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Software

What Is Hugging Face, Actually? A Field Guide to the Hub Behind Open AI

Three million models, one license line that matters, and download counts that mostly measure plumbing. How to read a Hugging Face page,…

David Mensah Oct 5, 2026 · 7 min

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Software

Reddit Kills RSS on Nov. 13. Here’s What Breaks and What to Do

Feeds end Nov. 13, unregistered apps lose access Jan. 12, and the public API closes in March 2027. Reddit blames scrapers, while…

David Mensah Oct 4, 2026 · 4 min

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Software

Google Found a Price for the Web It Already Took

Google is paying some publishers when their work feeds AI answers. The sums are tiny, the formula is secret, and it looks…

David Mensah Oct 1, 2026 · 4 min

Software

Amazon Hands Your Storefront to an Agent. It Also Hands You the Bill.

Amazon opened Seller Central to outside AI agents, with Claude first in beta, and quietly made sellers accountable for whatever the agent…

David Mensah Sep 24, 2026 · 4 min

AI & ML

Siri AI Is Finally Here: in Beta, in English, and Not on iPhones in Europe

Apple shipped its rebuilt Siri on September 14. It's a real step forward, but it's a beta, English-only, and missing from EU…

Andrew Lovesey Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min

Business & Startups

Stripe’s $53B PayPal bid is a leveraged buyout in merger clothing

Stripe's nonbinding $60.50-a-share PayPal bid leans on roughly $50 billion in bank debt. The DOJ's Visa-Plaid suit is the template for blocking…

Marcia Okonkwo Jul 16, 2026 · 5 min

Privacy & Security

Meta’s Instagram AI remix died in three days. The license didn’t.

CAA and SAG-AFTRA killed Instagram's AI remix feature in three days. The derivative-works license that made it possible is untouched.

David Mensah · 5 min

Software

Cloudflare’s cure for bots is watching everyone, all the time

Cloudflare's Precursor scores your mouse, scroll and typing for the whole visit. It's also the enforcement arm of the tollbooth around the…

David Mensah · 6 min

Software

Google’s Android choice screen now stops at the Swiss border

Google switched off Android's search choice screen for Swiss users. Switzerland's competition regulator wants to know if that breaks cartel law.

David Mensah · 3 min

Software

Apple’s rebuilt Siri finally meets the public — iOS 27 and macOS ‘Golden Gate’ betas are live

The iOS 27 and macOS betas put Apple's twice-delayed Siri on ordinary iPhones: behind a waitlist, English-only, three days after Apple sued…

David Mensah Jul 13, 2026 · 3 min