Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them

Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety

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CEO has started vibe coding. How does this end for me?

I'm the mostly frontend developer at a small company. My CEO has started intercepting customer requests for new modules, then vibe coding UI solutions. They do not match our current design or layout, but they do look good. Apparently they work with the backend too, but no one in R&D or Support has been able to get their hands on them to test them out yet. The CEO wants to start doing things this way and rolling out the modules, after they go through testing. For this that have been down this road, how does it end? Am I out of a job or will it all fall apart? Is there anything I can say to push back on it or any gotchas to watch out for? I've already been applying for new jobs for a while now, but it's rough out there, and it seems like this might be a common thing going on at lots of places.

Servo is now available on crates.io

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

Started applying to jobs where the posting was clearly on fire and it changed everything

Four months of doing everything "right" and I have maybe three actual conversations to show for it. Tailored resumes, researched companies, rewrote cover letters so many times I started hating my own writing. The response rate was embarrassing and at some point I just had to stop pretending the strategy was working. I started actually reading postings differently instead of just scanning for requirements. Reposted multiple times in the same month. Listed on four platforms at once. Requirements that kept getting quietly updated. "Immediate start preferred" buried at the bottom. Once you start noticing these things you can't unsee them. Something went wrong inside that company and now someone is panicking. So I shifted. Stopped going after the clean, well-structured postings where everything looked planned out months in advance. Started targeting the messy ones. Shorter applications, no cover letter, just a resume and one paragraph explaining that I can move fast and have walked into unclear situations before. Not generic. Specific. The difference was kind of shocking honestly. Response rate went from basically nothing to around 30% in three weeks. Some of those opportunities were chaotic on the inside too, not going to pretend otherwise. But after months of silence I had four phone screens in two weeks and that alone felt like finally exhaling. The way I think about it now: a company with a real hiring process has 200 applicants and a rubric. A company that just lost someone key has a hiring manager who is actually desperate and reading everything that comes in. Those are completely different games and I was playing the wrong one for months without realizing it.

Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it

GitHub Stacked PRs

Does anyone actually make money from building apps or is it all fantasy??

asking because the app building hype is everywhere right now and i can't tell what's real. Every other week there's a new post about someone shipping an app in a weekend, hitting the app store, making money while they sleep. everyone saying you don't need to know swift, don't need a developer, just describe what you want and it builds it. building an app apparently doesn't require knowing how to code anymore. I have a few ideas i've been sitting on for a while. a niche utility app for cyclists, a simple meal planner, a budget tracker with one specific feature i can't find anywhere else. been seriously considering building them because the tools are making it weirdly easy to start. been testing a few builders out, just playing around with prompts to see what comes out. But nobody seems to mention the other side of this, the app store hasn't changed. Discoverability is still brutal, 1.8 million apps on there, a well built simple utility app with no marketing budget and no existing audience is basically invisible on day one. Getting the app built is easier than ever and getting anyone to find it is still the same nightmare it always was. Are the people making money from simple apps the ones who already had an audience before they launched. One thing i'll say, haven't spent a single penny on any of these builders yet. Been running entirely on free credits across: Lovable, Milq, and Replit just testing ideas What you can get done for zero spend is actually surprising. Are simple apps actually making money or is the distribution problem just too big for most people to overcome?

Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised

The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind

All elementary functions from a single binary operator

So happy right now!

I’ve been non stop cold applying for a Summer 26 everyday since August and I finally got 2 offers on Friday. If you’re still applying for this summer I can tell you it’s not too late and to keep pushing. I almost gave up 3 times in late February/March. I’m also far from a perfect student, I am junior with a 2.9 GPA, ok projects, and one internship in robotics that was just given to me bc my friend left. One thing I will say is going to events and meeting people is far more valuable than a cold application, another is being in a fraternity definitely helped a ton - being able to go on our linkedin group chat that’s has 40k+ members and messaging everyone who was C suite / software engineer / HR etc. saying “Dear Brother, I am a fellow brother of {Fraternity} and am looking for internship in CS this summer, any help would be much appreciated“ (not exact message but you get the point). Being able to connect with someone on a deeper level and not just “We went to the same college” goes SUCH a long way in response rate, so much so that 10 of my 13 interviews were from network outreach and both of my offers were from there as-well. What i’m trying to say is that yes this is a game of luck 1000%, but you have to put yourself in the position to get lucky, sitting inside all day mass applying just isn’t gonna cut it. Go to events, join clubs, do anything that gets you talking to people because that’s where you’re going to find success.

Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'

anyone actually building stuff? tired of the ai hype

happy monday everyone. is it just me or is every ai sub just becoming a wall of "top 10 tools" and "how to make $10k with gpt" posts? it’s getting pretty annoying. a few of us are starting a biweekly thing from today just to talk about what we’re actually building. no pitches or "thought leadership" garbage, just people sharing: * what they tried to ship this week * tools that actually worked (and which ones were a waste of money) * workflows that aren't just basic prompts * where they’re currently stuck/failing if you’re actually getting your hands dirty with code or prompt engineering and want to talk shop with people who get it, you should join. we’re keeping it pretty low-key. drop a comment if you're are up to share or just show up. see ya there.

Does anyone feel secure in their role (USA)?

I'm in a data science and analytics position right now in the USA, and because of the horrific economy, things have slowed down dramatically. It's a retail company, and to no one's surprise, the tariffs and economic downturn have started taking a really huge hit on our business. Some days I go to work and... The numbers aren't good. Leadership demands constant "process improvements", identifying gaps, what we can automate, and it's just like I get that you're speaking all of the Deloitte corporate speak, but that does not make what you're saying feasible. You can only skin a cat so many ways. After you have automated out something and improved the process to the point where it is the best, it's not like you could endlessly keep process improving into the stratosphere. I just don't really feel as secure in my current role. But boy have I cleaned up my resume and started looking, it's just pointless though cuz you never hear anything back these days being on the brink of an economic depression

will it ever get better

i know it always get better it even got better after 2008 from what i have heard from seniors but if ai just takes the jobs wont there be less jobs forever?Like is it different this time?