Cash App’s launching a phone service

Cash App’s AT&T-based MVNO will offer an unlimited 5G data plan for $40 per month including taxes and fees. The new mobile service is powered by Gigs, the same firm behind the Klarna mobile service that launched last year with the same pricing and is “rolling out to select users, with broader availability planned in … Read more

YouTube is introducing DMs (again)

You have to be over 18 and already be connected with the person you want to chat with on other messaging platforms. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is reintroducing private messaging after testing new ways for users to share videos and “have conversations about them” last year. In an announcement on … Read more

Keeping AI Documentation Clean With the Narrowest-Scope Rule

Abstract: This paper formalizes the “Narrowest-Scope Rule” (NSR), a governance principle for maintaining the integrity of the contract-style-comments (CSC) Triumvirate. NSR provides a deterministic heuristic for artifact selection during system updates, ensuring that operational data, architectural invariants, and teleological reasoning remain logically decoupled to prevent documentation rot and “contextual drift.” :::tip This is Part 3 of my contract-style-comments … Read more

Ryanair is under investigation over charging parents to sit with their kids

Ryanair said the CMA’s investigation is “bogus.” | Photo by Nicolas Economou / NurPhoto via Getty Images European economy airline Ryanair is under investigation in the UK for charging parents mandatory fees to sit with their children. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was looking into whether the seating fees, which may be … Read more

Siddhish Sutaria and Jolly Shah: Shaping Embedded System Evolution

Siddhish Sutaria, Staff Software Engineer at Apple, and Jolly Shah, Staff Software Engineer at Google, are at the nexus of intelligent embedded engineering. Sutaria’s work drives innovations in audio processing and embedded ML for widely used devices such as Apple AirPods Pro and Vision Pro, blending advanced consumer-facing features with robust firmware design.  Shah, meanwhile, … Read more