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There’s now only one worth buying—but you can still access new features on older models you might already own.

Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils.

Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.

Samsung has unveiled a new flexible display technology for foldable phones that's designed to be slimmer, more durable, and less prone to creasing. The Flex Titanium tech is the culmination of everything that the company has learned over seven generations of foldables, according to Samsung, and will debut with the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 8 […]

Spotify founder Daniel Ek's body-scanning startup, Neko Health, is setting its sights on the United States after raising $700 million from a star-studded group of celebrities, entrepreneurs, and investment firms. It plans to open its first clinic in New York this year before expanding rapidly across the country. Neko operates private clinics offering full-body scans […]

Companies’ increasing reliance on AI chatbots isn’t making the customer service experience smarter. It’s just making it more infuriating.

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . It was 11:14 PM. My friend DM'd me on Twitter: "Your app just hung for 30 seconds, spun indefinitely, and then completely died." I opened the browser DevTools console pointed at production and saw it — the screen flooded in red: GET https://careerpilot-ai.run.app/api/analyze-career net::ERR_INCOMPLETE_CHUNKED_ENCODING 200 (OK) The Server-Sent Events stream powering CareerPilot AI was systematically collapsing on Google Cloud Run. And I had no idea why. Locally on localhost:3000 , the agentic pipeline was a masterpiece. The multi-stage reasoning logs streamed gracefully — Step 1 flowed into Step 6, the final structured JSON payload arrived within seconds, the UI lit up with a complete personalized career roadmap. Beautiful. But once deployed behind Google's Front End (GFE) proxy, the pipeline was a graveyard of broken sockets. The Architecture Under Fire CareerPilot AI runs a six-stage agentic pipeline on every career analysis request. Instead of firing a single long-running prompt to Gemini and making the user stare at a blank screen for 20+ seconds, we designed a Server-Sent Events logging stream to broadcast real-time reasoning steps directly to the browser — giving the interface the feel of a live, active mentor thinking out loud. Once the final stage (Self-Evaluation & Constraint Validation) completed, the backend constructed a massive, nested 15KB JSON payload containing the personalized roadmap: skill weightings, role benchmarks, resource links, and a 30-day milestone calendar. Here was the delivery mechanism — and the landmine hiding inside it: // server.ts — The vulnerable streaming channel app . get ( " /api/analyze-career " , async ( req , res ) => { res . setHeader ( " Content-Type " , " text/event-stream " ); res . setHeader ( " Cache-Control " , " no-cache " ); res . setHeader ( " Connection " , " keep-alive " ); // Stream intermediate reasoning logs per step for ( let st

DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM: Which One Wins My Freelance Budget? Last Tuesday I spent two hours building a client dashboard that needed AI-powered text summarization. The client is a small e-commerce shop, they get maybe 500 product descriptions a week that need condensing into bullet points. Sounds simple, right? Except when I ran the numbers on my usual OpenAI setup, the bill was going to eat into my margin harder than I'd like. That's when I went down the rabbit hole of Chinese AI models. DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM — I've been hearing about these for months from other devs in Discord, but I never actually committed to testing them because, honestly, who has the time? Well, apparently I do, because that Tuesday I decided to run all four head-to-head against my actual workload. Here's what happened. Why I Even Bothered (The Real Math) Before we get into the benchmarks and pricing tables, let me put this in perspective. My hourly rate as a freelance dev sits at $85. Every hour I spend wrestling with a subpar API that hallucinates or charges too much is an hour I'm not billing a client. The "free" model is never free — either it costs me time or it costs me money, and usually both. I was paying roughly $0.60 per 1M output tokens on GPT-4o for the summarization work. For 500 product descriptions, each averaging maybe 150 tokens output, that's about $0.045 per batch. Sounds tiny, right? But multiply that across multiple clients, and suddenly I'm watching $40-60 a month vanish into API costs that I can't really pass along without awkward pricing conversations. So I started shopping. And what I found genuinely surprised me. The Contenders at a Glance All four model families run through Global API's unified endpoint, which means I didn't have to maintain four different SDKs, four different auth setups, four different billing dashboards. Just swap the model name in the request and ship. For a one-person operation, that's huge. Here's the landscape I was working with: Di

Official case counts likely capture only a fraction of US cyclosporiasis infections, and the outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better.