Linux & open source
Linux & open source
AI & GPU compute
AI & GPU compute
Developer tools
Founder Briony Kennedy says a website migration cut sales by about 30% and broke roughly $1 million a year in ads. Adobe will not comment. The $150 million Adobe settlement in the headlines concerns consumer subscriptions and has no stated link to her contract.
Linux & open source
A progress bar that timed the copy into memory, while the stick lagged far behind, corrupted files for anyone who trusted it and pulled the stick. The fix took 4 merge requests and a Linux call so sharp its own manual calls it extremely dangerous.
Security
A permission shortcut saves the exact command you approved, password included, into a project file that often gets committed. The bigger lesson is that AI coding agents have created new places for secrets to hide, and the usual scanners are not looking there.
Infrastructure
China ran a trade surplus of $938 billion in the first 9 months of 2026, installed 59% of the world’s new factory robots, and refines around 90% of the planet’s rare earths. The interesting question is not whether it is ahead in manufacturing, the numbers settle that, but how a few deliberate choices compounded into a lead that tariffs and chip bans have not reversed. I went through the mechanics.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
AI & GPU compute
Four days after Nvidia’s board said it had confidence in its CEO, Jensen Huang resigned. A short seller had flagged the Megaspeed connection 6 months earlier, and most of the story rests on anonymous US officials, so I separate the filed facts from the allegations.
AI & GPU compute
AI & GPU compute
Security
A permission shortcut saves the exact command you approved, password included, into a project file that often gets committed. The bigger lesson is that AI coding agents have created new places for secrets to hide, and the usual scanners are not looking there.
Security
Security
Crypto & markets
The question gets asked every cycle, and the answer usually arrives wrapped in either panic or celebration. The real mechanics are narrower and more interesting than either. I went through what a House majority can actually do, what adding the Senate changes, and where the hard constitutional walls sit that no election moves, using the 2016 to 2021 record as the clearest recent example. This is a civics explainer, not a prediction and not advice on who to vote for.
Crypto & markets
Crypto & markets
Linux & open source
On October 23, 2026, Flathub made its Discourse forum read only and pointed people to Matrix and issue trackers. Days later, Discord announced it will put public server messages into web search. Together they show what a forum does that a chat room has never done well.
Linux & open source
Linux & open source
Developer tools
Founder Briony Kennedy says a website migration cut sales by about 30% and broke roughly $1 million a year in ads. Adobe will not comment. The $150 million Adobe settlement in the headlines concerns consumer subscriptions and has no stated link to her contract.
Developer tools
Developer tools
I link the document, with the publisher and the day I opened it.
Each piece shows the day I last checked the source.
The note stays on the article and on the public corrections page.
Linux & open source
Security
Security
Developer tools