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Zero-Click Spyware: Turn On These Free Phone Security Modes
Apple, Google, and Meta ship free security modes that stop zero-click spyware cold. Here's what each does, what you give up, and how to switch it on in under two minutes.
SolarSquare's $60M Round: What India's Rooftop Solar Boom Signals
SolarSquare is raising up to $60M at a ~$500M valuation, doubling in 18 months. I break down what their full-stack solar model signals for South Asia's clean energy builders.
Amazon's Bee Wearable: AI Convenience vs. Real Privacy Costs
Amazon's Bee AI wearable left a TechCrunch reviewer impressed and unsettled. That tension reveals something every builder and user of ambient AI needs to understand.
You Already Have AI — Wozniak Said So at Graduation
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told graduates they already have AI — actual intelligence. Here's what that pun means in practice for Sri Lankan engineers and students.
Sarvam Indus and HMD: What Local Language AI Actually Takes
HMD pre-loaded Sarvam's Indus AI chatbot onto a $114 Android in India. Here's what the technical choices and distribution math mean for anyone building local-language AI in South Asia.
Starship V3's First Scrub: A Ground Systems Engineering Lesson
SpaceX's Starship V3 was ready. The ground wasn't. That distinction teaches engineers something important about where complex systems actually fail.
Google Antigravity 2.0: Features, Pricing, Benchmarks and How It Works (2026)
Google launched Antigravity 2.0 at I/O 2026 — a standalone multi-agent AI coding platform powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash. Full breakdown of features, pricing, speed benchmarks, comparisons with Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, and how to get started.
Computers stopped being fun. Here's a fix from Sri Lanka.
An Ask HN thread asks when computers stopped being fun. My take, from Sri Lanka: smaller scope, weirder constraints, and projects no one will ever use.
Claude tried to earn $20 on open-source bounties. It made $0.
A solo developer pointed Claude at Algora bounties with a $20 token budget and earned nothing. The result tells you more about the AI agent economy than a success story would have.
Zerostack: a 12MB Rust coding agent worth a look from SL
Zerostack is a new Unix-inspired Rust coding agent that runs in about 12MB of RAM. I walk through why that number matters more on a 4GB laptop than on an M3 MacBook.
Xbox is now XBOX: brand-by-poll is a tell
Microsoft rebranded Xbox to XBOX after a Twitter poll. I read the move as a confidence tell, and as a warning about renaming side projects on a whim.
Vibe-coded widgets and Googlebooks: an SL dev's read
Google's Android Show dropped a stack of pre-I/O announcements. I read them through a Sri Lankan free-tier lens — only two are worth your time, and the laptop isn't one.