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Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 147, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I missed you all, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I'm back from parental leave! Part time, anyway. Thanks to everyone who sent well wishes […]

At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI." OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users' data safe. […]

When it comes to TVs, the LG name has long been synonymous with OLEDs, continually leading Samsung and Sony as the top OLED manufacturer. But 2026 is all about RGB LED TVs. Almost every major company has released models with the new technology - including LG and its $3,600 75-inch Micro RGB evo MRGB95B that […]

Today, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of the Channels podcast, about the gigantic Warner Bros.-Paramount merger and the future of the company now simply called Skydance. Skydance is owned by David Ellison, son of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, and its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery officially closed […]

After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed "unintended model actions," including submitting a false tip regarding an unsolved murder, that led to the decision. Although the impact of these behaviors was minimal […]

Sunmi is an undeniable force in K-pop. She first made her debut as a member of the Wonder Girls back in 2007, one of the first K-pop acts to really break through in the West. The English version of their single "Nobody" was the first K-pop song to hit the Billboard Hot 100 in October […]

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13-15 in San Francisco. Over 300 startups will show what they’ve built to 10,000 tech leaders. Plus, 250+ speakers are ready to share insights across 200+ sessions. Register before doors open to save up to $100 and get a second pass at 50% off.

A few days ago I published the architecture behind Vicquant’s RAG Vault; a 9-stage retrieval pipeline built to ground financial AI answers in actual source documents, with strict citations, so a user asking “what’s my 401(k) contribution limit” gets an answer tied to a real document, not a model’s confident guess. The quality evaluation backed it up: +5.2% answer relevance, +16% context precision, +4% context recall over the simpler pipeline it replaced, with zero hallucinations measured on eith...

When building an AI-powered application, connecting a language model to real development assets can be surprisingly useful. Consider a dashboard builder. A developer describes the interface they want, and the application suggests components, layouts, and icons. The layout suggestions might be reasonable. But what happens when the model needs to recommend actual SVG icons? Without access to an icon catalog, it may suggest generic names, invent identifiers, or mix incompatible icon styles...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass * What I Built Touch Grass Birder is an offline, on-device bird call identifier that runs entirely in your browser. Record 6 seconds of a bird call, get a species ID in seconds, then put your phone away and go find the bird. It identifies 6,522 species using the BirdNET v2.4 open model, running locally on your device via ONNX Runtime WebAssembly. There is no server, no API key, and no in...

How do you prove to someone that you actually touched grass? I guess the bigger question is out of everything going on how is "if i touched grass" still the biggest argument we are having? No more. (Argument, not going outside (well maybe)). Proof of Grass listens to a few seconds of audio with Perch 2.0, an open bird-sound model that runs offline on your laptop. If it hears something alive, you get a receipt chained to the last one, so you can’t edit your history later. I tested it on 560...

RepoDNA v1.3.1: Analyze a Codebase in Your Browser—Without Uploading It Understanding an unfamiliar codebase often means answering the same questions from scratch: How is the project organized? Which modules and packages depend on one another? What has changed over time? Which files are hotspots? How is the project built and tested? Which findings have evidence behind them? RepoDNA is an open-source, local-first repository intelligence and code archaeology tool designed around th...

This is an independent test. Nothing here came from vendor access: both tools were used on my own free and paid accounts. My verdict in 60 seconds — Tripo 64/100, SupaVoxel 88/100 I gave one photograph of an M1A2-style main battle tank to two image-to-3D products on the same day, exported GLB from both, and measured the files the way a print shop measures them. This is the case where the usual story inverts, so the uncomfortable part goes first: on flatness, Tripo wins, and on a hard-s...

A sharing button changes the trust boundary of a transcription app. The editor belongs to one person; anyone holding a public link can read the published text. Those are separate responsibilities. I am Julian Tao, the maker of ShortTranscript. This note describes the sharing behavior we implemented, rather than a claim that transcripts are automatically accurate. Separate the private draft from the public snapshot Publishing an editable result directly would make every later c...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I built and how it gets people outdoors clearnight is a stargazing planner that answers one question for the week ahead: which nights are actually worth going outside for — and what will be up there when you are? It fuses three kinds of data into a ranked list of nights: The sky — astronomical darkness windows (Sun below −18°), Moon phase, illumination, rise/set and alti...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built I built EchoVault (Heirloom) for my parents and elder family members. Elders don’t type into chatbots, and they don't format recipes into clean spreadsheets. They communicate through stories, oral memories, and voice notes . Whenever my mother or father cooks or reminisces about their childhood, they send 5-to-10 minute WhatsApp voice notes that are a beautiful, stream-of-consciou...

Day 10 of 30 Days of Search. Most competitor research breaks in the same place: it finds a few recent headlines, asks a model to summarize them, and forgets where the claims came from. That is not enough for public-company competitive intelligence. A competitive intelligence agent is a retrieval-and-synthesis workflow that gathers competitor evidence, extracts strategic signals, and returns a cited brief for human review. Public companies leave trails across SEC filings, earnings commen...

Independent review: both products were tested on my own accounts — free where offered and paid where not — with no vendor-provided access. My verdict in 60 seconds — Tripo 60/100, SupaVoxel 90/100 One photograph of an anatomical human skull ornament, run once through Tripo and once through SupaVoxel at product defaults, then both GLB files torn apart offline by the same script. Tripo: 55 credits, 62.70 MB, 1,952,540 triangles. SupaVoxel: 3 credits, 5.37 MB, 960,138 triangles. One ques...

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Running vLLM natively on Windows 10/11 with CUDA and an OpenAI-compatible server, no WSL or Docker, via the open-source vllm-windows-build patches and wheels.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-Genesis-Hermes-GGUF is a locally runnable, text-to-text GGUF release with native text, image, and video capabilities.

I have spent two decades building and leading engineering teams. Here's what I learned, so you can apply it to your own migration.