🔒 When Suing a YouTuber Backfires: The Lock Company’s Epic Mistake
A sharp reminder that transparency beats aggression — Proven’s lawsuit turned a small embarrassment into a major PR fiasco and a lesson in how not to handle security criticism online.
Ars Technica recounts how Proven Locks’ lawsuit against YouTuber LockPickingLawyer went disastrously wrong after he publicly demonstrated a flaw in one of their products. What began with humor and openness escalated into hostility and litigation, triggering massive public backlash and the Streisand Effect that amplified the very vulnerability they tried to suppress.
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📊 Claude for Excel: AI Comes to Your Spreadsheets
A promising move that could reshape productivity — Claude for Excel might soon stand as a serious open competitor to Microsoft’s Copilot for analytical tasks.
Anthropic has released a beta version of Claude for Excel, embedding its AI assistant into spreadsheet workflows. It currently enables model analysis, formula explanations, and tab navigation, with plans to add advanced functions like macros and pivot tables in future updates.
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🌐 Essential HTML Tags You Shouldn’t Forget
A clean, insightful guide reminding developers that even in a framework-heavy era, core HTML details still define user experience.
Jim Nielsen revisits key HTML tags that guarantee consistent rendering and accessibility across browsers, explaining how elements like <!doctype html>, <meta charset>, and <meta viewport> prevent layout glitches and poor scaling on modern devices.
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🤖 When AI Drains the Joy from Programming
A thoughtful reflection on the cost of convenience — this essay gives voice to developers struggling to balance creativity with automation in the AI era.
Developer Alex Năstase laments how AI-assisted coding tools, though efficient, have eroded the creativity and satisfaction of software craftsmanship. He argues that these systems replace deep understanding with surface-level automation, leading to frustration and a loss of purpose in programming.
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