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The defining trend of 2026 in software engineering is “tokenmaxxing” — burning as many AI tokens as possible as a proxy for productivity. The data suggests it is making code worse, and developers less capable without it. In May, TechCrunch reported that developers are increasingly refusing to take on coding tasks without access to AI […]

At Computex this week, Microsoft and Nvidia are expected to unveil the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia’s own ARM processor. It would be Nvidia’s first consumer CPU in over a decade. The PC industry has been here before. Microsoft has attempted ARM-based Windows laptops multiple times — the Surface RT, the Surface Pro X […]

The clock is ticking on Q-Day. Google now estimates it will arrive by 2029, and most organizations haven’t started migrating. Quantum computing does not yet exist at the scale needed to break modern encryption. But that has not stopped adversaries from collecting encrypted data today, waiting for the day it does. The strategy has a […]

Google’s aggressive push of AI Overviews and AI Mode is driving users to alternatives at the fastest rate in years. The irony? Even the alternatives are adding AI features — they’re just letting you turn them off. Google Search has a 90% share of the global search market, according to StatCounter. But a growing number […]

The company is threatening to involve its Digital Crimes Unit against a bug hunter who published six Windows zero-days. Cybersecurity veterans say the company has no moral high ground to stand on. A security researcher who goes by “Nightmare Eclipse” has spent the last six weeks publicly releasing one Windows zero-day exploit after another — […]

Claude Opus 4.8 lands with dynamic sub-agent workflows and a welcome dose of honesty Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, the latest upgrade to its flagship model family. On paper it’s a point release — the API name is simply claude-opus-4-8 — but the launch bundles three structural changes that signal where the […]

Blue Origin’s New Glenn explodes on pad, grounding Amazon’s satellite plans and threatening NASA’s moon timeline Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded catastrophically on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the night of May 28, destroying the vehicle, obliterating ground support equipment, and freezing one of the most ambitious launch manifests […]