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A new, AI-assisted model of insurance is quietly exploding in disaster-prone areas—and may be coming for FEMA too. Is it the answer to climate change, or a trap?

WIRED surveyed readers on their housing costs. The answers paint a stark portrait of unaffordability, climate adaptation, and the death of the homeowner dream.

Apple is being investigated by the EU again, this time over its iCloud service.

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Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.

Paul Klein discusses the distributed systems challenges of scaling cloud-hosted browser infra for AI agents. He explains how to manage bursty, stateful multi-tenancy and secure Chromium environments against remote code execution using Firecracker. He also shares how to leverage the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to turn complex websites into accessible agentic tools. By Paul Klein

The commercial was submitted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to run during Donald Trump’s UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment.

Microsoft's new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop are about 50 to 60 percent more expensive than the previous generation. Thanks, AI!

Microsoft is launching new Surface Laptops and a Surface Pro with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 processors. These are direct follow-ups to the Surface Laptops and Surface Pro from 2024 that launched with Snapdragon X1 chips and jumpstarted Microsoft's Copilot Plus PC initiative with Windows on Arm. The new X2 Surfaces are available today. The Surface Pro […]

Comcast is launching a same-day Xfinity Wi-Fi offering that spares you from waiting for your new router. Starting today, new Xfinity customers in almost 20 markets - including Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Nashville, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and more - can receive the Xfinity Gateway equipment they need to get online the same day they order […]

It's been more than a year since Schlage announced its first smart lock to support ultra wideband technology (UWB), but now it's finally almost available to purchase. Starting June 29th, the Schlage Sense Pro deadbolt lock will be available for $399 in the US, allowing customers to unlock their doors by simply approaching them with […]

There is a persistent myth that to build a worthy code assistant, you absolutely must use GPT or Claude. This is false. You don't need a 1-trillion parameter model. You need a small local model and extremely rigorous engineering around it. This is the direction history is taking for companies. As Mark Zuckerberg mentioned, the future isn't a single omniscient model, but "every company having its own specialized AI" . And this specialization necessarily involves fine-tuning and local deployment (or on sovereign servers) to guarantee data security. The thesis behind the construction of Vibrisse Agent can be summed up in one sentence: Small models, Great tools. In this article, I will detail the technical stack and concrete engineering solutions I implemented to tame a local model and make it reliable in production: LangGraph, Ollama, FastAPI, React (no build step, with embedded custom CSS) , all running on a machine with 32 GB of RAM. For the curious who want to run the agent on their machine right now: // MacOs / Linux curl -sSL https://agent.vibrisse-studio.dev/install.sh | bash // Windows irm https://agent.vibrisse-studio.dev/install.ps1 | iex Architecture: Why a State Machine (LangGraph)? At first, when building an LLM application, we tend to think in sequential chains: Input -> Prompt -> Tool -> Output . The problem is that if one node fails, the whole chain stops without us being able to catch the error or understand the context of the crash. That's where LangGraph comes in. Vibrisse's architecture isn't a chain, it's a state machine . Every node in the graph has a very precise responsibility, shares a global conversation state, and uses conditional transitions to move to the next node. I implemented the Supervisor / Worker pattern: The Supervisor analyzes the user's intent. It does nothing else but route. It dispatches the task to specialized Workers (the RAG Worker, the Search Worker, the Ghost Worker...). If a Worker fails or needs more information, it can se

Il y a un mythe persistant selon lequel pour construire un assistant de code digne de ce nom, il faut absolument utiliser GPT ou Claude. C'est faux. Vous n'avez pas besoin d'un modèle à 1 trillion de paramètres. Vous avez besoin d'un modèle local de taille réduite et d'une ingénierie extrêmement rigoureuse autour de lui. C'est d'ailleurs le sens de l'histoire pour les entreprises. Comme l'évoquait Mark Zuckerberg, l'avenir n'est pas à un modèle omniscient unique, mais à "chaque entreprise avec sa propre IA spécialisée" . Et cette spécialisation passe obligatoirement par le fine-tuning et le déploiement local (ou sur serveurs souverains) pour garantir la sécurité des données. La thèse derrière la construction de Vibrisse Agent tient en une phrase : Small models, Great tools. Dans cet article, je vais détailler la stack technique et les solutions d'ingénierie concrètes que j'ai mises en place pour dompter un modèle local et le rendre fiable en production : LangGraph, Ollama, FastAPI, React (sans build step, avec CSS custom embarqué) , le tout tournant sur une machine avec 32 Go de RAM. Pour les curieux qui souhaitent lancer l'agent sur leur machine dès maintenant : // MacOs / Linux curl -sSL https://agent.vibrisse-studio.dev/install.sh | bash // Windows irm https://agent.vibrisse-studio.dev/install.ps1 | iex L'Architecture : Pourquoi une Machine à États (LangGraph) ? Au début, quand on construit une application LLM, on a tendance à penser en chaîne séquentielle : Input -> Prompt -> Outil -> Output . Le problème, c'est que si un nœud échoue, toute la chaîne s'arrête sans qu'on puisse rattraper l'erreur ou comprendre le contexte du plantage. C'est là qu'intervient LangGraph . L'architecture de Vibrisse n'est pas une chaîne, c'est une machine à états . Chaque nœud du graphe a une responsabilité très précise, partage un état global de la conversation, et utilise des transitions conditionnelles pour passer au nœud suivant. J'ai implémenté le pattern Supervisor / Worker : L

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If you’ve used S3, MinIO, or any cloud storage API, it’s easy to assume object storage is just a “cloud folder system.” That assumption is wrong — and it leads to confusion when you start working with distributed systems. Object storage is not a file system. It’s closer to a distributed key-value system with strong durability guarantees and a very specific access model . Once you understand that shift, a lot of cloud infrastructure starts to make more sense. The mental model most people start with When people first see object storage, they imagine something like this: /photos/cats.png /photos/dogs.png A hierarchical file system: folders subfolders files inside directories This is how traditional systems like ext4 or NTFS work. But object storage doesn’t actually work this way. The actual model: key → object Object storage is much simpler at its core: key → value Example: key : photos/cats.png value : <binary data> There are no real folders. “folders” are just string prefixes used for organization. That’s it. Why this design exists This model isn’t accidental. It solves real distributed system problems. Traditional file systems struggle when you try to: scale across many machines replicate data reliably handle partial failures coordinate metadata changes at scale Object storage avoids many of these problems by simplifying the model. Instead of supporting complex file operations, it focuses on: store object retrieve object delete object list objects by prefix Nothing more. The most important design choice: immutability In most object storage systems: Objects are not modified in place. If you “update” a file, what actually happens is: upload a new object replace the key pointer old object becomes orphaned (eventually cleaned up) This is a huge shift from file systems. Why this matters Immutability makes distributed systems easier because: no concurrent write conflicts on the same object replication becomes simpler caching becomes safer failure recovery is easier to rea

Originally published on the Prufa blog . Five days ago we audited 49 Show HN launches and found that 78% had a critical bug on day one. This week we pointed the same free audit at a different cohort: 14 products freshly posted to r/SideProject. We expected more of the same. We got the opposite — and it turned out to be more interesting. Not one of the 14 had a critical finding. No broken signup flow, no canonical pointing at the wrong domain, no analytics tag silently swallowing every event. By the measure that matters most on launch day — does the core thing work — these builders shipped clean. And yet every single site had findings. They just all live one tier down, in a layer so consistent it reads like a shared checklist nobody handed out: 11 of 14 sent no analytics events at all. 11 of 14 shipped with no Content-Security-Policy and could be framed by any site (no X-Frame-Options ). 11 of 14 had serious accessibility violations . 12 of 14 had tap targets smaller than 24px on mobile. 9 of 14 took over four seconds to paint their largest element on mobile. 8 of 14 had no canonical link on the entry page. No site is named in this post. The point isn't to embarrass anyone — these are good builders who got a real product live. The point is that the same common side-project launch mistakes show up again and again, and if 11 of 14 strangers have them, you probably have a few too. Methodology, briefly We pulled 20 URLs from recent r/SideProject posts and ran each through the same audit a free Prufa run does: a real browser loads the public pages and captures network traffic, console output, response codes, headers, and the rendered DOM, then a fixed suite of deterministic checks grades the evidence. Same input, same verdict. Of the 20: 14 completed cleanly , 4 were blocked by bot protection before our runner could load them, and 2 didn't finish inside our polling window. The numbers below are from the 14 that completed. Two honest caveats. First, 14 is a small sample —

It's impossible to retain a skill if you dont use it. I've reached a point where I use AI exclusively for all tasks, because it's far faster and efficient to do so. What kind of activities do you do to retain cognitive skills?

Here's a question most businesses never think to ask when they're building a website: can everyone actually use this? Not just the people on a fast laptop with perfect vision and a reliable internet connection. Everyone. The person navigating your site with a screen reader because they're visually impaired. The user who can't use a mouse and relies entirely on a keyboard. The individual with a cognitive disability who needs clear, consistent layouts to make sense of what they're looking at. If your website doesn't work for these people, it doesn't work full stop. And yet, accessibility is almost always the last thing discussed in a web development project, usually buried somewhere at the bottom of a checklist, treated as a nice-to-have instead of a requirement. That needs to change. Not because of legal compliance (though that's a real consideration too), but because accessibility-first web development simply produces better websites. Faster load times, cleaner code, better SEO, higher user retention accessible design delivers all of that. The framework isn't complicated. It just requires thinking about it from the start instead of trying to bolt it on at the end. This is that framework. What Accessibility-First Web Development Actually Means Accessibility-first is a mindset, not a checklist. It means building with the full range of human experience in mind from day one not auditing for compliance after the site is already live. It's Not the Same as Compliance WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) is the global standard for web accessibility. Most businesses know it exists. Very few understand what it actually requires or that meeting WCAG 2.1 AA standards isn't a ceiling, it's a floor. Compliance means you passed the audit. Accessibility-first means you thought about disabled users during architecture decisions, during design reviews, during content writing, and during QA. Compliance is a document. Accessibility-first is a process. The gap between the two mat