ICE Surveillance Tech: $1.4B Spend Sparks Privacy Backlash
In September 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent $1.4 billion on surveillance technology—the highest in at least 18 years. The contracts include ...
Meta “Low Performer” Layoffs: Performance Review Gaming Exposed
Meta fired employees with good reviews as "low performers," exposing how tech firms weaponize performance ...
Self-Hosting Postgres vs RDS: The $379/Month Lie
AWS RDS pricing hides 75-88% markups. HN debate reveals hidden costs, ops myths, and when ...
RTO Mandates Are a Productivity Myth—The Data Proves It
Companies across America are forcing employees back to the office with a simple promise: productivity ...
AWS CEO: Replacing Junior Devs with AI Is “Dumbest Idea”
AWS CEO Matt Garman told WIRED on December 16 that replacing junior developers with AI ...
SoundCloud VPN Ban: Privacy Backlash and User Exodus 2025
SoundCloud blocks VPN users Dec 14-15. Is this "configuration change" temporary or permanent? What it means for privacy, censorship, and 175M users.
The Microservices Hype Is Dying: Why Smart Teams Return to Monoliths
Twilio Segment just published a case study that should make every CTO uncomfortable. They moved ...
India’s 90-Hour Workweek Push Is Economic Suicide
L&T chairman's 90-hour workweek proposal reveals management failure, not ambition. With 83% burnout and $50B ...
Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Privacy Theater
Australia just flipped the switch on the world’s first social media ban for anyone under ...
AI Code Reviews Hit 91% Slowdown: The Hidden Bottleneck
AI coding assistants promised to make developers faster, and in a narrow sense, they did—individual ...
