· · Tom's Guide
Cambridge Audio's L/R S Speakers Raise the Bar in Midrange Wireless Excellence
The Cambridge Audio L/R S are high-quality bookshelf speakers with a huge range of connectivity types and clean sound.
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· · Tom's Guide
40% of VPN users say they're trying to block AI companies from collecting their data — but does a VPN actually help?
A new survey found that 40% of VPN users are trying to stop AI companies from collecting their data. Here's what a VPN can and can't actually protect.
#vpn#ai-data-collection#cybersecurity#data-privacy#mobile-security
· · Tom's Guide
Birkenstocks are the perfect shoe for this heatwave — and I've found 13 styles up to 50% off
Nordstrom and Zappos are knocking up to 50% off select Birkenstock sandals and clogs. Here are my favorite styles on sale right now.
· · XDA Developers
The Steam Machine still solves PC gaming's biggest problem despite its terrible value
The Gabe Cube does have one huge redeeming factor even in the current market
#mobile-gaming#pc-gaming#gaming-hardware#steam-machine
· · GSMArena
Nothing Phone (4b) introduces a special RCB Edition model
Nothing is launching the Phone (4b) on July 7, and it's going to be powered by a Snapdragon chipset according to the company. Now, Nothing has also revealed that there will be an RCB Edition of the device, developed in partnership with the Royal Challengers Bengaluru cricket team. The collaboration
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· · AndroidPolice
Android 17’s new multitasking overhaul is making me look at my iPad with regret
While Apple overcorrects, Google seems to understand how most people actually use their tablets
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· · 9to5Google
Meta slaps a premium subscription on an existing smart glasses feature
Meta will charge glasses users $20/month for a new Meta One Premium subscription, and one of the first features to get locked down is “Conversation Focus.”
#meta-glasses#smart-glasses#premium-subscription#augmented-reality#meta-one
· · Dev.to
Bitcoin Keys and Addresses
Have you ever looked at one of these Bitcoin addresses, such as bc1q... or 1A1zP1... and wondered what it meant, or what was happening? We will go over how a private key becomes a public key, and how that public key becomes the address you use to send the money. You can't access this feature without
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· · Dev.to
Implementing a "read this first" prompt as an "ask" is unwise
In retrospect, it was pretty obvious... sharing it anyway. I'm currently working on a self-steering progressive disclosure system, and I wanted my agent to read a design doc before it touched the code that doc governs. Simple PreToolUse hook: match Edit/Write, check whether the doc was Read this ses
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· · Dev.to
Fable is Back, Baby.
Fable is back. The Commerce Department announced yesterday it has lifted the export controls it slapped on Anthropic's newest model, and access returns this week. However, nobody's spelled out the fine print yet. Early reports point to credit gating and ID checks. The reprieve isn't the story, thoug
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· · Dev.to
Self-hosted Apps Get Zero-Downtime Deploys and Automated Error Recovery
The most awkward moment in self-hosted deployment is the couple of seconds after you run docker stop old && docker run new — to the outside world, your service is a string of 502s. A user who clicks in during that window sees a big red error page. Rollback is even messier. Something breaks in prod,
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· · Dev.to
Claude Code Revolutionizes Cloud with Unified Symbolic Link Framework
The promise and the one exception Most agents read AGENTS.md natively — Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more. Write it once, it just works. The exception is Claude Code, which reads CLAUDE.md and (as of now) doesn't read AGENTS.md natively. Keep one real file. Point the other name at it: $ l
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· · Dev.to
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite The new model generates an image in about 4 seconds and costs $0.034 per 1K image. In Gemini, it is available by selecting 3.1 Flash Lite. The main use case is fast drafts: run several prompts, pick the best result, then send it for refinement in Nano Banana 2 or G
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· · Dev.to
Cloud Developers Struggle with Nested Files in Monorepo Complexity
When one file isn't enough A single root AGENTS.md is right for most repos. In a monorepo, one root file either bloats trying to cover every package or stays general and loses the specifics each one needs. The hierarchy fixes this: many small files, each close to the code it describes. When an agent
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· · Dev.to
Mock OpenAPI specs locally with ease, ditching Postman and Docker complexity
Every time I had to test an API endpoint while writing an OpenAPI spec, I had to leave VS Code, open Postman, configure the request, and then come back. And if I wanted to check whether my changes broke any contracts — that meant running a separate diff tool. I got tired of it. So I built Specter Mo
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· · Dev.to
How to Use AI for Refactoring Without Throwing Your Code Away
How to Use AI for Refactoring Without Throwing Your Code Away Refactoring with AI is awkward. The tools are powerful, but they hallucinate, they lose context, and they sometimes make your codebase worse before making it better. Here's how I've learned to use them without rage-quitting. Last month I
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· · Dev.to
Poland's KRS registry: fields worth checking before LOI
Four filing dates appeared within a two-week span on a Warsaw acquisition target last quarter. The legacy paid databases still listed the old board half a year later. KRS had already published the management change, revised share capital, plus a new supervisory board appointment. That delay becomes
#cloud-computing#data-management#digital-transformation#business-acquisition
· · Dev.to
Apache Data Lakehouse Update: Transforming India's Cloud Space
The open lakehouse runs on a small stack of Apache projects, and this was a week where those projects spent most of their energy on the boring work that makes software trustworthy. Iceberg voted to lock down the meaning of expressions and named identities for functions, then turned around and asked
#apache data lakehouse#data management#cloud technology#india tech#data analytics
· · Google Cloud Blog
Scaling LLM Inference: Multi-Node KV Cache Offloading with GKE & Managed Lustre
Significant contributors to this article include Sneha Aradhey, Software Engineer, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Michael MacDonald, Sr Software Engineer, Google Cloud Managed Lustre. Enterprise production environments are shifting to distributed, multi-node architectures to serve long-context window
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· · Google Cloud Blog
Google Cloud confirmed to offer a safer choice for EU public sector organizations with Dutch DPIA approval
At Google Cloud, we are committed to providing public sector organizations around the globe with cloud technology that is highly flexible, scalable, and built with market-leading standards for data protection, sovereignty, and security. We understand that for public sector organizations in the Europ
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