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I recently reviewed my Vercel dashboard and came to an unexpected conclusion: I appear to be speedrunning side projects as if it were a professional obligation. There’s Digital Guilt Trap, a minimalist experiment in user interaction that applies light emotional pressure via buttons. The Checker, which attempts to analyze personality traits and then politely passes […]
January 2, 2026 Ryan sits down with Tom Totenberg, head of release automation at LaunchDarkly, to discuss the perils of taking too many shortcuts in software development, how business pressures and AI code tools have contributed to dangerous corner cutting, and the importance of balancing speed with sustainability to maintain system integrity. Source link
Sometimes, eating makes me feel like Sisyphus. Every day, I must toil up the mountain and the rock to figure out what the heck I want to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I tested Factor meals earlier this year, and they’re a solid option if you’re the type of person that doesn’t want to […]
xAI’s Grok is removing clothing from pictures of people without their consent following this week’s rollout of a feature that allows X users to instantly edit any image using the bot without needing the original poster’s permission. Not only does the original poster not get notified if their picture was edited, but Grok appears to […]
India has ordered Elon Musk’s X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot Grok after users and lawmakers flagged the generation of “obscene” content, including AI-altered images of women created using the tool. On Friday, India’s IT ministry issued the order directing Musk’s X to take corrective action on Grok, including […]
From competitive SEO research and monitoring prices to training AI and parsing local geographic data, real-time search results power smarter apps. Tools like SerpApi make it easy to pull, customize, and integrate this data directly into your app or website. SerpApi leverages the power of search engine giants, like Google, DuckDuckGo, Baidu, and more, to […]
The abundant choice for gaming mice and keyboards is so plentiful that it’s actually difficult to pick one among the thousands promising the best input tracking and the lowest latency, and of course nearly all are bedazzled with tons of buttons and endless RGB. Today we cut through that particular Gordian knot and just present […]
from the one-weekend-left dept At the beginning of the month, we kicked off a fundraising drive to help sustain the independent, uncompromising coverage that we always try to offer at Techdirt. We also decided to try a new experiment that we hope to turn into an annual tradition: offering up a limited edition commemorative coin […]
Some of our internal workflows are being used quite frequently, and usage reveals gaps in the current prompts, skills, and tools. Here is how we’re working to iterate on these internal workflows. This is part of the Building an internal agent series. Why does iterative refinement matter? When companies push on AI-led automation, specifically meaning […]
Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung’s updated Tips app contains a listing for the long-rumored Privacy Display feature. The page reveals that Privacy Display will be located in the Settings app, in the Display section. An animation showing how the feature works was also spotted on the page. Samsung has been developing a new […]
