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THE BUBBLE THAT KNOWS IT'S A BUBBLE

The sequence of 'revolutionary technology, abundant capital, speculative frenzy, and sudden reality checks' has played out with remarkable consistency for over 180 years.

EX-EMPLOYEE SENTENCED TO 4 YEARS FOR SABOTAGING COMPANY'S COMPUTER NETWORK

David Lu, who worked for Eaton Corporation, wrote malicious code that crashed the company's network after a corporate realignment reduced his job responsibilities and restricted his access to certain servers.

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APPLE TO KICK OFF THREE-YEAR PLAN TO REINVENT ITS ICONIC IPHONE

Apple will lay the foundation for a once-in-a-generation iPhone overhaul at its next product launch event. The company has planned three straight years of major iPhone redesigns. The plan starts with the iPhone Air, a skinny new model that follows the MacBook Air laptop strategy. Apple's first foldable iPhone will arrive in 2026. 2027 will see the iPhone's 20th birthday and the introduction of a curved-glass 'iPhone 20'.

ELON MUSK TAKES AIM AT BILL GATES' MICROSOFT WITH NEW AI VENTURE “MACROHARD”

Elon Musk's new software venture, Macrohard, is a purely AI software company designed to generate hundreds of specialized coding and generative AI agents that could one day simulate products from companies like Microsoft entirely through artificial intelligence. The company appears to be closely linked to xAI's Colossus 2 supercomputer project in Memphis. Musk has confirmed plans to acquire millions of Nvidia GPUs. Colossus is already one of the most powerful supercomputer clusters in the world, and it is still being expanded.

THE NEXT STARSHIP FLIGHT WILL TEST MUCH MORE THAN HARDWARE

SpaceX has planned for a controlled splashdown for Super Heavy in the Gulf of Mexico and an Indian Ocean splashdown for Ship for the next Starship test flight. The launch window for the flight opened on August 24 at 7:30 PM, but the launch was scrubbed 30 minutes from the planned liftoff to allow time to troubleshoot an issue with ground systems. SpaceX has beach and road closures scheduled for Monday and Tuesday all day, so it is highly likely it will reattempt a launch very soon.

META'S NEW 2MM LASER DISPLAY COULD ENABLE TRUE AR GLASSES

Meta researchers have found a new use for photonic integrated circuits (PICs), chips that can receive, modulate, and direct light. Their PICs can receive RGB light from laser light sources integrated into a panel, process it, then shine light onto a liquid crystal on a silicon panel for final display. The overall complex is just two millimeters thick and has a dramatically better color gamut over similar displays. These PICs are manufactured using a CMOS-compatible process, which means they should be affordable to create at scale.

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HOW WE VIBE CODE AT A FAANG

Always start with a technical design document, as this is where the bulk of the work happens. Design review before launching into the development effort, and backlog development and sprint planning. Use Test Driven Development, and have a dev approval process before code can get merged into main. Test in staging before pushing to production.

EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT GOOD API DESIGN

APIs are public interfaces for communicating with a program. Most of what modern software engineers do involves APIs. APIs are hard to build because they're inflexible, but must be easy to adopt. This is a guide on good API design that covers how to change APIs without breaking userspace, how APIs are affected by products, authentication, retries, safety, rate limiting, and much more.

META TO UNVEIL HYPERNOVA SMART GLASSES WITH A DISPLAY, WRISTBAND AT CONNECT NEXT MONTH

Meta plans to launch its first consumer-ready glasses with a display at its annual Connect conference next month. The company will also launch a wristband that will allow users to control the glasses with hand gestures. The glasses, which will feature a small digital display in the right lens, are expected to cost about $800. They will be solid in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, with which Meta has been in partnership since 2021, when the two companies released the first-generation Ray-Ban Stories.

COINBASE CEO EXPLAINS WHY HE FIRED ENGINEERS WHO DIDN'T TRY AI IMMEDIATELY

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong recently fired engineers for not signing up for and testing the AI assistants the company purchased licenses for. The firings sent a clear message that AI isn't optional at the company. Armstrong has since leaned even further into AI training. The company hosts monthly meetings where teams that have mastered creative ways to use AI share what they have learned.

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AIRPODS PRO 3 EXPECTED TO LAUNCH THIS YEAR WITH KEY NEW FEATURE

The AirPods Pro 3 are rumored to launch this year with heart rate monitoring, a feature Apple already introduced on the Powerbeats Pro 2 earlier this year.

YOU SHOULD BUY A FASTER CPU

Today's top-end CPUs are about three times faster than comparable top-end models from three years ago.

THE AIRBNB COFOUNDER WHO JUST BECAME THE US' CHIEF DESIGN OFFICER IS USING THE APPLE STORE'S STYLE AS HIS NORTH STAR

Donald Trump recently appointed Joe Gebbia, a cofounder and former chief product officer of Airbnb, as the US' first chief design officer.

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EVALUATING LLMS FOR MY PERSONAL USE CASE

There seems to be no overall winner with current AI models, so the best option is to query several at once.

THERE'S NO GOLD IN REMOVING SIGNALING COSTS

Signal collapsers aim to lower transaction costs in markets that rely heavily on signaling, but this dilutes the signals that allowed the market to operate in the first place.

DESIGNING FOR EPHEMERALITY

Make your designs beautiful, functional, and human, even if they won't last forever.

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WHY GOOGLE THINKS ITS PIXEL PHONES ARE MUCH BIGGER THAN THEIR SALES NUMBERS

While Google's new Pixel lineup doesn't look too different from the previous generation, a lot has changed under the hood. The company now believes that real evolution will come from software and connected devices rather than hardware. It is already finalizing its 2026 phones and has begun work on its 2027 lineup. The Pixel's share remains small, accounting for roughly 3% of the market.

ORACLE RIDES MAJOR DEALS WITH OPENAI, NVIDIA TO TURN AROUND CLOUD BUSINESS

OpenAI is slated to become Oracle's largest customer, with the companies having struck deals for more than 5 gigawatts of computing power, an unprecedented sum. Another of Oracle's largest customers is Nvidia, which rents capacity from an Oracle cluster of H100 chips in Japan and from a data center being built in Indonesia. While Oracle's cloud business is still orders of magnitude smaller than Amazon's, there's plenty of room for growth. With all of its recent spending, Oracle recorded a negative annual cash flow for the first time since 1990. Questions about the longevity and margins of offering infrastructure to train AI models remain.

CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE'S RBIO USES VIRTUAL CELLS TO TRAIN AI, BYPASSING LAB WORK

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, an organization established and owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, has launched rBio, an artificial intelligence model trained to reason about cellular biology using virtual simulations. The breakthrough has the potential to dramatically accelerate biomedical research and drug discovery. The model uses a novel approach called 'soft verification', which uses predictions from virtual cell models as training signals instead of relying solely on experimental data. The paradigm shift means researchers can test biological hypotheses computationally before committing time and resources to costly laboratory work.

SPACEX HAS BUILT THE MACHINE TO BUILD THE MACHINE. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MACHINE?

SpaceX opened its massive Starfactory facility earlier this year. Measuring at about a million square feet, Starfactory is two times as large as SpaceX's main Falcon 9 factory in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX has now built the machine to build the machine, but its Starship rocket is still not yet ready for prime time. Starship's consecutive failures this year were a major setback for the program. The vehicle's tenth test flight is scheduled to take place no earlier than August 24.

WHAT MAKES CLAUDE CODE SO DAMN GOOD (AND HOW TO RECREATE THAT MAGIC IN YOUR AGENT)!?

Claude Code seems less annoying to use compared to Cursor or GitHub Copilot agents, even with the same underlying models. This article looks at what makes it autonomous enough to do interesting things without inducing a jarring loss of control like some other tools, and walks through how to build delightful AI agents. It's important to keep things simple, as any complexity you introduce only makes debugging harder.

DYNAMIC CHROME THEMES: BUILDING DHH'S VISION FOR OMARCHY

A change that adds the ability to change Chrome's theme colors dynamically from the command line is currently under review. If approved, it would give power users complete control over their environment through simple, scriptable interfaces and make the Classic theme as flexible as GTK/Qt integration. This post explains how the change was implemented and how it can be used to modify themes from the command line.

ELON MUSK ASKED META CEO MARK ZUCKERBERG TO JOIN XAI BID TO BUY OPENAI, FILING SHOWS

Elon Musk asked Mark Zuckerberg to help him finance a $97.4 billion takeover of OpenAI earlier this year. Musk was incensed that the company was pushing to transform into a for-profit entity when he floated the proposal. Musk and xAI had approached Zuckerberg with a letter of intent, but neither Zuckerberg nor Meta signed it. The story was revealed in court filings in a legal case between Musk and OpenAI initiated last year to stop the startup from converting to a for-profit entity.

CLASS DISMISSED

Alpha School is a teacherless, homeworkless, K-12 private school in Austin, Texas. Its students have been testing in the top 0.1% nationally. They learn through self-directed coursework with AI tutoring apps for two hours a day, spending the other four hours of the school day in 'workshops' where they learn things like how to run an Airbnb or food truck, manage a brokerage account or Broadway production, or build a business or drone. Alpha School's new product, Timeback, is aimed at scaling Alpha School's concepts and results and giving students their childhoods back. Timeback will be free to everyone once it's released.

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AWS CEO SAYS USING AI TO REPLACE JUNIOR STAFF IS 'DUMBEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD'

You want to keep hiring junior staff and teaching them the right ways to build software, decompose problems, and think, just as much as you ever have.

OPTIQUE

Optique is a type-safe combinatorial CLI parser for TypeScript that allows developers to express CLI constraints in code structure instead of validation logic.

BUILDING GORELEASER: FROM SHELL SCRIPT TO PAID PRODUCT

GoReleaser is a release automation tool that handles building binaries, creating archives and packages, publishing releases, pushing installers, signing artifacts, and basically everything else needed to release software.

HOW TO STOP FEELING LOST IN TECH: THE WAFFLEHOUSE METHOD

The wafflehouse method is a method for getting your life untangled.

WHATSAPP IS WORKING ON A VOICEMAIL-LIKE FEATURE

A beta of WhatsApp's voicemail feature was introduced in the latest Android beta - it isn't available on iOS yet.

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EVERYTHING ANNOUNCED AT MADE BY GOOGLE, INCLUDING PIXEL 10, PIXEL WATCH 4, AND PIXEL BUDS 2A

The annual Made by Google event this year was less of a keynote and more of a variety show, playing out like a special offbeat episode of The Tonight Show. The event mostly focused on hardware, but Google spent just as much time hyping up its Gemini AI integrations. This article presents a summary of everything announced at the event, including the new Pixel 10 lineup, the Pixel Watch 4, Pixel Buds 2a, and Gemini AI integrations.

META FREEZES AI HIRING AFTER BLOCKBUSTER SPENDING SPREE

Meta has stopped hiring for its artificial-intelligence division. The hiring freeze, which went into effect last week, also prohibits current employees from moving across teams inside the division. It is aimed at creating a solid structure for the company's new superintelligence efforts. It is unknown how long the freeze will last.

COINBASE BETS ON THE RISE OF AI PAYMENTS FUELED BY DIGITAL DOLLARS

Coinbase recently held a Crypto x AI hackathon where about 100 engineers spent the weekend building payment infrastructure with real-world purpose. Developers at the hackathon were encouraged to integrate Coinbase's x402 open-source payment protocol, which is designed to let apps, bots, or machines charge and settle instantly in stablecoins, into their projects. Coinbase wants to build the back-end infrastructure of the AI economy. The US Congress recently passed the first US law regulating stablecoins, giving them a clear legal framework, allowing developers to take them more seriously.

BUILDING A BETTER DATABASE TO DETECT DESIGNER DRUGS

Designer drugs replicate the effects of known, illicit drugs, but evade law enforcement. The variations in chemical structures help them avoid detection, but they also make them unpredictable in the body, which could pose serious health consequences. A research team has used computer modeling to create a database of predicted chemical structures for the improved detection of designer drugs. The database could someday be a publicly available supplement to the current illicit drug mass-spectral databases.

INTRODUCTION TO AT PROTOCOL

Bluesky is built on ATProto, or the Authenticated Transfer Protocol. This post explains all of the pieces of the network architecture and how they all fit together. It is aimed at getting readers to better understand how Bluesky and the underlying protocol work and how it differs from the Fediverse. The post is a good starting point for readers who want to start building apps or tools on ATProto.

AWS IN 2025: THE STUFF YOU THINK YOU KNOW THAT'S NOW WRONG

AWS is almost twenty years old, and many things have changed over the years. Even experienced veterans may find it hard to track all of the changes, and it's very easy to stumble upon outdated blog posts that talk about how things used to be. This post collects some of these changes to help keep developers current. It covers changes to EC2, S3, networking, Lambda, EFS, EBS, DynamoDB, cost saving vehicles, authentication, and more.