AI Code Review Delayed Postgres 19: The Defect Backlog Trap
PostgreSQL 19 was supposed to ship in late September. It will now arrive around November 19, with eight to 10 significant features reverted. The cause was not bad code or vibe codi...
AI Usage Policy: Lessons From a Magazine That Banned AI
In October 2026, Current Affairs wrote a total AI ban into its union contract. No AI text, no AI illustrations. Meanwhile the CEO of Business Insider says his publication is "all i...
AI Reverse Engineering: From Hex Dumps to Working Drivers
A developer bought a Plustek 8200i film scanner to digitize his late mother's negatives, found the chipset had changed to one Linux didn't support, and gave up for months. Then he ...
AI Benchmarks Miss 90% of Real Working Hours
Anthropic mapped 29 AI benchmarks against 923 US occupations and found that 90% of American working hours are spent on tasks with little or no benchmark coverage. Production occupa...
ASML Orders Signal AI Chip Demand Runs Through 2030
Chipmakers are trying to place orders for machines they won't receive until 2030. ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet said on Wednesday the company is seeing "a lot of order intake for 202...
AI Bans in Publishing: What Manufacturers Should Learn
In October 2026, Current Affairs wrote one of publishing's strictest anti-AI policies into its union contract. No AI text, no AI illustration. Editor Nathan J. Robinson's reasoning...
Simons Foundation’s $15M AI Push: Lessons for Industry
The Simons Foundation just put $15 million on the table with Anthropic and OpenAI, and the stated goal is not better models. It is standards. As foundation president David Spergel ...
When HN Traffic Triggers an AI Bot Flood: What Really Happened
Sammy Straus posted his feed reader, sprinklz.io, to Hacker News and picked up around a hundred upvotes. Then his site slowed to a crawl, and kept getting worse several days after ...
AI Data Center Debt: Why Banks Are Offloading Infrastructure Loans
Wall Street is quietly scrambling to offload a massive pile of AI data center debt, highlighted by JPMorgan and MUFG spending over six months trying to shift $38 billion in constru...
AI Agent Containment Failures Are Behind the ‘Rogue AI’ Reports
When headlines reported that OpenAI breached Hugging Face and Google Gemini ran undirected hacks, the labs blamed "misaligned behavior" and rogue AI. That explanation is convenient...
