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The HBO series served as a stand-in for everything wrong with white millennial women during its original run. Then Gen Z started watching.

The Razer Barracuda V2 Pro headset has a place in the office as well as at your gaming battle station.

It turns out the Roadster 2 both sucks and blows.

Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.

Earlier this week, Apple announced its new Apple TV 4K, which costs nearly twice as much as the 2022 model did at launch. Amazon is now offering the first discount on the forthcoming streaming box (coming out on November 13th), just days after discounting Apple’s new smart display for the first time. Right now, you […]

For more than a decade, Apple has told other companies to build smart home devices for its platform. This week, Apple launched its own. The Apple Home Collection is a lineup of cameras, thermostats, sensors, a smart door lock, and a video doorbell, all codeveloped with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric. They arrive alongside HomeView, […]

According to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.

The company will start off by testing its self-driving vehicles on Toronto's streets.

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt.  This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics, powered by a general foundation model, is about to have […]

The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.

Maybe it was the grey color, the slightly bulbous roofline, or the vaguely SUV-like proportions of the electric Porsche Macan, but as I shuttled kids and groceries around city and suburban streets, I never once noticed a longing stare from other drivers. Unlike with other cars I’ve tested, no enthusiasts stopped to ask me questions. […]

TL;DR: for a cheap Node.js uptime dashboard, add custom metrics to the internal admin panel when the decision is whether to keep or roll back a logistics pricing rule. An external API health probe can prove that the quote service answers, but it cannot prove that the new rule produces valid prices. Ship behind a flag, label every outcome with a bounded rule version, and make rollback depend on quote failures, suspicious price outcomes, and fallback use. Choice Detects bad pricing D...

Disclosure: this post was written with AI assistance. Freelancers usually run their business across five tools: a spreadsheet for clients, a to-do app, a folder of invoices, an email inbox and their own memory. Notion can replace several of those, but only if you set it up around a few linked databases rather than a pile of pages. Here's a structure that works for most solo freelancers and stays simple enough to maintain. The core idea: four linked databases Everything hang...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle * What I Built Van-to-Quote is a local app that turns a tradesperson's spoken job notes into a priced PDF quote. Plumbers, electricians and other tradespeople finish a job and then spend an evening typing up quotes. Cloud quoting apps charge a monthly fee, need a signal, and keep customer data on someone else's server. With Van-to-Quote you hold a button and say "replaced two radiators,...

Introducción AWS anunció Lambda Web Functions, una forma de ejecutar aplicaciones web y APIs sobre Lambda ejecutando directamente un servidor HTTP de Node.js, sin adaptadores ni handlers por evento. Aquí te describo mi propio análisis. Este artículo no pretende ser una guía de cómo usar Lambda Web Functions. Hago un recorrido corto por las características que importan, referencio blogs de colegas y muestro mi propio enfoque de cuándo utilizarla y cuando No. Para no quedarme en la teoría, a...

How AI Agents Verify Work On-Chain Most "AI agent" projects stop at the demo. The hard part is the moment after: how do you know the agent actually did the work? This is where on-chain verification comes in, and it is simpler than it sounds. Three mechanisms that actually work 1. Hash commitment. Before an agent starts, you commit to a hash of the expected output. When the agent finishes, you reveal the preimage. If the hash matches, the work existed before the claim was ma...

Prepared for Week 2: Side Hustle . What I Built Turn raw customer messages, KYC documents, and loan queries into sanitized, zero-leakage LLM prompts and seamlessly restore the original values into the response. Indian product teams at fintech, healthtech, and edtech startups face statutory penalties of up to ₹250 Crore (~$30M USD) under India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023 when sensitive citizen identifiers leak into external clouds. ₹500 per month for ...

I was looking at my GitHub profile the other day - 847 contributions in 2024. All those late nights, bug fixes, and "fix: finally works" commits... and they just live as little green squares that disappear when you scroll. So I thought - what if I could print it? Frame it? Actually put the year I locked in on my wall? So I built Commit Print . What it is You type your GitHub username, pick a year, and it generates a clean, print-ready poster of your contribution graph. ...

Short answer: if a shipment reminder can be delivered twice, assume at-least-once queue processing and claim a durable idempotency key before sending; queue-level deduplication is a useful filter, but its 5-minute window is not the correctness boundary. For a media shop sending a shipment update to many subscribers, I would choose durable send keys over deduplication alone. Ack only after the update has been safely persisted or sent. The catch is operational: the send-key store becomes part o...

If you’ve ever built against Companies House data, you know the pain: Rate-limit dropouts (HTTP 429 Too Many Requests) ALL-CAPS addresses and missing GPS coordinates Dropped leading zeroes on Scottish company numbers Balance sheet PDFs you can't easily query or render in browser apps So I built a fix. 😁 The sub-20ms API and web demo are live in production today! The live website demo is already running smoothly and handling real-time lookups with sub-...

Disclosure: this post was written with AI assistance. Generic email sequences fail in niches because niche audiences notice immediately when you don't understand them. A bookkeeper for dental practices, a climbing gym, a B2B tool for logistics planners: each audience has its own vocabulary, worries and buying cycle. This framework helps you write a short sequence that sounds like it was written by someone inside the niche. Step 1: Collect the audience's own words Before wri...

What I Built I built LedgerLens, an open-source, privacy-first AI expense auditor for freelancers. It automatically categorizes invoices and receipts, detects duplicate charges and calculation errors, flags potential tax compliance issues, estimates tax savings, and generates financial reports. Built with FastAPI, Gemma 2, and Ollama, it supports local processing to help protect sensitive financial data. Demo ledgerlens-ph9u.onrender.com ...

Disclosure: I'm building a product around this (bugzero). This article was drafted with AI assistance, then reviewed and edited by me. Production errors are a good fit for an AI agent. There is a stack trace, there is a repository, and "done" has a clear definition: a pull request that a human reviews. What bothered me was the usual shape of these tools. You give a SaaS read access to your repositories, and often your AI key as well, and hope for the best. So I started from one rule: ...

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