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Almost everything with high-end memory or storage is more expensive these days, and tablets are no exception, so we’re glad to see that Amazon and Best Buy have the most recent 11-inch iPad Air with the M4 chip on sale for $649. That’s $100 lower than the new retail price that went into effect (alongside […]

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 week, I've been testing the Google Pixel Watch 5. In many ways, it's a typical, modern smartwatch. […]

Valve just leaked several new videos showing the Steam Frame's unboxing, setup process, and various accessories. The videos apparently appeared on the ARM Steam client following an update, but they were "quickly pulled after that," according to the Steam Hardware Updates account on X. The Steam Frame is Valve's virtual-reality headset that can stream games […]

As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting research in a study notebook, creating flashcards, taking practice quizzes, and more. Google is also enhancing its study notebooks with support for graphs and images. It can even add test dates […]

In order to beef up its ability to accurately measure viewership data in the streaming era, Nielsen is moving forward with a plan to use more information gathered from its partners' wearable devices. Today, Nielsen announced "a number of key enhancements" that are being added to its data capturing process ahead of the upcoming fall […]

The U.S. phone provider escaped a large-scale breach of its network after identifying Chinese-backed hackers early on.

The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there still isn’t a straightforward way to put a price on compute — or for firms to hedge their exposure when the price changes.  Silicon Data […]

The idea behind OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program is to give trusted defenders better models so they can report bugs and vulnerabilities to companies, with the aim of getting flaws patched faster.

The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.

As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.

The most interesting thing I have built with AI in the last few weeks is not a single project. It is the way several small projects started helping each other. I have been working on SWE Forge , swe-forge-pi-subagents , SelfContext , and a growing collection of custom AI agent skills . They are different repositories with different jobs, but each iteration leaves something behind that makes the next iteration easier. A better context for brainstorming. A reusable skill. A workflow t...

My model folder got out of hand. If you print much you know the shape of it: STL, 3MF, STEP, OBJ, PLY and ZIP files piling up faster than you can name anything sensibly, until finding one thing means opening six. So I wrote something. It opens a folder, previews any model in it, and files everything into category folders on its own. All of it runs locally. Now, "categorize this automatically" usually means "call an LLM" these days. I didn't want to. An API key means a per-user cost, a netw...

When I started learning Python, I understood variables, data types, conditionals, and functions. But there was one concept I knew I couldn't avoid for long: loops . Loops are one of those programming concepts that seem simple when someone explains them, but actually using them in a project is where things start to make sense. After learning and practicing them, I decided to write about what I learned and how I used loops in my first Python projects. What Is a Loop? A loop ...

Search boxes that only match exactly what you typed feel broken. Type pythn and get nothing; forget the last two letters of a word and get nothing. The two features that fix this — autocomplete (suggest as you type) and "did you mean?" spelling correction — are usually where people reach for Elasticsearch or a hosted API. You don't need either for a small-to-medium app. Both fall out of an ordinary inverted index, and Whoosh — a full-text search library that's pure Python, no compil...

AI Agent Memory System : How Agents Remember An AI agent can answer questions using the information available in the current conversation. But if we want the agent to remember users, past conversations, important facts, or previous work, we need a proper memory system. Why Does an Agent Need Memory? Without memory, an agent mostly depends on its current conversation. Once that context is gone, it cannot easily use what happened before. Memory allows an agent to remember us...

In late June 2026, my org's GitHub Actions stopped at the billing cap. Every PR (pull request) CI (continuous integration; a system that runs tests automatically on each change) check FAILED in 2 seconds with an empty log. Around the same time, plugin release notifications stopped arriving in Slack. Not a single line of code was wrong. An external service had, one day, stopped my infrastructure over billing. At the time I was running GitHub Actions on the free tier. But I hit the free-tier ca...

If you've ever sat in a whiteboarding session watching an architecture diagram get drawn one shaky rectangle at a time, then watched that same diagram go stale the moment the sprint started — you already understand the problem InfraAI exists to solve. InfraAI is a web-based, AI-augmented platform that lets developers and system architects describe a system in plain English and get back an editable, collaborative, documented architecture diagram. Here's the breakdown of the real problems we id...

A stop button is not a cancellation protocol. In a toy agent, “stop” can mean setting a boolean and waiting for the loop to exit. In a real agent, work may already be queued, claimed by another worker, inside a browser session, or waiting for an outbound side effect. If cancellation is not represented as durable state, a restart can resurrect work the operator thought they stopped. The useful question is not “did the process receive SIGTERM?” It is: Can every layer prove whether this ...

Navigating estate administration and probate in the US is notoriously opaque. Every state enforces different legal frameworks—from statutory attorney fee caps to tiered executor commissions and county court fees. To solve this, I built US Probate Calculator , a fast, 100% free web utility designed to calculate statutory probate and estate settlement costs across all 50 US states with zero tracking and no paywalls. 🛠️ The Tech Stack I kept the stack lightweight and static...

Pew Research Center has quantified a shift that publishers, SEO teams, and businesses have been watching closely: when an AI-generated summary appeared in Google search results, users clicked traditional result links in 8% of visits , compared with 15% when no summary appeared. The findings do not establish that summaries alone caused the difference, but they show a clear association between AI-led result pages and less outbound traffic to source sites. The Pew Research Center analysis of...

Some things cannot be finished alone, by design. A change that only you have seen is not reviewed. A network connection that only works in one direction is not a connection. Day 29 was two versions of the same idea: both sides have to agree, and half of it is worse than none because half of it looks like it should work. One Git task, one AWS task. Open a pull request, get it reviewed and merged, then peer a public VPC with a private one so instances on each side can talk. The tasks come from ...

The agent conversation on Reddit and in GitHub issues has moved. A year ago it was "what can agents do". Now it is "why does mine call the same tool nineteen times", and "what happens to my threads on August 26". Here are five problems that keep coming up, each with the specific fact I had to dig out to answer it. Every one of them has a number attached, because "it depends" is not an answer you can ship. 1. Your agent loops because tool_choice sticks The advice everyone giv...

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