Products — Page 3
Launches, updates, hands-on coverage.
- Dylan Reed launches VellumProof, a GitHub-style authorship trail for novelists
VellumProof founder Dylan Reed built a manuscript vault that records drafts and revisions while acknowledging it cannot prove that every word was human-written.
- HyperProbe gives coding agents read-only probes for live production debugging
HyperProbe, a YC Summer 2026 startup that grew out of HyperTest, gives coding agents live runtime evidence beyond logs and traces.
- Hark launches Handoff to automate multi-step tasks across the web
Hark is entering beta and reviewing applications for its platform as Handoff arrives with a company-reported benchmark lead, no independent validation and unresolved account safeguards.
- Sunbird relaunches iMessage on Android after 2023 security shutdown
Danny Mizrahi's open beta asks users to trust a rebuilt relay system with their Apple IDs and private conversations.
- GFiber drops SMS and Google Voice integration from its home phone service
Existing numbers, hardware and calling will remain, but customers must manage voicemail and call history through a new GFiber portal.
- Arc Institute opens 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge with zero-shot cell predictions
The August 20th competition will test gene-knockdown predictions across multiple cell lines using newly generated experimental data.
- Psylo founders disclose three WebKit proxy leaks affecting iCloud Private Relay
Mysk shipped Psylo 1.3.1 to close the paths, which the researchers say can expose a device's IP address or DNS infrastructure.
- Google will restore Familiar Faces on Walmart's Onn cameras
Google says an update will restore paid face recognition on Walmart's cameras, which start around $23 and store face biometrics in the cloud.
- Kaizen rebuilds Pentagon counter-drone marketplace around faster buying
The nine-week overhaul adds performance comparisons and AI recommendations as the military opens validated counter-drone systems to allies.
- vlt ships 1.0 with hosted registries that work across npm tooling
Darcy Clarke is turning a package manager built by npm veterans into a commercial registry business aimed at faster CI and safer installs.
- Firecrawl ships open-source anydoc for faster AI document ingestion
The Rust engine handles PDFs, Word files, slide decks and 10 other formats, and now powers Firecrawl's existing /parse endpoint.
- Google Workspace guest accounts put outside collaborators under admin control
The feature, generally available since March 30th, gives clients and contractors limited access to Chat, Drive files and Meet calls.
- Mistral ships Shieldstral, a 3B guard model with runtime policy controls
The Apache 2.0 release evaluates text and images against plain-language policies, giving developers a compact moderation layer they can operate themselves.
- Straiker launches an AI-agent kill switch after raising a $64M Series A
Ankur Shah is applying his cloud-security playbook to software that can write code, call tools and act across enterprise systems.
- Applied Compute adds self-distillation workflows to AC2 for production agent feedback
The tooling uses corrections, tool failures and other agent traces to train models on behavior encountered after deployment.
- Microsoft plans Xbox 360 games for PC and handhelds from 2027
A leaked developer document outlines a 2027-2028 rollout and disc-linked licenses that would preserve resale while moving ownership across devices.
- Wispr Flow's updated terms reveal a meeting notetaker in development
The product would transcribe meetings, identify speakers and generate summaries, action items and insights through Cloud Sync.
- FLock adds DeepSeek V4 Flash to OpenAI-compatible API gateway
Jiahao Sun's FLock now offers the 284-billion-parameter model through an OpenAI-compatible gateway, with catalog pricing displayed at $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens.
- Moonshot AI shows Kimi Slides generating editable PowerPoint decks
The August 3 tutorial shows K3 handling research and visual design, while [Kimi Slides supports citations, fully editable slides and PowerPoint export](https://www.kimi.com/en/features/slides).
- CrowdReply pitches AI answer rankings as a $1M monthly growth channel
Dawood Khan and Sheheryaar Khan built a measurement-and-placement product, but the revenue claim rests on an unnamed customer and undisclosed attribution.
- Andrew Shell launches I Heart RSS, a badge-based directory for personal feeds
The Madison engineer is using reciprocal links and a shared OPML file to make independent blogs easier to find and follow.
- E J Ziyad launches UML, a shared memory graph for Claude and ChatGPT
The open-source project uses MCP and a Cloudflare-native graph to carry user-owned facts across AI clients, while leaving tool calls to each host.
- Zenbu launches terminal-browser to put web previews beside coding agents
The open-source project uses Chromium and terminal graphics protocols to combine preview, planning and browser automation in one tab.
- Tomasz Janusz launches Privacy Thing for per-domain browser fingerprinting controls
The Chrome and Firefox extension coordinates location, language and time-zone signals while exposing what supported browser data each site reads.