doug — off the record

• Dr Hook frontman Dennis Locorriere dies aged 76 | Perspective Media

• Here’s something Trump and Iran have in common

• Google unveils Googlebook: Android-powered AI laptops replace Chromebooks with Gemini at the OS level

  Google killed ChromeOS and launched Googlebook, a premium Android laptop where Gemini is the interface. Magic Pointer turns the cursor into an AI agent. Devices ship this autumn.

• Google Opal is the most impressive no-code app builder I've tested, and it's completely free to use

  You're missing out.

• Google holds a massive archive of everything you've ever looked at and this is how to view it

  Did you know that Google holds a massive archive of everything you've ever looked at online, including emails, chrome searches, Google Maps, and YouTube?

• These 3 Songs Were Written by Neil Diamond but Became Big Hits for Other Artists – American Songwriter

  These three songs were all written by Neil Diamond, but became hits for other artists instead of one of his singles.

• Mapped: Europe’s Most Visited Countries

• What The RS-232 Port On Your TV Is Actually For Read More: https://www.bgr.com/2174115/tv-rs-232-serial-port-uses-explained/

• I asked Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT to design a website wireframe, and only one looked like it came from a real designer

  Which model is the best UX designer?

• Psychologist Says if You Were Born in the 1950s, You Likely Have These 7 Traits

• The one Eagles member Don Henley couldn’t stand listening to

  Don Henley may have been the voice of Eagles throughout their run, but that didn't mean he was diplomatic about his singing brothers.

• Windows 10 support is long over, but I wouldn’t upgrade an old PC before trying these 6 things

  I stopped upgrading and started experimenting — the results genuinely surprised me

• Yoshua Bengio warns hyperintelligent AI with “preservation goals” could threaten human extinction within 10 years

  The Turing Award winner launched nonprofit LawZero with $30M to build safe-by-design AI. He says the industry's race toward agentic systems is turning theoretical risks into practical ones.

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