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1+ min ago (246+ words) Google has long allowed Android users to uninstall updates for system apps via the Play Store. Unfortunately, the company has now removed this Play Store feature for no clear reason. We can confirm that system app listings in the Google Play Store no longer have an uninstall button, which is used to uninstall app updates. Instead, these app listings only offer an open button. The change seems to be widespread and doesn't target a specific Play Store app version. We're seeing this change on devices running version 49.1.32-31 all the way to 49.2.25-31. System apps not listed in the app drawer (e.g., Android Auto, Pixel Camera Services) are also affected by this change. These app listings usually have an uninstall button, but Google's change means there are ordinarily no buttons here. You can check out this change in the second set of images…...

1+ min ago (537+ words) The storyteller with the familiar text-to-speech voice. The cut that zooms into a face at just the right comedic beat. The AI-generated narrator who sounds as if she's explaining a myth. The Italian "brainrot" audio that started as a playful chant and ended up in Indian Shorts stitched into jokes about office life, exams, relationships and minor personal tragedies. For Gen Z, meaning isn't always in the words. Stickers, GIFs, memes, filters, and short video clips convey emotion, humour, and intent faster and more precisely than sentences ever could. A single reaction GIF can capture frustration, agreement, or excitement in a fraction of a second. A meme or a dubbed Short can carry cultural references and inside jokes that everyone "gets" without explanation. Has India Drifted Towards A Language With Fewer Words? The usual explanations are technological, algorithms, smartphone penetration,…...

3+ min ago (225+ words) Building a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline usually starts with a simple goal: "I want to chat with this documentation." If you simply curl a documentation page or use a generic crawler, your LLM context gets flooded with noise: I built Tech Docs to LLM-Ready Markdown to solve this exact problem. Instead of treating every page as a bag of HTML tags, this actor detects the documentation framework (Docusaurus, GitBook, MkDocs, etc.) and intelligently extracts only the content you care about. Scrape technical documentation from Docusaurus, GitBook, MkDocs and convert to clean Markdown for RAG pipelines and AI training. Here is why this is better than writing your own BeautifulSoup script: It automatically identifies the underlying tech stack and applies specialized extraction rules. It automatically strips out: This is the game-changer. The scraper doesn't just output text; it outputs structured data…...

5+ min ago (601+ words) There could be potential for travel disruption and power outages BRITS are bracing for more rain and flooding after Storm Bram as the Met Office issues yellow warnings for the weekend. A weekend washout is expected in parts of the country on Saturday and Sunday with potential travel disruption and power outages. It comes after Storm Bram began'ravaging the west coast, as well as parts of the north of the UK, on Monday before eventually clearing on Wednesday. Now, the Met Office has issued yellow rain warnings covering parts of north Wales, northwest England and southwest Scotland. Persistent and heavy rain is expected to sweep in over the weekend from the west. They said rainfall totals of more than 30mm are likely across the warnings areas with higher amounts possible over exposed upland regions. Cops release CCTV in hunt for missing…...

5+ min ago (277+ words) Monetize Your App: Your users enjoy the full functionality of your app without the hindrance of a subscription model. With Monetzly, you can offer a seamless experience while still generating revenue. Host Contextually Relevant Ads: As users engage with your AI app, relevant ads appear in real-time, powered by AI-driven contextual matching. This means the ads are not just random; they're tailored to enhance the user experience, creating value for both users and advertisers. For developers, this dual-earning model provides a sustainable path forward in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. You no longer have to compromise user experience for revenue. Instead, you can focus on building innovative features while we handle the monetization aspect. For advertisers, Monetzly offers access to an engaged audience actively using AI applications. This means higher conversion rates through contextually relevant ad placements, leading to better…...

6+ min ago (377+ words) Most product recommendation systems I've seen are basically fancy keyword matchers. They work okay when you have millions of clicks to analyze, but they completely fall apart when: I just built a real-time recommendation engine that actually understands products using LLMs and graph databases. Here's the surprising part: the core logic is only ~100 lines of Python. Instead of relying on user behavior alone, we're teaching an LLM to understand: Then we throw all of this into a Neo4j graph database where relationships become first-class citizens. Now you can query things like "show me all products that share a complementary taxonomy with this gel pen." Say someone's browsing a gel pen on your e-commerce site. A traditional recommender might show: With our approach, the LLM analyzes the product description and extracts: Now your graph knows these relationships. When someone views the gel…...

8+ min ago (390+ words) Heads up, React developers! The React team just announced two new vulnerabilities in React Server Components that could lead to a denial of service or expose your source code. If you are using React Server Components in production, you should patch your application immediately. This article covers the general React vulnerabilities and the specific impact on Next.js. Here's a breakdown of what you need to know. The two vulnerabilities are: A specially crafted HTTP request can trigger an infinite loop on your server. This will cause the server to become unresponsive, leading to a denial of service for your users. This is a high-severity vulnerability, and you should address it immediately. This vulnerability allows a malicious actor to potentially access the source code of your Server Functions. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, they could expose your code,…...

9+ min ago (342+ words) Swissbit is expanding its portfolio of multi-application security keys with the launch of the iShield Key 2, introducing a new variant featuring HID Seos, one of the most widely used credential technologies for physical access control. Following the addition of MIFARE DESFire EV3, Swissbit now supports another major global standard, offering customers a single token that unifies phishing-resistant digital authentication and secure physical access. HID Seos is deployed in numerous access systems used across enterprises, " More " The post Swissbit adds HID Seos to iShield Key 2 appeared first on Help Net Security. Swissbit adds HID Seos to iShield Key 2 Swissbit is expanding its portfolio of multi-application security keys with the launch of the iShield Key 2, introducing a new variant featuring HID Seos, one of the most widely used credential technologies for physical access control. Following the addition of MIFARE DESFire EV3, Swissbit now supports…...

12+ min ago (388+ words) Japan's weather authorities have issued a tsunami advisory after a 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the country's northern Pacific coast The earthquake caused "sea level fluctuations", though there is currently no concern for damage More than 6,000 people were evacuated from several areas along the coast of Aomori Prefecture, the northernmost province of Japan's main island It comes just days after a 7.5-level tremor in the same region injured at least 50 people Edited by Joel Guinto, with Shaimaa Khalil and Chika Nakayama in Tokyo Tsunami waves of 20cm (8in) have been recorded in Hachinohe city in Aomori Prefecture, according to the Japan Meterological Agency. The earthquake today comes just days after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake shook the same region. That quake, which also struck off the coast of Aomori, injured more than 50 people, authorities said. Authorities warned that a stronger tremor could occur, urging people…...

12+ min ago (161+ words) Satya Nadella, Microsoft Chairman and CEO, launched MahaCrimeOS AI, an AI- and Azure-powered platform with the Maharashtra Government's Special Purpose Vehicle (MARVEL) and Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) on Fridayat the Microsoft AI Tour in Mumbai. Developed by CyberEye, theMahaCrimeOS AI is currently live in 23 Nagpur police stations. As per the Nagpur police, the MahaCrimeOS AI decreased the turnaround times of investigations by 80 per cent. Moreover, almost 100 per cent of investigations are getting digitally registered. According to Chief Minister Fadnavis, who met with Nadella earlier, AI will expand to all 1,100 police stations across Maharashtra. This will allow state-wide police stations to digitally register and investigate cybercrimes using standardised, AI-powered workflows. "It was really great to meet both the Superintendent of Police as well as the people in the investigative team and the pride they had in being able to use this…...