Technology
Three stories a day on the technology that changes how businesses run, chosen for what they mean rather than how loud they are.
Technology at The First Click is not a gadget page. Each weekday at 11 we choose three stories for the reader who has to decide something because of them: the chief technology officer sizing a refresh, the founder reading a funding round for what it says about the market, the security lead who needs to know which assumption just expired. The beats are AI and machine learning, enterprise software, cybersecurity, semiconductors, and startups and funding. Every story is summarised in our own words and links to the publisher who reported it. Beneath the day’s lead sits an editor’s note: why we chose it over the alternatives, and what to watch next. On Fridays the funniest of the week gathers in pubLOL, and every second Sunday a Ctrl+Shift column takes one technology question at length.
Every story we have kept in Technology, newest first. Headlines link to the publisher; the tags below narrow the list.
Remembering Why We Code: Dropping AI for Fundamental Learning
A self-taught developer describes switching the AI assistant off while working through a second Java course, on the theory that fundamentals learned with help are not learned at all.
Dev log 20: Deleting 180k lines and chasing socket leaks: A week in the OSS trenches
An engineer's public work log for the week: 180,000 lines cut from a personal vault, socket leaks traced inside libp2p, a contribution landed in the Rust compiler, 102 commits in total.
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium
Timekeepers meet next month to vote on retiring the leap second, pushed along by the awkward prospect of a negative one. The proposal defers the problem into the next millennium.
Editor's noteStandards bodies rarely make the news, and this is why they should. A great deal of software was written on the assumption that leap seconds would keep arriving, and the interesting question is not the vote itself but what quietly breaks in the decade after timekeepers stop inserting them.
Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 arrives September 3rd and requires serious GPU horsepower
Nvidia launched DLSS 5 on September 3rd with NBA 2K27, its first title using the new neural rendering pipeline, requiring RTX 50-series GPUs while RTX 40-series support waits until later this fall.
