▸ Posit (formerly RStudio) released ggsql alpha, applying Hadley Wickham's Grammar of Graphics layering paradigm to SQL query construction.
▸ Meta is laying off approximately 8,000 employees — 10% of its workforce — in its latest round of cuts.
▸ SpaceX has paid roughly $10B for an option to acquire Cursor at a $60B strike price, bundled with GPU compute and data-sharing services.
▸ EU Regulation 2023/1542 requires all portable electronic devices sold in the EU to have batteries replaceable by end users using commercially availabl...
▸ Anthropic launched Claude Design under its new Anthropic Labs experimental brand, letting users generate and iterate on UI designs through natural lan...
▸ A growing black market sells GitHub stars in bulk — often tens of thousands per repo — making star counts nearly useless as a quality or popularity si...
▸ Atlassian enabled a default-on setting that feeds customer data from Jira, Confluence, and other cloud products into their AI model training pipeline.
▸ Notion's API returns the full email addresses of every user who has edited a publicly shared page, visible to anyone who inspects network traffic.
▸ Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a Mixture-of-Experts model with 35B total parameters but only 3B active per token — open-weight and targ...
▸ OpenAI rebranded Codex again — now pitched as a general-purpose agent for coding, research, and delegation, not just autocomplete.
▸ A developer's unrestricted Firebase browser API key was harvested and used to hammer Gemini endpoints, burning €54,000 in 13 hours before alerts fired...
▸ A leaked StackAdapt sales deck shows advertisers can now buy ChatGPT placements targeted by "prompt relevance" — matching ads to what users are active...
▸ Tim Cook is stepping up to Executive Chairman; John Ternus, the hardware VP behind Apple Silicon and Vision Pro, becomes Apple's third CEO.
▸ GitHub's `gh` CLI now collects pseudoanonymous usage telemetry by default, tracking command names, execution times, OS, and shell environment.
▸ Kyle Kingsbury (Aphyr, creator of Jepsen) describes a hiring market where every layer — resumes, interviews, take-homes, references — is now polluted ...
▸ Claude Opus 4.7 is generally available with substantial improvements in advanced software engineering, especially on long-running, complex tasks that ...
▸ A production migration from DigitalOcean to Hetzner cut monthly infrastructure costs from $1,432 to $233 — an 84% reduction — with zero downtime.
▸ AI coding models routinely rewrite far more code than necessary when asked to make targeted changes, bloating diffs and introducing subtle regressions...
▸ Fingerprint.com discovered that Firefox's IndexedDB implementation maintains a stable internal identifier that persists across Tor Browser's 'New Iden...
▸ Apple has patched an iOS bug that allowed forensic tools to extract chat messages users had already deleted from their iPhones.