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Your Samsung TV screenshots the screen twice a second, if you agreed
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Your Samsung TV screenshots the screen twice a second, if you agreed

Samsung Ads tells advertisers its televisions capture the screen every 500 milliseconds. Samsung's support page tells owners it does not watch the screen. Both of those sentences are published.

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  1. Best local LLM for coding in 2026, ranked by your RAM

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  2. How to use Kimi K3.1 Pro tonight, before the weights exist

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  3. PHP2Shell, the flaw PHP first saw in 2024

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  4. Claude Duet vs Meta Muse, the same $20 and $100

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  5. Voxtral 3 costs more than Voxtral 2, and ships no weights

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Best computer for local AI in 2026, ranked by what a gigabyte costs
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Best computer for local AI in 2026, ranked by what a gigabyte costs

DeepSeek's search API is $0.75 per 1,000, Claude's is $10
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DeepSeek's search API is $0.75 per 1,000, Claude's is $10

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Claude Duet vs Meta Muse, the same $20 and $100
Agents

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Claude Duet vs Meta Muse, the same $20 and $100

Best AI model for agents in 2026, ranked by what it costs
Agents

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Best AI model for agents in 2026, ranked by what it costs

OpenAI dots cost nothing extra, and $100 a month to reach
Agents

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OpenAI dots cost nothing extra, and $100 a month to reach

What OpenAI's training pause stops, and what keeps running
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What OpenAI's training pause stops, and what keeps running

Meta Muse Charm ships in December with no price yet
Agents

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Meta Muse Charm ships in December with no price yet

What OpenAI's Agents API costs, and who can't use it yet
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What OpenAI's Agents API costs, and who can't use it yet

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How to review code with Claude Code, and the file that does nothing
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How to review code with Claude Code, and the file that does nothing

Anthropic's team published its own code review setup on 15 October. The command works on any paid plan, and the REVIEW.md file everybody is copying is ignored on your own machine.

Muse Spark Open weighs 1,644 GB, more than 2 Macs hold
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Muse Spark Open weighs 1,644 GB, more than 2 Macs hold

Meta says its new downloadable model runs at home on 2 Apple Mac Studios. The files it published are 1,644 GB, the 2 machines hold about 1,024 GB, and Apple ships the big one late October.

OpenCode vs Claude Code, and the version you really get
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OpenCode vs Claude Code, and the version you really get

OpenCode 2 was announced this week and installing OpenCode today still gives you 1.19.0. Here are 5 checks against Claude Code, with both pricing pages read at the source.

Best AI model for agents in 2026, ranked by what it costs
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Best AI model for agents in 2026, ranked by what it costs

Meta shipped Muse Wonder on 12 October at exactly Claude Opus 5.5 money. On Meta's own scorecard, Anthropic still wins 9 of the 14 rows where both models have a score.

NVIDIA's 128GB DGX Spark is $6,950, a 128GB Surface is $5,899
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NVIDIA's 128GB DGX Spark is $6,950, a 128GB Surface is $5,899

NVIDIA raised the bigger DGX Spark and added a half memory box at $4,999. Microsoft then priced 2 machines with the same memory below both. Which Spark makes sense, and when.

How to move from Deno Deploy to Cloudflare Workers tonight
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How to move from Deno Deploy to Cloudflare Workers tonight

Deno Deploy shuts down in 6 months, and the migration help Deno promised covers paying customers. Here is the whole move, done tonight, by somebody who has never opened a terminal.

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Ray Ban Meta Gen 2 vs Gen 3, what the extra $70 buys
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Ray Ban Meta Gen 2 vs Gen 3, what the extra $70 buys

Meta put the Gen 3 on sale on 23 September 2026 at $449 while the Gen 2 stays at $379. The camera is the same on both, so the $70 buys battery, a microphone and a button.

Claude Slides vs Gamma, what a deck costs on each
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Claude Slides vs Gamma, what a deck costs on each

Anthropic put Claude Slides on paid plans on 16 September 2026. Gamma already does the same job on a free tier. We priced both at the source this morning.

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