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The Warrant Question for License-Plate Readers Is 'When,' Not 'If'
A crime analyst who consults for police departments — and served as an expert witness for the Institute for Justice in Schmidt v. City of Norfolk — argues that
Why a Thesaurus Is a Storehouse, Not a Synonym Swapper
Note for the desk: this is a personal literary essay from Mark Dominus's blog, not a security or technology story — there's no meaningful cybersecurity, infra,
Why the best blog posts start from what you don't yet understand
Engineer-blogger Sean Goedecke argues that the point of writing publicly isn't to broadcast expertise but to acquire it. He deliberately picks topics he only ha
Why You Still Need to Understand the Code Your AI Agents Write
Geoffrey Litt argues that as coding agents produce more of our software, the scarce resource is no longer writing code but genuinely understanding it. The commo
45 Years On: How the IBM PC and Its Model F Keyboard Set the Template
On August 12, 1981, IBM shipped the 5150 Personal Computer and, with it, cemented the x86 architecture and the general shape of what people still call a PC. The
A 15-Year-Old SQLite Data Race, Caught by an AI Agent in 15 Minutes
SQLite's 3.51.3 release fixed the "WAL-Reset" bug, a data race in the Write-Ahead Logging subsystem that had lurked since 2010 without the maintainers knowing i
Agentic Web Index flags bots faking AI-crawler identities like ClaudeBot
Known Agents' Agentic Web Index tracks how automated traffic — AI scrapers, real-time fetchers, search crawlers, and autonomous browsing agents — moves across a
AI Kills the Speed Limit — and the Software Engineering Middle Class
The core argument is that AI coding agents haven't changed which engineering practices are good or bad — they've removed the natural rate limit on bad ones. Whe
Cerebras and OpenAI Preview Ultrafast: GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 Tokens/Sec
Cerebras and OpenAI are previewing Ultrafast Mode, a new tier in the OpenAI API that runs the GPT-5.6 Sol model on Cerebras hardware at up to 750 output tokens
Chrome's JPEG shortcut makes tiny icons look wrong
A developer noticed a 15px logo rendered thicker in Chrome than in Firefox, and traced it to how Chrome decodes JPEGs at small scales rather than to any bug. Fu
Discovered Materials benchmarks AI agents on inventing novel chip materials
Discovered Materials (YC P26) built a benchmark that tests whether frontier LLMs can act as autonomous computational materials scientists. Agents are tasked wit
Flutter 3.47 Splits Material and Cupertino Out of the Core SDK
Flutter 3.47's headline change is architectural: the Material and Cupertino design systems ship as standalone pub.dev packages (material_ui and cupertino_ui, bo