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  1. 6d ago

    2026-10-05: More Dumb News

    DigitalOcean is sunsetting their Open Source Credits Program. https://github.com/nodejs/build/issues/4499 OpenAI announced a new product called Dots. https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots Amazon tries to convince everyone datacenters are a good thing. https://www.theverge.com/tech/1003929/amazon-ai-data-center-blog-warning Cloudflare is running a contest to develop a better git platform. https://blog.cloudflare.com/next-git-platform-on-cloudflare Microsoft released a Match-3 style game. https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/09/30/microsoft-jewel-game-pass-achievements-xbox Officials aren't liking the EU's replacement for MS Teams. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-microsoft-teams-alternative-bad-reviews-element-pro Cloudflare tested their WAF and wrote a blog about it. https://blog.cloudflare.com/adaptive-ai-waf-testing Superintelligence is causing a boom in .si domain purchases. https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/slovenias-si-domains-boom-trump-083338436.html Amazon delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses while working. https://thenextweb.com/news/amazon-smart-glasses-delivery-drivers-photos-no-opt-out Asus can sell routers in the U.S. but no one knows why. https://www.theverge.com/policy/1002504/asus-escape-us-router-ban-us-manufacturing

  2. Sep 29

    2026-09-28: Hardware vs A.I.

    Microsoft continues its layoff spree in the Xbox division. https://www.thurrott.com/games/341892/xbox-announces-more-job-cuts-and-studio-reorgs-with-next-halo-game-developed-by-activision https://www.theverge.com/news/998586/activision-halo-xbox-reorganization-layoffs Meta put their cute/creepy Muse A.I. assistant on a small device. https://www.engadget.com/2267229/meta-put-muse-in-a-tamagotchi-like-charm-device Google finally showed off the Googlebooks. And swear they're different from Chromebooks. https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/laptops/googlebooks-vs-chromebooks-here-are-the-actual-differences https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/devices/googlebook/pre-order-googlebook OpenAI will fire employees that use A.I. to do their jobs, saying it's not reliable. https://www.404media.co/people-training-openais-ai-fired-for-using-ai-to-train-the-ai Meta announced a bunch of new smart glasses. I mean, the same ones a bunch of times. https://www.theverge.com/tech/999593/meta-connect-2026-everything-announced Microsoft finally announced their Copilot super app, it's 3+ apps in ~1. https://www.thurrott.com/a-i/342055/microsoft-introduces-unified-copilot-desktop-app-with-code-and-autopilot-features GitLab lets you send commands by email. From anyone, and without authentication. https://www.aikido.dev/blog/gitlab-email-push-to-main After 10 years, Microsoft is finally updating their most recognizable hardware, the Surface Mouse. https://www.theverge.com/news/999211/microsoft-surface-mouse-haptic-feedback technews #microsoft #techlayoffs #xbox #meta #ai #tamagachi #google #googlebook #android #openai #smartglasses #vr #copilot #cybersecurity #gitlab #computermouse

  3. Sep 22

    2026-09-21: A.I. Can't Learn CSS

    In this week's Log Level Debug news roundup we talk about A.I. stealing everything from the internet, the future of css-tricks.com is up in the air, Apple's M6 chip is super fast, Facebook launches a subscription, and small hardware manufacturers are being hit the hardest by the component crisis. OpenAI was hacked and paid a very small bug bounty. https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-openai https://heif-heist.com css-tricks.com is going stagnant for a while because DigitalOcean just doesn't care. https://geoffgraham.me/why-css-tricks-has-been-quiet https://vale.rocks/micros/20260915-0135 https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/css-tricks-joins-digitalocean https://chriscoyier.net/2024/02/28/where-im-at-on-the-whole-css-tricks-thing https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/117241534134006167 Apple's new M6 chip is super fast and better than their old chips. Better than other chips? Maybe. https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/15/first-m6-benchmarks-reveal-how-much-raw-power-the-mac-mini-has Apple will ask you if they can train their A.I. models on your data. If you say no, they'll just keep asking. https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/14/apple-has-altered-course-on-using-customer-data-to-train-its-ai Facebook made a subscription for their free stuff. https://www.theverge.com/tech/995453/meta-one-subscriptions-ai https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-meta-one-subscription-service-more-features-ai A legal filing shows OpenAI and Microsoft admitted the internet was ransacked to train A.I. models which wil ruin the internet. https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft Small hardware manufacturers are being hit way harder than other manufacturers. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/smaller-phone-laptop-makers-dig-years-memory-scarcity-2026-09-16 Google finally gets to brag about their A.I. hacking other companies. https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/gemini-hacked-three-companies-in-first-known-breakout-by-google-s-ai/ar-AA2cx1BR

  4. Sep 15

    2026-09-14: The Biggest News

    In this week's Log Level Debug news roundup we talk about all the updates Microsoft pushed, honored Star Trek turning 60, made fun of CEO drama at a company you haven't heard of, and reviewed the refreshed Apple devices. Microsoft released more patches than ever. The new record will last until next month. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-september-2026-patch-tuesday-fixes-966-flaws-2-zero-days Microsoft released the first Release Candidate build of .NET 11 and C# 15. It has Unions!!! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-11-rc-1 https://globalglob.dev/articles/csharp-adds-gen-alpha-slang Star Trek turned 60. Moves into a home with other seniors. Enjoys pudding every day at 4 PM sharp. https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-turns-60-worldwide-events A.I. people are scared A.I. will end all life on Earth. Don't know why or how. https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-researcher-quits-jacob-coxon-ai-fears-humanity Anthropic's CEO wrote a long winded essay to say A.I. companies show slow down development. https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-ceo-urges-ai-companies-slow-model-development-2026-09-12 Automattic had leadership drama. Suspending the CEO and bringing him back 2 days later. https://www.404media.co/automattic-matt-mullenweg-back-in-control Apple announced the iPhone Duo and raised prices on all iPhone models. That's right, even those models. https://www.theverge.com/tech/991236/iphone-foldable-hands-on-first-impressions https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/there-are-new-shiny-iphones-so-apple-is-making-you-pay-more-for-older-models Apple announced new watch models that work better than before. Throw away the old model in the most environmentally friendly way and buy a new one. https://www.thurrott.com/apple/341451/apple-unveils-new-watch-series-12-and-watch-ultra-4 https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/the-new-apple-watches-can-automatically-recall-your-conversations technews #microsoft #cybersecurity #dotnet #csharp #startrek #ai #openai #anthropic #spacexai #wordpress #automattic #apple #iphone #iphoneduo #applewatch

  5. Sep 7

    2026-09-07: The A.I. Goes Down And Makes More Money

    In this week's news roundup on Log Level Debug, we talk about OpenAI making more Ad money, A.I.s go down, Windows will be more secure, and people are mad 1Password gave DHH a bunch of money. OpenAI's Ad business might might make $1 Billion in a year. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/31/open-ai-chatgpt-ads-revenue.html Microsoft will enable another security feature in Windows 11 you might disable for stupid reasons. https://www.theverge.com/news/988056/microsoft-windows-11-memory-integrity-rollout-october-2026 Tim Cook is gone at Apple, all hail the new CEO, John Ternus. https://macdailynews.com/2026/09/02/apple-sets-58-million-pay-target-for-new-ceo-john-ternus-47-million-for-cook-as-executive-chairman NYC is banning A.I. for students. But the older ones can still use ChatGPT to cheat. https://apnews.com/article/zohran-mamdani-ai-ban-nyc-schools-647f6a968eea0399521b7934418b1aff The EU says people don't use Microsoft's Edge. https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/microsoft-edge/340977/eu-general-court-confirms-that-microsoft-edge-is-not-a-gatekeeper People are mad 1Password gave DHH a bunch of money. https://www.theverge.com/tech/988536/1password-dhh-linux-controversy https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-m-sorry-dave-380ec27d https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/1password-funds-ethnic-cleansing https://dhh.dk/2019/about-the-apple-card.html 4 A.I. chat tools were down at the same time. Oracle unavailable for comment. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/four-major-ai-models-suffer-rare-overlapping-downtime https://www.pcmag.com/news/chatgpt-claude-gemini-and-more-are-all-down-right-now technews #openai #microsoft #cybersecurity #windowsupdate #apple #ai #ainews #techdrama #linux #aioutage #anthropic #chatgpt #claude #grok #google #gemini

  6. Sep 1

    2026-08-31: Remembering the Celebrities

    Links: https://globalGlob.dev https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-new-m6-and-m5-pro https://www.macobserver.com/news/tim-cook-gets-apple-farewell-party-before-stepping-down-as-ceo https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/business/bill-gates-wants-limits-on-ai https://qz.com/google-ai-responsibility-team-deepmind-global-affairs-082726 https://www.engadget.com/2244816/meta-reportedly-abandoned-an-ai-focused-restructuring-plan https://www.reuters.com/investigations/mark-zuckerberg-had-bold-plan-replace-meta-staff-with-ai-heres-how-it-imploded-2026-08-26 https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-ends-cursor-contract-elon-musk-spacex-sam-altman-feud-2026-8 https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111 Video YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/bo9dIJoLICo Audio Podcast Link: https://log-level-debug.dev/17-2026-08-31

  7. Aug 25

    2026-08-24: Public Nuisance Number 1

    Links: https://globalGlob.dev https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead https://gizmodo.com/openai-is-backing-away-from-reddit-as-reddit-tries-to-become-openai-2000800060 https://promptwatch.com/data/reddit-citations-are-dropping-in-chatgpt https://searchengineland.com/openai-may-pay-reddit-70m-for-licensing-deal-451882 https://www.thurrott.com/google/340537/google-to-hold-googlebook-event-on-september-15 https://dotnetfoundation.org/news-events/detail/.net-foundation-statement-on-open-source-maintenance-fees https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-for-7b https://techstory.in/florida-goes-to-court-and-asserts-that-openai-and-sam-altman-are-legally-a-public-nuisance https://www.thegamer.com/cards-against-humanity-elon-musk-monument https://bsky.app/profile/vscode.dev/post/3mtmon5hxcs2x https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4 https://tipiirai.com/writing/bun-rust-rewrite-worries Video YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/2uliRrW0600 Audio Podcast Link: https://log-level-debug.dev/16-2026-08-24

  8. Aug 18

    2026-08-17: Meta's Weird Leadership

    Links: https://globalGlob.dev https://www.theverge.com/tech/978712/google-pixel-11-event-everything-announced https://www.thurrott.com/apple/340402/apple-admits-its-app-store-fees-are-too-high https://www.wired.com/story/ai-newsrooms-are-breaking-news-now-haha-im-in-danger https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-exec-rages-against-employees-more-time-off-ai https://www.404media.co/mark-zuckerberg-posts-deranged-6-500-word-essay-about-giving-everyone-ai-superintelligence https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/terabytes-of-credentials-leaked-in-massive-supply-chain-attack https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-starts-merging-its-copilot-consumer-and-business-apps-in-advance-of-super-app-rollout https://globalglob.dev/articles/ai-agent-told-to-ignore-all-previous-instructions-goes-rogue https://globalglob.dev/articles/dev-team-plans-hostile-takeover-of-qa-office-space Video YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/qV3t8bykYKU Audio Podcast Link: https://log-level-debug.dev/15-2026-08-17

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