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OpenAI tells devs: don't port GPT-5.4 prompts to GPT-5.5, rebuild from scratch
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 in the API alongside a prompting guide that explicitly warns against treating it as a drop-in replacement for gpt-5.2 or gpt-5.4. The gui
Overthinking as sabotage: when scope creep kills personal projects
Kevin Lynagh argues that personal projects fall into two camps: ones he just builds and finishes, and ones he sabotages by surveying prior art, expanding scope,
Palantir staff break internal silence over ICE work and Trump-era contracts
Current and former Palantir employees are openly questioning the company's trajectory under the second Trump administration, with internal conversations now fra
Pre-Stuxnet 'fast16' malware surfaces, targeted engineering software years before 2010
Researchers have identified a previously undocumented malware family dubbed 'fast16' that predates Stuxnet and was aimed at engineering software environments. T
Reviving abandoned side projects with Claude Code: a YouTube Music shim case study
A developer revisits a long-shelved personal project — a shim exposing YouTube Music through the OpenSubsonic API — and uses Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to finish
RTL8159 USB adapters bring cheaper, cooler 10 GbE — if your USB port can keep up
A new wave of 10 GbE USB adapters built on Realtek's RTL8159 chip is undercutting Thunderbolt-based 10G dongles on price, size, and heat. Jeff Geerling tested a
Troy Hunt Hits 500 Weekly Updates, Reflects on the Cost of Working on Your Own Terms
Troy Hunt marks his 500th weekly update video with a more personal entry than usual, prompted by an audience question on whether he's happy with the path he and
Trump dismisses NSF's National Science Board, gutting agency oversight
The Trump administration has removed the members of the National Science Board, the 24-person body that sets policy and provides oversight for the National Scie
UNC6692 abuses Teams helpdesk impersonation to drop Snow malware suite
Mandiant has attributed a new intrusion set to UNC6692, a threat group pairing email-bombing pressure tactics with Microsoft Teams messages from fake IT helpdes
USB Cheat Sheet: Untangling the Generation, Lane, and Cable Mess
A developer's frustration debugging a phantom bug — caused by misreading USB terminology — produced a compact reference for the standard's notoriously confusing
Western Software Skills Erode as Outsourcing and AI Hollow Out the Talent Pipeline
The piece draws a parallel between the decades-long offshoring of Western manufacturing and what the author argues is now happening to software engineering. Jus
Why a Folding Bike Beats a Regular Bike for Commuting
A London commuter reflects on 11 years with a Brompton folding bike, framing it as a piece of personal infrastructure he wishes he'd adopted decades earlier. Th