GOG Founder Buys Back Platform for $25M: DRM-Free Bet
On December 29, 2025, Michał Kiciński—co-founder of both CD PROJEKT and GOG—acquired 100% of GOG shares for $25.3 million, taking the DRM-free gaming ...
US EV Adoption Stalls: 75% Growth Drop, Infrastructure Fails
The US electric vehicle market has stalled. After hitting 40% year-over-year growth in 2023, EV ...
TypeScript 10x Faster: Why Microsoft Chose Go Over Rust for Compiler Rewrite
Microsoft’s TypeScript 7.0 compiler, rewritten in Go, achieves 10x performance gains according to the December ...
Tesla 4680 Battery Collapse: $2.9B Deal Cut 99%
South Korean battery supplier L&F Co. just wrote down its Tesla supply contract from $2.9 ...
Rust Migration Cuts Costs 70%: Grab’s Infrastructure Win
Grab’s migration from Go to Rust slashed infrastructure costs by 70%—requiring just 4.5 CPU cores ...
Google Search Alternatives: Developers Switch to AI Tools
“Google is dead. Where do we go now?” The question hit Hacker News with 573 points and 533 comments, sparking one of the ...
MongoBleed: 87K MongoDB Instances Leak Memory Unauth Attack
MongoDB disclosed CVE-2025-14847 (“MongoBleed”) on December 27, 2025 – a critical vulnerability allowing unauthenticated attackers ...
Karpathy: Never Felt Behind – AI Refactors Programming
Andrej Karpathy just admitted something remarkable: “I’ve never felt this much behind as a programmer.” ...
Developer Productivity Measurement Fails: McKinsey Wrong
McKinsey said “Yes, you can measure software developer productivity.” The engineering community said “No, you ...
AI Productivity Paradox: Think 20% Faster, Actually 19% Slower
You think AI coding tools make you 20% faster. A rigorous 2025 study by METR ...
