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Korea’s market now sets global AI sentiment. The Kospi-Nasdaq correlation has nearly tripled. SK Hynix’s US listing extended Korea’s influence into 24-hour trading.
If there’s a new browser, email app, or note-taking app to try, chances are I’ve already installed it. Like every other productivity nerd, I’m always chasing the perfect setup. That’s how I stumbled upon Quiche Browser. It was already close to replacing the Arc Search for me on the iPhone, but its latest update finally pushed it over the edge, earning it a spot as my default browser.
Quiche Browser is developed by a solo indie developer named Greg de J, who runs it under Quiche Industries. The headline feature of Quiche is its customizability. Nearly every button in Quiche can be moved, rearranged, or removed entirely, both in the bottom toolbar and the main menu. If that sounds like too much tinkering, the Toolbar Gallery gives you ready-made presets to start from, so you can go minimal or fully loaded without building anything from scratch.

The tab switcher is another strength for this app. I can view your tabs as a grid or a list. I like that Quiche will even estimate how long an article takes to read, showing that time right under the tab title. I can group the tabs by domain or sort by read time, which honestly makes the browser feel like it doubles as a read-later app if you let it.

One of my favorite features of Quiche Browser is the JavaScript toggle that sits right in the toolbar. With a single tap, I can kill JavaScript on whatever site I am visiting, and it is wild how much snappier and cleaner most pages become the moment you do it.
All of that alone would be enough to recommend Quiche, but here is the part that really got me excited. Quiche now disables AI overviews in your search results by default, right out of the box.
The moment you search using Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, or other default search engine, Quiche quietly sends you to the AI-free version of those results instead. There is no content blocker trick involved either. You still get the real, unfiltered list of links, just without a giant AI summary taking over the top of your screen before you even see a single website.
Several studies have revealed how AI search overviews are harmful, sometimes delivering outright wrong information. A recent report from Common Sense Media even called it out for failing a major kids’ safety test. Not to mention that these summaries are causing harm to website authors and publishers whose work is scraped without compensation. So this feature alone was enough to make Quiche my default iPhone browser.

If you actually want AI overviews back, you can turn them on again from Settings, then Search. But I love that the default here favors real websites made by real people. Search results have gotten so cluttered with AI-generated summaries that actual pages keep getting pushed further down, and Quiche taking a stand on that feels like a small but meaningful win for anyone who still loves browsing the actual web.
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Today’s Wordle answer has no repeated letters.
Today’s Wordle answer has two vowels.
Today’s Wordle answer begins with D.
Today’s Wordle answer ends with R.
Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a person who plunges into water.
Today’s Wordle answer is DIVER.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer, July 19, No. 1856, was CHURN.
July 15, No. 1852: PSHAW
July 16, No. 1853: BUTTE
July 17, No. 1854: LEGAL
July 18, No. 1855: BOOTH

Commercial pop-up truck campers start around eight thousand dollars and climb quickly from there. In some countries they are simply not sold at all. Rob at Further Fabrication faced both problems and decided the only practical answer was to design and build one himself in a regular garage with ordinary tools. He began by measuring the truck bed and creating a full 3D model so every panel, beam, and fabric panel could be cut accurately the first time. The structure had to sit low enough for highway driving yet open high enough for a person to stand upright inside. The solution was a rigid lower shell combined with a fabric upper section that rises on gas struts.
The outside and interior walls are both made of nine millimeter structural plywood. Between these two layers are strips of 18 millimeter plywood and rectangular aluminum H-section beams. Exterior grade wood glue and heavy-duty construction adhesive hold everything together, while self-tapping screws and longer structural screws ensure that nothing moves. Aluminum beams provide stiffness without the weight of a full steel frame. We added extra laminated plywood blocks to the front and side joints to ensure that the long screws had a good grip. Then some ratchet straps are used to pull the walls square while they are being constructed, keeping the structure straight while the adhesive cures.
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The roof frame is built in the same beam-and-plywood style, but it is kept separate from the walls to allow for a continuous rubber seal and tent fabric underneath. The roof is made up of two big sheets of aluminum composite panel, which is similar to what is used on some commercial truck bodies. There is one junction in the middle that has been reinforced with extra aluminum angle and 90-degree brackets. MS polymer sealant is used to seal the screw holes and secure the panels together. Four adjustable gas struts raise the roof to around thirty degrees, and the CAD calculations ensured that the mounts were precisely positioned so that everything worked smoothly and remained sturdy once up.

The fabric walls are constructed of 600 denier PVC-coated polyester. This is the same weight as all of their heavy-duty outdoor gear. He utilized paper patterns from the 3D model to cut out bigger panels, and then stitched YKK continuous coil zippers into the window apertures to allow you to unzip the mesh screens and receive some ventilation. He used basting tape and clips to keep the seams in place while we got a heavy duty machine in the house to stitch everything together. After that, we used a soldering iron to create neat holes around the sides and simply screwed some plastic strips cut from garden edging over the top to secure the cloth to the plywood flanges on both the walls and the roof. When the roof is up, the fabric remains taut, and when closed, it folds neatly.

Three large fold-down doors on the sides and back are made of aluminium angle frames held together by rivits and attached to 7mm plywood panels, which were later replaced with matching aluminum composite. Gas struts make it simple to swing each door out to a hundred and ten degrees, just wide enough for a person to stand up without smashing their head. They also include stainless steel locking locks and some bespoke small rods that can be controlled with a single key fob, which is really useful.

The sliding bed platform inside runs on wooden rails; push it forward and it drops over this lower shelf, which subsequently serves as a step when you exit the camper. By the way, it was a relatively inexpensive build, totaling roughly $1500. And the end product is actually quite lightweight; it rests directly above the bed, so nothing scratches the ground as you drive it, and you can even lock the entire thing shut while the truck is parked. With the top up, there’s plenty of headroom and room for two people to sleep, and when you fold everything down, it just looks like a regular old pickup with a truck tray.
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In a new regulatory filing, Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by actor and director Ben Affleck.
The streaming company announced the acquisition in March, with a statement from Affleck saying he wanted to “protect the power of human creativity.” According to Affleck, InterPublic’s AI tools help filmmakers improve their footage in post-production, particularly when it comes to making up for “real-world production challenges such as missing shots, background replacements or incorrect lighting.”
At the time, Netflix announced that the entire InterPositive team would be joining the company, with Affleck joining as a senior advisor, but it didn’t disclose the financial terms of the deal. A subsequent report in Bloomberg suggested that the deal could be worth up to $600 million.
In its most recent earnings report, Netflix said that around 300 of its titles have already used generative AI.
Korea’s market now sets global AI sentiment. The Kospi-Nasdaq correlation has nearly tripled. SK Hynix’s US listing extended Korea’s influence into 24-hour trading.
Fund managers in London, New York, and Tokyo have added a new step to their morning routine: checking South Korean stocks. Korea’s $4 trillion equity market is now offering an early read on global AI risk appetite, as swings in SK Hynix and Samsung ripple through chip stocks worldwide. “We are all Korean investors now,” said Hani Redha, a London-based portfolio manager at PineBridge Investments. JPMorgan Asset Management’s chief Asia market strategist presented on Korea to the firm’s global team for the first time in his 14 years on the job.
The data confirms it. The 60-day correlation between the Kospi and the Nasdaq 100 has climbed to 0.46, near the highest in two years and almost triple its five-year average of 0.16. The linkage is even stronger during selloffs: the Nasdaq 100’s sensitivity to the Kospi during periods of Korean market weakness hit the highest level since 1990 on July 7. SK Hynix joined the trillion-dollar club earlier this year, and its US-listed shares now extend Korea’s influence into Wall Street trading hours. Redha tracks Seoul, then SK Hynix’s ADRs, then Korea-focused ETFs in New York. “It’s like almost 24-hour tracking,” he said.
The influence comes with a cost. The Kospi has become one of the world’s most volatile major benchmarks, with leveraged single-stock products amplifying swings. A Monday selloff driven by scepticism about AI demand triggered a near 9% Kospi drop that spilled into Wall Street, dragging SK Hynix’s US shares down 9.3%. The Kospi has tumbled 25% since its June peak, a $1 trillion wipeout. South Korea temporarily halted new listings of single-stock leveraged ETFs to curb the speculation.
The benchmark is still up 62% for the year. South Korea committed $880 billion over a decade to chips, AI data centres, and robots, and Samsung and SK Hynix control the majority of global memory chip supply. As long as that supply bottleneck holds, Korea’s sentiment-driven trading will keep setting the tone for every AI stock that depends on it. “This is the new normal investors have to accept, as long as the AI rally continues,” said Chisa Kobayashi at UBS. The question is whether a market driven by retail leverage in Seoul should be the one telling London what to think about AI.
Apple is testing a new Genius Bar tool called Live Notes that transcribes and summarizes conversations with a customer, but employees are worried about how the tool might be used against them.
Artificial intelligence has become a buzzword throughout the tech industry from both the consumer and employee perspective. Employees of any kind at many companies have had to contend with mandatory AI tool use forced on them by the employer.
So far, reports haven’t indicated Apple taking such a hardline route to AI tool use. However, the “Power On” newsletter from Bloomberg shares that Apple is testing a new tool called Live Notes for use in the Genius Bar.
The tool uses AI to listen to a conversation between a Genius Bar employee and a customer, with permission from both sides of course. It then transcribes and summarizes the interaction so the employee can focus on interacting with the customer and not taking notes.
There appears to be some concern from employees that these transcripts could be used by management to evaluate the employee. However, the rumor clarifies that Apple has a policy in place during testing that managers don’t receive transcripts and they can be edited by the employee.
It isn’t clear if this policy will be in place after testing is complete.
There is no mandatory use requirement in place. It seems that the tool is being introduced purely as a time-saving option that the employee and customer must agree to before it is used.
Previous rumors suggested that Apple is testing multiple versions of AI assistants for internal use. One, called Enchante, is for employees to proofread work, brainstorm, and answer general knowledge inquiries.
The other is Enterprise Assistant, which is built with a centralized knowledge hub for employees. The Live Notes tool could be a variation of the Enterprise Assistant model.
Both Enchente and Enterprise Assistant are built with Apple Foundation models. The Live Notes feature is also likely based on Apple’s AI technologies, though the rumor doesn’t specify.
There is no information about a rollout timeline or plans for implementation or mandates around Live Notes. It is likely to remain an optional tool for employees even when it is fully implemented.
The $35 camera comes in seven colors and has a slide cover.
There’s a new Kodak-branded camera from Charmera-maker Reto, and it’s a super-cute point-and-shoot film camera that won’t break the bank. The $35 Kodak EC35 announced this week is meant to be as accessible as a disposable camera, featuring a 25mm lens with a fixed f/10 aperture, fixed 1/100 second shutter speed and a built-in flash (which requires a AA battery). It also has a slide cover that protects the lens and serves as a shutter lock, so you can throw it in a bag or stick it in your pocket without worrying about accidental snaps.
For beginners to film cameras, the new Kodak EC35 offers an even lower barrier to entry than Reto’s $100 Kodak Snapic A1 camera and the $50 EKTAR H35 half frame camera from a few years ago. The EC35 comes in seven colors: Midnight Black, Vanilla White, Butter Yellow, Lavender, Powder Blue, Blush Pink and Avocado. You can get the Kodak EC35 on its own or buy it in a bundle with a roll of Kodak Ultramax 400 film for $10 more.
SteelSeries’ Arctis Nova Pro Wireless has dropped back to $249.99, its lowest price since launch.
The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless is currently listed at $249.99, down from its $379.99 list price, a generous saving of roughly $130 on one of the most decorated gaming headsets we’ve tested in recent years.
SteelSeries’ Arctis Nova Pro Wireless has returned to its past price, and it’s a deal worth jumping on
With bass-heavy 40mm drivers and hot-swap batteries for 44hrs runtime, SteelSeries’ Arctis Nova Pro Wireless are a steal at just $249.99.

Those 40mm magnetic neodymium drivers deliver a genuinely bass-heavy sound that made tracks like Rush’s YYZ feel weighty rather than muddy, and that same low end gave games such as Counter-Strike 2 a real sense of impact when grenades and gunfire went off nearby.
Active noise cancellation is on board on Arctis Nova Pro too, doing a solid job of muting background noise even if it falls a little short of dedicated noise-cancelling headphones, and the retractable ClearCast AI microphone tucks away neatly, though it sounds thinner than some rivals at this price.
One battery swaps in for another without ever powering down, giving a combined 44 hours of runtime over the dedicated 2.4GHz base station, which also displays volume and charge level at a glance without needing to open any software.


SteelSeries’ Sonar software adds a genuinely deep level of control, with a built-in mixer, EQ presets for games, music and movies, and adjustable settings for the microphone and active noise cancellation, all handled without ever leaving your desktop.
Connectivity stretches across PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Mac and mobile devices through either that 2.4GHz base station or Bluetooth, and the base station itself supports two connected devices at once for switching between platforms mid-session.
At 337g, the all-white redesign stays comfortable over long sessions thanks to plush earcups and a suspension headband, and the passive isolation from those earcups is strong enough to dampen everyday noise even before any active cancellation kicks in.
It’s also one of the most awarded headsets we’ve come across, picking up IGN’s rare 10/10 Masterpiece rating, PC Gamer’s Best Multi-Use Wireless Gaming Headset award, and Rolling Stone’s Best Gaming Headphones nod among a long list of similar honours.
Even at full price this was one of our favourite premium headsets, and at $249.99 rather than $379.99, the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless finally undercuts its own reputation for being a brilliant but expensive way to game.
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In this week’s Sunday Reboot, Apple’s AI model-shrinking talk could have massive benefits, with a chance of also being a billion-dollar deal if it plays its cards right.
Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get the next week underway with a good first step.
Back on July 9, a startup in the AI world gained a lot of attention. PrismML used the mythical power of mathematics and science to somehow cut down the size of large language models (LLMs) by a considerable amount.
The process resulted in models like the 54GB Qwen 3.6 being compressed down to an astoundingly tiny 4GB. That’s a 27 billion-parameter model being smushed down to a size that would fit on some promotional USB thumb drives from back in the day.
While there was some suspicion that Apple was looking at the startup, it was confirmed by PrismML itself on July 14. In an interview, PrismML CEO Babak Hassibi said that Apple and other companies were evaluating the work of its technology.
Hassibi’s public confirmation was an interesting one, especially since Apple has a tendency to NDA everything it does with other companies. While it is unknown if Apple did the same with PrismML, Hassibi seems confident enough in the tech to ignore the possible ire from a potentially massive client.
I say “client” because this sort of important thing in the current AI-centric market warrants acquisition talks. It’s something that, if one company buys PrismML and makes the tech exclusive to it, the buyer then has a serious advantage over the rest of the industry.
An acquisition is entirely a possibility for Apple, based on the July 15 report about the reign of John Ternus is believed that Apple is showing signs of changing its acquisition tactics, from spending hundreds of millions on a single company to spending billions.
It’s an extremely small change. What’s an extra decimal place between friends?
This sort of advantage could well be valued at the billion-dollar level to Apple, if it does acquire the startup. That said, it would also require the startup to be willing to be purchased, too.
Hassibi’s interview doesn’t really seem like someone willing to sell up. It feels more like he’s trying to get more attention from other AI firms to create a bidding war, if the company does want to be sold.
The alternative is that he’s trying to secure as many lucrative licensing agreements as possible from AI companies in general. All while remaining independent.
Either route seems like a win for PrismML.
For Apple, if the technology is sound, it has big benefits, specifically for its aim of increasing the amount of on-device processing.
Apple’s current problem is that iPhones don’t have massive amounts of memory, nor do most entry-level consumer devices. While some AI-related tasks can be performed with on-device processing, it can get offloaded to a cloud server.
The remote processing can perform much bigger tasks and workloads than a smartphone. Partly because of the higher amount of processing capability, but mostly because the server can have massive amounts of memory to handle the sizable models in the first place.
Apple has managed to use a process of distillation and training to recreate some of Google Gemini’s functionality in a smaller iPhone-friendly model. But something like PrismML could be a force multiplier.
Not only could the big models potentially work entirely on an iPhone in the first place, but these distilled models could get even smaller. That frees up more memory for processing the tasks that use these distilled models.
Add in the continuing improvements in AI processing that are coming down the line, and a future iPhone could be an absolute beast.
There’s also the possibility of Apple doing something completely unexpected: expanding Apple Intelligence’s reach.
During WWDC, Apple said that the most powerful on-device models would be available only on specific iPhone and Mac models. That includes the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro with 12GB of memory, the M4 iPad also with 12GB of memory, and an M3 Mac with the same memory or better.
While processing is a factor, memory is certainly going to be another. It’s not hard to imagine Apple using the PrismML tech to cut the size of that “most powerful on-device model” to fit into the smaller memory allowances of earlier models.
Extrapolating that further, maybe Apple could expand the availability of Apple Intelligence to older, lower-specification devices.
Sure, there are some tradeoffs, such as much slower processing of tasks. Owners of older hardware would probably be fine with that.
PrismML is a prime opportunity for Apple to take a massive leap when it comes to AI.
If it wants to dominate the field when it comes to on-device processing, it has a chance to take a very major step toward that goal.
Last week’s Sunday Reboot talked about the iPhone 17 Pro Max going into a time capsule for 250 years, and pondered if it will emerge in one piece.
One of the most crucial aspects of FDM 3D printing is ensuring sufficient material is extruded. Determining the right flow rate can be done manually, but some printers these days automatically perform this adjustment, which is very convenient. [Stefan] of CNC Kitchen investigates how to add similar functionality using existing bed-leveling sensors.
A major complication with extrusion in FDM printers is that the flow rate has to fit the printing speed. However, you can’t just immediately speed up or reduce the flow rate, as the melting filament is flexible and thus acts like a spring, especially as the extruder is exerting significant force on the filament, which adds compression.
The moment you reduce or increase the speed of the nozzle, you can get over- or under-extrusion, but the delayed response by the extruded filament means that you have to adjust for this change in advance. Ergo, the name ‘pressure advance’, also known as the K-value. Obviously, this is a parameter that differs with each material, printer, and other factors, so a direct measurement is always the best.
In the Bambu Lab X1 FDM printer, a Lidar scanner was used to scan various test patterns to automatically determine the optimal setting. This was later moved to the purge section of the extruder in newer Bambu Lab printers. On other FDM printers, the only available sensor in that area is typically the pressure sensor for bed leveling. Could this sensor make a similar measurement?
This wasn’t just an idle thought, but was inspired by the Snapmaker U1, which runs open-source Klipper, with tantalizing glimpses of how it does pressure-advance sensing in its extruder. This extruder also only contains a load cell, as do some Prusa printers. These much more open printers thus provided a test bed for some experimentation.
With load cell data available, [Stefan] measured how various extrusion rates affect the load cell, which can then theoretically be correlated with the appropriate K-values for specific transitions. He created a calibration tool for a range of Prusa printers that works with stock firmware, though this is definitely still a work in progress. There are also a couple of similar open-source projects, such as this Auto PA Calibration project by [Mark].
Overall, K-value presets tend to work pretty well, but adding a pressure-advance calibration feature to existing FDM printers is definitely an interesting idea. There’s also the prospect of lateral sensing using this same bed-leveling sensor, which could allow the printer to sense much more than just the bed.
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times:
A federal judge has halted California’s groundbreaking “Truth in Recycling” law, which aims to reduce consumer confusion about which packaging can be recycled. [Originally planned to take effect October 4th], California’s recyclable packaging law prohibits manufacturers from using a “chasing arrows” recycling symbol on products or materials unless they are actually being recycled in a meaningful way, which the law quantifies…
A coalition of farming, forestry, restaurant and packaging organizations sued the state in March, arguing the law violates their right to free speech. They argued that Senate Bill 343 operates as “government-imposed censorship.” Judge William Hayes agreed that their challenge has merit, and on Tuesday ordered California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, the defendant in the case, to pause enforcement of the law “until further order of the Court….” Advocates of reducing plastic use disagreed. “The court got it wrong, and I’m confident that the state will ultimately prevail,” said Nick Lapis, director of advocacy for Californians Against Waste. “S.B. 343 does not violate the 1st Amendment; it requires companies to tell the truth when they make recyclability claims. Suggesting that the 1st Amendment protects misleading environmental marketing is inconsistent with the basic principles of consumer protection that states like California have implemented for decades.”
In January, CalRecycle, the state’s waste agency, reported that less than 10% of most single-use plastic materials in the state were being recycled. Even yogurt containers and margarine tubs — made of ubiquitous polypropylene, or No. 5 plastic — are being recycled at a rate of only 2% in the state, the report said. Only 5% of colored shampoo and detergent bottles, made from polyethylene, or No. 1 plastic, are getting recycled…
Plastic materials that can’t be recycled are typically sent to landfills or sometimes illegally shipped overseas, where they are burned or end up in landfills, rivers and waterways.
The bill’s author told the Los Angeles Times “All you have to do is look at the numbers. These products are not getting recycled, despite what the industry is claiming. They are just confusing consumers, clogging the waste stream, polluting the environment, leading to higher and higher prices for local governments and ratepayers.” He argues the symbols shouldn’t be used to “confuse people who see the symbols [on products] and assume they can be recycled.”
The article also quotes Judith Enck, former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator and president of the nonprofit Beyond Plastics. “Given the long history of the plastics industry deceiving the public about plastics recycling, this is an especially bad outcome. It is a reminder that the plastics industry has enough money to fight even the most modest policy designed to protect people and the planet.”
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