Akash Das

Apple sent mercenary spyware alerts to users in 110 countries and now shows them on the iPhone Lock Screen. How to verify yours and what to do next.

Regulation E was written for humans. Regulation Z was not so narrow. Which card you give a shopping agent decides whether you get your money back.

EU Article 50 and California SB 942 both went live August 2, 2026. Which AI labelling duties are yours, and which belong to the model providers.

DeepSeek V4 pricing moved to peak and off-peak rates on August 16, 2026. Peak hours cover Europe's morning but America's night. Costs and fixes explained.

Courts have logged 1,668 AI hallucination cases and $145,000 in Q1 2026 sanctions. The failure is never the model. It is the missing verification step.

HP, Asus and Acer now ship some laptops with CXMT DRAM, and only outside the US. Here is how to check your machine and whether it matters.

OpenAI's Daybreak Red tier puts GPT-5.6-Cyber behind identity checks and hardware keys. Here is the real gate, the price, and the EU catch.

Copilot's bonus credits end Aug 31, Rust 1.98 lands Aug 20, TypeScript 7 blocks half the ecosystem, Python 3.15 stabilises the free-threaded ABI, and Stripe buys OpenRouter.

Sticky tool_choice loops, the August 26 Assistants API shutdown, AutoGen's maintenance mode, caching versus memory, and why end-to-end evals miss regressions.

The MCP server code is usually fine. What breaks is DNS, OAuth client registration, directory review rules, and context budget. Nine checks you can run before you submit.