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SF Robotics Startup Allegedly Trashed Airbnbs During Covert Prototype Testing
An SF homeowner is suing the Bot Company, a $2 billion robotics startup founded by Tesla and Cruise alums, alleging its employees rented his Airbnb under false
Skip the Orchestrator: Why Postgres Alone Can Run Durable Workflows
Durable workflow systems like Temporal, Airflow, and AWS Step Functions rely on a central orchestrator to dispatch steps to workers and checkpoint their results
SQLite Plus Litestream as the Minimal Stack for Durable Workflows
Obelisk's author pushes back on the assumption that durable execution demands heavy database infrastructure. Building on DBOS's "Postgres is all you need" argum
The Dead Economy Theory: AI's Trillion-Dollar Bet Against Its Own Customers
The AI industry's valuations only make sense if the product is large-scale labor replacement. OpenAI, Anthropic, and their peers have absorbed hundreds of billi
The Randoseru: How a Dutch Military Pack Became Japan's Iconic School Bag
Japan's randoseru—the boxy, leather-clad backpack worn by every elementary schoolchild for six straight years—traces its lineage to a Dutch military rucksack ca
The Telltale Signatures of LLM-Generated Writing and Web Design
A blogger documents recurring stylistic fingerprints that betray LLM-assisted output across both prose and web design. In writing, the giveaways go well beyond
UC Faculty Push to Restore SAT for STEM as Math Readiness Craters
More than 600 University of California faculty, led by Berkeley mathematicians, are demanding the system reinstate SAT or ACT requirements for STEM applicants b
VW breaks Home Assistant integration by mandating client assertion on login
Volkswagen has rolled out a change to its identity service that now requires a client assertion during authentication, breaking the popular homeassistant-volksw
Why scientific writing feels miserable — and the structural fix that helps
A researcher recounts dreading the writing stage of science until discovering that good prose follows learnable structural rules rather than innate talent. The
Apple and Google Now Edit Your Push Notifications Before You See Them
Push notifications have always been intermediated. Every alert sent to an iPhone or Android device routes through Apple Push Notification Service or Firebase Cl
Box's Aaron Levie: CEOs Have 'AI Psychosis' Because They're Too Far From Real Work
Box CEO Aaron Levie has coined the term 'AI psychosis' to describe a pattern he sees among tech executives: they prototype something with AI, get impressed, and
Canada Picks Saab GlobalEye Over Boeing E-7 in Pivot from US Defense Suppliers
Canada will buy Saab's GlobalEye early warning aircraft instead of Boeing's troubled E-7 Wedgetail, marking a deliberate move away from US defense procurement.