Today’s top stories include the US government’s $8.9 billion stake in Intel to bolster semiconductor leadership, the court’s upholding of T-Mobile’s $92 million fine for selling customer data, and AWS’s significant updates enhancing service flexibility and cost efficiency. Additionally, AI’s role in content moderation and enterprise projects faces scrutiny amid rising investment and adoption challenges.
▶️ Internet Infrastructure
Court Upholds $92M Fine Against T-Mobile for Selling Customer Location Data
A federal appeals court upheld a $92 million FCC fine against T-Mobile for selling real-time customer location data without consent, affirming violations of the Communications Act and rejecting carrier legal defenses.
- A US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld a $92 million FCC fine against T-Mobile for selling customer location data without consent, rejecting T-Mobile’s appeal.
- The FCC fined T-Mobile $80.1 million and Sprint (now part of T-Mobile) $12.2 million for illegally sharing real-time location data from 2018 to 2019 without verifying customer consent.
- The court ruled that mobile devices function as tracking devices, generating exhaustive location histories, and that carriers continued selling location data despite known abuses, violating the Communications Act.
Rust Web Server tarweb Achieves Zero Syscall HTTPS with io_uring and kTLS
A Rust-based web server, tarweb, leverages io_uring, kTLS, and descriptorless files to achieve zero syscall HTTPS serving, improving scalability and performance on Linux.
- Discusses the evolution of high-capacity web servers from process forking to
epoll,io_uring, andkTLSon Linux - Explains
io_uring’s asynchronous queue-based syscall mechanism, enabling zero syscall per request operation after setup - Introduces
kTLSfor kernel offloaded TLS encryption, allowing use ofsendfile()and hardware crypto offload, with specific configuration challenges - Presents
descriptorless filesviaregister_filesto reduce overhead of passing file descriptors - Details the development of
tarweb, a Rust-based web server utilizingio_uring,kTLS, anddescriptorless files, serving content from a tar archive - Notes current limitations, including
io_uringsafety concerns and incompletesetsockopt()support, with ongoing PRs to improve integration
Author Switches from Gmail to Mailbox.org for Privacy and Efficient Email Migration
Author transitioned from Gmail to Mailbox.org for enhanced privacy, utilizing imapsync for migration of 26,407 emails over 3 hours, with PGP support and manual account top-up.
- Author switched from Gmail to Mailbox.org on August 18, 2025, citing privacy concerns and data collection issues.
- Mailbox.org offers 10GB email plus 5GB cloud storage starting at €2.50/month, expandable at €0.20/GB, with integrated PGP encryption.
- Migration involved using imapsync Docker tool to transfer 26,407 messages over approximately 3 hours, excluding the Gmail “All Mail” folder.
Goo-gl Tracker Archives 3.75 Billion Items, Led by Top Contributors
Goo-gl tracker reports 3.75 billion items archived totaling 286.57 TiB, with major contributors like fuzzy80211 and DLoader, supporting ArchiveTeam’s web archiving efforts.
- Goo-gl tracker shows 3.75 billion items completed, with 286.57 TiB of data archived
- Top contributors include fuzzy80211 (91.33 TiB), DLoader (13.05 TiB), and darknavi (6.52 TiB)
- Data per user ranges from 18.02 million items (datechnoman) to 714.54 million items (fuzzy80211)
AWS Announces Major Updates: Live EC2 Changes, S3 Improvements, and Cost Optimizations
AWS has significantly evolved by enabling live configuration changes, improving service consistency, reducing costs, and enhancing security, with key updates including EC2 live migration, S3 read-after-write, Lambda up to 15 minutes, and transition from RIs to Savings Plans.
- AWS EC2 now allows changing security groups and IAM roles without instance shutdown, supports resizing, attaching, or detaching EBS volumes on running instances, and can force stop or terminate instances without waiting for clean shutdowns.
- EC2 supports live migration between physical hosts, reducing instance degradation notices; spot instances have shifted from bidding wars to gradual capacity shifts; AMI Block Public Access is default for new accounts.
- S3 now provides read-after-write consistency, default encryption at rest, Block Public Access enabled by default on new buckets, and deprecates ACLs.
- Networking improvements include the end of EC2-Classic, public IPv4 addresses costing as much as Elastic IPs, better options for VPC peering (Transit Gateway, VPC sharing, Cloud WAN), and support for security groups on Network Load Balancers.
- CloudFront updates reduce deployment update time from ~45 minutes to ~5 minutes; ALB charges now exclude cross-AZ data transfer fees; availability zones can be aligned across accounts using Resource Access Manager.
- Lambda now supports up to 15-minute execution, Docker container images, shared EFS storage, up to 10GB RAM, and faster VPC invocation; cold-start issues are reduced.
- EFS allows separate adjustment of IO performance and capacity; EBS volumes now offer full performance when empty, with initial slow read from snapshots, and support multiple attachments with io1 volumes.
- DynamoDB supports empty fields, improved performance reliability, and recommends running on-demand capacity unless specific needs dictate otherwise.
- Cost management shifts from Reserved Instances to Savings Plans, with EC2 now billed by the second; Cost Anomaly Detector and Compute Optimizer provide enhanced cost and performance insights.
- IAM roles are recommended for permissions, IAM users for legacy apps, and IAM Identity Center replaces AWS SSO; root account MFA can have multiple devices, and root credentials are unnecessary for organization members.
- AWS service durability has improved, with outages now noteworthy rather than routine; deprecations are increasing, and CloudWatch data consistency issues are resolved; accounts can be closed from the root account.
LLD Uses Conditional Branches for ARM File Alignment Instead of Zero Padding
LLD inserts 0xd4d4 (conditional branch with offset -0x58) instructions for ARM object file alignment, acting as relative jumps rather than trap instructions, differing from GNU ld’s zero-padding.
- LLD inserts
0xd4d4instructions to align ARM object files to 32-bit boundaries, acting as conditional branch instructions with relative offset-0x58. - The
d4d4pattern corresponds to a conditional branch (bmi) with an immediate offset, not a trap instruction; it is used for alignment purposes. - GNU ld inserts zeroes for alignment, whereas LLD uses this specific branch instruction, which is a conditional branch with offset
-0x58.
VirtualBox 7.2 Enhances Stability, NVMe Support, and Arm Windows Virtualization
VirtualBox 7.2, released on August 23, 2025, fixes flaky 3D guest acceleration, supports NVMe drives, and enables Arm Windows virtualization on Arm hosts with native guest additions.
- VirtualBox 7.2 released on August 23, 2025, by Oracle, addressing previous stability issues with 3D guest acceleration
- Fixes include stable 3D acceleration for Linux, Windows, and macOS guests, support for NVMe drives, and improved Arm virtualization features
- Adds support for running Arm Windows virtualized on Arm hosts with Arm-native guest additions; introduces a new vertical toolbar in the interface
▶️ Open Source
Manim: Popular Python Engine for Math Videos with 80K+ Stars
Manim is a Python-based animation engine for math videos, with over 80k stars, supporting Python 3.7+, FFmpeg, OpenGL, LaTeX, and offering community and official versions.
- Manim is an open-source Python animation engine for creating explanatory math videos, maintained by 3Blue1Brown’s author and the community edition.
- The repository has over 80,000 stars, 6,800 forks, and 451 issues, with the latest release v1.7.2 on December 13, 2024.
- Requires Python 3.7+, FFmpeg, OpenGL, and optionally LaTeX; installation via pip uses the package name
manimgl.
FFmpeg Assembly Lessons Boost Contributor Skills Despite No Official Releases
FFmpeg/asm-lessons offers assembly language tutorials for FFmpeg, requiring C and math knowledge, with lessons, translations, and contributor engagement, but no official releases as of August 2025.
- FFmpeg/asm-lessons repository provides assembly language lessons for FFmpeg, emphasizing knowledge of C pointers and high school mathematics
- Contains lessons and assignments aimed at enabling contributions to FFmpeg, with translations available in French and Spanish
- No releases or packages published; 10 contributors including @kierank and @mtouzot; over 8.9k stars and 267 forks as of August 8, 2025
Gemma 3 270M from Scratch with KV Cache Boosts Performance and Efficiency
The Gemma 3 270M implementation from scratch includes a KV cache variant, achieving up to 224 tokens/sec on Mac Mini M4 CPU and 128 tokens/sec on Nvidia A100 GPU, with detailed performance metrics and architecture comparisons.
- Implements Gemma 3 270M from scratch in notebook, requiring ~2 GB RAM
- Adds a KV cache variant to improve runtime performance, detailed in article
- Benchmarks show tokens/sec on Mac Mini M4 CPU (8-224), Mac Mini M4 GPU (Error-23), Nvidia A100 GPU (26-128), with VRAM usage up to 2.12 GB; compares performance with Qwen3 0.6B model
PR to Remove XSLT References from HTML Specification
The pull request removes references to XSLT from the HTML spec, citing declining usage and potential site breakage, with ongoing discussions on Web platform impact and implementation updates.
- PR #11563 proposes removing all mentions of XSLT from the HTML specification.
- The change closes issue #11523.
- Implementation details include updating related specs such as https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#xslt and addressing browser bugs (e.g., Chromium crbug.com/435623334).
uv 0.8.13 Introduces Experimental uv format Command with Ruff Integration
uv 0.8.13 added an experimental uv format command that integrates Ruff’s formatter, enabling code styling within uv’s interface for streamlined Python development workflows.
- uv 0.8.13 introduces an experimental
uv formatcommand for code formatting - Calls Ruff formatter to style Python code according to standards
- Usage includes
uv format,uv format --check, anduv format --diff, with argument passing via--
▶️ Software Development
Promoting Languages and APIs that Guarantee Validity During Typing
Promotes designing APIs and languages that ensure program validity during typing, enhancing editor assistance and reducing complexity, exemplified by Rust’s lines().map() over C, Python, and JavaScript.
- Advocates for programming languages where programs are valid as they are typed, emphasizing improved editor support and progressive disclosure.
- Highlights Rust’s
text.lines().map(|line| line.split_whitespace())as an example of left-to-right construction, enabling immediate method suggestions. - Criticizes C, Python, and JavaScript for less discoverability and less immediate feedback, leading to increased complexity and potential errors during development.
Understanding Futexes: Low-Level Linux Primitives for Scalable Concurrency
The article details futexes as essential, low-level Linux primitives for scalable concurrency, enabling efficient lock management by separating lock and wait operations, with implementations for Linux and macOS.
- The article explains the significance of futexes as low-level concurrency primitives introduced in Linux in 2002, enabling scalable locking mechanisms.
- Futexes separate locking and waiting, allowing user-space code to avoid costly system calls, with
wait()andwake()operations tied to memory addresses. - The author provides cross-platform implementations of futex wrappers for Linux (
syscall) and macOS (__ulock_wait2and__ulock_wake), and demonstrates building mutexes, spin locks, and recursive mutexes using futexes.
Reimagining Code Reviews: The git-review Approach and Its Challenges
The article discusses limitations of GitHub’s web-based code review, presents git-review as an alternative using commit-based inline comments, and highlights technical challenges in integrating local review workflows with remote systems.
- The article critiques the current GitHub code review process, highlighting issues with stacked pull requests and interdiff reviews.
- It introduces
git-review, a tool that embeds review comments as commits on top of PR branches, aiming to improve local review workflows. - The approach involves review commits with markers, requiring force pushes and explicit resolution commits, but faced practical challenges in implementation.
Zed Industries Raises $32M to Build CRDT-Based Real-Time Code Collaboration System
Zed Industries secured $32M from Sequoia Capital to develop DeltaDB, a CRDT-based, operation-level version control system enabling real-time, linked collaboration and AI integration within the IDE.
- Zed Industries announced a $32M Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital on August 20th, 2025, increasing total funding to over $42M
- The company is developing DeltaDB, a new operation-based version control system using CRDTs to track every code operation incrementally, supporting real-time collaboration and character-level permalinks
- Zed aims to transform software collaboration by linking conversations, discussions, and insights directly to code evolution, enabling continuous dialogue with both humans and AI agents within the IDE
▶️ Management and Leadership
CBA Rehires 45 Workers After False AI Call Reduction Claims
CBA rehires 45 workers after falsely claiming chatbots cut call volumes by 2,000 weekly; union alleges misrepresentation and outsourcing, with CBA admitting assessment errors and offering re-employment options.
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is re-hiring 45 workers after falsely claiming chatbots reduced call volumes by 2,000 weekly, which was disputed by union.
- Workers, some with decades of service, were dismissed amid increasing call volumes, with CBA allegedly outsourcing similar roles to India and misrepresenting AI impact.
- CBA admitted to errors in assessing role redundancies, apologized, and offered affected workers options to return, seek other roles, or exit with payments; union reports ongoing dispute over AI implementation.
Electromechanical Reshaping Offers Rapid, Noninvasive Corneal Correction
Electromechanical reshaping (EMR) offers a noninvasive alternative to LASIK by reshaping corneas with electric potential, achieving correction in rabbit models within a minute, with preserved tissue health.
- Electromechanical reshaping (EMR) uses electric potential applied via platinum contact lenses to reshape corneas without incisions.
- In rabbit models, EMR achieved targeted curvature correction in about one minute, preserving cell viability and potentially reversing corneal cloudiness.
- The technique involves lowering tissue pH through controlled electric potential, loosening collagen attractions, then restoring pH to lock the new shape; further animal studies are planned.
Startup Rewrites Platform in 2 Weeks, Cuts Support Tickets by 70%
A startup rewrote its platform in 2 weeks by involving engineers in sales calls, removing 60% of features, and focusing on user needs, resulting in 70% fewer support tickets and better product understanding.
- Rewrote platform in 2 weeks by removing 60% of features, adding a progress bar, Slack integration, and “done-for-you” workflows
- Support tickets decreased by 70%, and the platform was simplified for non-technical users
- Engineers participated in sales calls to better understand customer needs, improving product design and reducing over-engineering
OpenAI Warns Against Unauthorized SPV Investments and Transfer Restrictions
OpenAI warns against unauthorized investments through SPVs, citing potential circumvention of transfer restrictions; such offers may lack recognized value and are part of broader industry restrictions on SPV use.
- OpenAI issued a blog warning against unauthorized exposure via SPVs and other means, emphasizing that such offers may circumvent transfer restrictions and hold no recognized economic value.
- The company highlights increasing use of SPVs by investors to buy into AI startups, with some firms attempting to bypass OpenAI’s transfer restrictions.
- Business Insider reports that other AI firms, like Anthropic, also restrict SPV use, requiring investments to come from their own capital rather than third-party SPVs.
MIT Study Finds 95% of Enterprise AI Projects Fail to Deliver Business Value
MIT reports that 95% of companies’ $30–$40 billion generative AI investments over three years produce no measurable return, due to technical limitations and limited use cases.
- MIT study finds 95% of enterprise generative AI projects yield zero measurable business gains despite $30–$40 billion investment over three years
- Only 5% of AI pilots generate millions in value; most use cases improve individual productivity but do not impact revenue or earnings
- Limitations include inability to retain feedback, adapt to context, or improve over time, hindering long-term integration and organizational impact
ACCC Takes Legal Action Against Google for Anti-Competitive Pre-Installation Deals
The ACCC initiated legal action against Google Asia Pacific, which admitted to anti-competitive agreements with Telstra and Optus, resulting in a $55 million penalty and commitments to remove restrictive pre-installation practices.
- The ACCC filed Federal Court proceedings against Google Asia Pacific on August 18, 2025, for anti-competitive conduct related to Google Search pre-installation agreements with Telstra and Optus.
- Google admitted liability, agreed to pay a $55 million penalty, and signed a court-enforceable undertaking to address broader competition concerns, including removing certain pre-installation restrictions.
- The understandings from December 2019 to March 2021 required Telstra and Optus to pre-install Google Search exclusively, hindering competition and sharing revenue from search ads; Google acknowledged these arrangements likely lessened competition.
Airbnb Co-founder Joe Gebbia to Modernize Federal Websites by 2026
Joe Gebbia, Airbnb co-founder, appointed as U.S. chief design officer to overhaul federal websites with modern, user-friendly design, under the “America by Design” initiative, with a deadline of July 4, 2026.
- Joe Gebbia, Airbnb co-founder, appointed as the first U.S. chief design officer by President Trump via executive order.
- Aims to modernize federal websites to an “Apple Store-like experience” emphasizing beautiful design, user experience, and modern software.
- The initiative, “America by Design,” includes a National Design Studio within the White House and requires agency website revamps by July 4, 2026, for the 250th U.S. birthday.
Foxconn Replaces Chinese Engineers with Taiwanese Staff in India Expansion
Foxconn recalled about 300 Chinese engineers from an Indian factory as part of its India expansion, replacing them with Taiwanese engineers amid ongoing staffing and operational adjustments.
- Foxconn recalled approximately 300 Chinese engineers from Yuzhan Technology’s factory in Tamil Nadu, India.
- This is the second such Chinese staff withdrawal in recent months amid the company’s India expansion efforts.
- Taiwanese engineers are being flown in to replace departing Chinese workers, indicating ongoing staffing adjustments.
AI Content Moderation Replaces Humans Despite Accuracy Concerns
AI content moderation is replacing human workers at major platforms, but it struggles with accuracy and nuance, risking increased online harm and emotional toll on remaining moderators.
- Content moderators like Kevin report AI systems fail up to 70% of the time in detecting harmful content, requiring extensive manual correction.
- Major platforms including TikTok, Meta, Roblox, and X are increasingly relying on AI for content moderation, often reducing human moderation workforce.
- Companies announced plans to cut hundreds to thousands of moderation jobs in 2024, citing cost savings and AI integration, despite concerns over AI’s effectiveness.
Boutique AI Consulting Firms Disrupt MBB and Big Four with Niche Expertise
Boutique AI-driven consulting firms like Xavier AI, Consulting IQ, and Perceptis challenge traditional giants by offering specialized, cost-effective services, emphasizing operational AI, infrastructure readiness, and niche expertise.
- New boutique consulting firms leverage AI to compete with MBB and Big Four, focusing on niche areas like pricing, cost reduction, and proposal writing.
- Xavier AI launched in April, offering AI-driven strategy and implementation plans, with revenue doubling month-over-month.
- Consulting IQ, founded in 2024, uses AI to assist small and midsize businesses, providing insights via a subscription model at $9/month.
- Perceptis uses AI for industry research and proposal creation, expanding from boutique management to IT, finance, and real estate sectors.
- Genpact’s “Client Zero” initiative, including AI tools like “Amber,” has reduced operating expenses by nearly $40 million.
- SIB specializes in cost savings in fixed expenses, using AI agents to monitor invoices and vendor contracts, operating on a contingency fee basis.
- Monevate focuses on pricing strategies for SaaS and tech firms, founded in 2021 by McKinsey and Kearney alumni, with 16 consultants.
- Keystone employs operational AI (“Deep Enterprise”) to optimize supply chains, inventory, and forecasting for clients like Amazon and Microsoft.
- Fusion Collective advises on AI infrastructure and strategy, emphasizing readiness and security before AI adoption.
- Slideworks offers PowerPoint templates and toolkits for presentation design, serving over 4,500 clients including Coca-Cola and Deloitte.
- Unity Advisory, backed by $300 million from Warburg Pincus, aims to provide AI-led tax, accounting, and M&A services, led by former EY and PwC executives.
Nick Clegg Slams Silicon Valley’s Conformity and ‘Tech Bro’ Victim Mentality
Nick Clegg criticized Silicon Valley’s conformist culture and “tech bro” victim mentality, describing it as herd-like, uniform, and driven by privilege, during promotion of his book “How to Save the Internet”.
- Nick Clegg, former UK deputy prime minister and Meta’s president of global affairs, criticized Silicon Valley culture as “cloyingly conformist” with herd-like behavior.
- Clegg described the tech hub as uniform in fashion, vehicles, and trends, emphasizing herd mentality and conformity.
- He characterized “tech bros” as perceiving themselves as victims, citing figures like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, and highlighted a culture of machismo and self-pity among the wealthy tech elite.
U.S. Government Takes 10% Stake in Intel to Boost Semiconductor Industry
The U.S. government took a 10% equity stake in Intel through an $8.9 billion investment, funded mainly by CHIPS Act grants, to increase U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and control.
- U.S. government acquired a 10% stake in Intel by purchasing 433.3 million shares for $8.9 billion at $20.47 per share, with $5.7 billion from CHIPS Act grants and $3.2 billion from secure chip programs.
- The government’s stake is valued at approximately $11 billion, with no board or governance rights, and includes a warrant to buy an additional 5% if Intel’s foundry business ceases to be majority-owned.
- President Trump announced the deal, stating it was a “great deal for America,” and that the government paid nothing for the shares, which were bought at a discount to current market price.
UK Considers £2bn Deal with OpenAI for Nationwide ChatGPT Access
OpenAI and UK government officials discussed a possible £2bn deal to offer ChatGPT Plus nationwide, reflecting strong government interest in AI, despite no formal plans or discussions by the UK government.
- A potential multibillion-pound deal to provide UK residents with ChatGPT Plus access was discussed between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and UK technology secretary Peter Kyle.
- The idea was floated during a San Francisco meeting but was considered unlikely due to an estimated cost of up to £2bn.
- Kyle previously signed a non-binding agreement with OpenAI to incorporate AI into UK public services, including data sharing and use in sectors like education, defense, and justice.
▶️ Technology
Critiquing Go’s Design Flaws: Scope, Nil Handling, and Portability Challenges
The article criticizes Go’s design flaws—including scope management, dual nil types, portability issues, append quirks, defer misuse, exception handling, and memory usage—highlighting how these hinder effective programming and code safety.
- Critiques Go’s design choices accumulated over a decade, highlighting issues like variable scope, nil handling, portability, and resource management
- Examples demonstrate problematic patterns: reusing
errscope, two nil types, non-portable conditional compilation, and unsafedeferusage - The author argues Go’s language features and standard library design lead to inefficient, error-prone, and non-portable code, with specific issues in exception handling and memory management
Image Scaling Attacks Enable Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration in AI Systems
Researchers demonstrate how image scaling attacks enable prompt injection and data exfiltration on production AI systems, exploiting downscaling algorithms and recommending secure design patterns and input previews.
- Attack exploits image scaling algorithms to embed prompt injections in images processed by AI systems like Google Gemini CLI, Vertex AI Studio, and Genspark
- Data exfiltration achieved via malicious images that trigger Zapier workflows, exfiltrating user data without confirmation
- Attack methods leverage differences in downscaling algorithms (nearest neighbor, bilinear, bicubic) and implementations across libraries (Pillow, PyTorch, OpenCV, TensorFlow)
D2 0.7.1 Introduces ASCII Output with Limitations in Alpha Stage
D2 0.7.1 adds ASCII output for .txt files, using Unicode by default and true ASCII with --ascii-mode=standard, but remains alpha with notable rendering limitations.
- D2 version 0.7.1 introduces ASCII output support for
.txtfiles - ASCII renderer uses Unicode by default;
--ascii-mode=standardenables true ASCII - ASCII rendering is in alpha stage, with limitations including unsupported styles, uneven spacing, and inability to render images, UML, SQL tables, and certain shapes
How to Use Podman with Docker Compose and BuildKit for Rootless Container Builds
The article details configuring Podman with Docker Compose and BuildKit, including creating a custom buildx builder and using Bake JSON files with Bakah for daemonless, rootless container builds.
- Uses Podman for rootless, daemonless Docker Compose project support due to incompatibility with nftables
- Supports Docker Compose via Docker CLI connected to Podman socket or using podman-compose; wrapper disables BuildKit when using Docker Compose CLI
- Enables BuildKit with systemd service and Docker buildx, creating a custom buildx builder; integrates Bake JSON descriptions with
docker buildx bake --printand a custom tool Bakah to convert JSON to Podman build commands
NVIDIA GPU Architecture Deep Dive: SMs, Tensor Cores, and Performance
Analyzes NVIDIA GPU hardware, including SMs, tensor cores, memory hierarchy, and networking, highlighting performance metrics, scalability, and differences from TPUs for large language model training.
- Deep dive into NVIDIA GPU architecture, focusing on SMs, memory hierarchy, and tensor cores, with detailed specs for H100, B200, and others
- GPU tensor cores perform 990 bf16 TFLOPs/s on H100, with 132 SMs at 1.59GHz, enabling high throughput for matrix multiplications
- GPU network topology includes NVLink, InfiniBand, and hierarchical switch architectures, with bandwidths up to 900GB/s for GB200 NVL72 clusters
Tidewave Web Launches In-Browser AI Coding for Rails and Phoenix
Tidewave Web, launched August 19, 2025, offers in-browser AI coding for Rails and Phoenix with shared context, deep framework integration, and collaborative testing, requiring a package, API key, and /tidewave route access.
- Tidewave Web introduces in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix, launched August 19, 2025
- Provides shared page context, deep framework integration, and collaborative browser testing
- Requires installation of package, GitHub Copilot or Anthropic API key, and access to
/tidewaveroute; free trial available with 20 messages/month, unlimited with Pro at $10/month - Currently supports full-stack Rails and Phoenix applications; React, Vue, Django, Flask, Next.js support planned
- Aims to enable AI tools to interact directly with web frameworks and runtime environments, enhancing developer workflows
AI-Managed Social Life: A Week of Outsourcing with ChatGPT
The author outsourced his social planning to ChatGPT for a week, which optimized logistics, revealed personal habits, and enhanced social spontaneity despite occasional inaccuracies.
- The author used ChatGPT to manage his social life for one week, including booking reservations, crafting responses, and selecting outfits.
- He gained insights into his social habits, such as defaulting to familiar restaurants and delaying responses, through AI analysis.
- AI handled logistics, freeing him to be more present and spontaneous, though some suggestions were imperfect or led to humorous moments.
Understanding SVG Path Syntax and the Complexity of Arc Commands
The article explains SVG <path> commands, focusing on syntax, absolute vs. relative instructions, and complex commands like arcs (A) with 7 parameters, emphasizing understanding their mathematical and visual implications.
- The SVG
<path>element syntax is complex, with commands likeM,L,Q,C,A, and their relative counterparts. - The
dattribute contains sequential instructions, where uppercase commands are absolute and lowercase are relative; commas and whitespace are optional but recommended for readability. - The arc command
Arequires seven parameters (rx,ry,rotation,large-arc-flag,sweep-flag,end-x,end-y) to define elliptical arcs, which involve complex math to determine the hypothetical ellipse connecting start and end points.
Trump Announces $8.9B U.S. Stake in Intel to Boost Semiconductor Leadership
President Trump announced Intel’s agreement to sell the U.S. a 10% stake worth $8.9 billion, strengthening U.S. semiconductor leadership under the CHIPS Act without governance rights.
- Intel agreed to sell the U.S. government a 10% stake in its business, valued at $8.9 billion, in a deal announced by President Trump on August 22, 2025
- The transaction follows $2.2 billion in grants from the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022; the government will not hold a board seat or governance rights
- The deal is among the largest U.S. government interventions in a private company since the 2008 auto industry bailout