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9 Oct 2026How to find federal recompetes 6 months before they hit SAM.govUse contract end dates in USAspending data to find recompetes in your NAICS code early, filter by set-aside, and read the incumbent. Real counts from 8 Oct 2026: 1,077 IT contracts end within 6 months.

9 Oct 2026Google Labs Playground: what the new AI game maker does, and how to get a working game soonerGoogle Labs launched Playground on 7 Oct 2026: make browser games from text prompts. What it does, who can use it, what is unknown, and free prompts to start.

8 Oct 202632 US vehicle and equipment recalls in two weeks (22 Sep – 5 Oct 2026): Ram ProMaster steering, VW ID.4 batteryNHTSA received 32 recall campaigns from 22 September to 5 October 2026, covering 443,321 units. The largest: 265,512 Ram ProMaster vans for power steering. One campaign carries a Do Not Drive advisory.

8 Oct 2026CISA added 13 exploited CVEs from 27 September to 8 October 2026, including three 10-year-old bugs13 CVEs joined CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog between 27 Sep and 8 Oct 2026: Citrix NetScaler, Apple, Cisco SD-WAN, FortiMail, Zammad and, on 8 Oct, old ProFTPD, BIND and Apache Struts flaws with EPSS above 90%.

8 Oct 2026214 Section 301 product exclusions end on 9 November 2026: the HTS lines affectedIn HTS 2026 Revision 20, 214 Section 301 product exclusions on 117 tariff lines list an end date of 9 November 2026. Most are machinery, electrical and medical equipment from China, where the full List 1, 2 or 3 duty of 25% applies once an exclusion ends.

8 Oct 2026How to tailor your resume to a job ad: find the missing keywords and fix what an ATS cannot readA step-by-step way to compare your resume with a job ad, find the skills it asks for that you do not show, avoid layouts applicant tracking systems misread, and rewrite bullets without inventing anything.

7 Oct 2026Company name to website: clean a list of companies in Python, with confidence scoresTurn a CSV of company names into official website domains with a confidence score and evidence, reject look-alike domains, and decide what to trust automatically. Real results from 1 Oct 2026.

6 Oct 2026How to find what is trending on Google right now (30 countries) and turn it into a captioned shortPull Google's Trending now searches for 30 countries in one call, spot topics trending in several countries at once, and turn the best one into a short video with animated captions made in your browser.

5 Oct 2026Month-end without uploading anything: bank statements to Excel, smaller PDFs, redaction and meeting notesHow to convert bank statement PDFs to Excel with a balance check, shrink and OCR scans, redact before sharing, and turn meeting recordings into notes, all on your own computer. With measured speeds.

2 Oct 2026SpaceX and NVIDIA's orbital data center: what was announced, and who else is building compute in orbitWhat SpaceX and NVIDIA actually announced about the Starmind AI1 satellite (hardware, timeline, size), checked against the primary sources, plus the 17 orbital-compute projects from 13 companies we track and the next dated targets.

2 Oct 2026Launching a small online shop: product photos, a privacy policy and QR codes that keep workingA practical launch checklist for small sellers: marketplace photo sizes (Amazon 2000 px, Etsy 4:3, Instagram 4:5), a privacy policy and cookie banner that match the tools you use, and QR codes that do not die after a trial.

1 Oct 2026How to save Roblox player data without losing it: session locking, receipts and retriesWhy Roblox games lose saves and Robux purchases (two servers, outages, retried receipts), the patterns that prevent it in Luau, and how to give the UI a finished look with 9-slice images.

27 Sep 2026How to check any US tariff rate by HTS code (2026)Find the official US duty rate for any HTS code, see whether Section 301 China tariffs apply, and check it by API. Real example: coffee makers, 8516.71.00.

27 Sep 2026Which CVEs to patch first this week (KEV + EPSS, 27 Sep 2026)17 CVEs joined CISA's exploited list in the last two weeks, each with a 3-day federal deadline. Here is the order to patch them in, using KEV and EPSS, and how to automate it.

27 Sep 2026How to vet a trucking carrier with FMCSA data (before you tender a load)The seven FMCSA checks that catch most bad carriers: USDOT status, authority, insurance on file, out-of-service orders, inspections vs the national rate, crashes and carrier age. With real numbers and an API that does it in one call.

27 Sep 2026How to check a VIN for open recalls (and check a whole fleet at once)Check any VIN against NHTSA safety recalls in seconds, what the results mean (Do Not Drive, Park Outside), and how dealers and fleets check hundreds of VINs by API.

27 Sep 2026How to convert PDFs to Markdown for LLMs and RAG (with a real test)Why Markdown beats raw PDF text for LLMs, a real conversion of NIST's 32-page CSF 2.0 PDF (1.5 MB to 16,357 tokens in 1.5 s), the PDFs that fail, and an API that does it in one call.

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