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A developer criticizes Google's deceptive pricing on Gemini 3.5 Flash, its broken Agentic CLI, and Google Cloud's reckless shutdown of Railway's account.

Running two RTX 3090 Ti GPUs in SLI fails to match a single RTX 5090 due to micro-stuttering, 1000W power draw, and near-dead game support.

Five foundational Claude Cowork setup tips covering file management, token efficiency, and project migration to avoid costly mistakes from the start.

GitHub Copilot's message-based billing lets a $40 plan consume $46,000 of inference because agentic AI runs hundreds of API calls per message.

First hands-on Uber ride in Motional's Hyundai Ioniq 5 robotaxi reveals a smooth but immature system with notable phantom braking and awkward maneuvers.

AWS CEO Matt Garman describes how AI drives 3-10x productivity gains internally and why he rejects predictions of depression-level job losses.

Smart homes failed due to incompatible protocols, walled-garden ecosystems, poor business models, and privacy risks — but open-source Home Assistant offers a local, hackable alternative.

VCSELs — vertical lasers firing from a wafer's surface — were invented by Kenichi Iga in 1977 and now power fiber networks, optical mice, Face ID, and LiDAR.

Mercari is essentially a slightly weirder eBay — items arrived as advertised, but prices ranged from fair to overpriced.

Linus and team overhaul LMG employee Reese's cramped streaming desk by installing a Vernal sit-stand desk, Elgato lights, and pegboard storage for his yarn-tufting hobby.

AI has collapsed the timeline from vulnerability discovery to exploit, breaking the foundational assumptions of software security and making everything effectively compromised.

Cerebras debuted with a near-$100 billion IPO, signaling surging demand for custom AI inference chips that compete with Nvidia's dominant GPUs.

The Musk vs. Altman federal trial over OpenAI's nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion is absurd, with Elon having only a 32% chance of winning.

Thinking Machines Labs — founded by ex-OpenAI interim CEO Mira Murati — debuted impressive real-time interaction AI demos including live translation, posture detection, and simultaneous tool calls.

AI models like Claude Opus and GPT-5.5 are accelerating exploit discovery at unprecedented rates, with experts warning a 'bug apocalypse' is imminent.

The RAM crisis has forced PS5 prices to $650 and tanked sales, making the PS5 Sony's best budget-tier strategy even after PS6 launches.

Open Claw is an open-source AI agent that runs locally on your computer, breaking AI companies' locked-ecosystem business models the way the App Store disrupted mobile.

Anthropic's new June 15th policy caps programmatic Claude usage at $200/month, cutting T3 Chat and similar open-source wrappers from ~$7,500 to $200 — a 40x reduction.

Google's Android 17 update adds Gemini AI features, Android Auto overhaul, and a new 'Google Books' Chromebook category, though some promises feel overhyped.

NVIDIA's new 30B multimodal model achieves near-10x real-time video processing through five unconventional architectural tricks that eliminate redundant computation.