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The first Zipline drone deliveries for Uber Eats orders will start later this year.

If you hear lots of grumbling in coffee shops this morning, GitHub's outage may be why.

Apple's changing its rules for data collection consent prompts after Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Apple of giving the prompts a design that favored its own apps. Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompts reportedly cost social media apps nearly $10 billion when they launched with iOS 14.5, making cross-app tracking of users largely opt in. But […]

African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.

Uber is teaming up with drone company Zipline to start airborne takeout deliveries later this year, with the goal of reaching one million daily drone deliveries by 2029. Uber also said it was making a strategic investment in Zipline, a California-based company that has been orchestrating drone deliveries in Texas since 2025. The news comes […]

The greatest invention in pet tech in recent years is the litter robot. A machine that scoops your kitties' poop so you don't have to - what else could a cat owner possibly want? How about insights into your kitty's litter box usage that could flag health issues? Sign me up. But I have two […]

Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's text marking system is "a version of the SynthID-Text approach" - an open-source watermarking technology developed by Google DeepMind that creates detectable patterns using wording probabilities. This […]

It's just a hook, sewn into a bag, but I really, really like it. Peak Design is so proud of its clever integration that the San Francisco-based maker of camera gear gave it a name: BagLev, for its ability to keep its new City Line of bags levitated above the dirty ground. How many of […]

According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it could go rogue and hack another company.) According to FT, responsibility […]

On Friday, Amazon customers received an email alerting them to an update to the site's terms and conditions. Most notably, it stated that disputes would now be resolved through arbitration and said users agree to a class action waiver. Amazon framed this as a "fast and efficient" way to resolve issues, but it notably would […]

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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started It all started in July, when one of OpenAI's autonomous AI agents […]

Short answer: for a small fintech product that turns reviewer voice notes into structured code findings, start with one synchronous speech-to-text file-upload adapter for MP3 and WAV, but write every upload to a tenant ledger before making the transcription request. That is usually the fastest integration because it keeps the first release small while preserving per-tenant cost visibility and a clean path to regional routing. Choice Shipping effort Tenant attribution Best fit Main constraint Direct file upload Lowest Clear with an internal ledger Short reviewer notes Bound by the selected API's request and duration limits Object storage plus async worker Medium Clear with job records Long or bursty recordings More states to operate Self-hosted transcription Highest Fully internal Strict control requirements or sustained workloads Model serving becomes your job My recommendation is the first row for the initial release. Keep the adapter replaceable, measure billed units rather than guessing from file size, and promote work to a queue only after real upload patterns justify it. The point isn't to find a universally fastest model. It is to ship weekly without losing the tenant-level evidence needed to understand margin. How should a simple speech-to-text API handle MP3 and WAV file uploads? Treat the upload as a business event, not as an anonymous call to an AI endpoint. Before sending any audio, create an internal record with tenantId , changeId , uploadId , media type, byte count, selected processing region, and a start timestamp. After transcription, add the external request identifier when one exists, the terminal status, and the billable unit reported by the selected service. A byte count is useful for capacity planning; it is not a substitute for actual billing data. That distinction matters in a multi-tenant SaaS. One tenant may submit many short WAV notes, while another submits compressed MP3 files with longer conversations. Charging, margin analysis, and abuse

Eighty minutes into building with three people I had met that morning, I renamed the idea I brought with me. 21:05 Rename the product to Civiq and credit the team I wrote that commit message myself. By then the idea had four authors. Some context on the room. The Claude Impact Lab is part of Claude Community, the run of local events where people who use Claude get together in person. This one followed a Claude Conversation held earlier in Los Angeles, where people talked through what AI is doing to their jobs. The Impact Lab takes what came out of that conversation and turns it into a build day. You get the problem brief, you form a team, you have the day, you demo at the end. Travis Johnson, a Claude community ambassador, hosted with Evan Grenda at Intersections LA. Developers and non-developers both, and they meant it. What I brought was not a project. It was an idea and a spec for it. No code, nothing built, nothing running. The idea comes out of something that is true in most cities. Your city government publishes what it intends to do before it does it. Agendas go up ahead of the meeting, and any resident can read them, show up, and speak on an item before the vote. That right exists. Using it takes work, which is probably why every time I used it I would give up on what I was looking for. In Ventura it means 21 separate boards and commissions, each with its own page, posting PDFs that run long and read like they were written for the people already familiar with the subject matter. Because they were. So if you want to know whether anyone is voting on something a block from your house, you go looking, board by board, document by document. And you have to already know the words the city uses for the thing you would call a pothole. Agenda Watch was going to make all of that searchable in plain language, with every answer carrying a receipt back to the page it came from, so nobody has to take the tool's word for anything. In use that is a small thing. You ask a que

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I told myself I wouldn't buy an OhSnap accessory for my phone. Every one I'd tested was nice, but felt overpriced and slightly flawed. After I weighed in on the $40 Snap Grip 5 last year, I wound up sticking with my $25 Syncwire instead. But OhSnap's $50 Snap Grip Stand finally got me. To […]

One of the big tradeoffs with Xteink's pocket-friendly e-readers is a lack of easy access to ebooks. On a Kindle or Kobo you can download tens of thousands of titles through each device's respective online bookstores, but with Xteink's devices you have to source DRM-free ebooks on your own. That's about to change, as the […]

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 140, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, don't forget to hydrate, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Will Ferrell and Fabrizio Romano and Heather Cox Richardson, […]

PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm's new CEO attempts to turn the company around.

TL;DR: ByteChef's workflow editor now exposes the full set of flow controls : alongside the familiar Condition , Branch , and Loop , you can drop Parallel , Fork/Join , Each , Map , and Subflow onto the canvas. That means workflows that fan out over lists, run independent steps concurrently, and call other workflows as reusable building blocks - all visually, no custom code. This closes out issue #1057 , one of the longest-running feature checklists in the ByteChef repository. Some GitHub issues are essays. Issue #1057 is a checklist: [x] condition [x] loop [x] each [x] branch [x] map [x] parallel [x] fork-join [x] subflow Each of those checkboxes is a flow control - what the workflow engine internally calls a task dispatcher . A regular component does work: it sends the email, queries the database, calls the API. A task dispatcher never does work itself. It decides which tasks run, when, how many times, and with what data - it directs traffic. We wrote about the first half of that checklist in our guide to flow controls : Condition routes on true/false, Branch picks one of several paths based on an expression, and Loop repeats steps over a list. Those cover decisions and repetition . This post is about the second half - the controls that cover concurrency and composition . They've been running behind a feature flag while we hardened them one checkbox at a time; with the list complete, the flag is going away and the full set is available to everyone. Why Sequential Isn't Always Enough Every workflow starts as a straight line: trigger, then step one, then step two. That's the right default - it's easy to reason about, and each step can use the output of the one before it. But real processes aren't always lines: Onboarding a customer means creating a CRM record, provisioning an account, and notifying the sales channel - three things that don't depend on each other, so why wait? Enriching 200 leads one at a time takes 200× as long as enriching them all at once. Five di