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World expanded AgentKit, its framework that lets a verified person delegate their World ID to an AI agent so the agent can prove, via zero-knowledge proof, that a unique human stands behind it. It now supports agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor and integrates with Okta, Shopify, and Vercel, riding on the Coinbase/Cloudflare x402 payment rail. The timing is the point: web traffic crossed 50% bots in 2024, and the old "block all automation" defense breaks when legitimate agents arrive. Eve...

If your tool reads a file someone else made, your unit tests are a comfort blanket. Spend twenty lines on a property test before you trust them.

\ A token listing is the easiest milestone in crypto to announce and the hardest to interpret, because it tells you a great deal about a project's distribution strategy and almost nothing about whether the project works. Playnance , the Tel Aviv Web3 iGaming company founded in 2020, added another one this morning: its native token GCOIN began trading against USDT on XT.COM at 08:00 UTC, in the exchange's Innovation Zone for emerging projects, marking the fourth GCOIN listing in June after WE...

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I had been running a small (3 people) software company for about 4 years. Since closing down, I recently hung out at a friend's company to see what they were working on (15 ppl). To preface: I'm a heavy user of Claude (rarely write code by hand), but what I'm seeing in person has been rather shocking to me, and I wanted to calibrate with others. In particular: - the code is not the source of truth anymore; it's ask claude to write, and ask claude to explain - LoC, abstractions, and all those "so...

A critique published in Nature Wednesday calls the basic technology behind Microsoft's "breakthrough" quantum computing chip the Majorana 1 into question. Microsoft unveiled the chip in February 2025 and said it featured a brand-new technology known as a topological qubit. Topological qubits, they said, would be the "building blocks" for their future quantum computer. Microsoft […]

Microsoft just added a cheaper 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop to its lineup. Both models come equipped with 8GB of RAM instead of 16GB, costing $849 for the specced-down Surface Pro and $949 for the Surface Laptop, as spotted earlier by Windows Central. When the 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop launched […]

Just days after a gunman killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk, it became clear that President Donald Trump would use the assassination to fuel a crackdown on free speech. To avenge Kirk's death, the administration vowed to go after so-called "antifa" (otherwise known as antifascist) terrorists. Now that promise is bearing fruit. This week, eight Texas […]

The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.

According to a new site, 24% of the most popular websites in the world don't offer support for passkeys, which are considered the most secure way to log in to apps and services.

Revenue quadrupled to $41.45 billion compared with the same period a year ago. The company's profit, meanwhile, rose from $1.88 billion to an incredible $28.2 billion year-over-year.

Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top scientists Noam Shazeer and John Jumper.

While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers are actually making up a larger share of new hires, according to SignalFire data.

In its first earnings report since going public, the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin in its core business, scaring investors.