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How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking

Show HN: LLM Tools that I made that I cant live without

This one free open-source tool replaced three paid apps I'd used for years

I thought free office suites always came with compromises, but this open-source tool proved I was completely wrong.…

UV Printer? 3D Printer? HeyGears says “Why Not Both”?

There’s a new contender in the prosumer UV printer world up on Kickstarter, the HeyGears G1. This one’s particularly interesting as they’re explicitly marketing it as being able t……

I've been loving the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, but it misses a pivotal foldable tool

Weird flex — or lack of one…

Show HN: Free AI Prompt Gen – A local-first, open-source prompt engineering tool

The best free AI prompt generator. Craft optimal text, image & code prompts for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude & Midjourney using proven RTF and CO-STAR frameworks.…

I was wrong about Google’s new selfie sign-in tool. Here’s how (and why) you should set it up now

Forget backup codes and recovery emails. Google's new selfie sign-in tool might be the best way to get back into your account.…

Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Show HN: GAI – A Go runtime for typed, tool-using LLM agents

🤖 Type-safe, provider-neutral agent runtime for Go with native tools, memory, and OpenTelemetry - lace-ai/gai…

I finally found a productivity tool my non-technical friends will actually use

A productivity tool that replaces the group chat, not the entire productivity stack…

10 Snipping Tool Hacks Every Windows 11 User Should Know

Snipping Tool is the default screenshot app for Windows 11, and it has a lot of hidden features that transform it into a power user tool.…

Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics

“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.…

Google withdraws new Earth AI tool after warnings over misinformation risks

Experts told BBC Verify Google's new feature which let people generate fake satellite images could be misused.…

Google rolls back the needless AI generation tools it added to Google Earth

People had less than a day to make misleading Google Earth images with AI before Google pulled the feature.…

Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day

The feature generated believable — but edited — images of the real world.…

Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add "stronger guardrails" after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery (Geoff Brumfiel/NPR)

Graph Engineering: The Missing Skill in AI

https://t.co/fyBGWQbsvn…

Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with scammers exploiting cheap internet calling

Panelists warned that anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with scammers exploiting cheap internet calling and AI.…

Google Gemini's Agentic AI Tool Comes to Chrome, Can Use Your Passwords

Spark is ready to help with web browsing, using details like logins for your personal accounts.…

Your first ESP32 project doesn't require coding — it just needs 3 simple tools and one afternoon

Anyone can get started with ESP32, thanks to a few simple tools…

'C-suite executives need to upskill themselves to really understand the threats': AI is becoming a tool for attackers and defenders, but true resilience requires a constantly changing strategy, says former GCHQ intelligence expert

AI is being used by threat actors and defense teams, but the best resilience is still human…

Starbucks bet big on an AI tool; 9 months later, it pulled the plug

I got duped by AI artists on Spotify, then found two tools to expose them all

Some of those bands don't really exist…

New open source printer has 7 toolheads that swap in 5 seconds for fast, zero-waste multi-color 3D printing — Sovol M1D 3D printer is the first open-source IDEX design with an integrated tool-changer

True dual-nozzle independent operation for a competitive price.…

How does the Code Execution tool sandbox arbitrary code the LLM generates?

From iTools to iCloud: Apple's first foray into Software as a Service

Need to convert a video? These two free tools make it easy

Whether you need smaller files or a new format, HandBrake and Shutter Encoder have you covered.…

Apple's New AI Tools May Require an iCloud+ Upgrade for Extended Usage

Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company may introduce an iCloud+ tier to offer extended AI usage and recover some of its compute costs.…

WhatsApp finally fixes one of its biggest storage headaches with this new cleanup tool

Following too many WhatsApp channels? This new feature makes reclaiming storage much easier.…

Show HN: Reclip – AI Video Clipper, Voiceover and Creator Tools

Reclip is an AI-powered creator toolkit. Automatically clip the best moments, add voiceovers, remove captions, and download videos — all in one platform.…

LLVM AI Tool Use Policy

Gemini’s notebook tools are catching up with the app that inspired them

Our APK teardown suggests website sources and mobile study tools may be on the way for Gemini, moving it closer to Gemini Notebook.…

Tinder pauses AI Photo Enhance tool after complaints

Users say the feature altered their appearance.…

Shanghai Aishengna named as the maker of China's first domestic immersion DUV chipmaking tools — first viable domestic 7nm-capable scanner to be completed by 2038

Chinese suppliers hold under 1% of ArF immersion resist.…

These self-hosted productivity tools did something mainstream apps couldn't — they actually stuck

Four categories I've written off for years, until these four tools changed my mind…

LinkedIn is testing a 'seems like AI slop' reporting tool

The company is also removing some of its own AI-writing features.…

Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

I added a single tiny utility app to my phone, and it outshines Google’s built-in tools

I installed Material Capsule and found a real use for my phone's camera hole…

Show HN: Wasted Cycles – Local wall-clock profiler for AI coding agents

Wasted Cycles is a local terminal profiler that reads the Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and Grok Build traces already on your machine and shows where a run stopped coding: model work…

Windows has a hidden Wi-Fi diagnostic tool. Here’s how to use it

Struggling with dropped Wi-Fi or slow speeds? This hidden Windows command generates a full diagnostic report, no extra software needed.…

Google is locking its most useful productivity tools behind a $20 monthly subscription

Putting up a paywall isn't a sustainable practice for casual users…

I tested the 7 best AEO tools & here’s the one I'll use every day in 2026

Get your brand mentioned in AI search…

Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

Prized lets ops, support, and finance teams build and ship secure internal tools with AI. Company data pre-connected and scoped, an audit trail on every access, one-click deploy be…

'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling

'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling…

Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib)

Grafana AI SDK for Go — streaming, tool-calling AI backends that speak fluent @ai-sdk/react - grafana/ai-sdk…

Microsoft Confirms Plan for Copilot ‘Super App’ Merging Its AI Tools

The new service will bring together Copilot's chatbot with tools such as Code and Cowork.…

Staring at your screen too long? I used Gemini to build a tool Android doesn't have (yet)

I asked Gemini to build a blink tracker that reminds me to blink while working…

Google Play is expanding age confirmation tools for app developers

The Age Signals API will be available globally before the end of the year.…

Opendot: A terminal AI agent that snapshots every action so you can undo it

A terminal AI agent you can fully undo - every file and shell action is snapshotted and reversible. Model-agnostic (any LLM), and connects to 1000+ app tools and MCP servers. - ved…

Show HN: VernLLM – The AI resilience layer for TypeScript

VernLLM documentation…

Show HN: MandoCode Desktop – Native Windows AI Coding Assistant on Ollama .NET

The MandoCode AI coding agent as a native Windows app — WinUI 3 over the same open-weight-model engine as the CLI (Ollama + Semantic Kernel). Review diffs before they land, run pla…

Enterprises are building their AI sales tools in-house and buying the data layer

What enterprise GTM AI leaders are investing in, what they build vs. buy, and how they work with Product teams to do the building.…

Oryxflow – cheaper and more reliable AI data analysis in Python and Claude Code

Faster, cheaper, more trustworthy data analysis for humans and AI agents. A Python library that turns data-science scripts into a cached, reproducible, lineage-tracked pipeline — r…

Amazon reviewers can't get enough of these 13 DeWalt tools, starting at $32

Save up to 62% on DeWalt's best-selling tools, including drills, saws, leaf blowers and more, all backed by thousands of five-star Amazon reviews.…

I meal prep every Sunday — these are the 9 kitchen tools I can't live without

I'm rounding up the meal prep tools I use every Sunday. Here are my favorites from Cuisinart, Ninja and more.…

I spent a month eating virtually nothing but pizza to test the Gozney Arc XL — here’s the outcome

Someone had to do it (and that someone was me)…

This ESP32-S3 project does what a $300 hardware analysis tool does, and it costs almost nothing

One firmware for every bus on your workbench…

Compliance-Ready AI Agents: Logging and Tracing Every MCP Tool Call with Bifrost

An AI agent on your team just deleted a customer record, moved a payment, or hit an internal API. It did it through an MCP tool, in a loop……

Show HN: Job Finder India – an honest job-fit tool that runs in your AI CLI

Honest, local-first, CLI-agnostic AI job-fit scoring — built for the Indian market. Tells you the truth about fit instead of talking you into applying. - harshgarg95/job-finder-ind…