· · AndroidPolice
I forced Android Chrome to freeze inactive tabs and saved my phone from constant slowdowns
Don't wait around a week for Chrome to do it for you
#mobile#android#chrome#browser-optimization#performance-tips
Topic
#macro-economics
20 articles found
· · GSMArena
Honor X80 Pro Max debuts, featuring its largest battery ever
The much-leaked Honor X80 Pro Max is now finally official in China. The phone's headline feature is its 11,000 mAh battery, which is the largest we've seen on a mainstream smartphone so far. That battery charges at 90W and also supports reverse wired charging at 27W. The phone has a 6.8-inch 1280x27
#mobile
· · AndroidPolice
I quit paying for storage by building a Raspberry Pi cloud backup system
I gave my always-on Pi one more job and stopped renting storage
#raspberry-pi#cloud-backup#mobile-storage#diy-tech
· · 9to5Google
Wyze Scale BodyScan tracks more than just your weight, has Google Health support, $79.98
Wyze is today launching a new scale that tracks more than just your weight while also being affordable, with the Wyze Scale BodyScan costing under $80.
#wyze-scale#health-tech#mobile-devices#fitness-tracking
· · 9to5Mac
60% of TikTok videos are AI slop; 21% of YouTube ones
Studies by online video editing platform Kapwing have revealed that almost 60% of TikTok videos are AI slop, while the same is true of 21% of YouTube ones …
#mobile
· · The Hacker News
Google Sets Sept. 30 Deadline for Android Developer Verification in Four Countries
Google has set September 30, 2026, as the day it begins enforcing Android developer verification in the first four countries, and the major device-maker app stores are in from the start. On that date, certified Android phones in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand will block normal installs o
#security
· · The Hacker News
OXLOADER Exploits Malicious Google Ads to Distribute CastleStealer Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that delivers CastleStealer by means of a previously unreported malware loader dubbed OXLOADER. According to Elastic Security Labs, the campaign leverages malicious Google Ads as a starting point to distribute the malware. Evidence i
#cybersecurity#malware#google-ads#threat-intelligence
· · Dev.to
We built Terminal-Based Developer Experience so you never have to trust anyone.
We built Terminal-Based Developer Experience so you never have to trust anyone. Terminal-Based Developer Experience: A Usability Analysis The command-line interface (CLI) and terminal emulator remain central tools in the modern software developer's workflow, yet their role as a platform for AI-assis
#cloud
· · Dev.to
Day 63 of Learning MERN Stack
Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 63 of my continuous daily sprint toward mastering full-stack MERN software engineering! Yesterday, I configured variable dynamic detail views. Today, I engineered a vital interaction layer within my dedicated project practice sprint: Implementing an 'Add
#cloud
· · Dev.to
What Kind of AI-Assisted Developer Are You? Take the quiz.
AI makes us faster, but does it make us better engineers, or just more dependent? As a follow-up to my post on the The 4 Cognitive Archetypes of Developers Using AI, I wanted to created a quiz as a self-assessment for AI-assisted development habits. My previous post sparked many interesting discussi
#cloud
· · Dev.to
Semantic caching reduces LLM calls by 58% in flaky-test summarization
TL;DR: Our internal flaky-test summariser at Buildkite was firing ~40k LLM calls a day, and most were near-duplicates of failures we'd already explained. Switching on semantic caching in Bifrost cut live provider calls by 58% and dropped p50 latency on cache hits from ~900ms to about 40ms. It also k
#cloud
· · Dev.to
Cloud Giants' Dependence on Rented Land Masks True Innovation Power
Every browser engine company builds on rented land. Anti-Enshittification doesn't. Anti-Enshittification: AI-Powered Browser Defenses Against Dark Patterns and Manipulative UI The phenomenon colloquially termed "enshittification"?the progressive degradation of digital platforms through dark patterns
#cloud
· · Dev.to
Who Actually Owns This Service Account?
When that AWS service account gets compromised, who do you call? If you're in security or platform engineering, you already know the answer is usually "I have no idea." Maybe you search through GitHub commit history. Maybe you ping three different Slack channels. Maybe you can check the wiki that ha
#cloud
· · Dev.to
Every hash chain company builds on rented land. Regulatory Compliance Mapping in Cryptographic Ledgers doesn't.
Every hash chain company builds on rented land. Regulatory Compliance Mapping in Cryptographic Ledgers doesn't. Regulatory Compliance Mapping in Cryptographic Ledgers: Embedding SOC2 Through UAE AI Act Regulatory compliance for AI systems spans an increasingly complex landscape of overlapping framew
#cloud
· · Dev.to
I built a tiny PHP framework for AI-readable business APIs
I have been building a small PHP framework called NENE2. It is not a Laravel replacement. NENE2 is a tiny, API-first PHP foundation for building AI-readable business APIs: small services with explicit HTTP boundaries, OpenAPI contracts, Problem Details errors, and optional MCP tool catalogs for AI a
#cloud
· · Dev.to
Spec Debt Doesn't Disappear When You Fix It. It Migrates.
Preface I want to be upfront about something before we get into it. None of the frameworks in this article is mine. The ideas here come from two people who have been thinking about this stuff way harder and longer than I have — and they deserve full credit before I say another word. Dan Shapiro — CE
#cloud
· · Dev.to
India's Biggest Cloud Debacle: A Cautionary Tale of Accidental Feature Reboot
Someone on our team was cleaning up feature flags. It was good instinct...we had a pile of them, and plenty were clearly dead. One in particular had been turned off for over a year. It looked about as safe to delete as anything could look. So they deleted it. And it turned a feature back on. Here's
#cloud
· · Dev.to
Why Doesn't an E-Commerce Payment API Get Called Twice When Users Double-Click the Pay Button?
Introduction Imagine you're purchasing a product online. You click the "Pay Now" button, and due to a slow internet connection or impatience, you accidentally click it again. A common question among developers is: If two requests are sent, why doesn't the payment get processed twice? The answer lies
#cloud-computing#e-commerce#payment-gateway#api-integration
· · The Block
Benchmark reiterates $570 target on Strategy after STRC selloff, says preferred stock is ‘not a stablecoin’
Benchmark said STRC's drop below $83 was a leverage flush, not a "depeg," and reiterated its $570 target on Strategy.
#crypto#stratcoin#benchmark-target#stablecoin#cryptocurrency-markets
· · Dev.to
Indian Developer Cracks AI Governance Code, Proves Cloud-Free is Possible
I built Open Source Governance for AI Coding Agents in 2 months. Zero cloud. Zero compromise. Open Source Governance for AI Coding Agents The rapid proliferation of AI-assisted software development tools has created an unprecedented governance challenge: how to manage the open source components, tra
#cloud