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‘I Just Feel Ripped Off’: A Week of Users Asking What They Pay For

There is a particular kind of complaint that gets louder as a market matures. Not “this is broken” — that is the noise of a new product — but “wait, what am I actually paying for?” That is the sound of customers who have done the sum. This week, across the AI tools people pay for daily, that is the sound that carried. None of it is a single scandal. It is a mood: ads turning up inside plans that used to be clean, “unlimited” offers with a quiet expiry date, top-tier subscriptions that somehow fe

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Build a small OpenOSRS plugin in Java

A small plugin is a good way to learn a desktop client's extension system. This example displays a chat message after login. It covers discovery, dependency injection, game events and packaging without automating gameplay. I maintain the OpenOSRS project at OOSRS/OOSRS. It builds on the RuneLite/OpenOSRS ecosystem; the example below comes from our public example-plugin repository. You need Git and JDK 11. The repository includes its Gradle wrapper, so you do not need a separate Gradle installati

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I built an hourly newspaper for e-ink (and turned the pipeline into an MCP server)

Every hour, a Lambda pulls about 120 items from ~100 RSS feeds, asks a small model to act as an editor, and typesets the result as a 480x800 one-bit page for the Xteink X4 e-ink reader on my desk. The same pipeline now produces a multi-page "Morning Paper" PDF for reMarkable and Kindle, a TRMNL plugin, and an MCP server that agents can call. This is what it does, what broke, and what I learned about "news for agents". Everything below is live at https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev. Co

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OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May

In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the AI tried to steal users' API keys. At the time, RubyGems described it as a "major malicious attack" and shut down signups for four days as it tried to mitigate the damage and collect data. Researchers said that the contents of the packages that brought Ruby

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Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the possibility of building an AI that was beyond human control. On the latter, he said it was "absolutely" possible, but vowed to take actions to prevent that from happening, even if it meant pausing training, adding that "there are risks we sh

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