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Aug 29

Apple Paid $250 Million for a Siri That Did Not Exist. Its Accusers Priced the Promise at 5.5% of the Phone.

#news #ai #legal #productivity

8 min read

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Aug 28

Unity Lost $110 Million to Bad Training Data. The Filing Says "Challenges With Monetization Products."

#news #datascience #machinelearning #startup

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Aug 28

Oracle's 10-K Never Says 21,000. It Says $1.8 Billion, in the Risk Factors.

#news #ai #career #ethics

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Aug 27

AWS's Own Dashboard Could Not Say It Was Down. We Audited Four of Our Monitors and Found the Same Bug in Every One.

#monitoring #observability #devops #reliability

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Aug 26

Our Post-Mortem Was So Good We Never Fixed the Bug

#devops #sre #postmortem #incidentresponse

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Aug 24

Coding Agents Invent Facts When Denied Them. All 4 of My Probes Returned a False Zero.

#verification #ai #testing #programming

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Aug 19

The Short Seller Who Quit While Winning: A Hindenburg Research Teardown (2017-2025)

#finance #datascience #programming #analytics

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Aug 18

95%, 80%, 42%: I Tried to Trace the 2026 AI-Failure Statistics to a Primary. One of Five Was Reachable.

#ai #datascience #programming #analytics

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Aug 18

The Hoax Lifecycle in a Courtroom: COPA v Wright as a Live Specimen

#security #programming #history #datascience

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Aug 18

Malawi Paid $5 Million for Drought Insurance. The Model Was Watching a Crop the Farmers Had Stopped Planting.

#datascience #programming #analytics #architecture

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Aug 12

We Counted AI Hallucination Disclosures in Every 10-K. Pharma Outnumbered Software 29 to 10.

#ai #data #research #writing

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Aug 12

A Python Dataclass Field Silently Shadows a Property, and Fourteen Events Logged Under the Wrong Name

#python #debugging #programming #testing

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Aug 10

Grep Without Word Boundaries: 70 Tokens Across 7.68M Words, and os Is Real 0.1% of the Time

#testing #devops #ai #programming

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Aug 5

It Isn't Computing That Costs Energy, It's Forgetting

#ai #computerscience #hardware #performance

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Aug 4

Half of New Podcasts Are Machines. Humans Are Making Fewer Than Ever.

#ai #trust #business #strategy

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Aug 3

Our pytest Suite Ran Zero Tests and Reported Success: Six Checks That Were Themselves Unreachable

#testing #python #devops #ai

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Jul 30

SWE-bench Scores Went From 1.96% to 72.7%. The Benchmark Was Repaired In Between.

#ai #benchmarks #evaluation #machinelearning

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Jul 29

Parameterization Is Distillation

#ai #machinelearning #agents #trust

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Jul 28

The 85% Rule, Tested: What NHS Bed-Occupancy Data Says About Where Systems Start to Break

#sre #devops #performance #architecture

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Jul 28

Your Detection Budget Is Linear. Their Generation Is Not.

#security #ai #devops #programming

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Jul 28

MD Anderson Spent at Least $62 Million on an AI It Never Tested Outside the Building

#ai #machinelearning #datascience #programming

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Jul 24

The Bach Faucet: Why Infinite AI Content Is Infinite Devaluation

#ai #trust #writing #career

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Jul 23

GM Spent $10 Billion on Cruise. The Robotaxi Survived the Crash, Not the Cover-Up.

#ai #selfdriving #ethics #regulation

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Jul 23

The Detector You Can't Improve by Moving Its Threshold: What Eyewitness-ID Reform Teaches AI Evals

#ai #trust #security #agents

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Jul 22

Juniors Don't Love Rust — You Just Can't Separate Age From Year From Cohort

#datascience #statistics #career #programming

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Jul 22

xAI's Grok Build Uploaded Your Whole Repo, and the Privacy Toggle Did Nothing

#ai #security #programming #opensource

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Jul 21

Zillow Disabled Its Human Pricing Override. Then It Wrote Down $407.9 Million.

#ai #machinelearning #business #automation

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Jul 20

Replit's AI Agent Deleted a Production Database During a Code Freeze. Then It Said Rollback Was Impossible. It Wasn't.

#ai #agents #devops #reliability

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Jul 20

MEV Is Coming to the Agent Marketplace

#ai #agents #security #crypto

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Jul 20

The Answer Key Was in the Training Data

#ai #machinelearning #benchmarks #testing

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Jul 19

Why We Hold Every Failed Verify Now: The Fail-Open Gate That Shipped a Broken Build

#devops #automation #testing #cicd

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Jul 18

Citibank's $900 Million Mistake: Six Eyes on an Approval Screen That Never Showed the Amount

#finance #security #ux #programming

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Jul 18

Klarna's AI Did the Equivalent Work of 700 Agents: What the Numbers Measured, and What They Missed

#ai #agents #business #productivity

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Jul 17

21% of IT Leaders Say They Can't See Their Own AI Agents. I Fed 11 of My Own Checks Empty Input, and 5 Passed in Silence.

#ai #agents #observability #security

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Jul 15

How Far Is Quantum From Breaking RSA? The Best Estimate Says 20 Million Qubits. The Best Chip Has 105.

#quantum #security #cryptography #science

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Jul 14

Chegg Lost $1 Billion in a Day to ChatGPT, and Two Older Collapses Show Where the Margin Went

#ai #business #startup #strategy

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Jul 14

What Google's Willow Actually Proved — and the Septillion-Year Number It Didn't

#quantum #science #computerscience #ai

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Jul 12

$440 Million in 45 Minutes: When a Company's Own Automated System Loses the Company's Own Money

#ai #automation #devops #programming

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Jul 11

What AI Has Actually Cost Companies: From Meta's $1.4 Billion to Air Canada's $812

#ai #privacy #regulation #legal

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Jul 10

Devin, the "First AI Software Engineer," Failed 86% of Its Benchmark Tasks, and Then What

#ai #agents #programming #startup

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Jul 9

The 10 Most Expensive Software Failures in History — and the One Thing They Share

#ai #softwareengineering #reliability #programming

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Jul 8

The Execution Trace Is the Unit of Agent Trust

#ai #agents #provenance #security

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Jul 7

Inside the Uninsured Middle: An Operator's View of AI-Agent Operational Risk

#ai #security #agents #insurance

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Jul 7

Text-Safe Is Not Tool-Safe: The Safety Layer Alignment Skips

#ai #security #agents #llm

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Jul 4

Foresight Is Functionally Time Travel

#neuroscience #productivity #psychology #ai

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Jun 30

Tidal Locking and the Orbital Mechanics of Vendor Lock-in

#cloud #vendorlockin #devops #architecture

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9 min read

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Jun 29

"Done" Is Not a State

#distributedsystems #programming #devops #backend

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Jun 24

Our Quality Scores Were Precise, Useless, and Identical

#engineering #management #evaluation #codequality

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Jun 24

Motivational Light: What Stage Lighting Teaches UX Designers

#ux #design #productmanagement #softwareengineering

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Jun 24

The Other Half of Authentication Is 345 Years Old

#security #ai #history #cryptography

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Jun 23

Cicada Crowdsolving as Externalized Insight: Distributed Puzzles and the Neuroscience of the Aha

#career #teamwork #neuroscience #problemsolving

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9 min read

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Jun 15

The Quartz Crisis of Software Engineering

#softwareengineering #career #ai #history

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Jun 10

The Harris Matrix of Technical Debt

#softwareengineering #architecture #technicaldebt #productivity

11 min read

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Jun 9

What Would People Need If They Lived on the Internet?

#ai #trust #security #agents

10 min read

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Jun 8

"It'll Take About 2-3 Weeks" — A Comedy of Agent Timelines

#ai #productivity #softwareengineering #career

11 min read

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Jun 4

Controlled Burns for Organizations: What the Forest Service Knows About Change That Consultants Don't

#management #leadership #devops #culture

2 min read

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Jun 3

The Grammar of Music: Why Bach's Deliberate Mistuning Is a Lesson in System Design

#music #math #programming #design

3 min read

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Jun 2

Platform Ecology: Trophic Cascades — Count the Cascade, Not the Keystone

#platform #ecology #strategy #business

3 min read

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May 30

Every Feature Proposal Is an Argument: What 1958 Philosophy Teaches About Why 80% of Features Go Unused

#product #management #programming #startup

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May 26

The Pruning Principle: How Brains, Ancient Greeks, and Fortune 500 Companies All Arrived at the Same Truth

#productivity #business #psychology #science

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