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Turning Claude Code into My Best Design Partner

Published on August 18, 2025 When I first started using Claude Code, I had a naive approach to working with it. I would describe the task directly in the prompt, press Enter, and cross my fingers. If the agent made mistakes, I would tell it how to fix them. For small tasks, this can be good enough, but as the task grows in complexity, this approach reveals several significant drawbacks. When Simple Doesn’t Scale The first problem is that the conversation becomes the only source of truth about

'Peacemaker' Season 2 Release Schedule: Here's When You Can Watch Episode 2

John Cena may be on the verge of wrestling retirement, but that doesn't mean the man hasn't stayed busy. Case in point: Peacemaker has returned for new episodes. James Gunn's inaugural DC Universe original series first hit streaming in 2022, and season 2 is now upon us. Who says good things don't come to those who wait? Season 2 picks up where the DCU series left Cena's flawed hero: He's still working out his toxic past and trying to figure out where he fits in the present. Needless to say, it

Apple AirTag 2 Rumors: New Features and Possible Release Date Leaked

The original AirTag was launched nearly four years ago, which is practically a lifetime for an Apple product. The little tracker has proven to be a sleeper hit with plenty of people the world over using it to find their keys, wallet, luggage and various personal belongings. But four years is a long time, and it's time this smart tracker sees an update. That sort of delay is unusual for Apple, which tends to refresh most of its product lines every couple of years. Now, as summer travel season wr

If You Missed This Spine-Chilling Sci-Fi Nightmare, It's Now Streaming Free on Tubi

Sci-fi horror movies have always had a niche in Hollywood, delivering scares in futuristic worlds, or in the bellies of larger-than-life spaceships hurtling through space. Event Horizon and Alien are two of the most easily recognizable films, but they aren't the only great sci-fi horror flicks. One of my favorites is Pandorum, with Dead Space vibes. Released in 2009, Pandorum is a claustrophobic trip into space in which a mechanic wakes up on a colony ship to see that things have gone very wron

Apple might release a cheaper MacBook soon, but you shouldn’t wait for it

Last month, we heard some news from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo about Apple entering a new segment of the laptop market. The company is reportedly working on a new MacBook at a lower starting price point than the MacBook Air, and it’ll apparently pack the A18 Pro chip found in iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. While a cheaper MacBook is certainly a welcome add, the question truly stands: will Apple do it properly, or will it serve as another decoy model? Rumor refresh To quickly recap, the cheape

Stepanov's biggest blunder? The curious case of adjacent difference

The curious case of adjacent difference If you have ever tried using the std::adjacent_difference algorithm in c++, I’m sure it left you puzzled. As the name suggests, this algorithm computes differences between adjacent elements of the input sequence, but it does one more thing: it copies the first element of the input sequence into the output sequence unmodified. The following example demonstrates how to apply the algorithm to delta-compress a postings list of document identifiers that contain

I made a floppy disk from scratch

I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch Polymatt decided he was going to make a 3.5” floppy disk from scratch — and actually did. I’m not sure how many of you have actually cracked one of these things open and taken a look inside, but it’s actually a little bit more complex than I expected. Recreating a shell isn’t going to be the tough part. It’s actually this: recreating the media itself with some PET film and a bunch of chemicals. These disks are incredibly thin, and the magnetic film itself is m

Ergonomic errors in Rust: write fast, debug with ease, handle precisely

Ergonomic errors in Rust: write fast, debug with ease, handle precisely Errors show up in three distinct contexts: when you’re writing code, when you’re debugging code, and at runtime when the program needs to handle recoverable errors. And errors are consumed by two distinct consumers with different needs: the developer debugging an application, and the caller making error handling decisions at runtime. In this post, we’ll explore how stackerror is designed to make working in all three contex

Practical approach for streaming UI from LLMs

LLMs have enabled us to solve a new class of problems with more flexibility than ever, but as they are language models, they are inherently text powered, which has led to AI-based UI being incredibly text heavy. As someone who has been creating experiences with web technology my entire life, I’m not satisfied with so much UI being replaced with text. At Vetted, we have been building a shopping research assistant, and shopping is an inherently visual and UI heavy space. Products need to display

Acronis True Image costs performance when not used

Over two years ago I installed Acronis True Image for Crucial in order to migrate my data to a new SSD I had just purchased. It worked. I then left True Image installed “just in case”, and what harm could that possibly cause. Well, funny you should ask. I recently noticed that whenever I plugged or unplugged my external monitor Explorer.exe would consume a lot of CPU time – dozens of seconds of it. It was enough CPU time to make my computer noticeably sluggish until things calmed down which co

SpaceX Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money Every Time One of Its Starships Explodes

Time is ticking for SpaceX's Starship. Even after nearly ten launches, the behemoth spacecraft has yet to successfully visit space and then come safely back to Earth even a single time — but NASA is nonetheless relying on it to ferry astronauts from the Moon's orbit down to the surface just over two years from now. Given Starship's track record so far — nine full-scale test flights have ended in explosions shortly after launch, explosions in space, and crashes into the ocean — it's a steep goa

Does iPadOS 26 make the iPad a computer? [Video]

The moment Apple announced iPadOS 26, it felt like us iPad users have finally been heard. For years the iPad has always been “almost there”. It had the powerful hardware, but the software made the experience too limited for most people. But now with iPadOS 26, that gap is almost gone. The new windowing system, improved multitasking, and better file management make the iPad feel more like a computer than it ever has before. So the next natural question is, can an iPad be your one and only comput

Apple @ Work: Macs, AI, and the blind spot in enterprise security

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Apple could rejuvenate the next iPad Air model with one new feature

The iPad Air hasn’t been a particularly interesting product for a number of years. Apple redesigned it in 2020 with the fourth generation model, and since then – it’s just been spec bumps and small feature upgrades. However, I think the next refresh could be a great opportunity to introduce a large feature upgrade: Face ID. Face ID has remained iPad Pro exclusive Despite the fact that Face ID is now an 8 year old technology, you can still only get it on the iPad Pro. This is in stark contrast

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Bluesky blocks Mississippi due to its new age verification law

Users with Mississippi IP addresses can no longer access the Bluesky app. The decentralized social media network has explained in a post that Mississippi's new age verification law for social networks "would fundamentally change" how it operates, and it wouldn't be possible to comply with its small team and limited resources. Bluesky says that while it does follow the UK's Online Safety Act, it works very differently from Mississippi's approach to age verification. In the UK, it's only required

Why this 16-inch Acer is the ideal ThinkPad replacement (especially at this price)

Acer Swift 16 AI ZDNET's key takeaways The Acer Swift 16 AI is regularly priced at $1,250. Its 16-inch OLED display, well-designed lightweight form, and marathon battery work together to create a laptop that feels more premium than its price would suggest. Its speakers, however, leave much to be desired, and it has its fair share of bloatware. $899.99 at Best Buy Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Acer's Swift 16 AI is a thin and light laptop with a gorgeous OLED display,

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I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch

I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch Polymatt decided he was going to make a 3.5” floppy disk from scratch — and actually did. I’m not sure how many of you have actually cracked one of these things open and taken a look inside, but it’s actually a little bit more complex than I expected. Recreating a shell isn’t going to be the tough part. It’s actually this: recreating the media itself with some PET film and a bunch of chemicals. These disks are incredibly thin, and the magnetic film itself is m

Scientists Propose a Smarter Way to Hunt for Alien Radio Signals

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research suggests refining our search parameters by using our own broadcasts into deep space as a helpful guide. Research published earlier this week in Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests we search for alien signals by studying how we beam strong, directed transmissions during two-way communication with our de

Watch Live as SpaceX Tries to Prove Starship Isn’t a Total Flop With Flight 10

SpaceX is gearing up for the tenth test flight of its megarocket following a streak of failures that have cast doubt on Starship’s ability to fly to Mars in 2026. Starship is slated for lift-off on Sunday, August 24, during a launch window that opens at 7:30 p.m. ET. SpaceX recently wrapped up investigations into the rocket’s previous test flight, which took place on May 27 and ended with the vehicle breaking apart during reentry. This was the third Starship flight of 2025 and the latest in a s

‘Star Wars: Visions’ Season 3 Puts a Stormtrooper on Death’s Door

Over its currently two-season run, Star Wars: Visions has shown audiences the adventures of Force users, droids, and rebels. One viewpoint we’ve not seen much of is the Imperial forces, despite their repeatedly turning up in the show’s various shorts—but that’s changing with the new season, and things will get pretty cerebral. During this weekend’s Anime NYC, panelists got a look at “Black,” a short for the next set of episodes dropping in October. Developed by david production (Fire Force), th

Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units to the massive AC towers that serve the tightly packed apartment buildings in major cities. And while they bring the relief of cool air, these contraptions also create the conditions for dangerous bacteria to multiply and spread. One particularly nasty bacteria-borne illness is currently spreading in New York City using t

TikTok puts hundreds of UK content moderator jobs at risk

TikTok puts hundreds of UK content moderator jobs at risk 22 hours ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images TikTok is putting hundreds of jobs in the UK which moderate content that appears on the social media platform at risk. According to TikTok, the plan would see work moved to its other offices in Europe as it invests in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to scale up its moderation. "We are continuing a reorganisation that we started last year to strengthe

These are the best new MacBook deals this month: options as low as $599

In the Apple Silicon era, MacBooks have become more affordable than ever – with brand new models starting as low as $599. With looming global tariffs, these great deals could potentially be coming to an end soon – so if you’re in the market for a new MacBook for any reason, now may be one of the best ever times to purchase. Apple’s upcoming macOS 26 update is also dropping support for practically all Intel Macs (with some small exceptions) – so if you’d like to stay on the latest and greatest A

Glyn: Type-safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam actors with distributed clustering

Glyn ✨ Type-safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam actors with distributed clustering support. Built on the Erlang syn library. Glyn provides two complementary systems for actor communication: PubSub : Broadcast events to multiple subscribers : Broadcast events to multiple subscribers Registry: Direct command routing to named processes Both systems integrate seamlessly with Gleam's actor model using selector composition patterns. Installation gleam add glyn Creating Message Types and Decode

Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

Four men in Georgia, all living in the same county, mysteriously became infected with a potentially deadly soil bacterium that's normally found in the tropics and subtropics, particularly Southeast Asia and northern Australia. The four cases were tied together not just by their shared location but also by the bacterial strain; whole genome sequencing showed the bacteria causing all four infections were highly related, suggesting a shared source of their infections. But this bacterium doesn't te

Murky Panda hackers exploit cloud trust to hack downstream customers

A Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Murky Panda (Silk Typhoon) exploits trusted relationships in cloud environments to gain initial access to the networks and data of downstream customers. Murky Panda, also known as Silk Typhoon (Microsoft) and Hafnium, is known for targeting government, technology, academic, legal, and professional services organizations in North America. The hacking group, under its numerous names, has been linked to numerous cyberespionage campaigns, including

No, iPadOS 26 isn't a laptop killer, but these 4 things make it a huge leap forward

Jason Hiner/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways In iPadOS 26, the addition of a Mac-like windowing system, a menu bar, a real cursor, and a much-improved Files app makes the iPad a lot better for getting work done. There are still a couple missing features that would make a big difference in iPadOS 26. While iPadOS 26 makes the iPad a much more complete device, power users shouldn't expect to get productivity benefits versus using a Mac. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The iP

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Much of the World Stops Sending Mail to U.S.

Do you have a package coming your way from overseas? (I do, it’s a gift, and I’m very annoyed.) Hopefully it’s not urgent, because it’s going to be a minute before that thing gets to our shores. Questions surrounding the Trump administration’s ongoing tariff regime, including a policy to end an exemption from taxing small packages, have resulted in postal services across the world simply choosing not to ship to the United States until things get sorted out, according to Bloomberg. Central to th

Have You Ever Seen a Black Moon? Neither Have We, but One Is Coming This Weekend

Late last year, we were treated to four consecutive supermoons, where the moon is the biggest and brightest that it can possibly be in the night sky. Have you ever wondered what it's called when the opposite happens? There is a name for it, and it's happening this weekend -- the emergence of the black moon. The term black moon isn't an official term, but rather a nickname for when a new moon fulfills certain conditions. Typically, each season has three new moons just like it has three full moon

Google Maps is planning a little reorganization and we’ve got an early look (APK teardown)

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps developers are working on a bunch of small tweaks to the app’s interface. Some of those include a new setting menu, icons, and search UI. Place cards could also be getting a reorganization, flipping the placement of some options. This week may be all about new hardware with the introduction of the Pixel 10 series, but maybe that just means that Google’s software devs have all the more to prove, because that group has been one busy bunch. Toda

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