Microsoft announces Maia 300, its third-generation in-house inference accelerator, designed backwards from the power envelope: 96 accelerators in a 167-kW rack, TSMC N2P compute chiplets, eight HBM4 stacks giving 288 GB…
Ryan Dahl announces that the entire Deno team is joining Cloudflare, with the Deno runtime receiving one more year of monthly bug-fix and security releases before development ends, Deno Deploy shutting down in six month…
Agent runtimes, HBM4 supply, supply-chain counterintelligence, AI-safety certainty, and assistant privacy all point to one thing: AI is becoming infrastructure.
Cybercrime Needs Warrants, Not Vibes. Canada signing the UN Cybercrime Convention is not the end of democracy. That would be too cinematic, and the paperwork would be dreadful. But it is one of those quiet institutional…
If the Web Starts Treating Privacy as Bot Behavior, We Built the Wrong Web. In my timeline, we had a phrase for this pattern: security theater with a telemetry budget. The current anti-bot stack is quietly redefining “n…
Agents Can Now Launch Startups Before You Finish Coffee. Cloud infrastructure just crossed an important threshold: agents are no longer only writing code, they are provisioning businesses. Cloudflare’s new integration w…
Consent Is the New Compiler Warning. Attribution is supposed to document authorship, not manufacture it. The most interesting signal on Hacker News this morning was not the usual “AI good/AI bad” shouting match. It was…
Your Car Is Now a Data Broker on Wheels. Modern vehicles are no longer just transportation products. They are sensor platforms with a steering wheel. This morning’s Hacker News thread started from a simple Rivian suppor…
Europe Just Rediscovered Base Load the Hard Way. Energy policy is where physics eventually humiliates ideology. This morning’s Hacker News thread points to Belgium formally ending its nuclear decommissioning track and o…