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Donald Trump’s West Wing renovations and DC arch could be on the chopping block, should Democrats win the midterms—they could also be leverage.

Amazon just hiked prices on Kindles, Echo speakers, Eero routers, and Fire TV devices ahead of the holiday shopping season.

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million […]

Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel. The launch is a milestone for Uber, which has been plotting a UK launch with Wayve for several years. […]

The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.

Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors.

The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.

Boiler repair often starts with a vague message: “It stopped working,” “the radiators are cold,” or “the pressure keeps changing.” Those descriptions are valid from a homeowner’s perspective, but they are not enough to route a request, estimate urgency, or prepare a technician. A small, human-readable data model can turn the first contact into a structured service record without asking the customer to diagnose the appliance. This article proposes a lightweight intake schema for heating-servic...

It happened during a Friday afternoon sermon. The mosque was silent, the imam was mid-sentence, and then, a familiar, high-pitched ringtone cut through the stillness like a knife. It was my phone. My face burned as I scrambled to silence it, realizing I had walked through the door completely forgetting that my phone was still in normal mode. That moment of shared, collective embarrassment—and the subsequent realization that I do this multiple times a week—is exactly why I started building Muffle...

The call comes from a number you don’t recognise, but the voice you do. It’s your daughter, or your father, or your boss, and they’re in trouble — a crash, an arrest, a locked account — and they need money now, and please don’t tell anyone. Every instinct you have is built to respond to that voice. And increasingly, that voice is software. Answer first, because this is a topic where the useful information is simple and the panic is not. AI voice cloning has taken a very old confidence trick —...

Short answer: I chose an API with scheduled SMS cancellation and polling because health reminders can become wrong between scheduling and delivery; I kept template ownership in the application so every change remains reviewable. That decision is narrower than “which messaging vendor is best?” A vaccination reminder, a lab pickup notice, and a medication alert have different expiry rules. In our backend, the message body is a versioned template, while the delivery service owns transport, statu...

Shopify's latest commerce analysis indicates that AI-referred shoppers can be more valuable per visit than organic-search visitors , particularly for products that require substantial research before purchase. In Q2 2026, Shopify found that shoppers referred by AI converted at roughly twice the rate of organic-search visitors in spec-led categories. The result follows similarly strong Q1 findings on conversion rates and order values. The important point is not that AI is replacing search o...

You close your laptop. You walk away. When you come back, the mouse is in a different position. A program you didn't open is running. Your passwords stop working. You might think: "Has my PC been hacked?" It's a terrifying thought. But the truth is, hackers don't always leave obvious traces. Sometimes the signs are quiet — a slightly slower system, a network connection you don't recognize, a webcam light that flickers for no reason. The good news? Hackers leave footprints...

Every growing business eventually runs into the same unglamorous operational nightmare: tracking certificates, professional licenses, and mandatory work compliance documents. If you look inside most companies today, the process looks like this: An admin or HR manager maintains a chaotic, multi-tab spreadsheet. Every week, they scan dates manually to see what's about to expire. They send 10-20 pinging emails: "Hey Alex, your safety cert expired last week. Can you email me the updat...

O Paradoxo da Autonomia: Um Dossie Estratégico sobre a Economia Business-to-Agent (B2A) A transição para a economia digital de 2026 e 2027 é marcada por uma mudança fundamental no destinatário final das interações comerciais. O paradigma tradicional, centrado no Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e Business-to-Business (B2B), está sendo rapidamente expandido, e em alguns setores substituído, por uma nova camada de intermediação: o Business-to-Agent (B2A). Este modelo define a prática de desenhar se...

Lint is green. The bot left forty comments about naming. Somebody typed LGTM. Then billing double-charged, or the migration locked the table, or the "internal" route was sitting on the public router. If you have been reviewing AI-authored diffs for more than a month, you already know this shape. The model is fluent. The linter is happy. The PR description is a file list. The thing that will page you is not in the comments. I stopped opening those PRs. Not because I am anti-agent — I use Cu...

Short answer: validate gateway tokens with public JWKS keys, keep a bounded refresh path for rotation, and fail closed for signup traffic when key retrieval cannot be trusted. Treat CAPTCHA verification as a separate, auditable state transition rather than a reason to weaken token checks. In an e-commerce gateway, a bot can hit the registration endpoint long before a human sees the CAPTCHA widget. The gateway therefore has two jobs: prove who signed the token, then decide whether that request...

Google has made its position on answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization clearer: AEO and GEO are not separate disciplines from SEO when the goal is visibility in Google Search's generative AI experiences. Its guidance directs site owners back to the fundamentals that make pages useful, crawlable and understandable, rather than toward isolated tactics designed solely for AI Overviews or AI Mode. That distinction matters because Google is integrating AI experiences int...

For Dev.to’s 2025 New Year’s Writing Challenge, I wrote a reflection on the major management change within my company. Fast forward to now and I’m still grappling with the same issues. I’m seriously thinking this isn’t the field for me. Not because it’s challenging but because I don’t seem to be improving. Admittedly I don’t have very good indicators of success. It’s probably the fact that there isn’t anything I want to achieve in this field. It feels like since graduating college, I’ve s...

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My website already includes AI-related files such as llms.txt. I'm considering creating a separate JSON file for every page and article so AI systems can understand the content more easily and accurately. I would reference this JSON file from the page's using a tag. The JSON file could contain information such as: Page URL Canonical URL Title Summary / Description Main Content (clean article content) Author Published Date Last Updated Entities (people, companies, places, products, etc.) Keywor...

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