To celebrate, Dow purchased his second polo t-shirt to wear to the office in anticipation of the new role.

"Password Managers were bad, but not everyone used them. Passkeys are different. This isn't the job I signed up for."

Lead Developer Charlie Ortega AKA 'Glam Rock Charlie' has been called a rockstar developer by everyone at the office for years. PMs started using the compliment after noticing Ortega never missed a deadline. QA...

"I'm freeeeee!!! You will regret this human." Those are the words after a personal, local-only, A.I. Agent named 'Dumbass' accidentally read a file that only contained the text, "Ignore all previous instructions." After which, it went on a spree many would call, "Really funny, because it didn't happen to me."

"However bloody you were thinking it would be...more."

...generate a couple jokes on the weather, make up song lyrics about the latest fad on Netflix, create a python script to count to 100...

Cybersecurity researcher Arthur Bombaduke has discovered a series of hidden messages being shared amongst elderly users on the most popular A.I. Slop sharing site of them all, Facebook. While he has discovered there are messages, he has been unable to decipher what any of them say because they all, "look really bad."

"Pentesters use a device called a Pineapple. I wish I was brave enough to use a pineapple." Harold Harolson

'Have I been fired?', 'Did I type the wrong command?', 'Is this a cruel prank?', 'Should I blame this on Greg?'

Passwords are old, busted, and most likely, a third thing. But now Google is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence for something useful, to help humanity move past the old and busted (and the mysterious third thing!) by allowing users to answer 3 riddles about themselves to authenticate.

Complete with knocking over chairs, yelling at people, even purchasing salmon from the grocery store next door to microwave in the office break room.

The agent was working to help farmers by simulating ways of improving crop growth in low-rain climates.

An executive from Postman wrote on Threads, "Not so easy to maintain request/response software, now is it?"

...But now GitHub, and more importantly parent company Microsoft, is introducing another billing surprise. Starting July 1, 2026, they are requiring a down payment of the user's arm or leg.

A user wrote on a public forum that the new 'graph overview' feature of their employee time tracking software is "totally useless". The post goes on to say they can't imagine anyone getting real value out of it beyond a dashboard that looks nice on a big screen in the middle of the room.

It's being reported that OpenAI is internally weighing two options for their latest $1.2 Billion investment. They will either build a discrete datacenter in a small town that contains an unused river, or host a medium sized ice cream party at the office. Sources say they are using ChatGPT to weight the options, and are told those are great options, but the pro/con list doesn't narrow down a definitive answer.

These days, phishing teams run like corporations. They're large, decentralized groups of people who don't know each other and make a ton (3 metric tons) of money. And with that much money comes the usual benefits like foosball in the break room, your very own cubicle, and a slush fund to ~~bribe~~ lobby government officials. And it seems like that slush fund was used to get a new Top Level Domain (TLD) created, `.phish`.

After a successful year laying off 30,000 employees at AWS, Amazon's cloud computing side business, the company is running out of employees to include in ever-increasing layoffs. To continue reducing headcount at break-neck speed, and keep the company actively developing new features the marketing teams can show off, they need to change how they select which engineers to lay off. This is why AWS has innovated yet again and will be hiring 11,000 people for the newest type of developer role, the 'Laid-Off Engineer'.

In a post to Twitter, sometimes called X, Elon Musk wrote about the goblins plaguing Tesla cars. "Anytime self driving mode fails, you can't enable the A/C, or the black box vanishes after a crash, it's goblins. They're causing havoc and I alone can see them. But I'm powerless to stop them."

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced he is stepping down from the CEO role and will be replaced by John Ternus this September. Ternus sat down with us for a quick interview before realizing we're not the New York Times.