Tecnologia

The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response

The Firebase iOS SDK crashed after a backend change, crashing all apps which used Firebase analytics for 2-6 hours. Google didn’t update the status page, but did offer a postmortem 4 days later.

Pragmatic Engineer · EN

The Pulse: new trend of building “internal vibe-coding apps” at tech companies

Ramp and Stripe built platforms for non-engineers to build internal websites and tools with, and both are taking off in those workplaces. I expect more companies to do the same.

Pragmatic Engineer · EN

The Pulse: Anthropic builds its own source control system

Git had too many performance problems at 30,000 PRs per day, so Anthropic built its own. I talked with the team, including asking why they didn’t open source its new system, ‘Scion.’

Pragmatic Engineer · EN

The Pulse: Time to rethink software security because of AI?

A month’s worth of security breaches in a single day – will things get worse before they improve?

Pragmatic Engineer · EN

Bad Flock Info Leads Police To Tow Wrong Car, Then Towing Company Totals It

"Police continue to blindly trust Flock cameras above and beyond the evidence in front of their own eyes," reports Jalopnik.com. "After incorrectly connecting Rosalyn Crump's car to a shooting that had occurred the previous day, police had her car towed and impounded as evidence, reports Moneywise..." According to WWBT 12 On Your Side, Richmond, Virginia, police didn't have a license plate number for the suspect's car, making it impossible to search Flock's records for that plate. Flock cameras collect more than just license plate information, so police searched for a make, model, color, and a

Slashdot · EN

Itch Is Being Flooded By AI-Generated Garbage

The number of game pages being created per-day on Itch has doubled, the indie games site announced Saturday on Bluesky. When asked why, they responded: "take a guess." As the gaming news site Aftermath puts it, "the surge has been almost entirely down to AI-created garbage racing onto the platform as the popularity of vibe-coded theft, copycats and machine-built slop explodes." Back in 2024, when the spectre of AI-'created' video games was still in its infancy, indie platform itch.io decided that the best it could do to combat this growing threat was, like Valve has done with Steam, institute

Slashdot · EN

Supermarket Freezers Across Europe Hit By Second Suspected Cyberattack

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Supermarket chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg have said the temperatures of their refrigerators and freezers in dozens of stores rose overnight, prompting fears of a cyber-attack similar to one that caused millions of euros of food losses in France. Sweden's Coop chain told the daily Aftonbladet on Monday that six of its stores had been affected, while ICA said it was "aware that a limited number of stores were affected by an incident overnight which impacted their refrigeration and freezer systems". The Dutch retailer Ahold Delhaiz

Slashdot · EN

Marvell to Buy Lumentum In $115 Billion Bet On AI Connectivity

Marvell has agreed to acquire optical components maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal with an implied enterprise value of $115 billion. "AI infrastructure is undergoing a fundamental architectural shift toward optical connectivity, creating an opportunity that comes along once in a generation," said Marvell Chairman and CEO Matt Murphy. "The companies that move first and help define this transition will set the standard for decades to come." CNBC reports: Through the acquisition, Marvell said it can combine electrical and optical technologies to meet accelerating and shifting AI connectivity de

Slashdot · EN

Microsoft's Canada Timezone Troubles Leave Admins Fixing Calendars, Pretending They're In Bogota

Microsoft is scrambling to fix time-zone problems across Outlook, Power Automate, Fabric, SharePoint and other products after parts of Canada stopped observing seasonal clock changes on November 1. "The company has confirmed problems across a chunk of its software estate, leaving some customers facing incorrect times, broken schedules and a collection of workarounds while Redmond catches up," reports The Register. From the report: Outlook users have been left with the most homework. Switching to the new Canadian time zones won't automatically update existing calendar entries, meaning that meet

Slashdot · EN

The New York Times Sues Brave Web Browser For AI Scraping, Bypassing Paywalls

The New York Times and several other publishers have sued (PDF) Brave Software, accusing the browser maker of scraping their websites without permission and helping users bypass paywalls. The Verge reports: According to a complaint (PDF) filed by the companies that run New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel, Brave Software has monetized its index of scraped websites by, in part, providing AI companies with paid access to "real-time online content from the Brave Index." The AI companies then use that index to train their models, access content to "respond to specific

Slashdot · EN

OpenAI Might Rebrand Its Data Centers As 'AI Compute Campuses'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else? Axios reports that OpenAI is preparing a "PR blitz" for after the midterm elections on Tuesday, as Democrats seem likely to win back the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate, too. The company's chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane told Axios that the midterms will be "a bit of a movie trailer for what you're going to see in 2028," when he expects AI to be "the issue" in the presidential election. So OpenAI is to influence the AI debate moving forw

Slashdot · EN

SpaceX Is Reportedly Looking At Buying Boost Mobile

SpaceX has reportedly held talks with EchoStar about acquiring Boost Mobile or gaining access to its network, potentially giving Starlink a shortcut toward becoming a full-fledged U.S. mobile carrier. Engadget reports: According to Washington Post's sources, the deal could look like SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile outright or gaining access to its cell network, which is leased from AT&T and T-Mobile. There could be a major hitch with the deal though, since SpaceX's potential mobile service would need the green light from those major mobile carriers, according to the report. The Washington Post a

Slashdot · EN

2026.43: A New Era

The best Stratechery content from the week of October 19, 2026, including the best iPad but worst phone, SS Sarandos in a storm, and You Can See Everything.

Stratechery · EN

The End of the Internet

The old Internet, where anyone could host a server is over, but it's just the final blow in an ending that has been coming for years. The future, though, is brighter than it appears.

Stratechery · EN

Anthropic S-1, The Cost of Compute, Who Is Paying?

Anthropic's IPO is finally here; the core business is very profitable, but competition may eat all of the profits, even as investors are set up for endless dilution.

Stratechery · EN

Meta Earnings, Muse and the Frontier, Musebook

Meta's earnings come in the context of Zuckerberg delivering on his promise; if investors believe in Muse they must support Meta's spending on compute.

Stratechery · EN

An Interview with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar About the AI Religious War

An interview with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar about AI diffusion and safety, forward-deployed engineer, and what the battle in tech is actually about.

Stratechery · EN

Sharp Tech on Video: Anthropic’s S-1 and What It Means for Meta and Muse, You Can See Everything, and Brewers!

Sharp Tech is, for the first time, available on video. You have three ways to consume it: YouTube, Spotify, and here on Stratechery.

Stratechery · EN

2026.44: At Long Last…

The best Stratechery content from the week of October 26, 2026 including Anthropic numbers, the end of the Internet as we know it, and autocracies then and now.

Stratechery · EN

Google Earnings, Facebook Déjà Vu, The Agent Play

Google's earnings miss looks a lot like Facebook's, and that's a credit to Google. The company is being more aggressive than they get credit for.

Stratechery · EN

Gemini could be poking through your emails - here's how to stop it

Gemini can read your emails, summarize them and draft replies. If you'd rather it didn't, here's what Google actually does with your data and how to opt out.

Engadget · EN

This Samsung Galaxy problem sadly still exists in 2026, but you can easily fix it

Your premium Samsung Galaxy phone likely has a bunch of preinstalled software you don't want that just takes up space.

Engadget · EN

SpaceX is reportedly looking at buying Boost Mobile or using its cell network

A potential deal with Boost Mobile could serve as a shortcut to establishing SpaceX as a mobile carrier.

Engadget · EN

Think twice before putting your gaming console inside a cabinet

A cabinet might seem like a convenient spot for your console, but it can't provide enough airflow for the system to run safely.

Engadget · EN