Author: Samuel Alejandro

Waymo temporarily suspended its autonomous vehicle service in San Francisco after a citywide power outage caused its driverless cars to stall and create traffic jams. The blackout, which affected a third of the city, led to widespread traffic light failures, confusing the Waymo fleet and prompting numerous public reports of vehicles blocking intersections.

On Version History: the long reign of AOL Instant Messenger, the messaging app that maybe never should have existed at all.

Firefox’s security model relies on process separation and Inter-Process Communication (IPC). Exploiting IPC interfaces can lead to sandbox escapes. This post explores how snapshot fuzzing, a new technology, is now being used in production to find and fix vulnerabilities in Firefox’s critical IPC layer, significantly improving browser security.

Firefox is rolling out new features to enhance user experience. These include on-device web translations for iOS, customizable app icons for Android, and a new optional search engine powered by Perplexity. The translation feature prioritizes privacy by processing content locally on the device.

Dropbox has unveiled its seventh-generation hardware platform, featuring Crush, Dexter, and Sonic for traditional workloads, alongside new GPU tiers, Gumby and Godzilla. This latest architecture significantly boosts storage bandwidth, doubles available rack power, and introduces an advanced storage chassis to minimize vibration and heat, aiming for enhanced efficiency and scalability.

Workers AI has introduced a new JSON mode, allowing users to easily request and receive structured data directly from AI models. This enhancement simplifies data extraction and reduces the need for complex parsing of unstructured text responses, integrating seamlessly with the OpenAI SDK’s structured outputs API.

The core 2Africa infrastructure, the world’s longest open-access subsea cable system, has been completed. This monumental project aims to connect communities, foster economic growth, and enable digital experiences across Africa, Europe, and Asia, impacting billions of people through unprecedented scale and innovative engineering.

Developing robust conversational AI systems requires a structured approach to evaluation, treating it as an integral part of the development process. This article outlines a practical blueprint for evaluating large language models (LLMs) at scale, covering dataset curation, actionable metrics, platform setup, automated pipeline integration, and continuous improvement strategies. The methodology emphasizes rigorous testing and feedback loops to ensure accuracy, reliability, and quality control in AI deployments.

On November 18, 2025, Cloudflare experienced a significant network outage that disrupted core traffic delivery for its customers. The incident, which began at 11:20 UTC, was not a cyberattack but rather stemmed from an internal database permissions change. This change led to a critical “feature file” for the Bot Management system doubling in size, exceeding a software limit and causing widespread failures across the network. Services were largely restored by 14:30 UTC, with full functionality returning by 17:06 UTC.

CodeQL versions 2.23.7 and 2.23.8 have been released, introducing new security queries for Go and Rust, enhancing overall analysis accuracy, and providing updated framework support across multiple programming languages.