A viral Reddit post by a purported developer alleging that a “major food delivery app” exploits drivers appears AI-generated; Uber and DoorDash deny the claims
Job listings show companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere have stepped up hiring for forward-deployed engineers that help businesses adopt their AI models
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AWS says services have “returned to normal operations” after a US-EAST-1 outage, first reported on October 20 at 3:11am ET, that affected major services
Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites.
AWS says “the underlying DNS issue” is mitigated and most “operations are succeeding normally” after a huge US-EAST-1 outage; some services are still “impacted”
The cause of the AWS outage is currently unclear.
The Trump administration says it would require companies to pay an annual $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, a move that could significantly impact the tech industry
- Visas are used principally by tech sector — Over 70% of beneficiaries of H-1B visas enter US from India
A deep dive into the state of the tech job market in 2025, including an increase in demand for AI engineers and a rising average tenure at Big Tech companies
A deepdive into today's tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more Bluesky: @gergely.pra...
Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded
Based on The Pragmatic Engineer Survey: 3,000 respondents, mostly experienced devs. — Note how other vibe-coding tools are also not popular with this group: [image] Gergely Orosz...
Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded
Based on The Pragmatic Engineer Survey: 3,000 respondents, mostly experienced devs. — Note how other vibe-coding tools are also not popular with this group: [image] Gergely Orosz...
Anthropic details how it built its multi-agent Claude Research system, claiming significant improvements in internal evaluations over single-agent systems
Our Research feature uses multiple Claude agents to explore complex topics more effectively. We share the engineering challenges …
Researchers say a Next.js flaw that existed for several years could have let hackers bypass middleware-based authentication; Vercel patched the flaw on March 18
Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927). zhero_web_security : Next.js and the corrupt middleware: the authorizing artifact Nat...
Researchers say a Next.js flaw that existed for several years could have let hackers bypass middleware-based authentication; Vercel patched the flaw on March 18
Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927). zhero_web_security : Next.js and the corrupt middleware: the authorizing artifact Nat...
Google and other companies are considering bringing back in-person job interviews, as some startups sell AI tools that let engineers cheat in virtual interviews
After landing internship offers from Amazon, Meta and TikTok, computer science student Chungin “Roy” Lee has decided to move to San Francisco.
Automattic plans to cut its WordPress contributions to ~45 hours per week “due to the lawsuits from WP Engine”, focusing mostly on security and critical updates
Automattic has always been deeply committed to the success of WordPress, dedicating significant resources and talent to its development for almost two decades.