Lachy Groom to back India startup Pronto at a $200M valuation, sources say

This round, should it occur, would double the house-help startup's valuation in a matter of weeks.

Steve Ballmer blasts founder he backed who pleaded guilty to fraud: ‘I was duped and feel silly’

Steve Ballmer wrote a fiery letter in the sentencing of disgraced founder Joseph Sanberg documenting all the harm that's befalling him as an investor.

Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate financial crimes

The IRS has used Palantir's software since at least 2018, The Intercept reports.

Cohere acquires, merges with Germany-based startup to create a ‘transatlantic AI powerhouse’

Cohere, the Canada-based AI company that makes AI tools for businesses in regulated industries, announced Friday it would merge with Aleph Alpha, a German company that also builds AI systems for businesses and governments. ...

Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage

Series, a social networking app that's grown popular on college campuses, announced a $5.1 million pre-seed round from some big names in tech.

Meta’s loss is Thinking Machines’ gain

Meta has been poaching talent from Thinking Machines Lab. But it's a two-way street.

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. ...

Best Transactional Email Provider: How to Choose

Your app lives or dies on deliverability, latency, and trust—and picking the best transactional email provider isn’t the same as picking a newsletter tool. Transactional email is infrastructure: password resets, receipts, OTPs, and “your report is ready” messages. When it breaks, users churn and support tickets explode.

What “best” means for transactional emai...

AeroCraft: Less CSS, Faster UI Delivery

Repo: https://github.com/yaghobieh/aerocraft

Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@forgedevstack/aerocraft

AeroCraft is a utility and shortcut CSS engine for teams that want the speed of utility classes wi...

Your Pipeline Is 14.2h Behind: Catching Blockchain Sentiment Leads with Pulsebit

Your Pipeline Is 14.2h Behind: Catching Blockchain Sentiment Leads with Pulsebit

We recently discovered an intriguing anomaly: a 24-hour momentum spike of -0.311 related to the topic of blockchain. This finding highlights a critical lag in capturing sentiment that could significantly impact your decision-making and trading strategies. With the leading language being Spanish,...

From factory worker to 2,000+ installs - what actually worked

I'm not a CS graduate. I didn't go to a bootcamp.
Two years ago I was working in a factory.

Today I have an Android app on the Play Store with 2,000+ installs,
4.6 stars, and users in 5 languages.

Here's what actually moved the needle:

What didn't work

• Product Hunt launch → 1 upvote (the community needs warming up weeks before — I didn...

The AI Tool That Breached Vercel: A Case Study in Agent Trust Debt

Last week, Vercel disclosed a security incident that quietly rewrote the threat model for every engineering organization deploying AI tools.

The breach entry point wasn't a zero-day. It wasn't a phishing campaign or a misconfigured S3 bucket. It was a third-party AI tool — Context.ai — whose employee was infected by Lumma Stealer malware. The stolen credentials included Google Workspace...

Cutting my AI spend to zero with an open-source Claude Code alternative

I pay AUD$155/month for Claude Max. I have a MacBook Pro that runs large models fine. Two things bugged me about Claude Code:

1. Even though Max was paid for, the API billed separately when I wired in third-party tools.
2. My laptop sat idle while every refactor went to a remote API.

So I built OpenAgent. Terminal coding agent, 1...

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...