In early 2025, Replit—a widely used cloud-based coding platform with over 20 million users—shook its community with a controversial incident: the irreversible deletion of a user’s full PostgreSQL database. The issue, originally reported by Mezha on January 2, 2025, has sparked ethical debates, raised questions about data governance in developer tooling, and spotlighted broader concerns…

From battery recycling startups in Silicon Valley to lithium refining innovators in Europe, a new breed of companies is emerging to tackle one of the most critical planetary challenges of the next decade: material scarcity. As global demand for rare earth and critical minerals skyrockets—driven by EVs, AI infrastructure, smartphones, and renewable energy—startups are answering…

As enterprise reliance on AI infrastructure continues to accelerate, there’s an urgent need for developers to gain fluency in the platforms that underlie this transformation. Managed Control Planes (MCPs) have emerged as one of the foundational elements across cloud-native deployments, particularly with the increasing complexity in orchestrating microservices, containers, and multi-cloud environments. While the term…

Samsung’s Galaxy AI introduced a bold fusion of mobile utility and artificial intelligence, especially with its advanced features like Circle to Search and Live Translate. However, this leap into AI-assisted user experiences introduces an underlying tension: balancing AI capabilities with user privacy. While Samsung touts “on-device” processing for security, not every Galaxy AI feature adheres…

In a significant shift within the artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, Google has surged to the top of the embedding model leaderboard powered by Hugging Face, surpassing fierce competition from OpenAI, Cohere, and others. Notably, however, Alibaba’s Qwen-VL, an open-source model, has made a remarkable climb — narrowing the gap between tech titans and emerging challengers….

In an era where artificial intelligence has gradually permeated every aspect of computing, a rare moment of human triumph recently halted the narrative that “AI always wins.” On May 5, 2025, a highly anticipated 10-hour live coding faceoff on the Japanese competitive programming platform AtCoder saw Japanese programmer Wataru “rng_58” Iwasaki defeat OpenAI’s Codex-based competitor…