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Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering software engineer who led the hundred-person team that wrote the onboard code for the Apollo missions — guiding Armstrong and Aldrin safely to the moon — passed away on September thirtieth in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was ninety years old, and her work essentially invented the discipline of software engineering.
Turning to a story about friction between users and platforms, a developer on Hacker News is sounding the alarm about OpenAI's account migration flow, claiming they were inadvertently switched from a personal account to a business account and are now spending hundreds of dollars a day on basic Codex usage. OpenAI has reportedly refused to allow a reversal, and the user says they're moving to competing platforms entirely.
And in a sign of how dramatically the crypto media landscape has shifted, Cointelegraph — one of the most recognizable names in digital asset news — is reportedly seeking a buyer after a significant collapse in web traffic. The asking price hasn't been disclosed, but the sale process itself suggests the advertising-driven crypto media model is under serious strain.
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