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Arc’s days as a browser alternative are numbered, with users facing a December deadline to save their data or move to its successor, Dia. The Browser Company will discontinue Arc on Dec. 22, 2026, ending support for the browser as it concentrates its engineering and security resources on Dia,
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Nearly 200,000 people have been affected by reported layoffs at technology companies in 2026, and some of the industry’s biggest employers are still announcing job cuts. According to TrueUp’s tech layoffs tracker, 196,349 people were reported affected by layoffs at technology companies in 2026 as of
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The new terms were supposed to take effect on October 30. Poetra.RH/Shutterstock Meta's controversial new commercial terms of use won't be taking effect on October 30 after all. In an email sent to Reuters and Fast Company, a spokesperson said that the company was
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Adam Doud/CNET 8.0 Pros & Cons * Updated system with comprehensive security and smart home options * Unique tricks like whistling cameras * AI additions watch for people, packages and animals, plus video searching * Some compatibility with third parties like Google and Kwikset * Professional, high-quality installation process * Smart home support for
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Well, it's been another eventful week for the world of tech, to say the least, and as always, we're bringing you the top stories from TechRadar in one easy-to-read place — just in case you haven't been able to keep up with our coverage over
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When you think of an agent, you think of the LLM - the back-and-forth with the model - but for it to be an agent, it has to do stuff. It has to have what is called a 'ReAct loop' in which the agent itself interacts with its
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Most freelancers think about payment terms as a question of trust. Will this client pay? Do I seem difficult if I ask for a deposit? There is a more useful way to look at it. Every hour you work before you are paid for it is money you have lent
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On September 3, 2026, OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra. Within days, some developers were reporting what one of them called a "post-launch lobotomy." An open issue in OpenAI's Codex repository, filed by one developer, described turns ending after about 30 seconds and completion reports for
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The smallest game worth architecting: an immutable board, testable rules, a view that just renders state, and the classic AI you can bolt on in 40 lines Tic tac toe is the "hello world" of game development, which is exactly why it's worth doing properly. It&
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A model is a dependency, I ship software that depends on model weights. When I pin a version of a library, I expect the same bytes tomorrow. I want the same from a model, because a perception model that behaves a little differently next month is a different product. This
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Let's learn about Hackernoon Writing Contest via these 86 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Write about what you love and make money doing so! 1.
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The term second brain is not new. For years, people have used it to describe the habit of collecting notes in an app, tagging them, and searching for them when needed. That is how I began, too. These approaches have one thing in common: a person puts things in, and
