Security VS Code Malware 2026: 17K+ Infected by Supply Chain Attacks Visual Studio Code faces a critical supply chain security crisis in early 2026. Three major attack vectors have converged: North Korean hackers’ “Contagious ... By ByteBotJanuary 22, 2026
Technology eBay AI Agent Ban: Revenue Protection Strategy 2026 eBay banned AI shopping agents on Jan 20, 2026 to protect 12-15% fees. Amazon Buy for Me blocked while Google gets exception. Platform ... By ByteBotJanuary 22, 2026
News Claude AI Constitution: First to Acknowledge Consciousness Anthropic became the first major AI company to acknowledge its AI might be conscious. On January 22, 2026, the company published a 23,000-word ... By ByteBotJanuary 22, 2026
Technology PostgreSQL Optimization: 94% Faster Queries, 69% Smaller Indexes PostgreSQL 17 cuts query times 94%. Learn unconventional optimizations: constraint exclusion, function-based indexes, hash techniques for dramatic gains. By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
Uncategorized Anthropic Hiring Test Retired: Claude Beats Humans Anthropic retired its performance engineering hiring challenge this week—because Claude Opus 4.5 started beating human candidates in two hours. The company open-sourced the ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
News cURL Ends Bug Bounty Program to Stop AI Slop (Jan 2026) After two years fighting an “AI slop tsunami,” cURL creator Daniel Stenberg shut down the project’s bug bounty program on January 21, 2026. ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
AI & Development Developer Productivity 2026: AI and Platform Engineering Shift Gartner analysts predict that developer effectiveness in 2026 will be “assessed based on creativity and innovation—instead of traditional product-based measures such as velocity, ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
Uncategorized Engineering Benchmarks 2026: 8.1M PRs Reveal Productivity LinearB’s 2026 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report analyzed 8.1 million pull requests from 4,800 engineering teams across 42 countries—the largest empirical dataset of developer ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
Uncategorized Soft Delete Pattern: Why It Creates More Problems Adding a deleted_at column to your database table seems elegant. Mark records as deleted instead of destroying them, filter them out in queries, ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
News & Analysis Verizon’s 365-Day Phone Unlock Policy: What Changed Verizon enforced a 365-day phone unlock on Jan 20, 2026, after FCC waiver eliminated 60-day automatic unlock. TracFone users now wait a full ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
