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A recent security analysis of Claude’s code permissions reveals a troubling pattern: over 22% of users have granted AI agents the ability to permanently delete files without confirmation. This finding, while specific to one tool, illuminates a broader challenge facing the develo…
The development world this week offers two fascinating studies in trust boundaries — one intimate, one industrial. A developer deployed an AI agent on a $7 monthly VPS using IRC as transport, while Apple quietly discontinued the Mac Pro after decades, signaling a fundamental sh…
A troubling pattern emerges when examining how false claims propagate through academic literature. A recent case involving a widely-cited Management Science paper with roughly 2,000 citations demonstrates how academic institutions handle — or fail to handle — documented misrepre…
The most significant infrastructure shift happening in tech today isn’t in software or AI models — it’s in the fundamental way data centers receive and distribute electrical power. After more than a century of alternating current dominance, major facilities are transitioning bac…
The surge in AI-assisted coding is creating an unexpected psychological burden for developers who find themselves questioning their professional identity after using these tools. Recent discussions reveal a growing cohort of engineers who complete successful projects with AI ass…
PC Gamer published a 37MB article recommending RSS readers to escape algorithmic feeds and web bloat. Within five minutes of loading, the page downloaded nearly half a gigabyte of additional content through auto-playing videos and rotating ads. The irony is almost too perfect — …
The tech world is buzzing about Tiiny AI’s Pocket Lab, a 300-gram device claiming to run 120-billion parameter models completely offline. While the marketing hype deserves skepticism, this represents something genuinely important: the first serious attempt to make enterprise-gra…
The development community is buzzing about a counterintuitive discovery from OpenUI’s engineering team: they rewrote their Rust WebAssembly parser in TypeScript and saw a 3x performance improvement. This story matters because it reveals how easily we can optimise the wrong thing…
The announcement that Astral, makers of the Python packaging tool uv, will join OpenAI represents more than another startup acquisition. It signals a concerning pattern where independent developer tools that solve real problems get absorbed into larger platforms, potentially lim…
Austin just delivered the clearest proof in decades that housing markets respond to basic economics when local policy gets out of the way. After rents skyrocketed 93% from 2010 to 2019, making it one of America’s least affordable cities, Austin reformed its zoning laws, streamli…
After thirteen years of being called slow, Python is finally fast — and it changes everything about how we think about programming language performance. The CPython team’s JIT compiler just hit its performance goals for Python 3.15 over a year ahead of schedule, delivering 11-12…
The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to make quarterly earnings reports optional, allowing companies to report just twice yearly instead. Wall Street is framing this as “reducing short-term pressure on management.” But this misses the real story: American capital …
Meta’s sudden “renewed commitment” to jemalloc tells a story the tech press won’t. After years of neglecting the open-source memory allocator that powers their infrastructure, they’re scrambling back because their shortcuts created “technical debt that slowed progress.” This isn…
Mu is an app platform without ads, algorithms or tracking. It attempts to remove the addictive behaviours or intrusive usury of advertising found in many products today. It was something I had really battled with for a long time. Like most people born into the millennial generat…
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I’ve been hacking away at the mail feature. You can basically send messages to other users or via email. Not yet encrypted. But I spent a lot of time on threading logic and realised email includes the whole thread in the body for legacy reasons even though we know have headers t…