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Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job

Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job “I’ve been doing this since the ’90s — decades of building guardrails to prevent humans from breaking production. We’re now removing those guardrails and saying: Hey, come play with us, come create, go build the next experiences of the world,” Netlify CTO Dana Lawson told the packed audience this week at AI Native DevCon in London.

OpenAI Would’ve ‘Imploded’ If Altman Didn’t Return, Ex-CTO Says

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during BlackRock’s 2026 Infrastructure Summit in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, March 11, 2026. The event brings together leading voices to answer how governments and companies can work together to build the infrastructure America needs.

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Revolut Co-Founder, CTO Vlad Yatsenko to Step Down From Role

Revolut Ltd.'s chief technology officer Vlad Yatsenko Photographer: Benjamin Cremel/AFP/Getty Images

How a Nigerian Startup Became an Fintech Unicorn

African fintech unicorn Moniepoint was founded in 2015 and has grown into one of the continent's standout success stories. From powering payments for small businesses to building critical financial infrastructure, the company has scaled rapidly and earned its place among Africa's most valuable tech firms. Bloomberg's Jennifer Zabasajja spoke to Felix Ike, the company's co-founder and CTO, about Moniepoint's journey from startup to unicorn, and what it takes to build at scale in Africa's...

GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections

Microsoft’s GitHub has disabled over 70 repositories after they were reportedly compromised by a worm in the latest open source supply chain attack. The code shack took down 73 repos within the space of 105 seconds after its alarms were tripped on Friday, June 5, after detecting signs of the Miasma worm infecting its projects, according to StepSecurity’s co-founder and CTO, Ashish Kurmi. Users reported issues quickly on Friday, after visits to those repos all resulted in the same message...

Alibaba elevates tech chief Wu Zeming to elite committee as AI push ramps up

Alibaba elevates tech chief Wu Zeming to elite committee as AI push ramps up Wu joins Jack Ma and Joe Tsai in committee of five overseeing group that steers company’s strategy According to Alibaba’s website, the other members of the committee of the Alibaba Partnership are group CEO Eddie Wu Yongming and Jiang Fan, CEO of the e-commerce business unit. Born in 1982, the CTO represents a younger generation of tech executives climbing Alibaba’s corporate ladder. After joining the firm in 2004,...

Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months

AI is getting expensive, and some companies are cutting back on usage in an attempt to moderate costs. That cohort includes Uber, which recently instituted internal usage caps as a way to cut down on its exorbitant AI spend. Bloomberg reports that the company has instituted a new rule that places a monthly $1,500 cap per employee and per agentic coding tool, including Anthropic’s Claude Code or Cursor.

Show HN: DepsGuard – one command to harden NPM/pnpm/yarn/bun/uv configs

I kept seeing every npm/pnpm/yarn/bun/uv supply chain post end with the same advice (set a minimum release age, turn off install scripts), and while I know cooldowns are "controversial", they do work. But even if you convince people that they should set cooldowns, it seems many don't end up following through, not sure why, maybe because it means hand-editing five config files in five formats with five different time units, or perhaps the "it won't happen to me" syndrome (or "I'll do it...

AI's hallucination problem is getting bigger, and what makes it worse

AI tools are becoming more accurate, but experts say their tendency to generate false information remains a growing concern. According to a report by Axios, AI systems are now producing fewer obvious mistakes, yet they continue to deliver incorrect answers in a confident and polished manner. Researchers and experts warn that this could make the problem harder to detect, especially as more people use AI for research, medical advice, education and workplace tasks.