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AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
9+ min ago (250+ words) It’s an ominous scene. A warehouse crammed with books set to be sliced open, scanned and then pulped by an AI lab. Australia is fighting back. If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of…...
Seeking 20 TestFlight beta testers — MarkdownVault (local encrypted web-to-Markdown on iOS)
19+ min ago (95+ words) I'm building MarkdownVault, a native iOS app that saves web pages as encrypted Markdown on-device — no cloud sync, no tracking. We're entering a TestFlight beta with ~20 testers and I need help validating five core paths before App Store submission. ~30 minutes....
Databricks Lakebase: Give Your Agent a Branch, Not Your Production Database
25+ min ago (370+ words) There's an awkward moment in every agentic data project. The agent works. It writes decent SQL, it... Tagged with databricks, lakebase, ai, dataengineering....
Waiting on AI? Here Are the YouTube Channels I Actually Listen to
44+ min ago (445+ words) Bored in the gaps between AI outputs? You're not alone. Here's how I built a "background layer" of YouTube worth keeping on — curated from my own taste, with a lot of AI help. You know the moment. You've sent the…...
My Laptop's CPU stuck at Max Turbo 24/7 [ Here's Why ]
5+ min ago (1150+ words) I'd had this laptop running tuned's throughput-performance profile for a while, and at some point I noticed something that should have bothered me a lot sooner: the fans never really spun down. Not under load --- that's expected --- but at idle....
Testing Next.js 15 Apps — The Setup I Actually Use
38+ min ago (546+ words) For a long time I skipped testing on freelance projects entirely. Tight deadlines, one developer, seemed hard to justify. Then a client project broke in production because of a change that looked completely unrelated to the part that actually failed,…...
MCP schema drift isn't a rate, it's a small set of servers that never stop moving
4+ min ago (546+ words) Two days ago I measured that 4.4% of MCP servers changed their tool contract in 36 hours, and refused to annualise it on the grounds that changes probably cluster. I now have a third snapshot, and the caution was warranted more strongly…...
Bitcoin Price Crash Sparks Altcoin Sell-off as Cardano Surges
5+ min ago (515+ words) Bitcoin’s late-July reversal turned a promising rally into a sharp Bitcoin price crash, dragging major altcoins lower across the market. BTC fell toward $62,000 after trading above $65,000, wiping billions from its valuation within hours. The total crypto capitalization reached near $2.22 trillion…...
Margot Robbie's Barbie sequel is in limbo over 'salary demands"
12+ min ago (537+ words) The 36-year-old Australian actress was set to reprise her role as the iconic blonde doll, with 45-year-old co-star Ryan Gosling joining, but unsuccessful negotiations at Warner Bros. have reportedly left the project in limbo. On Friday the New York Times…...
7 Comics That Gave Beloved Movie Franchises Stories Hollywood Never Told
11+ hour, 17+ min ago (1198+ words) Jack Pecau is a Comics Feature Writer at ComicBook. He has been reading and collecting comics for as long as he can remember and has published articles on Superman and Thor. Some of his favorite heroes include The Flash, Invincible,…...