With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: at least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic 

While some dual investors are understandable, others were more shocking, and signal the disregard of a longstanding ethical conflict-of-interest rule.

Ex-Apple team launches Acme Weather, a new take on weather forecasting

The team that sold their last app Dark Sky to Apple are back with Acme Weather, which offers alternative forecasts, rainbow and sunset alerts, and more.

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of using 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claude’s AI capabilities, as U.S. officials debate export controls aimed at slowing China’s AI progress.

Uber’s new autonomous vehicle division is about survival and opportunity

Uber Autonomous Solutions will see the company taking on all the tasks associated with operating a robotaxi, self-driving truck, or sidewalk delivery robot business.

Google’s Cloud AI lead on the three frontiers of model capability

AI models are pushing against three frontiers at once: raw intelligence, response time, and a third quality you might call "extensibility."

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands.

2FA UX patterns: Designing setup flows for SMS, authenticator apps, and biometrics

Two-factor authentication should be secure, but it shouldn’t frustrate users. This guide explores standard 2FA user flow patterns for SMS, TOTP, and biometrics, along with edge cases, recovery strategies, and UX best practices. The post 2FA UX patterns: Designing setup flows for SMS, authenticator apps, and biometrics appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

6 React Server Component performance pitfalls in Next.js

React Server Components and the Next.js App Router enable streaming and smaller client bundles, but only when used correctly. This article explores six common mistakes that block streaming, bloat hydration, and create stale UI in production. The post 6 React Server Component performance pitfalls in Next.js appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Making sense of web rendering patterns (SSR, CSR, static, islands)

Gil Fink (SparXis CEO) joins PodRocket to break down today’s most common web rendering patterns: SSR, CSR, static rednering, and islands/resumability. The post Making sense of web rendering patterns (SSR, CSR, static, islands) appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

LaunchPod: Smarter AI Models Won’t Fix Your Deployment

Maryam Ashoori, VP of Product and Engineering at IBM’s Watsonx platform, talks about the messy reality of enterprise AI deployment. The post LaunchPod: Smarter AI Models Won’t Fix Your Deployment appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

How to design 2FA: Comparing methods, user flows, and recovery strategies

2FA has evolved far beyond simple SMS codes. This guide explores authentication methods, UX flows, recovery strategies, and how to design secure, frictionless two-factor systems. The post How to design 2FA: Comparing methods, user flows, and recovery strategies appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

CSS @container scroll-state: Replace JS scroll listeners now

CSS @container scroll-state lets you build sticky headers, snapping carousels, and scroll indicators without JavaScript. Here’s how to replace scroll listeners with clean, declarative state queries. The post CSS @container scroll-state: Replace JS scroll listeners now appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

I Built a Free QR Code Generator - My First Web Project

Hey everyone! 👋

I just completed my first web development project -
a free QR Code Generator!

About the Project

It's a simple web app that allows anyone to generate
QR codes instantly without any registration.

Features

✅ 100% Free
✅ No registration required
✅ Download as PNG
✅ Mobile friendly
✅ Lightning ...

Can You Take Me Into Your Brain?

We built AI to understand intelligence. But is it actually teaching us about ourselves — or are we just projecting?

Someone once asked Gu Ailing — the freestyle skier who competes as both Gu Ailing and Eileen, who holds two passports, two languages, two identities forged into one extraordinary athlete — “can you take me into your brain?”

She laughed. Then she gave on...

8-Bit Music Theory: How They Made The Great Sea Feel C U R S E D

Ever wonder how the Wind Waker's "Great Sea" theme went from inviting adventure to genuinely unsettling? This breakdown reveals the musical magic that makes the "Cursed" version so darn creepy!

It's all thanks to clever tricks like spooky tritones, clashing harmonies, and even weaving in familiar ominous melodies, such as Ganondorf's theme, to totally transform that epic sailing tune in...

Your Own AI Assistant: Welcome to the New World of Work

Remember when having a personal assistant was something only executives and celebrities could afford? Those days are fading fast. AI is quietly reshaping how ordinary people work, learn, and manage their daily lives — and the shift is happening faster than most of us expected.

The Democratization of Help

For decades, getting real, personalized assistance meant either...

Introducing EnvGuard: Catch .env Mistakes Before They Break Your App

EnvGuard is an open-source .env validator that catches missing keys, type mismatches, stale variables, and potential secret leaks before they break your app or CI pipeline.

If you work with .env files, this is the guardrail that prevents avoidable config bugs.

TL;DR

• Validate .env against .env.example <...

I built an open-source alternative to Toast and Square for restaurant management

The Problem

If you run a small restaurant, your options for online ordering and management are:

1. SaaS platforms like Toast, Square, or ChowNow — $100-300+/month with vendor lock-in
2. Old open-source projects — mostly PHP/Laravel, hard to extend, dated UIs
3. Build it yourself — months of work bef...

11 Best V0 Alternatives 2025: Real Reviews & Pricing

Why Look Beyond V0 by Vercel? V0 by Vercel is solid for generating React components, but what if you need more than just frontend UI? Look, V0 does one thing really well - it takes your text prompts and spits out clean React components with Tailwind CSS. Perfect if you're building in the Vercel ecosystem and just need UI pieces. But here's what V0 can't do(as of now): Build full applications wit...

8 AI Developer Tools for Faster & Smarter Development 👨‍💻🚀

Artificial intelligence has been transforming the way software developers build applications by providing them with new ways to simplify repetitive tasks, increase their productivity, and create smarter programs. But the problem is that there are so many AI-powered tools coming out that deciding which ones to use and how to integrate them into your workflow might take a long time and be very frust...

The 5-Minute Kubernetes Cluster Health Check

TLDR You can check your Kubernetes cluster's health in under 5 minutes using five key commands: checking node status, monitoring resource usage, reviewing pod health across namespaces, investigating problem pods, and examining cluster events. This quick routine helps catch issues before they escalate into critical problems. Kubernetes is great until it's not. One bad node, a pod stuck in CrashLoop...

Livewire 4: The Future of PHP Components

This week at Laracon Caleb Porzio announced Livewire 4, which comes with unified components, performance improvements, and many more awesome goodies 🤤 Unifying Livewire Caleb takes the stage to address one of the most pressing issues in the Livewire's ecosystem: fragmentation. With three different ways to create Livewire components (traditional, Volt functional, and Volt class-based), the communi...

Laracon 2025 Keynote

This year's Laracon keynote was absolutely insane! There were seven segments packed with open source goodies, AI-powered development tools, and infrastructure that'll make you rethink what modern web development can be. Here's everything that went down. 🎯 New Framework Features (Taylor Otwell) 🚀 Open Source Deep Dive (Joe Tannenbaum) 🤖 Laravel AI (Ashley Hindle) 🎨 Laravel Design (David Hill) ...

Laravel Wayfinder

Laravel has announced a new package called Wayfinder. This package will allow you to easily generate fully-typed, importable TypeScript functions for your controllers and named routes, providing devs with a seamless integration between a Laravel backend and a TypeScript frontend. Let's learn how to use Wayfinder with the Laravel React Starter Kit. First, create a new Laravel app using the followin...