Amazon US Prime Sign-Ups Slow Despite Expanded Promotion, Data Shows Summary Amazon extended its Prime Day promotion this year — running a 21-day lead-up and a four-day sales event (7–11…
What Every Argument About Sideloading Gets Wrong Summary Developer Hugo Tunius argues that the standard sideloading mantra — “I should be able to run whatever code I want on hardware…
32GB of RAM On Track To Become the New Majority For Gamers Summary Steam’s August 2025 hardware survey shows 32GB RAM configurations reached 35.42% of users while 16GB systems fell…
YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren’t Watching From the Same Address Summary YouTube is increasingly enforcing its family-plan rules: if family members on a Premium or YouTube…
Poor Amazon Rains Linked To Brazil Deforestation Summary A new study published in Nature Communications links most of the recent decline in Amazon dry‑season rainfall to deforestation in Brazil. Researchers…
Laravel Inventor Tells Devs To Quit Writing ‘Cathedrals of Complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and maintainer of the Laravel PHP framework, warns developers against building “cathedrals of complexity” that are…
New Study Proves EVs Are Always Cleaner Than Gas Cars Summary Researchers at the University of Michigan released a lifecycle study and an online calculator that compare greenhouse-gas emissions ‘cradle…
Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents Summary Online gambling in the US has ballooned since the federal ban was overturned, and a new cottage industry is emerging…
Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries Summary WIRED investigates a growing trend: spiritual influencers and wellness personalities are framing AI chatbots—especially customised GPTs—as sentient guides…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-powered offensive research system developed by two Israeli researchers — dubbed Auto Exploit — used prompts to an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0),…
