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Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time 9th January 2026 New from Fly.io today: Sprites.dev. Here’s their blog post and YouTube demo. It’s an interesting new product that’s quite difficult to explain—Fly call it “Stateful sandbox environments with checkpoint & restore” but I see it as hitting two […]
A reader asks: Ben shared a chart in a recent episode that shows nationwide housing prices rarely ever fall in the U.S. That makes me feel a little better about my wife and I (both 29) buying our first home. But isn’t today a terrible time to buy a home from an investment perspective because […]
It’s the first week of a new year and there’s no time for the tech world to slowly ease back into things following the holidays. That’s because CES 2026 is in full swing, with all manner of companies descending on Las Vegas to reveal their latest innovations and what they’re planning to bring your way […]
from the ctrl-alt-speech dept 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 the first Ctrl-Alt-Speech episode of […]
Yves here. AI delivering “more better” surveillance is yet another disheartening prospect for use of this technology. However, New York City may not be alone in being at least a tad transparent about how it might go forward, given that it already has cameras widely deployed in its subways and busses. A reason for official […]
Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is updating its search filters menu. A new filter has been added, two have been removed, and two have been renamed. The menu has also been reorganized. When searching for a video on YouTube, you can refine the results by opening the search filters menu. On desktop, you’ll […]
That’s partly because they recommend products like red meat, butter, and beef tallow—foods that have been linked to cardiovascular disease, and that nutrition experts have been recommending people limit in their diets. These guidelines are a big deal—they influence food assistance programs and school lunches, for example. So this week let’s look at the good, […]
Jan 08, 2026Ravie LakshmananMalware / Financial Crime Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that uses WhatsApp as a distribution vector for a Windows banking trojan called Astaroth in attacks targeting Brazil. The campaign has been codenamed Boto Cor-de-Rosa by Acronis Threat Research Unit. “The malware retrieves the victim’s WhatsApp contact list and […]
Wyoming launched a state-backed stablecoin on Solana, and Morgan Stanley filed for a Solana trust product this week. Last month, Visa expanded USDC settlement to run on Solana rails, and JPMorgan tokenized commercial paper using Solana for part of the settlement stack. These are not rumors or roadmap promises. They happened over 60 days, and […]
Most developers spend their days fixing bugs, shipping features, and jumping into the next sprint without even thinking about it. After a while, you begin to ask yourself, “Is this still what I want to be doing?” This article looks at how you can move into a new direction in your career without starting from […]
