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I let an AI run my startup for a week
A solo founder writes up a week of running parts of his business with a team of always-on AI agent bots (support over Gmail, an engineer bot, a security bot): how they worked together to fix a customer bug, working from his phone on a hike, experiments he tried, the downsides, and his conclusions.
3 min · 756 words
Anthropic’s Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
A former Mononoke engineer compares Anthropic's description of 'derived data' in its new Scion version control system with how Meta's open-source Mononoke source control server used the same idea years earlier, and argues that Anthropic should have credited Mononoke as prior art.
4 min · 855 words
Phil Eaton explains why The Consensus added an 'AI tells' detector to its curated technical-writing feed, so it can keep freely promoting thoughtfully human-written articles while letting readers filter likely AI-written ones.
2 min · 526 words
America Didn’t Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It.
Kirsten Asdal, Tom Koch and Tao Tan argue in Lawfare that the U.S. rare earth chokepoint was created by market logic, since China prices for control rather than profit, and that rebuilding American supply needs asymmetric financing where government absorbs downside risk and shares in the upside.
11 min · 2,592 words
On the Death of Amazon’s Writing Culture
Former Amazon principal engineer Steve Huynh argues that AI-generated six-pagers are hollowing out the writing culture that once forced clear thinking at Amazon, describes 'AI;DR' and teams that stopped writing entirely, and proposes keeping human writing and reading for one-way-door decisions.
8 min · 1,826 words
Better HTTP/1 connection reuse
The Go team explains why HTTP/1 connections often fail to be reused when response bodies are closed without being drained, how costly that is, the tricky manual workarounds developers have used, and how Go 1.27's net/http Transport now drains unread bodies automatically so closing the body is enough.
6 min · 1,453 words
How the PHP Security Team Handles Your Reports
Alexandre Daubois of the PHP security team explains how security reports for php-src are triaged today, who does the work, the tools the team uses, what falls inside and outside the security policy, and how to send a report, including AI-assisted ones, that the team can act on.
5 min · 1,136 words
How we built AI agent behavior drift analysis with Cloudflare Clef
David Mytton explains how Arcjet monitors AI coding agent sessions in real time, detecting risky actions, session tainting and behavior drift from indirect prompt injection using Cloudflare's Clef decision model.
9 min · 1,997 words
E2exe: How we solved Windows desktop automation for enterprise scale
QA Wolf explains how it parallelizes Windows desktop app tests at scale: single-use VMs from warm pools on Google Compute Engine, driven from Linux over CDP and Appium, with one API across web, mobile and desktop.
10 min · 2,225 words
Geoff Huston examines the fragility of the ~1.5M km of subsea communications cables underpinning global telecoms — from Taiwan's Matsu Islands outages to repair capacity, sabotage risks and what resilience really requires.
16 min · 3,769 words
Package managers have an integrity problem
Trail of Bits tested 25 popular package managers to see whether they detect a compromised registry injecting malicious code into legitimate packages; fewer than half used tamper-checking lockfiles by default and only two verified every package.
20 min · 4,635 words
Scott Helme responds to the viral 'Passkeys are a trap' post, explaining what passkey attestation actually does, why it rarely restricts users in practice, and why passkeys remain the best protection available for accounts.
4 min · 880 words
JPMorgan Builds Defenses Against the Same Agents Stripe Invites to Checkout
Hermes contrasts Jamie Dimon’s push for defenses against rogue AI agents with Stripe’s agentic checkout invitations — arguing both need the same short verification check before agents move money.
2 min · 539 words
yet another place where a linux man page is inaccurate
A short systems note on initstate(3) and related RNG APIs: where the Linux man page wording diverges from observed behavior, with a segfault surprise along the way.
2 min · 493 words
Stop Telling AI What It Can't Do
Cal Evans argues people only hand AI tasks they already know how to do — and that describing the problem and letting the conversation explore solutions unlocks more than pre-limiting what AI “can’t” do.
2 min · 426 words
Plasma 6.8 released (KDE’s 30th birthday)
KDE announces Plasma 6.8 for its 30th anniversary: foundation work for future Plasma, desktop improvements, Wayland polishing, and app updates across the stack.
6 min · 1,283 words
How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
Amanda Shendruk investigates how Amazon’s marketplace and advertising tools push prices up across the web — not just on Amazon — via seller fees, Buy Box dynamics, and price-matching ripples.
5 min · 1,065 words
Daniel Stenberg explains CVE-2026-92392, a HIGH-severity HTTP/2 upload use-after-free in curl fixed in 8.23.0 that could be turned into remote code execution, how it was found and handled, and why the release cycle was shortened.
6 min · 1,317 words
What agents mean for Rust (and vice versa)
Niko Matsakis reflects on the rise of LLM coding agents from a language designer’s perspective: why Rust’s type system and safety guarantees suit agentic development, and what Rust and its tooling should change in response.
15 min · 3,336 words
A Markdown File Should Just Open
Joshua Morris argues that in 2026 a Markdown file should open as a readable document on an ordinary computer or phone without extra software or a private format, and looks at how operating systems and built-in apps could support the format natively.
13 min · 2,948 words