SeattleDataGuy / FinOps Foundation
Backfills - The Necessary Evil of Data Engineering
Why backfills happen, why we hate them, and how to handle them without breaking trust
Monday, 23 February 2026
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
tl;dr sec / Risky Biz News / Unsupervised Learning
Why I Hate Anthropic and You Should Too
Why I Hate Anthropic and You Should Too/images/why-you-should-hate-anthropic.webp/images/why-you-should-hate-anthropic.webp All the best influencers hate Anthropic right now, and for good reason. They ruined everything, and they're worthy of every bit of hate they get. Quick recap: - They came ...
Wiz Research
Wiz Leads the 2026 Latio Application Security Report with awards in 4 categories
Wiz has been recognized in the 2026 Latio Application Security Report. Wiz was spotlighted and awarded four distinct badges, reflecting our continuous commitment to protecting applications all the way from code to runtime.
Framework blogs: Next.js releases / Svelte / Angular / Django / Rails / Laravel / Spring / React Native / Flutter
Your AI Agent Can Now Deploy to Laravel Cloud (and Write This Blog)
Laravel Cloud's API lets AI agents deploy, scale, and manage infrastructure through conversation. See how Florian built a working OpenClaw skill in a few hours.
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Support for now.json will be removed on March 31, 2026
now.json now.json vercel.json, March 31st, 2026 Support for the legacyconfig file will be officially removed on. Migrate existingfiles by renaming them tono other content changes are required. vercel.ts For more advanced use cases, tryfor programmatic project configuration. vercel.json…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Safely inject credentials in HTTP headers with Vercel Sandbox
Vercel Sandbox transform can now automatically inject HTTP headers into outbound requests from sandboxed code. This keeps API keys and tokens safely outside the sandbox VM boundary, so apps running inside the sandbox can call authenticated services without ever accessing the credentials. Header…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Introducing npm i chat – One codebase, every chat platform
Building chatbots across multiple platforms traditionally requires maintaining separate codebases and handling individual platform APIs. Chat SDK Today, we're open sourcing the newin public beta. It's a unified TypeScript library that lets teams write bot logic once and deploy it to Slack…
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
"We failed them": NASA grapples with Starliner
Last week, on very short notice, NASA released an independent report on the flawed Starliner crewed test flight in 2024. Jeff Foust reports on that study and its assessment of both the technical and organization problems at the root of that mission.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Prometheus bound: The legacy of the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter
More than 20 years ago, NASA embarked on an effort to develop a massive nuclear-powered mission to the moons of Jupiter. Dwayne Day examines that ill-fated effort and the legacy it created for future missions.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
We can build cities on the Moon�but who will govern them?
As companies follow the lead of countries in returning humans to the Moon, it raises new questions of governance of those efforts. Rachel Williams and Jatan Mehta discuss how precedents set in the coming years should shape lunar activity for decades to come.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
When Iran took the Internet hostage, Elon Musk held the keys
Protestors in Iran turned to Starlink to maintain connection with the outside world when the government restricted Internet access. Bharath Gopalaswamy argues this puts private companies into roles of making policy traditionally held by governments.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
AI and Army astronauts: A judge advocate's solution to protecting the soldier-astronaut
As astronauts, including those from the military, go deeper into space, they will face medical challenges that can't be resolved by simply returning to Earth. Mitch Topaloglu says alternative solutions have to be balanced with those that protect the astronauts' privacy.
OpenAI News
Why we no longer evaluate SWE-bench Verified
SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.
Martin Fowler / Overreacted / Kent C. Dodds / Josh Comeau
Sprites on the Web
In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web these days. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this technique, and…
OpenAI News
OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners
OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners to help enterprises move from AI pilots to production with secure, scalable agent deployments.
tl;dr sec / Risky Biz News / Unsupervised Learning
Bitter Lesson Engineering
Bitter Lesson Engineering/images/blog/bitter-lesson-engineering/bitter-lesson-engineering-header.webp/images/blog/bitter-lesson-engineering/bitter-lesson-engineering-header.webp I have a new concept I'm using everywhere in my AI engineering called Bitter Lesson Engineering BLE. The idea comes…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
How to set up ClickHouse for agentic analytics
Agentic analytics has changed the warehouse contract. Stakeholders are skipping dashboards and asking chatbots directly: “What was net revenue in EMEA last quarter?”
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
The Ethereum Foundation's Commitment to DeFi
DeFi isn't a speculative bet on the future. It's the inevitable evolution of finance, driven by a fundamental truth: financial autonomy is a right, not a privilege. And it's been a critical driver of Ethereum's growth and adoption. We want to see DeFi thrive, but we're opinionated about what...