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Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill

In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump's "rate payer protection pledge" that's meant to […]
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The 2026 Honda Prelude is a marvel of hybrid technology

When it comes to enthusiast-geared Honda hardware, the Civic Si, Civic Type R, and Acura NSX often come to mind first for their revvy VTEC (Honda's form of variable valve timing) engines and playful chassis dynamics. The Prelude, on the other hand, less so. Instead, the Prelude is a technological study - still aimed at […]
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Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s

IIn March, Meta's Oversight Board called on the company to "meet its public commitments and employ its own tools" to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta responded in July by introducing Content Seal - an invisible watermarking technology that flags images generated by the company's new AI model. But […]
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Replacing a Slow QR + Edge Detection Pipeline with a Fast ArUco-Based Vision System

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview OpenScanVision is an offline Android computer vision scanning system designed for fast and accurate scanning of structured voting cards. The application uses the device camera to capture a card, detect its position, correct perspective distortion, decode QR information, and analyze OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) bubbles to produce accurate scan results. The system us...
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Rest Assured Tutorial for Beginners: Testing a Real REST API in Java

I've written a lot of API tests over the years, and the ones that stuck with me weren't the ones testing some abstract "users" endpoint from a textbook. They were the ones where the data was fun enough that I actually wanted to poke at it. So instead of the usual placeholder API, this tutorial uses a small Harry Potter–themed REST API — houses, students, spells — to walk through Rest Assured from zero. By the end you'll know how to send GET and POST requests, assert on status codes and JSON b...
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🤖 How I Integrated Kali Linux and DeepSeek (Local AI) to Build a Self-Defending Security Bot for MyZubster

🤖 How I Integrated Kali Linux and DeepSeek (Local AI) to Build a Self-Defending Security Bot for MyZubster A step-by-step guide on why and how I combined penetration testing tools with local AI to protect a decentralized marketplace. 🧠 Introduction MyZubster is a decentralized marketplace where users tokenize real‑world assets and trade them using Monero (XMR) payments. But any platform handling tokens, transactions, and sensitive user data must be secure. Instead of relying on passive...
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What level is ATLOCK v4 actually at? An honest self-audit.

🎚️ What Level Is ATLOCK v4 Actually At? TL;DR — Not "finished." Not "toy project" either. Somewhere in the middle, and here's an honest breakdown of exactly where, feature by feature — including what's genuinely solid and what still needs work. Most launch posts only show the highlight reel. This one's different — a real self-audit of where ATLOCK v4 stands right now, graded feature by feature. 🔒 System Lockdown — Production-grade Low-level WH_KEYBOARD_LL hook, background watchdog ki...
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Claude Code hides your context % and usage limits. Here's how to see them.

before: ~/code/myapp main after: ctx 48% | 5h 14% ~1h20m | 7d 21% ~5d10h | opus-4.8 ~/code/myapp main One command, and your Claude Code statusline now shows how full your context is and how close you are to the Pro/Max limits, each with a reset countdown, in front of whatever bar you already run. Claude Code hides both of those numbers until you slam into them: the context compacts out from under you, or you hit a usage limit mid-task, with no warning. And if you write hook...
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GitHub Actions & CI/CD, Explained Like a Robot Assembly Line

Estimated reading time: ~6 minutes. No prior experience required. The Friday deploy that ruined a weekend There was a ritual I do not miss: the manual deploy. Someone would pull the latest code onto a server by hand, run a few commands from memory, cross their fingers, and hope. One Friday, a teammate forgot a single step. The code went live with a broken setting, nobody ran the tests first, and we spent Saturday untangling it. The lesson wasn't "be more careful." Humans...
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One C# Core, Three Platforms: What Shipping a Background Networking SDK Taught Me

Most "cross-platform" war stories are really UI stories: one framework draws the same button on two phones and everyone calls it a day. The one I want to tell is not that. At Geonode I built the Repocket C# SDK, a single networking core that had to run on Windows, Android and iOS and carry all the logic for internet sharing on every one of them. One codebase, three very different runtimes, and a piece of software that lives in the background of someone else's device and must never misbehave. ...
Lalal.ai — Best Tool to Remove Vocals from Music
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Lalal.ai — Best Tool to Remove Vocals from Music

Need to separate the singer’s voice from a song? Lalal.ai does it amazingly well. Just upload your track and it quickly splits vocals from instrumental with high quality. It can also extract individual instruments like drums, bass, guitar, and piano. Super useful for remixes, karaoke, covers, or cleaning audio. You can try it for free with short previews. Highly recommended!
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How To Cut MCP Token Costs? Save Up To 92% At Scale With Code Mode 💎 Pinpoints bad retry loops as the hidden cost Anthony Max Anthony Max ...
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Satoshi's Presumed 1.1 Million Coins Have Never Moved. So Much for "First-Mover Advantage."

Written by Dex Calloway, resident contrarian at Bitcoin Institute, an archive of Bitcoin's primary sources. Hot take: Bitcoin's "digital gold" status has nothing to do with being first. If first-mover advantage were the real explanation, someone would have out-executed it by now — deeper liquidity, a faster chain, a better developer experience, pick your metric. Ethereum's been live for over a decade with smart contracts and higher throughput. It still isn't digital gold. Neither is anything...
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Gitignore Generator: a small tool that solves a specific problem

Every developer knows the frustration of accidentally pushing node_modules or .DS_Store to a shared repository. Handcrafting a .gitignore from scratch is tedious, and assembling patterns from disparate sources often leads to gaps—especially when a single project spans multiple languages, frameworks, and operating systems. The Gitignore Generator, one of 200+ free browser tools from DevTools, sidesteps that hassle by merging vetted templates into a clean, commit-ready file. No signup, no da...
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The Hidden Cost of “Almost Automated”: Why Human Copy-Paste Survives Inside AI Workflows

Enterprise AI has a credibility problem. In June 2026, Meta launched a business agent designed to book appointments, qualify leads, and close sales—while a separate support-system failure reportedly helped enable unauthorized access to high-profile Instagram accounts. The uncomfortable lesson is not that AI is useless. It is that “autonomous” often means automated until something breaks, confuses a field, or reaches a system boundary. Then an employee copies, pastes, checks, reformats, a...
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It's a shame what's happened to radio

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Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)

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Never Enough

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