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SpaceX's S-1: $1.25B from Anthropic, $4.9B loss, and a vertical AI stack

May 23

▸ SpaceX's S-1 discloses a May 2026 Cloud Services Agreement with Anthropic worth $1.25B for compute on Colossus and Colossus II.

AI / ML Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

The AI memory tax arrives: cheap phones are the first casualty

May 23

▸ Hyperscaler demand for HBM and high-density DDR5 has cannibalized DRAM and NAND capacity, pushing spot prices up sharply through 2025-26.

Hardware / Chips AI / ML clear_take

Anna's Archive to LLMs: please train on our pirated books

May 23

▸ Anna's Archive — the largest shadow library on the open web — published an llms.txt directly courting LLM crawlers to ingest its corpus.

AI / ML Politics / Regulation clear_take

Google puts ads inside AI Mode — the enshittification clock starts now

May 23

▸ Google announced at Marketing Live that Shopping and Search ads will appear inside AI Mode responses, the same surface that's replacing the ten blue l...

Career / Industry AI / ML clear_take

The junior dev squeeze: when Copilot eats the ladder's bottom rungs

May 23

▸ Josh Comeau's 'AI Elephant in the Room' essay argues the entry-level developer market is collapsing not because juniors can't code, but because Copilo...

Career / Industry AI / ML clear_take

AI Just Killed the Open CTF — And Infosec Training With It

May 23

▸ Frontier AI models (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini) can now solve the majority of standard open CTF challenges faster than human teams, breaking the competitiv...

Career / Industry AI / ML Security / Privacy clear_take

Julia Evans Ditched Tailwind — Here's How She Structures CSS Now

May 23

▸ Julia Evans moved her projects off Tailwind CSS after finding utility classes obscured the relationship between components and their styles.

Frontend / UI Open Source explainer

The DOJ Wants 100K App Store Users Unmasked. Developers Should Pay Attention.

May 23

▸ The U.S. Department of Justice has issued legal demands to Apple and Google to hand over identifying information on over 100,000 users of a popular ca...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy clear_take

Ripping the Modem Out of a 2024 RAV4: A Hardware Privacy Guide

May 23

▸ A security engineer documented the full process of physically removing the cellular modem (DCM/TCU) and GPS antenna from a 2024 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid to ...

Security / Privacy Hardware / Chips explainer

Amazon Staff Are Inventing Busywork to Hit AI Usage Quotas

May 23

▸ Amazon employees report being pressured to increase their usage of internal AI tools like Amazon Q, with some fabricating tasks just to meet implicit ...

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

GitHub: 3,800 repos exfiltrated by a single malicious VSCode extension

May 21

▸ GitHub confirmed that a single malicious VSCode extension exfiltrated source code and tokens from 3,800 repositories before being pulled.

DevOps / Platform Engineering Security / Privacy clear_take

SpaceX's S-1: Starlink is the business, rockets are the marketing

May 21

▸ SpaceX filed its S-1 with the SEC, the first time outsiders get audited numbers instead of leaked decks.

Startups / Launches Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

OpenAI's model just killed a 40-year geometry conjecture

May 21

▸ An OpenAI reasoning model produced a constructive counterexample to a long-standing conjecture in discrete geometry, not just a proof sketch.

Open Source AI / ML clear_take

Bun's Rust Rewrite Fails Miri: Undefined Behavior Found in Safe Code

May 21

▸ Bun's ongoing Rust rewrite has been flagged for failing basic Miri checks, meaning the codebase contains undefined behavior even in code marked as saf...

Open Source Backend / APIs multiple_viewpoints

GitLab Kills Its CREDIT Values and Cuts Staff. Culture Debt Comes Due.

May 21

▸ GitLab announced a workforce reduction alongside the retirement of its CREDIT values — the six cultural pillars (Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, D...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Career / Industry clear_take

Mitchell Hashimoto: Entire Companies Are Now Under 'AI Psychosis'

May 21

▸ HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto claims entire companies are now operating under 'AI psychosis' — making irrational organizational decisions dr...

Career / Industry AI / ML clear_take

Every App Wants to Be Emacs Now. That's Not a Compliment.

May 21

▸ Thomas Ptacek argues that modern software is converging on the Emacs pattern: extensible platforms that absorb adjacent functionality until they becom...

Career / Industry Open Source DevOps / Platform Engineering clear_take

MIT Loses 20% of Incoming Grad Students. The Talent Pipeline Is Breaking.

May 21

▸ MIT President Sally Kornbluth disclosed a 20% drop in incoming graduate students, driven by federal research funding cuts and an increasingly hostile ...

AI / ML Career / Industry Politics / Regulation clear_take

Flipper One specs land: it's a pocket Kali box, not a Zero upgrade

May 21

▸ Flipper Devices published the Flipper One tech specs — a Linux-based SBC with integrated WiFi monitor mode, Sub-GHz, NFC, and an FPGA, in a Game Boy f...

Hardware / Chips Security / Privacy clear_take

SpiderMonkey is killing the asm.js optimizer. WebAssembly won.

May 21

▸ Mozilla is removing SpiderMonkey's dedicated asm.js AOT compiler — the code that proved JS could be a compile target and birthed WebAssembly.

Frontend / UI Open Source explainer
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