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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-03-31.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • GitHub tries injecting ads into Copilot pull requests, immediately backpedals after developers revolt.
▸ • Social gaming giant Rec Room is shutting down on June 1st despite having 150 million users.
▸ • Allbirds, once the darling of Silicon Valley footwear, is selling for a mere $39 million.
Microsoft thought it would be a great idea to have Copilot inject product "tips" (read: ads for tools like Raycast) directly into developer pull requests. The developer community reacted exactly how you'd expect, prompting GitHub to swiftly disable the feature and admit the behavior was "icky."
After a decade of operation and amassing 150 million players, the VR social gaming platform is shutting down on June 1st. Turns out, building a massive user base doesn't automatically translate to a sustainable business model.
The wool sneaker brand that once defined the Silicon Valley uniform is being acquired by American Exchange Group for $39 million. For context, that's roughly a tenth of what they raised during their 2021 IPO.
Europe's AI darling just secured $830 million in debt financing to build a massive data center near Paris. They're buying 13,800 Nvidia GPUs to ensure Europe doesn't have to rely entirely on US digital infrastructure.
Popular AI gateway LiteLLM is publicly cutting ties with security compliance startup Delve after falling victim to credential-stealing malware. Delve is now facing serious allegations of generating fake compliance data and using auditors who only conducted formal reviews. It's a stark reminder that a compliance badge doesn't always equal actual security.
Anthropic's Claude Code had its source code leaked via a source map file accidentally left in their NPM registry. It's a classic deployment blunder that proves even the most advanced AI companies can still trip over basic web development hurdles.
Google Research just dropped a 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with a 16k context window. It's designed to handle zero-shot forecasting across various domains, proving that foundation models aren't just for text and images anymore.
A new Quinnipiac poll reveals that 15% of Americans would be willing to have an AI program as their direct supervisor. Honestly, considering some human managers, an emotionless algorithm that just sets schedules might be an upgrade.
A Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded in orbit, creating a cloud of debris. SpaceX is calling it an "anomaly," which is aerospace speak for "we have no idea why our expensive space router just blew up."