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New polling out of the UK has delivered a striking message to lawmakers who want access to encrypted messages: the public isn't interested. Ninety-three percent of British adults say they have a right to private conversations online, and eighty-nine percent believe no one should read their messages without a court order. That's not ambiguity — that's a mandate.
Shifting from privacy to productivity, Amazon has open-sourced a new system called Kiro Crew, designed to let multiple AI coding agents work independently across tasks and sessions. Developers can hand off jobs like incident investigations, ticket triage, and pull request monitoring to agents that keep running without anyone watching over them. It's a meaningful step toward software development that simply doesn't stop when you close your laptop.
And in a piece worth your time, engineer Dan Luu has written a deep examination of what he calls bug blindness — the way developers and organizations systematically fail to notice problems that are right in front of them. It's less about technical failure and more about the human and institutional habits that let bugs survive for years. With two hundred six points on Hacker News, it's clearly struck a nerve.
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