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The TechBeat: AI Coding Tip 039 - Write Your Own Zeroth Law (10/17/2026)

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The Real Reason AI Companies Are Tapping the Brakes (Hint: It’s Not Safety)

By @knightbat2040 [ 5 Min read ]The AI revolution is facing an existential crisis due to the depletion of high-quality, human-generated public text. Read More.

Awesome AGENTS.md That Can Be Used on Any Agent and Any Stack

By @khasky [ 3 Min read ]I reverse-engineered popular coding-agent instruction repos and distilled their best ideas into a stack-agnostic AGENTS.md. Read More.

The Linguistic Survivorship: Why "Russian-Speaking" Regions are a Stupid Myth

By @arthurtkachenko-rm2m8 [ 5 Min read ]134 times is the number of recorded attempts by the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union tried to suppress Ukrainian language Read More.

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Mercedes-AMG’s first ground-up SUV is a 1,150hp electric beast

Earlier this year, Mercedes’ AMG performance brand grabbed our attention with the GT four-door coupe, a souped-up sports sedan with three axial flux motors delivering over 1,150 horsepower. Well, now meet its beefier cousin, the 2028 Mercedes-AMG GT SUV, an equally powerful, ultra-fast-charging electric people-hauler. The AMG GT SUV

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‘The premium market is dominated by two brands; I believe consumers would be interested in a third’: Oppo’s European CEO has a plan for narrowing the smartphone sales gap with Apple and Samsung — and chatbots like ChatGPT could hold the key

Recent data published by Counterpoint Research paints a bleak picture of the smartphone industry as it stands today. Q3 2026 (that’s the period between July and September) marked the lowest Q3 for smartphone sales in 14 years, with challenger brands like Oppo, Xiaomi, and Vivo all experiencing declines in

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I spent two weeks with those wacky headphone-loudspeaker hybrids, but they're the easiest 'pass' recommendation in a long time

I’ll give it to TDM: the Neo is a fun idea, and the company has really tried in the execution of it, with some neat in-box extras. Unfortunately, it really doesn’t work: the Neo sounds pretty awful however you use the product, lacking bass in speaker mode and

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Elon Musk settles lawsuits over $1 million voter giveaway

Plaintiffs claiming Musk’s $1 million voter lottery was a fraud are settling for an undisclosed sum. by Terrence O'Brien Oct 17, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the