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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Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House last January, the biggest names in tech have mostly fallen in line with the new regime, attending dinners with officials, heaping praise upon the administration, presenting the president with lavish gifts, and pleading for Trump’s permission to sell their products to China. It’s been mostly business as […]

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Verizon is down nationwide | The Verge

The first big outage of 2026 is here, as Verizon customers across the US, including several of our phones, complain that service has been spotty or nonexistent starting at around noon ET, with phones switching to SOS Mode and being unable to connect. This cell service outage follows a “software issue” that cut off service […]

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App downloads declined again in 2025, but consumer spending soared to nearly $156B

The subscription economy helped boost mobile app revenues in 2025, even as app downloads declined for the fifth consecutive year, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures‘ annual report. In 2025, global downloads of all mobile apps and mobile games via the App Store and Google Play reached an estimated 106.9 billion, 2.7% lower than the […]

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U.S. posts official H200 and MI325X AI GPU export rules to China, but with plenty of caveats — a string of requirments greatly limits the total number of GPUs that can be shipped to China

The U.S. Department of Commerce has unveiled new export rules for shipments of advanced AI and HPC processors designed in America to China and Macau. However, while the new rules permit limited exports of specific accelerators — most notably AMD’s Instinct MI325X, Nvidia’s H200, and comparable lower-performance products — on a case-by-case basis, licenses are […]

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DHS Wants To Harvest Biometric Data From Anyone Helping A Foreigner Stay In This Country Legally

from the eyeballs-please dept We’ve always known the ultimate goal was to subject everyone to biometric collections, whether it’s at border crossings or international airports. At some point, the tech will move inland and become an annoying part of traveling from Point A to B because national security or whatever the fuck. The acceleration was […]

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Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.

And as to the jobs they bring to communities. Well, I have some bad news there too. Once construction ends, they tend to employ very few people, especially for such resource-intensive facilities.  These are all logical reasons to oppose data centers. But I suspect there is an additional, emotional one. And it echoes one we’ve […]

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