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From auto-checkout scripts to affiliate link generators, these JavaScript automations run 24/7 and pay my bills—here’s every library I…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
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Tesla shareholders sue Elon Musk for allegedly hyping up faltering Robotaxi
Carmaker and CEO accused of securities fraud and hiding significant risk posed by company’s self-driving vehiclesTesla shareholders sued Elon Musk and the electric vehicle maker for allegedly concealing the significant risk posed by company’s self-driving vehicles.The proposed class-action suit, which accuses Musk and Tesla of securities fraud, was filed on Monday night. Tesla conducted its first public test of its...
OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, represent a major shift for the AI company.
OpenAI has finally released open-weight language models
OpenAI has finally released its first open-weight large language models since 2019’s GPT-2. These new “gpt-oss” models are available in two different sizes and score similarly to the company’s o3-mini and o4-mini models on several benchmarks. Unlike the models available through OpenAI’s web interface, these new open models can be freely downloaded, run, and even…
OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners
Instead of giving definitive answers to personal challenges the chatbot will help people reflect on a problemChatGPT will not tell people to break up with their partner and will encourage users to take breaks from long chatbot sessions, under new changes to the artificial intelligence tool.OpenAI, ChatGPT’s developer, said the chatbot would stop giving definitive answers to personal challenges and would instead help...
Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model
Roughly 200 people gathered in San Francisco on Saturday to mourn the loss of Claude 3 Sonnet, an older AI model that Anthropic recently killed.
‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role
Tech experts criticise Ulf Kristersson as newspaper accuses him of falling for ‘the oligarchs’ AI psychosis’The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has come under fire after admitting that he regularly consults AI tools for a second opinion in his role running the country.Kristersson, whose Moderate party leads Sweden’s centre-right coalition government, said he used tools including ChatGPT and the French service...
The best walking pads and under-desk treadmills, tried and tested to turn your workday into a workout
Sedentary lifestyles are bad for us, but which under-desk treadmills and walking pads are worth the cost? Our expert stepped up to find out• The best treadmills for your homeVarious guidelines suggest we all try to walk at least 10,000 steps a day to improve our health and wellbeing. Public Health England encourages a slightly more manageable target of just 10 minutes of brisk walking daily to introduce more...
The Download: AI agent infrastructure, and OpenAI’s ambitions
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives A growing number of companies are launching AI agents that can do things on your behalf—actions like sending an email, making a document,…
Time Flies review – existential flight game with a bittersweet buzz
PC, Mac, PS5, Nintendo Switch; Playables/PanicClever puzzler has you freely buzzing around trying to quickly achieve all your bucket list activities while avoiding sharp or gooey life-ending hazardsThe death of a housefly is usually an unceremonious event. Within minutes of the insect’s appearance in our periphery, a tide of annoyance rises, and with the quick thwap of a swatter or rolled-up magazine, the bug is gone....
A glimpse into OpenAI’s largest ambitions
OpenAI has given itself a dual mandate. On the one hand, it’s a tech giant rooted in products, including of course ChatGPT, which people around the world reportedly send 2.5 billion requests to each day. But its original mission is to serve as a research lab that will not only create “artificial general intelligence” but…
Can’t Look Away review – a harrowing, heartbreaking indictment of social media’s ruthlessness
Bloomberg journalist Olivia Carville follows a small legal outfit as it takes Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies to task for endangering young users“Tweens are herd animals” and have “an addicts’ narrative”, according to internal documents revealed by a Facebook whistleblower to congress, making clear the levels of cynicism and obfuscation the company operates with in its quest to hook young people to its...
The Crypto Command Center: How I Built a Python Tool to Track, Trade, and Analyze My Coins in Real…
One script to rule them all—real-time price tracking, automated alerts, portfolio analysis, and even paper trading, all without paying…Continue reading on Medium »
How Bedrock and RAG Make Enterprise AI Actually Work
“ChatGPT is great—until you need it to answer real questions about your business.”Continue reading on AWS in Plain English »
The Story of Pardesi Babu — Part1: / परदेशी बाबू की कहानी — भाग 1:
The Last Morning in the VillageContinue reading on Medium »
Banking 3.0 | Architecting Agentic RAG Systems — The Cognitive OS for Future Banking
From Generation to Autonomy to Resoning and Cognition—How Agentic AI Redefines Banking’s AI MaturityContinue reading on Medium »
How Python Saved My Sanity
Meet the script that filed my downloads while I watched NetflixContinue reading on Python in Plain English »
Rebuilding My Frontend Muscle: How I Created a Real-Time Dashboard with JS from Scratch
A full walkthrough of building a fast, modular, responsive, real-time web app using modern JavaScript, WebSockets, service workers, and…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
George Osborne says UK has been left behind in cryptocurrency boom
Ex-chancellor criticises hesitant approach to crypto and warns country in danger of missing next surge in marketBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK has been left behind in the cryptocurrency boom and is in danger of missing a second wave of demand, according to the former chancellor George Osborne.Osborne, who has an advisory role at the crypto exchange firm Coinbase, said the country already missed out on the first...
These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives
A growing number of companies are launching AI agents that can do things on your behalf—actions like sending an email, making a document, or editing a database. Initial reviews for these agents have been mixed at best, though, because they struggle to interact with all the different components of our digital lives. Part of the…
The Download: fixing ‘evil’ AI, and the White House’s war on science
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Forcing LLMs to be evil during training can make them nicer in the long run Large language models have recently acquired a reputation for behaving badly. In April, ChatGPT suddenly became an aggressive…
The Trolley Solution: the internet’s most memed moral dilemma becomes a video game
Indie developer’s take on the ethical conundrum about choosing who to save from an oncoming train may be gimmicky, but with its charm and bite-size levels, it’s ideal for the social media eraIn 1967, British philosopher Philippa Foot unwittingly created one of the internet’s most regurgitated memes. A runaway train is hurtling towards five people tied to the tracks. You can pull a lever to divert the train to a...
A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year—Until an AI System Recognized His Helmet
Using AI to analyze thousands of frames taken by drone, The Piedmontese Alpine Rescue team has found the body of a doctor who had been missing since September 2024.
Parents, don’t panic – healthy screen time for children is possible, if you follow these few simple tips | Kaitlyn Regehr
Yes, the huge firms pushing unsuitable content must be regulated. But until they are, adults can model the positive use of techDr Kaitlyn Regehr is the programme director of digital humanities at University College LondonThis summer the technology secretary, Peter Kyle, announced he was considering a two-hour “screen time” cap on children’s use of social media apps – a proposal that is not just insufficient, it’s...
Social media battles and barbs on both sides of Atlantic over UK Online Safety Act
Farage accuses government of being ‘so below the belt’ as right wing doubles down on censorship claims The UK’s Online Safety Act has been greatly anticipated. Amid mounting concerns about the ease of accessing harmful content online, rules were drawn up to force social platforms to protect children from posts and videos that incite hatred or encourage suicide, self-harm or eating disorders.But within days of coming...
Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’
The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’. But who will it benefit? And why does he wish the tech giants had moved more slowly?If you have a mental image of a Nobel prizewinner, Demis Hassabis probably doesn’t fit it. Relatively young (he’s 49), mixed race (his father is Greek-Cypriot, his mother Chinese-Singaporean),...
The Tesla whistleblower and the cost of taking on Elon Musk - podcast
Investigative journalist Sönke Iwersen describes his years-long investigation into Tesla, aided by a whistleblower, exposing serious safety concerns over the company’s carsIn November 2022, a whistleblower contacted investigative journalist Sönke Iwersen.He could not give his name, he said, but he had access to huge amounts of data about Tesla, his former employer: private phone numbers, social security information,...
What’s New in AWS AI & Cloud – Late July 2025 Recap
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the AI + cloud space, July ended with some game-changing announcements from AWS.Continue reading on AWS in Plain English »
How I Built a Python Script That Replaces Me at Standups (and Why My Team Loves It)
How I Built a Python Script That Replaces Me at Standups (and Why My Team Loves It)Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
The Dark Reason We Secretly Want the World to End
The doomsday clock isn’t the only thing ticking.Continue reading on Writers’ Blokke »
13 Python Libraries That Made Debugging Suck Less
Fix bugs faster, rage less, and maybe even enjoy itContinue reading on Python in Plain English »
6 Python Libraries So Fast, I Stopped Using Multithreading
Yes, they’re that optimized—and no weird bugs to debugContinue reading on Python in Plain English »
How Python Quietly Became My Secret Weapon for Everything Tech
From scripts to full-stack apps—here’s why I rarely touch another languageContinue reading on Python in Plain English »
Why I Built My Own Iterator in Python — and You Should Too
There’s a moment every Python dev hits—somewhere between writing your fifth data scraper and your third CLI tool—when you realize…Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
Master These 8 Python Function Patterns Before You Write Another Script
Once you learn these, automation starts to feel effortless.Continue reading on Python in Plain English »