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The web's underlying plumbing just got a quiet but significant upgrade. The IETF has published RFC ten thousand and eight, introducing a brand new HTTP method called QUERY — the first addition to the standard since two thousand and ten. It lets developers send complex search filters in a request body while keeping responses cacheable and safe, something neither GET nor POST could cleanly handle. For API builders, that's a real quality-of-life improvement.
Meanwhile, Google has quietly pulled the Pixel Tablet from its online store, effectively confirming the device is discontinued. The tablet launched with genuine promise as a smart home hub hybrid, but it never quite found its audience. It's a reminder that even the world's largest software company struggles to crack the hardware market when the use case isn't compelling enough to sustain a product line.
And in the category of things that were probably predictable, a memecoin branded around Hunter Biden's laptop has collapsed roughly ninety-eight percent after launch, with some early buyers sitting on six-figure losses. The team is blaming automated traders and thin liquidity, which may be partly true — but it doesn't change what the underlying asset was to begin with.
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