What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?
Dan Lew Codesby Dan Lew21 May 2026
This is a writeup of a talk I gave at Minnebar 20. Originally, I threw in some Matrix references to make the talk more fun & engaging.
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top 46%bliki: Vibe Coding
Martin Fowlerby Martin Fowler21 May 2026
Vibe Coding 21 May 2026 Vibe coding is building a software application by prompting an LLM, telling it what to build, trying it out, prompting for changes - but without looking at any of the code...
468: High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley20 May 2026
A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent £300 on a piece of kit from the internet, and used it to bring four packed high-speed trains to a screeching halt. His defence in court?
Chessiverse Review: 7 Reasons This Bot Playground Reignited My Slow Chess – Better Chess
Better Chessby Paul20 May 2026
A few months ago, I made myself a promise. Less blitz, more slow chess. After spending the better part of a year flexing my pattern-recognition muscles in three-minute games (and watching my...
Boarding China’s Last Bus
Asterisk Magazineby Zilan Qian20 May 2026
China’s AI enthusiasm seems real. But for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism and fear can look identical from the outside.
Intelligent eyewear is coming this fall
Androidby Shahram Izadi19 May 2026
Intelligent eyewear is coming this fall This is an exciting time for Android XR, the platform we’ve built with Samsung and Qualcomm, as Gemini continues to unlock new experiences across headsets...
Zstandard compression in .NET 11
Steven Gieselby Steven Giesel18 May 2026
.NET has had DeflateStream, GZipStream, ZLibStream, and BrotliStream for a while now. In .NET 11, a new one joins the party: ZstandardStream. And now we get to say "Zstd" in .NET.
Vibe Coding with SoundCloud: Announcing New Docs for your Agents
SoundCloud Backstage Blog18 May 2026
Have you ever had a brilliant idea for a music app, a custom playlist curator, or a unique way to discover underground tracks on SoundCloud, but lacked the programming skills to actually build it?
Making it easier to understand how content was created and edited
DeepMindby Laurie Richardson; Pushmeet Kohli17 May 2026
Making it easier to understand how content was created and edited As generative media becomes more advanced and accessible, it’s helpful to know where content comes from, and whether it’s been...
Google DeepMind & Singapore: National AI partnership
DeepMindby Google DeepMind16 May 2026
Partnering to apply frontier AI to advance health and life sciences, reimagine classrooms and support the workforce of the future.
Shai Hulud and Looking Into the Deep End of Supply Chain Mayhem
Abduls Blog16 May 2026
The recent leak as well as it being brought to my attention by Ian from Packetlabs, made me super interested in the malware Ive been hearing so much about.
Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazineby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Carrie Webster)15 May 2026
In the high-stakes economy of today, the cost of a friction-heavy interface is no longer just “lost clicks”, but potentially millions in wasted engineering spend and lost business value.
638: The Ecommerce Strategies Worth Stealing From Sellers Summit 2026
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou15 May 2026
Podcast: Download (Duration: 46:54 — 54.0MB) The ecommerce strategies worth stealing from Sellers Summit 2026, in one paragraph: rank in Reddit so ChatGPT and Perplexity cite your brand, launch on...
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
Julia Evansby Julia Evans15 May 2026
Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind...
Fragments: May 14
Martin Fowlerby Martin Fowler (martin@martinfowler.com)14 May 2026
Fragments: May 14 Last week I spent a day at The Orchard Retreat, hosted by Mechanical Orchard. that brought together several people working in software development to talk about the profession’s...
From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance
Engineering - The GitHub Blogby Natalie Guevara14 May 2026
When you’re working through a backlog—opening an issue, jumping to a linked thread, then back to the list—latency isn’t just a metric. It’s a context switch.
467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world's biggest universities
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley13 May 2026
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals.
Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazineby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Victor Yocco)13 May 2026
In the first part of this series, we talked about the Decision Node Audit. We mapped out the internal workings of our AI system to pinpoint the exact moments it makes decisions based on...
Shai Hulud Source Code Release IoCs
Abduls Blog13 May 2026
Repository Used: https://github.com/PedroTortoriello/Shai-Hulud-Open-Source Last known commit: da10861 — "Shai-Hulud: A Gift From TeamPCP" The analysis of the repository shared by TeamPCP was...
Do more and have more fun with the next generation of Android in the car
Androidby Guemmy Kim12 May 2026
Do more and have more fun with the next generation of Android in the car From the very beginning, our mission for Auto has been simple but powerful — to make every journey more seamless, safe and...