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OpenAI claims an ex-employee took its product plans and presented them to Apple

OpenAI claims a former employee took more than 100 files related to its product plans before joining Apple. In a document filed on Wednesday, OpenAI accuses the unnamed employee of sending this information to a personal account and then presenting it to Apple leadership, including the vice president of the company's operations in Asia. The […]
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My AI doppelganger tells me what to eat

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. For the past 100 days or so, my mornings have had a new rhythm. When I wake up, the first […]
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Anbernic’s next dual-screen handheld could replace your aging Nintendo 3DS

Anbernic shared a new video of its upcoming dual-screen handheld it announced last week showing the device playing 3DS, Xbox, and PS3 games through emulation. While competitors like Ayaneo have been making dual-screen handhelds for a few years, Anbernic only recently introduced its own dual-screen devices including the RG DS and RG DS Plus. Those […]
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Sprout Pi adds Bluetooth, streaming, and USB-C to your aging iPod

There's an entire cottage industry of iPod mods out there, but Sprout Pi and Sprout Pico are two of the few full motherboard replacements that combine many of the most popular mods into a single upgrade. Both versions add Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB-C, a microSD card slot, FLAC playback, and more. And while cracking open an […]
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Apple’s new HomeView smart display is $10 cheaper at Amazon

Apple only just announced on Tuesday that its first smart display, the HomeView, will arrive on November 13th, but you can already save a couple bucks on it. Right now, you can buy the display for $289.99 ($10 off) in gray and the creamy white “starlight” colorway at Amazon. Sure, it’s a small discount, but […]
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Save up to 20 percent on gift cards for REI, Barnes & Noble, and more

While we cover a lot of deals on specific products, it’s rare that we find worthwhile savings on gift cards that let you save on essentially anything the store sells. However, until October 19th, you can save up to twenty percent on gift cards when you buy them through the Google Play store. There are […]
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YouTube sticks new labels on AI-generated songs

YouTube is adding a "Made with AI" label to tracks that were "altered or fully generated" using AI, with a similar approach to its existing process for applying AI labels to videos. It doesn't sound like this will apply to any and all use of AI tools in making music, but according to YouTube, it […]
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As a TV enthusiast, I was hoping for more from the Apple TV 4K

It's been four long years since the last Apple TV 4K was released, and in that time there have been lots of hopes and dreams for features in whatever comes next. A new chip, 4K/120Hz support, audio passthrough, a remote locator, better home control integration - the 2022 Apple TV 4K is a great box, […]
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Now that Character.AI is going bankrupt, what happens to all of its users’ data?

New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed a years-long multi-state investigation against Character.AI as they now seek to require protections on consumer data sold through its bankruptcy proceeding. James is among 40 bipartisan AGs who filed a notice of interest in Character.AI's bankruptcy case "to put all parties on notice of the regulatory issues that […]
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The AI race is back on

Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its floundering AI ambitions, had yet to establish itself as a serious contender. Even the latest […]
Terminal autocomplete on macOS: an IDE-style popup for zsh, bash, and fish
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Terminal autocomplete on macOS: an IDE-style popup for zsh, bash, and fish

TL;DR: Figxit is a free, open source autocomplete popup for the macOS terminal. It lists subcommands, options, package.json scripts, and Makefile targets as you type, in zsh, bash, and fish, and orders them by what you run most in the current folder. It runs locally with no account and no telemetry. Source: github.com/en3sis/figxit . en3sis / figxit Native autocomplete popup for the macOS terminal. Th...
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I Turned 44 Blog Posts Into a Frontend Roadmap You Have to Pass

It's Sunday night, the interview is on Thursday, and the frontend roadmap in your other tab has more topics than you have evenings. You're sure about half of them and fairly sure about the rest. The roadmap can't tell you which "fairly sure" is real. It only knows what you ticked. So test the topics before you read them. Here's what that looks like for HTML: ten questions drawn at random, seven right to pass, and the whole stage counts as cleared. No account and no reading, just ten que...
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Smart Contract Vulnerability Surface Analysis: Venus Core Pool

Smart Contract Vulnerability Surface Analysis: Venus Core Pool Target Protocol : Venus Core Pool (TVL: $1249.0M) Smart Contract Vulnerability Surface Analysis Venus Core Pool (Ethereum & L2) – $1.249 B TVL Prepared by:  [Your Firm] – Senior DeFi Security Research & Auditing Team Date:  14 Oct 2026 1. Executive Summary The Venus Core Pool is the primary money‑market component of the Venus protocol, offering over‑collateralised bor...
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Gemini 4 Argon, modelo de IA avanzada que sacude la industria

Gemini 4 Argon modelo de IA avanzada acaba de aterrizar en los servidores de Google con una meta fija: liquidar las tareas donde otros sistemas tiran la toalla. Google abrió el grifo globalmente para desarrolladores en AI Studio y empresas en la plataforma Gemini , metiendo de lleno a los suscriptores Ultra en Google Antigravity y activando el Modo IA en el buscador. Nadie esperaba que el salto generacional llegara con semejante recorte de tarifas operativas ni con un enfoque tan agresivo hac...
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Requests, Promises, Assertions, and Declarations: Rewriting Our AI Agent Workflow as a 1986 'Committed Speech' Machine

How Fernando Flores's 1986 Conversation for Action, Nuel Belnap's 1977 four-valued logic, and a 1976 HP 2000 BASIC resequencer replaced 130 lines of defensive prompt lawyering—and solved the exact state-machine bug that crashed both the Star Trek M-5 computer and my Piper Arrow. "What did you do for AI? I brought the scars. What did you do for humanity? I asked my curiosity-based questions, and the world changed around me." — Randal L. Schwartz 1. Portland, Thanksgi...
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Unlocking the Power of Regex: From Basics to Mastery

Introduction Regular expressions (often abbreviated as regex or regexp ) are a compact, powerful way to describe patterns in text. Whether you’re validating user input, scraping data, or performing complex search‑and‑replace operations, a solid grasp of regex can shave hours off your workflow. In this post we’ll walk through the fundamentals, explore common pitfalls, and dive into real‑world examples in both JavaScript and Python. By the end, you’ll be comfortable crafting and debugging p...
How many tools should an MCP server have? I measured 5 to 100 in Claude Code, Codex and Gemini
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How many tools should an MCP server have? I measured 5 to 100 in Claude Code, Codex and Gemini

Most advice about MCP server design says keep the tool count small. I read 91 sources: 38 say design fewer tools, 20 give a number (mostly 10–20), and only 10 measured tool count against accuracy at all. Then I measured it: 1,932 runs, three clients, 5 to 100 tools. On today's top models accuracy didn't move, not with 100 tools, not with look-alikes, not even with vague names. What moves is cost, and how much depends on how your client loads tools, not on the model. Since 2026 all three clients ...
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AI agents inside PestPac

Originally published at buildcortex.dev . An AI agent for PestPac connects through WorkWave's PestPac API (available to customers and approved developers, with a setup fee) or scheduled CSV reports, watches for cancellations, unscheduled service, idle leads and past-due invoices, and drafts the next step for a person to approve. PestPac already automates reminders and conversation summaries; the agent adds judgment and work that crosses into phones, QuickBooks and the CRM. An AI agent fo...
How to install Snow Leopard on modern (Apple Silicon) macOS
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How to install Snow Leopard on modern (Apple Silicon) macOS

If you're a Snow Leopard nostalgic — or, like me a anemoiac — you might have bumped into an article from xadammr.au and/or the original one from LegacyOSXKVM, tried to run the precompiled vm (macintosh_preinstall.img), but kept running into unpredictable system crashes. I've personally tried that VM, together with a UTM template from a galleryrepo and experienced constant, unpredictable, OS crashes. Well, I've seem to been able to produce a stable build, by installing the OS from s...
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From Impressions to Decisions: A Practical Measurement Stack for Telegram Ads

Launching an ad is easy. Learning something reliable from it is harder. Telegram Ads can introduce a channel, bot, mini app, or public post to a new audience. But an impression is not a customer, and a click is not necessarily a meaningful action. A useful campaign therefore needs two systems working together: an advertising system that records delivery and traffic; and a product analytics system that records what happens after the visit. This article presents a practical measurem...
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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle

🐦 Bird Buddy AI: Turning Open-Weight AI into a Birdwatching Companion What I Built I built Bird Buddy AI, a small project that brings AI and outdoor exploration together. The idea was simple: what if someone could take a picture of a bird they spotted outside and use an AI-powered tool to start learning about it? Bird Buddy AI lets users upload a bird photograph and receive an AI-generated identification suggestion with a description of visible features. It also includes a daily natu...
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Mastering Go: From Zero to Scalable Services in 2024

Mastering Go: From Zero to Scalable Services in 2024 Go (often called Golang ) has been quietly taking over the backend landscape for the past few years. Its clean syntax, built‑in concurrency primitives, and zero‑dependency binaries make it a perfect fit for everything from tiny CLI tools to massive, distributed systems. In this post we’ll walk through the language fundamentals, show you how to spin up a production‑ready HTTP service, and sprinkle in some best‑practice patterns you can ado...