Latest articles on AI, technology, and software development.
Enterprise 5G is past the proof-of-concept stage. Factories, ports, and hospitals are running live private networks on CBRS spectrum — here's who's deploying, why Wi-Fi 7 doesn't replace it, and what it actually costs.
The EU's Digital Markets Act forced third-party app stores onto iOS. Two years in, Epic's store has 45 titles, AltStore survives on €1.50 subscriptions, and most developers are still choosing the App Store anyway.
Two years into the $52.7 billion US semiconductor independence push, TSMC Arizona is producing 4nm chips, Intel 18A is in customer validation, and Micron is building the first US DRAM fab in 20 years. Here's the honest scorecard.
LLMs have eliminated the linguistic tells that made phishing emails identifiable. Here's what the modern AI-assisted attack chain looks like, why traditional training fails, and what actually works.
The Matter smart home standard has 4,000+ certified devices and support from Apple, Google, Amazon, and Samsung. Here's an honest assessment of what works, what doesn't, and whether it's worth switching.
BlackRock's IBIT broke every ETF launch record and now holds $42 billion. Combined spot Bitcoin ETFs have drawn $65 billion. Here's what that institutional money actually changed — and what it didn't.
Neural processing units are now standard in every major phone and PC chip. Here's what they actually run, how they differ from GPUs, and what the TOPS benchmark really means.
Context windows have expanded from 128K to 2 million tokens in eighteen months. For developers, that's not just a spec upgrade — it changes what you can ask AI to do and how you should build.
WhatsApp adopted the Signal Protocol for end-to-end encryption in 2016. On that specific dimension — message content encryption — the two apps are technically equivalent. The differences that matter are metadata collection, business model, platform architecture, and what each company can and cannot hand to law enforcement. Here's a precise comparison.
Electric vehicles cost significantly more to insure than comparable internal combustion engine cars in most markets, and the gap has widened rather than narrowed as EVs have become mainstream. The reasons are structural — repair costs, parts availability, battery uncertainty — and some are only now being addressed by the industry.
Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024 as an open standard for connecting AI models to external tools, data sources, and services. Eighteen months later, it has been adopted by OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and dozens of developer tools. Here's what it does, how it works, and why it matters for developers building with AI.
The James Webb Space Telescope has now been operating for more than three years. The results have not simply confirmed what astronomers expected — in several cases they have forced genuine revisions to models of galaxy formation, atmospheric chemistry, and the early universe. A summary of where the science has landed.