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The Hackers Who Tracked My Sleep Cycle
This is a short story about how I caught hackers timing their attacks around my daily routine. A...
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Speed vs smarts for coding agents?
I'm curious if you specifically have a sense of where you draw the line in terms of your interest in...
ByteDance’s new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut
The new model in CapCut will have built-in protections for making video from real faces or unauthorized intellectual property.
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Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable
Our latest voice model has improved precision and lower latency to make voice interactions more fluid, natural and precise.
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The Future of Coding is Communication, Not Just Code
We recently had a great conversation on the Making Software podcast with Bobby Tierney. Bobby is a...
Building shared coding guidelines for AI (and people too)
Coding guidelines and standards for agents need to be a little different—more explicit, demonstrative of patterns, and obvious.
WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations
The Meta-owned messaging platform is also launching a way to free up space, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more.
The Download: a battery pivot to AI, and rewriting math
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why this battery company is pivoting to AI Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about the state of the battery industry. “Almost every Western battery company has eithe
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I Tried to Turn Agent Memory Into Plumbing Instead of Philosophy
There is a special genre of AI idea that sounds brilliant right up until you try to build it. It...
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I built a file transfer tool that can’t spy on you even if it wanted to
I got tired of explaining privacy policies to people. Every time I needed to send a file to someone,...
The snow gods: How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app
The best snow-forecasting app for skiers and snowboarders isn’t from any of the federally funded weather services. Nor from any of the big-name brands. It’s an independent app startup that leverages government data, its own AI models, and decades of alpine-life experience to offer better snow (and s
Are high gas prices good news for EVs? It’s complicated.
I live in a dense city with plentiful public transportation options and limited parking, so I don’t own a car. I’m often utterly clueless about the current price of gasoline. But as the conflict in Iran has escalated, fossil-fuel prices have been on a roller-coaster, and I’ve started paying attentio
RPA matters, but AI changes how automation works
RPA (robotic process automation) is a practical and proven way to reduce manual work in business processes without AI systems. By using software bots to follow fixed rules, companies can automate repetitive tasks like data entry and invoice processing, and to a certain extent, report generation. Ado
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How I Almost Burned Out Doing Everything “Right”
Today I wanted to write a philosophical essay about AI. Or maybe something more technical. But once...
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Scaling ID Generation with Redis
It Started with a Simple Counter I work on a cloud-based document management platform used...
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The Small Details That Make a Website Feel Finished (And Quietly Improve Accessibility, Performance, and Trust)
For a long time, I thought a website was “done” when it worked. The pages loaded. The buttons...
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Benchmark oriented development is a road to nowhere
Cursor just released this article and a ton of people started worshiping Cursor like they just made a...
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Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust
As part of my work at Anthropic, I open sourced two Rust crates that fill a gap in the RPC ecosystem:...
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AI Didn't Break Your Culture. It Exposed It.
An engineer pushes back on a decision. The response: "ChatGPT recommended something else." The tell...
Meta is cutting several hundred jobs
Meta is laying off several hundred employees across multiple teams, including sales, recruiting, and the Reality Labs division. The cuts will impact employees in the U.S. and other international markets.