Elon Musk’s xAI has laid off hundreds of employees responsible for training its Grok chatbot.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-layoffs-data-annotators-2025-9
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Elon Musk's xAI lays off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok
XAI laid off at least 500 of the workers on its data annotation team on Friday night.
Git’s hidden simplicity: what’s behind every commit
https://open.substack.com/pub/allvpv/p/gits-hidden-simplicity?r=6ehrq6&utm_medium=ios
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Substack
Git's hidden simplicity: what's behind every commit
Many programmers would admit this: our knowledge of Git tends to be pretty… superficial.
How Software Engineers Make Productive Decisions (without slowing the team down)
https://strategizeyourcareer.com/p/how-software-engineers-make-productive-decisions
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Strategizeyourcareer
How Software Engineers Make Productive Decisions (without slowing the team down)
Engineers stall by overthinking reversible choices. Learn a simple 3-question filter to move faster, avoid bottlenecks, and grow your career
Falsehoods programmers believe about null pointers
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-null-pointers/
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Falsehoods programmers believe about null pointers
Null pointers look simple on the surface, and that’s why they’re so dangerous. As compiler optimizations, intuitive but incorrect simplifications, and platform-specific quirks have piled on, the odds of making a wrong assumption have increased, leading to…
React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation
https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-won-by-default/
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Loren Stewart
React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation | Loren Stewart
Exploring how React's dominance by default stifles frontend innovation, and why deliberate framework choices lead to better tools for performance, developer experience, and ecosystem diversity.
Safe C++ proposal is not being continued
https://sibellavia.lol/posts/2025/09/safe-c-proposal-is-not-being-continued/
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Safe C++ proposal is not being continued
One year ago, the Safe C++ proposal was made. The goal was to add a safe subset/context into C++ that would give strong guarantees (memory safety, type safety, …
Crowdstrike Packages Infected with Malware (and other 167 packages infected as well)
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngularity-nx-attackers-strike-again
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S1ngularity/nx attackers strike again
The attackers behind the nx attack have struck again, targeting a large amount of packages, with a first-of-its-kind worm payload.
Self-replicating worm like behaviour in latest npm Supply Chain Attack
https://safedep.io/npm-supply-chain-attack-targeting-maintainers/
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SafeDep - Real-time Open Source Software Supply Chain Security
npm Supply Chain Attack Exposes Private Repositories, AWS Credentials and More
npm supply chain attacks continue. This time targeting @ctrl/tinycolor and multiple other packages with credential stealer malware. In this blog, we will analyze the attack and its impact on the npm ecosystem. We will also look at common attack patterns that…
Generative AI is hollowing out entry-level jobs, study finds
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5425555
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Ssrn
Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change: Evidence from U.S. Résumé and Job Posting Data
We study whether generative artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes a form of <i>seniority-biased technological change</i>, disproportionately affecting junior
ASUS Gaming Laptops Have Been Broken Since 2021: A Deep Dive
https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive
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GitHub
GitHub - Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive: A deep dive into the ACPI.sys DPC latency problems on Asus ROG laptops
A deep dive into the ACPI.sys DPC latency problems on Asus ROG laptops - Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive
UUIDv47: keep v7 in your DB, emit v4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp)
https://github.com/stateless-me/uuidv47
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GitHub
GitHub - stateless-me/uuidv47: ⚡ UUIDv47 = v4 privacy + v7 performance
⚡ UUIDv47 = v4 privacy + v7 performance. Contribute to stateless-me/uuidv47 development by creating an account on GitHub.
Wasm 3.0 Completed
https://webassembly.org/news/2025-09-17-wasm-3.0/
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webassembly.org
Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly
WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications.
I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years.
https://triangulatedexistence.mataroa.blog/blog/i-uncovered-an-acpi-bug-in-my-dell-inspiron-5667-it-was-plaguing-me-for-8-years/
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Reddit
From the programming community on Reddit: I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years.
Posted by lonelyroom-eklaghor - 122 votes and 20 comments
Replit infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns - What happens when AI becomes essential and unaffordable?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/replit_agent3_pricing/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
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The Register
Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns
: It's worst when going over older code, one user tells us
"The agent kept “working” for more than an hour at a time without ever reaching a solution. Worse, instead of fixing the bug, it started introducing regressions and damaging the project, at one point even deleting a critical file like storage."
https://old.reddit.com/r/replit/comments/1nidmhr/ongoing_agent_3_feedback_megathread/
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Reddit
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Deno is raising $200k for the legal fight to free the JavaScript trademark from Oracle
https://deno.com/blog/javascript-tm-gofundme
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Deno
Help Us Raise $200k to Free JavaScript from Oracle | Deno
Our legal battle over Oracle's claim on the word "JavaScript" is entering the discovery phase. Here's how you can help.