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Claude Sonnet's memory gets a big boost with 1M tokens of context

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Claude Sonnet 4 now has one million context tokens. As a result, the model can process much larger developer tasks. Developers can access it now, but API pricing does increase for certain requests. We all have that friend who is a great active listener and can recall details from past interactions, which then feeds into better conversations in the future. Similarly, AI models have context windows that impact how much content they can reference -- an

I tested this new AI podcast tool to see if it can beat NotebookLM - here's how it did

Speechify The Speechify text-to-speech app enables its over 50 million users worldwide to convert any text, including documents, articles, PDFs, and images into audio, with over 200 voices to choose from. Now, the company is delving into a new type of audio: AI-generated podcasts. Also: I finally gave NotebookLM my full attention - and it really is a total game changer Starting today, Speechify users will be able to turn any content into a "lecture-style" podcast. They'll also get access to a

Claude can now process entire software projects in single request, Anthropic says

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic announced Tuesday that its Claude Sonnet 4 artificial intelligence model can now process up to 1 million tokens of context in a single request — a fivefold increase that allows developers to analyze entire software projects or dozens of research papers without breaking them into smaller chunks. The expansion, available now in pub

Anthropic’s Claude AI model can now handle longer prompts

Anthropic is increasing the amount of information that enterprise customers can send to Claude in a single prompt, part of an effort to attract more developers to the company’s popular AI coding models. For Anthropic’s API customers, the company’s Claude Sonnet 4 AI model now has a one million token context window — meaning the AI can handle requests as long as 750,000 words, more than the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, or 75,000 lines of code. That’s roughly five times Claude’s previous lim

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Files by Google will finally be able to natively display text files (APK teardown)

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s file manager for Android is working on integrating a viewer for text files. Evidence first appeared in Files by Google version 1.8436.793259964.0-release but the tool is not yet active. When available, it should let you view text files and copy data out, but won’t support editing. Android, as a platform, was never designed to be one-size-fits-all, and that’s a huge part of its appeal. Some users will go their whole lives never thinking twice

OneNote finally gets "paste text only" feature on Windows and Mac

OneNote is a powerful note-taking app, but that doesn't necessarily mean it has all the features you want. One of the missing features is 'Paste as text only,' and it's finally coming to OneNote. In a blog post, Microsoft confirmed that it's testing the ability to paste text only (plain format). Right now, when you copy content from a web page or another app and paste it into OneNote, it retains the formatting. This means colours, fonts, and text styling are copied and moved to OneNote when y

A Global Look at Teletext

Brief explanation Teletext is a weird technology. Although often ridiculed as completely archaic, it’s very popular in many countries still today. It seems like the public broadcasters in Europe just can’t get people to stop using it, no matter what new services they provide. You most likely know teletext in the British version, with blocky text graphics in few colours, that came intertwined with the analogue TV-signal. This is called World System Teletext. But that was only the beginning. T

Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text

abogen Abogen is a powerful text-to-speech conversion tool that makes it easy to turn ePub, PDF, or text files into high-quality audio with matching subtitles in seconds. Use it for audiobooks, voiceovers for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or any project that needs natural-sounding text-to-speech, using Kokoro-82M. Demo demo.mp4 This demo was generated in just 5 seconds, producing ∼1 minute of audio with perfectly synced subtitles. To create a similar video, see the demo guide. How to install?

From terabytes to insights: Real-world AI obervability architecture

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Consider maintaining and developing an e-commerce platform that processes millions of transactions every minute, generating large amounts of telemetry data, including metrics, logs and traces across multiple microservices. When critical incidents occur, on-call engineers face the daunting task of sifting through an ocean of data to unravel

Backpropagating through a maze with candle and WASM

Loading WASM module... Width: Height: Wall Density: Learning Rate: Max Steps: Generate & Optimize This demo uses gradient descent to solve a discrete maze. Try playing with the hyperparameters to see how they affect the optimization process! No neural network involved: logits are directly optimized, from a random initialization, for each maze. This runs entirely on your local device, thanks to candle and Rust's support for WebAssembly. You can disconnect from the Internet after loading this

Programming with AI: You're Probably Doing It Wrong

Programming with AI: You're Probably Doing It Wrong 2025 is the year of Artificial Intelligence. With GPT-5 just released, many developers will re-evaluate their use of large language models for assisting in their daily work. I’m here to tell you: you’re probably doing it wrong. And you’re missing out on the real power that AI assisted development can give you. What “doing it wrong” looks like Let’s kick off with a (non-exhaustive) list of symptoms you’re using your AI coding assistant wrong

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AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators

AI must RTFM: Why technical writers are becoming context curators I’ve been noticing a trend among developers that use AI: they are increasingly writing and structuring docs in context folders so that the AI powered tools they use can build solutions autonomously and with greater accuracy. They now strive to understand information architecture, semantic tagging, docs markup. All of a sudden they’ve discovered docs, so they write more than they code. Because AI must RTFM now. It’s docs-driven d

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government’s website

Several sections of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution appear to have been removed from the official U.S. government website, as pointed out by sleuths on the internet and as seen by TechCrunch. The changes were made in the past month, according to the Wayback Machine, which shows the full original text on Congress’ website as of July 17. Several Reddit threads identified the changes in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution: large parts of Section 8 have been removed, and Sections 9 and 10 have b

Rethinking DOM from first principles

In either case, there are also some roadblocks. I'll just mention three: text-ellipsis can only be used to truncate unwrapped text, not entire paragraphs. Detecting truncated text is even harder, as is just measuring text: the APIs are inadequate. Everyone just counts letters instead. can only be used to truncate text, not entire paragraphs. Detecting truncated text is even harder, as is just measuring text: the APIs are inadequate. Everyone just counts letters instead. position: sticky lets e

Zigzag Number Spiral - Closed Form Expression

Zigzag Number Spiral By Susam Pal on 27 Jul 2025 \[ \gdef\lf{\hspace{-5mm}\leftarrow\hspace{-5mm}} \gdef\rt{\hspace{-5mm}\rightarrow\hspace{-5mm}} \gdef\up{\uparrow} \gdef\dn{\downarrow} \gdef\sp{} \gdef\cd{\cdots} \gdef\vd{\vdots} \gdef\dd{\ddots} \gdef\arraystretch{1.2} \gdef\hl{{\small\blacktriangleright}} \] Consider the following infinite grid of numbers, where the numbers are arranged in a spiral-like manner, but the spiral reverses direction each time it reaches the edge of the grid: \

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HTML Is Dead, Long Live HTML

In either case, there are also some roadblocks. I'll just mention three: text-ellipsis can only be used to truncate unwrapped text, not entire paragraphs. Detecting truncated text is even harder, as is just measuring text: the APIs are inadequate. Everyone just counts letters instead. can only be used to truncate text, not entire paragraphs. Detecting truncated text is even harder, as is just measuring text: the APIs are inadequate. Everyone just counts letters instead. position: sticky lets e

People are using ChatGPT to write their text messages - here's how you can tell

Kirill Stytsenko/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways People are using AI to write sensitive messages to loved ones. Detecting AI-generated text is becoming more difficult as chatbots evolve. Some tech leaders have promoted this use of AI in their marketing strategies. Everyone loves receiving a handwritten letter, but those take time, patience, effort, and sometimes multiple drafts to compose. Most of us at one time or another have given a Hallmark card to a loved one or friend. Not because

Balabolka is a free text-to-speech tool for Windows

The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from AZW, CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, MOBI, ODT, PRC, PDF and RTF files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. The program uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to impro

Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD We are thrilled to release Qwen-Image, a 20B MMDiT image foundation model that achieves significant advances in complex text rendering and precise image editing. To try the latest model, feel free to visit Qwen Chat and choose “Image Generation”. The key features include: Superior Text Rendering : Qwen-Image excels at complex text rendering, including multi-line layouts, paragraph-level semantics, and fine-grained details. It supports both alphabeti

Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models that matched or in some cases bested closed-source/proprietary U.S. rivals, Alibaba’s crack “Qwen Team” of AI researchers is back again today with the release of a highly ranked new AI image generator model — also open s

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The Ski Rental Problem

Ski Rental Problem The ski rental problem is a classic example problem in online algorithms. It feels like a small but interesting problem that can be explained relatively easily while some clever tricks can be applied to it. In this article, I took these lecture notes by Debmalya Panigrahi and Hangjie Ji and tried to rewrite them in a way that is easier to understand (at least for me). Formulation You are going skiing in the mountains but you are unsure about the weather reports and don't k

The tradeoff between human and AI context

AI coding is a skill. You have to decide how much context to put in your brain vs the AI. You can waste your time thinking about the wrong problem because you failed to delegate. Or you can give yourself a headache when the AI coder doesn’t get it. I think about it in terms of spectrum of human to AI context. At the highest levels, we, humans, own all the context. We operate here when our specific value-add matters. We also work here in the many cases AI coders aren’t that smart yet. At the low

Crafting your own Static Site Generator using Phoenix (2023)

Image by Annie Ruygt This is a post about building up your own Static Site Generator from scratch. If you want to deploy your Phoenix LiveView app right now, then check out how to get started. You could be up and running in minutes. The year is 2023, you have many options for building a Static Website. From the OG Jekyll to literally hundreds of JavaScript based options to people suggesting you should just craft HTML by hand. All of these solutions are correct and good, and you know what? You

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Shortcuts in iOS 26: Everything new coming to your iPhone, more

The Shortcuts app is getting several upgrades in iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe that unlock brand new possibilities for automation on Apple platforms. Here’s what’s coming. Liquid Glass design and new icon Shortcuts in iOS 26 starts with a new, updated app icon. Gone are the lighter blue colors of the past, replaced by a more consistent pink-purple look. After opening the app, Liquid Glass makes Shortcuts feel refreshed in several ways too. Shortcuts’ navigation tab bar is now floating and transpare

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Show HN: ELF Injector

ELF Injector Injects a relocatable code chunk of arbitrary size into an ELF executable that will run before the original entry point of the executable. Building NOTE: The code can only build and run on a 32-bit ARM processor as it contains a mix of C and assembly. Build elf_injector : ~/elf_injector $ make all gcc -Werror -std=gnu99 -fno-builtin -Wall -Wextra -O2 -c src/elf_injector.c -o elf_injector.o gcc -nostdlib elf_injector.o -o elf_injector gcc -Werror -std=gnu99 -fno-builtin -Wall -W