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Apple intros M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and its first new monitors in years (5 minute read)
Apple has introduced the M5 Pro and M5 Max to its MacBook Pro lineup, with the M5 Pro now starting at 1TB of storage and the M5 Max starting at 2TB of storage. The base storage for the M5 MacBook Pro has been raised to 1TB, along with corresponding increases to starting prices. Additionally, Apple has unveiled a new pair of displays.
Anthropic Claude Experienced Widespread Outage (1 minute read)
Anthropic experienced widespread service disruptions impacting Claude.ai and Claude Code, resulting in numerous users being unable to log in. However, the company assured that the Claude API remained functioning without any issues.

What real marketers are building with Claude Code (16 minute read)
Marketers are developing reusable AI skills in Claude Code and Cowork by converting existing frameworks into structured Markdown files, linking these skills to data sources such as Google Drive, HubSpot, Clay, and Slack, and refining them through live examples to increase accuracy from 60% to 90%. Some skills are deployed to run on schedules using tools like GitHub, Railway, and Vercel, emphasizing the importance of encoding repetitive thinking into skills, integrating them into workflows, and honing them through practical application rather than just prompts.

Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering (11 minute read)
Through collaborative efforts, this developer reverse-engineered Apple's M4 Neural Engine by bypassing CoreML and directly programming the hardware, gaining an understanding of its previously undocumented architecture. They successfully mapped out the software stack, uncovered private APIs, decoded the binary format, and devised a method for compiling and executing code directly on the ANE.

Tech

How to Kill the Code Review (10 minute read)
Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native (3 minute read)

M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon (7 minute read)

As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar “harvester” (3 minute read)

OpenAI Is Developing An Alternative To GitHub (1 minute read)

Xiaomi says humanoid robots begin factory trials, targets large-scale deployment within five years (1 minute read)

Apple's new iPhone 17e has an A19 chip, MagSafe, and 256GB of storage for $599 (2 minute read)

Subscriptions Will Survive in Exactly Two Places (26 minute read)

The Architecture Behind Open-Source LLMs (11 minute read)

Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today (3 minute read)

What Claude Code Actually Chooses (3 minute read)

Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount's offer is deemed superior (3 minute read)
AI

Just-in-Time Agentic Memory Framework (18 minute read)

The State of Consumer AI. Part 1 - Usage (10 minute read)

Keeping community human while scaling with agents (6 minute read)

The other side of ads in ChatGPT: Advertiser perspective (7 minute read)

Nano Banana 2 (5 minute read)

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War (5 minute read)

Realtime Prompting Guide (38 minute read)
Infosec

Hacktivists claim to have hacked Homeland Security to release ICE contract data (2 minute read)

Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data (4 minute read)

Google addresses actively exploited Qualcomm zero-day in fresh batch of 129 Android vulnerabilities (3 minute read)
An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (14 minute read)

Florida woman imprisoned for massive Microsoft license fraud scheme (2 minute read)

The Forgotten Bug: How a Node.js Core Design Flaw Enables HTTP Request Splitting (18 minute read)

Capture the Kerberos Flag: Detecting Kerberos Anomalies (8 minute read)

AWS Security Hub Extended offers full-stack enterprise security with curated partner solutions (2 minute read)

Canadian Tire 2025 data breach impacts 38 million users (2 minute read)
Rustdesk (GitHub Repo)

Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules (10 minute read)

New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises (9 minute read)
Product

Subscriptions Will Survive in Exactly Two Places (18 minute read)

The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete (7 minute read)
I Was Tired of Juggling My Agents, So I Hired a Middle Manager (6 minute read)

Taking stock of the SaaSpocalypse (5 minute read)

16 Pieces of Design Wisdom (4 minute read)

The Facebook app didn't become cluttered because nobody cared (2 minute read)

Every SaaS company is building AI features right now (6 minute read)

How Long Until We Call AI Agents Data Products (4 minute read)

Zillow's CEO on growing the company during a housing crisis (60 minute podcast)
Claude Code + Analytics = Vibe PMing (53 minute video)

How to Find Your “One Metric to Rule Them All” (7 minute read)
Dev

How I run 4–8 parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs (14 minute read)

How I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch (15 minute read)

Is AI Killing Software Engineering Jobs? (7 minute read)

Go is the Best Language for AI Agents (12 minute read)

Git's Magic Files (10 minute read)

Developing Taste (3 minute read)
Expo Skills (GitHub Repo)

Ghostty (Website)

Block Announces Layoffs of 4,000 People, Over 40% Cut (7 minute read)

We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is (13 minute read)
It

CrowdStrike: Attackers Now Traverse Networks in Under 30 Minutes (3 minute read)

The Rise of the Outcome-Orchestrating CIO (13 minute read)

UK Government Cuts Cyber Vulnerability Fix Times 84% with New Monitoring Service (3 minute read)

Claude jumps ChatGPT in the App Store as OpenAI Faces Backlash (6 minute read)

Why Internal Platforms Are Replacing Traditional IT Tooling (4 minute read)

AWS Launches Security Hub With Integrated Enterprise Security Stack (2 minute read)

New IT Roles Emerge to Tackle AI Evaluation (6 minute read)

The Clownpocalypse (12 minute read)
Marketing

How to build an AI SEO strategy that outlasts tactics (6 minute read)

Partiful: What We Can Learn from the App That Killed Facebook Events (8 minute read)

ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal (2 minute read)

How Google's Universal Commerce Protocol changes ecommerce SEO (9 minute read)

How to increase your "luck surface" (5 minute read)

Pre-Test Calculator (Tool)

The Minimum Lovable Product Era (7 minute read)

Capturing the Full ROI of Referral Programs (4 minute read)

Claude Code for GTM Teams (10 minute read)

Stop Guessing What Content to Create: Practical templates for mapping what to build and why (3 minute read)

Build an ICP so specific your message gets reply (16 minute read)

WPP to sell assets and cut jobs in radical shake-up to counter AI threat (3 minute read)
TikTok & IG Video A/B Testing Lessons (2 minute read)
Design

A New Platform "by Creators, for Creators" Will Root Out AI Deepfakes (2 minute read)

How to Write a Good Spec for AI Agents (37 minute read)

Canva isn't a joke anymore (4 minute read)

Apple officially announces iPhone 17e with MagSafe, 256GB storage, more (1 minute read)

Pokémon Day 2026: What Artists Can Learn from 30 Years of Pokémon Character Design (5 minute read)

Google Rolls Out Nano Banana 2 For Faster Images (5 minute read)

New Studio Display may have higher-end model with these upgrades, per leak (2 minute read)

Why Soft Skills Will Define Design Careers Over the Next Two Years (6 minute read)

Figma Partners With OpenAI To Add Codex Support (4 minute read)

Life After Figma is Coming (and it Will be Glorious) (3 minute read)
Create Studio-quality Marketing Assets with Photoshoot in Google Lab's Pomelli (2 minute read)
Crypto

PayPay, 40% owner of Binance Japan, seeks up to $1.1 billion in IPO (3 minute read)

SpaceX's $780 million BTC stack down to ~$545 million ahead of IPO filing (3 minute read)

Custom Stablecoins Backed by PayPal USD (4 minute read)

Quantum Resistance Roadmap for Ethereum (8 minute read)

EIP-8141 Finally Delivers Full Account Abstraction (3 minute read)

OCC Proposes Stablecoin Framework Under GENIUS Act (3 minute read)
Crypto Traders Hedge Iran War Risks With Trading on Hyperliquid (3 minute read)

Grant Cardone plans to tokenize $5B Real Estate Portfolio (4 minute read)

A new bipartisan bill wants to ensure the next century of tech is written in America (5 minute read)

Ethereum's “Strawmap” Roadmap (6 minute read)
Fintech

Jack Dorsey just halved the size of Block's employee base and he says your company is next (4 minute read)

Plaid valued at $8B in employee share sale (2 minute read)

PayPal, Rainforest join forces on embedded payments (3 minute read)

The trap Anthropic built for itself (5 minute read)

Cantor, Stripe, PE, and the evolving map of AI and markets (6 minute read)

One-third of Millennials now rely on gig payments and tips as primary income (5 minute read)

Klarna hits 9 million daily users as new bank features take hold (3 minute read)

Meta dips a toe back into crypto with stablecoins (3 minute read)
DevOps
prek (GitHub Repo)

Quick takes on Feb 20 Cloudflare outage (4 minute read)
Markitdown (GitHub Repo)
memU (GitHub Repo)

ASPA: making Internet routing more secure (9 minute read)

Kubernetes as AI's operating system: 1.35 release signals (3 minute read)

Git in Postgres (5 minute read)
Introducing PgBeam (3 minute read)

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (11 minute read)
Founders

The Wave of AI Agent Churn To Come: Prompts Are Portable (5 minute read)

The Minimum Lovable Product Era (12 minute read)

Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat (9 minute read)

Will AI Actually Lower R&D as a % of Revenue? (5 minute read)

The phone company always wins (7 minute read)

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI Bubble (34 minute read)

What's My Stage Again? (6 minute read)

10 Charts That Capture How the World Is Changing (11 minute read)
Non-Code Moats (3 minute read)

Jump Ball (6 minute read)
Data

Analytics Engineering's Unfinished Work (5 minute read)

Ontology driven Dimensional Modeling (12 minute read)

Inside Tencent Games' Real-Time Event-Driven Analytics System (8 minute read)

HNSW at Scale: Why Adding More Documents to Your Database Breaks RAG (27 minute read)
Rivet (GitHub Repo)

To Live in an AI World, Knowing is Half the Battle (28 minute podcast)

Backfills - The Necessary Evil of Data Engineering (9 minute read)