01Forget OpenCode. PI Agent Harness 10x Better
2025 is the year of the Coding Agent. Starting in April, when OpenAI open-sourced the Codex CLI, terminal agents such as Claude Code… Continue reading on Medium »
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02“Water Battery”
FinTimes: “The ‘water batteries’ that could be a crucial complement to renewables.” Continue reading on Medium »
03OpenAI Agents API explained: what should you still build yourself?
The machinery behind Codex is now available as a managed API. Here’s where that saves you work and where your engineering job begins. Continue reading on Medium »
04HackSpire’26: Where Bengal Builds the Future
Every great innovation starts with a simple question: Continue reading on Medium »
05The Kids’ Online Safety State Patchwork Status
By Greta Norris, Engine Policy Fellow Continue reading on Medium »
06How to Start a Finance YouTube Channel With ChatGPT and AI
Use ChatGPT and AI video tools to find finance topics, write scripts, create videos, and build a faceless YouTube channel faster. Continue reading on Write A Catalyst »
07Insta360 launches a single-lens Osmo Pocket rival you can actually buy in the US
Insta360's first compact steadycam, the Luna Ultra, made a splash this year by beating DJI to launch with two lenses. Now it's followed the Ultra with a slightly stripped back Pro model, which drops to one lens but has a unique advantage: It can shoot vertical…
08ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral
It wasn’t that long ago that ClickFix attacks were exotic. Now the technique has become mainstream as attackers reap its simplicity and effectiveness in infecting users of PCs and Macs alike. All that’s required is a compromised website—a painless enough task—…
09What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet?
Almost a hundred years ago, physicists theorized out what free fall should do to a quantum wave. If the solution they came up with is wrong, quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of gravity flatly contradict each other. But testing it has been impossible bec…
10Could United Launch Alliance's money problems finally force its owners to sell?
Pretty much every rocket company in the United States, save one, has embraced two fundamental tenets: reusability and diversification. Most famously, SpaceX branched out from reusable rockets to pursue and dominate a growing spectrum of space services: cargo d…
11Rocket Report: Europe joins the commercial launch club; a Ravn X sighting?
Welcome to Edition 9.10 of the Rocket Report! This week we're celebrating a historic moment in Europe when a German rocket company successfully put its launch vehicle into orbit. Isar Aerospace became the first purely commercial European company to reach orbit…
12Apple addresses iPhone Duo copycats
Apple was far from the first company to announce a passport-shaped folding phone this year, but that doesn't mean it wasn't copied. As my colleague Dom Preston already explained, it's almost impossible to keep product development secret when Apple and its comp…
13Arizona’s lifeline for chip manufacturing is drying up
Arizona, an epicenter for the bipartisan push to revive American chip manufacturing, is about to lose more than a quarter of the water it typically pulls each year from the Colorado River. The 1,400-mile waterway is a crucial lifeline for the region and other…
14Boy developed "toasted skin" condition from using a laptop every day
Fears that modern electronic devices may harm children are nothing new. Gadgets with screens of any size have long been allegedly melting, rotting, and/or corrupting the brains of youths for decades. However, a medical case report published this week offers a…
15Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and reports inside chats
A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites, and other tools directly inside a chat. With Slackforce Surfaces, you can describe to Slackbot what you need, and it will use AI to gather…
16LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions
LinkedIn beat two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users’ browser extensions, with a judge granting the Microsoft subsidiary's motion to dismiss the cases. The users who sued LinkedIn failed to adequately allege that they have standing to sue because nei…
17Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook
It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources and curriculum for learning it, often pro bono. That's the n…
18Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K is over half off at under $20
Looking to take full advantage of your 4K television, but your current streaming stick doesn’t have the right features? Through September 13th, you can grab an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K from Woot for just $16.09 when you use the coupon code FIRE30 at checkout. W…