April 2025

Tom’s Hardware Premium Roadmaps (Image credit: Future) The U.S. Department of Commerce has published new export rules for advanced AI and HPC processors shipped to China and Macau. The new regulations do not open the Chinese market for advanced processors developed in the U.S. in general, but introduce a narrowly defined, compliance-heavy method that allows […]

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]

In this exclusive subscriber-only eBook, you’ll learn about how the idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry.by Will Douglas Heaven October 30, 2025 ACCESS EBOOK Table of Contents: How Silicon Valley got AGI-pilled The great AGI conspiracy How AGI hijacked an industry The great AGI conspiracy, concluded […]

A critical misconfiguration in Amazon Web Services (AWS) CodeBuild could have allowed complete takeover of the cloud service provider’s own GitHub repositories, including its AWS JavaScript SDK, putting every AWS environment at risk. The vulnerability has been codenamed CodeBreach by cloud security company Wiz. The issue was fixed by AWS in September 2025 following responsible […]

The developer community hasn’t wasted any time kicking off 2026 with some really great articles, demos, and insights. Firefox 147 and Chrome 144 also shipped, and while they’re not jam-packed with features, the releases are still pretty exciting for what’s normally a slow time of year, so without further ado, here’s what’s important from the […]

The Problem: Why LLMs Struggle with Real Codebases LLMs are bad at understanding real codebases. The way we provide context today is fragmented, lossy, and hard to reason about: Pasted files – incomplete, out of context Partial trees – missing critical relationships Large snapshots – overwhelming, hard to navigate Vague summaries – imprecise, unreliable This […]