A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest.
Industry
- US suspends green card program access for big IT firms: The US has barred Microsoft, Adobe and large IT services companies such as Infosys, Cognizant and Wipro from a skilled-worker green card program, which could affect hiring and staffing for many engineering teams. TechCrunch
- Spotify starts selling its internal tech: Spotify launched technology.spotify.com, a site that makes parts of its internal engineering platform available to outside customers. TechCrunch
- Uber and Pony.ai plan London robotaxi tests: The two companies will begin testing Pony.ai's Gen-7 robotaxis in London in the coming weeks. TechCrunch
Security
- Asos confirms customer data breach: Attackers sent a push notification through the retailer's app claiming its cloud storage was fully compromised; Asos has since confirmed a breach of customer data. TechCrunch
- What an AI agent inherits from your credentials: An author measured what an agent actually holds once it authenticates as you, and argues audit logs end up attributing the agent's actions to the human. The New Stack
AI & tooling
- Sonnet 5.5 compared with Opus 5.5: A comparison reports that Anthropic's Sonnet 5.5, released six days after Opus 5.5, is notably cheaper and scores 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0. The New Stack
- One prompt, six hours, Opus 5.5: Quesma wrote up an experiment giving Opus 5.5 a single prompt and six hours to build a visualization of Calvino's Invisible Cities, which drew a large Hacker News discussion. Quesma
- A green exit code is not proof of work: Stack Overflow's blog argues that agent tools fail to build trust because success signals do not show that the work was actually done. Stack Overflow Blog
Engineering reads
- Migrating Git repositories to SHA-256: A practical write-up on moving existing repositories to Git's SHA-256 object format. Blog post
- Hetzner explains its cloud network stack: Hetzner published the history and technical overview of how its Cloud network stack evolved. Hetzner
- RwLock cost in read-heavy workloads: A team describes the performance penalty of an RwLock in their read-heavy service and the lock-free alternative they moved to. Blog post
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