Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left (moddedbear.com)
Author leaves Gmail after 16 years due to aggressive, unsolicited AI features that feel disrespectful and infringe on email writing.
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Author leaves Gmail after 16 years due to aggressive, unsolicited AI features that feel disrespectful and infringe on email writing.
Job-seeker criticizes spammers targeting "Who wants to be hired" threads with mass-generated recruitment emails.
Adafruit received a cease-and-desist letter from Flux.ai's counsel demanding it stop publishing an article about Flux.
A VSCode webview bug allows attackers to steal GitHub tokens with full read-write access by clicking a link to a malicious Jupyter notebook.
Microsoft releases MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 5B-parameter coding model that outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 on benchmarks while using fewer tokens.
Janet is a small Lisp dialect suited for scripting, CLIs, and side projects due to its simplicity and distributable compiled binaries.
Lumafield CT-scanned BYD car components, revealing vertical integration and design choices in a Chinese EV unavailable in America.
Walking guide identifying surveillance infrastructure in downtown Seattle, including cameras, license plate readers, and Wi-Fi tracking devices.
Systemd timers offer advantages over traditional cron for scheduling tasks, including better output handling, execution history, and clearer syntax.
Tool allows Linux users to allocate unused GPU VRAM as swap space via NBD protocol, targeting laptops with soldered memory.
Stanford study finds law professors rate AI responses higher than peer-written answers in 75% of contract law comparisons.
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Developer built dictation app for hand injury, split into App Store and direct-distribution versions after Apple rejected the full version.
Qualities like musicality, delight, and trust emerge naturally when organizations avoid degrading them.
Researcher remotely hacks Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X speaker via Bluetooth to inject custom firmware and execute arbitrary commands as keyboard.
Eyeball is a browser game where players click to position a number on a line as accurately as possible.
After a month with Clojure, the author finds it more cohesive than Common Lisp and more practical than Scheme, despite syntax complexity.
Trump signed a downsized AI executive order requiring voluntary 30-day government review instead of the 90-day version he rejected last month.
Three ways to make a living: lie to those who want lies and get rich; tell truth to truth-seekers and make a living; tell truth to those wanting lies and go broke.
Meta, Google, Apple, and Mozilla are building Attribution Level 1, a browser-based ad measurement system that favors Big Tech over smaller ad networks.