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A new stablecoin consortium backed by Stripe and Coinbase is shaking up the payments world, and Circle felt it immediately in its stock price. The group is positioning itself as a direct challenge to Circle's core business model, but analysts are quick to pump the brakes — assembling big-name partners is one thing, and building a network people actually use is something else entirely.
Shifting gears, a privacy concern is making waves in developer circles today. Users of the Cursor AI coding tool discovered that installing the iOS app quietly and irreversibly changes your account privacy settings — specifically rolling back a legacy mode that prevented code from being stored. Developers are understandably frustrated, and the story raises familiar questions about what we quietly agree to when we tap install.
And finally, the physical keyboard is making a case for its comeback. Clicks has released a hands-on video of its Communicator, a BlackBerry-inspired smartphone designed to run modern apps with a full tactile keyboard below the screen. Whether nostalgia alone can drive sales in a touchscreen world remains the real question.
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