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oh my gosh, Google AI Plus is giving away 12 MONTHS FREE TO ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE
no matter who I ask, everyone gets 12 months of Google AI Plus for free through the official partner site
you'll get:
- Google AI
- 400 GB of storage
- NotebookLM
- Google Flow
here's what happened:
Google is running a promo through Internshala - sign up, activate the offer, get 12 full months of AI Plus at $0
in simple words, all the paid features - FREE until July 2027
setup ( 2 minutes ):
1/ go to https://t.co/73PpY0DM2K
2/ create an account (any data works, they don't verify)
3/ click the offer, activate the plan
4/ attach a card if you haven't already on this account
important: use a card you DON'T plan to keep using - so nothing gets charged when the year ends.
you might run into an error at first. signing up for the course helped me. If that doesn't work for you, try contacting technical support.
it's really some kind of program for students - but for everyone.
🚨 BREAKING: Claude can now upgrade your entire Instagram page like a $20K social media manager.
Use these prompts to grow your reach, followers, and sales in 2026!
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A single robot vacuum for one home costs $549 to $1,399 at retail. To sweep your floor.
A family with two floors buys two units. That is up to $2,798.
And the Clean Base bags run out. Replace them and you pay extra.
Side brushes: $19.99 for a 3-pack on iRobot's own store.
Filters: $36.99 for a 3-pack.
Dirt disposal bags: $12.93 for a 3-pack.
You are subscribing to floor cleaning in 2026.
iRobot was once a $3.5 billion company built on this pricing model. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2025. A Chinese contract manufacturer named Picea Robotics now owns 100 percent of it.
Now meet OOMWOO.
A free and open source alternative to Roomba.
Created in June 2026 by a California founder named Dr. Ilia Ovsiannikov. Former Samsung engineer. 70 patents. He architected Samsung's second-generation neural inference accelerator for smartphones. Then he open sourced the whole robot.
44 days later the repo has 5,548 stars and 235 forks. No VCs. No paywalls.
Here is what OOMWOO gives you:
- 3D-printed chassis with full CAD files
- 2D LiDAR mapping and SLAM navigation
- ROS2 and Nav2 autonomous cleaning stack
- Native Home Assistant integration for local control
- ESP32 firmware and Raspberry Pi 5 brain
- Gazebo simulator to test before you build
- Apache 2.0 license, fork it, sell it, reuse it
Here is what OOMWOO costs:
The price of the parts you buy yourself. No subscription. Unlimited runs. Unlimited maps.
Roomba stores your home map in the iRobot cloud. OOMWOO stores it on your Pi.
Roomba j-series carries a camera. OOMWOO does not.
Roomba features can be changed by the new owner in Shenzhen. OOMWOO is Apache 2.0.
Here is the wildest part:
In 2020, iRobot Roombas captured a photo of a woman on the toilet. Gig workers in Venezuela labeling the data for Scale AI posted 15 of the images to Facebook and Discord. MIT Technology Review broke the story in December 2022. iRobot has shared over 2 million images with data annotation firms.
Your map never leaves your Raspberry Pi. Your floor plan. Your daily routine.
For one apartment, you save $549.
For a two-floor family, you save $2,798.
100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)
Harvard, Andrew Ng, and Karpathy will teach you AI engineering for free. Most people just do it in the wrong order:
Almost all of it is free, and the order matters as much as the resources.
1. Start with Python. It's the language the AI field runs on, and Harvard's CS50P teaches it better than most paid bootcamps.
2. Once the basics click, learn how Python is used in AI. Andrew Ng's "AI Python for Beginners" is a free four-part course that bridges writing code and building with models.
3. From there, get a feel for how LLMs work under the hood. 3Blue1Brown's visual explainers make transformers and attention click.
4. When you want to go deeper, build a small model yourself. Andrej Karpathy's "Zero to Hero" series takes you from one neuron to a working model, line by line.
5. Next, learn how AI agents actually work. Anthropic's "Building Effective Agents" is the most grounded guide, and its lesson is to use composable patterns, not heavy frameworks.
6. For hands-on practice, take the CrewAI short course. It teaches you to treat agents like a team of people working together.
7. After that, connect your agents to the real world. That's what MCP does, wiring models to tools, APIs, and databases, and the official docs are the cleanest place to start.
8. Now build real projects. The open-source ai-engineering-hub repo has dozens of working examples across LLMs, RAG, and agents you can adapt into your own work.
9. Finally, read one book instead of ten. Chip Huyen's "AI Engineering" covers what you need to ship real applications.
The throughline is simple. Frameworks come and go, so don't build your skills around them. Master the fundamentals once, and everything on top gets easier, and you'll stay ahead of the people chasing the framework of the week.
Someone open-sourced a tool that takes any username or email and finds every account linked to it across 600+ social networks in seconds.
Just one command and it scans every platform, runs free AI profiling to build a full behavioral profile of the target, and exports the whole thing as a clean PDF report.
→ 600+ sites scanned
→ free AI profiling included
→ username OR email lookup
→ low false positive rate
→ PDF + CSV exports
→ runs from one CLI
100% Open Source.
Andrej Karpathy spent 2h showing how he actually uses AI day to day
he's a co-founder of OpenAI and led AI at Tesla, so when he shows how he works, it’s worth watching
and the whole session is just him telling the machine what he wants in simple terms, like he's briefing a coworker
watch what's actually happening the entire time:
> he describes the task in normal words
> it goes off and does the work
> he glances at the result and nudges it with one more sentence
that's the whole skill, and you've had it since you learned to talk
the only gap between that and a worker that runs on its own is handing that sentence a schedule and the tools to act
check his work, then build the version that keeps working when you stop
My article "How To Investigate A Person Of Interest In 2026" is now available as a PDF.
A practical guide to digital footprint analysis – from email reconstruction to metadata mining and entity graphing.
Thanks @osintnewsletter for the mention.
PDF: https://t.co/86YlE9e2pB
10 BROWSER TOOLS THAT MAKE THE INTERNET YOURS AGAIN
Bookmark every single one. Google spent 2025 stripping power out of Chrome. These put it back.
1. https://t.co/Zh6H0niXnZ
A Firefox fork that took Arc's best ideas and threw out the Chromium. Vertical tabs, workspaces, split view, glance previews. Arc got abandoned in 2025. Zen is just getting started, and every Firefox extension works on day one.
2. https://t.co/kaQQFkhdVs
A Chromium browser with a built-in ad blocker Google can never disable. No Manifest V3 crippling, no tracking. It does the exact thing Chrome made illegal, baked straight into the browser.
3. https://t.co/KguDaRI37O
The best ad blocker ever made. Google killed the full version in Chrome with Manifest V3. It still runs at full power on Firefox, Zen, and Brave. The thing they took away from you is one browser switch from coming back.
4. https://t.co/6ctP5LJRHr
Firefox with the telemetry surgically removed and uBlock Origin pre-installed. No data collection, no Mozilla account, no Pocket ads. Hardened privacy out of the box with zero configuration.
5. https://t.co/k0SmN0ToSL
A desktop YouTube player with zero ads, zero account, and zero Google tracking. It uses its own extractor so YouTube serves the video but can't identify you. The thing Premium charges $13.99/month to remove is off by default here.
6. https://t.co/9h4H8Vy1Iu
A network-wide ad blocker that runs on your router. Blocks ads and trackers on every device in your home, including the smart TV and phone apps that have no extension system. Manifest V3 can't touch it because it never lived in the browser.
7. https://t.co/AIQ3IyKyKd
Loads the full text of any paywalled article by pretending to be Googlebot, because every site shows Google the article for free. NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg, Nature. Paste the URL, read the piece, no subscription.
8. https://t.co/HsZJmh3RT1
Automatically redirects YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram links to private frontends with no ads, no tracking, and no login walls. You click a normal link and land somewhere Google never sees you.
9. https://t.co/mZETxphoe6
Shows you exactly which companies are tracking you across every site you visit and how widely each one reaches. The surveillance Chrome hides, made visible.
10. https://t.co/va714U8YBq
The EFF's tracker blocker that learns as you browse. It watches which domains follow you across sites and silently blocks the ones that do. Built by the people who actually fight for the open web in court.
Google built the internet you use. These built the one you actually want.
Someone solved one of the biggest problems with the WhatsApp API.
It's called OpenWA, a 100% open-source, self-hosted WhatsApp API you run on your own server.
No per-message fees. No third parties. No vendor lock-in.
→ Run unlimited WhatsApp accounts on one instance
→ Full API for messages, media, reactions, bulk sends
→ Real-time webhooks with built-in auth
→ Works with SQLite, Postgres, Redis, S3
→ React dashboard for sessions, API keys, webhooks
Just plug it in and send messages from your own number.
100% free. 100% open source.
10 GITHUB REPOS SO GOOD THEY SHOULD NOT BE FREE.
But they are.
AutoHedge — Four AI agents running an autonomous hedge fund on Solana. Director. Quant. Risk manager. Execution agent. pip install and start trading immediately.
https://t.co/JDwUL002Cw
Vibe-Trading — 64 finance skills. 29 specialist agent swarms. Ichimoku, Elliott Wave, Black-Scholes, full Greeks. Watch agents debate strategies in real time.
https://t.co/HUPEQzcxD1
Fincept Terminal — Bloomberg Terminal replacement on your laptop. CFA levels 1 through 3 analytics. 20 plus investor AI agents including Buffett, Dalio, and Soros. Bloomberg charges $24,000 a year. This is free.
https://t.co/0nnA7nnomB
LibreChat — Every model ChatGPT runs plus Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and 20 more. Self-hosted. Native MCP support. You own the data, the history, the infrastructure.
https://t.co/K799KU9KR2
Open Higgsfield AI — 200 plus AI models in one self-hosted interface. Flux, Midjourney, Sora, Kling, Veo, GPT-4o, SDXL. Text to image. Image to video. Cinema mode. No subscription.
https://t.co/Y9qSKePtHD
Open-LLM-VTuber — Live2D AI companion that runs offline, sees your screen, hears your voice, and never forgets. Inner thoughts shown as a separate text layer before words come out.
https://t.co/mQ1uZ71ear
Claude Ads — Free Claude Code skill. 190 audit checks across Google, Meta, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Microsoft Ads. 6 parallel subagents. Single Ads Health Score ranked by revenue impact. Agencies charge $4,000 a month for this.
https://t.co/pnEA8yMmox
Agentic Inbox — Cloudflare open sourced an email client where an AI agent reads your inbox and drafts replies. Runs on Cloudflare Workers. Your email never leaves your account.
https://t.co/5IimyfbJNG
Camofox Browser — Open source headless browser that makes AI agents invisible to bot detection. Spoofs at the C++ level. Accessibility tree output drops token cost by 90%.
https://t.co/dwoMS1m2kf
Hyperframes — HeyGen open sourced a video framework that renders MP4 from HTML. No React. No JSX. GSAP, Lottie, and Three.js all work. Same HTML always produces the same file.
https://t.co/OnvFWEADo2
These are not toys.
Each one replaces a paid product you are still being charged for.
Pick one. Install it this weekend.
Bookmark this before you pay another subscription bill.
Follow @cyrilXBT for every open source repo that makes expensive tools free the moment it drops.