Year: 2026
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Automation
How to Fix the Windows Update Reboot Loop in Ansible Playbooks
Automating the patching of Windows Servers can cause an infinite restart loop cycle for system administrators as a result of the most common issue in sequential playbook execution which is mismanaged state flags. Addressing the Ansible Windows update reboot loop issue systematically is needed for reliable patch management. Manual interaction can defeat the goal of automation and create excessive operational overhead…
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Sofa 5 is the app you need to track TV, movies, podcasts, and everything
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 122, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, go ’Zona, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about early Apple employees and weather apps and one-page productivity systems, watching Avatar: Fire and Ash on…
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Unpacking Peter Thiel’s big bet on solar-powered cow collars
Founders Fund has made its name backing what Peter Thiel calls “zero to one” companies — businesses that don’t just improve on existing ideas but create something entirely new. Its portfolio includes Facebook, SpaceX, and Palantir. Its latest bet is a New Zealand startup that puts solar-powered smart collars on cows. Halter, which closed a $220 million Series E at…
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My dream pair of AR gaming glasses needs to have these nine features
I’ve spent months in the lab testing the latest AR glasses from Xreal and Viture. By “lab,” I mean cozied up on my couch each night, playing my Steam Deck or Nintendo Switch 2 on a huge, virtual screen that only I can see through these glasses. Using AR glasses as a portable display for your handhelds (and other USB-C…
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This free tool does everything the Snipping Tool does and about ten things it doesn’t
I write about tech every day, and taking screenshots in Windows is a big part of my work. And for the longest time, I relied on the Windows Snipping Tool for taking screenshots and doing basic annotation. It’s actually not that bad, and recent Windows updates have made Snipping Tool even better: it now includes Quick Markup, a color picker,…
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Axios npm hack used fake Teams error fix to hijack maintainer account
The maintainers of the popular Axios HTTP client have published a detailed post-mortem describing how one of its developers was targeted by a social engineering campaign linked to North Korean hackers. This follows the threat actors compromising a maintainer account to publish two malicious versions of Axios (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) to the npm package registry, triggering a supply chain attack. These…
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People would rather have an Amazon warehouse in their backyard than a data center
As data centers have grown and proliferated, so too has the backlash. A new Harvard/MIT poll found 40% of people supported the building of a data center in their area, with 32% opposed when asked about the building of different industrial facilities in their neighborhoods. One fun tidbit from the survey, per Axios: More people would rather have an e-commerce…
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Google Messages still can’t do the one thing that makes iMessage actually useful
iMessage is one of Apple’s best offerings, and a big reason why iPhones dominate North American smartphone sales. It’s easy to reduce the success of iMessage to superficial reasons, like people wanting blue message bubbles on their iPhone instead of green ones. There’s slightly more to the story than that — iMessage beats out Google Message in real, practical ways.…
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Folk musician Murphy Campbell targeted by AI fakes and copyright trolls
In January, folk artist Murphy Campbell discovered several songs on her Spotify profile that did not belong there. They were songs that she had recorded, but she’d never uploaded them to Spotify, and something was off about the vocals. She quickly surmised that someone had pulled performances of the songs she posted to YouTube, created AI covers, and uploaded them…
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Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usage
It’s about to become more expensive for Claude Code subscribers to use Anthropic’s coding assistant with OpenClaw and other third-party tools. According to a customer email shared on Hacker News, Anthropic said that starting at noon Pacific on April 4 (today), subscribers will “no longer be able to use your Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw.” Instead, they’ll…
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