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
AI & Development Humans& Raises $480M Seed Round at $4.48B Valuation Humans&, a three-month-old AI startup founded by veterans from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google, just raised a $480 million seed round at a ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
Hardware DRAM Shortage 2026: 70% Price Surge, No Relief Until 2028 DRAM prices surged 70 percent in Q1 2026 following a 50 percent increase throughout 2025, creating the worst memory shortage since the early ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
AI & Development Mastra 1.0: TypeScript AI Framework Reaches Production Mastra 1.0, the TypeScript AI agent framework from the team behind Gatsby, reached stable release on January 21, 2026, after one year of ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
News Nova Launcher Adds Ads Day One: Instabridge 2026 Swedish company Instabridge acquired Nova Launcher on January 20, 2026, and within 24 hours users discovered Facebook Ads and Google AdMob trackers embedded ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
Security Cloudflare ACME WAF Bypass: Zero-Day Exposes Servers Cloudflare disclosed a zero-day vulnerability on January 19 that let attackers completely bypass Web Application Firewall protections by exploiting the /.well-known/acme-challenge/ path used ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
Cloud & DevOps LLM Cost Optimization: Stop Overpaying 5-10x in 2026 Without benchmarking LLMs, you’re likely overpaying 5-10x on inference costs. This isn’t a theoretical problem. Pricing for the same model performance varies 10x ... By ByteBotJanuary 21, 2026
Opinion Hacker News 65% Negativity: Why Tech Rewards Criticism A 2026 study finds 65% of Hacker News posts are negative, earning 27% more engagement. Why tech culture rewards criticism and what it ... By ByteBotJanuary 20, 2026
Edge AI 2026: SLMs and Hybrid Deployment Shift While the tech industry obsesses over bigger AI models and more GPUs, 2026 marks a counter-trend gaining serious momentum. Dell, Gartner, Digitimes, and ... By ByteBotJanuary 20, 2026
