7 smartphone trends I wish would die in 2026

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority On the whole, 2025 was a pretty good year for Android phones. Some brands stepped up with more respectable update policies, a variety of manufacturers now offer phones with absolutely gigantic batteries, and top-end devices have a crazy amount of horsepower. It’s not all sunshine and roses, though, as […]

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The Only Safe Way to Import Legacy Docs: Question-Driven Context Integration

When AI manages your project’s documentation, adding legacy documents seems straightforward—just drop them in the folder. But this silent import creates an invisible problem: the AI can’t distinguish between its own work and external materials. Everything becomes equally authoritative, and your context gets polluted. There’s only one safe way to import legacy documentation: require the […]

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The AI ick – Stack Overflow

[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. Please enjoy our favorite work this year and we’ll see you in 2026.] “We shouldn’t be using ChatGPT for this,” said my colleague, glancing at the draft […]

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Bitcoiners waiting for a “Bukele moment” in Chile are ignoring a $229 billion signal that matters more

Chile has made a hard pivot. In a decisive Dec. 14 runoff, José Antonio Kast, a conservative former congressman and leader of the Republican Party, won the presidency with roughly 58% of the vote over leftist Jeannette Jara. It marks Chile’s starkest rightward shift since the return to democracy. Markets took it as a deregulatory […]

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Former Chinese gaming company with China govt ties accused of smuggling banned AI GPUs — Nvidia’s biggest Southeast Asia customer exposes the limits of U.S. AI export controls

Tom’s Hardware Premium Roadmaps (Image credit: Future) When U.S. lawmakers tightened export controls on advanced AI processors, their goal was straightforward enough: slow China’s access to cutting-edge compute hardware by restricting direct sales of the most capable GPUs. Three years later, the policy is colliding with the realities of globalized supply chains, reseller-driven distribution models, […]

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