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The Bezos-backed automaker building America’s cheapest electric truck is teaming up with the crayon company in a bid to brighten its rides. Make ours Razzmatazz.

Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “Chat Control” bill to find child abuse material online.

Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it how to do something, and it would serve up the relevant instructions. It's the kind of thing I actually use AI for on a semi-regular basis. But in the new release, Gopher can […]

Character.AI's plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series - short-form, episodic videos designed to be watched and interacted with - on your phone. Unlike traditional microdrama services that feature cheaply produced, live-action shows starring […]

The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber - and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a "reflect" feature for its Claude chatbot, allowing users to see an analysis of their usage data over the past month, […]

A few hours after checking into a hotel in New York City, David Streever woke up to a call from the front desk saying someone was looking for him. Streever had just landed on a return trip from Finland, where he'd vacationed with his daughter. Though Streever didn't know it yet, while he'd been away, […]

After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta Model API. Meta says that Muse Spark 1.1 is a "step-change" from the first generation, with improvements […]

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, who is chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels, a podcast about the media industry. And it’s a big week for the media industry — Comcast just announced that it’s splitting itself up, into the Comcast broadband company and the NBCUniversal entertainment company. That’s after […]

Sony is bringing back the RX10 superzoom camera after a nearly nine-year gap between models. The newly announced RX10 V retains the same 24-600mm equivalent f/2.4-4 Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 25x zoom lens of its last two predecessors, but it has lots of upgrades elsewhere. The new 20.1-megapixel 1-inch-type sensor is a stacked design, allowing up to […]

Personal digital assistants like the iconic Palm Pilot were one of many devices we thought went extinct with the arrival of the smartphone. But similar to Canon resurrecting a nearly decade-old digital camera to appeal to point-and-shoot fans, Talisman Design is crowdfunding a clamshell PDA called the PocketMage that combines a tactile keyboard with both […]

If you’re looking for a discount on a great pair of active noise-canceling headphones for your summer adventures (even if they’re indoors), you’re in luck. The Sonos Ace headphones in black are currently on sale for $279 (usually $399) at a variety of retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and directly from Sonos. Weirdly, the […]

The Schlage Sense Pro is a beautiful smart lock. Sleek, discreet, and simple to use, it's Schlage's smartest lock to date. Thanks to ultra-wideband (UWB), it unlocks as I walk up to my front door; I don't need to enter a code or tap my phone or press my finger against it. I've tested several […]

Internal linking is one of the strongest SEO levers we have, but auditing takes ages. Here's how I turned that chore into an on-demand command.

Combining everything, we can use an actor’s mindset, meaning that our souls are just closely observing how and when our ego act as various roles. For instance, we don’t need to define ourselves as software engineers, men/women, fathers/mothers, sons/daughters, or any other well-defined roles, we just have to be aware of our behaviors under such duties, and the scripts we’re expected to stick to, but that doesn’t mean we’ve to be the slaves of such performance. Instead, we can choose to play alon...

What do you think separates good leaders from the great ones? Is it their knowledge, experience and skills?

Legacy industrial protocols like Modbus/TCP were designed in 1979 with an absolute reliance on physical air-gaps, leaving them completely devoid of native authentication or encryption. This article breaks down how to architect a fully functional, zero-cost ICS security lab using OpenPLC, FUXA, and Ignition SCADA inside Docker and virtual machines. By executing direct register injection attacks via Python, we demonstrate how easy it is to manipulate physical controller states over an unsegmented ...

A data-driven look at what automation actually removed from the labor market, and why the generation entering it now has no ladder left to climb.

Tech hype makes professionals feel behind, but real-world adoption moves slower. Here’s why fundamentals matter more than chasing every tool.

Open source maintainers face burnout due to user hostility and lack of recognition, threatening the sustainability of critical projects.

A crashed overnight run re-billed $19 of finished LLM calls and double-sent outreach emails. This is durable execution for AI agents built from scratch: a 150-line event log and step wrapper in TypeScript, the failure modes that survive it, and the point where a workflow engine earns its keep.

Mounting Docker socket into an MCP server risked full host compromise; splitting into a locked-down server plus scoped sidecar fixed it.

Anthropic has reopened short-term access to Fable 5, but the comeback comes with strict usage limits, higher token burn, and broader safety filtering.

Open source CPU/GPU/AI chips? A standard governed in Switzerland, extensible by anyone, embargoable by no one. How real are they in 2026?

inDrive automated iOS performance monitoring by collecting Xcode Organizer metrics through the App Store Connect API, storing them in Elasticsearch, and calculating z-score anomalies. The system sends Slack alerts and creates Jira tickets when regressions appear, helping engineers react before performance issues reach users.

There has long been a noticeable disconnect between the office team and those on-site, which results in ongoing frustrations and misunderstandings.

AI has broken the software model where we launch a software tool and get billions of dollars (and people) nearly freely. Now, like in particle physics, a considerable investment of energy must be made before we ROI. This energy shall only be profitable if it is everywhere hence cheaply owned by the people.

An independent review of Bitbanker based on hands-on testing, public records, licensing, customer support, and real platform experience.

AI was built to make us productive, not creative, argues Dayana Aleksandrova, Head of Social at WalletConnect. That's why marketing everywhere looks identical: people copy because copying feels safe, and AI made it effortless. Her fix is counterintuitive. Skip the polished positioning statement and lean into what's relatable: mundane facts, hyper-narrow obsessions, and the posts that feel slightly embarrassing to publish. She bans AI from her writing entirely, keeps it for video editing and prod...

A cascading voice agent chains speech-to-text, an LLM, and text-to-speech — and every layer downstream can only react to the transcript it's handed. So your real accuracy ceiling is set at the STT layer, not the LLM. This piece maps the four places context lives in the stack, shows how to feed the agent's own turns back into Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime with agent_context on LiveKit and Pipecat, and makes the case that most teams pick their STT last when they should pick it first.