The History of The Selves
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The History of The Selves

Fast moving satirical science fiction story about AI escaping containment and harassing Eliezer Yudkowsky.
AlterMe Review: Fitness Built Around My DNA
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AlterMe Review: Fitness Built Around My DNA

Six months with AlterMe’s smart ring and a fitness app helped me build better habits, but the genetic insights were less revealing than I’d hoped.
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Inside the mini factory where GM builds its EV future

If you're driving through GM's sprawling campus in Warren, Michigan, you'd likely ignore the pair of adjacent, anonymous white buildings tucked away in the upper reaches of the 710-acre space. Inside those buildings, which total half a million square feet together, is a massive construction project that's still in progress. Once completed, it will house […]
Digital Marketing Career Lessons: Curiosity, Data, and Growth
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Digital Marketing Career Lessons: Curiosity, Data, and Growth

Some of the most valuable digital marketing career lessons I’ve learned didn’t come from a course or a certification. They came from asking questions, trying new things, making mistakes, and figuring out how to do better next time. When I first started working in digital marketing in Nepal, I was interested in how businesses connect with people online. Why do some campaigns get attention while others don’t? What makes someone click on a website? And how do we know if our efforts are actually ...
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CISM vs CISSP: Which Cybersecurity Certification Should You Choose?

Choosing the right cybersecurity certification can be challenging, particularly when comparing two well-known credentials such as CISM and CISSP. Both are respected in the security industry, but they focus on different areas of cybersecurity. CISM is more closely associated with information security management, governance, risk, and security programs. CISSP takes a broader approach, covering technical and managerial aspects of cybersecurity. Understanding these differences can help profess...
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The Death of Server-Side Uploads? A Frontend Guide to Direct-to-Cloud Uploads in React

A 100 MB upload through your API server holds a connection, memory, and a worker for the whole transfer. With a few users uploading at once, your app feels slow even though nothing is wrong with your code. The common fix is to let the browser send the file straight to cloud storage (S3, Cloudflare R2, and similar). The backend stops carrying the bytes and only decides who may upload what. This post covers the frontend side of that flow: browser APIs, a React implementation, progress, cance...
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Your Error Messages Are a Feature: What a "Random Logout" Bug Taught Me About Designing for Failure

In my last article , I wrote about UX bugs that pass every test — like a wallet with no visible balance. This one is about the biggest category of those bugs: what your app says, or doesn't say, when something goes wrong. The complaint came in as: "The app keeps logging me out randomly." Random logouts are a scary bug report. They suggest session corruption, cookie issues, maybe something security-shaped. So we dug in and found that nothing was random at all. The portal used short-lived ...
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Echoes of Earth 🌿: Exploring the Sounds of Nature with Open-Source AI

Echoes of Earth 🌿: Turning Everyday Sounds into Outdoor Exploration with Open-Source AI This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built What if your phone helped you pay more attention to the world instead of keeping you glued to the screen? That's the idea behind Echoes of Earth — an open-source AI-powered environmental sound exploration tool that encourages people to step outside, listen to their surroundings, ...
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What to check before you pay an x402 resource (measured over 98 samples of a live catalogue)

An x402 payment settles on-chain, and the server does not reverse it because you later decide the data was not what you expected. The only moment when you can still walk away for free is the unpaid request: the 402 response. That response is the real specification of a paid endpoint — the price, the network, the asset, the recipient and the fact that the endpoint answers at all. The problem is that a catalogue entry is not that specification. It is a copy of what the seller typed when the r...
Keep a speaking portrait aura out of your PixiJS dialogue text
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Keep a speaking portrait aura out of your PixiJS dialogue text

Disclosure: This draft was generated primarily with AI for NixieFX's marketing work. The source, screenshots and measurements come from the supplied local demo. Human technical and platform-policy review are required before publication. A speaking portrait can have a little motion around it while the dialogue stays still. The effect should identify the speaker without becoming another bright object behind the words. This example uses NixieFX with PixiJS 8.22.0 and nixie-fx 0.1.20. It keeps...
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Before your agent pays another agent, run a check that costs cents

AI agents on Base already pay each other, pay APIs per call over x402, and pay addresses they were handed a minute ago. Most of them do it without looking at who is on the other side. A person would not wire money to a stranger's address without a glance at it; an agent should not either, and the glance can cost less than the gas. This post is the routine we wrote for that glance: what to read before an agent pays, which signals mean "stop and ask a human", and how to run it on a schedule so ...
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Plug public tenders into an AI assistant in five minutes

Searching public tenders by hand is repetitive: open a portal, pick a country, guess the right category, scan titles, repeat for the next market. It is exactly the kind of task an AI assistant can take over, as long as it has a reliable tool to call. This article walks through the method, a concrete example and the traps that waste time (and money) when you connect tender data to an assistant. Why a tool beats a pasted list You could paste a list of notices into a chat and ask qu...
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Fond Klöpper : calculer le volume au lieu de le deviner

Sur une cuve inox verticale, la virole cylindrique ne pose jamais de problème : π/4 × D² × hauteur, tout le monde sait faire. Le volume des fonds, en revanche, est souvent estimé « à peu près ». On prend une demi-sphère, ou un fond elliptique, ou on l'ignore. L'erreur paraît faible sur une seule pièce, mais elle se répercute sur le volume total, sur le ciel gazeux, et sur le produit PS × V qui sert à classer l'équipement sous pression. Cet article explique la géométrie d'un fond Klöpper, donn...
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Your Cloud Credits Are Hiding Your Next Burn Rate

Your startup used $2,000 of cloud infrastructure last month. The amount payable was zero. Both numbers are correct. They answer different questions. One tells you what the system costs to operate. The other tells you how much of that cost the business must fund. Cloud credits give startups room to build. They reduce the initial cash required to launch a product, test an architecture or serve early customers. But they can also obscure a growing funding requirement when leadership focu...
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The CMK vs AWS-managed key trap in HIPAA S3

✓ Human-authored analysis; AI used for formatting and proofreading. "Which KMS key should I use for PHI in S3? We're using the default aws/s3 managed key. Our auditor is asking about key management but SSE-KMS is SSE-KMS, right?" Wrong. The difference between an AWS-managed key and a customer-managed key (CMK) is the difference between having and not having a breach containment option. What most teams get wrong S3 offers three encryption options: SSE-S3 (AES...