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How to Use Midjourney V8.1: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]

Midjourney quietly swapped its default engine on August 29, 2026. Anyone who opened Discord and typed /imagine that week got V8.1 output instead of the V7 renders they were used to, with no announcement banner and no opt-in required. If your prompts suddenly look different, or you’re setting up Midjourney for the first time, this…

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'Welcome to the AGI era': OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra

The rumors were true, all of them (and then some): OpenAI today is releasing GPT-6 Astra, a new frontier model that the company says likely marks the onset of artificial generalized intelligence (AGI), its long sought goal of "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work." In a closed a press briefing…

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Meta says Muse Spark 1.3 has frontier performance — but its best results come from a model developers can’t broadly use yet

Meta’s newest AI model Muse Spark 1.3, unveiled yesterday, is faster and more performant on third-party benchmarks than its predecessor — with a caveat. "Muse Spark 1.3 is rolling out today with frontier performance almost too cheap to meter," Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on X, calling it Meta’s “biggest jump” yet in…

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VS Code vs Cursor vs Zed: 180ms vs 2.4s Cold Start [2026]

Three code editors are pulling developers in three different directions this year, and picking wrong costs more than a subscription fee. VS Code still anchors the market at 75.9% usage share according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Cursor has rocketed to an 18% share as an AI-native fork built on that same VS Code…

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BlastEm Sega Genesis Setup: 12 Steps, 60 Min [2026]

Sega killed the Genesis Mini line years ago, but the actual 16-bit hardware it imitated is still one of the easiest consoles on Earth to emulate accurately on a laptop from 2015. The catch is that most “Genesis emulator” tutorials online point at Kega Fusion, a program that stopped receiving updates over a decade ago,…

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How Sonos rebooted itself

Today, I’m talking with Tom Conrad, the CEO of Sonos. Tom and I have known each other for a long time — he was the chief technology officer of Pandora, VP of product at Snap, and the chief product officer of Quibi. He was also on the board at Sonos during its disastrous 2024 app…

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The AI visibility gap: Why great brands disappear from AI answers

Presented by ContentfulMost marketing teams still measure visibility the same way they always have: rankings, click-through rates, and organic traffic. But buyers have moved on. Search tools and AI engines now synthesize answers directly on the screen, creating a world of zero-click searches where your website is entirely bypassed. The “old days” are not coming…

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