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Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out (4 minute read)

Anthropic's new ad, "There's hope in hard questions," unsettled viewers due to its dark imagery and critical AI commentary.

Jun 12 | Blog

I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.

A "simple" weekend project turns into real infrastructure, and why agent context deserves a boring, reliable foundation.

New ‘space mirror' satellite aims to bring sunlight to Earth even during the night (5 minute read)

Eärendil-1 is a demonstration 'space mirror' satellite with a highly reflective 60-foot thin-film mirror. Built by Reflect Orbital, the satellite will validate technologies that will eventually be used to sell sunlight on demand. The technology is designed to illuminate five- to six-kilometer zones for authorized commercial, agricultural, or emergency use. Reflect Orbital is aiming for a constellation of up to 50,000 orbiting mirrors by 2035.

Jul 15 | Design

Tinder's first rebrand in nearly a decade channels the voice of a dating columnist (2 minute read)

Tinder's rebrand combines a bolder visual identity with a distinctive editorial voice inspired by dating columnists, positioning the brand as a witty, empathetic guide for modern dating. The refreshed design updates the iconic flame, typography, color palette, and swipe interactions while embracing Gen Z's contradictions instead of simplifying them. Rather than relying on cliched dating imagery, the brand mixes authentic photography, metaphorical visuals, and cultural references to celebrate the many ways people experience connection.

Jul 15 | Dev

Reverse Engineering ChatGPT Web: How OpenAI Built for a Billion Users (28 minute read)

ChatGPT's web app runs on a boring stack: React 19, React Router 7 (streaming SSR), Tailwind, Radix, and TanStack Query. Every default is questioned in service of one goal: letting an anonymous visitor start typing instantly thanks to no auth wall and a fast time to first paint, with a prepaid Cloudflare/Sentinel bot-defense layer hiding the cost of that open door.

You Just Hired a Million Bad Employees (11 minute read)

Jul 15 | Tech

Apple in talks with startup that shrinks AI models to run on an iPhone (9 minute read)

Jul 14 | Tech

iOS 27 public beta is here with Siri AI, iPhone speed upgrades, and more (9 minute read)

Jul 14 | Tech

The Most Human Technology Ever Made (10 minute read)

Infosec

Jul 15 | Infosec

OAuth Client ID Spoofing Lets Attackers Validate Stolen Microsoft Entra Credentials (3 minute read)

Jul 15 | Infosec

Defending SaaS-based applications against ShinyHunters OAuth abuse (9 minute read)

Jul 15 | Infosec

Microsoft discloses 'the mother of all' vulnerability loads, tripling June's previous record (2 minute read)

Jul 15 | Infosec

SonicWall Warns of SMA1000 Flaws Exploited in Zero-Day Attacks (2 minute read)

Jul 14 | Infosec

New CrashStealer Malware Poses as Apple Crash Reporting Tool (2 minute read)

Jul 14 | Infosec

‘Ghostcommit' Hides Prompt Injection in Images to Fool AI Agents and Steal Secrets (2 minute read)

Jul 13 | Infosec

URGENT - Progress Tells ShareFile Customers to Shut Down Storage Zone Controllers Over Security Threat (3 minute read)

Design

Jul 15 | Design

Designing the Design Toolkit: The Hidden Design Behind Successful Workshops (9 minute read)

Jul 15 | Design

Meta Found to Breach EU Laws with ‘Addictive' Instagram, Facebook Designs (2 minute read)

Jul 15 | Design

The interface has left the building (13 minute read)

Jul 15 | Design

People will always need to trust the human behind any decision-making (2 minute read)

Jul 15 | Design

Why AI Startups Should Treat the Founding Designer as a Strategic Hire from the Start of Company Building (5 minute read)

Jul 15 | Design

How a Designer Created the "Dirty, Organic, Insectoid Logo" for Marvel Cosmic Invasion (5 minute read)

Jul 15 | Design

AI Email Design (Website)

Jul 14 | Design

Sonos Loses a Decade of Design Talent as Layoffs Hit its Top Ranks (3 minute read)

Jul 14 | Design

We Didn't Teach Our Designers AI: We Built a Place Where They Could Learn It Together (7 minute read)

Jul 13 | Design

Figma Acquires Team Behind a Vibe-coding App (1 minute read)

Jul 13 | Design

Design-System Maturity: A 6-Dimension Framework (10 minute read)

Marketing

Jul 15 | Marketing

How do I measure the pipeline contribution of paid media? (3 minute read)

Jul 15 | Marketing

Gen Z's ‘Borrowed Nostalgia' Is Reshaping Brand Marketing (2 minute read)

Jul 15 | Marketing

What a Former TikTok Shop Manager Learned From $14M in Live Sales (6 minute read)

Jul 15 | Marketing

Advertising works differently for Millennials and Generation Z (3 minute read)

Jul 14 | Marketing

Over 200 economists warn that more AI job losses are coming: “We must act now” (2 minute read)

Jul 14 | Marketing

Every AI Marketing Platform Now Sells a “Brand Voice” Feature. They're All Selling the Same Voice (5 minute read)

Jul 14 | Marketing

Where AI agents get stuck on your site (5 minute read)

Jul 13 | Marketing

The Tech Bro-ification of Marketing (4 minute read)

Jul 13 | Marketing

In an era of ‘baddies,' companies are racing to keep up with the influencer economy (3 minute read)

Jul 13 | Marketing

Building an AI-Native Email Marketing System (6 minute read)

Data

Jul 13 | Data

The Shift Left Manifesto - v2 (10 minute read)

Jul 13 | Data

The Data Anarchy Tax: Why your team is firefighting 45% of the time. (7 minute read)

Jul 13 | Data

How to Achieve Pruning When Querying by Non-Partitioned Columns in PostgreSQL (13 minute read)

Jul 13 | Data

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Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out (4 minute read)

I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.

New ‘space mirror' satellite aims to bring sunlight to Earth even during the night (5 minute read)

Tinder's first rebrand in nearly a decade channels the voice of a dating columnist (2 minute read)

Reverse Engineering ChatGPT Web: How OpenAI Built for a Billion Users (28 minute read)

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The Most Human Technology Ever Made (10 minute read)

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AI-pilling our company (11 minute read)

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OAuth Client ID Spoofing Lets Attackers Validate Stolen Microsoft Entra Credentials (3 minute read)

Defending SaaS-based applications against ShinyHunters OAuth abuse (9 minute read)

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Smashing the ServiceNow Sandbox – Pre Authentication RCE (11 minute read)

Context Bombs: stopping AI attackers in their tracks (8 minute read)

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SonicWall Warns of SMA1000 Flaws Exploited in Zero-Day Attacks (2 minute read)

New CrashStealer Malware Poses as Apple Crash Reporting Tool (2 minute read)

‘Ghostcommit' Hides Prompt Injection in Images to Fool AI Agents and Steal Secrets (2 minute read)

URGENT - Progress Tells ShareFile Customers to Shut Down Storage Zone Controllers Over Security Threat (3 minute read)

Terraform MCP Server Explained: Setup and Use Cases (17 minute read)

Graphify (GitHub Repo)

Penpot (GitHub Repo)

Argo CD 2026 User Survey Results (12 minute read)

Introducing Precursor: detecting agentic behavior with continuous client-side signals (7 minute read)

A broken DNSSEC rollover took down .AL. Now 1.1.1.1 tells you when validation is bypassed (7 minute read)

5 pitfalls to avoid when measuring DevEx in the AI era (4 minute read)

Code review is theater now (8 minute read)

lobste.rs is now running on SQLite (6 minute read)

YouTrackDB (GitHub Repo)

AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever (18 minute read)

Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security (62 minute read)

Building for Breach (14 minute read)

A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age (7 minute read)

The Same TypeScript Costs 73% More Tokens on Claude Than GPT (7 minute read)

A Hitchhiker's Guide to AI (17 minute read)

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The four horsemen behind thousands of Postgres outages (10 minute read)

Designing the Design Toolkit: The Hidden Design Behind Successful Workshops (9 minute read)

Meta Found to Breach EU Laws with ‘Addictive' Instagram, Facebook Designs (2 minute read)

The interface has left the building (13 minute read)

People will always need to trust the human behind any decision-making (2 minute read)

Why AI Startups Should Treat the Founding Designer as a Strategic Hire from the Start of Company Building (5 minute read)

How a Designer Created the "Dirty, Organic, Insectoid Logo" for Marvel Cosmic Invasion (5 minute read)

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Design-System Maturity: A 6-Dimension Framework (10 minute read)

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