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Home Assistant 2026.7 simplifies automation with new intuitive triggers, an activity timeline, grouped updates, and many integrations.

Data analysis is no longer a specialist skill reserved for analysts. It now supports finance, trading, ecommerce, marketing, ...

Claude Code is Anthropic’s AI coding assistant — a command-line tool that developers are adopting fast. It connects to external services through Model Context Protocol, the standard that lets AI tools ...

Storm Radar is a data-rich weather app for iPhone and iPad. It features hyperlocal weather event notifications much like Apple Weather. In testing, I also appreciated additional types of weather event ...

The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source Java testing app to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents. The ...

Extreme weather has impacted every corner of the US, from deadly floods to sweltering heat. For Americans, the changing climate has made protecting their homes increasingly important. Finding a ...

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The federal government has been tracking the weather for more than 150 years. But the rise of the Internet and big tech have made weather... How much is a weather forecast worth? (Update) How much is ...

Earlier this week, hackers hijacked several open source projects used by dozens of companies and pushed updates designed to spread malware. This is the latest in a string of recent supply-chain ...

Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet. Security researcher ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...