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Speed to Power Replaces GPU Supply as the Decisive AI Metric

U.S. interconnection queues hold 2,300 gigawatts of stalled generation with wait times averaging 5 years. Hyperscalers are pivoting from chasing silicon to securing baseload power, shifting the AI battleground to grid-ready geography.

May 25, 20263 min read

Web Development

The Linux Foundation builds a decentralized plugin repo for WordPress

The FAIR Package Manager replaces centralized WordPress dependencies with cryptographically verified mirrors, turning supply-chain security into an enterprise procurement prerequisite.

May 25, 20263 min read

Programming

Linus Torvalds Bans Non-Urgent Private Disclosures and Rejects AI Regressions in Linux 7.1-rc5

Linus Torvalds has restricted private vulnerability disclosures to urgent trust-boundary violations and blocked late-cycle AI-authored patches in Linux 7.1-rc5, responding to a flood of duplicated bug reports that threaten maintainer sanity and release stability.

May 25, 20264 min read

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Technology

Space-Based Sentinels Turn Herd Behavior Into Anti-Poaching Alerts

Researchers are decoding species-specific panic signatures from orbit to convert herd behavior into a predictive early-warning system against poaching.

May 25, 20264 min read

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AI & ML

Autonomous coding ships fast. Governance breaks the loop.

Enterprises deploy autonomous coding agents, but 95% of initiatives fail to deliver value. Velocity collides with compliance, forcing a pivot from generation to verification.

May 25, 20263 min read

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AI & ML

Power Is The New Bottleneck For AI Infrastructure

Cloud providers are running into grid capacity limits. The race to train models now depends on securing electricity before hardware arrives.

May 25, 20263 min read

Technology

Huawei can't make smaller transistors. So it's redefining what 'scaling' means.

Barred from EUV lithography, Huawei unveiled a 'Tau' scaling law and a LogicFolding architecture that target 1.4nm-equivalent performance by 2031 — a bet on optimizing time and wiring instead of shrinking the transistor. Sovereignty engineering, turning a constraint into a thesis.

May 25, 20263 min read

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AI & ML

Cohere absorbs Aleph Alpha to build a $20B 'sovereign AI' bet — mostly for Europe's benefit

Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are merging into a ~$20B transatlantic 'sovereign AI' champion, anchored by a $600M Schwarz Group commitment. But the 90/10 ownership split tells the real story: this is an acquisition wearing the costume of a European merger.

May 25, 20263 min read

Technology

275 million students, one app: the Canvas breach is a monoculture failure

ShinyHunters breached Instructure's Canvas, exposing data on ~275M students and staff across ~8,800 institutions — the largest education breach on record. Instructure reportedly paid to make it stop. The real lesson isn't the hack; it's the monoculture that made one app's bad day everyone's.

May 25, 20263 min read

AI & ML

DeepSeek makes a 75% price cut permanent — and turns cheap inference into a weapon

DeepSeek's flagship V4-Pro now costs a quarter of last week's price — and a fraction of what US labs charge. Permanent, not promotional. The AI price war just reset the floor for inference, right as OpenAI and Anthropic price their IPOs on the opposite assumption.

May 25, 20263 min read

Technology

America bets ~$2 billion on its first quantum chip foundry — and hands IBM the keys

IBM and the US Commerce Department are building Anderon, America's first pure-play quantum wafer foundry, in Albany — $1B of IBM cash plus a proposed $1B CHIPS award. It's industrial policy for the post-GPU era: own the fab before the market exists.

May 25, 20263 min read

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AI & ML

An OpenAI model disproved an 80-year-old math conjecture — a new kind of milestone

OpenAI says one of its reasoning models overturned the planar unit-distance conjecture, open since Erdős posed it in 1946, finding an infinite family of constructions that beat the assumed answer — externally verified. AI just crossed from solving known problems to disproving believed ones.

May 25, 20263 min read

Career

The new engineering job is verifying AI — and the micromanager is built for it

AI coding agents quietly inverted the senior-engineer job — less writing code, more verifying it. Stefan Wolpers names the new role, the Verification Architect, and nominates an unlikely candidate: the micromanager twenty years of agile coaching couldn’t fix.

May 22, 20264 min read

Technology

SpaceX is trying to fly Starship V3 for the first time today. It's the version that has to work.

After scrubbing earlier this week, SpaceX is targeting today, May 22, for Starship V3's debut (IFT-12): 408 feet, 33 new Raptors, 3× the payload, a new launch pad. It's the redesign that has to make Starship operational.

May 22, 20263 min read

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AI & ML

Google didn't acquire Contextual AI. It took the team and the tech — the new playbook.

Google DeepMind is paying ~$80–90M to hire 20+ Contextual AI researchers (incl. Douwe Kiela) and license the tech — without acquiring the company. The same antitrust-dodging acqui-hire it ran with Windsurf, Character, and Hume.

May 22, 20263 min read

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Technology

OpenAI turned ChatGPT into an ad platform. The numbers say it’s harder than it looks.

OpenAI launched a self-serve Ads Manager in ChatGPT — no minimum spend, $100M in six weeks, a $2.5B target. But it already swapped CPM for CPC as rates fell from $60 to $25. The answer engine is becoming an ad business.

May 22, 20263 min read

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Technology

SpaceX filed for the biggest IPO ever. The S-1 says Starlink is the only part that makes money.

SpaceX is targeting a ~$1.75 trillion June listing under SPCX — the largest IPO in history. The filing tells a sharper story: Starlink is the cash engine, the rest burns billions, and Musk keeps 85% of the votes.

May 22, 20263 min read

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AI & ML

Anthropic is about to post its first profit — in the two months its compute bill is discounted.

Anthropic told investors it expects a $559M operating profit on $10.9B Q2 revenue — its first ever. The catch the headline skips: those are the exact two months its $1.25B/month compute bill is discounted.

May 22, 20263 min read

Technology

Nvidia beat everything — and the stock fell. The market stopped grading the quarter.

Record $81.6B revenue, data center up 92%, a $91B guide, an $80B buyback — and Nvidia's stock slid. When you're priced for perfection, the question isn't the quarter. It's the half-life of the AI buildout.

May 22, 20263 min read

Career

Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. The capex is the real headline.

Meta is laying off ~8,000 people and canceling 6,000 open roles while its 2026 AI capex climbs toward $145B. The layoff isn't the story — the trade between headcount and compute is.

May 22, 20263 min read

Technology

Europe gave up chasing the next OpenAI. Its 2026 bet is hard tech and sovereignty.

Beyond Mistral and Lovable, Europe is making a deliberate, state-backed bet on fusion, launchers, chips, and defense. Sovereignty as an investment thesis — the right strategy, with one familiar failure mode.

May 22, 20263 min read

AI & ML

Google's $100/month AI tier is the real story from I/O — the bundle war begins.

Buried in Google I/O was the number that matters: $100/month for AI Ultra and the always-on Gemini Spark agent. Google isn't selling a chatbot — it's selling a bundle OpenAI can't match.

May 22, 20263 min read

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Technology

OpenAI files to go public. The AI era is about to get a market price.

OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO targeting a ~$1 trillion September listing. The real story isn't the first-day pop — it's that an S-1 finally puts numbers under oath on the most capital-intensive software ever built.

May 22, 20263 min read

AI & ML

Google's I/O 2026 bet: don't win the model race, own the rails agents run on.

Gemini 3.5 was the headline; the strategy was everything around it — Antigravity, Managed Agents, and WebMCP. Google isn’t racing to the best model. It’s making sure agents run on its browser, OS, and cloud.

May 22, 20263 min read

DevOps

AI writes most of the code now. Socket just raised $60M on the part nobody reviews.

Socket hit a $1B valuation selling supply-chain security to the same AI labs flooding the supply chain. When generation gets free, verification gets valuable — the fight is over who owns the door.

May 22, 20263 min read

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Programming

ServiceNow isn't fighting Cursor and Copilot. It's selling the layer above them.

ServiceNow made its Build Agent run inside every major AI coding tool. The bet: the coding agent is a commodity, so the moat moves to context and governance — who controls what ships.

May 22, 20263 min read

AI & ML

siliXon wants you to design circuit boards by describing them. It just raised $1.5M.

A UK startup co-founded by Romanian engineer Mihai Mesteru turns a sentence into a production-ready PCB. The pre-seed is in; the hard part is whether the boards actually work.

May 22, 20263 min read

Programming

AI writes most of the code now. The job that’s left is harder, not smaller.

Google says 75% of its new code is AI-generated, Microsoft 20–30%, Anthropic nearly all. That doesn't shrink engineering — it moves the job up the stack to architecture, review, and security.

May 21, 20264 min read

Programming

Design Patterns You Should Know

Design Patterns You Should Know Design patterns are reusable solutions to common problems in software design. They provide a shared vocabulary for developers and help avoid reinventing the wheel.…

May 21, 20262 min read

Programming

Mastering Git Workflows

Mastering Git Workflows Git is one of the most essential tools in a developer's toolkit. While basic operations like , , and are well known, mastering advanced workflows can dramatically improve your…

May 21, 20262 min read

Programming

Refactoring Strategies

Refactoring Strategies Refactoring is the art of improving code structure without changing its external behavior. It's not about rewriting — it's about making existing code cleaner, faster, and…

May 21, 20262 min read

Programming

Understanding Data Structures

Understanding Data Structures Data structures are the building blocks of efficient software. Choosing the right one can mean the difference between a program that runs in milliseconds and one that…

May 21, 20262 min read

Programming

Unit Testing Best Practices

Unit Testing Best Practices Unit tests are your safety net. They catch regressions early, document expected behavior, and give you the confidence to refactor. But poorly written tests can be worse…

May 21, 20262 min read

Technology

Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrency

Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrency When most people hear the word "blockchain," they think of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the wild price swings of cryptocurrency. But the underlying technology — a…

Abyss Team

Speed to Power Replaces GPU Supply as the Decisive AI Metric

The Linux Foundation builds a decentralized plugin repo for WordPress

Linus Torvalds Bans Non-Urgent Private Disclosures and Rejects AI Regressions in Linux 7.1-rc5

Space-Based Sentinels Turn Herd Behavior Into Anti-Poaching Alerts

Autonomous coding ships fast. Governance breaks the loop.

Power Is The New Bottleneck For AI Infrastructure

Huawei can't make smaller transistors. So it's redefining what 'scaling' means.

Cohere absorbs Aleph Alpha to build a $20B 'sovereign AI' bet — mostly for Europe's benefit

275 million students, one app: the Canvas breach is a monoculture failure

DeepSeek makes a 75% price cut permanent — and turns cheap inference into a weapon

America bets ~$2 billion on its first quantum chip foundry — and hands IBM the keys

An OpenAI model disproved an 80-year-old math conjecture — a new kind of milestone

The new engineering job is verifying AI — and the micromanager is built for it

SpaceX is trying to fly Starship V3 for the first time today. It's the version that has to work.

Google didn't acquire Contextual AI. It took the team and the tech — the new playbook.

OpenAI turned ChatGPT into an ad platform. The numbers say it’s harder than it looks.

SpaceX filed for the biggest IPO ever. The S-1 says Starlink is the only part that makes money.

Anthropic is about to post its first profit — in the two months its compute bill is discounted.

Nvidia beat everything — and the stock fell. The market stopped grading the quarter.

Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. The capex is the real headline.

Europe gave up chasing the next OpenAI. Its 2026 bet is hard tech and sovereignty.

Google's $100/month AI tier is the real story from I/O — the bundle war begins.

OpenAI files to go public. The AI era is about to get a market price.

Google's I/O 2026 bet: don't win the model race, own the rails agents run on.

AI writes most of the code now. Socket just raised $60M on the part nobody reviews.

ServiceNow isn't fighting Cursor and Copilot. It's selling the layer above them.

siliXon wants you to design circuit boards by describing them. It just raised $1.5M.

AI writes most of the code now. The job that’s left is harder, not smaller.

Design Patterns You Should Know

Mastering Git Workflows

Refactoring Strategies

Understanding Data Structures

Unit Testing Best Practices

Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrency

Cybersecurity in 2026

How 5G Is Changing Everything

The Evolution of Smartphones

The Future of Quantum Computing

The Internet of Things Revolution

AI in Production: Challenges and Best Practices

Virtual Reality in the Workplace

Building Accessible Websites

CSS Grid Complete Guide

Getting Started with React 19

PWA — Progressively Enhanced Apps

TypeScript for Beginners

Understanding REST vs GraphQL

Web Performance Optimization

Color Theory for Developers

Code Review Checklist

The Rise of Edge Computing

Building Your First Neural Network

Computer Vision: Applications and Techniques

Ethical Considerations in AI

Getting Started with Hugging Face

Introduction to Machine Learning

Natural Language Processing Basics

Building a Personal Brand as a Developer

Continuous Learning in Tech

How to Negotiate Your Salary