Engineering
Supermarket freezers in seven European countries were pushed to 50C on 2 November. The food went in the bin because nothing showed which cabinets stayed cold.
AI
Cisco Talos found an infostealer that asks Claude to rank its victims and retries on Kimi and Gemini if refused. Where can a refusal still count?
Engineering
A tampered Claude Code extension reached Cursor users on 29 October. Anthropic never published it. A 1982 rule about medicine bottles says what should change.
AI
Stack Overflow questions per month are under 1,000. The questions didn't stop. They moved into private AI chats that leave no public record.
AI
Outside reviewers spent three weeks inside OpenAI's agent monitoring. The biggest gaps were in what the monitor was never shown, the way TD Bank never monitored 92% of its volume.
Engineering
PHP fixed two critical flaws for 8.2 to 8.5 only. Most versioned PHP servers run older branches. Car recall law shows whose job the fix becomes.
AI
Change one phrase saying who the code is for, and Qwen3-Coder's apps got easier to hack. Labour economists have tested for this kind of gap for twenty years.
Engineering
Eight certificate authority keys trusted by every major browser were numbers below 256. Browsers fixed it in hours. Everything else that trusts the same roots is another story.
Fintech
A power event in one of Google's three London zones disrupted bank apps for hours on 20 October. The 2019 Thameslink lock-out shows where outages are really lost: the restart.
Engineering
The NIST curve seeds that fed 25 years of backdoor theories came from a 1990s random number generator started from the clock. The answer was always in the numbers. No record of it ever turned up.
Engineering
Postgres 19 lost about eight to ten features in beta, partly because LLM review found more small defects than the window could hold. Radiology already has a rule for that.
Working Out Loud
Epic told the team on its delayed Disney shooter there would be no more hand-written code. The Pentagon required Ada for new software in 1987, watched programs ignore the waivers, and in 1997 switched to judging the engineering plan instead.