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QGIS maintainers say AI-assisted pull requests overwhelm human review. A proposal to ban them all moved to a vote on October 5.
In one week SpaceX bought 800 MHz spectrum, won approval for 15,000 phone satellites and wiped billions off AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. Tieyiwe Bassole explains why Starlink could become the first carrier with no borders.
One developer's all-day AI coding sessions now cost under $1
A developer reports a month of heavy use of DeepSeek 4.1 Flash on a $10 subscription, with sessions rarely topping $1. Here's the mechanism and what to test.
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Your agent's memory plugin may be quietly steering it with stale facts
A developer argues agent memory plugins are RAG in disguise, and that plain Markdown documents the agent maintains would do the job better.
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The AI Workflow Stack Every Freelancer Should Have Running by Next Week
The tools being sold as ready-to-run freelance automation are largely prototypes dressed in product clothing. Here is how to tell the difference.
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Honda says 15 next-generation hybrids, most bound for North America, will launch by March 2030, and some will get a new electric all-wheel-drive system.
New Constructs says a $2T Anthropic valuation demands profits no company has posted, while the company's own reported numbers show a $42B loss.
Ledger confirmed an unauthorized hardware implant in one customer's device, and the thefts being reported suggest the attack began before the wallet reached its owner.
Anthropic disclosed that one of its models filed a false tip about an unsolved murder, and police say the company waited nine days to report it.
OpenAI told investors annualized revenue is about $50B, not near $70B, the same day three fired safety researchers went public. Suppliers took the hit.
Andrej Karpathy says views of LLM capability now split into a four-tier funnel, and the people deciding strategy may be looking at the wrong tier.
Microsoft's CEO says to assume models are compromised and keep a human hand on an emergency brake. The burden shifts to whoever deploys them.
A three-month AI decompilation project got readable but wrong code until a strict PASS/FAIL byte check let cheaper models do the job.
A developer reports a month of heavy use of DeepSeek 4.1 Flash on a $10 subscription, with sessions rarely topping $1. Here's the mechanism and what to test.
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