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US government seeks tool to find ‘hidden language’ in messages on your phone

The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeking pitches from tech companies for a forensic tool intended to find “hidden language” in messages on smartphones searched at the border … The CPB says that it expects companies to propose modified versions of software they already have working, as there isn’t time to devise something from scratch. Wired spotted the request on a government procurement website. The agency said in a federal registry listing that the tools it’s seeking

This Brilliant 15″ Portable Monitor Is 45% Off for Prime Day, Boasts Nearly 8,000 Five-Star Ratings

Prime Day is when Amazon provides its biggest discounts and it is the biggest shopping holiday on the site (bigger even than Black Friday). If you’re looking to purchase electronics at a discounted rate, you simply won’t find better deals than you will today. One of the most attractive deals you can find right now is a discount on the top-selling portable monitor on the market, and the price is… unbeatable. The KYY portable monitor 15.6-inch is now at a historic low of $69, down from its initia

Amazon’s Own Tablet Costs 7X Less Than an iPad, Record Low Price for Prime Day

Prime Day is when Amazon drops incredible deals on all of its products and brands including Ring and Blink items, Kindles, Fire TV, and tablets. It’s the year’s perfect time to enjoy the best prices, even better than Black Friday. Amazon uses this event to slash margins, sometimes even selling at a loss, all to boost volume and reward its Prime members with deals that are hard to resist. This particular offer is exclusive to Prime members, so you’ll need an active subscription to take advantage

This 9-in-1 off-grid portable power station has a 17-year lifespan - and it's over 50% off

ZDNET's key takeaways The Bluetti Elite 200 V2 is a powerful yet compact portable power station, about half the size of most 2kWh units The automotive-grade LiFePO4 cells offer a 6,000 recharge cycle lifespan Despite the compact size, this unit still weighs almost 60 pounds. View now at Amazon Ahead of Amazon Prime Day, the Bluetti Elite 200 V2 is on sale for 47% off, and you can get an additional 5% off using the code ZDNETBLUETTI at checkout. I admire companies that work to make a better p

Operators, Not Users and Programmers

This post is part 0 of a multi-part series called “the computer of the next 200 years”. the modern distinction between “programmers” and “users” is evil and destroys agency. consider how the spreadsheets grow🔗 spreadsheets are hugely successful. Felienne Hermans, who has spent her career studying spreadsheets, attributes this success to "their immediate feedback system and their continuous deployment model": the spreadsheet shows you its result as soon as you open it, and it requires no steps

Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming

Modern agentic architectures rely heavily on chaining LLM calls. A typical pattern looks like: Use an LLM to decide which tool to invoke Call the tool (e.g. search, calculator, API) Use another LLM call to interpret the result and generate a final response This structure is easy to reason about, simple to prototype, and generalizes well. But it scales poorly. Each LLM call incurs latency, cost, and token overhead. More subtly, it compounds context: every step includes not only the original q

Slack now integrates with reMarkable's e-paper tablets

You can now send your reMarkable notes and doodles straight to Slack. The companies have announced Slack integration for reMarkable tablets, letting you send whatever you want from the e-paper device straight to your workplace chat in one tap. "...we realized that when there’s friction between thinking and producing, you risk losing time, ideas, and momentum," reMarkable Chief Technology Officer Nico Cormie said in a statement. By linking the tablet with Slack, there's less friction between comi

The curious rise of giant tablets on wheels

Over the past few years, LG has set off a strange tech trend that’s been rolling onto devices sold across Amazon and other online electronics retailers. In 2022, the company launched the StanbyME, which is essentially a $1,000 27-inch tablet running LG's smart TV operating system (OS), webOS, but lacking a tuner. LG's press release announcing the device described it as a “wireless private TV screen with a built-in battery” that is easily portable and ideal for watching shows and movies, in addi

Samsung is about to find out if Ultra is enough

I don’t often get asked about the phones I’m testing when I’m out and about, unless it’s a folding phone. Then I usually hear some version of the same thing: “Oh, I thought about getting one of those! But then I just got a [insert slab-style phone name here].” My anecdotal data matches the actual sales figures; there are many more people curious about folding phones than there are buyers of folding phones. Samsung would very much like that to not be the case, and, by all indications, it’s about

Deal: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 price drops by $545!

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority Samsung is about to launch its new foldable phones. The Unpacked event is scheduled for July 9th, in under a week. New launches usually come with nice discounts on the previous model, and the sales are starting! You can currently get the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 at a $545 discount! Buy the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 for $1,354.99 ($545 off) This offer is available directly from Samsung. Not all color versions get the discount, though. The White model isn’t on sale,

BLUETTI AC70 Power Station drops to an all-time low price

I am a big fan of these “relatively portable” power stations. Their place in the market is solidifying right between the ultra-portable and the ultra-high-capacity models. You can easily take them places, but they are pretty powerful. If you’re looking for one of these middle-of-the-ground batteries, there’s currently a really nice sale on the BLUETTI AC70 Portable Power Station. Buy the BLUETTI AC70 Portable Power Station for just $328.99 ($270.01 off) This offer is available from Amazon, but