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While many gaming headsets come with extra features, the tradeoff is that they’re often uncomfortable and heavy. A lightweight, affordable alternative that can connect to a bunch of platforms is available at Woot. The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P in cyan is on sale for $59.99, a 45 percent discount from their usual $109.99 price. This […]

If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikTok Shop purchases.

Since portfolio companies often pivot and expand into competing markets, investors view occasional conflicts of interest as unavoidable for large VC firms.

Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, GitHub.

I run my freelance site as a fully static (SSG) Nuxt site. It's fast, cheap to host, and boring in the good way. But static sites are genuinely bad at one thing: publishing an article next Tuesday at 9am. There's no server rendering each request, so "schedule this post" doesn't exist — something has to rebuild the site at the right moment. I also write in bursts. Some evenings I'll draft two or three articles at once, and I don't want them all going live the same day. So I bolted a small publ...

Une nouvelle où une ado se retrouve transportée dans une base de données sert de prétexte pour comprendre les objets, les propriétés, les méthodes et pourquoi on a inventé les ORM. Tout commence par une virgule oubliée. Dans Bêta Land : New Object , une nouvelle que j'ai écrite, Salimata écrit tranquillement une requête SQL pour insérer une amie, Taba, comme donnée d'exemple dans sa base : INSERT INTO B ê talanders ( id , nom , â ge , r ô le , relation ...

A sync ledger fails silently. Ours said 763 assets. When we stopped trusting it and counted by hand — opening 21 AI platforms in browser tabs, calling each platform's own API from the page context, comparing ID by ID — roughly 400 of those were real. This is the audit log of that gap. The numbers are from one working account, measured on 2026-08-18. Nothing here is hypothetical. The setup The database held every asset collected from the platforms a working account actually use...

We grouped an asset database by title and found 30 groups of "duplicates." Content hashing dissolved 24 of them. Five were real. One was unjudgeable — because the rows had no content at all. This is a field note on deduplication judgment, from auditing a store of AI-agent assets (conversations, skills, memories, instruction files) collected across many platforms. The numbers are from a live audit on 2026-08-19. Title matching is a grouping key, not a judgment The 30 groups cam...

LibreFang 2026.8.19 Released 474 PRs from 5 contributors since v2026.7.31. This release is a massive stability and security push. We've closed dozens of data-loss vectors, locked down SSRF, hardened atomic file writes throughout the daemon, and fixed a ton of edge cases that were silently failing or corrupting state. On the feature side: managed configuration mode for self-hosted deployments, long-form audio transcription that doesn't drop your 20-minute recordings, and Polish language ...

Google continues to develop AI Overviews and AI Mode in Search, while a reported change involving AI-generated recipe images remains a matter for monitoring rather than a confirmed product update. The practical story for recipe publishers is broader: Search result presentation is evolving, and visibility may increasingly depend on how Google tests AI-led interfaces, evaluates content usefulness, and directs users toward publishers. The available official record supports ongoing experime...

This is Part 6 of a series taking a GNOME app from an empty directory to GNOME Circle. Part 5 wired the sidebar to a real Feed GObject and a feed-selected signal — selecting a row updates the content pane and prints a line to the terminal. This is the post where that line stops being a placeholder and becomes a real network fetch. The click that still does nothing real Select This Week in GNOME , then select Hacker News . The placeholder swaps in the new name and URL ...

I have a habit of asking agents to pause instead of pushing through. Wait for a review. Wait for an external rate limit to clear. Wait for me to make a call I'm not ready to make yet. Pausing is not the problem. The problem is what happens to the paused work afterward. A few weeks ago I went looking for a task I knew an agent had finished setting up, and then couldn't find it. The output existed somewhere. I was fairly sure it had already passed whatever check it needed to pass. But nothing t...

I wanted a Reddit client that lived on my desktop and my phone — without maintaining two separate apps. So I built one Vue app and gave it three homes: Tauri (Rust) wraps it as a desktop app for Windows/macOS/Linux, Capacitor wraps it for Android, and it still runs as a plain web app. One UI, one set of Reddit API calls, one OAuth flow — three targets. It works. But "just wrap your web app" hides a few things. Here's the reality. The shape A single Vue.js frontend: t...

Over the past several months, I've made a commitment to write more. Not because I want to become a content creator, but because I've come to appreciate how much engineering knowledge quietly disappears every day. Architecture discussions end when the meeting is over. Production incidents become stories that fade with time. Lessons learned on one project rarely make it to the next. As engineers, we spend years building experience, but very little of it ever becomes knowledge that others can be...

Claude-enabled protein binder design has produced a meaningful experimental signal in a TREM2 campaign, but the result should be read as evidence of progress in AI-assisted biotech tooling rather than proof of faster drug discovery. In a February 2026 one-day hackathon organized by muni, autonomous AI agents including Claude Sonnet 4.6 submitted designs that were subsequently tested in the wet lab by Adaptyv Bio. The screen evaluated 35 agent-designed binders, of which 12 bound TREM2, for...

At what point did you start to think you were an engineer? An engineer. What a lofty, prestigious-sounding title! I am not lofty or prestigious. But I do question things. Like why do people follow archaic procedures and thinking patterns, if there is a clearly better path? When you work in a school everything is sort of need-to-know only. So I don’t know why things are done the way they are done, until I plow through 20 brick walls. Persistence answers yesterday's reasoning. ...

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Artificial intelligence is no longer just a technology story—it has become a major force in the stock market. In 2026, investor enthusiasm around AI is influencing company valuations, corporate spending, trading strategies, and even the way investors search for opportunities. The big question is no longer whether AI will affect financial markets. It is how much of the current AI optimism is supported by real earnings and how much is driven by expectations. AI Is Driving a Major Investm...

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Artificial intelligence is no longer just a technology story—it has become a major force in the stock market. In 2026, investor enthusiasm around AI is influencing company valuations, corporate spending, trading strategies, and even the way investors search for opportunities. The big question is no longer whether AI will affect financial markets. It is how much of the current AI optimism is supported by real earnings and how much is driven by expectations. AI Is Driving a Major Investment Boom...

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The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.