How Israel v. Alkamalat marked an early milestone for AI-assisted forensic evidence by surviving judicial scrutiny from investigation to final verdict.
Can basic Unix tools form a universal computer? This article explores Turing completeness, resource limits, performance trade-offs, and developer complexity.
A rolling deployment briefly ran two pipeline instances at once, exposing a hidden data-integrity bug and a deeper lesson about availability versus correctness.
About 22 miles south of the former mining town of Patagonia, Arizona, down a winding, unpaved mountain road that passes cows grazing on open range, stands a cottonwood tree believed to be at least 200 years old. The "grandmother" tree, as some locals call it, is imperiled and already showing signs of stress, almost as […]
Sonos released an update to its mobile app that finally introduces support for iOS' Live Activities, giving iPhone users quick access to playback controls on their lockscreen. The added functionality is a "much requested, anticipated, and needed feature," according to a post Sonos shared to Reddit today that was spotted by 9to5Mac. While some features […]
Analogue and Supreme are teaming up to release metallic versions of the Analogue Pocket handheld in red and gold as part of Supreme's fall / winter 2026 collection. Here's how they're described on Supreme's website: Metallic portable handheld multi-video-game-system. Unibody aluminum with 24K Gold-plated and custom red glossy finishes. They also have a Supreme logo […]
YouTube will soon count a view as soon as a video starts to play, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos. The update will go into effect on August 24th, "which means creators will likely see their total view counts increase faster moving forward," the platform says. Instagram and […]
Like many of us, Sam Rosenthal plays games like Wordle every day, chasing after good scores and sharing the results with friends and family. But he's also a game designer, the creative director at Blaseball developer The Game Band, and so this regular habit got him thinking about what else could be done in the […]
Are you curious about custom mechanical keyboards, but don’t want to spend hundreds just to get started without being sure you’ll enjoy the hobby? You can grab the 65-percent Glorious GMMK 3 mechanical keyboard at Woot for $34.99 (usually $139.99) by entering the coupon code WOOTGAMING at checkout, and first-time Woot customers will get an […]
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.
Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and customer support are adding to frustrations.
Sonic Fire Tech raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment buildings.
Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit stories instead of just reading them.
Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite music. Editors will be using the feature, too, on top playlists like RapCaviar and others.
If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!
AI Slop in Software Development Is Probably Not as Bad as You Think
There’s a lot of discussion lately about “AI slop”: landing pages that look AI-generated, apps built with AI, generic copy, familiar UI patterns, and products that developers can immediately recognize as “vibe coded.”
But I think we sometimes forget something:
Most of our customers are not developers.
I’d bet that 90%+ of the people visiting your landing page or downloading your app have absolutely no idea whether yo...
I don't know where to go to make money. I've tried discord, reddit, real jobs, and to be honest I think nobody finds value in real work anymore. I'm 15 years old and I've programmed entire websites for startups, but the second I started embracing programming as the job I want to keep, I started losing money. I went from a decent $300 to $500 a month doing small family friend gigs to now making nothing and getting scammed multiple times every month for projects and unpaid work. Does anybody have ...
Your agent calls a flaky API, gets a 429, retries with the same arguments, and gets rate-limited again. Ten minutes later, in a fresh session, it does the exact same thing. Nothing about the failure got remembered — the agent has no way to know it already learned this lesson, because the lesson lived in a transcript that got thrown away when the process exited.
This week a post about manually gatekeeping AI agent tool calls hit the front page of dev.to with 48 comments — mostly developers arg...