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First-gen Chromecasts are vanishing from streaming apps. Google won't say if it's a fix or a quiet EOL.

YouTube, HBO Max, and others stopped listing the 2013 Chromecast as a cast target. Google EOL'd the hardware in 2023 and isn't commenting.

Vasilios Syrakis at his desk next to a whiteboard diagram of an Open Service Broker: Client → FastAPI → SQS → Worker → DynamoDB, with provisioning tasks to Route53, CloudFront, and API calls.
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Atlassian laid off the engineer who built its edge. He published the blueprints.

Vasilios Syrakis spent eight years building Atlassian's Envoy control plane. After the March cuts, he posted a 40-minute walkthrough that hit 1.1M views.

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GitLab is cutting staff and killing its CREDIT values. The CEO calls it 'Act 2.'

CEO Bill Staples announced a restructuring he frames around agentic AI, retiring GitLab's six core values for three new operating principles. Exact layoff numbers come June 2.

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Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs on its best earnings day. Revenue grew 34% and the stock dropped 18%.

Cloudflare laid off 20% of its workforce on May 7 while reporting record Q1 revenue of $639.8M. The stock dropped 18% after hours.

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Threads finally added DMs on the web. Group chats and most countries still aren't on the list.

Meta is rolling out one-to-one Threads DMs on desktop web for users 18 and over. Group chats come later, regional availability is staged, and the new sidebar surfaces analytics.

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Reddit started blocking logged-in mobile web users. The popup can't be dismissed.

Reddit is rolling out an undismissible 'get the app' banner on mobile web for a slice of frequent users. Old.reddit.com doesn't fully escape it.

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VS Code shipped 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' on every commit by default. Microsoft is reverting it.

A two-line PR flipped the AI co-author flag from off to all in April. Hand-typed commits started getting Copilot attribution. The maintainer apologized and promised a fix in 1.119.

Architecture diagram from Cloudflare's Dynamic Workflows launch post, showing a host Worker dispatching durable execution to per-tenant Workers.
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Cloudflare shipped Dynamic Workflows. Multi-tenant agent platforms finally get durable per-tenant code.

A 300-line MIT library lets one Worker route durable execution to every tenant's own workflow. The piece Cloudflare's Agents Week was missing.

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Google just moved 'Q-Day' to 2029. Here's what that changes for your crypto stack

Google's security team says cryptographically-relevant quantum computers could arrive by 2029, six years before the NSA's 2031 deadline. What to migrate, and in what order.