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AI Is a Technology, Not a Product — and That Changes Everything

May 25

▸ John Gruber argues the companies treating AI as a standalone product are repeating the same mistake as those who sold 'the internet' as a product in t...

Career / Industry Startups / Launches AI / ML clear_take

AI Just Killed the Open CTF — And the Security Community Knows It

May 25

▸ Frontier AI models can now solve most standard CTF challenges faster than human teams, breaking the competitive format that trained a generation of se...

Career / Industry AI / ML Security / Privacy clear_take

AI Makes You Type Faster. Your Process Doesn't Care.

May 25

▸ Frederick Van Brabant argues that AI coding tools accelerate individual tasks but leave the actual bottlenecks in software delivery — alignment, revie...

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Microsoft Silently Escrows Your BitLocker Keys. Now There's an Exploit.

May 25

▸ A security researcher has published a working exploit demonstrating that Microsoft's automatic BitLocker key escrow to Microsoft accounts functions as...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Security / Privacy clear_take

DeepSeek prices inference like electricity. Everyone else will follow.

May 25

▸ DeepSeek is making its 75% off-peak discount on the V3 flagship permanent, effectively splitting its API into two priced products: 'prime time' and 'i...

Cloud / Infrastructure AI / ML clear_take

Hardware Attestation Isn't About Security — It's About Control

May 25

▸ GrapheneOS argues that Google's Play Integrity API (formerly SafetyNet) functions as a monopoly enforcement tool, not a security mechanism, by letting...

Security / Privacy Open Source Politics / Regulation clear_take

Spammers are sending phishing from an actual @microsoft.com address

May 25

▸ Scammers are blasting phishing emails from a legitimate Microsoft-owned internal account, sailing past SPF, DKIM, and DMARC because the mail is, techn...

Security / Privacy Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

One Dev Automated Opt-Outs for 500 Data Brokers. The Code Is Free.

May 25

▸ Stephen Thorn released auto-identity-remove, an open-source tool that automates removal requests across 500+ data broker sites — a process that typica...

Open Source Security / Privacy explainer

Anthropic Buys Stainless — And Now Owns the SDK Factory Behind OpenAI

May 25

▸ Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the company whose tooling auto-generates production-quality SDKs from OpenAPI specs for Anthropic, OpenAI, Cloudflar...

Open Source Startups / Launches Backend / APIs clear_take

Americans Are Destroying Surveillance Cameras — And It's a Data Architecture Problem

May 25

▸ Flock Safety's automated license plate readers are being physically destroyed across the US as communities learn the cameras feed data to ICE enforcem...

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

OpenAI's model just disproved a discrete geometry conjecture

May 24

▸ An OpenAI reasoning model produced a counterexample to a long-standing conjecture in discrete geometry — not a proof assistant verification, an actual...

Open Source AI / ML clear_take

USCIS to H-1B holders: leave the country to get your green card

May 24

▸ USCIS policy memo PM-602-0199 (May 21, 2026) restricts adjustment-of-status to 'extraordinary' cases — most applicants must now consular-process abroa...

Politics / Regulation Career / Industry clear_take

ICE Just Bought a $25M Iris Database. Here's the Threat Model.

May 24

▸ ICE awarded Bi2 Technologies a $25M contract for iris-scanning infrastructure — the same vendor already running iris capture for ~30% of US sheriffs.

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation Defense / GovTech clear_take

GitHub breached via a VS Code extension. The threat model was always wrong.

May 24

▸ GitHub confirms ~3,800 internal repositories were accessed after an employee installed a malicious VS Code extension.

DevOps / Platform Engineering Security / Privacy clear_take

340+ local newsrooms blocked the Internet Archive. AI training is the excuse, not the reason.

May 24

▸ More than 340 local news sites — overwhelmingly Gannett, MediaNews Group, Tribune Publishing, Lee Enterprises and other hedge-fund-controlled chains —...

Politics / Regulation Open Source clear_take

Fisker Died. Its Owners Forked the Car.

May 24

▸ After Fisker's 2024 bankruptcy left ~10,000 Ocean EV owners without software updates or support, a community of owner-developers reverse-engineered th...

Career / Industry Open Source Hardware / Chips clear_take

Torvalds: AI Bug Hunters Are Drowning the Linux Security List

May 24

▸ Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug-hunting tools have made the Linux kernel security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' due to sheer volume o...

AI / ML Security / Privacy Open Source clear_take

AI Psychosis: When the Boardroom Hallucinates Harder Than the Model

May 24

▸ Mitchell Hashimoto — co-founder of HashiCorp and one of the most respected infrastructure engineers alive — says entire companies are now operating un...

AI / ML Startups / Launches Career / Industry clear_take

Bun Ditches Zig for Rust in Its Core — And That Tells You Everything

May 24

▸ Bun has merged a large PR rewriting significant internal subsystems from Zig to Rust, marking a fundamental shift in the project's toolchain identity.

Backend / APIs Open Source clear_take

Everything in C is undefined behavior (and your code is probably already wrong)

May 24

▸ A widely-shared post argues that nearly every non-trivial C program contains undefined behavior — not edge cases, but in code the standard library its...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Open Source explainer
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