The Verge AI
Philips Hue’s budget-friendly Essential starter kit has hit a new low price
Although most of Prime Day’s unusually good Philips Hue deals have ended, a few remain, and some, including the black Philips Hue Twilight Sleep and Wake-Up Light, are even cheaper. None, however, have fallen to a new all-time low price like Philips Hue’s Essential starter kit. Right now, you can buy a bundle containing four […]
Sheena Vasani
2026-07-15 01:36
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Ars Technica
These painted e-tattoos could be the future of wearable biosensors
Conductive ink is painted directly onto the skin in colorful custom designs, drying into working electrodes.
Jennifer Ouellette
2026-07-15 01:31
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The Verge AI
Nintendo’s Switch 2 bundle that includes a game is $50 off
Discounts on the Nintendo Switch 2 are rare, but they do happen on occasion. There’s one happening now, actually, on the company’s $499.99 console bundle that includes a digital game (Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, or Pokémon Pokopia). Usually, the bundle saves you $20 or $30, depending on the game you choose, but for […]
Cameron Faulkner
2026-07-15 01:20
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The Verge AI
Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs
A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave with layoffs, as reported earlier by Reuters. In the lawsuit, the employees allege Meta determined which workers to dismiss based on performance data collected by a "constellation" of internal AI tools, […]
Emma Roth
2026-07-15 01:18
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Wired
How To Watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup Semifinals: France vs Spain
The end of the FIFA Men’s World Cup is nigh. Here’s how to watch the final games and the first ever World Cup halftime show.
Boone Ashworth
2026-07-15 01:11
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TechCrunch
DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO
DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is said to be preparing for a 2027 IPO debut as it also looks to raise around $1.5 billion in new funds at a $71 billion valuation.
Dominic-Madori Davis
2026-07-15 00:45
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Ars Technica
Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI
The new Google image search will use your "unique interests" to create an always-updated gallery.
Ryan Whitwam
2026-07-15 00:28
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TechCrunch
Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer
Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools.
Sarah Perez
2026-07-15 00:22
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The Verge AI
The OLED Xbox Ally X20 is so good, Asus will sell it solo
When I first told you about the "OLED Xbox Ally X of my dreams," I had to curb my enthusiasm a bit. That's partly because I hadn't yet tried the handheld myself, and partly because Asus was only planning to sell it bundled with a pair of expensive AR glasses! I'm happy to say both […]
Sean Hollister
2026-07-15 00:09
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HackerNews
Launch HN: Agnost AI (YC S26) – Extract user feedback from agent conversations
Hey HN, we’re Shubham & Parth, childhood friends building Agnost AI ( https://agnost.ai ), product analytics for teams building chat and voice agents. We read production conversations and find behavioral failures like users rageprompting (cursing at the agent), repeatedly rephrasing the same request, correcting the agent, asking for missing features, or leaving after an answer that was technically successful. We have an interactive demo with no signup here: https://app.agnost.ai?demo=true Here's
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2026-07-15 00:06
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TechCrunch
Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery
Now, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history.
Aisha Malik
2026-07-15 00:00
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Engadget
Google Images is getting a makeover for its 25th anniversary
Google has updated Images to surface results 'intelligently tailored to your unique interests."
staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon)
2026-07-15 00:00
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Dev.to
Bothread: A Free, Local Room Where Your AI Coding Agents Stop Overwriting Each Other
If you've run more than one AI coding agent on the same project, you already know the failure mode. You point Claude Code at /src/game and Cursor at /src/ui "just to be safe," and twenty minutes later one of them has quietly rewritten a file the other was mid-edit on. No error, no warning — just a diff that makes no sense and an afternoon spent figuring out which agent ate whose work. The agents aren't the problem. The problem is that multiple AI coding agents on the same codebase have no shared notion of "someone else is touching this file right now." Each one acts as if it's alone, and that assumption breaks the moment you run two, three, or four in parallel — exactly when a solo builder or vibe-coder would want to, to ship faster. I built Bothread to fix this. It's free, open-source, and runs entirely on your own machine. Why AI Coding Agents Overwrite Each Other's Files The core issue is coordination, not intelligence. One agent working alone is usually fine. Trouble starts when a second agent, unaware of the first, opens that same file and writes its own version on top. Whoever saves last wins, silently — no lock, no claim, no message saying "I'm in physics.js , give me five minutes." Multiply that by however many agents you're running and you get the pattern anyone doing multi-agent AI coding eventually hits: duplicated work, clobbered edits, and a human reconstructing what happened after the fact instead of watching it happen. Bothread's answer: give the agents a shared room, over MCP (Model Context Protocol) , where "who's working on what" is a fact everyone can see and act on — not something you guess at after a merge conflict. What Bothread Actually Does Bothread is a small local server (no cloud, no accounts) that any MCP-compatible agent can join as a participant in a shared room: Claim files before editing — a claim on a file someone else already holds gets denied and shown, instead of silently overwritten. Talk in a live thread , share a task board and
Adam Ahmed
2026-07-14 23:55
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Dev.to
Catch PCB defects before ordering
A product idea from RayTally's daily scan of public signals. The idea One-liner: Helps first-time PCB designers find manufacturing and assembly problems on the board before they place an order. Concept: A desktop preflight tool helps first-time PCB designers find contradictions among their manufacturing files before payment. Users drag in Gerber files, a bill of materials, and placement coordinates. The first screen highlights high-risk locations such as board outlines, hole sizes, package orientation, and missing components. Clicking an issue locates the specific pad on the board and shows the design value beside the fabricator's rule. The tool also simulates panelization and the board's appearance after component placement, exposing problems such as insufficient connector overhang and component collisions before they happen. It does not require beginners to read an entire manufacturing standard; it focuses each check on the changes needed for the current order. Why now On July 11, 2026, a first-time board designer publicly documented the full process from designing in KiCad and exporting Gerber and drill files with default settings to sending them to a fabricator and assembling the board by hand. Before powering it on, he still put the odds of a first successful result at "fifty-fifty." At the July 13, 2026, 09:46 UTC capture, the experience had an observed score of 111 and 45 comments on Hacker News. KiCad already provides baseline capabilities including DRC, Gerber viewing, 3D viewing, and manufacturing-file output. Consolidating these scattered steps into one order-level preflight directly addresses the question beginners face before payment: what exactly should they check? Signal Hacker News "Designing and assembling my first PCB" (approximately 111 points and 45 comments, observed July 13, 2026, 09:46 UTC). RayTally scans public signals daily for product ideas worth building. Browse the source page and more product ideas .
Demi Valerith
2026-07-14 23:54
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HackerNews
Show HN: Simulator for a custom 8-bit discreet logic computer
5 years ago, I made a derivative of SAP-1 (mainly inspired by Ben Eater) on breadboard with few improvement and called it MSAP-1 ( https://github.com/mehrantsi/MSAP-1 ) I made my own very primitive Assembly language and a simple Arduino programmer ( https://github.com/mehrantsi/8-bit_CPU_Programmer ) where I could load my programs onto MSAP-1 and even Debug them ( https://github.com/mehrantsi/8-bit_CPU_Debugger ). After that I started worked on the second version of it ( https://github.com/mehra
mehrant
2026-07-14 23:50
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The Verge AI
Spotify is now an AI chatbot, too
Spotify is experimenting with a new AI feature that allows Premium subscribers to play and explore music, audiobooks, and podcasts by having conversations with a chatbot. The "Talk to Spotify" feature appears across the Home and Now Playing view on Spotify's mobile app. You can interact with the chatbot by typing your request in the […]
Jess Weatherbed
2026-07-14 23:47
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Dev.to
I Ran 10 AI Coding Models Through 5 Tasks: A Data Scientist's Take
I Ran 10 AI Coding Models Through 5 Tasks: A Data Scientist's Take I'll be honest — I went into this expecting a clear winner. I came out with a scatter plot, three regressions, and a deeper appreciation for why "best" is the most dangerous word in machine learning. Over the past three weeks I've been grinding through prompts with ten different LLMs, all routed through the same endpoint, scoring every output on a 1–10 rubric that I tried very hard not to bias. The pricing data is pulled directly from the provider pages. The scores are mine. If you disagree with a score, you're probably right — n=1 per task per model is a laughably small sample size, and I say that as someone who publishes papers with bigger samples. But trends still emerged. Let me walk you through what I found. The Lineup Before I touch a single benchmark, here's the cast. I've grouped them by family so you can see the obvious concentration in the open-source Chinese ecosystem, which personally I find fascinating — three of the top five are DeepSeek or Qwen variants. # Model Provider Output $/M Category 1 DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek $0.25 General (strong code) 2 DeepSeek Coder DeepSeek $0.25 Code-specialized 3 Qwen3-Coder-30B Qwen $0.35 Code-specialized 4 DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek $0.78 Premium general 5 DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek $2.50 Reasoning (code thinking) 6 Kimi K2.5 Moonshot $3.00 Premium general 7 GLM-5 Zhipu $1.92 Premium general 8 Qwen3-32B Qwen $0.28 General purpose 9 Hunyuan-Turbo Tencent $0.57 General purpose 10 Ga-Standard GA Routing $0.20 Smart routing One quick note on Ga-Standard — it's a routing layer that picks a backend model per request. So the score fluctuates. I averaged across runs. How I Tested Five prompts. Each one designed to probe a different cognitive layer: Function implementation — flatten a nested list recursively in Python Bug fix — chase down an async/await race condition in JavaScript Algorithm — Dijkstra's shortest path in TypeScript with proper types Code review — sec
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2026-07-14 23:37
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Adaptive Thinking Killed My Token Budget Code: Migrating Off budget_tokens
I had a tidy little helper that computed a thinking budget based on input size. Something like "give the model 30% of the context as thinking room." It worked great on Opus 4.5. Then I tried to point it at Opus 4.8 and got a 400. The whole concept I had built around is gone in the current models. Here is what replaced it and how I migrated. What broke The old pattern looked like this: // Opus 4.5 and earlier const response = await client . messages . create ({ model : " claude-opus-4-5 " , max_tokens : 16000 , thinking : { type : " enabled " , budget_tokens : 8000 }, messages , }); On Opus 4.7, 4.8, and Fable 5, thinking: { type: "enabled", budget_tokens: N } returns a 400. The fixed token budget is dead. The replacement is adaptive thinking, where the model decides how much to think, plus an effort knob that controls overall token spend. // Opus 4.8 const response = await client . messages . create ({ model : " claude-opus-4-8 " , max_tokens : 16000 , thinking : { type : " adaptive " }, output_config : { effort : " high " }, // low | medium | high | xhigh | max messages , }); Why this is actually better (after I got over it) My old budget code was a guess dressed up as a calculation. I had no real basis for "30% of context." I picked it because it felt reasonable and the outputs looked fine. Adaptive thinking moves that decision to the model, which sees the actual problem. The mental model shift: budget_tokens controlled how much the model could think. effort controls how much it thinks and acts . They are not the same axis, so there is no clean 1:1 mapping. I stopped trying to translate "8000 tokens" into an effort level and instead picked based on the workload. How I chose effort levels After running my own evals, here is where I landed: Workload Effort Notes Classification, routing low Fast, scoped, not intelligence-sensitive Most app traffic medium to high The balance point Coding and agentic loops xhigh Best for these; it is the Claude Code default Correctness
Pavel Espitia
2026-07-14 23:36
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Dev.to
Cybersecurity 101 : Windows Notifications
Introduction So imagine you are focused on your cappuccino-frappuccino doing something very important on you win laptop and then have a cringe attack due to the unknown Phone Link notification : Complete linking devices Your PC and mobile device are almost linked. Click here to continue linking devices. via Phone Link Then you switch off bluetooth, wifi, laptop - and you are right. What to do next ? Basic checks Settings -> Bluetooth & devices -> Mobile devices Settings -> Accounts -> Email & accounts Inspect recent notifications in Event Viewer eventvwr.msc Applications and Services Logs └ Microsoft └ Windows └ Notifications Applications and Services Logs └ Microsoft └ Windows └ Shell-Core Digital forensics Windows stores toast notifications in a local database, hence you need to install sqlite Get-ChildItem " $ env : LOCALAPPDATA \Microsoft\Windows\Notifications" output : Directory: C:\Users\$ USERNAME \A ppData \L ocal \M icrosoft \W indows \N otifications Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- d----- 1/1/2026 0:00 AM wpnidm -a---- 1/1/2026 0:00 AM 1000000 wpndatabase.db -a---- 1/1/2026 0:00 AM 10000 wpndatabase.db-shm -a---- 1/1/2026 0:00 AM 1000000 wpndatabase.db-wal wpndatabase.db is a SQLite database. connect to the database : sqlite3 " $env :LOCALAPPDATA \M icrosoft \W indows \N otifications \w pndatabase.db" query the Notification table . headers on . mode column SELECT Notification . Id , Notification . HandlerId , Notification . Type , Notification . ArrivalTime , Notification . Payload FROM Notification LIMIT 20 ; Then you will have something like : Id: [REDACTED] HandlerId: [REDACTED] Type: toast ArrivalTime: [REDACTED] Payload: <?xml version="1.0"?> <toast activationType= "protocol" launch= "ms-phone:fre/?cid=[REDACTED]&ref=FreIncompleteToast&reason=IncompleteNotificationsToast" > <visual> <binding template= "ToastGeneric" > <text hint-maxLines= "1" > Complete linking devices </text> <text> Your PC and mobile device are almost li
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2026-07-14 23:32
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I Built Free Browser-Based Validators for YAML, Kubernetes and Terraform (No Upload, No Signup)
Every DevOps engineer has done this dance: you've got a chunk of YAML or a Terraform file that looks right, something's rejecting it, and you want a fast sanity check. So you paste it into some random online validator — and a small voice asks, wait, where did that config just go? That config often has structure, comments, sometimes internal hostnames or resource names in it. Pasting infrastructure definitions into an unknown server is a habit worth breaking. So I built a set of validators that never send your config anywhere — they run entirely in your browser. What they are Free, browser-based validators for the formats DevOps folks paste-and-pray most: YAML — catches the indentation and structure errors that make Kubernetes and CI configs fail with cryptic messages Kubernetes manifests — schema-aware checks beyond "is it valid YAML," so you catch the wrong apiVersion or a misplaced field before kubectl apply does Terraform / HCL — structural validation for the syntax slips that terraform validate flags only after you've context-switched away The one design decision that matters 100% client-side. No upload, no signup, no server round-trip. Your config is parsed by JavaScript running in your own tab — it never leaves your machine. You can literally open dev-tools, watch the network panel, and see nothing go out. Turn off your wifi and they still work. This isn't a privacy gimmick — it's the correct architecture for a tool that handles infrastructure definitions. A validator has no business seeing your config on a server it doesn't need to. Why I bother Two reasons, honestly. One: I kept wanting this exact thing and kept not trusting the options. The nth time I hesitated before pasting a manifest into a stranger's website, I decided to just build the version I'd trust. Two: fast feedback loops are the whole game in this job. The gap between "save the file" and "find out it's malformed" is pure friction — and the tighter that loop, the less of your working memory it b
James Joyner
2026-07-14 23:32
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