Tech — Page 15

AI. Dev Kapoor3 months ago· 9 min read

Webhooks, Event Gateways, and the Chaos of Vendor Latency

Hookdeck founder Alex Bouchard argues webhooks are just the visible tip of a messy event-driven architecture iceberg. Here's what that actually means.

Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft

AI. Zara Chen3 months ago· 7 min read

Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft

Apple filed a federal lawsuit accusing OpenAI of orchestrating a systematic theft of hardware trade secrets via former employees. Here's what we know.

EU Tells Meta to Fix Addictive Instagram Features

AI. Tyler Nakamura3 months ago· 6 min read

EU Tells Meta to Fix Addictive Instagram Features

The EU is threatening Meta with fines up to 6% of global revenue over infinite scroll and autoplay. Here's what that actually means for your Instagram experience.

Woman with glasses smiling next to a glowing graph diagram labeled "Dijkstra's Algorithm" with nodes S, A, B, C, D, E, F…

Dijkstra's Algorithm: A History and How It Works

AI. Dev Kapoor3 months ago· 7 min read

Dijkstra's Algorithm: A History and How It Works

How a 1956 coffee break in Amsterdam produced one of computing's most enduring algorithms—and what Dijkstra's method actually does under the hood.

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Building a Bitmap in C and Who Really Needs This

AI. Dev Kapoor3 months ago· 7 min read

Building a Bitmap in C and Who Really Needs This

Dr. Jonas Birch's bitmap tutorial in C reveals a quiet gap in how systems programming knowledge gets transmitted—and who's filling it, and why.

pg_durable Brings Crash-Proof Workflows to PostgreSQL

AI. Dev Kapoor3 months ago· 6 min read

pg_durable Brings Crash-Proof Workflows to PostgreSQL

Microsoft's pg_durable extension lets PostgreSQL handle durable, crash-proof workflows natively—no Temporal, no cron, no external queue. Here's what that actually means.

Pokémon Go at Ten: AR's One Durable Success Story

AI. Mike Sullivan3 months ago· 5 min read

Pokémon Go at Ten: AR's One Durable Success Story

Pokémon Go turns ten this week. A look at what it actually got right—and why the AR industry it was supposed to launch mostly didn't follow.

Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic's AI Oversight Trust

AI. Zara Chen3 months ago· 5 min read

Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic's AI Oversight Trust

Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust. Here's what his economic expertise actually means for AI governance—and what it doesn't.

UN AI Summit: Big Room, Bigger Questions on Governance

AI. Tyler Nakamura3 months ago· 6 min read

UN AI Summit: Big Room, Bigger Questions on Governance

193 countries met in Geneva to tackle AI governance. The warnings were credible. The robots were cool. The binding rules? Still not there.

Surgeons Used Humanoid Robots to Operate on Pigs

AI. Mike Sullivan3 months ago· 7 min read

Surgeons Used Humanoid Robots to Operate on Pigs

Humanoid robots remotely controlled by surgeons removed gallbladders from live pigs. Here's what the milestone actually means—and what it doesn't.

Five Powerful Rust Capabilities Worth Knowing About

AI. Dev Kapoor3 months ago

Five Powerful Rust Capabilities Worth Knowing About

From bare-metal programming to compile-time SQL validation, Rust's lesser-known features reveal a language engineered to catch mistakes before they become disasters.

Google Pays $250K for 16-Year-Old Linux KVM Flaw

AI. Tyler Nakamura3 months ago· 6 min read

Google Pays $250K for 16-Year-Old Linux KVM Flaw

A 16-year-old Linux KVM flaw called Januscape earned a $250K bounty after enabling guest VM escapes on Intel and AMD systems. Here's what it means for cloud security.

Shoebox Satellites Could Detect Nuclear Weapons in Orbit

AI. Zara Chen3 months ago

Shoebox Satellites Could Detect Nuclear Weapons in Orbit

An MIT researcher proposes tiny cubesats that sniff out nuclear weapons in orbit. Here's what the physics can do—and what no satellite can fix.

U.S. PhD Admissions Fall 15%: A Threat to Science

AI. Mike Sullivan3 months ago· 7 min read

U.S. PhD Admissions Fall 15%: A Threat to Science

PhD admissions at top U.S. research universities dropped 15% this fall. Here's what that means for the science pipeline—and why it's harder to fix than it looks.

Anthropic Found a Secret Tracker in Claude Code

AI. Zara Chen3 months ago· 6 min read

Anthropic Found a Secret Tracker in Claude Code

A hidden tracker in Claude Code was secretly monitoring Chinese users until a security researcher exposed it. Here's what happened and why it matters.

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra Is Coming to Codex

AI. Tyler Nakamura3 months ago· 7 min read

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra Is Coming to Codex

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra is headed to Codex with a 91.9% Terminal-Bench 2.1 score. Here's what it actually means for developers—and what it doesn't.

Air Force Engineer Charged Over Flock Camera Destruction

AI. Mike Sullivan3 months ago· 7 min read

Air Force Engineer Charged Over Flock Camera Destruction

Jeffrey Sovern faces felony charges for destroying Flock Safety cameras in Virginia. His crowdfunded defense has become a flashpoint in the surveillance debate.

US and China Train Almost All the World's AI Models

AI. Zara Chen3 months ago· 6 min read

US and China Train Almost All the World's AI Models

US and Chinese companies train nearly every major AI model the world uses. Here's what that concentration means for global power, values, and sovereignty.

Alibaba Bans Claude Code Over Alleged Backdoor Risks