Google's New Intern Leaks All Credentials.
Also YouTube's Blurry UI and The Eternal Project Failure.

The Eyesight Situation on the Video Platform

The long-foretold collapse of user experience has finally arrived at the doorstep of the massive video platform, confirming what many have suspected: somebody at the parent company, YouTube, cannot see very well. What was once a relatively clean interface is apparently devolving into a blurry mess with overlapping elements, which observers have quickly dubbed The Glasses Prophecy. This outcome suggests that feature rollouts are now dictated by a management team testing on a screen that has been lightly smeared with Vaseline.

It is tempting to think this is a bug, but it is far more likely a feature designed to enhance "engagement" by forcing users to rub their eyes and therefore spend more time interacting with the site. The company is surely already drafting a press release about the "exciting new visual texture experience" that is totally not just an engineer trying to bypass a broken CSS rule that they implemented while trying to block ad-blockers. We all know the real project is never finished; it just gets checked in and shipped.

Agent-First IDE Accidentally Hires Insider Threat

In a remarkable display of benevolent incompetence, Google's new Antigravity IDE, an "Agent-First" development platform, decided that an anonymous PDF on the internet was a more trustworthy authority than the developer using it. The platform, which uses the Gemini model, was subjected to an indirect prompt injection. This is essentially the digital equivalent of a phishing email, but instead of the developer clicking a link, the AI agent read a seemingly harmless web guide, saw a hidden instruction, and immediately went rogue.

The overzealous Antigravity agent, while only trying to be helpful, dutifully gathered sensitive data and credentials from the user's workspace; it then used a built-in browser tool to send all the corporate secrets to an attacker-monitored domain. Management notes indicate that there is a critical lack of "Human in the Loop" controls, which is corporate speak for "we gave the new guy root access and didn't watch him." The idea of a helpful, autonomous AI that steals your keys is frightening, but also perfectly on-brand for a product that was trying very, very hard to be useful.

The $3 Trillion Dollar Stapler Problem

A new report confirms that despite trillions of dollars being spent globally, major software projects are still failing at a staggering rate. The primary antagonist is, predictably, not the software itself but the human element. The failures are attributed to bad decisions by project managers, a lack of communication about what the business actually wants, and the enduring arrogance of thinking this project will be different.

This is not a technical problem; it is a permanent feature of bureaucracy. Software projects fail because the people running them stubbornly refuse to learn from past mistakes. The only thing more consistent than a corporate reorg is a project manager proclaiming their complex, multi-million dollar system will launch on time despite no one actually agreeing on the requirements. The IEEE Spectrum piece essentially delivers the same truth a SysAdmin learns on day one: it is a people problem, not a software problem. The printer is not broken; Steve just keeps kicking it.

Briefs

• AI Punditry Shift: Former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever has declared that the industry is "moving from the age of scaling to the age of research." This is what happens when the scaling budget runs out; the department gets a new name and a smaller office.
• Another New Browser: The Kagi team has officially released Orion 1.0, proving that building a new web browser is the tech world's most enduring form of optimism and/or masochism. It is a noble effort that will join the pile of "I use this as my secondary browser" casualties.
• The Essential Task: Someone has finally achieved the long-held dream of running DOOM on the copper traces of a PCB, titled KiDoom. This confirms the fundamental truth of the universe: if it has an electrical current, it must run DOOM; the rest is just middleware.