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I've spent most of the last couple weeks using an otherwise unexceptional midrange Android phone with one amazing feature: a matte OLED display. That screen is by far the best thing about the TCL P80 Ultra, and weirdly, it's made me more excited for the iPhone Duo and its matte inner display. 2023's TCL Nxtpaper […]

OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will "initially" appear when you generate images with ChatGPT, according to an announcement on Monday. The company first brought ads to ChatGPT in February. Until now, ChatGPT's […]

Getting some extra storage space on your Mac could be as easy as deleting Apple's AI features with a new open-source command line tool called RemoveMacAI. There used to be a single Settings toggle for disabling Apple Intelligence, but that was removed in macOS 27. Now, the models stay on your disk, and the features […]

Today, I’m talking with Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. Schiff sits on a number of committees with oversight into tech and AI: intellectual property, antitrust, privacy and technology — it’s all there. I really wanted to ask him about how we might regulate anything related to the tech industry at this moment in […]

CNN CEO Mark Thompson will remain at the head of the news network when Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition closes this week. Thompson wrote in a memo to employees that he believes the combined company will "fully support the principle and practice of the kind of independent news that CNN has always stood […]

Really the only negative associated with the new M6-powered Mac Mini is its high price. While the last-gen model debuted at just $599, the faster, but mostly unchanged 2026 edition starts at $899 — except for right now. You can grab the base model that has 256GB of storage, 16GB RAM, and a 12-core CPU […]

Nvidia's Shield TV streaming boxes are the latest victims of the memory shortage that has seen prices increase dramatically for everything from digital cameras to game consoles. When the Shield TV Pro launched nearly seven years ago with an upgraded Tegra X1+ processor, 3GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage, it sold for $199.99. But […]

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Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.

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OpenAI said the new visual ads will show up after your image generation results appear in the U.S. only for now.

"You're getting 10%." Ten percent of what? This is the question that breaks most revenue-sharing arrangements. Not because anyone is dishonest, but because a percentage without a defined base is not a number. It is a shape. And shapes don't pay rent. The Problem Every revenue split you've ever seen looks simple on paper: Artist gets 18%. Producer gets 3 points. Platform takes 5%. But run the math and the ambiguity explodes. Here is a real scenario from music, but ...

x402 solved a real problem: how does software pay? An AI agent needs an API result, the API responds with HTTP 402 (Payment Required), the agent pays in crypto, the API delivers. But x402 answers the payment question, not the economics question. After the USDC lands, someone has to decide: who deserves this money, and why? The Gap Here is what x402 gives you: Agent requests a resource Server responds: 402, pay $0.05 USDC to this address Agent pays on-chain Serv...

There are plenty of open-source AI code review tools today, and at first glance, they all seem to do more or less the same thing. But they don’t. Some are pretty simple and handle the basics inside CI. Others go further by pulling context from the codebase, applying team-specific rules, and giving you more control over the model and where the review runs. Once you start comparing them properly, differences show up that aren’t always obvious in a demo. Some tools have more context, other...

Two things landed in the same week and they are the same argument. Microsoft and Hugging Face published ThinkingBox , a benchmark that grades agents on the backend state and side effects they leave behind instead of the sentences they generate, and then asks whether they can do it twenty times in a row. Their opening example is an agent that makes nine clean tool calls, closes a ticket as resolved, and is wrong: the carrier exception was still open, so the required end state was "on hold." A...

When a project has a small number of automated tests, managing them is usually straightforward. But as the application grows, the test suite grows too. Hundreds or thousands of tests can mean longer execution times, more maintenance, more failures to investigate, and more effort to understand whether the tests are still covering the right things. So I started looking at how different test automation approaches handle this problem. One thing I noticed is that scaling automation isn't really...

Introduction Many people hear the word statistics and think of dense formulas and confusing charts. As a doctor moving into data science, I have come to see it differently. Programming languages and machine learning get the attention, but statistics is what makes the results trustworthy. It tells you whether a pattern is real, how sure you can be, and what to do next. To show this, I will walk through a made-up but realistic example from a clinic. The numbers are illustrative, not from a rea...

Customer returns and refund requests are among the costliest operational friction points for modern e commerce platforms. Traditional solutions force businesses to choose between two undesirable extremes: Rigid rule engines that deny valid edge cases, frustrating loyal shoppers. Naive generative chatbots that can be easily manipulated through prompt injection, promising free money and unauthorized chargebacks. To solve this, I designed and built an autonomous AI Customer Support Refu...

Java's HashMap mitigates Hash Collision Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by automatically converting congested linked list buckets into Red-Black trees once a bucket exceeds 8 entries and the total map capacity reaches 64. This transition reduces lookup complexity from O(N) to O(log N), preventing attackers from exhausting CPU resources. Imagine sending a tiny 2MB payload to a web server and completely freezing a CPU core for nearly three-quarters of an hour. In 2011, security researchers dem...

I run a crawler that re-reads public Vinted shelves in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal about every 30 minutes and records which listings disappear. On 5 October 2026 the database held 14,676,854 listings. September was the first full month of departure tracking, so I published it as a dataset: the Vinted Demand Index, October 2026 . One word matters before the numbers. I call them observed departures , not sales. A listing can leave the shelf because someone bought it, but also b...