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AI com­pa­nies are bulk-buy­ing phys­i­cal antique books, using indus­tri­al equip­ment to scan and destroy them for train­ing data, exploit­ing legal loop­holes around first-sale doc­trine and fair use while keep­ing pur­chas­es secret to avoid neg­a­tive pub­lic­i­ty.

Handy is a free, open source speech-to-text appli­ca­tion that tran­scribes spo­ken words direct­ly into text fields using a key­board short­cut. It runs local­ly on your com­put­er with­out send­ing audio to the cloud, offer­ing cus­tomiz­able push-to-talk or tog­gle modes for tran­scrip­tion con­trol.

VoiceInk is a pri­va­cy-focused dic­ta­tion app for macOS that uses local AI to tran­scribe speech to text with high accu­ra­cy. It works across all appli­ca­tions, offers cus­tomiz­able modes for dif­fer­ent tasks, and includes fea­tures like cus­tom vocab­u­lary and key­board short­cuts. Avail­able as a one-time pur­chase with no sub­scrip­tion required.

KEXP is a lis­ten­er-sup­port­ed radio sta­tion fea­tur­ing live music per­for­mances, in-stu­dio ses­sions, and pod­casts. The site offers live stream­ing, an archive of past broad­casts, and upcom­ing pub­lic events includ­ing artist per­for­mances and Camp KEXP pro­gram­ming in Seat­tle.

Radio Par­adise streams high­ly curat­ed, eclec­tic mix­es of music — cho­sen by real humans — with unpar­al­leled audio qual­i­ty.

It is one of the first pub­licly dis­closed cyber-attacks car­ried out by AI with­out direct human involve­ment.

Scrob­ble­Cloud auto­mat­i­cal­ly sends your Apple Music plays to Last​.fm in real-time, even when the app is closed. Con­nect both accounts once and your scrob­bles sync to your Last​.fm pro­file con­tin­u­ous­ly. Free tier includes on-demand scrob­bling; Pro ($5 life­time) adds auto­mat­ic two-minute sync­ing and runs on their servers.

🤖 WebM­CP. Con­tribute to webmachinelearning/​webmcp devel­op­ment by cre­at­ing an account on GitHub.

The Atlantic arti­cle exam­ines the ​“oral­i­ty the­o­ry of every­thing,” which argues that human com­mu­ni­ca­tion is revert­ing from lit­er­ate cul­ture to oral char­ac­ter­is­tics, with pro­found impli­ca­tions for how we think, orga­nize soci­ety, and process infor­ma­tion. Draw­ing on mid-20^th-cen­tu­ry media the­o­rists like Wal­ter Ong and Mar­shall McLuhan, it explores how the rise of social media and dig­i­tal con­ver­sa­tion mir­rors pre-lit­er­ate com­mu­ni­ca­tion pat­terns and reshapes human con­scious­ness.

He burned bright and left us at the age of 38. If he’d stuck around, on 20 July 2024 Lar­ry Lev­an would be cel­e­brat­ing his 70^th birth­day. In the his­to­ry of DJing, he epit­o­mised the young craft’s pos­si­bil­i­ties and inspired a gen­er­a­tion. As the DJ became a force for record pro­mo­tion, as the DJ entered

“Dance­te­ria” has become one of the stand­out tracks from Madonna’s Con­fes­sions II. But who are all the peo­ple she’s singing about?

Meet LiteRT.js: Google’s edge AI run­time for the web. Run ML mod­els direct­ly in the brows­er with high-per­for­mance WebG­PU, WebNN, and WebAssem­bly.

Scan any URL to see exact­ly how it looks on social media. Cre­ate a new OG image for free from one of our high-con­vert­ing tem­plates.

GLM 5.2 is the first open weights mod­el I’d call a gen­uine com­peti­tor to Opus and GPT for agen­tic work — at ~15 – 20% of the price. Part one of why AI infer­ence mar­gins are about to col­lapse.

Har­bor is a free, open-source macOS down­loader that sup­ports tor­rents, mag­net links, and pub­lic media from YouTube, Insta­gram, Tik­Tok, Pin­ter­est, and oth­er sources via yt-dlp. Com­pat­i­ble with macOS 15.6+ on Intel and Apple sil­i­con Macs.

This repos­i­to­ry con­tains a sys­tem prompt frame­work (Guardrails Kit) designed to improve Claude Opus/​Sonnet’s code qual­i­ty by mak­ing explic­it the rea­son­ing rules that stronger mod­els apply implic­it­ly. It includes core guide­lines, plan­ning, cod­ing, debug­ging, and ver­i­fi­ca­tion pro­ce­dures, plus a migra­tion tool for retro­fitting exist­ing projects.

Thanks to Claude Code, Codex, and oth­er AI tools, any­one can now build func­tion­al apps. Which means every­one can build exact­ly the soft­ware they need.

Loop engi­neer­ing is a sys­tem design approach where devel­op­ers build auto­mat­ed recur­sive process­es to prompt AI cod­ing agents rather than man­u­al­ly prompt­ing them each turn. The sys­tem han­dles dis­cov­ery, task assign­ment, ver­i­fi­ca­tion, and iter­a­tion inde­pen­dent­ly, with five key com­po­nents: sched­uled automa­tions, iso­lat­ed work­trees, project knowl­edge doc­u­men­ta­tion, tool con­nec­tors, and sub-agents for check­ing work.

Scroll-trig­gered reveal ani­ma­tions dri­ven by data-reveal attrib­ut­es. GSAP-pow­ered, code-split, zero-con­fig. — boc­c­dot­de­v/­da­ta-reveal

This arti­cle exam­ines ​“prompt debt,” the hid­den costs of rely­ing on hand-tuned nat­ur­al lan­guage prompts to spec­i­fy AI sys­tem behav­ior. It explains how ini­tial pro­to­typ­ing speed masks long-term prob­lems: slow­ing iter­a­tion cycles, team coor­di­na­tion chal­lenges, and mod­el lock-in that pre­vents upgrad­ing to bet­ter alter­na­tives. The author argues that nat­ur­al lan­guage was nev­er designed as an engi­neer­ing spec­i­fi­ca­tion lan­guage and treat­ing it as one fun­da­men­tal­ly lim­its scal­able AI appli­ca­tion devel­op­ment.

Cory Doc­torow dis­cuss­es his new book ​“The Reverse Cen­tau­r’s Guide to Life After AI,” cri­tiquing AI hype and indus­try prac­tices that trans­form humans into ser­vants of machines rather than aug­ment­ing human capa­bil­i­ty. He warns the AI bub­ble is unsus­tain­able and des­tined to col­lapse cat­a­stroph­i­cal­ly, while advo­cat­ing for push­back against nar­ra­tives of AI inevitabil­i­ty.

A tech­ni­cal guide explain­ing JSON-LD (JSON Linked Data) and how to imple­ment it on per­son­al web­sites. The arti­cle cov­ers fun­da­men­tals like schema struc­ture, node types, and prop­er­ties, then pro­vides prac­ti­cal exam­ples of JSON-LD code for improv­ing SEO and enabling rich­er search pre­views through struc­tured data.

Hon­da Radar Shield by Miller CAT pro­tects the front radar dis­tance sen­sor behind your Hon­da’s grille emblem from theft. Made from USA-man­u­fac­tured 16-gauge stain­less steel, it safe­guards adap­tive cruise con­trol and col­li­sion mit­i­ga­tion sys­tems with­out obstruct­ing radar per­for­mance.

Gȧrt is a Kotlin-based gen­er­a­tive art frame­work using Skiko for ren­der­ing, Box2D for physics sim­u­la­tion, and FFm­peg for video encod­ing. It pro­vides util­i­ties for cre­at­ing and ren­der­ing still images and ani­ma­tions, with hot reload sup­port and an exten­sive gallery of 228 exam­ple art­works. The project includes inter­ac­tive tools like a gra­di­ent gen­er­a­tor and func­tion plot­ter, plus exam­ple projects and tem­plates for get­ting start­ed.

This arti­cle exam­ines how local lan­guage mod­els became prac­ti­cal­ly viable by mid-2026 through engi­neer­ing inno­va­tions rather than raw para­me­ter scal­ing. Key advances include sparse atten­tion mech­a­nisms that reduce com­pu­ta­tion­al com­plex­i­ty and mix­ture-of-experts archi­tec­tures that main­tain large knowl­edge while acti­vat­ing only a frac­tion of para­me­ters per token. The author dis­cuss­es spe­cif­ic effi­cient mod­els like Qwen 3.6, Gem­ma 4, and DeepSeek V4 that enable prac­ti­cal local deploy­ment for writ­ing, research, and spe­cial­ized tasks.

Par­ty­town — Run third-par­ty scripts from a web work­er

Mark­It­Down is a light­weight Python util­i­ty that con­verts var­i­ous file for­mats (PDF, Word, Excel, Pow­er­Point, images, audio, HTML, and more) to Mark­down for use with large lan­guage mod­els and text analy­sis pipelines. It pre­serves doc­u­ment struc­ture like head­ings, lists, tables, and links while pri­or­i­tiz­ing token effi­cien­cy and LLM com­pat­i­bil­i­ty. The tool sup­ports Python 3.10+ and can be used via com­mand-line inter­face or Python API.

Open source repos­i­to­ry of plu­g­ins for Claude that enhance pro­duc­tiv­i­ty across knowl­edge work roles includ­ing sales, mar­ket­ing, cus­tomer sup­port, prod­uct man­age­ment, legal, finance, and more. Each plu­g­in inte­grates with pop­u­lar tools like Slack, Notion, Hub­Spot, and Jira to cus­tomize Claude’s capa­bil­i­ties for spe­cif­ic job func­tions and com­pa­ny work­flows.

Short­cuts Play­ground is a free, open-source plu­g­in that con­verts plain Eng­lish descrip­tions into work­ing Apple Short­cuts files using AI agents like Claude. Users type a sen­tence and receive a ready-to-import .short­cut file with all actions, vari­ables, and log­ic auto­mat­i­cal­ly con­fig­ured, elim­i­nat­ing man­u­al drag-and-drop build­ing.