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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...

Career / Industry Politics / Regulation 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.

Politics / Regulation Defense / GovTech Security / Privacy 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 —...

Open Source Politics / Regulation 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...

Open Source Hardware / Chips Career / Industry 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...

Security / Privacy Open Source AI / ML 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...

Startups / Launches AI / ML 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

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.

Cloud / Infrastructure AI / ML 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.

Politics / Regulation AI / ML 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...

AI / ML Career / Industry 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...

AI / ML Career / Industry 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...

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation 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.

Security / Privacy DevOps / Platform Engineering clear_take
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