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By Rohana Rezel In March 2026, Yousif Astarabadi, a startup founder and CEO of a company called TalkTastic, posted a viral thread claiming he had hacked Perplexity's sandboxed coding environment. He had extracted what looked like a gateway token, proxied…
By Rohana Rezel In late 2023, a security researcher named Bar Lanyado noticed something odd: multiple AI models kept recommending a Python package called huggingface-cli. The name made sense, closely matching the real Hugging Face CLI syntax. But the package…
By Rohana Rezel In a blog post that remains live on its website, California YIMBY argues that short-term rental regulations make the housing crisis worse. The post cites a single academic study to make the case that restricting Airbnb reduces…
On October 16, 2023, the day BC announced it would restrict short-term rentals to principal residences, Tamara Stone, a Kelowna realtor, received six calls from panicked property owners before noon. Within days, 250 new houses and 392 new condos appeared…
By Rohana Rezel Schools don’t create senior software engineers. Scars do. Every senior engineer you've ever relied on was once mass-applying to entry-level jobs, writing bad code, and learning the hard way why you don't store passwords in plaintext. The…
A widely cited argument in housing policy holds that building more market-rate apartments will, over time, reduce rents for everyone. A new peer-reviewed study challenges that premise — at least at the neighbourhood level — finding that new construction raises…
A team of researchers in Beijing has built an artificial neural network modelled directly on the primate brain's visual system — and the result is an AI that makes decisions more like a human and holds up far better under…
Researchers have developed a wearable sweat sensor that can continuously track blood glucose levels during exercise — a breakthrough that could transform how people with diabetes manage their condition while staying active. The device, described in a study published today…
A new academic chapter traces how scattered local resistance to Olympic Games hosting evolved into a coordinated transnational movement — and examines what it would take to turn protest into structural change at the IOC. The chapter, "NOlympics Anywhere: Building…
A new study published in Housing Studies has examined how Canada's mainstream print media frames renovictions — the practice of evicting tenants under the guise of renovation — finding that coverage has grown alongside the housing crisis but often stops…