The Steady State | October 16, 2025

Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

Updated: Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene mutation may have protected modern human brains.

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Venture capitalist Ron Conway said Benioff’s recent calls for National Guard troops in San Francisco left him barely recognizing the person he has so long admired.

You copied the green screen.

Some industrial processes used to create useful chemicals require heat, but heating methods are often inefficient, partly because they heat a greater volume of space than they really need to. Researchers, ...

Disaggregating Prefill and Decode: Faster First Tokens, Faster Streams

How a liver goes from a brain-dead donor to a living recipient.

Support for BPF in the kernel has been tied to the LLVM toolchain since the advent of extended [...]

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Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

Ofcom — driven by the letter of British law that they are bound to follow, but still Ofcom — are quietly making Britain look (a) very silly and (b) as if we haven’t yet shucked-off the Americ…

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Dear Ruby community,

Gov. Gavin Newsom says California will begin selling affordable insulin under its own label on Jan. 1, nearly three years after he first announced a partnership to sell state-branded generic drugs at lower prices.