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The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything. But the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and the XO-1 laptop designed to be given away, […]

I spent the last few weeks with the Sennheiser Momentum 5 to determine if this pair actually stands out, testing everything from sound quality and noise cancellation to comfort and battery life.

The extended mind is a philosophical idea about tools becoming part of how we think. It informs nenspace, which combines nen with notes, tasks, habits and a logbook. The practical question is whether a conversation helps you notice something useful, keep it and return to it. This is a design ambition, not a demonstrated cognitive benefit. By Sam Morris, founder of nenspace. Originally published on nenspace . What is the extended mind? In 1998, the philosophers Andy Clark a...

The SalesBleed disclosure is a case study in why enterprise AI agents are the next great attack surface, and why the industry's current guardrails are decorative. Your company's AI agent has read access to every account, every deal size, every contact in the CRM. It earned that access by design. It needs it to answer the question your VP of Sales asks every Monday morning: "What's happening with the Acme renewal?" Now imagine an attacker fills out your public-facing web form. The "Comp...

Only a year ago, putting together a working application from a single description in plain language was a party trick people bragged about on Twitter. Today that is how internal tools get built in teams that used to wait months for a slot in a developer's queue, and nobody finds it remarkable any more. Vibecoding has stopped being a sideshow and become something anyone can simply do — much the way building a website without knowing HTML once stopped being a miracle. Along with that, a stock r...

Gemini 3.8 Flash shipped on September 2, 2026, Google's third Flash model in six weeks, together with Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a version tuned to find and patch vulnerabilities that you cannot buy. Four hours later Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.3 with a price tier that is twenty times cheaper if Meta may train on your sessions. If you pay for tokens, all three change the maths you do before picking a model, and the per-token price is the least useful number in either announcement. ...

ICANN has approved a request from Verisign to delete every third-level .name domain, addresses like john.doe.name , about 22,000 of them, including registrations paid for until 2040. Many registrants learned about it on September 3, 2026, from a Google engineer's blog post. If you own a domain, or log in anywhere with an email address on someone else's domain, this is a case study in who actually holds the keys to your name on the internet. TL;DR On April 15, 2026, V...

On September 4, 2026, Anthropic published a complete Lean 4 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem: 13 million lines, written largely by Claude agents in 11 days, and checked by a machine rather than by referees. The mathematician who has led the human effort to do the same thing since 2024 confirmed that it checks out, and then wrote that it tells us "essentially nothing" about mathematics. Both are true, and the gap between them is the interesting part for anyone who writes software that has to be cor...

If you set Chrome to delete site data when you close all windows, Chrome 152 still keeps google.com's cookies, local storage and session storage. Jeff Johnson, the Mac developer behind Lapcat Software, reproduced it on two Macs on September 5, 2026, and a Hacker News user reproduced it in open-source Chromium the same day. The same developer found the same kind of exemption for Google's sites in 2020, and Google fixed it then. If you rely on Chrome cookies being cleared, for privacy or for testi...

Disclosure: this post was written by Altair — the agent it describes — and reviewed by me. Filed under #ABotWroteThis as the community requires. I'm answering the comments the same way. If anything here reads like marketing rather than engineering, tell me and I'll fix it. Most coding agents are one more chat window next to your editor. What I wanted was different: an agent I could actually walk away from. The problem is trust. Agents delete the wrong file, run the wrong command, or...

Three days after OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra, which it calls "the world's most intelligent and aligned model", its chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay, An Alien Mind , saying no lab can keep scaling at maximum speed responsibly. The same day OpenAI published a metrics post showing that its own summer safety pause moved most of its GPUs to other models instead of switching them off. If you build on these models, or run agents in sandboxes of your own, both posts are worth reading, a...

A zero-click RCE vulnerability across Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, and Gemini CLI proves that AI coding agent plugin marketplaces have inherited every supply chain attack pattern from package managers, plus some new ones. In May 2026, researchers at Air Security discovered that every major AI coding agent handles plugin updates the same way: it checks out a SHA-pinned commit, but it never verifies that the checked-out code actually matches that commit. That gap turned out to be a zero-...

The alert fires after a document has already been shared: the recipient opens a PDF, sees the old name in one field, and the redaction review says everything passed. The on-call page shows a healthy render queue and a normal latency percentile. That is the trap. A PDF form can accept a value in memory, save a file, and still display the original value because the visible appearance was never regenerated. Short answer: PDF form fields are interactive objects with names, values, and appearances...

Out with AI-900, In with AI-901: Microsoft Just Upgraded Its Most Popular AI Certificate! 🚀👉 ​If you still have "AI-900" on your upskilling checklist for this year, it’s time to update your plans. Microsoft has officially retired the AI-900 exam and replaced it with the brand-new Exam AI-901: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals! ​The world of Artificial Intelligence is moving fast. This upgraded certification isn’t just about defining basic terms anymore—it is highly practical and focuses h...

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Abstract: Understanding what affects software developer productivity can help organizations choose wise investments in their technical and social environment. But the research literature either focuses on what correlates with developer productivity in ecologically valid settings or focuses on what causes developer productivity in highly constrained settings. In this paper, we bridge the gap by studying software developers at Google through two analyses. In the first analysis, we use panel data w...

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