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Tuck is a free browser extension that lets users temporarily close tabs and have them reopen automatically at a chosen later time, similar to snoozing an email in Gmail. It works across Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi and other major browsers without requiring an account. The tool also auto-closes idle tabs after a set period and stores them so users can reopen them later.
A Haskell programmer has published an essay addressing anxieties about AI-driven burnout, job insecurity from LLM-assisted coding, and declining code quality. The author, writing entirely without AI assistance, argues that much of programming's satisfaction comes from the act of expressing thought in code itself, and warns that relying on LLMs to generate code risks eroding that enjoyment.
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 lacks High Performance Memory, certain video codecs, and Matrix cores for AI graphics that were present on last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. These capabilities are instead reserved for the pricier Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, which also gets 50% more local memory for on-device AI models than the standard Gen 6.
Researchers publishing in Nature propose that gravitational interactions between Earth's inner core and mantle help explain decades-long changes in the length of a day. Because the inner core rotates at a slightly different rate than the rest of the planet, it becomes misaligned with mass irregularities in the mantle, and the resulting gravitational pull works against other core-mantle interactions. Geophysicist Mathieu Dumberry and colleagues say this tug-of-war produces small accelerations and decelerations in Earth's spin over time.
A former project manager at Apple's print-and-fulfillment partner has described the 2011 Cards app — a Steve Jobs-driven project internally code-named Speed Racer — as marred by mismanagement and operational chaos. The source, who asked to remain anonymous even 15 years later, shared the account with a former Macworld writer who had covered Cards at the time and previously clashed with Apple over how the app's letterpress cards were described.
New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul filed suit against Polymarket, alleging the prediction-market platform operates without a required gambling license and fails to pay state taxes. The suit, filed in Manhattan under Executive Law 63(12), also claims Polymarket markets its products to users aged 18 to 20, below the state's 21-year minimum for mobile sports betting. It follows a similar lawsuit against rival platform Kalshi filed roughly two months earlier.
A team from Harvard and the University of Oregon report detecting radio emissions directly traced to beta Pictoris b, a gas giant roughly 11 times Jupiter's mass located 64 light-years away, using South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope. In their yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, they describe rapid, recurring, highly circularly polarized bursts and persistent emission between 0.85 and 3.5 GHz, which they attribute to naturally occurring auroras from charged particles along the planet's magnetic field.
A tech enthusiast tested whether an eight-year-old Google Pixel 3 XL could be reused as a home security camera and as an Android TV replacement instead of being discarded. Using the AlfredCamera app paired with a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 as viewer, the Pixel served as a low-latency camera node with motion detection and two-way audio. The author found the security camera use case worked well, while the Android TV box conversion was less successful, though specific limitations of that experiment weren't detailed.
A review of Remedy Entertainment's Control Resonant highlights how the game's numerous readable documents, including enemy logs from the Federal Bureau of Control's Threat Assessment Team, provide both narrative depth and practical combat guidance. Remedy has also released a hotfix addressing player criticism of the game's combat difficulty balance.
Apple has rolled out iOS 27 after a multi-month public beta, emphasizing artificial intelligence features and incremental refinements over major redesigns. New additions include a Siri-powered shortcut for creating calendar events and enhancements to the Notes app aimed at streamlining everyday tasks.
The Norwegian Consumer Council has published a second YouTube video in its 'anti-enshittification' campaign, featuring a bearded mascot called the Enshittificator who partners with a personified Death character. The pair are shown deliberately degrading products such as TVs, toothbrushes and smartphone storage, continuing a series that began in February with a video showing the mascot's car brakes failing due to an unpaid subscription.
Floci is a new tool that emulates cloud services—such as S3, Pub/Sub and Service Bus—on a local machine, allowing developers to run and test cloud-dependent code without connecting to a real cloud account. It supports use cases including CI pipelines with 24ms startup times, offline local development, and dry-running Terraform, OpenTofu or CloudFormation scripts against localhost before touching production infrastructure.