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Peloton is back with a ‘cheaper’ folding treadmill

Last year, Peloton did a sweeping refresh of its hardware that added cameras, fans, and AI-powered software called Peloton IQ. This year, it's zeroing in on its treadmill lineup - refreshing its two existing Treads and adding the new, more affordable Tread Flex into the fold. At a New York City launch event, Peloton chief […]
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Oppo’s new phone is the first with three 200-megapixel cameras

Oppo's new Find X10 Pro Max flagship phone, launched today in China, is the first anywhere to use 200-megapixel sensors on all three of its rear cameras. A 17-stop dynamic range for the main camera, delivered thanks to what Oppo calls "DeepPix sensor technology," suggests megapixel count won't be the only thing this camera has […]
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These discreet hearing aid glasses now have better voice boosting and battery life

EssilorLuxottica, the company that Meta partnered with for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, announced a new version of its Nuance Audio glasses that are designed to double as discreet over-the-counter hearing aids. The new Nuance Audio Plus still manages to squeeze their FDA cleared hearing aid tech into temple arms that don't look much thicker than […]
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Waymo is offering transit discounts again, this time with Visa

Waymo has made several attempts over the years at offering transit discounts to its customers in the hopes of getting them to more frequently use the company's robotaxis to connect with a train or a bus. The Alphabet-owned company announced the latest effort today, teaming up with Visa to offer a discount on robotaxi rides […]
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‘Trump TV’ is just reruns of the president on YouTube

The White House is now airing reruns of President Donald Trump's speeches, bill signings, and other moments on a YouTube livestream that it's calling "Trump TV," as reported earlier by Time. The 24/7 station launched just days after Trump banned CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House. Following several teasers propping up "Trump […]
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The Beats 360 are what I’d bring to the gym if I hated earbuds

Everyone has seen someone at the gym or running around their neighborhood wearing headphones that were never designed for workouts. Quite often those headphones are Beats. Good news for the earbud haters: The new Beats 360 over-ear headphones are durable and built to withstand sweat, with water resistance and swappable knit ear cups. And there […]
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Activision is taking over Halo as part of a massive Xbox shake-up

Microsoft is announcing a massive restructuring of its Xbox studios today, months after laying off 1,600 Xbox employees and selling off studios. The latest changes will see Activision take on the Halo and Sea of Thieves franchises, as well as Age of Empires. Microsoft is also laying off around 268 Xbox employees as part of […]
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Microsoft is laying off 268 Xbox staffers and Ninja Theory may close

Microsoft is laying off around 260 Xbox employees today, as part of an ongoing "reset" of its gaming business. 1,600 Xbox employees were impacted by layoffs in July, with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma describing the cuts as "the most significant restructure in Xbox history." Today's layoffs are part of the 3,200 roles that were previously […]
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Xbox is merging its Forza developers into a single studio

Microsoft is uniting its two Forza developers into a single studio today, as part of a massive restructuring of Xbox. Playground Games, which develops Forza Horizon, and Turn 10 Studios, creators of Forza Motorsport, are merging together to focus on Forza Horizon and Fable. "Playground and Turn 10 will come together as one studio focused […]
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Xbox is barely Xbox anymore

Xbox has become a shell of its former self - and things are only getting worse. As part of its planned cuts impacting around 3,200 workers, the company announced today more changes that will further dilute the brand. Studios are being consolidated, others are on the brink of being closed altogether, and Xbox's most iconic […]
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Making Claude Code concise without making it dumber: the engineering behind two open-source plugins

Claude Code talks too much, and its status bar tells you nothing. So I built two open-source plugins to fix both — and a third, experimental one that redraws the transcript itself. This is the engineering: how the conciseness layer works, how it's measured, why the status bar is architected the way it is, and what building on Claude Code's undocumented function hooks actually looks like. Everything here is in clear-claude on GitHub, MIT licensed. Every number below is a measured one; where ...
Sponsored Fees and Reserves — Performance Test Report
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Sponsored Fees and Reserves — Performance Test Report

By Hitesh Gandhi( @hgandhi ) and Qi Zhao Introduction The Sponsor amendment ( XLS-68: Sponsored Fees and Reserves ) introduces a way for one XRPL account to pay transaction fees and owner reserves on behalf of another account without taking custody of that account's XRP. This lets exchanges, wallets, token issuers, and applications simplify onboarding by covering network costs for their users while those users retain full control of their keys and accounts. XLS-68 supports ...
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Engineering Data Protection for AI Chatbots: A WordPress Case Study

An AI chatbot creates a new data pathway through your website. A visitor submits text, retrieval selects context, a model generates an answer, and several systems may retain the exchange. Protecting that pathway requires architectural controls before the first token reaches an inference endpoint. For WordPress developers, the central question is straightforward: which information crosses which boundary, under whose authority, and for how long? HIPAA and GDPR considerations turn those engineer...
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What Nobody Is Using in Your Google Cloud Projects, and What It Costs

This article provides a step by step guide to building a Google Cloud waste scanner from source, running it across every project your credentials can see, pricing each finding from the Cloud Billing Catalog API, and drafting the cleanup. A suite of Python checks is built to cover Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Storage, DNS, KMS, Secret Manager, Artifact Registry, Filestore, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring and GKE. https://github.com/xbill9/zombiescan-gcp What Gets Left Behind ...
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SpikeForge Dashboard gives the experiment a desktop home

SpikeForge Dashboard is the desktop interface for experiments made with the SpikeForge spiking-neural-network toolkit. Its desktop builds moved through 0.2.5 and 0.2.6 after a run of smaller releases that established the packaging path. The dashboard exists for the part of the work that is awkward in a terminal: looking at an experiment, checking what was loaded, and keeping the result close to the configuration that produced it. It is a React and TypeScript dashboard packaged as a desktop a...