Candidate Lies About Work; AI Takes Blame.
Also Gumroad's License Is Not Open Source and Nvidia Found the Python Key.

The Algorithm That Took the Interview

A surreal new chapter has been written in the never-ending office drama of tech hiring after a candidate for a software engineer role at Kapwing admitted to fabricating their entire technical history using AI. Eric Lu, a Kapwing recruiter, detailed the bizarre interaction where the candidate, who initially appeared highly qualified, suddenly became unable to elaborate on a single line from his resume during a live video interview. It turns out the candidate had outsourced the foundational narratives of his career to a large language model.

The facade collapsed when Lu simply asked a follow-up question about a hypothetical notification app for a daycare center the candidate claimed to have architected. The candidate, "Sam" (not his real name), had impressively name-dropped sophisticated concepts like rate-limiting and DynamoDB pagination, the exact kind of buzzwords that land the interview, before claiming the Twilio API could not send more than thirty SMS messages at once, a detail that stretched credulity past its breaking point. When pressed, Sam confessed that the entire anecdote was an AI generated artifact. The only thing missing was the AI also sending a follow up email demanding a higher starting salary.

Gumroad Finally Changes the Fine Print on the Free Doughnuts

The long standing debate over what actually constitutes "open source" flared up again after the e-commerce platform Gumroad made its platform code publicly available. Initial euphoria quickly turned into a headache for the self appointed licensing police when the terms were revealed to be a custom "Gumroad Community License," which was a clever way of saying, "You can have this, unless you make too much money". The original license restricted usage to companies with under one million USD in total revenue or ten million USD in Gross Merchandise Volume, a distinction that confused more people than it served.

In a move that felt less like a philosophical shift and more like a harried manager correcting a typo on a company wide memo, Gumroad eventually ditched the bespoke legalese and switched to the permissive MIT license. The whole episode was a perfect illustration of benevolent incompetence, a company trying very hard to embrace a community spirit but accidentally writing a restrictive clause that forced an instant, exhausting, two week seminar on licensing standards.

Nvidia Finally Lets Python Come to the Party

In news that only serves to remind everyone of how much effort was wasted previously, Nvidia announced that CUDA is now natively supporting Python. This is not a drill; Python, the world's most popular language in the AI and data science ecosystem that CUDA itself fundamentally powers, no longer needs to enter the GPU acceleration world through a series of increasingly elaborate and awkward backdoors. Developers can now use pure Python to directly call the CUDA runtime, skipping the C++ gymnastics that previously felt mandatory to unlock the silicon’s full potential.

The move is being framed as "democratizing GPU power," which is a fancy way of admitting that for years, the most powerful tool in the shed was only accessible if you first passed a lengthy C++ proficiency test to get to the good stuff. The new integration is set to unify the fragmented Python GPU ecosystem into a single, officially supported stack, ending the need to rely on third party wrappers that always felt like duct taping the engine of a Formula 1 car.

Briefs

• Creative Differences: Major camera companies including Sony and Canon were asked why their RAW file formats are all different and confusing, effectively forcing editing software to play catch up after every new camera release. Their answers mostly boiled down to "it lets us optimize the processing," which is industry-speak for "this is our silo and you cannot have the key".
• Teenage Hacker Rebrand: A staffer at the Department of Veterans Affairs had his past as a teenage hacker accidentally revealed through a YouTube nickname linked to his professional work. The individual, who now focuses on AI deployment, had previously published videos where he apparently demonstrated his technical aptitude in a much less regulated setting using the handle "Doge".
• AI for Cyber-Ops: Google announced Sec-Gemini v1, a new experimental cybersecurity model. The tech giant described it as a tool that can "help with threat detection," which in lay terms means we are replacing the security team with an AI that will notify us when the actual security team has been replaced by a better AI that Google did not build.