Charles Leifer’s seven-year Cython project is finally ready for testing—including in your browser If you’ve ever wrestled with Python’s sqlite3 module—especially its quirky transaction handling—there’s good news. Charles Leifer, the maintainer behind pysqlite3 and the...
Modal Labs targeting $2.5B valuation as the real AI gold rush shifts from training to running models While the tech press obsesses over who’s training the biggest model, a quieter revolution is happening in AI...
Ransomware encryption dropped 38% year-over-year. Here’s what replaced it—and why it’s more dangerous. Remember when ransomware meant your files got encrypted and a scary skull appeared on your screen demanding Bitcoin? Those days are fading...
A wake-up call for enterprise mobile device management security The headlines read like a cyber thriller: Dutch authorities, Finnish government agencies, and the European Commission all breached through the same vulnerability. But this isn’t fiction—it’s...
A student journalist, an administrative subpoena, and the uncomfortable truth about how much your data can reveal. The Core Insight Google handed over a comprehensive dossier of personal information about Amandla Thomas-Johnson—a British student and...
Billion-dollar acqui-hires, founder musical chairs, and the new reality: everyone is always available—for the right price. The Core Insight Silicon Valley has always been about disruption. Now it’s disrupting itself. A cascade of massive acqui-hires—Meta’s...
A threat actor with an expanding toolkit is systematically compromising financial institutions and government organizations across Russia and Central Asia. The Core Insight The threat actor known as “Bloody Wolf” (tracked by Kaspersky as “Stan...
A devoted user base, radio silence from developers, and a community-led rescue attempt. This is what happens when indie apps lose their way. The Core Insight Musicboard, a beloved music discovery and recommendation app, has...
Platform usage is down, but the people still posting are more politically extreme than ever. Here’s why that matters. The Core Insight A groundbreaking study from the American National Election Studies (ANES) comparing 2020 and...
When six out of twelve co-founders depart and nine engineers announce exits in a single week, “routine reorganization” starts to ring hollow. Elon Musk is doing damage control. After a week that saw six of...