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  • Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

    How an unprecedented number of latent security bugs in Firefox were identified and fixed with Claude Mythos Preview and other AI models. Covers what was found and how agentic harnesses now reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

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  • Do Americans really hate AI?

    AI ranks as Americans’ 29th most important issue in David Shor’s survey. Argues Americans have answered negatively about tech for a long time and that it is a big leap from negative sentiment to meaningful political action, so the populist backlash is not here yet. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Do Americans really hate AI?

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  • Alan Moore – the comics industry is poisonous

    Alan Moore on why he has now disowned Watchmen and V for Vendetta, and on the shadowy London of his latest novel. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Alan Moore – the comics industry is poisonous

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  • Datadog’s stock jumps 31% on crushing earnings beat

    Datadog’s shares gained more than 30% in a single session after first-quarter results beat Wall Street expectations and guidance came in strong, lifting other software firms with it. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Datadog’s stock jumps 31% on crushing earnings beat

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  • Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough

    Cloudflare will let 1,100 staff go, around 20 percent of the company, citing its current and future use of AI. The announcement came in a blog post headlined “Building for the future”, reproducing the email sent to all employees. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough

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  • Long ago, a Houston company’s art graced the walls of America’s stoners

    The Houston Blacklight & Poster Company’s fluorescent posters, bongs, pipes and rolling papers, now held in the University of Houston’s Special Collections Library, including “Happy Times” drawn by George Goode. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Long ago, a Houston company’s art graced the walls of America’s stoners

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  • The McGroc Trap: Why Most Analyst Briefings Get Stuck Talking About Product

    Argues most analyst briefings follow a predictable arc: the vendor introduces the company, describes the platform, runs through features, takes a few questions, and a follow-up is set for six months out. Everyone leaves satisfied and nothing changes in how the analyst writes about or positions the vendor. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The McGroc Trap:…

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  • The 1960s Art School Experiment That Redefined Creativity

    In 1964 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jacob Getzels gave 31 art students an hour each to sketch a still life chosen from the same 27 objects, among them a bunch of grapes, a steel gearshift, an antique book and a glass prism. About half picked quickly and spent the hour developing an idea they already had;…

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  • We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

    Adds up the energy and emissions of individual AI text, image and video queries, which look small in isolation, together with what the industry is not tracking and where demand is heading next. Summarized by AI. 🔗 We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

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  • The ‘age of electricity’ is here. No one knows what comes next.

    Two new reports from Ember and the IEA make 2025 a banner year for clean energy. They land against war-driven disruption bottlenecking 20% of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas supply. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The ‘age of electricity’ is here. No one knows what comes next.

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  • The Organization Is the Bottleneck

    Everyone is adopting AI coding tools and engineers are writing code faster than ever, but the question is whether organizations are actually delivering value faster. The argument is that the organization, not the coding, is the constraint. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The Organization Is the Bottleneck

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  • Related to your interests, Monday

    Related to your interests, Monday

    Potsdamer Platz bei Nacht, Paul Paeschke, ca. 1929. Related to your interests Why your DIY Kubernetes stack won’t survive the era of agentic AI How tech chiefs gauge ROI on AI – AI uses: better search, preparing leases, and this: “When the system senses that ice is running low, it fires off an order to…

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  • What to put in tech marketing newsletters

    I’m always telling my marketing friends that they should do more newsletters. They have so many objections and hurdles – mostly self-imposed ones. Here’s why I think they’re good, easy, and how to come up with things to put in them.

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  • Not one of my most famous newsletters

    Not one of my most famous newsletters

    Today it’s just a links and wastebook clean out. Two Recent Garbage Chairs on Amsterdam I’ve found a few Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam recently. Truth be told, I stopped looking. When I moved here, the locals were bemused about all my photos “I never really thought about that,” they’d say, “but; yeah, there are a…

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  • Nobody cares about your blog. – The post is pro-blogging, obviously. We should try to bring back blogging (or blogs masquerading as newsletters, whatever). With the collapse of Twitter, there’s lots of text based people who need an outlet.

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  • 2023-06-08 day note

    Today’s newsletter has just a few links, some quirky quotes, and a list of upcoming conferences I’ll be speaking at or attending. My newsletter crossed 600 subscribers this week. Fun! I’ve been trying to build up a more stable place to publish now that social media is FUCKING CRAZY and BLOGS ARE DEAD, and it’s…

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  • Coté’s Commonplace Book #34

    Coté’s Commonplace Book #34

    The problem with me and newsletters is that I constantly want to make one, but they’re a lot of work. I long for the old blog days of just a splatter of content, a wunderkammer. Let’s try this commonplace book format. Software Defined Talk Episode 141: Broadcom acquiring CA, AT&T acquiring AlienVault, the mysteries of…

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  • The Frontside Podcast: 10 Pounds of Dirt in a 5 Pound Sack

    Spreading the happy-sauce – Coté Memo #24

    Hello, as I like to do every six or so months, I moved some publishing infrastructure around. This time, back to Revue from the fully automated Mailchimp. Yay me. Links Here’s a mix of things I’ve done recently and other items I liked. The Frontside Podcast: 10 Pounds of Dirt in a 5 Pound Sack…

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  • Coté Memo #83, now back to #1, and linky!

    Hello there! Let’s be honest, the highly manual-driven newsletter of mine was mostly dead. I stumbled across Revue.co which looks like the exact level of automation needed to make me more successful at sending out newsletters. I’ll try for every few days and first and see what happens. I imported the 107 existing subscribers I…

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  • Coté Memo #045: Double up to catch up. You have to spend money to make money. When you see this cup empty, just refill it w/o asking. QED.

    Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #045. When we hit #050, let’s all have an extra drink – I know I will! Today we have 52 subscribers, so we’re +1. Good job, subscribers! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to…

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