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Airbnb’s Open-Source GraphQL Framework with Adam Miskiewicz

Engineering teams often build microservices as their systems grow, but over time this can lead to a fragmented ecosystem with scattered data access patterns, duplicated business logic, and an uneven developer experience. A unified data graph with a consistent execution layer helps address these challenges by centralizing schema, simplifying how teams compose functionality, and reducing

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Python 3.14 with Łukasz Langa

Python 3.14 is here and continues Python’s evolution toward greater performance, scalability, and usability. The new release formally supports free-threaded, no-GIL mode, introduces template string literals, and implements deferred evaluation of type annotations. It also includes new debugging and profiling tools, along with many other features. Łukasz Langa is the CPython Developer in Residence at

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Inside China’s Great Firewall with Jackson Sippe

China’s Great Firewall is often spoken about but is rarely understood. It is one of the most sophisticated and opaque censorship systems on the planet, and it shapes how over a billion people interact with the global internet, influences the design of privacy and proxy tools worldwide, and continues to evolve in ways that challenge

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If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can.

For years, tech companies have promised AI will give everyone a capable personal assistant but delivered something more like a clueless intern. Over the past six months, that has started to change, thanks largely to the viral open-source AI agent platform OpenClaw. And among the top AI labs now chasing similar success, one seems particularly […]

A Quiet War: Trump’s Impact on Legal Immigration

When the member states of the United Nations reviewed their Global Compact on Migration earlier this month, one country was conspicuously absent from the discussions: the United States. In a post on X explaining its reasoning, the State Department said it objects to global “efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our […]

Insta360 Mic Pro Utilizes a Three-Microphone Array for Enhanced Recordings

After initially revealing its unique design at NAB 2026 last month with few technical details, Insta360 has announced and launched its new wireless Mic Pro system featuring a couple of industry firsts. While the Mic Pro transmitters that can directly connect to devices over Bluetooth are available individually for $99.99, a more elaborate kit with […]

Possible Leak of Customer Addresses by Trump Mobile

Just as the T1 Phone is seemingly on the verge of release, Trump Mobile has been accused of insecurely storing customer data, leaving addresses and phone numbers vulnerable. The alleged leak has also revealed how many T1 Phone orders were apparently placed, and it’s far fewer than viral figures have claimed. YouTuber voidzilla was the […]

Apple Offers Update on App Store Improvements and Essential Safety Protocols

### Apple Outlines How the App Store Shields Users and Developers

As Apple’s annual developer conference approaches next month, the firm has released an update on the App Store’s role in providing protection for both users and developers. Apple presented a comprehensive summary detailing the measures it employs to safeguard its ecosystem, noting that the App Store now sees more than 850 million weekly users across 175 storefronts.

Apple asserts that this initiative necessitates ongoing enhancements and innovation. In their press statement, the company remarked:

> “With the growth of the digital landscape, malicious entities are continually adapting their strategies, frequently employing deceptive methods to target consumers and legitimate businesses. To stay ahead of these issues, Apple consistently upgrades its multilayered safeguards, using a blend of expert human oversight and cutting-edge machine learning technology to recognize and prevent harmful activities.”

#### Important Data Points from 2025

In 2025, Apple disclosed considerable progress in protecting users and developers, which included:

– **Prevented more than $2.2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions.**
– **Rejected over 2 million problematic app submissions** to hinder bad actors from propagating harmful software.
– **Blocked 1.1 billion fraudulent customer account creations** through its systems.
– **Deactivated 40.4 million customer accounts** due to fraud and abuse.
– **Cancelled 193,000 developer accounts** over fraud issues and turned down more than 138,000 developer registrations.
– **Identified and blocked 28,000 illicit apps** on pirate storefronts, including malware, pornography apps, gambling apps, and pirated versions of legitimate App Store apps.
– **App Review assessed more than 9.1 million app submissions.**
– **Welcomed over 306,000 new developers** to the platform.
– **Removed nearly 59,000 apps** that were involved in bait-and-switch financial fraud schemes.
– **Rejected over 22,000 submissions** for featuring hidden or undocumented attributes; over 371,000 submissions that duplicated other apps, were identified as spam, or otherwise misled users; and over 443,000 submissions due to privacy infringements.
– **Spotted and prevented nearly 195 million fraudulent ratings and reviews** from being published.

For further information and recent updates on Apple’s efforts concerning the App Store, you can read the complete article [here](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/the-app-store-stopped-over-2-point-2-billion-usd-in-fraudulent-transactions-in-2025/).

French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites

A Scaleway-led AION consortium, with backing from Iliad, GENCI, Inria, Eviden, SiPearl, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, is positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands. A consortium of French companies led by Iliad’s cloud subsidiary Scaleway has bid roughly $10bn to build one of the European Union’s […]

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