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Nintendo just wrapped part two of its double feature this week. On Tuesday, the company hosted a showcase all about the Legend of Zelda franchise, including footage and a November 5th release date for the Switch 2 Ocarina of Time remake. On Wednesday, the company aired a new Nintendo Direct, which spotlighted Switch 2 games […]

Asus’ Cetra Open wireless earbuds are some of the best that I’ve tested, despite being open-style earbuds. Their drivers sit outside of your ear, which allows outside sounds to mix with audio coming from your console. Some gamers may not want this, but it works well for me as someone who prefers to be aware […]

Getting out of a taxi shouldn't be a shameful experience. Yet I find myself feeling particularly embarrassed while exiting a Tesla Cybercab as it partially blocks a narrow road outside a popular Austin swimming hole. As a cadre of annoyed, sweaty Texan parking spot hunters pile up around it, the gold-painted two-seater just sits there […]

Nintendo just announced a new 2D entry in the Metroid series for the Switch 2, titled Metroid Ravenous. It's launching on January 28th, 2027. The new game looks like an evolution of Metroid Dread. While it's still a 2D game, it features 3D graphics, lots of cinematic action shots, parrying enemies, and Samus rolling around […]

In a "rare, positive update" amid the ongoing component shortage, Framework is lowering its RAM prices for some buyers of the Laptop 13 Pro - at least, for now. After increasing the laptop's memory pricing in July, Framework says it "secured a limited quantity of Micron 32GB and 64GB LPCAMM2 memory modules at lower cost," […]

As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.

If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or partner with a handful of start-ups launching spacecraft that spend time in orbit before they return to Earth. But the vehicle that goes to space and comes back to […]

Cymphony was valued at more than $100 million in a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund.

Scott Painter, founder of TrueCar, is still trying to build a business around vehicle subscriptions, where you can cancel at any time.

Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.

The three Indian companies are accused of using hackers to steal information used to sway litigation.

Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee—AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.

Carrum Mobility operates about 5,100 vehicles in India and is Uber's largest fleet partner for its premium Uber Black service in the country.

Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items," or "Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks," Shipt says.

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.

inDrive's ad business, first piloted in July 2025, has served more than 2 billion impressions and attracted over 2,000 paying advertisers a month.

Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.

If you write product requirements, technical notes, release plans, or team documentation in Confluence, you have probably lost time fixing formatting after pasting a draft. Headings collapse into plain text. Tables need to be rebuilt. Important callouts lose emphasis. A quick documentation update turns into a manual cleanup session. I built Text to Confluence Editor to make that workflow faster: 👉 Try Text to Confluence Editor What it does Text to Confluence Editor i...

Node 22.5 added node:sqlite to the standard library, and I think people have not registered what that removes. No better-sqlite3 . No node-gyp. No prebuilt binary that is missing for your platform, no rebuild after a Node upgrade, no Docker image that works locally and fails in CI because the native module was compiled against a different ABI. import { DatabaseSync } from ' node:sqlite ' ; That is the whole dependency story, and it is enough to build hybrid...

Hi everyone 👋 In my previous update, I talked about why single-file JSON comparison is not enough for real regression testing. Today I want to share my actual development process while building the core feature: folder-based batch JSON comparison for my offline QA toolkit. The real pain with single-file comparison When doing API regression testing, testers rarely compare only one pair of JSON files. A full regression cycle usually generates dozens or hundreds of API response JSON files. Man...

AI agents are moving beyond chat interfaces. In decentralized finance, they can monitor blockchain activity, analyze market data, identify opportunities, and potentially execute on-chain actions. But giving an AI system access to a blockchain wallet creates a serious security challenge. An agent that can only read blockchain data has limited risk. An agent that can sign transactions can potentially move funds, interact with smart contracts, or make irreversible decisions. That makes sec...

Another week, another high-profile exit from a frontier AI lab. But this one is different in a way that matters for anyone who builds, deploys, or depends on large language models. Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher, announced late Tuesday that he has resigned from Anthropic and is leaving the AI industry entirely. He spent the last three years working on pretraining at both OpenAI and Anthropic, the two labs most often described as the current frontier. He did not leave quietl...

(Editorial note: I originally published this over on the Hit Subscribe blog.) As I mentioned in my last post , I'm planning to write a column aimed at freelancers and small agency owners. And since I made this decision, I've been practically bursting with ideas of what to write about, to the point where Jonathan Stark's daily writing habit concept seems highly attainable. (Though ironically I've posted none for months because of a 2-week vacation that turned into a 4-week orde...

Most teams accept a chatbot the same way: they ask it a handful of questions, the answers look reasonable, and the service is signed off. That procedure proves almost nothing. The short answer Evaluating a Persian-language assistant properly needs three things: a fixed set of questions replayed identically every time, an explicit assertion for each one about which source the answer must come from, and response time measured separately from network time. Without all three, any c...

Anthropic has credibly signaled an interest in using scenarios to model how AI could affect bundles of work tasks by 2030. The clearest verified practical example is not a newly confirmed standalone tool called Scenario Explorer. Instead, it is a Claude capability that lets users explore alternative budget futures side by side. That distinction matters for businesses looking to use AI for planning: the underlying scenario-modeling approach is available in Claude materials, while a separately n...

A regenerated README often looks like progress. The install block is tighter. A stale caption disappears. Then a reviewer finds that the same commit also rewrote the security contact, dropped two SLO numbers, and turned a retention rule into a hedge. The model did not sneak those edits. It treated the file as one string. Regeneration without lanes will keep doing that. This article proposes a split you can check in CI: extract , draft , and sign . A model may write only the draft lane. ...

A parser patch lands in review at 02:11. Twelve tests sit green beside the diff. Coverage rises nine points before dawn. Two days later a trailing delimiter returns None in production. The agent shipped code and tests together. Reviewers saw one color only. Green never proved the new behavior. It only proved the suite agreed with itself. A lock is not proven by a key you just cut. You prove it by pulling the bolt. The door must swing open. Agent tests need the same motion. Keep the new tes...

For a while now I have used LLMs to automate parts of my work. One of those parts is debugging hard problems with Xdebug. Before, I set the breakpoints by hand and built complicated requests to see what happens inside. It usually took a few requests, and I had to move the breakpoints again and again. Then I found that PhpStorm has Xdebug in its MCP server. For simple GET requests, that is enough. But it fails on endpoints that need authorization, and on any method other than GET. So I did not wa...

Most PDF libraries for Python can write a PDF. Far fewer can produce a file that a validator accepts as PDF/A-1b , and fewer still can put a digital signature on it without shelling out to a second tool. Here is the whole job in one script, using the LumasPDF SDK through its Python wheel. The binding is ctypes over a native engine, so there is nothing to compile. Disclosure: I'm the author of LumasPDF. Install pip install lumaspdf Wheels exist for W...

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