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Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser

Score: 31 | Comments: 10

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OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image generation results

The new ads will begin to appear later this month in the U.S. only for now, and will feature products and services from an initial test group of advertisers.

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Open or closed AI? How founders are choosing what to build on at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Learn how founders are choosing between building on open or closed AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $100 and get a second pass at 50% off.

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Lola Vision Systems is trying to make it easier to run AI models on chips

Lola Vision Systems is one of the Startup Battlefield 200 companies battling it out at TechCrunch Disrupt, taking place October 13-15 in San Francisco.

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Hackers steal 8 million citizens’ records from Danish government database

The Danish government said the breach of names, addresses, and state-issued ID numbers affects 8 million people, including people living abroad and the deceased.

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Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’

Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.

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The lamps in my house

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California’s New Seven-Day Rule Changes How Protected Health-Data Requests Are Handled

California has added a new checkpoint between certain legal demands and the production of highly sensitive health information. The change is not a proposal awaiting a vote. Governor Gavin Newsom signe

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From Free Tier to Production: Migrating Your App Through Orbistats' Pricing Tiers

Disclosure: I work with the Orbistats team. This guide is written to be useful whichever plan you end up on, including staying on the free one. Every successful API-powered app goes through the same

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AI Turned an Assumption into a Rule, and Tomorrow Nobody Will Know Why.

AI Turned an Assumption into a Rule, and Tomorrow Nobody Will Know Why. A pull request can be completely reasonable and still leave a problem behind. The tests pass. The incident no longer

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Is the model actually getting dumber, or are we just reading tea leaves from single samples?

Disclosure: I'm involved in building Folkbench, which I mention near the end of this post. I've been chewing on a question that's been discussed to death but never really settled: when we say a mod

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OpenAI is sticking more ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will "initially" appear when you gener

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Orbistats Widgets vs Custom UI: Pre-Built Match Center

Disclosure: I work with the Orbistats team. This post is meant to help you make an honest build-or-embed decision, including the cases where you should not use our widgets. Every sports product hits

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Legcord (Discord Client) — 2 CVEs: XSS in Discord Page Becomes RCE + Persistent Traffic Interception

If you use Legcord as your Discord client, a script running in the Discord page can break out of the Electron sandbox entirely. CVE-2026-105293 (CVSS 8.1) — Path Traversal to RCE Theme IPC handlers (

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Godot vs Unity in 2026: The Complete Architecture & Engine Guide

GAME ENGINE ARCHITECTURE & INDIE ECOSYSTEM EVALUATION Technical Audit: Node Trees vs. Component-Entity Systems, GDScript vs. C# .NET 9, Dedicated 2D Pipelines, Vulkan Rendering & Financial

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Some Thoughts on Honesty in AI-Assisted Work

This article was written by a human and an AI assistant together. The human provided the subject, observations, examples, and final editorial decisions. The AI helped with analysis, structure, wording

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Automating MySQL Database Migrations in AWS CI/CD using Knex.js and TypeScript

Managing database schema changes across environments (Development, Staging, Production) can quickly become a bottleneck if done manually. Automating schema migrations inside your AWS deployment pipeli

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Why I Made APX Forward a Message as a Quote, Not a Paste

I kept hitting the same small failure while building APX: a useful message existed, but it lived in the wrong conversation. A person would receive a detail in one thread, open another agent session,

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Top 17 Free Browser Based Productivity Tools

Most productivity apps want an account, a subscription, and a notification permission before you've done any work. Sometimes you just need a timer, a scratchpad, or a place to dump today's tasks. U

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5 Practical Ways to Improve WordPress Website Performance

A WordPress website can start fast and become slower over time. As more images, plugins, scripts, posts, and features are added, the amount of work required to load a page can increase. Here are fiv

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