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TechCrunch

Lucid Motors’ EV output falls to lowest level in almost two years

The company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs.

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Dev.to

Node.js Fintech Metrics Dashboard: StatsD-Style API Comparison for Incident Reconstruction

TL;DR: Choose the dashboard shape by asking which evidence must survive an incident, not which chart looks cheapest on day one. For a Node.js fintech experiment split across tenant cohorts, keep operational counters sepa

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Dev.to

Stop letting examples lie: make your OpenAPI spec the single source of truth for docs, mocks, and agents

Every API team says the spec is the source of truth, then maintains five copies of what a response actually looks like: one in the docs, one in a mock server, one in a shared collection, one in test fixtures, and one in

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Dev.to

REST API versioning in 2026: paths vs headers, additive changes, and OpenAPI diffs in CI

Teams argue for weeks about where a version number should live and spend almost no time on the two questions that actually protect consumers: which changes are genuinely breaking, and how an old version is retired. A ver

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Dev.to

PicoCTF Wave a Flag Writeup — Read a Remote Binary's Help Output

This introductory challenge teaches the most basic reflex in offensive security: read a program's help before using it. By connecting to the remote binary and typing ./flag --help, the flag is displayed directly. Plat

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Dev.to

Document API authentication in OpenAPI 3.1: Bearer, API keys, OAuth 2, and mTLS without the usual mistakes

Authentication is the part of an API contract that consumers hit first and that documentation most often gets quietly wrong. A security scheme that is defined but never referenced, a bearer token modeled as an ordinary h

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Dev.to

Automating Weekly Multi‑Channel Drafts with a Node‑JS Content Generator

Automating Weekly Multi‑Channel Drafts with a Node‑JS Content Generator TL;DR: I built a tiny Node script that pulls data from ClickUp, renders markdown templates, and drops ready‑to‑publish drafts into content/…/mediu

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The Verge

Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports

It’s a wild time for retro gaming. Thanks to decompilations and recompilations of classic titles, those games are becoming unshackled from their proprietary code and original hardware to be ported to new devices or updat

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The Verge

The Matic is the first robovac to get an FCC ban waiver, not that it needs it

The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum and robo-mop, and it's also now the first to escape the FCC's Roomba ban. Well, sort of - because the Matic wasn't banned to begin with. Here's what's actually happening: On October

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TechCrunch

OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.

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TechCrunch

Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say

Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.

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The Verge

This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions

People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app, allowing its AI system to analyze a

Read on The Verge ↗ Oct 5, 2026