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from the misfire dept I’m going to start this post off with two rhetorical questions. Do you believe that the use of AI should be free and unfettered in the video game industry and will certainly and overwhelmingly be a positive good for the industry generally? Do you believe that AI should be banned and […]
At the end of 2025, Google announced several changes aimed at improving how users find and install apps on Android. These changes included cracking down on unsigned apps from developers using alternative app stores and highlighting apps on the Play Store for regular battery misuse. Both measures are presented as pro-consumer, but if Google truly […]
No one needs a chart to show housing is unaffordable right now but here are a couple from Apollo anyway: The Trump administration has offered some ideas in recent weeks to help with affordability. The first idea is to ban institutional ownership of homes: The idea here is if you take away demand from professional […]
As frustrating as it is that governments and businesses are running roughshod over our online freedoms, at least we have plenty of good VPNs to choose from to keep us protected online. There are so many fast, intelligently designed, full-featured and affordable services on the market that the biggest problem is picking one. For any […]
Recently, embryo scoring has evolved. Labs can pinch off a couple of cells from an embryo, look at its DNA, and screen for some genetic diseases. That list of diseases is increasing. And now some companies are taking things even further, offering prospective parents the opportunity to select embryos for features like height, eye color, […]
Jan 17, 2026Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Data Privacy OpenAI on Friday said it would start showing ads in ChatGPT to logged-in adult U.S. users in both the free and ChatGPT Go tiers in the coming weeks, as the artificial intelligence (AI) company expanded access to its low-cost subscription globally. “You need to know that your […]
I love me some good web research reports. I’m a sucker for them. HTTP Archive’s Web Almanac is one report I look forward to every year, and I know I’m not alone there. It’s one of those highly-anticipated publications on the state of the web, chock-full of well-documented findings about millions of live websites — […]
The JavaScript ecosystem, perpetually in flux, has spent the better part of the last three years in a quiet, yet profound, migration. The promise of “native speeds” has finally materialized, not through esoteric runtime optimizations or clever JIT tricks, but through a wholesale rewrite of core tooling in systems languages, predominantly Rust. As of early […]
To keep a platform like GitHub available and responsive, it’s critical to build defense mechanisms. A whole lot of them. Rate limits, traffic controls, and protective measures spread across multiple layers of infrastructure. These all play a role in keeping the service healthy during abuse or attacks. We recently ran into a challenge: Those same […]
