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Democrats could win back control of Congress this November, and if they do, they'll need to decide how to approach one of the country's newest and thorniest political issues: AI. Polls predict Democrats will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, which would put committee leadership back in their hands. That […]

If you spend any time on r/synthesizers or watch a lot of synth videos on YouTube, you've probably noticed the explosion of custom firmware for hardware synthesizers, samplers, and grooveboxes. What unites almost all of them is that they were made possible by increasingly sophisticated vibe coding tools. These sorts of custom firmware were exceedingly […]

Wyze announced a new version of its Ultra BodyScan smart scale that debuted nearly a year ago with additional electrodes on a retractable handle, allowing it to provide a breakdown of various health metrics across your arms, legs, and torso. With the new Ultra BodyScan Plus, Wyze is introducing a redesign that moves the scale's […]

A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins. Concerns over AI-powered cybersecurity breaches have grown […]

If you're on the hunt for lightweight wireless headphones but wearing earbuds or clip-ons never feels comfortable or secure, a relatively obscure Japanese headphone maker could have the solution. Final's new Porta headphones feature an on-ear design supported by a headband but with a structure made from a single piece of wire so they weigh […]

Elon Musk says he plans to give one of his SpaceX shares to every child in the US starting next year. With around 72 million children in the US as of July 2025, Musk would be giving away about $10.5 billion worth of shares, according to a report from CNBC. Musk, who runs SpaceX and […]

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone signed a letter of intent saying they're considering a joint bid for spectrum that would support European direct-to-device satellite competition for SpaceX's Starlink. The four telecom companies say they would handle the ground infrastructure while a separate, unannounced satellite partner provides the satellite constellation: The joint initiative by Deutsche […]

Today, I’m talking with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those issues are driving a big and maybe kind of unexpected political realignment — and with the midterms coming […]

Best Buy has a great deal for the rest of the day on the M4 Mac Mini base model that has 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. Normally, it doesn’t make a ton of sense to buy the M4 model for its usual $799 price given that the newer, faster M6 version has been available […]

Amazon has signed an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to fund the building of a new nuclear energy facility in Indiana. The proposed plant, which would replace the now defunct coal-fueled Breed Generating Station in Fairbanks, Sullivan County, aims to provide up to 960 megawatts of carbon-free energy for both the regional […]

That's more than $10 billion in shares, or around 1% of Musk's current net worth.

Apple said that it will ban AI apps that don't moderate offensive content.

Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.

I ran the viral "1/7 scale figurine" prompt through Nano Banana Pro on Higgsfield and on Kyncept, five images in total. The pictures came out a tie, because the model draws them, not the platform. The bill did not: Higgsfield charged 2 credits per image, Kyncept charged 1, and the Higgsfield file arrived with a watermark baked into the pixels. Independent review: both products were run on my own accounts — Higgsfield on new free tiers, Kyncept on a paid Pro plan — with no vendor-provided ac...

I recently built Free TDEE Calculator , a set of fitness calculators (TDEE, BMR, macros, calorie deficit) with Astro, hosted on Cloudflare. Here is what actually mattered in the build. Why Astro for a Calculator Site Calculator pages are mostly static content with small islands of interactivity. Astro ships zero JavaScript by default, so the pages load fast and Google reads clean HTML. The interactive calculator inputs are tiny client-side scripts, not a framework runtime. ...

Background jobs are easy to underestimate. You enqueue a task, a worker picks it up, and the work gets done. At least, that's how it looks when everything works. In production, jobs can fail halfway through, run more than once, get stuck, or overwhelm a dependency. The problem isn't just that a job fails. It's what happens next. Here are five mistakes that can make background processing unreliable — and how to avoid them. 1. Retrying Without Backoff Retries are necessary...

How I Built a Receipt Scanning PWA for French Freelancers (and What I Learned) A few months ago, I launched ScanCompta — a Progressive Web App that lets French freelancers and small business owners scan their receipts and manage expense reports, directly from their phone or browser. Here's what I learned building it. The Problem I Was Solving France has around 4 million self-employed workers — freelancers, tradespeople, VTC drivers, consultants. Most of them handle the...

Batch or stream? That's the wrong first question. The better one is: does your data ever end? If you've worked anywhere near big data, you've sat through this debate. Someone wants Kafka and Flink. Someone else says a nightly Spark job is fine. But what it is all about? Stream processing reacts to each event the moment it happens. Batch waits for a time window or a volume threshold, then processes everything in one go. At first glance it looks like a per-feature choice. Pic...

When an external image result is already used or fails format validation, how can an automated workflow continue searching without exhausting rate limits or ignoring safety caps? Scheduled runs often return generic visual queries that yield thin pools of usable assets, leaving workers to handle unexpected MIME types or duplicate items. Quick solution: // Request next page when page 1 yields no valid assets up to the budget cap const maxPages = 2 ; if ( ! validAssetFo...

We've all been there. A server suddenly stops responding. Your SSH session freezes. An API becomes unreachable. You open a terminal and run the command you've probably typed thousands of times: ping example.com And then... Request timed out. Great. Now what? Is the server actually down? Is ICMP being blocked? Did your connection drop? Is DNS acting up? Did something change in your network? Traditional ping tells you that packets aren't coming back. It ...

Four Tokyo paper-cut images from the same displayed model are a close call on visual content. The differences a reader can verify are the originals' watermark, file format, poster composition, credit debits and incomplete timing record. Independent review: both products were run on my own accounts — a free tier and a paid plan — with no vendor-provided access. My verdict in 60 seconds Higgsfield and Kyncept each completed two Nano Banana Pro image jobs from the same adapte...

I built KeptTools so your JWT, SQL, and Base64 never leave the browser Most “free online tools” are convenient until you paste something you shouldn’t. A JWT from staging. A SQL dump with real emails. A Base64 string that still holds a secret. If that page uploads your paste, you’ve already shared more than you meant to. The problem I kept needing small utilities: format / validate JSON format SQL decode a JWT encode / decode Base64 generate hashes ...

MITRE ATLAS had 16 tactics and 101 top-level techniques when our site last synced it on October 1, 2026. Of those 101, MITRE rates 44 as "realized," meaning someone has used the technique against a production AI system, not a lab target. That number is the best tool you have for comparing courses on AI security testing and adversarial AI, because course outlines are written to sound alike and ATLAS IDs are not. The method: get the lab list, tag each lab with technique IDs, count what is cove...

One text prompt, four original 1376×768 stills: Higgsfield charged two credits per image and delivered watermarked PNGs; Kyncept charged one credit per image and delivered JPEGs without comparable branded text. Neither side obeyed the instruction to show exactly three workers. My verdict in 60 seconds This is an independent, single-tester account of a hands-on comparison, not a representative image-generator benchmark. Both products were run on ordinary customer accounts — a fre...

Database sharding and partitioning: the scaling move an interviewer makes you justify Every system design answer eventually hits the same wall: one database is not enough. The moment your design has to hold more data or absorb more writes than a single machine can, database sharding stops being a buzzword and becomes the thing you have to reason about out loud. And sharding and partitioning are where an interviewer separates the candidates who scale a database by reflex — "we'll just sha...

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