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Uber's $1,500 Per-Tool AI Coding Cap Reveals What Engineering Time Is Worth
Uber has imposed a $1,500 monthly token budget on each agentic coding tool its engineers use, applied separately per product so Cursor spending doesn't eat into
UK media hides defence-industry ties of 'expert' commentators 60% of the time
An Action on Armed Violence study finds that UK news outlets routinely platform commentators with undisclosed financial or advisory ties to the defence industry
Why Struct Size and Memory Layout Can Make Loops 30x Faster
Algorithmic complexity tells only part of the performance story. A simple O(N) loop can vary dramatically in real-world speed depending on how data is laid out
A field guide to spotting Seattle's hidden surveillance infrastructure
A 2020 community workshop turned walking tour maps the layers of "smart city" surveillance woven into downtown Seattle, from ubiquitous cameras to Amazon Go sto
Adafruit Pauses Blog After Flux.ai Legal Threat Over Security Disclosure
Adafruit disclosed receiving a demand letter on May 22, 2026 from Fenwick & West partner Jonathan Lenzner, representing PCB design firm Flux.ai. The letter pres
Anthropic Expands Project Glasswing to 150 New Critical Infrastructure Partners
Anthropic is scaling Project Glasswing, its program that grants vetted organizations access to the Claude Mythos Preview model for vulnerability scanning, from
Apple Rejected My Dictation App for Misusing the Accessibility API
An indie developer with a repetitive strain injury built WhisperPad, a Mac menu-bar app that locally transcribes speech via Whisper and injects the text whereve
Browser Vendors' 'Attribution Level 1' Is an Ad-Tracking Cartel in Disguise
Meta, Google, Apple, and Mozilla are jointly drafting Attribution Level 1, a built-in browser API that records ad impressions and correlates them with purchases
DuckDuckGo ships browser extensions to lock in AI-free search as traffic surges
DuckDuckGo released Chrome and Firefox extensions that set noai.duckduckgo.com as the default search engine, stripping out AI-generated answers, chat prompts, a
Elixir 1.20 ships gradual set-theoretic types, catches bugs without annotations
Elixir 1.20 marks the first development milestone of a multi-year effort to bolt a sound, gradual, set-theoretic type system onto the language. The release perf
Ellison pitches AI-powered total surveillance as a civic virtue
At an Oracle analyst Q&A in September 2024, co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison sketched a near-future in which networks of street, vehicle, doorbell, and body-wor
Fidonet at INET '92: How a Hobbyist Store-and-Forward Net Reached a Million Users
Randy Bush's 1993 paper documents Fidonet, the volunteer-run store-and-forward network that by the early 1990s linked more than 20,000 BBS nodes and an estimate