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‘You’ve been attacked’: The group linked to a major NZ cyber crime - and its ransom note

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‘You’ve been attacked’: The group linked to a major NZ cyber crime - and its ransom note

More details about who has claimed responsibility for a ransomware attack on a NZ company and their demands can be revealed.

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The End of Prompt-and-Hope AI Development

The End of Prompt-and-Hope AI Development

The era of "prompt and hope" software development is coming to an end. Over the past two years, we have treated Large Language Models (LLMs) like mystical oracles: feeding giant text streams into a "black box" and waiting for a miracle…

Why Speech Recognition Misses Human Context: Dr. Sunday David Ubur’s Affective Architecture

Why Speech Recognition Misses Human Context: Dr. Sunday David Ubur’s Affective Architecture

Building automated speech recognition has become one of the most resource-intensive arms races in modern computing. For years, the industry standard has centered on scaling foundational transformer models across hundreds of thousands of…

React Activity: When A Render No Longer Guarantees an Effect

React Activity: When A Render No Longer Guarantees an Effect

React 19.2 introduced as a powerful way to hide UI while preserving its state and DOM. But beneath this seemingly simple feature is an important lifecycle shift: a component can render without its Effects ever mounting. That difference can…

From CV to Proof of Contributions (PoC): How Engineers Can Prove Their Skills and Impact

From CV to Proof of Contributions (PoC): How Engineers Can Prove Their Skills and Impact

Don’t Focus Too Much on Your Resume, Focus on Skills First The world of work will never be the same anymore, with AI disrupting many fields and changing the way we learn. But what about recruiting engineers and developers? For many years…

5 Principles to Make Your Tech Product Hard to Ignore and Easy to Trust

5 Principles to Make Your Tech Product Hard to Ignore and Easy to Trust

Most founders think their trust problem is that people don't believe them. Usually, users can’t even tell what the product does. Here's the page you've seen a hundred times: purple gradient, a wordmark that could belong to four thousand…

Congratulations on Your Flawless AI Agent. Too Bad the Business Runs on Slack.

Congratulations on Your Flawless AI Agent. Too Bad the Business Runs on Slack.

If you want to know why your shiny new enterprise AI tool has a 5% adoption rate, go look at the database schema the client handed you when you first starting prototyping for this project: It’s probably beautiful. Perfectly normalised. You…

Elon Musk feels 'chess will be fully solved one day'; what does Carlsen think?

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Elon Musk feels 'chess will be fully solved one day'; what does Carlsen think?

Elon Musk believes chess will eventually be fully solved by AI, drawing comparisons with checkers. Magnus Carlsen was less certain, saying he isn't a computer expert but noting chess is already “semi-solved” as a likely draw. Carlsen also…

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Leveraged buyouts were once a precision tool, effective when used selectively and with discipline

Leveraged buyouts were once a precision tool, effective when used selectively and with discipline

Today, leverage has become a default setting. Not to over indulge in contrastive negatives, but debt isn’t just part of the strategy, in many cases, it is the strategy. If more investors get experience not using leverage, the cloak of…

Stop Testing AI Agents Like Normal Functions

Stop Testing AI Agents Like Normal Functions

Every developer building AI agents eventually hits the same wall. A test passes, then fails because the response changed from “I'll help you book that flight” to “Happy to assist with your travel plans.” Both are acceptable, but the…

AirPods 5 just pulled off the impossible for Apple — more features, lower price

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AirPods 5 just pulled off the impossible for Apple — more features, lower price

While the major headlines from Apple’s September event were understandably on the iPhone Duo foldable, one of the standout announcements for me concerns the AirPods 5. Apple’s non-Pro series of earbuds are once again available in two…

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Why Imperial Historians Want You to Forget Kharkiv’s Real Story [Breaking the Myths]

Why Imperial Historians Want You to Forget Kharkiv’s Real Story [Breaking the Myths]

If you listen to Russian state historians or read old Soviet textbooks, you’d think Kharkiv was popped out of thin air in 1925 by a panel of Bolshevik bureaucrats armed with concrete, steel, and a copy of Das Kapital . The narrative is…