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The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, this is a stalking horse bid, so another company could come forward with a higher offer.

"You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film.

"No logs" is the most common promise in VPN marketing. It is also the hardest one for a buyer to check. A privacy policy can say "no logs" in the headline and describe, a few paragraphs later, which connection data it keeps and for how long. At VPNRadarLab we score VPN services only from what the providers publish: privacy policies, audit reports, apps, jurisdictions, prices. That makes it possible to put three questions side by side for every service in the ranking. Does it promise no logs? ...

What I Built TutorSaathi AI is an AI-powered teaching assistant designed to help English tutors and coaching centers create personalized learning materials for Hindi-speaking students. Many students understand English grammar rules but struggle to use English in everyday conversations. At the same time, tutors spend hours preparing worksheets, quizzes, translations, and practice exercises for their students. TutorSaathi AI aims to make this process faster and more accessible. ...

Over the last two decades, digital payments have become an integral part of our everyday lives. Today, we can send money across borders, purchase goods using mobile wallets, and transfer digital assets without necessarily relying on traditional financial intermediaries. Despite these advances, one fundamental challenge remains: accessibility. For people living in rural communities, traders operating in areas with unreliable mobile networks, and businesses experiencing network congestion, comp...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest 2026 Open-Source AI Challenge, Week 2: Side Hustle . Try it before you read anything: tariff-desk.onrender.com . Click "Soy candle", or type something you sell. No login. In short: describe something you make and Tariff Desk gives you its 10-digit US customs code, or asks you one question if your description is too vague to classify. When it says it's sure, it matches US Customs' own ruling 66% of the time, on rulings issued after th...

What I Built ReLoopAI — Discover opportunities in waste. Turn ideas into possibilities. ReLoopAI is an AI-powered application designed to help people discover potential business opportunities hidden in everyday waste materials. Waste is often seen as something with no value, but many discarded materials can inspire creative reuse, recycling, and sustainable products. ReLoopAI uses AI to help users explore these possibilities and turn a simple waste material into a starting point for ...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Cold pitches in Lagos fail because they say nothing Freelancers in Lagos who sell to local businesses (video editors, web designers, social media managers) find most of their clients one WhatsApp message at a time. Most of those messages look the same: "Hi, I edit videos, let me know if you need anything." They get ignored. A pitch that gets a reply ...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle An AI-powered business assistant for freelance video creators, built with Gemma and Ollama. Freelance video creators spend a lot of time doing work that happens before the camera even comes out. A client sends a rough message. You figure out exactly what they need, decide what to charge, prepare a proposal, plan the shoot, define revisions, and work out when everything should be delivered. Th...

What a I learnt about outcome definitions, patient-grouped splits and honest metrics while predicting hospital readmission with scikit-learn. The problem Hospital readmission is expensive for health systems and harmful for patients. For people with diabetes, a return to hospital often signals gaps in glycaemic control, medication reconciliation or follow-up. If a hospital could identify, before discharge, which patients are most likely to return, it could target scarce follow...

Short answer: for a scheduled daily report email backend, use cron to start one coordinator, then put one durable, idempotent delivery job per subscriber behind it; direct sending is simpler only while rerunning the whole audience is an acceptable recovery plan. For an edtech shipment update, the dominant billable term is usually shaped by fan-out, not by the single 02:00 trigger. If a run has S eligible subscribers, the system attempts roughly S email deliveries, while scheduling happens...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle TL;DR — Photograph one page of a shop's handwritten credit notebook. An open-weight model reads it (a deterministic parser takes over when there is no key), the shopkeeper confirms every line, the balances follow, and each customer gets a polite WhatsApp reminder in their own language . The AI does the reading; the shopkeeper does the deciding. Repo: https://github.com/ramantiw45/UdhaarBook ...

If you vibe-code, read this before you share anything you built. An agent can produce a working app in an afternoon. What it cannot do is check that the app works on a second machine, with a second person, or after a restart. That gap is where most vibe-coded projects break, and it is what these five habits close. 1. Run it from a clean copy Your machine has things the repository does not: a global tool, an old environment variable, a file you never committed. Clone the project i...

We run a small on-prem inference fleet - four nodes, mixed A6000 and 4090 cards - and last quarter we replaced a pile of hand-rolled docker run wrappers with GPUStack. The pitch is reasonable: one control plane that schedules models across whatever GPUs you happen to own, materialises a backend per deployment, and exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Two months in, it does what it says. It also has a specific failure boundary that cost us a weekend, and that part is worth writing down. ...

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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on autonomous vehicles, policy, and road rules, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The first state to pass a law […]

It used to be so easy to get away with things in school. The teacher, after all, was always turned around writing at the chalkboard! But then came a bit of technology, previously mostly used for military purposes, called the overhead projector. It would change far more than just the disciplinary record of students everywhere. […]

Back in February, I went to Los Angeles to take in some art and stayed in Koreatown. Down the street from my hotel, there was this little coffee shop - Stagger - that is, I think, best known for its matcha, which is good. But the drink I unexpectedly found myself obsessed with was their […]

During a rally on Saturday, October 17th, in Highland Heights, Kentucky, Donald Trump bragged about how much more powerful and influential he was during his second term. While listing off his accomplishments, he mentioned his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. "This is a much more powerful term. I can do […]

Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis is known as something of a slacker guitar god. He stands stoically onstage, barely moving, as he seemingly effortlessly works through deft guitar solos and lopsided riffs. Unfortunately, Mascis has developed a similar reputation as an interview subject, quietly sitting and offering deft nonanswers. That's not to say that Mascis […]

The Legion Go S with SteamOS is a pretty solid alternative to the $789 Steam Deck OLED. It runs identical software, but ships in a design with two-stage triggers, a bigger eight-inch IPS screen (1080p and up to 120Hz versus 800p and 90Hz in the Deck OLED), and it’s got double the RAM and storage […]

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