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NeXT is usually remembered as Steve Jobs's failure, the venture between Apple and Apple. Author Geoffrey Cain and NeXT co-founder Dan'l Lewin join Matt Merrill to tell the real story, and how a company written off as a flop ended up shaping the devices in our pockets. The post Steve Jobs in Exile appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Security once enjoyed a comfortable lag between a vulnerability going public and attackers exploiting it. AI has collapsed that window, reading a disclosure and generating a working exploit almost instantly, but the same power is available to defenders. Alon Schindel, VP of AI and Threat Research at Wiz, joins Gregor Vand to discuss the disclosure-to-exploit race, scanning and remediation, and the growing strain on open source maintainers. The post Security in the Age of Instant Exploits appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Automated browser testing lets a single test drive Chrome, Firefox, and Safari alike, a quiet triumph built on years of standardization among open source projects, browser vendors, and the W3C. David Burns, a longtime Selenium and WebDriver contributor now Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack, joins Josh Goldberg to discuss how those pieces fit together, a practical testing philosophy, and the risks AI brings to web development. The post The State of Browser Testing appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist, and a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He joins Josh Goldberg to discuss his latest book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI. They explore the difference between a centaur and a reverse centaur, why the same AI tools leave some workers empowered and others exploited, why companies impose worse-performing workflows anyway, and what workers can do about it. The post Cory Doctorow on AI, Work, and Power appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Vector search was an early answer to AI's retrieval problem, but agentic systems have raised the stakes, issuing queries at machine speed and demanding infrastructure that keeps pace affordably. Chroma builds open source retrieval infrastructure and recently released Context One, a compact model that matches frontier quality on search. CTO Hammad Bashir joins Gregor Vand to discuss ChromaDB, context rot, and where AI data infrastructure is heading. The post Chroma and Agentic Retrieval appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.