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A BreachForums admin is selling claimed access to Vercel internals for $2M, pitched as the 'largest supply chain attack ever' on Next.js. What's verified vs. marketing, and an 11-step playbook to protect your app now.
I tested Claude Opus against Codex and Composer 2.0 on real CTF challenges. Opus won by a mile. Now Anthropic's built something even more powerful — and chose not to ship it.
Karpathy stopped asking ChatGPT questions. Instead, he built a system where LLMs maintain a 400K-word wiki — 100 articles, zero manual editing. Here's the exact setup.
512,000 lines of TypeScript. Killswitches, an autonomous daemon called KAIROS, anti-distillation traps, and an undercover mode that hides AI authorship. All exposed by one forgotten source map file.
AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare — all went down in 2025. Not from cyberattacks, but config drift and brittle control planes. $60B in damages. Here's what actually broke and why.
GitHub Copilot writes 46% of code at Microsoft. Google sees 2.5x task completion. Commonwealth Bank won't go back. Real numbers on what works and what's hype.
MMC Ventures' data shows 90% of AI agent projects claim success but only 10% reach real adoption. 40% of initiatives will be dead by 2027. Here's what separates the survivors.
Reddit's $60M/yr Google deal, OpenAI partnership, Perplexity lawsuit, and $203M in data licensing revenue. Full breakdown of who's paying, who's scraping, and what's next.
I was subscribed to 30+ tech newsletters and reading none of them. So I built a system that reads 110+ sources and sends me only what matters. Here's the story.
14-hour AWS US-EAST-1 outage on Oct 20, 2025. DynamoDB DNS race condition root cause, 6.5M Downdetector reports, full timeline, and AWS post-mortem findings.
shadcn/ui, Bun, Ollama — all trended on GitHub before going mainstream. Here's how to use GitHub Trending to discover the next big tool months before everyone else.
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