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Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

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Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.

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Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts

With the new "Replace Audio" tool, users can update the music on their post at any time while keeping the post's existing likes, comments, shares, and reach intact.

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Map of the world's great castles and fortresses

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Threads rolls out parental supervision tools

With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view their teen's time spent on Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy settings.

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Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa

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US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese open AI models over alleged IP theft, expanding the Trump administration's campaign to slow China's AI advances.

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Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

Score: 721 | Comments: 542

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Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM

Score: 431 | Comments: 462

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Bluecore Energy raises $10M to build portable nuclear reactors on barges

Maritime nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co.

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PartialString – A finite-difference time-domain physical modelling synthesiser

Score: 30 | Comments: 4

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How to Crop PDF Pages in the Browser with Vue 3 and pdf-lib

Cropping PDF pages sounds like a server-side operation, but with pdf-lib and a preview, you can do it entirely in the browser. No upload, no backend, and full control over margins. This post walks t

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DueDocs 1.3 — import a spreadsheet, print a person pack

DueDocs keeps passport, license, and insurance renewal dates on your device. Many people already track expiry dates in a spreadsheet. DueDocs 1.3 can import that file and keep the list private — plus

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DueDocs 1.2 — archive the done, link the renew page

DueDocs keeps passport, license, and insurance renewal dates on your device. Expired warranties and old memberships clutter an attention list. DueDocs 1.2 lets you archive them without deleting the r

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What I’ve Learned in 90 Days of Writing About Engineering Management

I started this publication because I had something to say and no good place to say it. Not a complaint. Not a rant. A real observation about a real problem that I had spent nearly two decades watchin

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Building Production-Grade LLM Evaluation Pipelines: From Vibes to Metrics

Building Production-Grade LLM Evaluation Pipelines: From Vibes to Metrics How we replaced "looks good to me" with automated evaluation catching 92% of hallucinations before deployment

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Stop being the human CMS for a date field

A bakery owner pays a freelancer $120 to change the end date on a sale countdown. Not to build it. To change the date. A freelancer builds their fifth FAQ accordion of the year, for the fifth client,

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The freedom you don't want: why infinite customization is a tax, not a feature

In 2023, at the No Code Summit in Paris, I gave a talk that our blog later turned into a deep dive. Its central claim sounds wrong: the hardest part of building a feature is not writing its code. Fift

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The Production Readiness Checklist

In the last article, I walked through finding and fixing the slow parts of a SaaS before launch: N+1 queries, missing indexes, unbounded payloads, the usual suspects. That work makes the product fast.

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How to Stop Using Access Keys and Keep Them from Leaking

This article was translated with the help of AI. Are you issuing access keys just to use the AWS CLI? I used to do exactly that. Access keys are convenient, aren't they? Once you set them up with

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