They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies
…I did talk to Micay’s former business partner, James Donaldson, at length and against the wishes of Donaldson’s lawyer. I also talked to associates of Micay’s. Over many months…
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The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech
…As part of this, DINUM has been developing a set of productivity tools, collectively called “LaSuite,” since at least 2023. As well as Visio, it includes instant messaging app Tchap, Messagerie instead…
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
…The hackers plant malware in the tool that ends up on other software developers’ machines, including some who are writing other tools intended to be used by coders. The malware allows TeamPCP…
Meet the OpenAI Engineer Leading ChatGPT’s Biggest Transformation Yet
…The term “super app” is usually used to describe platforms in Asia like WeChat, which bundle everything from messaging to payments and shopping into a single interface. But OpenAI is planning something…
Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
…Early last month, Meta began forcibly moving at least 1,000 top engineers to a new Applied AI Engineering division working on tools and data to help research scientists develop better generative…
How ‘Handala’ Became the Face of Iran’s Hacker Counterattacks
…to Israeli businesses and political officials. Now, as Iran’s regime faces an existential threat, its hackers—and Handala in particular—have likely been tasked with using every tool they’ve held…
Anduril Wants to Own the Future of War Tech. Mishaps, Delays, and Challenges Abound
…By either interpretation, the workers’ accounts reveal some of the obstacles Anduril has faced as it pursues what it views as a modern approach to making the tools of war. In Anduril…
Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
…One group built a tool that summarizes Slack messages into weekly reports. Another group built an AI-generated Wikipedia-style guide to internal OpenAI services. Many of these demonstrations would have taken…
He Built the Definitive Epstein Database—and It Consumed His Life
…Keller used the tool and liked it. “Jmail was proof that the community could build better tools than the government was providing,” he told me. It also helped him hone his own…
The US Can Put People on the Moon. Why Can’t It Get Iranians Online?
…It's something that a lot of Iranian businesses rely on as a means to advertise. Because it's really the only space that they had. Right now, with this internet blackout…