Cryptocurrency industry and community figures are reacting after it emerged a Bitcoin Core developer fixed a “critical” bug in the code for the Bitcoin Cash hard fork. It has emerged that a Bitcoin Core developer fixed a “critical” bug in the code for the Bitcoin Cash hard fork.
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Hard Forks - AVC
The crypto-currency Ethereum completed a hard fork on Wednesday. The Ethereum core developers, after getting a vote of support from the Ethereum community, hard forked Ethereum to “get back” the roughly $40mm of Ethereum that was taken in the hack of The DAO. Hard forks are a bit of a lightning rod issue in the […]
There Are No Bugs, Just TODOs | Almad's Changelog
One of my life’s traumas is the bug trackers, the issue trackers, the project management tools. The toolset that completes the version control log to form the development equivalent of double-entry bookkeeping.
Microsoft Struggling With Hundreds of AI-Discovered Security Bugs — ProPublica
Anthropic’s Mythos has flagged bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them. Documents reviewed by ProPublica reveal the tech giant's “mad dash” behind the scenes to patch holes before hackers can find and exploit them.
Bitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous: Paul Ford
The true believers won't stop until they've remade the world.
Former Apple Developer Explains Why The Company's Software Is Struggling - BGR
In recent months, Apple's software development has been called into question like never before. Between a critical security bug in macOS, a brand-new product being…
PHP developers issue updates to fix vulnerabilities, says flaw was found in 2024
Developers of the PHP programming language said a set of new updates fixing two previously identified critical vulnerabilities was now live, and acknowledged a delay in addressing a previously identified flaw.
Web Crypto’s SubtleCrypto: A Masterclass in Developer Hostility and How It Strangles the Modern Web
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Bjarnason: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity
Baldur Bjarnason argues that development tools win by making developers replaceable. The JVM ran that experiment three times, against Visual Basic's precedent, through EJB's committee, and into Spring's reversal, and the results say his theory is exactly half of a whole.
Money, blockchains, and social scalability
Introduction Blockchains are all the rage. The oldest and biggest blockchain of them all is Bitcoin , which over its eight-year hist...
Money, blockchains, and social scalability
Introduction Blockchains are all the rage. The oldest and biggest blockchain of them all is Bitcoin , which over its eight-year hist...
In Search of Hardness
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Bunzz | Modular Smart Contracts Dev & AI-Based Audit
Comprehensive dev tool for Smart Contracts, AI based audit, and analysis.
Did Claude Increase Bugs in rsync?
In late May 2026, rsync blew up. GitHub, Hacker News, Lobsters: hundreds of people arguing about whether open-source maintainers can ship AI-written code and have it be reliable — and whether the people taking the code for free get to demand how it is made.