GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development as well as prompt engineering and new AI workflows.

Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted

Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company's devices more seamless.

Daniel Ek-backed defense tech Helsing to raise $1.2B at $18B valuation

Five-year old European military drone startup Helsing is close to raising another monster round.

Bravo is creating unscripted microdramas for the Peacock app

As microdrama apps like ReelShort and DramaBox quietly rake in billions, Peacock announced on Monday that it is launching two unscripted Bravo microdramas, which will stream in the Peacock app.

Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator

In an email to beta testers, the company said the site's goal is to "track the most influential voices in a space" and to surface the news that's actually worth "paying attention to."

‘Too early’ to talk IPO, Redwood Materials’ incoming CFO says

The battery-recycling and energy-storage company has hired former Tesla finance chief Deepak Ahuja, reuniting him with former Tesla CTO JB Straubel.

I used Claude to debug a UI bug: What actually happened

A real-world debugging session using Claude to solve a tricky Next.js UI bug, exploring how AI helps, where it struggles, and what actually fixed the issue. The post I used Claude to debug a UI bug: What actually happened appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Feature factory vs. product discovery: A 3-lens framework for PMs

Learn a 3-lens framework that helps product managers shift stakeholder requests from feature ideas to real problems and outcomes. The post Feature factory vs. product discovery: A 3-lens framework for PMs appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

What if you could lay out UI without CSS? Meet Pretext

CSS wasn’t built for dynamic UIs. Pretext flips the model by measuring text before rendering, enabling accurate layouts, faster performance, and better control in React apps. The post What if you could lay out UI without CSS? Meet Pretext appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Why real-time frontends break at scale and how to fix them

Why do real-time frontends break at scale? Learn how event-driven patterns reduce drift, race conditions, and inconsistent UI state. The post Why real-time frontends break at scale and how to fix them appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

I tested every major auth library for Next.js in 2026: Here’s what you should use

Test out Auth.js, Clerk, WorkOS, and Better Auth in Next.js 16 to see which auth library fits your app in 2026. The post I tested every major auth library for Next.js in 2026: Here’s what you should use appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

Why multimodal UX is a more practical future than Zero UI

Zero UI works well for screenless, voice-first experiences, but most digital products still require visual interaction. Here’s why multimodal UX offers a more scalable foundation for the future of design. The post Why multimodal UX is a more practical future than Zero UI appeared first on LogRocket Blog. ...

How I Use AI to Cut My Code Review Prep Time in Half (Step-by-Step)

Code review is one of those tasks that looks passive but drains you fast. You're context-switching between your own work and someone else's mental model, trying to be thorough without being slow. I started using AI as a first-pass review layer a few months ago, and it's changed how I approach the whole process.

Here's exactly how I do it — copy-paste ready.

The Prob...

What I learned building a software licensing system for desktop and offline apps

Most software today is SaaS or subscription-based, but desktop and offline applications still rely heavily on licensing systems more than I expected.

A year ago, I built Keymint because I needed a flexible software licensing system for a project I was working on.
At the time, I expected the space to be shrinking due to the shift toward SaaS. Once I started building and testing it in...

The Unofficial MojoWiki

Don't Give Up on Mojo Just Yet: The Survival Manual Modular Forgot to Write

The honeymoon phase with the Mojo programming language is usually short. It starts with a clean install and ends abruptly when you hit your first undocumented toolchain crash, a silent PATH ghost, or a borrow checker error that makes Rust look like child's play. Most developers hit these walls, realize the off...

I Couldn't Find a Rolling Text Library for Compose, So I Built One

A small library, a long journey through Compose animations, and a few bad ideas along the way.

The Itch

I work on a crypto-banking app. Crypto prices change every second, and a number that just snaps to a new value looks cheap. I wanted that satisfying "odometer" feeling — when a digit rolls through every value on the way to the next one. Like a ...

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Plugging the Leaks With AI

Every business has money leaking out of it. Most owners just learn to live with the drip.

I spent nearly $20,000 a year on bagged ice. For a while I just paid it — it's ice, what are you gonna do? Then I bought an ice maker for $2,000. Paid for itself in a month. Simple fix, massive impact.

That got me thinking: where else am I bleeding cash?

I started looking at every s...

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...