The Download: next-gen nuclear, and the data center backlash

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Iran is systematically crippling StarlinkThe satellite internet service is meant to be impossible to jam—but the Iranian authorities are doing just that. (Rest of World)  + Messages getting around Iran’s internet block suggest that thousands of people have been killed. (NYT $)+ On the […]

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Researchers Null-Route Over 550 Kimwolf and Aisuru Botnet Command Servers

The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies said it null-routed traffic to more than 550 command-and-control (C2) nodes associated with the AISURU/Kimwolf botnet since early October 2025. AISURU and its Android counterpart, Kimwolf, have emerged as some of the biggest botnets in recent times, capable of directing enslaved devices to participate in distributed denial-of-service […]

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Playing With CodePen slideVars | CSS-Tricks

Super cool new CodePen feature alert! You’ve probably seen a bunch of “interactive” demos that let you changed values on the fly from a UI panel embedded directly in the demo. Jhey’s demos come immediately to mind, like this one: CodePen Embed Fallback That’s a tool called TweakPane doing the work. There’s another one called […]

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JSONL is a seriously weird format!

CsvPath Framework has had JSONL support for a while. It wasn’t until we updated FlightPath Data to edit JSONL that I really started noticing how seriously free-wheeling JSONL is. Here are some of the quirks: There is no header order Headers change line-by-line… …or is there one total set of headers that grows line-by-line? Arrays […]

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The 10 Year Wealth test: Are You on Track for 2036? – Guidance Financial Services

An observation that I’ve personally found to hold true is that we overestimate what we can get done in a day, but we underestimate what we can get done in a year. It’s easy to get distracted or overwhelmed by the day-to-day busyness, and feel like we’re getting nowhere. Yet taking a succession of seemingly small actions, does amount to significant progress when we take a step back and […]

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GitHub Availability Report: December 2025

In December, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.  December 08 19:51 UTC (lasting 1 hour and 15 minutes) Between November 26, 2025, at 02:24 UTC and December 8, 2025 at 20:26 UTC, enterprise administrators experienced a disruption when viewing agent session activities in the Enterprise AI Controls page. During […]

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8 lessons from tech leadership on scaling teams and AI

It’s been nearly a year since we launched Leaders of Code, a segment on the Stack Overflow Podcast where we curate candid, illuminating, and (dare we say) inspiring conversations between senior engineering leaders. An impressive roster of guests from organizations like Google, Cloudflare, GitLab, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and more joined members of our senior […]

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Asset allocation quilt – the winners and losers of the last 10 years

Duvet day at Monevator as we update our asset allocation quilt with another year’s worth of returns. The resulting patchwork reveals the fluctuating fortunes of the major asset classes across a decade, and invites a question… Could you predict the winners and losers from one year to the next? Asset allocation quilt 2025 Data from […]

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