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For the last fortnight the news has been in a frenzy about AI killing us all. It started when Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic and posted that the people building AI "earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade". One of Anthropic's alignment leads replied that he personally put it

I’m a curious person by nature. Any time I pick up a new hobby, or get invested in a TV show, or start using some new (digital) tools, the first thing I do is read everything I can find about it. How does x work? Who came up with it? Why is it called that? How has it changed over time?

In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems

What made the Quick desktop team successful is the same thing that has always produced the best work I've seen at Amazon: a small group of people who trusted each other, owned the problem end-to-end, and acted on their conviction.

Almost 11 years after we created CodePlex, it’s time to say goodbye.  We launched CodePlex in 2006 because we, like others in the industry, saw a need for a great place to share software.  Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of amazing options come and go but at this point, GitHub is the de […]

ThreatLabz examines Anthropic’s Claude Code leak, and a lure being used to spread Vidar and GhostSocks malware.

Holiday Extras rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise across every team, boosting productivity by 500 hours weekly.

Design decisions core to JavaScript have caused a multitude of problems for benchmarking. Is there a solution to this?

Understanding Browser Fingerprinting: Enabling 'Do Not Track' Might Make You Less Anonymous

Playwright MCP: Comprehensive Guide to AI-Powered Browser Automation in 2025 Introduction: Why Playwright MCP Is Revolutionizing Automation Imagine an AI that navigates websites, fills forms, scrapes …

When building high-load systems, one of the biggest challenges is making sure your solution performs well under pressure. This is…

Data visualization tools provide designers with an easier way to create visual representations of large data sets. When dealing with data sets that include hundreds of thousands or millions of data points, automating the process of creating a visualization makes a designer’s job significantly easier.

One of the most common questions non-users ask is “Why should I use MongoDB?” There are a bunch of fancy answers: you can scale it (webscale!), you can use it for MapReduce, you can sto…

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Introduction MySQL is one of the most popular relational database management systems used by developers worldwide. It offers a wide range of data types, including ENUM, which is often used to define columns that have a limited set of possible values.

An exploration of Vim's commit history using a new tool called Git Who.

During his week of testing, Carlos Ruiz Lantero ran a benchmark of the different processors available for AWS Lambda. The outcome might surprise you.

Analyzing common misconceptions on the discussion around GraphQL vs. REST.

Unlock microservices potential with Apollo GraphQL. Seamlessly integrate APIs, manage data, and enhance performance. Explore Apollo's innovative solutions.

Why you need to be very careful with this app.

Time to upgrade Docker Desktop

Backlinks are created when one website links to another. Backlinks are especially valuable for SEO because they represent a "vote" that can help you to rank. Learn more about backlinks and SEO.

Research on U.S. Net habits suggests that if this sentence takes longer than a second to load, many citizens will have clicked elsewhere already. If you've got the patience (or are European) read on for more shocking data on not dawdling.

There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.

Well, VSCode is a really great Code Editor rather say nearly an IDE or better than that. But this costs a great amount of RAM and CPU. But…

How files that only export other components can improve readability of your project

Could your software have made it to Mars? See how open source from around the world helped NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter fly.

In this report, we analyze more than 5 million pull requests from over 35,000 engineers to examine the current state of code review. Here’s what we found:

When you care more about how a metric is trending over time and less about its exact value at every instant, regression functions can help.

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