A researcher walks through a Meta account-takeover bug that turns out to hinge on an almost comically simple oversight rather than anything sophisticated. The writeup doubles as a lesson in how big-platform auth flows fail at the seams.
Thompson argues Google has effectively become a capital-allocation machine—its real edge is the balance sheet and infrastructure spend funding the AI buildout, not any single product. The piece reframes Alphabet as the financier of the AI era.
Stanford’s CS336 course materials walk through building a language model end to end—tokenizer, architecture, training, and systems—rather than just calling an API. All assignments and lectures are public.
Cowen argues that America’s next great export is machine intelligence itself—sold as a service to the rest of the world—and sketches what that does to trade, geopolitics, and the domestic economy.