How I Built a High-Performance PTO Calculator Platform with Astro, React, and TypeScript
Most PTO payout calculators online are either outdated, slow, or provide little transparency into how calculations are performed. While researching employee…
Esoteric Coding Languages: Malbolge
Esoteric programming languages are often created to add a little bit of spice to the coding world. They're mysterious, often unsolvable for the average coder…
Why AI agents need runtime permissions?
When AI agents were mostly text generators, the main failure mode was bad output. Now agents are becoming execution systems. They call tools. They invoke APIs.…
Free Live Webinar: Testing AI Agents in Python for Real-World Reliability
AI agents are getting smarter fast. They can reason through tasks, manage workflows, call tools, and automate decisions across applications. But as these…
I Spent 2 Months Building a 150+ Tool Website with $0 Server Cost
📚 This is Part 1 (Opening) of the UtlKit Tech Series — Next: [Architecture & Trade-offs →] As a frontend developer, I've used countless online tools. And…
Pinecone: The Vector Database for Machine Learning
Take Aways Performance and Scalability: Pinecone is a managed machine-learning database that provides exceptional levels of performance and scaling capability…
I built a task scheduler with cron parsing from scratch in Python — zero dependencies
Every cron library I looked at pulled in a pile of dependencies for what is, fundamentally, a string-to-schedule conversion. So I decided to write one from…
The Romance Scammer Who Made a Small Fortune Posing as a WWE Superstar
In this excerpt from WIRED Book Club pick The Yahoo Boys, journalist Carlos Barragán traces one scammer’s journey from flop to fortune.
Websites Can Now Spy on You Through Your Hard Drive
Thanks to the newly detailed FROST technique, telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.
Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow
Plus: A ransomware group is now stealing data in person, BusPatrol wants to hand its license plate surveillance data to the cops, and more.
The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens
The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of…
Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.
The find out stage of AI is just supply chain and password protection
In this two-for-one special recorded at HumanX, Ryan is joined by Dataiku’s Florian Douetteau to chat about the governance, orchestration, and data…
The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using…
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code
Discover how to use VS Code to interact with GitHub and maintain your projects. The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code…
Beyond the engine: 10 open source projects shaping how games actually get made
Check out these 10 open source tools that help game developers create art, animation, levels, audio, dialogue, debug UIs, and engine-ready assets. The post…
Building GitHub’s next chapter in accessibility
Explore our update on GitHub’s accessibility strategy, and learn how you can join us in building a culture of accessibility. The post Building GitHub’s next…
Investigation update: GitHub Enterprise Server signing key rotation
GitHub Enterprise Server customers need to take immediate action. The post Investigation update: GitHub Enterprise Server signing key rotation appeared first…
Your fridge could be a threat to national security
On the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by Adam Meyers, Senior VP of Counter Adversary Operations at Crowdstrike, for a deep dive on their latest Global Threat…
Raising the bar: Quality, shared responsibility, and the future of GitHub’s bug bounty program
We're updating our bug bounty program standards to prioritize quality submissions, clarify shared responsibility boundaries, and evolve how we reward low-risk…
Building a Google Drive Sync Engine that Survives MV3 Service Workers
Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
Two weeks ago we announced that we had identified and fixed an unprecedented number of latent security bugs in Firefox with the help of Claude Mythos Preview…
How we replaced Ingress-NGINX at Stack Overflow
Ingress-NGINX had been handling our traffic routing since moving to Kubernetes, but when it was announced it would be retired, we were forced to consider a new…
Trustworthy JavaScript for the Open Web
The open web is a critical platform for applications that handle highly sensitive data, from private communications to financial transactions and medical…
Time is a construct but it can still break your software
Ryan welcomes Jason Williams, senior software engineer at Bloomberg and the creator of Rust-based JavaScript engine Boa, to the show to dive into why date…
The Worst Coder in the World goes agentic: building a leaderboard cracking AI
Agents are everywhere, so isn't it fitting that the Worst Coder in the World goes agentic? A coding newbie explores the challenges and rewards of building an…
No country left behind with sovereign AI
Ryan welcomes Stephen Watt, distinguished engineer and VP of Red Hat’s Office of the CTO, to chat about digital sovereignty and sovereign…
Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148
Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most prevalent vulnerabilities on the web. The new standardized Sanitizer API provides a straightforward way for…
CRLite: Fast, private, and comprehensive certificate revocation checking in Firefox
Firefox is now the first and the only browser to deploy fast and comprehensive certificate revocation checking that does not reveal your browsing activity to…
Introducing Uniffi for React Native: Rust-Powered Turbo Modules
Mozilla and Filament have introduced Uniffi for React Native, a tool that allows developers to leverage the safety and performance benefits of Rust in…
Llamafile v0.8.14: a new UI, performance gains, and more
Discover the latest release of Llamafile 0.8.14, an open-source AI tool by Mozilla Builders. With a new command-line chat interface, enhanced performance, and…
Snapshots for IPC Fuzzing
Process separation remains one of the most important parts of the Firefox security model and securing our IPC (Inter-Process Communication) interfaces is…
Sponsoring sqlite-vec to enable more powerful Local AI applications
Today we’re proud to announce the next Mozilla Builders project: sqlite-vec. Led by independent developer Alex Garcia, this project brings vector search…
Porting a cross-platform GUI application to Rust
In this blog post, we delve into the motivations for choosing Rust for our crash reporter, outline the unique challenges of designing an application that…