Articles
One-off pieces on specific incidents, ideas, and engineering decisions.
- CBP has officially acknowledged it buys location data sourced from the real-time bidding ecosystem -- data that flows directly from ordinary apps through ad SDKs to government analysts. This is a product engineering post about what your app is actually participating in, and what to do about it.
- When the Pentagon demanded Anthropic delete a clause protecting against mass surveillance, it triggered the first real test of whether corporate AI ethics policies can survive contact with sovereign power. Here's what engineers deploying AI systems need to understand.
- Drones hit three AWS facilities in the UAE and Bahrain during the US-Iran conflict. AZ isolation failed. Banking services went down. And Iranian state media told us exactly why they targeted cloud infrastructure. Here's what changes now.
- Anthropic refused to delete one phrase from its AI usage policy. The Pentagon banned them, OpenAI filled the gap within hours, and the entire premise of 'safety-first' enterprise AI got stress-tested in real time. Here's what it means for engineering teams.
- In February 2026, an attacker used a GitHub issue title to hijack Cline's AI triage bot, poison its Actions cache, and publish a malicious npm package to 5 million developers. Every failure point was a documented misconfiguration. This is what went wrong, and what you do differently.