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from the these-things-never-end-well dept Elon Musk is having a very bad week. The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance better than he does. Trump just stripped SpaceX of a government contract and handed it to […]
Last week, I got to spend some time with Samsung’s newest device, a mixed reality headset called the Galaxy XR. This is the “Project Moohan” product Samsung has been working on for ages to take on the Apple Vision Pro. It’s an important launch for the company, and it’s even priced to compete — well, […]
As part of its Galaxy XR headset presentation, Samsung also briefly teased another wearable product. It’s working in collaboration with two eyewear companies, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, on AI-powered smart glasses to go up against Meta’s Ray-Ban models, Samsung’s head of customer experience Jay Kim announced at the end of the livestream. “We’re also […]
Like almost any MIT student, Mason Estrada wants to take what he learned on campus and apply it to the working world. Unlike any other current MIT student, Estrada’s primary workplace is a pitcher’s mound. Estrada, the star pitcher for MIT’s baseball team, has signed a contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, who selected him in the […]
Oct 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Encryption Meta on Tuesday said it’s launching new tools to protect Messenger and WhatsApp users from potential scams. To that end, the company said it’s introducing new warnings on WhatsApp when users attempt to share their screen with an unknown contact during a video call so as to prevent them […]
JavaScript looks simple — until it isn’t.Even if you’ve been writing JS for years, there are small things that quietly behave in unexpected ways. Here are 10 JavaScript concepts that often fool even experienced developers 👇 🧩 1. == vs === == does type coercion, while === doesn’t.But did you know these? 💡 Lesson: always […]
When Christian Grobmeier went to help his son with a Minecraft problem, he found the game displaying a warning: “We are suffering from a security hole from Log4J, please be careful and update immediately.” I stared at the screen and told my son, ‘I’m sorry, it’s my fault.’ Christian Grobmeier, Log4j maintainer This is the […]
This article is licensed under a CC BY-SA license. An e-bike rider types “reset Kiox 300 display,” and the answer must land in a heartbeat—not as a 200-page manual or a dozen near-miss FAQ links. The same expectation applies to mechanics updating brake firmware in a noisy workshop and to sales reps hunting torque specs […]
TIL: Exploring OpenAI’s deep research API model o4-mini-deep-research. I landed a PR by Manuel Solorzano adding pricing information to llm-prices.com for OpenAI’s o4-mini-deep-research and o3-deep-research models, which they released in June and document here. I realized I’d never tried these before, so I put o4-mini-deep-research through its paces researching locations of surviving orchestrions for me […]
On Saturday, crowds gathered in cities across the United States to protest President Donald Trump and his administration. Organizers of the No Kings rallies claim that more than 7 million people attended in all, across 2,700 cities in the Unites States and beyond. The gatherings provided a clear picture not only of how widespread the […]
