🌍 Dev.to

Confirming bank transfers from Android notifications with 15 lines of Python

Small shops that take bank transfers usually confirm them by hand: the bank app shows "deposit received", someone opens the order list and marks the order paid. Banks do offer APIs for this, but they come with contracts and fees that a small shop doesn't want. The phone already gets the information for free, as a notification. So I wired the notification straight into code. The setup I used Droidline, an open source tool I've been building. It has two parts: an Android ap...
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Crypto Alert: Your Chart Does Not Need a Night Shift Supervisor

At 02:14, the chart moves. At 02:15, an operator refreshes it. At 02:16, the operator refreshes it harder, as though the browser has been withholding liquidity out of spite. We can automate this shift. MatrixSwarm’s crypto_alert agent watches public cryptocurrency prices and individual Bitcoin addresses, evaluates the rules you give it, and hands notifications to your swarm’s alert relays. Phoenix provides the Crypto Watches panel for creating, editing, pausing, and deleting thos...
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Six Attribution Signals Hiding in Telegram's Public Preview HTML

Public Telegram channels leak more about their owners than the owners realize, and every leak is in the HTML you can fetch without an account. Here are the fields I mine on every channel I ingest, and what each one is good for. 1. The t.me/s/ page footer. Each preview page carries the channel's subscriber count at fetch time. Fetch daily, store the series. Growth spikes correlate with virality events; the decay slope after a spike tells you whether the audience was real. A 40k jump overni...
🌍 Lobsters

Cloudflare shutting down Deno is news, not just PR

Requesting the currently-removed post for https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare be restored. Thread: https://lobste.rs/s/8hauxs/deno_is_joining_cloudflare My reasoning: It isn't just PR, but significant tech news that Cloudflare is buying up open source teams while dismantling the projects they maintain. Is this not the best place to discuss the ramifications of companies acting in this manner?
🌍 TheVerge

Apple and LG leak shows new ‘tap to control’ HomeKit features

A post on X from "pdfu," who has previously posted leaks and renders of suspected Apple features and LG smart home gear, shows new details of rumored Apple Home accessories from LG. According to the new leak, they could include an NFC-based "Proximity Control" feature that pops up a hint for a device's controls in […]
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Frances Haugen hopes The Social Reckoning will inspire more whistleblowers

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was mostly unfazed watching Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison play a character named after her in The Social Reckoning, except for one thing: the wrist warmers. In Aaron Sorkin's new thriller, the fictional Haugen - who, like her nonfictional counterpart, leaks thousands of documents to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz - […]
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Microsoft tries to spark new life into Windows

When Microsoft released Windows 11 five years ago, it felt like an operating system that was still being renovated, a work in progress. You'd think by now that those renovations would be complete, with Microsoft turning its attention to Windows 12. Instead, Windows 11 feels like it's here to stay, forming the foundation for Microsoft's […]
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Amazon’s new Kindles appear to have a light leak problem

Some users are reporting that the new Kindles have a light leak issue that is especially apparent when using dark mode. The latest base-model Kindles have a flush bezel that gives them a sleek appearance and looks great… as long as you keep the lights on. But things can change once you turn down the […]
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The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is down to $950 after Prime Day

Amazon has the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra in black with 256GB of storage discounted to $949.99, a healthy discount from its usual price of $1,399.99. This phone’s standout feature is the adjustable privacy display, which can hide your entire screen, or just portions of it, from onlookers and strangers. It doesn’t meaningfully hurt the screen’s […]
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Google teases Fitbit Edge launch next week

It looks like Google is getting ready to take the wraps off its rumored Fitbit Edge next Monday. In a post on X, Google posted a picture of what appears to be the side of the fitness tracker, with the caption: "Get an Edge on your health. 10.12.26." A trove of Fitbit Edge leaks has […]
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Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI

Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to show "tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving in the airway of a child with the […]
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‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the […]
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Ohio blogger found guilty of harassment for sending Shrek nude to senator

A jury found an Ohio political blogger guilty of telecommunications harassment after he sent an explicit image of Shrek to a Republican state senator. On Friday, a judge ordered DJ Byrnes, owner of political commentary blog The Rooster, to pay a $200 fine, according to a report from the Columbus Dispatch. Byrnes texted Ohio Sen. […]