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Flock's Privacy Opt-Out Is a Delete Button Wired to /dev/null

Apr 19

▸ A developer documented their attempt to opt out of Flock Safety's ALPR surveillance network — the process requires submitting your plate number and pe...

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

The star economy decoupled from the dependency economy

Apr 19

▸ Three of GitHub's top trending repos this week are a curriculum, a career roadmap, and a personality-driven AI assistant — none ship runtime code into...

AI / ML Career / Industry Open Source clear_take

Anthropic's Silent Cache TTL Cut: Optimization or Stealth Price Hike?

Apr 19

▸ On March 6, Anthropic changed Claude Code's prompt cache TTL from 1 hour to 5 minutes — without announcing it or updating documentation.

AI / ML Cloud / Infrastructure DevOps / Platform Engineering multiple_viewpoints

Servo Ships 0.1.0 on crates.io: The Embeddable Browser Engine Rust Always Needed

Apr 19

▸ Servo, the Rust-native browser engine, has published its first official release (0.1.0) on crates.io — making it available as a normal Rust dependency...

Open Source Frontend / UI clear_take

Claude Code Routines: Anthropic Wants Your AI to Work the Night Shift

Apr 19

▸ Claude Code Routines let you define a prompt + repos + triggers (cron, API webhook, GitHub events) that run autonomously on Anthropic's cloud — no lap...

Open Source AI / ML DevOps / Platform Engineering explainer

GitHub Finally Gets Stacked PRs — Here's What Changes

Apr 19

▸ GitHub has released gh-stack, an official CLI extension that brings stacked pull request workflows to the platform.

DevOps / Platform Engineering Open Source explainer

Amazon's Price-Fixing Playbook Laid Bare in Unsealed Court Docs

Apr 19

▸ Newly unsealed records in California's antitrust case expose internal Amazon communications showing the company knowingly used pricing algorithms and ...

Career / Industry Politics / Regulation clear_take

The FSF can't get Google on the phone about a Gmail spammer

Apr 19

▸ The Free Software Foundation says a single Gmail account has blasted 10,000+ spam messages at its inboxes and it can't find a human at Google to stop ...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Security / Privacy clear_take

Why Your Claude Code Max Quota Burns Out in 90 Minutes

Apr 18

▸ Claude Code Pro Max 5x users report quota exhaustion in as little as 1.5 hours of moderate usage — a $100/month plan that's supposed to last all day.

DevOps / Platform Engineering Career / Industry AI / ML explainer

€54k in 13 hours: the Firebase key footgun Google still ships by default

Apr 18

▸ A developer's unrestricted Firebase browser key was scraped and used to hammer Gemini APIs, racking up €54,000 in 13 hours before Google's billing ale...

Security / Privacy Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

Aphyr vs. the Bullshit Machines: A Distributed Systems Expert Weighs In on AI

Apr 18

▸ Kyle Kingsbury (Aphyr), the engineer behind Jepsen's distributed systems tests, has published a sprawling multi-part essay arguing that LLMs are funda...

Career / Industry AI / ML multiple_viewpoints

Artemis II Splashes Down: Humans Flew Past the Moon Again

Apr 18

▸ NASA's Artemis II crew — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen — safely splashed down after a ~10-day mission that sent human...

Hardware / Chips Defense / GovTech clear_take

OpenAI's Codex Reboot: From Autocomplete to Autonomous Coding Agent

Apr 18

▸ OpenAI relaunched Codex as a cloud-based coding agent that runs tasks in sandboxed environments — a full pivot from the original 2021 autocomplete API...

AI / ML DevOps / Platform Engineering Startups / Launches explainer

jj Is the Git Replacement That Doesn't Make You Leave Git

Apr 18

▸ Jujutsu (jj) is a new DVCS that combines the best of Git and Mercurial into a simpler, more powerful CLI — and it uses Git as its storage backend so a...

Open Source DevOps / Platform Engineering explainer

A 3B-Active-Parameter Model on a Laptop Just Out-Drew Claude Opus

Apr 18

▸ Simon Willison ran Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally on his laptop and got better SVG pelican art than Claude Opus 4.7 — a model hundreds of times more expensiv...

Open Source AI / ML clear_take

Claude Opus 4.7: What Practitioners Need to Know Right Now

Apr 17

▸ Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable model to date, with significant gains in agentic coding, multi-step reasoning, and tool use.

DevOps / Platform Engineering AI / ML breaking

Google Killed a 20-Year Gmail Account, Then Gave the Data to ICE

Apr 17

▸ EFF reports Google terminated a long-standing Gmail account without warning and later disclosed its contents to ICE under legal process.

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Backdoored Every One

Apr 17

▸ An unknown buyer acquired at least 30 established WordPress plugins from their original developers, then pushed updates containing backdoor code to ev...

Open Source Security / Privacy clear_take

Cloudflare gives agents a real email address — SMTP without the SMTP

Apr 17

▸ Cloudflare Email Service is in public beta: agents can send and receive email via HTTP API and Workers bindings, no SMTP server required.

Cloud / Infrastructure AI / ML Backend / APIs clear_take

The case against Ollama: a thin wrapper with thick problems

Apr 17

▸ A widely-shared essay argues Ollama is a thin Go wrapper around llama.cpp that hides its upstream, mislabels distilled models, and routes traffic thro...

Open Source AI / ML clear_take
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