The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.

Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo

AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic.

Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work

ArXiv is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.

The offline desk gadget that actually got me to sit up straight

Deep Care's $350 device is pricy, but it runs offline and helps you improve your posture and movement habits

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy

OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.

$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month

Cerebras Systems was 2026's biggest tech IPO so far. But years ago, it burned through hundreds of millions working on a chip many believed impossible.

Why are AI companies buying the teams behind your favorite dev tools?

AI companies are buying developer tools as coding agents turn runtimes, package managers, and linters into strategic infrastructure. The post Why are AI companies buying the teams behind your favorite dev tools? appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

AI-assisted development governance: A practical guide

Learn how AI-assisted development governance uses rules, agents, hooks, and protocols to help AI coding tools produce safer, more consistent code. The post AI-assisted development governance: A practical guide appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

The project that made me question the UX process

A three-week mobile banking project taught me that the “proper” UX process is not always realistic. Sometimes, the better approach is to work with what you know, identify what you still need to learn, and make the strongest decision possible under real constraints. The post The project that made me question the UX process appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

How to rethink scope creep as strategic flexibility

Controlled scope creep can help PMs use capacity buffers, AI tools, and clear guardrails to turn new ideas into better outcomes. The post How to rethink scope creep as strategic flexibility appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Understanding A/B testing in UX research

A/B testing compares two versions of a design to see which performs better with real users. Here’s how UX teams can use it to test hypotheses, measure outcomes, and make smarter product decisions. The post Understanding A/B testing in UX research appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

How to build your first MCP server with Node.js

A step-by-step guide to building your first MCP server using Node.js, covering core concepts, tool design, and upgrading from file storage to MySQL. The post How to build your first MCP server with Node.js appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Vayal AI: Tamil Voice + Vision Crop Advisory for Farmers Using Gemma 4

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4

What I Built

Millions of farmers in Tamil Nadu speak Tamil as their primary language. Agricultural advice — government portals, extension services, online resources — is mostly in English. When a crop fails, a farmer shouldn't ne...

Building a 3D engine from scratch with C++ and Vulkan for web developers Part I: Bootstrapping Vulkan

Why this project exists

My background is in web development. TypeScript, Node.js, React — that's been my world for years. I've spent a lot of time thinking about software architecture: SOLID principles, onion architecture, dependency injection, separation of concerns. All of that in the context of the web.

But the reason I got into technology in the first place has n...

The AI Ghostwriter Experiment

Over the past few months, I ran an experiment on this blog.

Balancing engineering projects, open-source contributions, and university means deep-focus writing is a luxury I rarely have. I wanted to test a hypothesis: Can a developer leverage LLMs to fully automate content creation without losing technical depth?

I launched my "Engineering in the Wild" & "Sy...

Why Google + Wiz Changes Everything for Brisbane Multicloud Teams — A DevSecOps Perspective

The Acquisition Nobody in Brisbane DevOps Should Ignore

Google has completed its acquisition of Wiz — and if you're running multicloud infrastructure in Brisbane right now, your security architecture just got more complicated, not simpler.

At RSA Conference 2026, Google Cloud's Office of the CISO framed this as a gift for CISOs navigating fragmented cloud environment...

I built Native App AI: Turn websites or Web app into Play Store-ready Android apps in minutes

After seeing creators build websites quickly with Lovable, Replit, WordPress, and no-code tools, I noticed a frustrating problem:

Building the website was easy.
Turning it into a Play Store-ready Android app wasn't.

Most solutions felt expensive, complicated, or overloaded.

So I built Native App AI.

Paste a URL and generate APK or AAB builds in minutes.

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React E-commerce App Is Invisible to Google - Here's Why (and the Fix)

I spent a weekend wondering why a client's Next.js store had zero Google Shopping impressions after three months live. The site looked great. Performance scores were solid. But Googlebot was essentially blind to 80% of the product catalog.

The culprit wasn't the framework. It was a handful of missing metadata patterns that most frontend developers never learn because they're not in any ...

11 Best V0 Alternatives 2025: Real Reviews & Pricing

Why Look Beyond V0 by Vercel? V0 by Vercel is solid for generating React components, but what if you need more than just frontend UI? Look, V0 does one thing really well - it takes your text prompts and spits out clean React components with Tailwind CSS. Perfect if you're building in the Vercel ecosystem and just need UI pieces. But here's what V0 can't do(as of now): Build full applications wit...

8 AI Developer Tools for Faster & Smarter Development 👨‍💻🚀

Artificial intelligence has been transforming the way software developers build applications by providing them with new ways to simplify repetitive tasks, increase their productivity, and create smarter programs. But the problem is that there are so many AI-powered tools coming out that deciding which ones to use and how to integrate them into your workflow might take a long time and be very frust...

The 5-Minute Kubernetes Cluster Health Check

TLDR You can check your Kubernetes cluster's health in under 5 minutes using five key commands: checking node status, monitoring resource usage, reviewing pod health across namespaces, investigating problem pods, and examining cluster events. This quick routine helps catch issues before they escalate into critical problems. Kubernetes is great until it's not. One bad node, a pod stuck in CrashLoop...

Livewire 4: The Future of PHP Components

This week at Laracon Caleb Porzio announced Livewire 4, which comes with unified components, performance improvements, and many more awesome goodies 🤤 Unifying Livewire Caleb takes the stage to address one of the most pressing issues in the Livewire's ecosystem: fragmentation. With three different ways to create Livewire components (traditional, Volt functional, and Volt class-based), the communi...

Laracon 2025 Keynote

This year's Laracon keynote was absolutely insane! There were seven segments packed with open source goodies, AI-powered development tools, and infrastructure that'll make you rethink what modern web development can be. Here's everything that went down. 🎯 New Framework Features (Taylor Otwell) 🚀 Open Source Deep Dive (Joe Tannenbaum) 🤖 Laravel AI (Ashley Hindle) 🎨 Laravel Design (David Hill) ...

Laravel Wayfinder

Laravel has announced a new package called Wayfinder. This package will allow you to easily generate fully-typed, importable TypeScript functions for your controllers and named routes, providing devs with a seamless integration between a Laravel backend and a TypeScript frontend. Let's learn how to use Wayfinder with the Laravel React Starter Kit. First, create a new Laravel app using the followin...