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Meet SpyderBot, winner of a Bright Data award in the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon, building real-time analytics for brand visibility across AI platforms.

A bootleg of Spider-Man: Brand New Day was up on X for over seven hours before eventually being pulled. During that time, it reached over 5.9 million accounts and accumulated over 143,000 likes. Other accounts have reposted the leaked film, but none have lasted particularly long, as Disney now seems to be on top of […]

Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he's recently found solo success with the track "Rubberz," which has climbed to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. Almost immediately, though, questions were raised about the song's origins, with many speculating that it was largely, […]

OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.

Apple's new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is changing.

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."

I'm starting a full-stack project aimed at a problem I kept thinking about: when a recruiter interviews hundreds of students in a day, how fair can the ratings really stay? The problem Think about placement season. One recruiter might interview 50-100+ students back to back. By interview #60, it's genuinely hard to judge everyone the same way. A tired interviewer might mark a correct answer lower than they would've an hour earlier not on purpose, just human fatigue. This isn't ...

When I started learning JavaScript, I kept seeing the same advice: use let and const , don't use var . Usually it came as a rule, not a reason. And a rule you don't understand is a rule you forget — so I went looking for the why . It turns out var isn't just old-fashioned. It's broken in three specific ways, and let and const exist to fix exactly those three things. Here they are. Problem 1: var lets you redeclare the same variable Watch this: var ...

This is not a startup guide. It is closer to something I can finally put into words after a few years of building, watching, and getting things wrong myself. AI has made it much cheaper to build. The financing and organizational logic around startups has not caught up. The graveyard of wrappers In the first wave of the AI boom, a product could wrap a large model, add some prompt engineering, put a new skin on a chat box, and still raise a decent round. Model capabilities jumpe...

A while back I shared Commitea , my project to teach Git and GitHub in Spanish, with a repo of docs and an interactive visualizer. Since then I kept adding things — search, feedback widget, dark mode, a changelog page. But there was still a gap between "reading how something works" and "actually knowing how to do it." So I built the piece that closes that gap: challenges verified against your real GitHub account. What changed Instead of reading how a merge or a Pull Request...

Frontend tooling is incredibly capable. It is also often front-loaded. For many UI ideas, the first thing you do is not write code. You install, configure, and wait. The creative loop starts late. @knighted/develop is built for a different default: fast prototyping from anywhere you can open a browser. It is a browser-native editor/workbench for @knighted/jsx and @knighted/css , delivered through CDN ESM with mode-aware loading. The Loop, In Practice Open the app...

There's a version of learning Bitcoin where you read the whitepaper, nod along, and move on. Then there's the version where you're staring at a terminal at 11pm wondering why two nodes refuse to talk to each other then you actually understand the answer when you figure it out. We did the second version. This article is what came out of it. By the end of one week, I understood what Bitcoin actually is under the hood, why the Lightning Network exists, what a payment channel really means, and...

I spent an afternoon measuring which job sources actually answer a request, and the result was cleaner than I expected: the aggregators are shut and the sources they aggregate from are wide open. Everything below was measured on 2026-08-01 from an ordinary residential connection with normal browser headers. Not read from documentation. The aggregators indeed.com/jobs 403 0 bytes glassdoor.com/Job/... 403 0 bytes ziprecruiter.com 403 0...

Is It Wrong to Watch Movies, Cartoons, or Sci-Fi? 🤔 Of course not. We enjoy movies even though they're fictional. We appreciate cartoons even though the characters aren't real. We watch science fiction knowing today's imagination often becomes tomorrow's technology. That made me think about another question: Why is AI-assisted development treated so differently? I'm fond of reading to keep abreast of what's happening in software and technology. Lately, I came across a dis...

Over the last few months, I have been thinking about a simple but uncomfortable question: If AI tools are becoming part of our engineering workflow, how much access should we actually give them? It is tempting to connect an AI assistant directly to a server and say, "Check what is wrong with production." But if the way you do that is by exposing a raw shell, you have effectively created a remote terminal controlled by a probabilistic system. That is not engineering. That is gambl...

I keep a daily probe that asks the assistants the buying questions in my category and records every source behind every answer. Last week I pointed it at Google's two AI surfaces, the AI Overview box and the fuller AI Mode, and counted. Thirteen answers. 168 citations. Every single answer used a different domain for each of its sources. Not one domain was cited twice, in any answer, the whole week. Thirteen of thirteen, no repeats. That stopped me, because it is the opposite of how a norma...

A RAG ask-your-docs chatbot stops hallucinating wrong answers when retrieval is treated as an evaluated evidence pipeline, not a clever prompt. I build ask-your-docs features in Python, and I start with a blunt rule: retrieve evidence, fit it into the prompt budget, and let the model say "not found" when the evidence is absent. Embeddings and chunking are necessary, but they don't prove that the answerable passage reached the generator. I learned that distinction after watching a RAG demo so...

If you've used the experimental Integer type from Kotools Types before 5.2.0, you may have noticed arithmetic getting slower as numbers grew larger. That wasn't your imagination — it came from how Integer stored its value internally. 🐛 The problem Every Integer operation — + , - , * , comparisons, even toString() — had to work with a String representation of the number. That means every single operation reparsed the digits from scratch before it could do any arithmet...

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