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Kobo can run apps now

Score: 588 | Comments: 193

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US government lab is probing Chinese lidar for security vulnerabilities

The security review is being performed by the Idaho National Laboratory, and the research is being funded by a company -- or a group of companies -- in the electric and autonomous vehicle industries.

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How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

Score: 157 | Comments: 38

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Felony Bench

Score: 758 | Comments: 283

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Oura faces lawsuit accusing it of misleading consumers about sleep-tracking accuracy

The lawsuit alleges that Oura rings are unable to measure any of the physiological signals needed to assess sleep quality or determine sleep stages.

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Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

Score: 306 | Comments: 195

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Walmart to finally start accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay

Are pigs flying? Walmart has finally caved on its refusal to support Apple Pay and Google Pay.

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Zig’s io.threaded is neat

Score: 99 | Comments: 54

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Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up

There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.

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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Score: 1170 | Comments: 370

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Tesla recalls 3 million cars as part of China-wide push to stop hidden door handles

Tesla and eight other automakers will install warning labels that help occupants identify the often hard-to-find manual door releases.

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How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

Score: 181 | Comments: 88

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Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach amid hacking wave targeting financial giants

The private equity giant confirms a breach, weeks after Google researchers said hackers were targeting financial companies.

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Free AI Tiers Are a Feature, Not a Compromise

I've come to believe that the fastest way to get good at building with AI is to take the paid option away from yourself. Free model access and a free server sound like a starter kit, but I think they'

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AI Brief: Text Agents Beat VLMs, New Model, Agent APIs

A quick digest of AI-relevant signals from Chinese tech channels — one opinion worth arguing with, one new model worth testing, and two tool updates for agent workflows. ▸ Text-first agents beat VLM

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Distributed Tracing: The Missing Piece of Your Observability Stack

When Logs and Metrics Aren't Enough You have great dashboards. Your log aggregation is solid. But when a user reports "the checkout page is slow," you still spend 30 minutes jumping between

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I built ShortMatic — an AI review queue for turning long videos into Shorts

I kept spending nights cutting long tutorials and podcasts into YouTube Shorts by hand. Existing tools were either too expensive, too “autopilot” (wrong clips), or both. So I built ShortMatic — a sma

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Testing MonkeyCode's Free Server Before You Trust It: A $0 Reproducible Probe

Free AI coding help is easy to advertise. Hard to verify. Landing pages show happy demos. Benchmark posts show cherry-picked wins. I don't trust any of it. I trust probes. This week DEV is debating

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The Night an AI-Generated SQL Query Locked My Production Table

It was a Saturday evening, and I was confident. A new model had just dropped, and the leaderboard said it was the best thing since window functions. I pointed it at a real migration task, reviewed the

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Wake-word on a $15 Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: 5.3% RTF always-on

The problem: always-on wake-word is hard and expensive A wake-word detector is the part of the voice stack that listens to the mic 24/7 and triggers the rest of the pipeline when it hears a

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