The Numbers Tell a Story Worth Paying Attention To By Linux 6.12, released in late 2024, the kernel had crossed half a million lines of Rust code. That’s not a vanity metric. That’s evidence of something genuinely shifting in systems programming. The first production Rust device drivers have landed, including the NOVA NVMe subsystem work. …
Month: March 2026
The Numbers Are Real, but They Tell a More Complicated Story Six months after GitHub Copilot Workspace hit general availability in Q3 2025, the numbers look impressive on paper. Enterprise subscribers jumped from 1.3 million to 1.8 million. Microsoft’s earnings call highlighted a 21% year-over-year revenue bump for GitHub, with Workspace as the primary driver. …
The Release That Actually Matters Anthropic dropped Claude 3.7 Sonnet in February 2025, and unlike most model releases, this one came with something genuinely different: extended thinking mode. Before you roll your eyes at another feature announcement, hear me out. This isn’t a marginal improvement or a marketing repackaging. It’s a fundamental shift in how …
The short version: this matters more than the headline suggests. The People Who Love Gacha Games Are Also Its Harshest Critics Loving gacha games and being critical of them aren’t contradictory positions. The people who care most about the genre are usually the ones most willing to point out where it falls short. They spend …
The Setup: Two Pieces of the Same Puzzle Last November at re:Invent, AWS dropped two things that got the usual amount of buzz. Graviton4 processors powering new R8g and C8g instances. Amazon Nova, a family of foundation models undercutting the market on tokens. On the surface, they seemed like separate announcements. They’re not. Both are …
The Breach Nobody’s Talking About Enough Last December, the U.S. government confirmed what security researchers had been tracking for months: Salt Typhoon, a Chinese state-sponsored operation, had successfully compromised at least nine major telecommunications carriers including AT&T and Verizon. We’re not talking about a limited intrusion. The scope here is staggering. Over 1 million individuals …