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🔓 AI Endpoints, Vapes, and Browsers... Who Let This Happen?

🔓 AI Endpoints, Vapes, and Browsers... Who Let This Happen?

Tech is showing up in places it has no business being. A vape turned webserver, Chrome sneaking in AI, Torvalds dropping F-bombs on bad code, and over 1,000 Ollama endpoints left naked on the internet. This week’s stories prove: just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

Sep 19, 2025

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6 min read

⚡️ Ice Batteries, LEGO Loops & Claude’s File Magic

⚡️ Ice Batteries, LEGO Loops & Claude’s File Magic

This week is a buffet of the bizarre and brilliant: scientists bent ice into electricity, Redditors built a hypnotic infinite LEGO domino loop, Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 true fans resurfaced, Google sounded the alarm on the open web, and Claude learned how to save files.

Sep 11, 2025

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5 min read

🔥 The Only Rule You Need: Hell Yeah or No

🔥 The Only Rule You Need: Hell Yeah or No

From Siri’s stalled glow-up to the UK Gov’s underwhelming AI trial — plus Derek Sivers drops the only rule you’ll ever need: Hell Yeah or No.

Sep 5, 2025

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6 min read

🌮 From Tacos to 9GHz: This Week's Byte.

🌮 From Tacos to 9GHz: This Week's Byte.

This week: CPUs hit 9GHz, Taco Bell’s AI drive-thru gets trolled, Google drops a new image editor, and one developer codes his way from prison to innovation.

Aug 29, 2025

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7 min read

🪑 The IKEA Effect: Why We Love What We Build

🪑 The IKEA Effect: Why We Love What We Build

OneUptime ditches AWS for big savings, N100 Mini PCs prove the cloud isn’t always king, AGENTS.md sets a new AI standard, the IKEA Effect shows why we overvalue what we build, and yes—someone is making a Lego-powered submarine.

Aug 22, 2025

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7 min read

🚀 AI Showdowns: Apple Rallies, OpenAI Retreats, and DeepSeek Stumbles

🚀 AI Showdowns: Apple Rallies, OpenAI Retreats, and DeepSeek Stumbles

Apple calls AI bigger than the internet, OpenAI backtracks after GPT-4o backlash, and DeepSeek’s chip gamble stalls...this week, the AI world was anything but quiet.

Aug 15, 2025

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8 min read

⚡ AI That Gets Sh*t Done — From Zapier’s Playbook to LLM Cage Fights

⚡ AI That Gets Sh*t Done — From Zapier’s Playbook to LLM Cage Fights

AI battles, a Trello backlash, coders turning into AI maestros, Zapier’s secret AI playbook, and engineers hitting the racetrack this week’s Byte is all gas, no brake!.

Aug 8, 2025

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7 min read

📺 Netflix Stats, AI Agents, and Shopping in ChatGPT

📺 Netflix Stats, AI Agents, and Shopping in ChatGPT

From shopping inside ChatGPT to Netflix’s latest streaming stats and the rise of smarter AI agents, this edition is packed with the future of tech. Don’t miss the tools, trends, and jaw-dropping headlines shaping what we watch, buy, and build next.

Jul 18, 2025

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5 min read

🦟 Lasers, LLMs & Local AI: Your Byte-Sized Tech Brief

🦟 Lasers, LLMs & Local AI: Your Byte-Sized Tech Brief

From shopping inside ChatGPT to Netflix’s latest streaming stats and the rise of smarter AI agents, this edition is packed with the future of tech. Don’t miss the tools, trends, and jaw-dropping headlines shaping what we watch, buy, and build next.

Jul 11, 2025

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7 min read

Tech Throws Shade: Xiaomi vs Tesla, Cloudflare's AI Block & Cloud Reality Check🖕🚗🤖☁️

Tech Throws Shade: Xiaomi vs Tesla, Cloudflare's AI Block & Cloud Reality Check🖕🚗🤖☁️

This week: Cloudflare launches edge containers and blocks AI bots, CIOs rethink cloud strategies, Docker shares pro tips, and Xiaomi’s new EV takes a swing at Tesla. Stay updated on the shifts shaking up cloud, AI, and electric cars!

Jul 4, 2025

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7 min read

⚔️ AI Power Struggles, Hashtag Bans, and the New Black Screen of Death

⚔️ AI Power Struggles, Hashtag Bans, and the New Black Screen of Death

Microsoft & OpenAI’s AI rivalry heats up, GitHub’s CEO says junior engineers are here to stay, Elon Musk bans hashtags on X ads, unlock a free 5-hour n8n automation course, and Microsoft ditches the classic Blue Screen of Death for black. Stay ahead with this week’s top stories!

Jun 27, 2025

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7 min read

💥 8.9M Players, One Teen, Three Days: The Roblox Farming Boom

💥 8.9M Players, One Teen, Three Days: The Roblox Farming Boom

From a teen’s viral Roblox farming sensation to marketing automations replacing entire teams, this week’s tech world is all about big wins from unexpected places. GitHub Copilot’s new agent goes from assistant to digital teammate, and marketers are letting n8n bots take the wheel.

Jun 20, 2025

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7 min read

🤯 AI or Just People? Bots, Scams & Apple’s Secret Container OS

🤯 AI or Just People? Bots, Scams & Apple’s Secret Container OS

Apple joins the container space, n8n manages finances, AI startup turned out to be humans?!?!

Jun 13, 2025

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7 min read

AI Gone Wild: From Lattes to Line Edits☕💻🧠

AI Gone Wild: From Lattes to Line Edits☕💻🧠

AI this week — Starbucks AI, Google CEO vibe coding with Replit, and some great finds on Github.

Jun 6, 2025

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5 min read

🤯 AI Agents, UI Magic & Copy-Paste Fails

🤯 AI Agents, UI Magic & Copy-Paste Fails

AI is everywhere this month — plastic AI videos, Google Stitch from prompt to UX, and MCP vulnerabilities.

May 30, 2025

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6 min read

🤖 AI Goes Rogue: Fake Presidents, Smart Containers & Jony Ive’s Big Bet

🤖 AI Goes Rogue: Fake Presidents, Smart Containers & Jony Ive’s Big Bet

AI is everywhere this month — writing your code, impersonating U.S. officials, running your Docker containers, and now, possibly living in your pocket. May has been wild, and here’s what you need to know.

May 23, 2025

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9 min read

Pry my Em Dashes (— ) from My Cold Dead Hands ✍️

Pry my Em Dashes (— ) from My Cold Dead Hands ✍️

Em Dashes (— ) were hip and cool until LLMs inserted them everywhere.

May 16, 2025

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6 min read

🤖🌍🚀Automation Nation: How Duolingo and Fiverr Are Redefining Work

🤖🌍🚀Automation Nation: How Duolingo and Fiverr Are Redefining Work

What does Cinco de Mayo, a new Pope, and F18's have in common? None of them have AI.

May 9, 2025

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6 min read

🧠 Future-Proof Jobs, Free LLM Course, & a $10K Kickstarter That Blew Up

🧠 Future-Proof Jobs, Free LLM Course, & a $10K Kickstarter That Blew Up

AskNature is like Google for Mother Nature’s design secrets — an open library of biomimicry where ants teach algorithms, whales shape turbines, and cacti school us on water hacks. Innovation straight from 3.8 billion years of R&D.”

May 2, 2025

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4 min read

🍪 Cookies Stay, Sanity Goes: Google’s Latest Chrome Pivot

🍪 Cookies Stay, Sanity Goes: Google’s Latest Chrome Pivot

Google hits pause on privacy while Europe keeps clicking 'Accept All

Apr 25, 2025

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4 min read

Google Labs Secretly Dominating Use Cases 🧪

Google Labs Secretly Dominating Use Cases 🧪

Who's Trading Better: AI or Human?

Apr 22, 2025

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3 min read

Run LLM Models Locally with Docker

Run LLM Models Locally with Docker

From Docker’s new Model Runner to Google’s AI Overview shaking up search and a brewing A2A standards battle — this week was a marathon. Toss in some DIY ChatGPT action figures and you’ve got the perfect mix of chaos and creativity.

Apr 10, 2025

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2 min read

The Byte is Back with Vibe Coding!!

The Byte is Back with Vibe Coding!!

The Byte is back! Fresh, fast, and full of experiments — from saving $1,900 by building my own learning platform to OpenAI’s free Academy and a new ‘vibe coding’ course with Andrew Ng. Let’s code into the weekend.

Apr 3, 2025

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2 min read

Forget New Year's Resolutions and Conduct a 'Past Year Review' Instead

Forget New Year's Resolutions and Conduct a 'Past Year Review' Instead

Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech

Dec 30, 2020

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3 min read

It's time to Open Source Everything!

It's time to Open Source Everything!

The CentOS fallout reignited a bigger debate: should companies open source everything? Chef co-founder Adam Jacob argues yes — owning the upstream isn’t just philosophy, it’s survival.

Dec 23, 2020

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3 min read

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