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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
LLM SVG Generation Benchmark (via) Here’s a delightful project by Tom Gally, inspired by my pelican SVG benchmark. He asked Claude to help create more prompts of the form Generate an SVG of [A] [doing] [B] and then ran 30 creative prompts against 9 frontier models – prompts like “an octopus operating a pipe organ” […]
Other Samsung Phones to Consider Galaxy A36. Photograph: Julian Chokkattu If you don’t see a Samsung phone mentioned in this guide, that might be because it’s not sold in the US and is a little harder to source for testing. But here are a few other Samsung phones I’ve tested to consider. Samsung Galaxy A36 […]
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Google has partnered with Accel to find and fund India’s earliest-stage AI startups in a first-of-its-kind collaboration for the Google AI Futures Fund, launched earlier this year. On Tuesday, Accel and Google announced a partnership to jointly invest up to $2 million in each startup through Accel’s Atoms program, with both firms contributing up to […]
Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy. Part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IMPACT to save 20% off today). With a live UX training starting next week. No design exists in isolation. As designers, we often imagine specific situations in which people will use […]
As the web continues to be the medium for all users, standards bodies need to continue to provide new APIs to enrich user experience and accessibility. One underused API for unsighted users is speechSynthesis, an API to programmatically direct the browser to audibly speak any arbitrary string. The Code You can direct the browser to […]
