“Sensorveillance” Turns Ordinary Life Into Evidence
Every time you unlock your smartphone or start your connected car, you are generating a trail of digital evidence that can be used to track your every move. In Your Data Will Be Used Against…
New Polymer Blend Could Help Store Energy for the Grid and EVs
As electronics demand higher energy density, one component has proved challenging to shrink: the capacitor. Making a smaller capacitor usually requires thinning the dielectric layer or electrode surface area, which has often resulted in a…
Stop Closing the Door. Fix the House.
The following article originally appeared on Angie Jones’s website and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I’ve been seeing more and more open source maintainers throwing up their hands over AI-generated pull requests.…
A Fraudster’s Paradise
Dark web forum posts mentioned the phrase “AI agent” far more in the second half of 2025 than in the first half. Could this mean that fraudsters are charmed by the AI hype? Or is…
Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI
On March 26, Addy Osmani and I are hosting the third O’Reilly AI Codecon, and this time we’re taking on the question of what software craftsmanship looks like when AI agents are writing much of…
Capability Architecture for AI-Native Engineering
A few years into the AI shift, the gap between engineers is not talent. It’s coordination: shared norms and a shared language for how AI fits into everyday engineering work. Some teams are already getting…
Generative AI in the Real World: Sharon Zhou on Post-Training
Post-training gets your model to behave the way you want it to. As AMD VP of AI Sharon Zhou explains to Ben on this episode, the frontier labs are convinced, but the average developer is…
Steve Yegge Wants You to Stop Looking at Your Code
My “Live with Tim” conversation with Steve Yegge this week was one of those sessions where you could imagine the audience leaning forward in their chairs. And on more than one occasion, when Steve got…
What OpenClaw Reveals About the Next Phase of AI Agents
In November 2025, Austrian developer Peter Steinberger published a weekend project called Clawdbot. You could text it on Telegram or WhatsApp, and it would do things for you: manage your calendar, triage your email, run…
Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI
Andrew Ng has serious street cred in artificial intelligence. He pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to train deep learning models in the late 2000s with his students at Stanford University, cofounded Google…