India disrupts access to popular developer platform Supabase with blocking order
India, one of Supabase’s biggest markets, is seeing patchy access after a government block order.
Puzzle Corner
Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the September/October 2026 Puzzle Corner, brought to you by Michael S. Branicky, ScD ’95, of the Puzzle Corner Puzzle Crew (aka PC2), which also includes Edward Faulkner ’03, MEng ’04, and Abe Kunin ’03. This column includes solutions to the May/June issue. Send problems, solutions (by October…
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OpenAI fires employee for using confidential info on prediction markets
The company said such trades violates its internal company policies about using confidential information for personal gain.
MIT Technology Review is a 2026 ASME finalist in reporting
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President Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic after Pentagon dispute
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The franchise added 20,000 new clients in 2025 alone.
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Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying ‘nobody committed suicide because of Grok’
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