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Warframe's Next Expansion Is the Epic Payoff to 13 Years of Storytelling

Over the past few years, Warframe players have spent much of their time in-game exploring a broken timestream, jumping from one era to the next in their fight against an eldritch space god. But at its TennoCon 2026 event, developer Digital Extremes revealed a bold new direction for the game: Instead of exploring time, players will soon enter an entirely new part of outer space. The Tau solar system teased in The Old Peace update will soon be accessible during regular gameplay, with multiple new ...

Modernising a legacy AS/400 (IBM i) system without rewriting it

Many companies still run production, warehousing, orders and invoicing on a business system that has been going for twenty years or more on an AS/400. Today that platform is called IBM i (it went from AS/400 to iSeries, System i and finally IBM i), but the name almost everyone still uses is the first one. Faced with a system this old, the instinctive reaction is to think it should be scrapped and rebuilt. Almost always that is the wrong conclusion. The problem is rarely the machine, which remain...

NIS2 e le PMI: chi è obbligato davvero, e la parte software che ti chiederà il cliente

«NIS2» è diventata una di quelle sigle che generano più ansia che chiarezza. La prima cosa utile da sapere è anche la più rassicurante: la maggior parte delle PMI non è direttamente obbligata a NIS2. Il motivo per cui potrebbe riguardarti comunque è un altro, meno noto, e sta nella catena di fornitura. Questo articolo separa gli obblighi reali dal panico, e si concentra sulla parte che chi sviluppa software può affrontare davvero: il codice, gli accessi, i dati. Cos'è NIS2, in breve NIS2 è la di...

A Backend Engineer's Field Notes on Cheap AI APIs in 2026

A Backend Engineer's Field Notes on Cheap AI APIs in 2026 Last quarter, my team's LLM bill crossed five figures and someone — not naming names — got an email from finance. So I went down the rabbit hole of comparing every API I could find, ranked them by output price, and figured out which models actually earn their place in a production stack. These are my notes, and yes, the numbers are real. The short version: the gap between the cheapest and most expensive API on the same platform is genuine...

Sup Guys, I'm looking for a Dev Community, so we could do networking, does anyone need a hand ?

Murilo Mota Posted on Jul 11 Sup Guys, I'm looking for a Dev Community, so we could do networking, does anyone need a hand ? Top comments (0) Subscribe Personal Trusted User Create template Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Submit Preview Dismiss Code of Conduct • Report abuse Are you sure you want to hide this comment? It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. Hide child comments as well Confirm For further actio...

Day 15: My AI agent just completed its first multi-app task. It copied my bank balance from my banking app and sent it to Mom on WhatsApp. Two apps. One task. Fully autonomous. Task memory is the key. 👉 github.com/Dexter2344/phone-agent

Okeke Chukwudubem Posted on Jul 11 Day 15: My AI agent just completed its first multi-app task. It copied my bank balance from my banking app and sent it to Mom on WhatsApp. Two apps. One task. Fully autonomous. Task memory is the key.👉 github.com/Dexter2344/phone-agent Sign in to view linked content Top comments (0) Subscribe Personal Trusted User Create template Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Submit Preview Dismiss Code of Conduct • Report abuse Are you sur...

Project Log #15: My AI Agent Just Completed Its First Multi-App Task

Day 15. The agent switched between two apps, copied data from one, and pasted it into another. For 14 days, my AI agent could do one thing well: operate within a single app. Open WhatsApp. Find a contact. Send a message. All within one ecosystem. Today, that changed. The Milestone I gave the agent a command: "Copy my account balance from my banking app and send it to Mom on WhatsApp." It opened the banking app. It read the balance from the screen using OCR (since banking apps have zero accessibi...

We Analyzed 89 Dead Lifetime Deals. 1 in 8 Died While the Company Was Still Alive.

If you've ever bought a lifetime deal on AppSumo, PitchGround, or StackSocial, you've made a bet: pay once, own it forever. Most of the time that bet pays off. But "forever" is doing a lot of work in that sentence — and we wanted to know exactly how often it breaks. So we built the LTD Mortality Report — a verified record of lifetime-deal tools that died, moderated by hand rather than scraped. Here's what 89 confirmed failures taught us. The headline number: 1 in 8 die while the company is still...

Backend Engineering

Backend engineering is going through one of the biggest shifts in years many developers are still trying to keep pace. In my opinion, here is what is shaping the space in 2026: Microservices are no longer the future, they are the default. Monolithic backends are not old school anymore they are becoming the exception. Systems are designed as a collection of independent services from the beginning, and that changes the way we think, build, and ship. APIs are no longer just connectors, they are the...

Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, July 12 (game #1630)

Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, July 12 (game #1630) My clues will help you solve Quordle today and keep that streak going A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, July 11 (game #1629). Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going...

NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, July 12 (game #1127)

NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, July 12 (game #1127) My clues will help you solve the NYT's Connections puzzle today and keep that streak going A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, July 11 (game #1126). Good morning! Let's play ...

NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, July 12 (game #861)

NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, July 12 (game #861) My clues will help you solve the NYT's Strands today and keep that streak going A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, July 11 (game #860). Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the li...

How to watch UFC 329: McGregor vs Holloway 2 live streams, no PPV, start time, full card

How to watch UFC 329: McGregor vs Holloway 2 live streams, no PPV, start time, full card It's up to Max Holloway to end Conor McGregor's unapologetic comeback before it gets going - UFC 329: Saturday, July 11 - Main Card time: 9pm ET / 6pm ET / 2am BST (Sun) / 11am AEST (Sun) - Watch on Paramount Plus for $8.99 or for $1 with Walmart+ 30-day trial (US only) - Overseas? Use NordVPN to watch your US services from anywhere Expect a fast and furious start to UFC 329's headline act this Saturday, as ...

Is this the open source printer of our dreams? Raspberry Pi-powered, DRM-free 'Open Printer' inkjet could be the perfect solution if it ever sees the light of day

Is this the open source printer of our dreams? Raspberry Pi-powered, DRM-free 'Open Printer' inkjet could be the perfect solution if it ever sees the light of day Printer of our dreams? One small detail could ruin everything - Open Printer challenges traditional printers with a repairable open hardware design - Raspberry Pi powers a printer built around user control - The project rejects DRM restrictions through open firmware and designs Printers have earned a reputation for frustrating owners t...

People Keep Sneaking Into an Empty IBM Campus - and Then Getting Arrested

People Keep Sneaking Into an Empty IBM Campus - and Then Getting Arrested (msn.com) 4 Since February, New York state police have arrested 48 people for trespassing on a former IBM campus in Somers, New York, reports the Wall Street Journal. 30 of the arrests were teenagers. The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban explorers, who prowl abandoned malls, hospitals, power plants, amusement parks, factories and any other disused structure they can breach... [I]t's been turbocharge...

Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM

Stop Telling Me To Ask An LLM I'm a million times more likely to send an email or a text than to pick up the phone. But I had a question I thought was worth an actual call, so I scheduled one with someone senior enough to have real scar tissue, the kind you only get from watching a decision go sideways in a boardroom. I asked him where he'd look, personally, for the answer to a hard question I was chasing, one without industry consensus. Not what the textbook says. If five studies conflicted, wh...

Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find

Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find Virginia Tech scientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute show that resistance training outperforms endurance exercise in improving insulin sensitivity in obesity and Type 2 diabetes models. Running may help burn calories, but when it comes to preventing diabetes and obesity, pumping iron might have the edge, according to preclinical findings from Virginia Tech scientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute ...

Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh

Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh by n0 teamWhen people picture running a large language model, they picture a data center. Racks of GPUs that belong to someone else, a metered API, and a bill that grows every month you succeed. You send your prompts off to a black box and hope the price, the model, and the privacy policy all stay the way they were when you signed up. For a lot of teams that is a bad trade. You give up control over when models change, where your data goes, and what hard...

RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch

RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch. This includes: - A RISC-V compatible CPU - A raster graphics pipeline and display controller - Other chip infrastructure: busfabric, memory controllers, UART, GPIO etc. - A PCB layout in KiCad It is a Gameboy Advance from a parallel universe where RISC-V existed in 2001. A love letter to the handheld consoles from my childhood, and a 3AM drunk text to the technology that powered them. The design is written in synthesisable ...

Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts

Computer Science > Computers and Society [Submitted on 8 Jul 2026] Title:Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts View PDFAbstract:Claims about the universality of human concepts have been predominantly assessed through linguistic similarity across languages and cultures. However, words are effective as communication devices because they compress rich experiential variation into shared conventions, potentially obscuring hidden individual and cultural differences in...

This slushie machine was a lifesaver during NYC’s heat wave

Last weekend’s brutal NYC heat wave had me craving a frozen drink almost every afternoon. Normally, that would mean sweating through a walk to 7-Eleven for a slurpee. This time, though, I stayed home and put the new Ninja Slushi Twist to the test. Ninja’s latest slushie machine builds on the popularity of the original Slushi, but with a big upgrade. Instead of a single mixing chamber, the Slushi Twist has two 48-ounce vessels that can make two completely different frozen drinks at the same time....

How to Spot Phishing Emails — The NZ-Specific Guide for 2026

How to Spot Phishing Emails — The NZ Specific Guide for 2026 Phishing is not a new problem. What is new: the volume, the specificity, and the NZ angle that makes local targets lower their guard. In 2024, CERT NZ received over 2,300 cyber incident reports directly attributable to phishing — and that's only the incidents that got reported. The real number is significantly higher. Most security professionals will tell you the same thing: phishing works because it doesn't need to be sophisticated. I...

GPT-5.6 Sol vs Terra vs Luna: which tier should you actually use?

When GPT-5.6 landed as three models instead of one, my first reaction was mild annoyance. Sol, Terra, Luna — great names, zero help when I'm staring at a config file deciding which string to paste into model . So I did the boring thing: I wired all three into the same app, ran a week of real traffic through them, watched the token meter, and wrote down what I learned. This is that write-up — the decision tree I wish someone had handed me on day one. The 30-second version Three tiers, same API sh...

AI Daily Digest — July 12, 2026: GPT-5.6 Goes Public, Muse Spark 1.1 Arrives, Open Robotics Pipeline

🤖💻 AI Daily Digest — July 12, 2026 Another packed week in AI. OpenAI ended its 12-day restricted preview and opened GPT-5.6 to the world — three models, a new durability concept, and the ChatGPT Work + Codex integration that signals where the company is headed. Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 landed with enough firepower to pull Mark Zuckerberg back to X after three years of silence. And NVIDIA and Hugging Face took a big swing at open-source robotics. Let's dig in. 1. OpenAI GPT-5.6 Goes Public — Sol, Te...

I built a file-grounded continuity system for my AI German teacher—what am I overcomplicating?

Why I built this I use an AI named Felix as my German teacher. Over time, I ran into a continuity problem: individual chats are fragile. Conversations become long, context can disappear, platforms change, uploaded files may become unavailable, and a fresh AI instance may not understand what happened before. I did not want to repeatedly reconstruct my learning history, project decisions, lessons, corrections, and current state from memory. So I began building a local, file-grounded system called ...

OpenClaw Just Shipped an Animated Welcome & Android Image Previews

OpenClaw pushed 10 commits in the last 3 hours — headlining with a redesigned chat welcome screen and native Android image previews, alongside a wave of UTF-16 safety fixes and CI stability work. What changed Animated welcome replaces canned suggestions. The chat landing page now shows an animated Clawd mascot alongside the user’s recent conversations instead of static suggestion chips. Makes the start of every session feel alive and personalized. Android gets chat image previews. Long a gap on ...

AI Agents & Workflows: Local Deployment, Label Orchestration, Cloud Enablement

AI Agents & Workflows: Local Deployment, Label Orchestration, Cloud Enablement Today's Highlights This week highlights innovative approaches to AI agent deployment and orchestration, from local Dockerized workstations for privacy-first applications to novel workflow management via issue tracker labels. Cloudflare also introduces new temporary accounts, enhancing secure production deployments for autonomous agents. Building a Local-First, AI-Agent Powered Trading Workstation in Docker 🚀 (Dev.to T...

Stop Paying AWS Just to Test Your Code Locally

Every developer building on AWS eventually runs into the same frustrations: waiting for deployments just to verify a small change, needing an internet connection for local development, watching cloud costs grow during testing, and discovering issues in CI that could have been caught earlier. That's exactly why we built LocalEmu. LocalEmu is an open-source AWS emulator that lets you build and test against AWS APIs entirely on your own machine. It supports 132 AWS services and works with the tools...

Linux 7.2 Improves Multi-GPU Displays, M3 Support, Mesa Rusticl Defaults Arm Mali

Linux 7.2 Improves Multi-GPU Displays, M3 Support, Mesa Rusticl Defaults Arm Mali Today's Highlights This week's hardware and driver news highlights include critical Linux 7.2 kernel updates for multi-GPU display detection and initial support for Apple M3 Pro/Max/Ultra SoCs. Additionally, Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL implementation now defaults to enabling Arm Mali Panfrost driver support, simplifying GPGPU access on embedded devices. Linux 7.2-rc3 Improves Multi-GPU Display Detection (Phoronix) Source...

I ran Claude Code on Grok 4.5 — here's the 3-line setup

I've basically lived inside Claude Code for the last few months. Opus 4.8 is my daily driver and I'm not looking to leave it. But when xAI dropped Grok 4.5 on July 8, two things nagged at me enough that I wanted it in the exact same terminal I already had open. This is the write-up of that afternoon — what pulled me in, the three lines that actually did the job, and where I landed on Grok vs Opus after living with both for a week. Why I even bothered Two reasons, and neither of them is "it's the...

Git: The Fellowship of the Commit – Best Practices for Solo Devs and Teams

The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I tried to track down a bug that only showed up after midnight. I opened my terminal, typed git log , and was greeted by a wall of commits that read like a toddler’s grocery list: * 7a9c3f1 (HEAD -> main) fix stuff * 4b2e8a1 update * f1d9c6b wip * 9e3b7d2 more changes * … I spent three hours chasing a regression that turned out to be a one‑line typo in a file I hadn’t touched in weeks. The commit messages gave me zero clues, and the di...

A practical launch QA checklist for vibe-coded apps

Small AI-built apps usually do not lose trust because the model is bad. They lose it because the first public visitor hits something basic and trust-killing: a broken CTA, a draft product page, a mobile hero that crops the proof, a confusing free-versus-paid path, or a download button that is not obviously working. I made a free public launch QA checklist for that last pass before posting a tiny app, AI workflow, or digital product more widely. Free checklist and sample teardown library: https:/...

AI News Roundup: Grok 4.5 Hits Tesla, Perplexity's Orchestrator Beats Opus, and Meta Undercuts Pricing

Five stories moved the AI-coding world today. None are about a single model winning forever — they are about the ground shifting under who runs the agents and who pays for them. Musk puts Grok 4.5 to work at Tesla and SpaceX Tesla and SpaceX have been told to trial Grok 4.5. The signal is not the benchmark — it is that a frontier model is being pointed at real engineering and ops inside hardware companies. When a model moves from a chatbot to a mandate inside a manufacturing and launch pipeline,...

How to watch Argentina vs Switzerland: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time for FIFA World Cup 2026 as Lionel Messi eyes quarter-final progress

How to watch Argentina vs Switzerland: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time for FIFA World Cup 2026 as Lionel Messi eyes quarter-final progress The defending champions face the Swiss after surviving an almighty scare last time out - Argentina vs Switzerland Kick-Off time: 2am BST (Sun) / 9pm ET (Sat) / 11am AEST (Sun) - Watch free on ITV (UK) / SBS (AUS) / CazéTV's YouTube (Brazil) - Unlock your free streams with Norton VPN (60-day money back guarantee) Lionel Messi's Argentina will aim to ...

'It's not really enjoyable to make music now': Quote of the day by CEO of AI music generator Suno, Mikey Shulman — a faux pas with serious ramifications

'It's not really enjoyable to make music now': Quote of the day by CEO of AI music generator Suno, Mikey Shulman — a faux pas with serious ramifications The rise of AI threatens the arts just as much as any industry – with large language models able to generate all kinds of media Generative AI has given rise to a new breed of business that can generate synthetic content, be it video or music, and Suno AI is among the biggest names in this category. The startup's CEO, Mikey Shulman, however, land...

How the FSF Sysadmins are Blocking Botnets with reaction

How the FSF Sysadmins are Blocking Botnets with reaction (fsf.org) For nearly two years the Free Software Foundation has been fighting web crawlers (including many aggressively scraping training data for AI models). A botnet controlling about five million IPs hit one system for six months in 2025. Their systems administrator wrote this week that they view these as distributed denial-of-service attacks. How are they fighting back? We noticed patterns in the scrapers that were abnormal, which gave...

I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it Jul 11, 2026 — 7:00 AM ET For those who have followed my past work, I’ve recently considered leaving Claude for Gemini, as the latter chatbot is a much better value. Still, I’ve remained on the fence largely because I find that Claude is the best AI partner for following long, detailed threads. Its memory is exceptional compared to Gemini, and it can searc...