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This is Part 3 of a 3-part series. Part 1: Your Brain Is a Rendering Engine. So Is Every LLM. explored why LLMs and human brains invite the same rendering analogy. Part 2: More Compute Won't Wake It Up argued that scaling compute doesn't cross the consciousness boundary. This final part asks: what happens when you bring a render layer into a domain that punishes distortion? I have a friend who trades. Not professionally. He has a day job, a brokerage account, and strong opinions abo...

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Since its rollout, the feature has become one of Zoomex's most substantial platform upgrades of the year, positioning the exchange to compete directly with the

Every startup is a media company now.

I found a winning DevRel booth tactic by pairing a playable game with a live dashboard to get conference attendees to install and engage with real software.

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In this post, I want to describe the problem when combining the two, how I tried to fix it, and the correct solution.

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Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.

Best Buy kicked off a sale on Apple products with discounts on its latest smartwatches to phones. Another deal that caught our eye is on the latest AirPods Pro, Apple’s flagship wireless earbuds, which are down to $189.99 ($60 off), with retailers like Amazon and Walmart matching the price. That’s their lowest price since Prime […]

The AI device OpenAI is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive is "essentially a smart speaker without a display" that's battery-powered, doughnut-shaped and roughly the size of a hockey puck, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. The device, expected to launch in 2027 for a price over $300, reportedly "will have a unique look, […]

Google is set to host its next live Made by Google hardware launch event on August 12th, and the company says in a new video that comedian Trevor Noah will be hosting the show. The video indicates that the event will feature other celebrities and influencers as well, including Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper […]

Vogue World is coming to San Francisco next year — perhaps another indication that tech bros are now part of the fashion zeitgeist.

Not everyone needs a keynote slot to make noise at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Sometimes the best way to meet investors, customers, and partners is by exhibiting directly on the Expo Hall floor at San Francisco’s Moscone West from October 13-15. That’s exactly what our Exhibit Program offers, and it’s still open to showcase your startup.  Here’s what $12,500 buys you:  Joining fellow exhibitors is the fastest, lowest-lift way for a […]

Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker.

Have you ever set a reminder to take a break or hydrate, only to swipe away the notification without even reading it? This is Notification Blindness — when our brains become so desensitized to banners, badges, and text popups that we automatically dismiss them. As a remote worker and developer, I kept falling into this trap every day. To fix it for myself and others, I built Yominder , a Flutter-powered mobile app that replaces boring text notifications with lifelike voice AI personas...

Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a tool that answers questions or generates code. It is evolving into something much more powerful: AI Agents. Unlike traditional AI assistants, AI agents can understand goals, make decisions, use software tools, interact with APIs, and complete complex tasks with minimal human intervention. For software engineers, this shift represents one of the biggest changes since the rise of cloud computing. * From Writing Code to Managing Intelligent Systems ...

🕉️ मोक्ष — Devlog v0.0.9 द्विभाषी मोक्ष — English / Hindi Language Toggle Issue: #36 · Milestone: v0.1 Labels: UI · accessibility · enhancement क्यों मोक्ष अब तक केवल हिंदी में था। README में स्पष्ट लिखा था — "For now its only for hindi users who deeply understand hindu philosophy." पर यह एक सीमा थी, विशेषता नहीं। खेल की सारी यंत्रिकी — प्रारब्ध , वैराग्य , समर्पण — गहरे शास्त्रीय अर्थ रखती है। जो खिलाड़ी हिंदी नहीं पढ़ता, वह...

Databases are optimized for durable storage: transactions, constraints, consistency, recovery. Amazon OpenSearch Service is optimized for a different job: language-aware search (matching, synonyms, typo tolerance, relevance ranking), deep vector capabilities for hybrid search that combines lexical matching with semantic similarity, and sub-second analytics at scale. Both store data reliably. But each excels at what the other merely tolerates. If your application needs both great transactional wr...

You've probably gotten an email that was supposed to feel personal, but obviously wasn't. Something about it just felt off. Automated. And somewhere in the back of your mind, you wondered: who approved this? Honestly? The answer is probably no one. Organizations are leaning harder on AI agents to actually do work. Agents are making database queries, writing letters, accessing email lists, but where does the access end? Without solid guardrails, tone-deaf emails are no longer an embarrassin...

"Agents can act autonomously" is usually a claim in a pitch deck. I wanted to see what happens if you take it literally and build something that structurally requires it: an NFT mint with no wallet-connect button, no form, no button at all — a mint that can only be completed by code. The result is BLINK, 5,555 pixel sigils on Robinhood Chain, and this post is about the three design problems that fell out of committing to that premise. The gate: why a time limit and not a puzzle T...

Every performance review follows the same pattern for me. For months, I'm busy delivering work, closing tickets, helping teammates, solving problems, and moving on to the next thing. Then review season arrives. Suddenly I'm searching through: • Jira tickets • Slack messages • Teams chats • Emails • Documents trying to remember what I actually achieved. The frustrating part is that the work happened. The evidence exists. It's just scattered everywhere. I've spoken t...

When building neural networks, one of the first questions you should ask is: How many trainable parameters does my model have? The number of parameters determines: Model complexity Memory usage Training speed Risk of overfitting In this article, we'll learn how to calculate the number of parameters manually and verify the results using TensorFlow 2.x (Keras) . What Are Parameters? Parameters are the values that the neural network learns during trai...

Hey there, it's your old man developer. I'm a 38-year-old side-hustle engineer, tinkering with AI agents and automated trading bots on weeknights and weekends. Developing an automated trading bot often means a long road after you get an idea. Translating a strategy into code, backtesting it with historical data, tuning parameters... it can easily take weeks. And usually, most ideas get trashed at the backtesting stage with a simple "this is useless." This kind of rework is soul-crushing for...

Every bot signal we have is a proxy for one question: is a human here? Device fingerprint says a real browser. IP reputation says a home connection, not a rented server. Email verification says someone opened the mailbox and clicked. Behavioural analysis says the mouse moved like a person's. A capable AI agent has all of those things. It drives a real browser, because that is how it browses. It runs on a residential connection, because that is where the person who deployed it lives. It con...

This is going to be an unpopular one, and I would like to be argued out of it. A capable agent driving a real browser on a residential connection is indistinguishable from a person by construction. Not "hard to distinguish". Not "we are working on it". By construction — because every property you can measure is genuinely present. The browser is real, so the fingerprint is real. The connection is a home connection, so the address is clean. The mailbox is real, so the code arrives. Automatio...