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It happens every year: we set ambitious New Year’s resolutions – work out more, spend less, keep the house cleaner – full of optimism and motivation. Then life happens, and suddenly it’s June and you can’t recall what your resolutions even were. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Sometimes the problem isn’t a…

On Thursday, Google launched Web Guide, a new AI-powered search feature that “groups links in helpful ways” for people who opt in to the test on Labs. Web Guide runs on a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model to process search queries, reorganizing the traditional “10 blue links” by sorting results and finding related…

5CA is a customer service support company that works with Discord. Recently, the chat platform said the vendor had been breached as part of a “security incident” where 70,000 government ID photos may have leaked. Now, 5CA says in a post on its website that it was “not hacked.” According to Discord, “this incident impacted…

Ryan Norbauer in his garage / workshop. | Photo: Taeha Kim / Norbauer & Co. The term “endgame,” among keyboard enthusiasts, is sort of a running gag. Endgame is when you finally dial in your perfect layout, case, features, switches, and keycaps, so you can stop noodling around with parts and get on with whatever…

Spotify says it has launched new protections against “anti-copyright attacks” after the open-source library / pirate activist group Anna’s Archive announced it’s ripped 86 million songs from the platform that it plans to make available in torrents, as reported earlier by Billboard. According to the group, “We have archived around 86 million songs from Spotify,…

Bird feeders have come a long way since their inception in the early 1900s. These days, it’s not all that surprising to see feeders kitted out with cameras and solar roofs, two marquee features you’ll find on feeders from both BirdBuddy and Netvue. And while modern hoppers can command a pretty penny, Amazon’s Big Spring…