The Verge AI
SpaceX in your index fund, explained
Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet on the market as a whole. So what happens when a company like SpaceX - a giant gamble, and, in my opinion, terribly overpriced - is fast-tracked into the Nasdaq-100? Does […]
Elizabeth Lopatto
2026-07-21 05:00
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Wired
The Galaxy Card Is Samsung’s Answer to the Apple Card
Directly added to your Samsung Wallet account, it’s yet another cash-back credit card, this time tailored for Samsung stans.
Julian Chokkattu
2026-07-21 05:00
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TechCrunch
AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that lets a chatbot reach into your calendar, your database, or your internal tools, instead of engineers building custom pipes for every connection. Next […]
Russell Brandom
2026-07-21 04:50
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The Verge AI
Get Borderlands 3, Risk of Rain 2 and 13 other great PC games for $15
The aptly-named “2K Megahits 2026 Bundle” from Humble includes 15 Steam games for $15. It’s a smattering of the publisher 2K’s biggest games of the 2010s, including BioShock Infinite, Risk of Rain 2, Borderlands 3, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The bundle will be available until August 7th, though the bundle page notes that keys for […]
Brad Bourque
2026-07-21 04:08
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The Verge AI
The PlayStation replica ornament is an homage to a great, yet fragile console
You probably know the signature PlayStation boot sound. Did you know that it's technically a multi-part chime? There's the synthy section where "Sony Computer Entertainment" shows onscreen with a white background. You only get to the next screen with the echo-y chimes and the color-filled PlayStation logo if your console recognizes the disc. How badly […]
Cameron Faulkner
2026-07-21 04:06
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TechCrunch
X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort
X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.
Sarah Perez
2026-07-21 03:37
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TechCrunch
OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?
Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.
Tim Fernholz
2026-07-21 03:33
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The Verge AI
Ford’s $30,000 electric truck: all the news about the company’s big EV re-do
The end of the Ford F-150 Lightning was also the start of a new era for the automaker. After failing to capture the market with the electric version of its popular F-Series truck, Ford is going back to the drawing board with its Universal Electric Vehicle Platform. The first offering will be a $30,000 electric […]
Andrew J. Hawkins
2026-07-21 03:18
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TechCrunch
Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe
The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.
Marina Temkin
2026-07-21 03:11
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Wired
Even Mild Sleep Deprivation May Lead to Weight Gain
A recent study suggests that not getting enough sleep increases the risk of weight gain, and thus of conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
Ritsuko Kawai
2026-07-21 03:06
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Dev.to
We Built an AI Assistant for Word That Actually Formats Your Documents (And Runs Locally)
Every AI writing tool does the same thing: you type a prompt, it spits out text, and you copy-paste it into Word. Then you spend the next 30 minutes manually applying headings, fixing list styles, rebuilding tables, and cleaning up formatting that broke on paste. Co-pilot lives inside Word, sure, but it's a writing assistant, not a formatting one. It drafts text, rewrites paragraphs. What it doesn't do is look at your messy 40-page report and restructure it with your actual Word styles, proper heading hierarchy, and correctly formatted tables. That's the gap we set out to close with Stylifyword. What Stylifyword Actually Does: Stylifyword is a Microsoft Word add-in paired with a companion desktop app. You give it a document, a messy draft, a copy pasted ChatGPT output, a stitched together report from five different authors and voila, it writes & edits your text when you ask it to (drafting, rewriting, summarizing the usual AI stuff). Also formats the entire document with your headings, lists, tables, and all. Outputs every change as a tracked redline in Word's Review tab. Nothing touches your document until you accept it. That third point is the key differentiator. It's non-destructive. The AI proposes, you dispose. Why Local-AI support Matters: Here's the thing that got me building this: most professionals who need AI the most can't use cloud AI tools. Corporate attorneys can't paste M&A deal terms into ChatGPT. Healthcare teams can't upload patient data to a cloud endpoint. Defense contractors, compliance officers, financial analysts, they're all locked out of the AI productivity wave because of legitimate data sovereignty concerns. Stylifyword's default mode runs entirely on your machine: 100% on-device inference via a companion desktop app. No Ollama, no command line, no model downloads to configure. Works offline, airplane mode, air-gapped networks, whatever. Zero data leaves your device, ever. Install the app, open Word, and it works. Three Ways to Run It: Not
Jaasir
2026-07-21 02:46
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InfoQ
Java News Roundup: Value Objects, WildFly 41, TornadoVM, LangChain4j, Oracle AI Agent Studio
This week's Java roundup for July 13th, 2026, features news highlighting: a reintroduction of Value Objects (Preview); the GA release of WildFly 41; the July 2026 edition of Open Liberty 26.0.0.7; point releases of TornadoVM, Apache TomEE, Java Operator SDK and LangChain4j; a maintenance release of Micronaut; a new extension, Quarkus Shim; and a new Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications. By Michael Redlich
Michael Redlich
2026-07-21 02:45
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Dev.to
Pressure-testing Ota on Open WebUI: proof cleanup ownership, bootstrap truth, and native vs Compose runtime boundaries
Overview Open WebUI exposed a real Ota lifecycle boundary. This was not mainly a parsing or contract-shape repo. The contract was already strong enough to model: source-checkout verification packaged native runtime through uv run open-webui serve frontend development runtime default Docker Compose runtime What the repo exposed was operational truth after proof: a successful native proof still left a host workload alive the first cleanup fix then widened too far and treated a Compose-owned runtime as the same class of host workload That made Open WebUI a valuable pressure repo. It forced Ota to get more precise about cleanup ownership instead of treating all successful runtime proof as one generic teardown problem. The current pressure contract pins released Ota v1.6.24 . Its latest green matrix run proves the release surface at the exact contract and workflow revision linked below. What Open WebUI exposed in Ota This repo exposed four meaningful weaknesses. 1. proof success was weaker than it looked The first issue was not that runtime proof failed. It was that runtime proof succeeded and still left the native workload alive afterward. In this repo, the packaged native workflow launches: serve:native : launch : kind : command exe : uv args : - run - open-webui - serve - --host - 0.0.0.0 - --port - " 8080" Ota proved that workflow, but the launched process tree was still alive after proof completed. In GitHub Actions, that surfaced through setup-uv post-job cleanup, which blocked while the uv cache was still in use. That was an Ota gap. If proof succeeds but leaves behind repo-owned runtime state that later breaks CI cleanup, the proof surface is still incomplete. 2. native service cleanup widened past its real ownership boundary The first core fix made Ota clean selected native service workloads after successful proof. That was directionally correct, but Open WebUI immediately exposed the next boundary. The Docker workflow uses a native task shape to launch Compose:
Bobai Kato
2026-07-21 02:43
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Dev.to
Golang in Hinglish
A simple tutorial series on go in Hinglish. Jitna mujhe aata hai utna, aur zyada tar mere notes se! Note: Me non-native speaker hu to spelling mistakes to honge, is liye Hinglish spellings aur grammar ke liye main AI use karunga, par dev ke bot ko pata nahi chalega kyuki ye English nahi hai 😉 Parichay / Intro Shuruat hum isse karenge ki Go kya hai aur uske fayde kya hain. Pehle hum Wikipedia ki definition dekhte hain: To, Go ek aasan language hai. Go compiled language hai, matlab ek bar compiler ko humne apna code diya to wo ek executable file dega jo sidha hum chala sakte hain bina kisi aur dependency ke, jaise ki Python ka interpreter. Dusri high-level languages jaise Python ya JavaScript se Go tez chalta hai. Garbage collected hai, yani C ki tarah hame memory ko manually manage karna nahi padega. Go ka istemal kahan hota hai? APIs aur Web Servers banane me Network Programming aur Distributed Systems me Cloud-Native Applications aur Microservices banane me DevOps aur Infrastructure Automation me Command Line (CLI) Tools banane me Agar upar ki baatein abhi samajh na aayein, to koi baat nahi. Filhal itna samajh lijiye ki Go ka istemal bahut jagah hota hai to job ke liye kaam aayega. To ye thi Go ki kahani, CSM ki zubani... (jo chalti rahegi!) Aur haan, har post ke aakhir me meri ek shayari hogi, jo aapko guru dakshina ke roop me jhelni padegi! 😄 ख़यालों को बातों में उलझाए रखना । इस पल के हक़ीक़त को सुलझाए रखना । शिद्दत से चाहा जो मिल कर रहेगा । चेहरे पे मुस्कान थोड़ी बनाए रखना ।। -csm
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2026-07-21 02:42
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