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A developer recently discovered that Deno Deploy, the cloud platform for running JavaScript and TypeScript, is silently blocking requests to paths containing slash wp-content — the familiar WordPress directory structure. The user spent hours debugging their own code before realizing the platform itself was intercepting those routes, raising real questions about undisclosed infrastructure behavior and what developers can actually trust about the environments they deploy to.
Shifting to the workforce, new data from the GMB Union finds that nearly half of all workers — forty-eight percent — fear artificial intelligence will eventually cost them their jobs. That anxiety is arriving alongside a report showing enterprise use of AI agents has surged ninety percent in just one year. The numbers together tell a complicated story: adoption is accelerating at the top, while anxiety is deepening at the bottom.
And on the security front, a company called AffixIO is pushing into what they call post-quantum attestation — essentially building systems designed to protect the integrity of long-lived records against future quantum computing threats. It's an early-stage conversation, but one the industry will need to have seriously as quantum timelines become less theoretical and more immediate.
Stay curious, stay skeptical. Tech Beat out.
