For years, major social media companies have operated like black boxes. Users could see what happened on the platform, but almost nobody outside the company understood how the platform actually worked behind the scenes. That may be about to change. Elon Musk announced that X plans to release its entire codebase as open source once … Read more
For more than a decade, the Google Play Store has been the default gateway for Android apps. That is about to change in one of the biggest shifts in Android’s history. Starting July 22, Google will begin allowing competing app stores to appear directly inside Google Play in the United States. The move follows the … Read more
AI coding assistants are becoming an everyday tool for developers, helping write code, fix bugs, and automate repetitive work. But they also require access to local projects, making privacy one of the biggest concerns surrounding AI development tools. That concern took center stage this week after independent security researchers claimed that xAI’s Grok Build coding … Read more