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After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a "hoax" cooked up by Democrats no longer apply now that he's renamed the technology to "Super Intelligence." He […]

Amazon deliveries could soon come with a new catch: the delivery driver's smart glasses will be snapping photos of anything they see while they're in use, including people and private property. Bloomberg reports that the glasses could take "several thousand captures in a single driver's typical shift," which Amazon plans to upload to its AI […]

Reddit is further limiting who can use the "Old Reddit" experience as part of its efforts to combat scraping and automated traffic. Reddit recently started forcing users to log in to be able to use Old Reddit, but in the "next few months," the company says that you'll have to be logged in and have […]

While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they're apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetite for physical hardware with their cutesy software agents. "Hardware is […]

"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."

By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.

Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.

There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.

The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.

DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event.

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

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WireGuard is an open-source virtual private network (VPN) solution that uses modern cryptography to secure server-client network communications. It's lightweight, with a smaller codebase than alternatives like OpenVPN, focused on core functionality for speed and security. This guide walks through installing WireGuard on Ubuntu 24.04, generating server and client key pairs, configuring the server and firewall for a NAT-routed VPN tunnel, and connecting a client device. By the end, you'll have a r...

Flowise is an open-source, low-code platform for building applications powered by large language models (LLMs) through a visual, drag-and-drop interface. Rather than writing custom integration code, developers connect prompts, models, memory, and external data sources as nodes on a canvas to build a working chatflow, supporting use cases such as chatbots, document question-and-answer systems, and internal automation pipelines. This guide deploys Flowise on a Linux server using Docker Compose, c...

Portkey is an open-source AI gateway that unifies access to 250+ Large Language Models (LLMs) across dozens of providers behind a single, OpenAI-compatible API. Instead of integrating with each provider's SDK, applications send requests through Portkey, which handles routing, load balancing, and automatic fallback to keep AI-powered systems reliable. This guide deploys Portkey on a Linux server using Docker Compose and secures it with Traefik as a reverse proxy for TLS termination, protecting a...

Ory Keto is an open-source permission and access control server that implements Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC) modeled on Google's Zanzibar authorization system. Instead of hardcoding access rules, Keto stores relationships as relation tuples and answers permission questions through a dedicated Application Programming Interface (API). This approach scales from direct ownership checks to complex nested permissions like group membership, without changing application code. This guide ...

Microsoft Entra External ID is Microsoft's cloud-based CIAM service for customer-facing applications. It provides an external tenant customer directory, customizable authentication journeys, social and enterprise identity federation, multi-factor authentication, and integration with the Microsoft identity platform. It removes the need to operate an identity store, but it bills per monthly active user (MAU) above a free allowance of 50,000 MAU on the Basic tier, meters SMS phone verification sep...

On my MacBook Air, Ollama 0.34.4 served qwen3:1.7b with a 4,096-token window. The model supports 40,960. I sent a 7,000-token prompt and got HTTP 200 back, but the model had only seen the last 2,050 tokens. There was no error and no warning. That was the start of llm-doctor, a health check for local LLM setups. The problems it looks for Running models locally leaves a lot of quiet mess behind. Every runtime keeps its own copy of the same GGUF. Ollama hides it behin...

Google Vertex AI is Google Cloud's managed machine learning platform that provides experiment tracking, training jobs, pipelines, a model registry, and model serving as hosted services within the GCP ecosystem. It abstracts infrastructure management but ties teams to GCP-specific APIs, per-use compute billing, and Google's tooling. Kubeflow is an open-source platform built on Kubernetes that provides self-hosted alternatives to Google Vertex AI features through modular machine learning compone...

Penpot is an open-source design and prototyping platform for designers, developers, and product teams, running entirely in the browser and storing files in open web standards like SVG so design and code stay in sync. This guide deploys Penpot on a Linux server using Docker Compose with PostgreSQL for data storage, Valkey for websocket notifications, and Traefik handling TLS termination, then walks through account creation and a full design-to-prototype workflow. By the end, you'll have a self-ho...

Umami is an open-source, privacy-focused web analytics platform designed as a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics. It avoids cookies and personally identifiable information, removes the need for cookie banners, and captures real-time metrics including visitor devices, geographic data, referrers, and custom events through a lightweight tracking script. This guide deploys Umami on a Linux server using Docker Compose with PostgreSQL as the database, Redis for session caching, and Traefik fo...

Fluxer is a free and open-source instant messaging and VoIP platform for friends, groups, and communities, providing messaging, communities, text and voice channels, media uploads, search, presence, and voice and video communication from a web-based interface. Fluxer ships an official Docker Compose stack that runs the web application, API, gateway, administration dashboard, messaging services, media services, PostgreSQL, Valkey, NATS, Meilisearch, SeaweedFS, LiveKit, and Caddy. This guide deplo...

A few weeks ago I got stuck on a question: what if part of a WHERE clause could be written in plain English? SELECT * FROM support_tickets WHERE SEM_PREDICT ( ticket_text , 'customer is asking for a refund' ); I didn't want an LLM writing SQL for me, and I didn't want a chatbot. I also didn't want to send every row to an API. I wanted the natural-language condition to behave like any other predicate the engine can evaluate. I built a prototype c...

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