Engineering practice and developer tooling: languages, frameworks, DevOps, and the platform choices that shape delivery speed.
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As AI agents gain authority over business systems, attackers can manipulate them like business email compromise (BEC) victims.
The Playdate, Panic's tiny yellow handheld that launched in 2022, has slowly but surely become a great deal - which is a good thing, because everything else in gaming has only gotten more expensive. Despite being a weird device with a black-and-white screen and a crank jutting out the side, the Playdate has managed to […]
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Every new Pixel Watch debuts with some exclusive watch faces that eventually trickle down to the older models. Now, with the Pixel Watch 5 being a few months old, Google is doing exactly that and rolling out its new watch faces to the Pixel Watch 4.
Apple has reportedly cut orders for the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max due to “soft demand.” A new report from Nikkei Asia says Apple has told select suppliers to cut component production for the device, as price increases allegedly “dampened consumer demand.” more…
The new EV’s digital cockpit can mimic instrument displays from VWs of old.
"I can say we’re weeks away from launching on Vulcan."
Human work has gone through several revolutions over the past few decades, each of them bringing a start to new careers and an end to others. Software careers, which seemed virtually untouchable a short while ago, have been touted as among the most prominent victims of artificial intelligence. On the surface, it’s easy to see why. In the last few years, most enterprises have massively accelerated the rate at which they can produce code, while CIOs reported that tech industry layoffs hit their highest peak since 2024 earlier in the year. If I wanted to, I could now use AI to build a functioning CRM in a few days rather than weeks. With that in mind, it makes sense that senior executives may reconsider how much engineering headcount they really need to achieve their business goals. But would that CRM be fit for purpose, or secure enough to handle sensitive customer and business data? These are areas requiring skilled human judgment, so I’d encourage them to think twice. AI has certain...
It seems like more than a coincidence that paper and sovereignty played a seminal role in Bull’s beginning and latest chapter. French historian Pierre Mounier-Kuhn unpacks how the ups and downs of Bull and the computer industry more broadly have important implications for AI's future.
Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year
Shona Ghosh / Bloomberg: The UK plans to curb non-compete rules that force employees to wait before moving jobs or starting companies, an issue that has drawn complaints from startups — The UK is set to curb hiring restrictions that force employees to wait before moving jobs or starting companies …
This article describes a lightweight CLI utility that caches the stdout of repeated commands for a configurable time, reducing redundant execution of expensive or sensitive operations such as secret retrieval from tools like 1Password. For CIOs and technology leaders, the business value is faster developer workflows, fewer authentication prompts, and lower friction in automation, while the strategic implication is that small infrastructure tools can materially improve productivity and user experience without adding significant platform complexity. IT organizations should note the security and governance tradeoffs: cache scope, tenant separation, and time-bound retention must be managed carefully to avoid exposing sensitive data or creating inconsistent operational behavior.
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In its 26th season premiere, the procedural legal drama paints a damning picture of power-mad AI CEOs.
It’s finally time to ditch the gas canister—I tested these cordless leaf blowers on gravel, wood chips, and even a 5-pound concrete paver.
I have had the Google TV Streamer in our living room for a few months now, and it generally does a fantastic job.
Matthew Belloni / Puck: Sources: Netflix is preparing for layoffs that will impact ~5% of employees, or ~850 jobs, amid pressure over weakened engagement and a depressed stock price — Facing pressure over weakened engagement and a depressed stock price, the streamer is prepping for a round of layoffs in the near future, per sources.
Demand is so high that some used cars are selling for more than new ones.
Castelion—a next-generation defense tech company—is building a facility in Rio Rancho Estates that documents show could pose a major fire and chemical hazard to neighboring communities.
The article argues that programming should be understood as a creative craft, not a purely mechanical function, and therefore the rush to use AI in software development carries the same quality, originality, and labor concerns seen across other creative industries. For CIOs and technology leaders, the strategic implication is that AI adoption in IT should not be treated as a simple productivity play; it affects engineering culture, code quality, maintainability, and the long-term differentiation that comes from human-designed systems. IT organizations should expect growing tension between short-term efficiency gains and the erosion of craftsmanship, which could impact team morale, standards, and the organization’s ability to build distinctive technology assets.
Microsoft’s MXC is a cross-platform, policy-driven sandbox for executing untrusted code, designed to contain model outputs, plugins, tools, and other third-party workloads on Windows, Linux, and macOS. For CIOs and technology leaders, this lowers the operational and security risk of adopting agentic AI and extensible applications by standardizing isolation, access controls, and diagnostics across environments—potentially reducing the custom engineering needed to safely run untrusted code at scale. IT organizations should view it as an enabling control layer that can accelerate AI and automation initiatives while improving governance, but it will still require policy tuning and backend selection aligned to platform and compliance needs.
GitHub is rebuilding its core Git storage architecture to handle a surge in AI-agent-driven activity, with internal tests showing a 35x write improvement and a design aimed at reducing outages without changing developer workflows or security controls. For CIOs and technology leaders, this underscores that AI adoption is creating new infrastructure pressure on foundational platforms, and IT organizations should expect to rework storage, scalability, and reliability assumptions for source control and CI/CD systems.
This browser-based Quake port, rewritten in safe Rust from the GPL source and software-rendered with no GPU or dependencies, shows how legacy game engines can be modernized for secure, low-friction delivery in the browser. For CIOs and technology leaders, the strategic takeaway is that Rust can reduce memory-safety risk while extending the lifespan and reach of older codebases, offering a practical model for modernizing proprietary applications, internal tools, or customer-facing platforms without a full rewrite. IT organizations should view this as a proof point that web-native distribution can simplify deployment, maintenance, and compatibility while preserving performance on constrained environments.
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.