OpenAI wants its money in before Anthropic's IPO

Arc browser shuts down, users have two months to leave

In an RPG you pick a class, and then a build. Software engineering used to have lots of classes, like web, backend and DevOps, each with its own stacks. The take here is that it's all converging into two classes, product engineer and system engineer, and the specialty you have now becomes your build. From episode 3 of Off the Leash, daily dev's podcast for when the headline isn't enough. The full episode is on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Anthropic wants Claude to come to you before you ask.

Railway is telling every customer to rotate every secret.

In 2019, about 1% of Hacker News "Who is hiring?" posts asked for a product engineer. By mid-October 2026 it was 9.5%. Linear's CTO says engineers will have to become "mini PMs" who talk with customers. From episode 3 of Off the Leash, daily dev's podcast for when the headline isn't enough. The full episode is on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

GitHub wants to stop package malware before it ever runs.

Is everyone a product engineer now? @satyanadella says LinkedIn combined four roles and said they're all "full stack builders." Claude Code's creator, @bcherny, thinks we'll start to see the title software engineer go away. On the new Off the Leash, daily dev's podcast, we check that against our own count of every Hacker News "Who is hiring?" post since 2019, and go back to 1974, when the US government saw programmers and systems analysts starting to merge into one job. Then we get to the second role Nadella named in the same answer, who's still hiring juniors, and what to learn now.

NetScaler zero-days exploited before patches existed

Microsoft is no longer just reselling OpenAI's models.