Interests & Insights
A collection of thoughts on technology, security, design, and other tidbits that pique my interest. Not just a dev log.
A collection of thoughts on technology, security, design, and other tidbits that pique my interest. Not just a dev log.
Google has announced a new schedule for publishing Android source code to AOSP, now only twice a year in Q2 and Q4, to improve platform stability.
The government says high phone taxes only hurt a tiny 5% of the population, but the newest numbers tell a much louder story. While officials claim most people are happy with basic local phones, the PTA just blocked nearly 100 million devices in a single year. This included 27 million "cloned" units. This isn't just a rich person's problem anymore. It is the story of a massive shadow market where millions of Pakistanis are forced to use fakes and "patched" workarounds just to stay connected. When 41% of the device ecosystem is hitting a wall, it is clear that the "5% affected" claim is more about PR than reality.
Over 56,000 developers unknowingly downloaded a trojanized WhatsApp API library masquerading as Baileys. This malicious npm package intercepts messages, steals authentication tokens, and grants attackers persistent account access through device pairing, and it's been flying under the radar for six months.
The eight people who wrote the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need", that gave the AI industry its foundational architecture have all left Google. By 2025, they had scattered to startups, new labs, and in one case a company explicitly built to replace what they created. Yann LeCun calls current LLMs "a dead end." Ilya Sutskever says the age of scaling is over. Andrej Karpathy says we've been thinking about AI intelligence categorically wrong. These are not outside critics. These are the people who built it. This is what the map looks like when the cartographers stop defending it.
And the developer who reads the docs will always beat the one who doesn't.
Telecom operators have rejected reports claiming that a government installed firewall had been shut down, terming the assertions baseless and inaccurate.