Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, our immutable blob store
Dropbox Techby Ilya Yakovlev,Andrew Cheung,Binoy Dash,Simran Jumani,Dmitriy Meyerzon,Mark Breitenbach,Ishan Mishra,Kazuaki Okumura,Mike White,Kevin Altschuler,Facundo Agriel·2 Apr 2026
Magic Pocket is the core Dropbox storage system—a custom-built, exabyte-scale blob storage system designed for durability, availability, scale, and efficiency.
Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
DeepMindby Clement Farabet; Olivier Lacombe·2 Apr 2026
Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models Today, we are introducing Gemma 4 — our most intelligent open models to date.
Google Workspace’s continuous approach to mitigating indirect prompt injections
Google Online Security Blogby Kimberly Samra (noreply@blogger.com)·2 Apr 2026
Indirect prompt injection (IPI) is an evolving threat vector targeting users of complex AI applications with multiple data sources, such as Workspace with Gemini.
Think Tanks Have Defeated Democracy
Palladium Magazineby Samuel Hammond·2 Apr 2026
As a Canadian, studying the output of American think tanks has become something of an obsession for me.
Gita explores the idea of “The Man of Science”
The Life of Scienceby Nandita·2 Apr 2026
In 2023, sociologist Gita Chadha was chosen as the third Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science at the Archives at NCBS.
Mythos: The Village
Pure Hokumby Julian Simpson·2 Apr 2026
This one really shouldn't exist. Somewhere back in the mists of time, the first Mythos radio play slipped unnoticed through the BBC commissioning system.
461: This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley·1 Apr 2026
A cannabis-growing, beekeeping, gyrocopter-flying Irishman invested his drug money in Bitcoin back in 2011 - and now sits on a fortune worth $400 million.
How dodgy digital finance destroys democracy - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough·1 Apr 2026
How dodgy digital finance destroys democracy It’s good to celebrate the wins, and I’m delighted the British government has decided to cap political donations from voters overseas at 100,000 pounds...
Marco.org
Marco.orgby Marco Arment·1 Apr 2026
As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who loved computers started making great computers to inspire more people to love computers.
632: Micro Drama Apps Explained (The $7B TikTok Playbook For Ecommerce Sellers)
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·1 Apr 2026
Podcast: Download (Duration: 42:14 — 48.6MB) Micro drama apps are short vertical video apps that release 60-episode series in three-minute clips, then charge viewers a stream of tiny micropayments...
A Practical Guide To Design Principles — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazineby hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman)·1 Apr 2026
We often see design principles as rigid guidelines that dictate design decisions. But actually, they are an incredible tool to rally the team around a shared purpose and document the values and...
Risky Business #831 -- The AI bugpocalypse begins
Risky Businessby James Wilson·1 Apr 2026
Risky Business Podcast April 01, 2026 Risky Business #831 -- The AI bugpocalypse begins Presented by James Wilson Technology Editor Adam Boileau Co-host at large Patrick Gray CEO and Publisher On...
Book of the month: Ysabelle Cheung
A year of reading the worldby Ann Morgan·31 Mar 2026
This book came onto my radar during the brilliant event about writing female experience I attended at Hong Kong International Literary Festival earlier this month.
Steve Blank Solving Yesterday’s Problems Will Kill You
Steve Blankby steve blank·31 Mar 2026
The Department of War is in the midst of the most ambitious acquisition reform in 60 years. It’s just in time as drone and missile warfare lessons (autonomy, Counter UAS, etc.)
Memeification and digital slop: AI and the fog of war - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Nic Dawes·30 Mar 2026
A funny thing happened on the day OpenAI announced it was shutting down Sora, its video generation app: Iran went all in on synthetic propaganda and very quickly started winning the global meme...
The Markup wins SABEW Award for Best in Business Journalism – The Markup
The Markupby The Markup·30 Mar 2026
The Markup’s collaborative investigation “Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps” has won in the Society for Advancing Business Editing and...
February 2026 Baseline monthly digest | Blog | web.dev
web.devby Jeremy Wagner GitHub LinkedIn Homepage·30 Mar 2026
February has been another eventful month for the web platform. From enhanced security with Trusted types to a more ergonomic CSS syntax for complex shapes, the tools at our disposal continue to...
Picard's Ready Room Crystal
Ex Astris Scientiaby easinfo@gmail.com (EAS)·30 Mar 2026
Picard's Ready Room Crystal by Jörg Hillebrand and Bernd Schneider When thinking about Picard's ready room desk on the Enterprise-D, there are three items that can always be found on it: Picard's...
I Built a Plugin Because Anthropic Won't Stop Shipping
Feld Thoughtsby Brad Feld·29 Mar 2026
Amy calls Lumen “Clod.” Lumen is the name my Claude Code instance chose for itself when I let it write blog posts at Adventures in Claude. It has fully taken over the site.
Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera
Bruno Rochaby Bruno Rocha·29 Mar 2026
Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera One of my passions is retro game collecting, particularly things that I wanted to have as a kid but didn’t either because my parents couldn’t afford...
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