Month: January 2026

Hi everyone, Michael Reilly here. As March draws to a close—and we wrap up the month with an investigation into how NYC’s AI-powered bot tells people to break the law—I’ve been asking around the newsroom to find out what else has captured my colleagues’ interest and fascination over the last month. Below you’ll find an … Read more

If you’re working in a pure Linux environment, processes are generally left alone once they’re launched. A running process will rarely be killed unless there’s a serious reason, such as a crash, a security violation, or explicit user intervention. This is largely because traditional Linux systems often run on machines with abundant resources: constant power … Read more

The Rust Security Response WG was notified that the Rust standard library did not properly escape arguments when invoking batch files (with the bat and cmd extensions) on Windows using the Command API. An attacker able to control the arguments passed to the spawned process could execute arbitrary shell commands by bypassing the escaping. The … Read more

Metrics show patterns but fieldwork reveals reality. By meeting users where they live and work designers uncover real constraints informal workflows and decision logic. This article shares a practical framework for running UX fieldwork in emerging markets and turning insights into product strategy

“Speed” in data engineering is a trade-off, not a single metric. To build effective systems, you must distinguish between two competing concepts: – Data Latency (Freshness): How long it takes for an event to reach your report. – Query Latency (Responsiveness): How long a user waits for a dashboard to load. The Conflict: Optimizing for … Read more