Browsing tools and Ad blockers: A guide to cleaner web experiences
Browsing tools and Ad blockers: A guide to cleaner web experiences

Web pages have become increasingly busy. Alongside the content people actually want to read, many sites now include display advertising, video promotions, pop-ups, cookie banners, sponsored elements, and social widgets. Ad blockers offer a way to reduc…

The economics of a voice agent: what a minute of conversation actually costs
The economics of a voice agent: what a minute of conversation actually costs

Most voice agent pricing starts with a single number: voice agent cost per minute. However, this figure doesn’t reveal much about the real cost of running a production system. I discovered this firsthand while building and running a voice agent for ent…

ClickHouse and Hud build a runtime feedback loop for AI-generated software
ClickHouse and Hud build a runtime feedback loop for AI-generated software

The growing use of AI in software development is changing the bottleneck for engineering teams. Generating code is becoming faster, but reviewing its potential impact, validating releases, and responding to unexpected behavior still require context fro…

Bloom Security’s Extension Resurrection research exposes a blind spot in developer security
Bloom Security’s Extension Resurrection research exposes a blind spot in developer security

Security teams have spent years scrutinizing software dependencies, package repositories and build pipelines. Bloom Security‘s latest research suggests that another part of the software supply chain deserves closer attention: the extensions developers …

Putting a number on a founder’s voice
Putting a number on a founder’s voice

Every few months another agency pitches me a personal-branding framework, and the pitches tend to land in the same place, with stages, arrows, and a trademark symbol above advice that circulated a decade ago. Publish more often, get quoted somewhere re…

Crypto impersonation scams grew 1,400% as AI supercharged fraud
Crypto impersonation scams grew 1,400% as AI supercharged fraud

Impersonation scams grew more than 1,400% year over year in 2025, according to Chainalysis, with the average payment into those clusters rising more than 600%. Across all scam categories the average crypto payment climbed from $782 to $2,764. An attack…

Equitybee lands free benchmarking tool as startup employees finally get equity data companies have had for years
Equitybee lands free benchmarking tool as startup employees finally get equity data companies have had for years

Equitybee has launched Equitybee Benchmark, a free tool that lets US startup employees compare equity grants across roles, seniority levels, departments, and company stages. The company argues that while salary benchmarking has been everywhere for year…

Inevitable AI Group closes $6M pre-seed round led by Aleph to bring SaaS to the AI age
Inevitable AI Group closes $6M pre-seed round led by Aleph to bring SaaS to the AI age

Inevitable AI Group (IAIG), an AI-native venture studio established by technology entrepreneurs, today announced the successful closure of a $6 million pre-seed financing round led by venture capital firm Aleph, a company behind several unicorns such a…

How to choose an app development agency for your startup: a founder’s guide
How to choose an app development agency for your startup: a founder’s guide

For founders building from idea to MVP to scale, Chop Dawg makes the case for choosing a technical partner with process, staying power, and long-term accountability. Start With the Decision That Shapes the Product For a startup founder, the first versi…

Upwind first to report malicious Keyv release that threatened thousands of JavaScript projects
Upwind first to report malicious Keyv release that threatened thousands of JavaScript projects

For years, software supply chain attacks focused on compromising widely used applications after they had already been deployed. Increasingly, however, attackers are shifting their attention further upstream, targeting the open-source packages developer…