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Waymo introduces $30-a-month premium tier for riders who want faster pickups
Uber One, meet Waymo Premier. The robotaxi operator announced a new $29.99-a-month premium tier for riders who want a more elevated and exclusive autonomous experience. The invite-only membership service is aimed at Waymo customers who use the service most frequently, offering them a number of perks, including priority pickups, 10 percent cash back on every […]
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The Microsoft Interview Question I Keep Thinking About
A few months ago, while interviewing for a Cloud Solutions Architect role at Microsoft, one of the interviewers asked me a question that stuck with me long after the interview ended. Not because I couldn't answer it. But because I kept thinking about whether I had answered it well. The question was: "What's the hardest part about working on mainframe technology?" At the time, I was still relatively new to the world of mainframes. And by "relatively new," I mean embarrassingly new. Before joining my current company, I didn't even know something called a "mainframe" still existed. If you'd asked me what COBOL was, I probably would've guessed it was a Pokémon. Okay that is an exaggeration but you get what I mean. I still remember early on hearing terms like KT (Knowledge Transfer) being thrown around and quietly wondering if everyone had received some secret corporate dictionary except me. The good news is that I've never been particularly afraid of looking stupid. So my strategy is simple: Ask the question. Then ask the follow-up question. Then ask the question that reveals I didn't understand the previous answer either. Surprisingly, people were usually happy to explain. Anyway, after a few KT sessions and what I'd generously describe as a "bare minimum amount of research," my brain went where most developers' brains probably would've gone. The technology The age The tooling The learning curve The fact that some of these systems were designed before I was even born All perfectly reasonable answers. But while I was sitting there in the interview, another thought appeared: "This feels too obvious." Interviewers at that level usually aren't asking for the first answer that comes to mind. They're trying to understand how you think. And the more I reflected on that question afterwards, the more I realized something interesting. The hardest part isn't the technology itself. Before I started working around large enterprise systems, my mental model of old technology was pret
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Microsoft taps Alt Carbon in sign of India’s growing role in carbon removal
Alt Carbon said the agreement followed more than a year of scientific review and due diligence, with Microsoft requiring additional verification and data-sharing measures.
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Enhanced License Plate Tracking
The surveillance company Leonardo wants more data : A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices, as well as capture the license plate of passing vehicles, would also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars, potentially letting law enforcement identify specific drivers or passengers. The technology, called SignalTrace, would turn ALPR cameras from devices focused on tracking cars to ones that can more readily track the location of particular people. ALPR cameras have become a commonly deployed technology all across the U.S.; SignalTrace would make some of those cameras capable of collecting much more data...
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Practice exams are a diagnostic, not a scoreboard: how to study for Security+ (SY0-701)
Most people studying for Security+ use practice questions the wrong way. They take a 90 question set, score a 74, feel bad, take another set the next day, score a 76, and call that progress. Two weeks later the number has barely moved and they have no idea why. The score is the least useful thing a practice exam gives you. What you actually want is a map of what you do not know yet. Here is the approach that worked for getting through SY0-701 without burning out on endless question sets. Start cold, on purpose Before you study a single domain, take a full practice exam and do not look anything up. It will feel bad. That is the point. A cold score tells you where you actually stand, not where your notes say you should be. SY0-701 is split into five domains, and they are not weighted evenly: 1.0 General Security Concepts (12%) 2.0 Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigations (22%) 3.0 Security Architecture (18%) 4.0 Security Operations (28%) 5.0 Security Program Management and Oversight (20%) Domain 4 alone is more than a quarter of the exam. If you bomb Security Operations and ace General Concepts, splitting your time evenly between them is a mistake. A cold diagnostic shows you that split in about an hour. If you want one to start with, there is a free diagnostic exam at secplusmastery.com/diagnostic that breaks your result down by domain so the holes are easy to see. Review the wrong answers, and the right ones too This single habit moved my scores more than anything else: for every question I missed, I wrote down why each wrong option was wrong, not just why the correct one was correct. Security+ loves distractors that are real terms used in the wrong context. A question about a control that prevents an attack will offer you a control that detects one, and a control that corrects after the fact, all as plausible answers. If you only learn that the answer was C, you learn nothing you can reuse. If you learn that B was a detective control and the scenario asked for a p
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I Was Scammed Buying GLP-1s Online. I’m Not Alone
Customers have complained that a telehealth network selling compounded GLP-1s has been ripping them off—even after it had to pay $5 million to clients as part of a settlement with the US government.
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My daughter asked if developers used to write code by hand, but it was the follow-up question that surprised me.
My daughter Emma is 11. She's been vibe coding lately, and honestly, she's pretty good at it. The...
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I Built a Free, Fully Local AI Resume Builder — No Subscriptions, No Cloud, No Catch
If you've ever tried to use an AI resume builder, you've probably hit the same wall I did. You sign up, poke around, find the one feature you actually need — and then boom: "Upgrade to Pro for $29/month." It's frustrating. Resume help shouldn't be locked behind a paywall. So I built my own. Meet Persona Persona is an AI-powered resume builder that you run completely on your own machine . No deployment required. No subscription. No account on some third-party service. You clone the repo, set it up, and it's yours. It's a fork of the excellent open-source project ResumeLM , but I've added a bunch of features I couldn't find anywhere else — especially around local AI and template variety. 👉 GitHub: github.com/nithiin7/persona (Drop a ⭐ if you find it useful!) The Big Deal: Run AI Completely Offline with Ollama This is the feature I'm most proud of. Most AI resume tools call out to OpenAI or Anthropic and charge you for every request. Persona supports Ollama — which means you can run the AI model locally on your own hardware, with zero API costs and zero data leaving your machine. Here's how simple it is: Install Ollama on your computer Pull any model ( ollama pull llama3 , for example) Open Persona's settings, point it to your local Ollama URL Done — the AI now runs entirely on your machine No OpenAI key. No Anthropic key. No usage limits. Your resume data never touches an external server. If you do want to use cloud models, Persona supports those too — GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and a handful of open-source models via OpenRouter. But the Ollama path is what makes this genuinely different from everything else out there. It's 100% Free — Everything Unlocked The original ResumeLM had Stripe payments baked in. I ripped all of that out. Every single feature in Persona is available to every user, always. There's no "Pro plan." There's no feature gating. You self-host it, you own it, you use all of it. 10 Resume Templates Persona ships with ten distinct templ
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I Built a Freelance Job Hunting Automation on n8n — Here's Everything I Learned
I'm a 17-year-old IT student from Luxembourg. A few months ago I got tired of spending 2-3 hours a day manually browsing Upwork, Malt, and Freelancer looking for projects. So I built an automation system that does it for me — 24/7, on a Raspberry Pi 3. Here's what it does, how I built it, and every painful lesson I learned along the way. What the system does Scans Upwork, Malt, and Freelancer every 30 minutes Scores each job 0–100 with AI based on my profile Generates proposals in English, French, and German Sends the best jobs to Telegram with inline A/B buttons Tracks which proposal style gets more replies Sends daily stats and weekly market trend reports Reminds me to follow up after 3 days The stack n8n — self-hosted workflow automation (Docker on Raspberry Pi 3) Groq API (Llama 3.1-8b-instant) — AI scoring and proposal generation Supabase — PostgreSQL database for jobs, proposals, clients SerpAPI — searching job boards via Google Apify — scraping Upwork listings Telegram Bot API — alerts and bot commands Cloudflare Tunnel — HTTPS for webhooks Total running cost: ~$5/month. 7 workflows 01 - Job Discovery — runs every 30 minutes, searches 10+ sources, deduplicates via Supabase unique constraint on URL 02 - Proposal Generator — AI scores the job, generates two proposal variants (formal vs hook-first), sends to Telegram with A/B buttons 03 - Follow-up Reminders — checks Supabase every 3 days for unanswered proposals 04 - CRM via Telegram — full client management through bot commands (/jobs, /stats, /clients) 05 - Market Intelligence — daily report: how many jobs found, average score, top platforms 06 - Trend Analysis — weekly report on what skills are trending in automation 07 - Lead Generation — finds companies actively using Zapier or Make who might want to switch to n8n Lessons learned (the hard way) 1. Cyrillic text breaks JSON body nodes silently If you have Cyrillic characters in a JSON body field with newlines, n8n throws a "Bad control character" error. Kee
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Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers
Move also cuts off a massive market of legit users who buy cards with physical cash.
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The 2026 Honda Prelude review: Didn't expect such a head-turner
Honda's $42,000 hybrid coupe looks great, handles well, and gets 44 mpg.
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GM Energy introduces V2G support and new energy storage battery chemistry
There are more than a quarter of a million V2G-capable GM EVs on the roads already.
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Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats
Decart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous vehicle testing, now available via API for developers to build on.
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BYD to install thousands of 5-minute EV chargers across Europe
Chinese EV colossus BYD has announced plans to speed up its conquest of the European auto market with the rollout of superfast Flash Chargers across the continent. BYD has already installed the first new chargers in Germany and the UK, and plans to roll out 3,000 across Europe by the end of next year. At […]
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Waymo built a virtual driver to study how humans react to surprises on the road
Waymo has a lot of experience building virtual systems to help its autonomous vehicles better understand the real world. It built realistic 3D worlds to better anticipate natural disasters and unpredictable edge cases. It created a virtual representation of a hyperattentive driver to test against its own autonomous vehicles in a series of simulated scenarios […]
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I created two ghosts during lunch. The AI gave one a job offer.
This is a story about a company that rolled out an AI interview system — and the lunch break I spent...
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GM thinks EVs can help offset AI’s energy suck with vehicle-to-grid tech
At an event in San Francisco today, General Motors made a series of announcements around EV batteries, energy storage, and grid resiliency in the face of growing electricity demand from AI data centers. The automaker announced that it would be activating new vehicle-to-grid capabilities for its current EV and home energy customers. It's releasing a […]
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Here's Audi's next Q7 SUV and US-only SQ7, now with an RS V8
At night, the car projects its turn signals onto the road to alert other road users.
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First Drive: The 2027 Rivian R2 entirely changes the EV game
Rivian's second EV is the sub-$60,000 R2, and it was worth the wait.
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Rivian R2 2026: Specs, Price, Availability
With a competitive price, winning design, and better performance than the R1, Rivian could be set to break into the big leagues. Just make sure you get the right model with the right tech.