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Raspberry Pi 5 vs Radxa Rock 5B: Speed vs Value in 2026

Raspberry Pi 5 vs Radxa Rock 5B: Speed vs Value in 2026 When you’re building a home server, an edge AI rig, or a desktop replacement on the cheap, the choice usually comes down to two families: the ubiquitous Raspberry Pi 5 and the powerful Radxa Rock 5 series. The Rock 5B is the current flagship from Radxa, but since most retail pricing data tracks the nearly identical Rock 5A, we’ll use those numbers to give you a real-world comparison. Both boards pack serious ARM power, but they target v...
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Raspberry Pi 5 Price History: How Far Have Prices Come?

Raspberry Pi 5 Price History: How Far Have Prices Come? The Raspberry Pi 5 has been on the market for a while now, and if you’ve been watching the price tags, you’ve probably noticed some wild swings. From launch-day shortages that pushed prices through the roof to a more mature market where you can actually find stock at reasonable rates, the Pi 5’s journey has been a rollercoaster. Let’s walk through what happened, where we are now, and what it all means for developers trying to pick the r...
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Your AI gave that fix 92% confidence. Nothing checked it.

Your agent hands you a fix with 92% confidence. Ask yourself what produced the 92. Not what it means. What produced it. A model wrote that number about its own output. Nothing ran. Nothing parsed. No test executed. It is a language model's estimate of how a language model feels about a language model's suggestion. And it renders in the same font, the same shade of green, as a number that came out of a compiler. That is the part I could not stop thinking about while building a debugging ...
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My Auto-Publish Pipeline Shipped a Two-Year-Old News Story. Here's the Fix — All Three Layers of It.

I run a content pipeline that finds industry news, has an LLM judge score it, and publishes what clears the bar. Fully automated, Cloudflare Workers and D1, one operator: me. It runs daily and the whole point is that I don't babysit it. In July it published a news story from 2024 as if it had just happened. Nobody was harmed. One item, niche site, caught on a routine quality check within a few days, unpublished. But "the robot posted two-year-old news and nothing stopped it" is the kind of...
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A Dead-Man's Switch for Scheduled Jobs (Because Silent Failures Rot Data)

A scheduled job has two failure modes. The loud one throws an error and your alerting catches it. The quiet one just stops running, and nothing catches it, because your alerting is wired to the job itself. No job, no error, no alert. The data it maintains gets staler by the day and every downstream system keeps serving it like nothing's wrong. I run a handful of production systems by myself. One of them is a niche content site with a curated data feed behind it, plus a release-tracking pipeli...
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Building Scalable APIs with Go: A Startup's Guide to Not Overengineering

Every startup engineering conversation eventually arrives at: "But what if we need to scale?" Here's the uncomfortable truth: you probably won't. Not in the way Twitter or Uber scaled. The infrastructure decisions that make sense for 100 million users are actively harmful at 1,000. I inherited a project recently where the team was running a Kubernetes cluster and paying thousands a month in infrastructure costs. I moved it to Lambda + SQS and AWS App Runner and achieved the same result for...
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A second lens makes DJI’s Osmo Pocket 4P my new favorite video camera

DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P is a pretty simple proposition: an Osmo Pocket 4 with a second camera lens slapped inside. But is that extra lens worth the added size, weight, and cost relative to the regular Pocket 4? And how does it compare to the only rival on the market, Insta360's dual-lens Luna Ultra? It […]
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Amazon’s short story collections are one of the best reasons to own a Kindle

Over the last few years, I've gradually shifted away from ebooks. It's been part of a general return to physical media, an attempt to create a deeper sense of ownership over the art I love and collect. A Kindle is obviously more convenient than a paperback: It's tiny, holds a huge library, and you can […]
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Spotify Running Mode helps match tunes to tempo

Spotify has introduced a new Running Mode feature that makes it easier to curate playlists around your workout goals, music tastes, and desired beats per minute (BPM). The aim is to help you "spend less time hunting for the right music and more time moving," according to Spotify's announcement, providing customizable running presets and optional […]
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Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop is hundreds off at Best Buy

If you’re keen on getting a laptop that looks fantastic, feels great to use, and doesn’t cost too much, well, pickings are slim right due to RAMageddon. However, there’s a good deal happening at Best Buy through Thursday, July 30th, on Microsoft’s Arm-based, 13.8-inch Surface Laptop that has the 10-core Snapdragon X2 Plus chipset. Originally […]
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Zoox can now charge for rides in its steering-wheel-free robotaxis

Zoox just got permission to charge for robotaxi rides in its boxy, steering-wheel-less vehicles. On Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it has granted the Amazon-owned Zoox a temporary exemption, allowing it to deploy up to 2,500 vehicles annually over the next two years, as reported earlier by Reuters. The NHTSA's decision exempts […]
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Razer’s new keyboards drop the price on powerful gaming features

Razer has insisted that optical keyboard switches are the best choice for competitive esports stars and the sweatiest of try-hards, but it's now relenting slightly by offering cheaper keyboards with magnetic switches and a similar array of gaming features. The $120 Razer Huntsman V3 HE Magnetic Mini and $140 Huntsman V3 HE Magnetic Tenkeyless, both […]
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Xiaomi’s SkyNomad N90 Max is an extended-range EV with a transforming interior

The SkyNomad N90 Max is the latest electric SUV from Xiaomi and its first extended-range EV, with a claimed range of over 1,705 km (about 1,059 miles). It will come in both five- and seven-seat configurations, as well as an N90 Max Camping Edition. One of the big features of the N90 is its highly […]
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Best Buy is selling an RTX 5080 for more than the RTX 5090’s MSRP

Best Buy has raised the price of the Asus ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC to $2,099 - the first time a major US retailer is directly selling an RTX 5080 for more than the $1,999 MSRP of the RTX 5090, VideoCardz reports. The ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC now costs 40 percent more than its […]