The 2025 State of AI Report just landed—China’s catching up fast on reasoning and coding. Models like DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi are starting to nip at OpenAI’s heels. AI is thinking longer-term now. Reinforced reasoning and rubric-style feedback are pushing models into deeper, more deliberate plannin..

Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry just released a proper workflow for putting LLMs through their paces. Thinkoffline/online tests,human-in-the-loop checks,automated scoring, and evencustom evaluators—all wired into one system. At the heart of it: the newAzure AI Evaluation SDK. You can run it locally whi..

Anthropic releasedClaude Skills—a lean way to snap specialized instructions and scripts into Claude without bloating the prompt. Each “skill” lives in a folder with Markdown and optional code. Frontmatter tags tell Claude when to load what. No need to cram everything into the context window—Claude g..

OpenAI, Broadcom, NVIDIA, and AMD say they’ll deploy10GWof AI compute by end of 2026. That includes custom chips and slews of 1GW data centers. What they didn’t say: where, when, or how. No sites named. No shovels in dirt. OpenAI alone aims for250GW by 2033—a moonshot that needs$400Bin the next 12 m..

A fresh approach calledstructured vibe codingblends human-style team habits with AI workflows. Specs, GitHub Issues, and Copilot now pull agents into the loop like actual teammates. Powered byGitHub Copilot Coding AgentsandAzure AI Foundry, devs can run full AI-driven sprints—spec to PR—right inside..

AI is sliding into DevSecOps and turning security into less of a slog. Tools likeDarktrace PREVENT,CrowdStrike Falcon, andMicrosoft Security Copilotaren't just watching—they're flagging weird behavior, proposing fixes, and unclogging patch pipelines inside CI/CD. The shift:DevSecOps is on its way to..

Shopify handles billions of Black Friday requests on amodular monolith, built with Ruby on Rails and kept in check byPackwerk. Domain boundaries are enforced. Chaos averted. Inside, it blendsHexagonal Architecture, isolatedPods, and real-time Kafka pipes. The system scales without fracturing into mi..

A developer built a razor-sharp TLS fingerprinting and blocking tool—all in kernel space—witheBPFandXDP. It hooks into incoming packets, scrapes TLS Client Hello messages, and cranks out simplified JA4-style hashes from their cipher suite lists. The fun part? It's running under tight stack limits, s..

DigitalSociety ditched AWS and DigitalOcean. Swapped the comfort of cloud for full control onHetzner, built onTalos Linux. PostgreSQL? Now running onCloudNativePG. Traffic flows throughIngress NGINXwithExternalDNShandling the names. The payoff: monthly costs dropped from $449.50 to under $100. ARM v..

Pre-commit hooks catch secrets and fix formatting before bad stuff hits your repo. But if they’re clunky or slow, devs bail. Tools likePre-Commit,Husky, anddevenvare trying to fix that.devenvstands out—hooks are baked right into your Nix env, no extra glue scripts...