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Maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Check out our manifesto: Honest Security. Steven Bellovin: Brooks is famous for many things. Many people know him best as the author of The Mythical Man-Month, his musings on software engineering and why it’s so very hard. Some of his prescriptions seem quaint today — no one these days would print out documentation on microfiche every night to distribute to developers — but his observations about the problems of development remain spot-on. But he did so much more. [...] He was also a lead on a failed project, the IBM 8000 series. He tried to resign from IBM after it failed; [CEO Thomas] Watson replied, “I just spent a billion dollars educating you; I’m not letting you go now!” Tariq Panja and Rory Smith, in a crackling, deeply-sourced report for The New York Times on how soccer’s World Cup wound up being hosted in Qatar (spoiler: millions and million of dollars in bribes): As the country fine-tuned its bid for

Daring Fireball By John Gruber Archive The Talk Show Dithering Projects Contact Colophon Feeds / Social Twitter --> Sponsorship WorkOS MCP : Manage your auth platform from any AI agent. European Commission: ‘Guidance to Google for AI Interoperability on Android & Sharing of Google Search’ Tuesday, 21 July 2026 The European Commission, last week : Today, the European Commission has issued two sets of binding specification measures to Google under the Digital Markets Act. The aim of the first specification measures is to ensure that competitors’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) services can compete

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