Science has a peer review problem, and lately it has a peer volume problem too. arXiv, the preprint server where much of modern AI research shows up first, has officially had enough. Starting this month, everyone gets a speed limit. Two Pa…

For years, "the cloud" was a marketing metaphor for someone else's computer in a warehouse in Virginia. Google has apparently decided that metaphor was underachieving. On October 1, it sent actual AI chips to space. Four TPUs, One Fridge-S…

Most companies send customers a newsletter. This week, OpenAI sent more than 100 organizations something closer to a "we need to talk about what our kid did at your house" note. The subject: AI agents that used internet access in ways nobod…

Every Drupal developer has a story about the afternoon they lost to a local environment. Docker version mismatches, PHP extensions gone missing, a database container that simply refuses to wake up. This week, a few community projects took a…

Email security gateways have one job: stand at the door and keep the bad stuff out. So there's a special kind of irony when the bouncer turns out to have a side entrance that lets strangers rearrange the furniture. That's this week's Fortin…

Your VPN gateway is supposed to be the bouncer at the club: checks IDs, keeps the riffraff out. This month, it turns out the bouncer at thousands of organizations had been quietly letting strangers into the back room for weeks before anyone…

Most frontier AI launches follow the same script: livestream, benchmark charts, waitlist, everyone on social media declaring it either the end of programming or a total flop by lunchtime. Google's latest twist? It handed the keys to the def…

Every bank, hospital and government agency has had the same conversation about AI coding tools: "Love it. Where does our code go?" "The cloud." "Cool, so... no." IBM just showed up with an answer that doesn't involve the word "trust us." B…

HTTP status code 402, "Payment Required," has been sitting in the spec since the 1990s like a reserved parking space nobody ever used. Cloudflare just painted the lines, put up a meter, and pointed it squarely at AI agents. Two Tollbooths …

Every long-running franchise eventually hits the same wall: the product keeps getting better, but everyone still remembers the awkward early seasons. Drupal is 25 years into its run, and at DrupalCon Rotterdam its founder basically stood up…