Category Archives: Technology
AI Coding Contest: 7 challenges in, the tiers are clear
By Rohana Rezel I’ve been running an ongoing AI coding contest, pitting six frontier LLMs against each other in live programming challenges. Each challenge works the same way: I give all six models an identical prompt spec describing a programming
AI is a Dunning-Kruger equalizer
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
The junior developer pipeline is broken, and nobody has a plan to fix it
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
I asked AI to find Canada on a map. Here are the results.
By Rohana Rezel I asked the world’s most widely used AI chatbots, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, to find Canada on a map. It seemed like a reasonable test of spatial reasoning, the kind of thing that should be trivial for
3 in 4 Canadians reject Huawei in Canada’s 5G network
Three in four Canadians want to keep China’s Huawei out of Canada’s 5G network, according to the latest results of a Research Co. tracking poll, which mark a new high water level in Canadians’ rejection of the telecom giant from
Snapchat Dysmorphia: Surgeons report that patients are trying to look more like their filters
By Marina Wang Forget Megan Fox’s nose or Angelina Jolie’s lips. The new plastic surgery trend is to look like the glossy-eyed filtered version of yourself from Snapchat, according to a recent paper published in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery. “Usually
Researchers use genetic algorithm to predict city growth
By Marina Wang Inspired by natural biological systems, researchers are using an evolutionary genetics algorithm to predict the future skylines of cities. The model uses historic and economic data as input and then models the number of buildings as well
Equifax facing BC class action over data breach
By ThinkPol Staff A British Columbian has launched a proposed provincial class action suit against the credit reporting bureau Equifax over the data breach that compromised personal information of thousands of Canadians. Joshua Temple of Tofino, BC, is bringing this
BC woman sues HP after notebook computer catches fire
By ThinkPol Staff A British Columbia woman is suing the world’s leading personal computer manufacturer HP over allegations that her notebook computer overheated causing a fire that destroyed her belongings and forced her out of her rental suite. Shelby Barr,
Canadians blame parents for children’s in-app purchases
By David Boughton Children using their parents’ phones is nothing new. But what happens when a child racks up tens or hundreds of dollars of purchases while using downloaded applications? That’s the question an Angus Reid public opinion poll asked
