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There’s a lot at stake when it comes to understanding how AI is changing the economy right now. Should we be pessimistic? Optimistic? Or is the situation too nuanced for that? Hopefully, we can point you towards some answers. Mat Honan, our editor in chief, will hold a special subscriber-only Roundtables conversation with our editor […]
The second wave of the Shai-Hulud supply chain attack has spilled over to the Maven ecosystem after compromising more than 830 packages in the npm registry. The Socket Research Team said it identified a Maven Central package named org.mvnpm:posthog-node:4.18.1 that embeds the same two components associated with Sha1-Hulud: the “setup_bun.js” loader and the main payload […]
Yves here. Even though anyone who took a basic economics class learned that monopolists and oligopolists set prices higher than sellers do in competitive market, pols, pundits, and the press are bizarrely loath to point that out in real world situations. They seem to have been brainwashed that larger = more efficient, and that those […]
Today’s post is a big one: How to get $100,000 per year in retirement — tax free. Yes — tax-free. It sounds almost too good to be true. But with careful planning, the rules in Australia do allow for this outcome (for many). We’ll walk through how, when, and under what conditions. I’ll be taking […]
Key Takeaways Grayscale Investments has filed an S-3 form with the SEC to convert its Zcash Trust into a Zcash ETF. The ETF would provide broader, regulated investor access to Zcash, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency. Share this article Grayscale Investments, a digital asset management firm, has filed an S-3 form with the SEC for a Zcash […]
Modern software teams depend heavily on automated testing to ensure stability, maintainability, and long-term code health. But simply having tests is not enough—the real challenge is ensuring they are meaningful, consistent, and aligned with quality expectations. That’s where coverlet coverage thresholds come in. They help development teams enforce minimum testing standards without manually checking every […]
Strategy Inc. (formerly MicroStrategy) spent 2025 building the largest corporate Bitcoin reserve the public markets have ever financed, but the scale of that ambition ended up colliding with the logic of its own stock. What began as an aggressive accumulation strategy, powered by the company’s appetite for leverage and a willingness to dilute existing shareholders, […]
When we shared this year’s Octoverse data with Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, his first reaction was genuine surprise. While TypeScript overtook Python to become the most used language on GitHub as of August 2025 (marking the biggest language shift in more than a decade), Python still grew 49% year over year in […]
Everyone is trying to put the massive AI spend by technology companies into context. The easiest historical analogies are the telecomm buildout in the 1990s dot-com bubble and the railway bubbles of the 1800s. Each period was defined by excessive infrastructure spending, investor euphoria, and bubbles that popped but still had lasting positive effects. I’m […]
Developer trust in AI output is declining. Over 75% of developers still want human validation when they don’t trust AI answers. Debugging AI-generated code takes more time than expected, with “almost right but not quite” solutions being the top frustration. Advanced questions on Stack Overflow doubled since 2023, indicating that LLMs may struggle with complex […]
