Topic: notification systems
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My Weekend With a Family-Watching AI Got Strange
The author tested Google's Gemini for Home AI, which provided real-time descriptive alerts of household activities, improving on generic security notifications with specific details like identifying family members versus strangers. While real-time alerts were mostly accurate, the system's daily H...
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Build a Modern MQTT Pager: Revive the Classic Beeper
A DIY project revives the classic pager using an ESP32 microcontroller and MQTT messaging, connecting nostalgic hardware to modern notification systems like Sentry for on-call alerts. The device features customizable audible alerts via RTTTL ringtones and a sleek, 3D-printed translucent case, ble...
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Instagram to notify parents of kids' self-harm searches
Instagram will soon notify parents in several countries if their enrolled teen repeatedly searches for self-harm or suicide content, aiming to empower parental intervention. The feature is an additional safety layer that triggers after multiple concerning searches, while existing systems already ...
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Dependency-Track: Open-Source Software Supply Chain Security
Dependency-Track is an open-source platform that provides continuous, real-time monitoring of software supply chain risks by analyzing Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) across an organization's entire portfolio. It identifies vulnerabilities, outdated components, and licensing issues by aggrega...
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Save $50 on the Google Pixel Watch 4 at Amazon
The Google Pixel Watch 4 is a feature-rich smartwatch for Android users, offering fitness tracking, communication tools, and AI assistance, and is currently discounted to $349.99 on Amazon. Key features of the watch include a domed glass display with adaptive brightness, a responsive haptic engin...
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Slack Lists: Turn Team Conversations Into Actionable Tasks
Slack Lists is a premium feature that integrates task management directly into the platform, allowing users to create, assign, and track tasks without leaving Slack. It addresses fragmented workflows by converting conversations into structured tasks with clear ownership, priorities, and deadlines...
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Galaxy S26 Ultra vs. iPhone 17 Pro Max: The Gap Is Widening
The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is pulling ahead of the iPhone 17 Pro Max, largely due to Apple's period of relative stagnation rather than a Samsung revolution. Samsung's advantage stems from its refined One UI software, which offers superior stability, clearer notifications, and greater customizat...
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Amazon Fixes Blink Camera App Outage
Amazon resolved a service disruption that temporarily blocked access to the Blink security camera app, fixing login and live-view issues after several hours. The outage, reported by users across multiple states and online forums, presented a vague error message with a 503 status code, indicating ...
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