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A longtime Ruby on Rails developer and HEY email subscriber announced he is quitting the service after growing disillusioned with founder David Heinemeier Hansson's public statements. The writer, who once admired DHH's technical philosophy, says he can no longer support the company after DHH expressed views the writer characterizes as anti-immigrant and racially exclusionary regarding Europe.
A developer analysis highlights that Python's six built-in constants—True, False, None, __debug__, Ellipsis, and NotImplemented—are implemented in inconsistent ways under the hood. True, False, and None are hardcoded as lexer keywords rather than resolved through normal name lookup, while __debug__ is a regular identifier that uniquely cannot be assigned to, even as an attribute.
Retailers are running early Labor Day discounts on kitchen gear, including a 50% price cut on All-Clad's 6-quart D3 Mother of All Pans, now $150, and $62 off a Cuisinart air fryer oven and grill, now $158. Both items are pulled from WIRED's tested and recommended kitchen picks ahead of the fall cooking season.
Chris Malone, who led OpenAI's data center buildout since March 2025, has left the company, according to CNBC. Malone previously worked as a distinguished engineer on infrastructure at Meta and Google before joining OpenAI to help manage its roughly $600 billion compute spending plan through 2030. OpenAI says it has reorganized its infrastructure team and maintains strong leadership despite the exit.
CD Projekt Red announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live that a remastered version of The Witcher 3, bundled with both existing expansions, launches September 29 as a free upgrade for current owners. Switch owners will also get a complimentary upgrade path to the Switch 2 version. The remaster brings visual improvements plus reworked skill trees, combat, camera, targeting, movement and mount handling.
XCancel, a third-party viewer that let users browse X (formerly Twitter) content without logging in or dealing with X's interface restrictions, has gone offline. The site's operators posted a notice saying they received a cease-and-desist letter from X Corp on August 24 and halted the service while they seek legal advice.
OpenAI has expanded access to ChatGPT's task scheduling hub, previously limited to paid tiers, so free account holders can now set up scheduled prompts. The company also added the ability to share scheduled tasks with other users, letting useful automations spread across workflows.
Dolly Parton, the country music icon known as the 'Queen of Country,' died Tuesday at age 80. Beyond her decades-long music career and business ventures, she is remembered for founding the Imagination Library, a program that has mailed free books to millions of children to encourage early literacy.
The FDA has granted approval to a wearable sensor capable of monitoring both blood glucose and ketone levels simultaneously, marking the first authorization of its kind. The device is designed to give users continuous, real-time readings without separate testing tools for each metric.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that companies plateau not because of competitors but due to self-imposed limits, chiefly the habit of chasing a comfortable 'fair share' of the market instead of defining themselves by unmet customer needs. The piece, drawn from a keynote at CIBC's Global Corporate and Investment Banking Offsite in Detroit, identifies five internal drag factors—complacency, fear of failure, intimidation by larger rivals, reliance on legacy approaches, and false confidence from busywork—as the real obstacles to becoming a great company.
An Entrepreneur contributor reflects on Women's Equality Day, marking the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment, by connecting the decades-long suffrage struggle to the physical and mental toll faced by today's female founders. The writer describes her own experience overworking to the point of illness while citing data showing female entrepreneurship grew 69% from 2019 to 2024, with 83% of female founders reporting high stress and 54% facing burnout.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, working with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, built the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O), which used infrared laser light instead of radio waves to send data from the spacecraft. During the mission the system downlinked nearly half a terabyte of data at speeds up to 260 megabits per second, delivering sharp footage of the moon's far side, a solar eclipse, and meteoroid impacts.