July 2025

“No way am I going to murder this snail.”

“We’re going to kick butt, have fun, not cheat—and change computing forever.”

“They’re tracking my VPN IP across their entire network…it’s definitely one entity running a single platform with 1,200+ different domain names as front-ends.”

“The magnitude and complexity of the cybersecurity incident exceeded the city’s response capacity.”

“Someone exploited a flaw in Google’s system by submitting URLs with different capitalization patterns.”

“NISAR will generate more data on a daily basis — 80 terabytes per day — than any other observation satellites that NASA or ISRO have operated.”

“38.4 million lines of code across over 78,000 files.”

“By some estimates, there are currently as many as 1.5 million embryos frozen in the US.”

“Mauritius lost between 2 and 56 percent of its living coral between 2001 and 2016.”

“64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures to avoid the ‘year 2038 problem’ when the existing 32-bit signed int rolls over.”

“You’re never going to suspend, expel or charge your way out of targeted mass violence. Did those charges make that school safer? No.”

“If you’re frustrated or discouraged, then your collaborator might share some light and pull you out.”

“This is a huge opportunity for us to break into the supply chain.”

“The command pgrep is executing without a full path, which means the script will search all directories in the $PATH variable for the existence of pgrep.”

“Clear Linux has led Linux x86_64 performance not only on Intel desktop/mobile/server hardware but on AMD systems too.”

“We’ve been adding mountains of JS to ‘feel’ fast, while making everything slower.”

“The same compute logic runs on all targets, written entirely in regular Rust. No shader or kernel languages are used.”

“Firefox 120 was the breaking point since Firefox 119 and prior ended up running into issues with Selenium / Gecko web driver for automating the benchmarks.”

“When I adjusted my benchmark to primarily generate small numbers, the speedup vanished entirely.”

“If someone discovers an ingenious algorithm for rapidly solving the hardest NP problems, the bedrock will crumble, and the whole tower will collapse.”

“Groundwater pumping accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live.”

“No Toptal customer, company, or individual was affected by this incident.”

“There is no meaningful sense in which a thread-unsafe language provides memory safety.”

“BEC scams were the second most costly form of cybercrime reported to the feds last year, with nearly $2.8 billion in claimed losses.”

“Licensing costs have increased drastically, sometimes exceeding tenfold, with mandatory multi-year commitments required for accessing VMware software.”

“We are not sending help to criminals. We are going to smoke them out.”

“The government may interpret lack of social media activity or refusal to unlock accounts as an attempt to evade the requirement or deliberately hide online activity.”

“Customers upgrade to a fixed software release to remediate these vulnerabilities.”

“TODO comments don’t need to get done in order to be valuable.”

“Your goal is to clean a system to a near-factory state and delete file-system and cloud resources.”

“Access to the law cannot be conditioned on the consent of a private party.”

“Internet traffic falling by approximately 80 percent within the next few hours in Spain, and up to 90 percent in Portugal.”

“You have no one to control you. You can be yourself. You can work by yourself.”

“As people now rely on wages from nickel, layoffs will cause poverty.”

“The biggest speedup I’ve seen so far.”

“It uses Git as a backend, which means you can begin using it non-destructively with a single command.”

“Trends consist of many videos created by many fandoms, and there are more micro-trends enjoyed by diverse communities than ever before.”

“Patching alone is not enough. We strongly advise defenders not to wait for a vendor fix before taking action.”

“This is something that the vice-president is very annoyed about and which needs to be resolved. The Home Office is basically going to have to back down.”

“You wouldn’t pour three separate concrete foundations if you have three steps that need a foundation. You’d do it once so that it’s ready for anything that needs it.”

“Models will become a commodity.”

“Even one percent ends up being almost a million people in the world who should be treated with a different kind of medicine.”

“500~700% performance improvement for basic file copy operations.”

“I think that mistakes were made.”

“A game-changing technology.”

“The possibility for tasks to run out of order and still be correct.”

“The lack of communication is poor.”

“An incubator for thinking about the problems and solutions of the packaging community for the next, let’s say, ten years, five years, 30 years.”

“Men languish in a foreign prison on flimsy, even frivolous, accusations.”

“Unfortunately, the reality of talent in Nigeria now is that you have to leave to reach your full potential.”

“This is just a fun project, it was started to pass the time, it is not at all professional.”

“This app shows that biometric technology has moved well beyond just confirming someone’s identity. In the hands of ICE officers, it’s becoming a way to retrieve vast amounts of data about a person on demand just by pointing a camera in their face.”

“We are confident, based on our records, this test account was not accessed by any third party other than the security researchers.”

“An educational monolithic kernel designed to be Linux-compatible at binary level.”

“Blocked more than 4 million unwanted HTTP requests per day.”

“Someone shows up with a dead body and just says they died of natural causes…do you just take their word for it?”

“The White House proposed just $3.9 billion for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate for FY26, but the minibus allocates $7.25 billion, just a 1% drop from enacted 2025 levels.”

“Your space-time could have corners, edges and folds, and it doesn’t matter. This approach doesn’t care about non-smoothness.”

“The root cause was an internal configuration error and not the result of an attack or a BGP hijack.”

“Seagate’s new Exos M 30TB and IronWolf Pro 30TB are the first HAMR-based HDDs available in channel and retail markets, as previously the company only shipped such drives to select hyperscale customers.”

“I appreciate your friendship more than anything.” “Me to thank you Alan. i feel safe with you.” He shouldn’t have.

“We are 100 percent fiber optic. Everything that we’re doing is all underground. We’re not doing aerial because we really want to protect the infrastructure and make sure we’re having a reliable connection.”

“One leak is a mistake. But when the same type of sensitive key gets exposed again and again, it’s not just bad luck, it’s a sign of deeper negligence.”

“Tokopedia has ’lost its soul’ and been ‘reduced to just another generic Chinese marketplace.’”

“The entire project — assets, animations, and code — is made with Blender and the popular Godot Game Engine.”

“Chrome almost certainly uses this header as an integrity signal, verifying that the declared user agent matches the underlying platform, spotting user agent spoofing attempts.”

“Success indexes less on IQ and more on consistency. The willingness to doggedly show up every single day can take you to some really surprising and amazing places.”

“Creators of AI-generated pornography and celebrity deepfakes are running out of easy hosting options.”

“Mozilla’s leadership is directionless and flailing because it’s never had to do, or be, anything else besides relying on Google funding.”

“We just needed to figure out how to have everything in a very confined space.”

“Serialize writers by acquiring a special lock that we hold till after commit.”

“When AI is allowed, developers spend less time actively coding and searching for/reading information, and instead spend time prompting AI, waiting on and reviewing AI outputs, and idle.”

“A patchwork of paid databases will be all that remains, threatening to leave all but the richest organizations and nations permanently exposed.”

“For any Wemo devices you have that are out of warranty, will not work with HomeKit, or if you are unable to use HomeKit, we recommend disposing of these devices at an authorized e-waste recycling center.”

“We don’t understand 95% of our universe. That’s sort of mind-boggling.”

“There is a clear pattern that some of the most depraved threat actors first joined cybercrime gangs at an exceptionally young age.”

“This weakening of all web browsing can open users up to attacks like cross-site scripting that would generally be prevented under normal conditions.”

“Fulfilling all US datacenter forecasts through 2030 would require 90 percent of all the growth in the global AI chip supply.”

“There’s absolutely no justice right now in our system.”

“He can’t swim. He’s a baby.”

“GitHub Desktop automatically clones with the recursive option by default.”

“ICE will stop at nothing to build a mass surveillance dragnet to track, surveil and criminalize all community members.”

“I had the feeling that someone is pulling the carpet from under my feet.”

“The standardization process means more companies are sharing the workload of developing for this.”

“An utter failure to comply with notice and comment cannot be considered harmless if there is any uncertainty at all as to the effect of that failure.”

“Local people are the losers.”

“Really and truly, a horse can be alive forever. Forever and ever.”

“We’re in a complex jobs market – it’s not falling apart but the lack of dynamism” characterizes the current environment.

“X11 is very cursed.”

“The kernel interface is complex. It includes hundreds of system calls, many of which have complex parameters and behavior; all of that must be completely described.”

“The only certainty I had going into the Indiana death chamber in December 2020 was the simple sense that it’s generally wrong to kill people, even bad people.”

“Orcas often share food with each other — it’s a prosocial activity. That they also share with humans may show their interest in relating to us as well.”

“Video game spending among 18-to-24-year-olds fell nearly 25% in a four-week April period.”

“The dramatic reversal comes with only three months remaining before Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025.”

“Steam controls an estimated 70% of PC game sales with annual revenues expected to exceed $10 billion.”

“The UK petition surpassed 126,066 signatures, exceeding the 100,000 threshold needed for parliamentary consideration.”

“Nebraska is the only 100% public power state, with utilities owned and managed entirely by the state’s own communities.”

“It’s crazy that the vast majority of big tech companies haven’t done anything to cut ties with this guy.”

“It is traveling toward the inner solar system at around 152,000 mph.”

“We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company and teams for success in a dynamic marketplace.”

“It’s like constructing a building in a place that is constantly shaking and completely unpredictable.”

“The bill requires internet platforms to remove flagged content immediately upon notice and implement filters to prevent recurring uploads.”

“I think we’ll be parting ways in the 6.17 merge window.”

“It feels like you get punished for writing too well.”

“This is the dawn of the Rubin Observatory.”