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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 […]
TL;DR Democratic lawmakers have asked the FTC to investigate Trump Mobile over alleged false advertising. The request centers on the still-unshipped T1 Phone and Trump Mobile’s handling of preorders and marketing. Lawmakers say the case should be treated like any other consumer protection issue, regardless of politics. My colleague C. Scott Brown ordered the T1 […]
Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as president of Lucasfilm. Although she will continue as a producer for several Star Wars projects, including upcoming movie The Mandalorian and Grogu, the company will now be helmed by a duo in Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan. It’s a big changing of the guard for Star Wars fans, and […]
Imagine telling someone 40 years ago that Japan would go from 40% of the global stock market to 5%. And the US would go from 30% to 64%. Where are we going over the next 40? via JPM Guide to Markets Previous articleThe New Food […]
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 […]
A reader asks: Why is capping credit card rates a bad idea? What are other ways we could make rates less insane? President Trump threw out an idea recently to cap credit card rates at 10%. At face value, this sounds like a good idea. Credit card rates for most borrowers are in the 20-30% […]
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 […]
Since its founding in 2019, GitHub Security Lab has had one primary goal: community-powered security. We believe that the best way to improve software security is by sharing knowledge and tools, and by using open source software so that everybody is empowered to audit the code and report any vulnerabilities that they find. Six years […]
