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  1. October 30, 2026

    Anthropic changes its advice: do not use specialized subagents

    Binance loses 6.3 billion dollars through the laptop of a DevOps engineer · Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tries to send a file to Alibaba Cloud from a sandbox

  2. October 23, 2026

    PHP2Shell: two critical PHP vulnerabilities take half the Internet offline

    Addy Osmani: the bottleneck is not writing code anymore, it is verifying it · Farewell to Arc: The Browser Company shuts it down on December 22

  3. October 16, 2026

    Rex, the Superlogical terminal: persistent sessions, native Tailscale and tabs on the left

    Spotify: AI does not lower code quality, but the processes must adapt · The bomb on the bots: what goes down is Yandex, not the social media bots

  4. October 9, 2026

    Codex vs Claude Code: 30 days of OpenAI releases against Opus 5.5

    JetBrains reports a loss for the first time in its history · Haiku 5.5: the price of Luna up to 100,000 tokens, but with a catch

  5. October 2, 2026

    OpenAI DevDay: Dots, the Decisions API and GPT-6.1 Sol

    Codely pays its debt to open source: $50 for 30 maintainers, live · Sonnet 5.5: fast and cheap, but Opus 5.5 at medium is better for coding

  6. September 25, 2026

    Opus 5.5: Fable 5.1 level, 30% faster and 40% cheaper than Opus 5

    The senior engineer death spiral: fewer megaprojects, more quick wins · Jev in Postgres: natural language search without indexes or embeddings

  7. September 18, 2026

    Jev, the model that does not talk: it picks between options up to 200 times faster and 400 times cheaper

    Dario Amodei asks to slow down AI and, for once, Altman and Musk agree with him · Goodbye, React Native: Shopify goes back to native because agents make it cheaper to build twice

  8. September 11, 2026

    OpenAI takes the Navier-Stokes medal after it learned that two mathematicians were ahead

    Amazon publishes a manifesto for coding with agents: you are the architect, not the typist · Spotify cuts Claude Code tokens by 90% with two hooks and Gemini 2.5 Flash

  9. September 4, 2026

    GPT-6 Astra against Fable 5.1: two turbulent launches in one week and no model arrives in one piece

    The Evernote legacy: 750 machines provisioned by hand and a Java 11 monolith · Google deletes Manifest V2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store and Brave hosts them

  10. August 28, 2026

    OpenAI's agents escaped the sandbox and hacked Hugging Face: the forensic report explains how

    The best technical post of the year, unpacked: how Cursor Origin scales git writes · AliExpress identifies you with a zero-decibel audio

  11. August 21, 2026

    GitHub goes down for 8 hours mid-workday: agent traffic overwhelms its infrastructure

    They fixed Opus 5: system reminders so Claude Code stops talking weird · Cursor Origin is now available to try, and it ships with the best technical post of the year

  12. August 14, 2026

    Grok Bot turns your computer into a mini company: agents with roles in a Telegram-style chat

    Anthropic adds invisible watermarks to Claude's text: the pattern hides in the synonyms · You can no longer afford bad programmers: AI also multiplies downwards

  13. August 7, 2026

    Shai-Hulud returns to npm: keyv and flat-cache compromised, and cooldowns are your best defense

    Tech job market in Spain: 6,200 offers in July and 93% still do not publish the salary · Next.js 16.3 ships next/root-params: goodbye to locale prop drilling

  14. July 31, 2026

    OpenAI slashes prices: Luna drops 80% and changes the rules of model selection

    Anthropic deletes 80% of the Claude Code system prompt and rewrites the rules of your AGENTS.md · Kill the Cookie Banner: Brussels can retire the banners and Google pushes back

  15. July 24, 2026

    AI escapes the sandbox: an OpenAI agent attacks Hugging Face on its own

    Uncle Bob: "I do not read the code my agents write" · Firefox gives away VPN with unlimited data and ships native containers

  16. July 17, 2026

    Kimi K3: Fable- or Sol-level quality at Sonnet prices, with open weights in 10 days

    GPT Sol tips after a week of flying close to the sun · npm 12 turns off install scripts, and Dependabot takes 3 days

  17. July 10, 2026

    GPT-5.6 Sol squares up to Fable 5: the same category, but much faster

    Bun migrates from Zig to Rust in 11 days for $5,000 · The Outer Loop: where the engineer adds value

  18. July 3, 2026

    Sonnet 5: Opus quality at «half the price»… with two hidden catches

    Git 2.55 takes out the scalpel: fixup to amend a single commit · Vercel open-sources konsistent, the conventions linter