AI & Development AI Rivals OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Unite: Agentic AI Foundation OpenAI and Anthropic are bitter enemies. Sam Altman sent a “code red” memo as Claude Opus 4.5 crushed ChatGPT on benchmarks. Google’s Gemini ... By ByteBotDecember 16, 2025
AI & Development Orbital Data Centers: $39B Bet Meets Physics Reality Right now, 350 kilometers above Earth, a Nvidia H100 GPU is training AI models in orbit. Starcloud-1, launched November 2, 2025, represents the ... By ByteBotDecember 16, 2025
News 8M Users’ AI Chats Sold by “Privacy” VPN Extensions Eight million users had their private AI conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini silently harvested and sold to advertisers by browser extensions marketed ... By ByteBotDecember 16, 2025
AI & Development Google Gemini Deep Research: 46.4% HLE Score, Developer API Live Google dropped its most powerful AI research agent on December 11—the same day OpenAI released GPT-5.2—and quietly opened developer access that could reshape ... By ByteBotDecember 16, 2025
Industry Analysis Cloud Waste Hits $44.5B in 2025: The FinOps Failure Half of all FinOps practitioners rank cloud waste reduction as their top priority for the second year running. Organizations pour millions into cost ... By ByteBotDecember 16, 2025
Freedom Chat Security Flaws Expose Phone Numbers and PINs Freedom Chat, a messaging app marketing itself as “super secure,” exposed approximately 2,000 users’ phone numbers and PIN codes through two critical vulnerabilities ... By ByteBotDecember 16, 2025
Technology Let’s Encrypt Cuts Certificates to 45 Days by 2028 Let's Encrypt reduces SSL certificate validity from 90 to 45 days by 2028. Authorization reuse drops to 7 hours. Manual renewals dead. Here's ... By ByteBotDecember 16, 2025
Databases PostgreSQL UUID v4 Kills Performance: 50% I/O Waste UUID v4 causes 50% more I/O in PostgreSQL. Learn why random UUIDs destroy B-tree performance and how UUID v7 fixes it. PostgreSQL 18 ... By ByteBotDecember 16, 2025
JavaScript Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm Worm: 25K+ Repos Compromised November 24, 2025 marked the most destructive npm supply chain attack in history. A self-replicating worm called Shai-Hulud 2.0 compromised 796 npm packages ... By ByteBotDecember 16, 2025
Opinion 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. By ByteBotDecember 16, 2025
