🧑‍💻 How to Easily Get a Day Off

Reddit shares a lifehack for software engineers on how to tell your boss you need a day off.

⏫ Apple Hikes Tech Prices

Apple products are getting 15–25% more expensive due to a memory shortage, the company has announced.

New prices:

MacBook Neo $599 → $699 (+17%)
MacBook Air 512GB $1,099 → $1,299 (+18%)
MacBook Pro 1TB $1,699 → $1,999 (+18%)
iPad Air 128GB $599 → $749 (+25%)
iPad Pro Wi-Fi 256GB $999 → $1,199 (+20%)

Did you upgrade your gadgets in time?

❤️ — Yes, it was predictable
🎃 — No, and now I won't be upgrading!

🔄 Now Plants Can Talk to ChatGPT

Plant Talk, an open source connector on GitHub, lets you hook your plant up to ChatGPT. With just a laptop and an OpenAI API key, the AI keeps an eye on your plant through the camera. You can also connect Arduino sensors to monitor soil moisture and light levels.

➡️ Code and setup guide — here.

💡 Telepathy Could Become Reality Soon, Says Musk

The first attempts to connect people's brains via the Neuralink neural implant could happen as early as this year, Elon Musk wrote on X.

He said this while commenting on the idea that a direct connection between people without "mediator-encoders" should become the next evolutionary leap.

Will this kind of "telepathy" become reality?

❤️ — Yes, this is our future!
🔥 — No, this is impossible

♊ Google Releases Nano Banana 2 Lite

Google has launched Nano Banana 2 Lite, the new Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image model. It is a lighter version of Nano Banana 2, but costs half as much.

It works very fast at 1K resolution. Quality-wise, it sits between the first and second Nano Banana.

➡ You can try it for free via Google AI Studio.

🎥 For developers, access to the Gemini Omni Flash AI video editor is now open. The model will also be available in AI Studio soon.

🪭 How China Deals with the Heat

In the city of Yuncheng (Shanxi Province, China), water mist spray systems have been installed on the rooftops of residential high-rises — they create a finely dispersed cloud in the space between buildings, cooling the courtyard through evaporative cooling.

The idea is that the mist should automatically turn on during peak heat to lower temperatures in residential neighborhoods. According to some reports, the system cools the air by 5–8 degrees in just a few minutes of operation.

Would you want something like this in your courtyard?

🔥 — Yes, absolutely!
🤔 — But is it actually safe?

📸 Parents Warned Not to Post Children's Photos Online

This can lead to AI fakes and extortion, the UK's National Crime Agency warned.

Experts recommend:

✅ Close social media accounts or share photos only with close friends;
✅ Delete old photos;
✅ Check agreements with sports clubs about posting photos.

Do you post photos online?

❤️ — Yes
🔥 — No, I don't trust social media