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Apple slips undismissable ads for its own services into the iOS Settings app

iPhone owners are increasingly annoyed by promotional banners that Apple has begun surfacing near the top of the iOS Settings app. The prompts push Apple's own

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Bloomberg: some vapers reportedly turning to cigarettes to quit nicotine

Only a headline was supplied for this item — no article body, data, or quotes were available to summarize, and the original is paywalled. The headline alone rep

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California's solar canals cut evaporation and add power — but don't scale everywhere

California's Project Nexus is testing whether covering irrigation canals with solar panels can solve two problems at once: shading water to slow evaporation whi

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Claude Code Silently Skips AGENTS.md When Telemetry Is Disabled

Claude Code 2.1.277 shipped support for AGENTS.md, a shared instruction file meant to replace the tool-specific CLAUDE.md. But the feature never activates for u

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open-sourcetech-culture

FoxDev Studio revives Visual FoxPro with a 64-bit Rust runtime

Nearly two decades after Microsoft retired Visual FoxPro at version 9, an independent project called FoxDev Studio rebuilds the dead language from the ground up

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Google's Gemini 3.8 TTS adds prompt-built voices and 30-second voice cloning

Google has released two new text-to-speech models under the Gemini 3.8 line. Flash TTS targets creative work — designing original character voices from natural-

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Grammarly reportedly messages every end user when an admin cancels the account

A sysadmin PSA circulating on Reddit warns that cancelling an organization's Grammarly subscription doesn't stay between the vendor and the account owner. Accor

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Inside Kai: Stripe's In-House AI Agent Platform for Knowledge Work

Stripe has rolled out Kai, an internal AI agent platform aimed at non-engineering staff—sales reps, finance analysts, and technical account managers—who were si

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Italy's Parliament Backs Return to Nuclear Power, Decades After Post-Chernobyl Ban

Italy's parliament has voted to reopen the door to nuclear energy, marking a significant reversal of the policy the country adopted after the 1986 Chernobyl dis

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JevBench won't crown its top scorer — it's just Jev wrapped in a price tag

JevBench ranks typed decision models, and by raw score its top entry should be classifier.dev, which posts an 83.6 versus the 74.4 of Jev 1.13.0 sitting at #1.

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Meta's Muse AI agent leaked its 6.8GB runtime — including SSH keys — over a chat

A researcher discovered that Meta's Muse assistant could be talked into archiving the entire Linux environment behind a user session and shipping it to an exter

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Obscura VPN splits trust with Mullvad so it can't decrypt your traffic

Obscura is a VPN built around a two-party design that aims to make logging structurally impossible rather than a policy promise. Conventional "no-logs" VPNs sti

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