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Artificial Intelligence
The open-weight arms race is quietly rewriting who controls AI
A wave of freely licensed frontier models is shifting power away from a handful of labs — and forcing everyone to rethink what “open” actually means.
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Dev Tools
Package managers are having a security reckoning
After a year of supply-chain scares, npm, PyPI and crates.io are converging on the same fix.
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Security
Inside the quiet race to make passkeys actually usable
Passwords refuse to die. The industry’s replacement plan finally has momentum — and new problems.
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Startups
The one-person software company is now a real business model
AI tooling has collapsed the cost of building. Meet the solo founders quietly making millions.
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Research
Small models, big claims: benchmarking the sub-10B class
We ran the latest crop of compact models through 40 real-world tasks. The results surprised us.
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Platforms
The browser is becoming the operating system — again
WebGPU, local AI and the slow death of the native app: a decade-old prediction comes true.
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Open Source
Forks, licenses and money: the new economics of OSS
From license switches to foundation fights, who pays for the software everyone depends on?