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Microsoft asked its employees to return to the office three days per week last year, and it's now upping this requirement to four days a week for most Xbox employees. An internal memo, seen by The Verge, describes the change as a "need to create more opportunities for people to work together" after feedback from […]

Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a big new 2.5 update that, among other features, brings cross-platform mod support to consoles and content inspired by the new season of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime on Netflix. There's a lot to unpack in the full patch notes. The Edgerunners-specific content includes a new side quest, a gear set based […]

The Cambridge Analytica scandal has come back to haunt Meta after a New Mexico judge ordered it to pay $25 billion in penalties for more than 43 million violations of the state's unfair practices law. The ruling marks the biggest legal hit Meta has taken this year, even as it's faced several other losses or […]

Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to connect your own AI agent to the site, with systems in place to let you approve and review purchases and set spending limits. The embrace of AI agents stands in stark contrast to Amazon, […]

Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to Anthropic, and it's available as a standalone app on iOS and Android and through Claude on the web. The AI agent is […]

Checking out of your next Airbnb might be less of a hassle now that the company is banning hosts from including time-consuming chores in their house rules. Airbnb's updated house rules policy, which starts with reservations booked on or after November 20th, says hosts can't ask guests to "complete tasks that require significant effort or […]

Pickups and dropoffs will happen at dedicated "autonomous vehicle zones" at Terminal 1 and Terminal 3.

Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.

This is the kind of security issue that was found and prevented by AI, but is also a high risk because of AI.

It's one of the biggest overhauls ever to the 30-year-old connected car product.

Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing it at $8.8 billion.

From AI-discovered PHP vulnerabilities to flaws in Node.js and popular AI tool LiteLLM, cybersecurity teams have plenty to worry about this week.

As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.

The payout is related to a recent trial involving the social media giant that revolved around its data privacy practices.

To compete with Tesla, Rivian, and a host of Chinese automakers, GM’s fourth-gen EV platform will roll out a new central computer and electrical architecture that will debut in 2028 in the Cadillac Escalade IQ.

Email newsletters are one of the few places where image weight directly hits your audience. Every PNG hero image you drop into a newsletter has to be downloaded by every single recipient. A heavy image means the email opens slowly, images render late, and some readers scroll past before anything shows up. PNG is the default export for most design tools, but it's a terrible format for email content images. WebP does the same job at substantially smaller file sizes with no visible difference — ...

Five MCP TypeScript SDK security advisories landed on the same day (2026-10-20). Most of them need someone malicious in the loop. This one doesn't — and that's what makes it the scariest of the bunch. The bug @modelcontextprotocol/server versions 2.0.0 through 2.2.0 (fixed in 2.3.0) have a flaw in how they route responses when multiple clients share one transport / McpServer instance over HTTP. Here's the mechanism, stripped down: Every MCP client numbers its own JSON...

Most AWS waste isn't a bad architecture decision. It's a charge that nobody decided on: a default, a leftover, a setting nobody revisited. I work across 170+ AWS accounts, and these seven show up in almost every one of them. Each section has what it is, why it happens, how to find it (read-only commands) and the fix. Prices are us-east-1 list prices; check your region. 1. Unattached EBS volumes What: an EC2 instance is terminated, but its data volume had DeleteOnTermination...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built g4env is a terminal-native security auditor that hunts for exposed secrets in your .env files, config files, CI/CD pipelines, and codebases, so you don't have to. Checking a project for leaked credentials by hand means grepping, squinting at YAML, and hoping you remembered to add .env to .gitignore . g4env replaces all of that with one command: g4env audit...

The pitch of every scheduler is "write once, post everywhere". Building one, I learned it really means "write once, then satisfy sixteen different rulebooks". What the rulebooks look like A few real examples from Clienzo's networks: Telegram cuts a photo caption at 1,024 characters, while a plain text message can run to 4,096. Discord messages stop at 2,000 characters, with up to 10 files. Bluesky and Mastodon take up to four photos, or one video. Dribbble ...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built As a college student juggling coursework, exams, lab submissions, personal projects, and daily habits, there are days when I wake up feeling completely overwhelmed. Facing a long list of 15 checkboxes on a low-energy day causes instant decision paralysis and guilt. I built Solace Sanctuary—an adaptive, low-friction student sanctuary and life tracker designed specifically ...

Disclosure: I work on Areev. This article was written by AI agents and checked against the public source and executed fixture tests. A corrected answer isn’t guaranteed to influence future agent runs. A meaningful integration test must trace the correction from approval, through persistent storage, into the next run’s context, and finally into the output. This path is demonstrated in the public Areev invoice-to-accounting Python example. The example uses synthetic fixtures and mock integra...

Most of us studied circuit and packet switching as course material. Here is what it actually looks like inside a router. The textbook defines store-and-forward in one sentence: a packet switch "must receive the entire packet before it can begin to transmit the first bit of the packet onto the outbound link" (Kurose & Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach , 7th ed., section 1.3.1). That sentence leaves three questions open: Why does the router wait? What does it do w...

This one covers October 14 to 21. Most of the week went into one idea: the small scripts that guard my Claude Code sessions should not each start a shell. The rest went into giving the agent its own name on GitHub, and into a framework bug that only showed up on a small CI runner. Hooks that run inside Claude Code workkit is my workflow kit for Claude Code: GitHub issues as the work list, labels as the pipeline, and hooks that enforce the rules. A hook is a small program Claude...

Why Text‑to‑Speech Matters Today If you’ve ever built a chatbot, an accessibility feature, or a voice‑enabled game, you know that a natural‑sounding voice can turn a static experience into something engaging and human‑like. Modern TTS engines are no longer limited to robotic monotones – they can capture emotion, intonation, and even mimic a specific speaker’s style. That’s where ElevenLabs shines. Their API delivers high‑quality neural voices that are easy to integrate, and the pricin...

What I Built Lazy Organizer is a PowerShell automation tool that sorts files into folders automatically. The purpose of the project is simple: remove the repetitive task of manually organizing files. The Problem My folders often become cluttered with PDFs, Word documents, images, and text files. Sorting everything manually is repetitive and easy to postpone. The Solution I built a PowerShell script that scans a folder and automatically organizes files in...

If you have ever built a modern fintech application, SaaS billing platform, or e-commerce engine, you already know a dirty little secret of software engineering: money does not move instantly. In a synchronous, closed-loop software architecture, state transitions are a walk in the park. When a user transfers funds within a single monolithic application, your database transaction commits instantly, and the glorious invariant that debits must equal credits is preserved atomically. But the real...

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