC. DNS, endpoint policy, IP/VPC restriction and IAM sit on top of those two planes, and each layer covers l...
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FAQ Schema in 15 Minutes: JSON-LD That Actually Earns Rich Results

FAQ Schema in 15 Minutes: JSON-LD That Actually Earns Rich Results FAQ rich results are one of the few schema types Google still shows widely in search results. They expand your listing, push competitors down the page, and — increasingly — feed the exact passages AI Overviews quote when answering questions. Most implementations fail on small technicalities, not big mistakes. Here is the minimal correct pattern and the five rules that break nearly every failed deployment I’ve seen. ...
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What broke when we generated daily trivia from Wikidata

I wanted daily quizzes whose answers anyone can check, so every question on our trivia pages is generated from a Wikidata fact, and every answer links back to its Wikidata item. Twenty questions a day, capitals, flags, rivers, literary works, films, events, championship winners. The quiz part was easy. The data part was not. Here is what broke, measured on 23 October 2026, and what we changed. 1. Nearly one famous person in five had no English or French label Since 2024 Wiki...
The Psychology of Problem Solving, Part 2: Managing Cognitive Load, Uncertainty, and the Search for Solutions
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The Psychology of Problem Solving, Part 2: Managing Cognitive Load, Uncertainty, and the Search for Solutions

In part 1 of this post series, we explored how our minds represent problems, search for solutions, and sometimes get stuck because of mental set, anchoring, confirmation bias, and other cognitive biases. Ok, but how can we use this knowledge to become better problem solvers? How can we manage our limited mental capacity when dealing with complex engineering problems? How should we make decisions when we don't have enough information? And perhaps most importantly, how do we know when to contin...
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LLC vs. Sole Proprietorship: Which Structure Fits a Small US Freelance or Agency Business

This isn't legal or tax advice — always confirm specifics with a lawyer or accountant licensed in your state, since LLC costs and rules vary meaningfully by state. But the general shape of this decision is consistent enough across the US to walk through honestly: what each structure actually costs, what it actually protects, and when the switch from one to the other genuinely pays for itself. What Each One Actually Is Sole proprietorship : the default status the moment s...
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When AI keeps fixing the wrong bug

Anyone who has debugged with an AI model knows this loop. You paste the error, ask for a fix, and get a confident patch. It looks right. The error moves somewhere else. You paste the new error, get another patch, and a few rounds later the code is messier and nobody, human or model, can say what the bug actually was. The model usually isn't the problem. "Fix this" quietly asks for four different things at once: a way to reproduce the bug, a place where it lives, a reason it happens, and a che...
Arrange My Files AI: A Clearer Home for Every File
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Arrange My Files AI: A Clearer Home for Every File

A smarter, safer way to organize your files — without losing control of your documents. Arrange My Files AI turns messy folders into clear, reviewable organization plans, with verified copies and original files preserved. What I Built A folder full of study notes often has two problems. Some filenames tell us almost nothing: 0.docx , final2.pdf , or notes.txt . Others are already useful, but scattered across unrelated folders. Renaming everything would be unnecessary; igno...
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How to Find AI Models Your Android Phone Can Actually Run in 2026 (No Failed Downloads)

You search Hugging Face for a model, wait for a 5 GB download on your Android phone, and then it will not load: too big for your RAM, or a format the app cannot run yet. Off Grid AI Mobile (OGAM) now filters that out before you tap download. Its model search lists only models your phone can load, shows one result per model instead of dozens of copies, and marks the files that only just fit. What you need An Android phone. What search shows depends on your phone's RAM, so an 8 G...
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Asynchronous JavaScript

In JavaScript, some operations take time to complete, such as fetching data from an API or waiting for a timer. Asynchronous JavaScript allows JavaScript to handle these operations without blocking other work. Let's understand it with simple examples! 1. Synchronous JavaScript Synchronous code runs one line at a time, in order. console . log ( " First " ); console . log ( " Second " ); console . log ( " Third " ); Output: ...
Sloth Sort: a local Gemma 3 that names your screenshots so you don't have to
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Sloth Sort: a local Gemma 3 that names your screenshots so you don't have to

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built Open anyone's Desktop and you'll find something like this: Screenshot 2026-10-14 at 9.41.22 AM.png Screenshot 2026-10-15 at 2.03.10 PM.png download.pdf document (1).pdf Scan 2026-10-12.pdf image (3).png 8f14e45fceea167a5a36dedd4bea2543.png Every one of those was important enough to save, and not important enough to name. "I'll rename them later" is one of t...