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new york finalizes its safe for kids rules and 98 is the figure platforms should be worried about One figure has slipped under the radar: 98 percent. Under the final rules New York just published, that's the rate at which a social platform will be required to catch users attempting to fake their way around an age check.

New York finalizes its SAFE for Kids rules — and 98% is the figure platforms should be worried about

charging your phone overnight is fine heres what actually damages the battery Those eight hours spent plugged in aren't what ruins your phone battery. The pillow you tucked it under is.

Charging Your Phone Overnight Is Fine — Here’s What Actually Damages the Battery

snake robots slithered into venezuelas collapsed buildings they came back with no survivors Camera scanning through the darkness, the robot pushed 15 to 20 feet into the shattered interior of an apartment block in La Guaira, as a father waited nearby, hoping the machine would locate his son. It did not. Either the boy wasn't there or he couldn't be reached. Even so, the man expressed his gratitude to the researchers.

Snake robots slithered into Venezuela’s collapsed buildings. They came back with no survivors.

openai touts chatgpt reasoning above doctors then its health chief dials it back This week, two OpenAI executives sat through the same briefing and offered conflicting accounts of the same product. One claimed the company's models can now out-reason a physician. When the other was asked to substantiate that, they began qualifying it.

OpenAI touts ChatGPT reasoning above doctors — then its health chief dials it back

amazon quietly tucks 5 games into prime video and its not chasing hardcore gamers Amazon has squeezed a Games tab into Prime Video, and what's most telling about the move is who it deliberately leaves on the sidelines.

Amazon quietly tucks 5 games into Prime Video — and it’s not chasing hardcore gamers

google shipped three new gemini models but only one changes your bottom line 2026 Google is calling all three of its latest Gemini models the most advanced work it's ever released. That's the same claim it makes with every launch. So I dug for the single figure that genuinely counts, and it turned out to be tucked inside a token-usage number that most readers will breeze right past.

Google shipped three new Gemini models, but only one changes your bottom line [2026]

wax launches n8n wax kit bringing its blockchain into no code automati In Brief:

WAX launches n8n-wax-kit, bringing its blockchain into no-code automation flows

NEAR protocol In Brief:

NEAR goes live with post-quantum signatures on mainnet via 2.13 release

unity 7 roadmap public api cli and a free mcp bring the editor to non users and coding agents In Brief:

Unity 7 Roadmap: Public API, CLI and a Free MCP Bring the Editor to Non-Users and Coding Agents

fork it or leave linus torvalds shuts down anti ai pushback in the linux kernel 2026 The world's most consequential living coder has staked out a position, and it isn't the one AI's opponents were hoping for. Refuse to contribute to the Linux kernel because other contributors lean on AI tooling? Linus Torvalds has a suggestion: spin up your own fork, or show yourself out.

“Fork It Or Leave”: Linus Torvalds Shuts Down Anti-AI Pushback In The Linux Kernel [2026]