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JetBrains cancels Fleet
Update (May ’26) Fleet has evolved into Air — our new Agentic Development Environment. Air brings together Fleet’s speed, lightweight feel, and usability with a new agentic experience for devel
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Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation
Why automation lags even as models get better
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Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods
Strengthening customer trust: Walmart is eliminating synthetic dyes and 30+ ingredients from U.S. private brand foods.
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Conscious unbossing
Conscious unbossing - 52% of Gen-Z professionals don’t want to be middle managers
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Malleable Software
In the AI era, the winners won’t be the tools you adapt to — they’ll be the tools that adapt to you.
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The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash price increase offers a warning about the economics of AI inference and the limits of ever-cheaper intelligence.
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Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight
Aviation insiders say an airworthiness directive may soon require software updates across the Airbus A320 fleet after investigators linked a JetBlue incident—where the aircraft entered a sudden uncommanded descent—to a faulty ELAC computer. Any grounding is expected to be short and staggered, with airlines updating…
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Arroyo (YC W23) has been acquired by Cloudflare
Arroyo has been acquired by Cloudflare to bring serverless SQL stream processing to the Cloudflare Developer Platfrorm, integrated with Queues, Workers, and R2. The Arroyo Engine will remain open-source and self-hostable.
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The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing
A misconfiguration that might have cost us $7,000
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Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma
U.S. pharma companies should pay rather more of their corporate income tax in the U.S.—and start producing more of their best drugs in the U.S. as well.
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Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022)
In many ways, America’s social safety net falls short of those of our liberal democratic peers, yet we have no shortage of policies intended to provide social protections. Why is that, and how can we fix it?
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The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over
The AI era is speedrunning the Web 2.0 story. Open and accessible MCPs are not our future. Integrations will be tightly governed.
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One Dataset. No Warning. Google Took Everything. You're Not Safe Either
I’m an independent developer who built Punge, an on-device NSFW image detection app. The idea was simple: give people tools to manage…
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But how to get to that European cloud?
The very short version: It has now become clear that European governments can no longer rely on American clouds, and that we lack good and comprehensive alternatives. Market forces have failed to deliver a truly European cloud, and businesses won’t naturally buy as yet unproven cloud services, even when adorned with a…
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AI Market Clarity
A subset of AI markets have crystalized in the last 12 months, with the likely market leaders for the next year or two suddenly clear
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Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud
What can Apple do in the face of a UK order to weaken encryption worldwide? Decentralize iCloud, to start.
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Answering questions about Android developer verification
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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DeepSeek R1 Is Now Available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
DeepSeek R1, available through the model catalog on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, enables businesses to seamlessly integrate advanced AI.
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Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs
dbt Labs has acquired SDF Labs to enhance analytics engineering solutions. Learn how this partnership strengthens the modern data stack.
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The Age of Agent Experience
AI agents are here—from ChatGPT Operator to coding tools like Devin and Lovable, there’s a rapid growth of products that can interact with websites on our behalf. It’s time to start building for a new persona: the autonomous agent. Instead of just designing experiences for human users, we need to think carefully about…
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Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty
The EU can support the development of homegrown social media platforms to ensure European Union's digital sovereignty and shield it from foreign interference
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AI isn't going to kill the software industry
I feel like half of my social media feed is composed of AI grifters saying software developers are not going to make it. Combine that sentiment with some economic headwinds and it's easy to feel like we're all screwed. I think that's bullshit. The best days of our industry lie ahead.
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DeepSeek's Hidden Bias: How We Cut It by 76% Without Performance Loss
Showcasing Hirundo’s bias unlearning capabilities on DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B, reducing its biases up to 76% compared to original performance.
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How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development
How Boom Supersonic uses software to accelerate hardware development
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