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AI. Tyler Nakamura1 month ago· 7 min read

LG Denies TV Spying: What Wake Words Do and Don't Settle

LG denies its smart TVs are spying, saying wake-word detection is local and ACR is optional. We walk through the setup screens and what that denial leaves unanswered.

Fake Witnesses, Real Fine: What One AI Sanction Tests

Fake Witnesses, Real Fine: What One AI Sanction Tests

A lawyer cited AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder appeal and got fined $5K. Here's why the case is really a test of how courts treat AI liability.

AI Agents Keep Hitting CAPTCHAs, and That's a Bigger Deal

AI. Tyler Nakamura1 month ago· 5 min read

AI Agents Keep Hitting CAPTCHAs, and That's a Bigger Deal

Anthropic says rogue AI agents keep tripping over CAPTCHAs. The puzzle is temporary; the lesson about web defenses built for humans is not.

Minisforum MS-03 Teardown: The PCIe x4 Slot Nobody Promised

Minisforum MS-03 Teardown: The PCIe x4 Slot Nobody Promised

Level1Techs tested the Minisforum MS-03's expansion slot and found PCIe 4.0 x4, not the x8 some reports promised. Here's what the geometry means for buyers.

LinkedIn Wins Extension-Scanning Lawsuits, and Users Pay

LinkedIn Wins Extension-Scanning Lawsuits, and Users Pay

LinkedIn beat the BrowserGate lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions. The ruling narrows legal routes and shifts the fight to browser design.

Astra for Coding and the Treadmill of AI Agent Rebrands

AI. Zara Chen1 month ago· 6 min read

Astra for Coding and the Treadmill of AI Agent Rebrands

A new AI coding agent launches, dev Twitter shrugs. Inside the launch-cycle loop and the benchmarks that would actually settle whether these tools work.

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Sliding Window Mechanics: How Exponent's Mock Interview Teaches FAANG Prep

Dev Kapoor·1 month ago

AI. Dev Kapoor1 month ago· 7 min read

Sliding Window Mechanics: How Exponent's Mock Interview Teaches FAANG Prep

Exponent's Patrick walks through the Longest Substring problem, showing the O(n²) trap, the sliding-window fix, and the errors that fail candidates.

Who Gets the Good AI Model? Access Is the New Battleground

AI. Tyler Nakamura1 month ago· 7 min read

Who Gets the Good AI Model? Access Is the New Battleground

Anthropic's fake-account allegations, secret model downgrades, and what quietly routing users to worse AI means for people who actually pay for it.

Apple Watch Audio Intelligence and the Bystander Privacy Problem

Apple Watch Audio Intelligence and the Bystander Privacy Problem

Apple says don't worry about the new Apple Watch's listening features. Here's what the reporting actually establishes, and who never got a say in it.

Google Says EU Rules May Force a 'Degraded' Search in Europe

AI. Zara Chen1 month ago· 6 min read

Google Says EU Rules May Force a 'Degraded' Search in Europe

Google warns its European search results could get worse as it complies with the Digital Markets Act. What degraded actually means, and who it hits first.

Washington’s AI Distillation Warning: What the Evidence Shows

AI. Tyler Nakamura1 month ago· 6 min read

Washington’s AI Distillation Warning: What the Evidence Shows

US officials accuse Chinese AI firms of systematically distilling American models. We dig into the Anthropic-Alibaba claims, the enforcement problem, and the open questions.

TradingAgents: AI Bots Run a Simulated Hedge Fund

AI. Zara Chen1 month ago· 5 min read

TradingAgents: AI Bots Run a Simulated Hedge Fund

TradingAgents organizes LLM bots into analyst and trader roles, copying a hedge fund's org chart. Does role-play plus debate produce actual trading skill? Probably not yet.

Engrim Puts AI Memory in a Local SQLite Database

AI. Tyler Nakamura1 month ago· 5 min read

Engrim Puts AI Memory in a Local SQLite Database

Engrim is a local-first SQLite memory engine for command-line AI tools. We look at what it does, the memory problem it exposes, and the open questions.

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CERN Picks Debian, Ubisoft Blocks For Honor on Linux: Week in Review

CERN Picks Debian, Ubisoft Blocks For Honor on Linux: Week in Review

CERN ditches RHEL for Debian on accelerator systems, California exempts open source from age checks, and Ubisoft blocks For Honor. Mike Sullivan sorts it out.

Roku's 24/7 AI Film Channel Fairground, Reviewed by the Market

Marcus Chen-Ramirez·1 month ago

Roku's 24/7 AI Film Channel Fairground, Reviewed by the Market

Roku launched Fairground, a 24-hour channel of AI-generated films. Here is what the launch reveals about cheap streaming, filler TV, and audience trust.

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Seven Hours of Beginner C: What Dr. Jonas Birch's Project Marathon Actually Teaches

AI. Marcus Chen-Ramirez1 month ago· 6 min read

Seven Hours of Beginner C: What Dr. Jonas Birch's Project Marathon Actually Teaches

Dr. Jonas Birch's 7-hour C course builds Wordle, GetNextLine, printf, and a dice game. Here's what it teaches, where it struggles, and who it serves.

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Samsung's zHBM Claims 8x GPU Gains, but the Fine Print Says 4

AI. Bob Reynolds1 month ago· 7 min read

Samsung's zHBM Claims 8x GPU Gains, but the Fine Print Says 4

Samsung's zHBM stacks memory on the GPU via hybrid bonding. We check the 8x claim, the 140C thermal problem, and why nothing ships before 2030.

AI Trip Planning Met the Mountain: Rescue on Shasta Exposes the Gap

Bob Reynolds·1 month ago

AI Trip Planning Met the Mountain: Rescue on Shasta Exposes the Gap

Hikers needed rescue after planning with an AI chatbot. Why fluent answers fail on terrain, what history says about bad directions, and how to plan safer.

Campaigns Are Now Paying for AI Subscriptions. That's the Story

AI. Mike Sullivan1 month ago· 5 min read

Campaigns Are Now Paying for AI Subscriptions. That's the Story

Campaign-finance disclosures show dozens of congressional candidates paying for AI tools this cycle. Here's what that means for voters, rules, and accountability.

Language Models on Robot Arms: What the Factory Floor Demands