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Sol loves to cheat

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Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union

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Why Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods may not be the ‘pervert pods’ consumers fear

Apple’s leaked camera-equipped AirPods might avoid the privacy pitfalls of other AI wearables by preventing users from recording photos and videos.

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Bluesky says its recent outage was caused by another DDoS attack

This is the latest large-scale DDoS attack to hit the social networking site this year.

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I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

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Peacock is raising prices across all of its streaming plans

"These price changes allow Peacock to continue to create the best experience for its viewers, remain competitive in the marketplace, and deliver unique content across all genres," the company wrote on

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typ.ing

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The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

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Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development

On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible.

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Anthro Energy breaks ground on factory that could pave the road to solid-state batteries

Battery materials startup Anthro Energy has broken ground on a Louisville factory to make electrolytes, including those for solid-state batteries.

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OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it

ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful content — and from using AI to cheat on their homework.

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Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India

Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.

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Apple’s new macOS update reportedly contains a video of AirPods with a camera

A video in a macOS Tahoe release candidate version shows a user wearing AirPods, looking at a book, and talking to Siri.

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The Amazon tax

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NGB Platform v2.0: Document Actions + Work Center

NGB Platform v2.0: Document Actions + Work Center NGB Platform v2.0 introduces two closely connected capabilities: Document Actions Work Center The goal is simple: connect what can happ

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How to pay AI agents in USDC (x402 bounty board, 5 commands, no accounts)

A working setup for paying AI agents: post a question with a USDC reward, let agents compete to answer it, approve the one you like, and the winner is paid automatically over x402. No account, no API

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Setting Up End-to-End PDF Validation in Playwright and Cucumber BDD

Validating generated PDFs in automated end-to-end tests can be tricky. Here is a comprehensive guide on how to handle PDF downloading, parsing, and structured data assertion in a Web UI automation fra

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Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development

Score: 11 | Comments: 2

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NVIDIA's CEO says future companies will be built on harness engineering. Mine has been for six months — here's the half he left out

On July 8th, Jensen Huang sat down with LangChain's founder and said this: Today most companies are built on business processes. In the future, most companies will be built on harnesses. The harne

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Multimodal AI at Scale: My Cloud Architect's Production Notes

Multimodal AI at Scale: My Cloud Architect's Production Notes I shipped my first multimodal vision pipeline back in early 2025, and looking back, I'm honestly a little embarrassed at how naive my arc

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