# competition Published articles for competition. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## Bomb the Hill Review: A Downhill VR Skateboarding Experience with a Touching Story DevFeed: [Bomb the Hill Review: A Downhill VR Skateboarding Experience with a Touching Story]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: J Brodie Shirey Published: 2026-09-15T13:18:26Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [UploadVR]() Topics: [Sports](), [pc](), [Meta]() Tags: [competition](), [gaming](), [review](), [vr-gaming]() ### AI overview A review of Bomb the Hill, a downhill VR skateboarding game on Quest with a narrative inspired by 1970s skateboarding culture and the early history of the sport. ### Source excerpt Bomb the Hill on Quest is a fun downhill VR skateboarding experience with a surprisingly touching story about the early days of the sport. ## Intelligence is yours. Let's keep it that way. DevFeed: [Intelligence is yours. Let's keep it that way.]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Paddy Srinivasan Published: 2026-09-14T21:11:13Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [DigitalOcean]() Topics: [Open Source](), [Software](), [PostgreSQL](), [React](), [GitHub]() Tags: [agents](), [competition](), [github](), [infrastructure](), [intellectual-property](), [kubernetes](), [models](), [mysql](), [news](), [open-source](), [opencode](), [postgresql](), [react]() ### AI overview The article argues that founders should retain ownership and control of their companies' intelligence rather than depend on a single intelligence provider. It advocates an Open Intelligence movement built from open-source models, agents, harnesses, data technologies, and infrastructure, drawing comparisons with the adoption of Linux, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kubernetes, and other open technologies. ### Source excerpt Intelligence was yours. A founder's intellectual property, business logic, differentiation, their intelligence, was once theirs alone. You built it, you owned it, and no tools/platform vendor stood between you and your customers. This is no longer clear. It is starting to look like it is "theirs." Intelligence can now be manufactured: the models, the agents and the harnesses that drive them, and the compute they run on. Providers who own all these can produce the application, and the differentiation, in every industry. That power runs the risk of becoming increasingly concentrated in a handful of companies. The race for the application layer is not about interfaces or go-to-market; it is a fight over who owns the intelligence layer itself. We have seen this before but we must act before its too late. Linux started behind Unix and Windows and now runs most of the world's servers. PostgreSQL and MySQL started behind Oracle and now underpin most new software. Kubernetes arrived after proprietary orchestrators and made them irrelevant. Each began less capable and won anyway: builders could see inside it, run it anywhere, and never had to ask permission. The same is happening now. Open weight models have repeatedly reached the frontier this past year. Open harnesses like OpenCode have grown to tens of trillions of tokens a day. Hermes reached more than 200,000 GitHub stars in five months, a milestone that took React a decade to achieve. Along with the near total adoption of open source data technologies, this collection of open technologies power an Open Intelligence movement. Open Intelligence restores the order. It returns to founders ownership of what makes their companies theirs. Founders should be free to build without tying their future to a single intelligence provider: their choice of agents, harnesses, data technologies, models, and infrastructure, with open source transparency, control, and competition keeping every layer honest. The stakes go beyond business. ## Agents of Chaos: A New $100K Agentic Security Challenge DevFeed: [Agents of Chaos: A New $100K Agentic Security Challenge]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Vanessa Villa - John Gamble Published: 2026-09-12T11:17:51.295154Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Blog]() Topics: [Security](), [prompt injection](), [AI Agent]() Tags: [agentic](), [agentic-security](), [ai](), [ai-agent](), [ai-agents](), [attacks](), [competition](), [prompt-injection](), [securing-ai](), [security](), [techniques]() ### AI overview CrowdStrike is launching Agents of Chaos, an online game and AI red-teaming competition with a $100,000 prize pool. Players interact with real AI agents in an adversarial world, attempting to manipulate them and exploit gaps between their intended behavior and their actual behavior across three increasingly sophisticated acts. ### Source excerpt Agents of Chaos, CrowdStrike's new AI red teaming competition, tests players' defensive skills against adversarial AI techniques. ## Outbid.lol's Growth and Lessons for Payment Infrastructure DevFeed: [Outbid.lol's Growth and Lessons for Payment Infrastructure]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Rishabh Goel Published: 2026-09-07T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Dodo Payments Blog]() Topics: [Website](), [Internet]() Tags: [build](), [competition](), [newsletter](), [payments](), [platform](), [product](), [scale](), [small-ideas]() ### AI overview The article examines how Outbid.lol grew from a simple paid public leaderboard into a widely discussed launch, citing reported figures of more than a million visitors and over $220K in bids or revenue. It also discusses the importance of payment infrastructure during sudden growth and announces Dodo Payments v1.113.6 improvements. ### Source excerpt Outbid.lol turned a 3-hour build into $220K and a million visitors. Why small ideas scale, plus v1.113.6: subscription pause, PPP, and Charm Pricing. ## Closing the IPv6 First-Packet Gap with GRAND DevFeed: [Closing the IPv6 First-Packet Gap with GRAND]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Seyed Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani Published: 2026-09-04T13:32:29Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [RIPE Labs]() Topics: [Network](), [Internet](), [reactive](), [Latency]() Tags: [competition](), [internet](), [ipv6](), [latency](), [network](), [open-source](), [reactive]() ### AI overview The article explains an IPv6 Neighbour Discovery asymmetry: a host can reach its router immediately after configuring an address, while the router may not yet know how to reach the host. This can delay or drop the first return packets. GRAND addresses the gap by having the host proactively advertise its address, and the article describes an implementation of this mechanism in FreeBSD. ### Source excerpt There is a subtle asymmetry in IPv6 Neighbour Discovery: a host knows how to reach its router before the router necessarily knows how to reach the host. GRAND fixes that asymmetry by making the host proactively advertise its address, and I implemented that mechanism in FreeBSD. ## When Traceroutes Lie: How TTL Jumps Can Give Us a False Impression of the Internet's Topology DevFeed: [When Traceroutes Lie: How TTL Jumps Can Give Us a False Impression of the Internet's Topology]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Sebastian Kappes Published: 2026-09-03T12:03:26Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [RIPE Labs]() Topics: [Internet](), [Networks](), [debugging]() Tags: [atlas](), [competition](), [debugging](), [internet](), [measurements](), [networks](), [research](), [router]() ### AI overview This article explains how routers that rewrite or fail to decrement TTL values can cause traceroute to omit entire networks and create a false impression of Internet topology. It describes the normal traceroute mechanism and measurements using RIPE Atlas probes to investigate the behavior. ### Source excerpt Traceroute is a powerful tool for uncovering how packets travel across the Internet. However, as we recently discovered, some routers tamper with the TTL values in traceroute's probing packets, giving you a false view of how networks are actually interconnected. ## How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge DevFeed: [How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Gergely Orosz Published: 2026-09-01T16:06:50Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [The Pragmatic Engineer]() Topics: [future of software](), [AI Development](), [Large Language Model](), [Software Engineering]() Tags: [ai](), [competition](), [essay](), [llms](), [software-engineering](), [tooling]() ### AI overview The Pragmatic Engineer announces an essay competition about how software engineering is changing as companies adopt LLMs, AI tooling, and AI infrastructure. It invites software engineers to submit 3,000-10,000-word essays about changes in engineering practices, culture, and workflows, with selected entries to be published and prizes of up to $10,000. ### Source excerpt The pace of change in software engineering is only accelerating, especially since January of this year. This is all to do with the industry-wide adoption of LLMs, AI tooling, and AI infrastructure. At The Pragmatic Engineer, we always want to capture as much of what's going on ## The IRR Landscape: What RPKI Can Replace DevFeed: [The IRR Landscape: What RPKI Can Replace]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Matthias Wichtlhuber Published: 2026-09-01T12:20:33Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [RIPE Labs]() Topics: [BGP](), [Routing Security](), [Routing (disambiguation)](), [Databases](), [Internet]() Tags: [analysis](), [bgp](), [competition](), [data](), [database](), [ixps](), [measurements](), [overview](), [research](), [routing](), [routing-security](), [rpki](), [series]() ### AI overview This article analyzes which parts of the Internet Route Registry landscape can safely be replaced by RPKI using traffic and route-server data from AMS-IX and DE-CIX. It concludes that third-party ROUTE(6) objects can largely be phased out, while third-party AS-SETs remain important for BGP filter generation. ### Source excerpt In the third part of our IRR landscape series, we use traffic measurements from AMS-IX and DE-CIX to assess which parts of the IRR landscape can safely be replaced with RPKI. Third-party ROUTE(6) objects can largely be phased out, while third-party AS-SETs remain essential for BGP filter generation. ## DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure: Beyond Definitions and Blocklists DevFeed: [DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure: Beyond Definitions and Blocklists]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Andrew Campling Published: 2026-08-24T11:30:19Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [RIPE Labs]() Topics: [Security]() Tags: [2025](), [analysis](), [article](), [competition](), [dns](), [governance](), [malware](), [research](), [security]() ### AI overview The article examines evidence that malicious actors may control a substantial share of new generic top-level domain registrations. It discusses estimates that at least 10% of domains registered in 2025 appeared on security blocklists, while the share associated with malicious actors may be closer to 20%. It also evaluates how definitions of DNS Abuse, evidentiary standards, and analytical methods affect these estimates, emphasizing that ICANN's contractual definition is limited to botnets, malware, pharming, phishing, and qualifying spam. ### Source excerpt Evidence suggests that criminals may control a substantial share of new gTLD registrations. Although the precise scale remains contested, the article asks whether current DNS Abuse measures adequately address wider misuse of domain names. ## Deploying IPv6-first EKS on AWS: What Still Doesn't Work, and What It Saves DevFeed: [Deploying IPv6-first EKS on AWS: What Still Doesn't Work, and What It Saves]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Spiro Stathakis Published: 2026-08-14T08:57:28Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [RIPE Labs]() Topics: [Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service](), [Amazon Web Services](), [VPC](), [networking](), [cloud-infrastructure](), [Kubernetes]() Tags: [2026](), [amazon](), [amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service](), [aws](), [cni](), [competition](), [cost](), [ip](), [ipv4](), [ipv6](), [kubernetes](), [nat](), [networking](), [networks](), [vpc]() ### AI overview A field report on deploying an IPv6-first Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service platform on AWS. It explains how IPv6 pods, VPC networking, and an egress-only Internet gateway reduce dependence on NAT gateways and public IPv4 addresses, while legacy IPv4-only dependencies such as databases, payment APIs, and container registries still impose compatibility requirements and costs. ### Source excerpt In this field report on IPv6-first Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), the isp6 team shares which dependencies still drag IPv4 back in, what they learnt from /28s, and why the saving is large but not automatic. ## Two Providers, a Stubborn Plateau and a Very Long Tail: Email in the Tranco Top-1M DevFeed: [Two Providers, a Stubborn Plateau and a Very Long Tail: Email in the Tranco Top-1M]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Artem Berezin Published: 2026-07-30T11:49:26Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [RIPE Labs]() Topics: [Time Series](), [microsoft 365](), [Resilience](), [Google](), [Microsoft](), [migration](), [Server](), [Internet](), [data](), [Software as a service](), [proofpoint]() Tags: [2026](), [authentication](), [competition](), [data](), [dns](), [google](), [measurements](), [microsoft](), [microsoft-365](), [migration](), [popular](), [resilience](), [saas](), [server](), [time-series]() ### AI overview A decade of DNS measurements across the Tranco top 1 million domains shows that email infrastructure is consolidating around Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. Self-hosted mail servers declined from 44.6% in 2016 to 22.4% in July 2026, while the two leading providers together handled 38.6% of measured domains. DMARC enforcement has plateaued, and a large long tail of infrastructure remains difficult to classify. The article frames this concentration as a resilience concern because outages, filtering changes, or policy decisions could affect a substantial part of the email ecosystem. ### Source excerpt Ten years of DNS measurements reveal three trends across the Internet's most popular domains: email continues to consolidate around two providers, DMARC enforcement has hit a plateau, and a surprisingly large long tail of infrastructure defies easy classification. ## Inside a Shutdown: BGP Evidence from an Operator Who Was There DevFeed: [Inside a Shutdown: BGP Evidence from an Operator Who Was There]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Md.Kamruzzaman Khan Published: 2026-07-22T11:29:16Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [RIPE Labs]() Topics: [BGP](), [Routing (disambiguation)](), [networking](), [Cloudflare](), [Internet]() Tags: [api](), [article](), [bgp](), [cloudflare](), [competition](), [internet](), [network](), [outage](), [outages](), [radar](), [research](), [ris](), [routing]() ### AI overview This article examines Bangladesh's July 2024 internet shutdown through public BGP routing data and firsthand observations from one affected network. It compares operator experiences with measurements from RIPE RIS, Cloudflare Radar, IODA, and OONI, while explaining what the data can and cannot establish about the event. ### Source excerpt When Bangladesh vanished from the global routing table in July 2024, public routing data captured the event as it unfolded. Drawing on first-hand observations from inside one affected network, this article explores what that data can and cannot tell us. ## Safari 27's Web Platform Test progress compared with Firefox and Chromium DevFeed: [Safari 27's Web Platform Test progress compared with Firefox and Chromium]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Alex Russell Published: 2026-07-06T00:00:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Alex Russell]() Topics: [browser](), [Web platform](), [Chromium](), [Firefox]() Tags: [browsers](), [chromium](), [competition](), [firefox](), [openweb](), [safari](), [test](), [web-platform](), [webdev]() ### AI overview An opinion article argues that Safari 27's quality and Web Platform Test improvements should be assessed against its slower release cadence and compared with Firefox and Chromium. It says Safari's time-weighted rate of improved tests is lower than those competitors. ### Source excerpt It's perilous to disagree with someone as wise and thoughtful as Jeremy, but for the past fortnight his post in response to Apple's iOS 27 marketing invades my quiet moments like a cricket in the attic. "Why", I ruminate, "should someone who understands the state of play give Apple credit for doing less than the minimum while rubbishing those who have consistently done more?" Contents Redux Features Over Tests Focus Areas Consequences You Do Not Have To Hand It To Them Everywhere You Turn Quality Has A Quality All Its Own Redux Like Apple's previous marketing of Safari 16.4 and Safari 26, the conjoined September release of Safari and iOS 27 documents an achingly slow release cycle. It would be one thing if the features or spec conformance were world-beating, but looking closely at the release notes, Safari 27 is set to deliver fixes for issues that, by and large, competing engines didn't suffer.1 Don't get me wrong: it's great that Apple is focusing on quality; it remains a persistent issue for Safari. But how much relief should long-suffering web developers expect? The best comparative measures come from the communal Web Platform Tests project. Comparing the current experimental builds with stable channel releases can illuminate the scale of change we can expect when the next major version of each browser launches:2 WPT Test Pass Rates (%) 90% is the minimum Apple requires across all WPT tests for competitors' engines in the EU and Japan where it has been forced to allow them (in theory). Safari barely clears the bar. Source: wpt.fyi It would appear that Safari is closing on Firefox, but this is misleading. Apple managed seven releases over the past year, or a roughly eight week cadence. Mozilla and Chromium, meanwhile, have released 12 versions to stable, or one a month. These serve as denominators (7.4 weeks vs. 4.3) when calculating rates of improvement. Safari's larger increase in passing tests between nightly and stable versions (1558 vs. 990 for Firefox) look ## The Web Is An Antitrust Wedge DevFeed: [The Web Is An Antitrust Wedge]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Alex Russell Published: 2026-04-03T00:00:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Alex Russell]() Topics: [Web](), [interoperability](), [browsers](), [Mobile](), [App]() Tags: [apple](), [apps](), [browsers](), [competition](), [interoperability](), [regulatory](), [web](), [web-apps](), [webdev]() ### AI overview This opinion argues that browsers and progressive web apps should be central to antitrust efforts targeting mobile ecosystems. It contends that regulators are accepting weak enforcement and that focusing mainly on alternative native app stores may leave the existing mobile duopoly's power intact. ### Source excerpt TL;DR: Armed with new powers to rein in the worst excesses of mobile's duopolists, antitrust bodies around the world are struggling to find their footing, and an incurious tech press is letting it pass with nary a nod. Browsers are app stores, but that perspective is almost entirely absent from the antitrust conversation. Instead of prioritising the one, narrow intervention that can safely unlock maximal competition, regulators are gripped by alt store fever dreams; driving down cul-de-sacs that will leave the duopolists' power intact even if new native app stores materialise. Worse, enforcers of new regulations are choking in the face of blatant non-compliance. Laws designed to kickstart competition and unchain web apps are being flouted, but regulators seem unfazed. The web is an engine of interoperability; this was understood by the drafters of these laws, but enforcers have not internalised the lesson, with the UK's CMA being only the latest to pose capitulation as success. Instead of unlocking growth and dynamism, overcautious regulators are ratifying non-compliance through inaction. Timidity today reduces room for manoeuvre tomorrow while hampering home-grown competitors to Big Tech. As it did twenty-five years ago, the web can unlock maximum change with the lowest risk, but regulators are falling down on the job, and tech reporters are not informing readers of the options or the stakes. It's time we spoke plainly about these overlapping institutional failures. Contents Open Societies Necessitate Interoperability Shared Premises Alt Stores, PWAs, and the App Store Endgame Regulators Are Missing The Ripest Opportunity Cupertino is Running Circles Around Brussels, Tokyo, and London Browsers Are App Stores Our Tech Press is Missing the Story, Too It's a day that ends in "y", which means The Verge is at it again: covering the regulatory tussle over mobile ecosystems without mentioning browsers, the web, or PWAs. This long-established pattern is as frustrating as i ## A complaint urges Google to block an Android policy change affecting Canadian developers and users DevFeed: [A complaint urges Google to block an Android policy change affecting Canadian developers and users]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Jesse Wilson Published: 2026-02-21T12:29:24Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Public Object]() Topics: [Android](), [Google](), [digital](), [Software]() Tags: [android](), [canada](), [competition](), [developers](), [distribution](), [fees](), [google](), [ids](), [open](), [policy]() ### AI overview The article reproduces a complaint to the Competition Bureau of Canada about a Google policy change for Android. It argues that requiring Canadian developers to submit identification and pay fees could reduce the openness of the Android platform and give Google greater control over software use and distribution. ### Source excerpt Google is building a digital lock into Android. It's a very bad idea and I hate it. The excellent organizers at keepandroidopen.org encouraged me to complain to the Competition Bureau of Canada. What I sent wasn't well edited but it captures my anger. Please send your own! I found ## Results from the Advent of FPGA Challenge DevFeed: [Results from the Advent of FPGA Challenge]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Anish Singhani Published: 2026-02-11T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Jane Street]() Topics: [fpga](), [Advent of Code](), [Hardware](), [Verilog](), [Algorithms]() Tags: [advent-of-code](), [algorithms](), [competition](), [fpga](), [hardware](), [writeup]() ### AI overview Jane Street reports the results of its Advent of FPGA Challenge, a hardware-design competition run alongside Advent of Code. The article describes participation statistics, the hardware description languages used, and examples of notable submissions. ### Source excerpt At the end of last year, we decided to try something new: a challenge that would run alongside Advent of Code, where we asked the community to show us how they could design hardware to solve the same problems. We had no idea what level of participation to expect, but we received a huge number of submissions, many of which were incredibly creative! ## Lumos: Inside Dream11's Leap from Task-Based Models to Foundational Intelligence DevFeed: [Lumos: Inside Dream11's Leap from Task-Based Models to Foundational Intelligence]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Dream Blog Published: 2026-01-22T06:40:39Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Dream11 Engineering]() Topics: [foundation-models](), [Sports](), [Machine learning](), [Large language models (LLMs)]() Tags: [analysis](), [competition](), [context](), [dream11](), [fragmentation](), [incremental](), [llm](), [ml](), [models](), [notifications](), [personalisation](), [scale](), [sports](), [systems](), [tech]() ### AI overview Dream11 describes Lumos, a foundation model for personalisation that connects user behaviour, context, and changing interests across sports experiences. The article reports a 2.5% lift in ROC AUC and a 4.6% reduction in MAPE across key tasks, while replacing dozens of task-specific systems with a single scalable foundation. ### Source excerpt By Dhruv Nigam At Dream11, our mission to 'make every match more exciting' starts with a simple truth: every fan experiences sport differently. Some users show up for marquee matches, while others engage consistently across the season. Some enjoy deep analysis; others come for emotion, banter, and shared moments. Even how fans prefer to be spoken to -- through in-app communication or notifications -- varies, from playful and expressive to direct and informational. In sports, context changes everything. A quiet weekday feels very different from the eve of a knockout match, and behaviour shifts with formats, rivalries, and the stage of competition. Personalisation at Dream11 therefore goes beyond surface-level customisation -- it's about understanding fans in motion and how their interests evolve. We've long recognised this challenge, but understanding and acting on these signals across millions of users, each with their own patterns and preferences, is far from easy. Over time, it became clear that small, incremental ML enhancements wouldn't get us where we needed to go. To stay truly user-first, we needed a system that could connect behaviour, context, and past, present, and future moments, all at once. That realisation led us to a ground-up rethink of how we build models at Dream11, and eventually, to Lumos -- our foundation model for personalisation. Lumos helped deliver a 2.5% lift in ROC AUC (Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve) and a 4.6% reduction in MAPE (mean absolute percentage error) across key tasks, significantly improving personalisation, while replacing dozens of task-specific systems with a single, scalable foundation.The Problem: When Task-Based Models Stop Scaling For a long time, our personalisation stack relied on 50+ small, specialised models, each designed to understand a narrow aspect of user behaviour. Some models focused on sports affinity, others on language preferences or communication style. While these were effective in iso ## Apple and Google Failed to Enforce App Store Policies Against Musk's Abusive Apps DevFeed: [Apple and Google Failed to Enforce App Store Policies Against Musk's Abusive Apps]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Alex Russell Published: 2026-01-20T00:00:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Alex Russell]() Topics: [X (Twitter)](), [Mobile](), [Google](), [App]() Tags: [app-store](), [apple](), [browsers](), [business](), [competition](), [elon-musk](), [google](), [mobile](), [phones](), [speech](), [twitter]() ### AI overview An opinion article argues that Apple and Google failed to enforce their App Store policies against abusive Twitter apps, exposing tensions between stated safety principles, antitrust defenses and business interests. ### Source excerpt Twitter's descent into a gutter of the lowest order has been wrenching: Elon Musk's Grok and the Mass Undressing Scandal As I draft this, a week later, it appears pressure from civil society, investigations by regulators, and outright bans on multiple continents have forced Musk to back down to an uncertain degree. As this scandal roiled, Twitter's apps have been continuously available in Google's Play and Apple's App Store, marking new lows in moral cowardice and non-enforcement of the duopolist's own policies. Now we sit on tenterhooks, wondering if the worst has actually passed. What outrage the will the valley's billionaire man-children unleash next? Meanwhile, we brace for this episode to embolden censorious authoritarians keen to suppress a free press and legitimate speech they dislike. This is the backdrop to Elizabeth Lopatto's must-read denunciation in The Verge: It is genuinely unbelievable to me that I wasted hours of my actual life on a court case where Apple explained it needed total control of its App Store to protect its users. Total control of the App Store was Apple's main argument against antitrust enforcement: The company insisted that its monopolistic control of what users could install on their phones was essential to create a walled garden where it could protect children from unsafe content. Ha! Ha ha ha!! -- Elizabeth Lopatto, "Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards, The Verge" Failure to react to the "everything app" going all-in on abuse of women and girls for weeks reveals the illegitimacy of their mobile monopolies1; anyone pretending otherwise is a fool or a dupe. We don't need to guess why they sat on their hands. Acting against Musk's abusive apps might put Apple and Google out of favour with an erratic, power-tripping administration which in turn could impact short-term business prospects. Their stated principles are incompatible with maximizing shareholder value under competitive authoritarianism. Recall that both firms lent their mono ## Dream UTT Juniors: Building India's Next Generation of Table Tennis Champions DevFeed: [Dream UTT Juniors: Building India's Next Generation of Table Tennis Champions]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Dream Blog Published: 2025-12-13T07:05:51Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Dream11 Engineering]() Topics: [Sports]() Tags: [2025](), [collaboration](), [community](), [competition](), [dream-sports](), [india](), [platforms](), [sports](), [table-tennis](), [visibility](), [youth-sports-development]() ### AI overview The article describes Dream UTT Juniors, a collaboration between Dream Sports Foundation and Ultimate Table Tennis to give India's U-15 table-tennis players experience competing in a professional-league environment. It explains how sixteen players from the Dream Sports Championship: Table Tennis were drafted into UTT franchises and reports that the league was streamed on FanCode. ### Source excerpt At Dream Sports Foundation (DSF), our goal has always been simple: to make sports better by strengthening India's sporting ecosystem and creating opportunities that truly matter. From cricket and football to boxing and weightlifting, we've worked across sports, supporting their growth through high-impact programmes and partnerships that enable athletes to perform at their best. As we continued to expand our focus, we also began exploring Olympic and high-potential sports where structured, high-quality competitions could make a meaningful difference. That's how table tennis found its way into our plans -- a sport with immense potential in India, yet limited access to professional-level platforms for young athletes. The idea was to bridge that gap, to create an opportunity that allows young players to experience the intensity, standards, and spirit of a professional league early in their journey. The outcome was Dream UTT Juniors -- a collaboration between DSF and Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT). How Dream UTT Juniors Came to Life Sometimes, all it takes is one question to spark something extraordinary. For us, it began with a simple idea shared between DSF and UTT: "What if India's U-15 players could experience the thrill of a professional league, just like seasoned players?" That question set everything in motion. What started as a passing thought quickly turned into a shared mission -- to create a platform where India's most promising U-15 talent could play and compete like professionals. By early 2025, DSF's own Dream Sports Championship: Table Tennis, held in association with the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI), had already taken place -- bringing together remarkable young talent from across the country in a first-of-its-kind competition. The top sixteen players from that tournament were then drafted into the UTT franchises (U Mumba TT, Stanley's Chennai Lions, PBG Pune Jaguars, Kolkata Thunder Blades, Jaipur Patriots, Dempo Goa Challengers, Dabang Delhi T.T.C., ## How Apple's App Store Model and Browser Restrictions Relate to the EU's DMA DevFeed: [How Apple's App Store Model and Browser Restrictions Relate to the EU's DMA]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Alex Russell Published: 2025-10-11T00:00:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Alex Russell]() Topics: [interoperability](), [Data Space](), [web applications](), [Web](), [App](), [browser](), [iOS]() Tags: [app](), [apple](), [appstores](), [browser](), [competition](), [dma](), [eu](), [interoperability](), [opensocieties](), [policy](), [right-to-repair](), [web](), [web-applications](), [webdev]() ### AI overview This opinion article argues that Apple's App Store model depends on control over app distribution and browser access. It links Apple's opposition to interoperability and browser engine choice under the EU's Digital Markets Act to the company's ability to collect revenue from developers and users. ### Source excerpt Eric Prouzet And now we see it clear, like a Cupertino sunrise bathing Mt. Bielawski in amber: Apple will censor its App Store at the behest of the Trump administration without putting up a fight. It will twist words into their antipodes to serve the powerful at the expense of the weak. To better serve autocrats, it will talk out both sides of its mouth in ways it had previously reserved for dissembling arguments against threats to profits, like right-to-repair and browser choice. They are, of course, linked. Contents Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Web? Dots Unconnected "Who should rule?" The Price of High Modernism is Dignity Endnote: Let's Talk About Google Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend its power to extract rents, rather than innovate. Namely, selective exemption from tariffs and an end to the spectre of pro-competition regulation that might bring about real browser choice. Over the past few weeks, Tim Apple got a lot what he paid for,1 with the full weight of the US foreign and industrial policy apparatus threatening the EU over DMA enforcement. This has been part of a full-court press from Cupertino. Apple simultaneously threatened the EU while rolling out fresh astroturf for pliant regulators to recline on. This is loud, coordinated, and calculated. But calculated to achieve what? Why is the DMA such a threat to Apple? Interoperability. The DMA holds the power to unlock true, safe, interoperability via the web. Its core terms require that Apple facilitate real browser engine choice, and Apple is all but refusing, playing games to prevent powerful and safe iOS browsers and the powerful web applications they facilitate. Web applications that can challenge the App Store. Unlike tariffs, which present a threat to short-term profits through higher costs and suppression of upgrades in the near term, inter ## The Ultimate Guide to Upcoming CTFs: From Beginner to Elite Hacker in 6 Months (October 2025 - April 2026) DevFeed: [The Ultimate Guide to Upcoming CTFs: From Beginner to Elite Hacker in 6 Months (October 2025 - April 2026)]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Stephen Thoemmes Published: 2025-09-29T04:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Blog RSS Feed | Snyk]() Topics: [ctf](), [Security](), [Embedded Software Dev](), [Hardware]() Tags: [2025](), [2026](), [awareness](), [beginner](), [blog](), [career](), [competition](), [complexity](), [ctf](), [developer](), [embedded](), [embedded-systems](), [guide](), [hardware](), [security](), [snyk-open-source]() ### AI overview This guide explains how to assess the difficulty of upcoming capture-the-flag competitions and plan a progression from beginner to elite events between October 2025 and April 2026. It discusses CTF Time Weight Ratings, voting rules, audience and prerequisites, event reputation, challenge complexity, specialized areas such as embedded systems and hardware security, prize pools, and career implications. The supplied text is truncated before the event listings are complete. ### Source excerpt Master CTFs from beginner to elite hacker in 6 months with this ultimate guide! Discover top competitions, understand difficulty classifications, and strategize your path to success from October 2025 to April 2026. ## Apple's Dispute With the EU Over DMA Compliance and Browser Competition DevFeed: [Apple's Dispute With the EU Over DMA Compliance and Browser Competition]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Alex Russell Published: 2025-09-25T00:00:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Alex Russell]() Topics: [browser](), [Security](), [iOS](), [PWA](), [push-notification](), [Web]() Tags: [apple](), [browser](), [browsers](), [competition](), [dma](), [eu](), [geofencing](), [ios](), [iphone](), [pdf](), [push-notification](), [pwa](), [sdk](), [security](), [webdev]() ### AI overview The article argues that Apple is misrepresenting the European Union's enforcement of the Digital Markets Act and shifting responsibility for its own compliance decisions onto regulators. It focuses on alleged barriers affecting browser competition on iOS, including geofencing, restricted PWA and Push Notification APIs, SDK bugs, and difficult development entitlements. ### Source excerpt Contents Lies by Any Other Name Great Artists Steal Dear Tech Reporters: Access Is Not A Beat This blog is failing on several levels. First, September 2025 is putting the "frequent" in "infrequently", much to my chagrin. Second, my professional mission is to make a web that's better for everyone, not to tear Apple down. But just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. Over the past 24 hours, Cupertino has played the hits from its iPhone-era anti-user, anti-business, anti-rule-of-law power trip. To recap: Apple sent a demand that the EU give up on DMA enforcement in a petulant and utterly misleading press release that mostly served to catalogue Apple's own failures to comply. Cupertino's kept astroturf outfit -- ACT | The App Association -- penned unhinged misinformation for consumption by US regulatory types (h/t Damien Geradin). The EC then called Apple's bluff. Make no mistake about what's going on: Apple is claiming that the EU is forcing Apple to adopt interpretations of the DMA that no other party has, which the EC itself has not backed, and which are "forcing" Apple to avoid shipping features in the EU. Or, put another way, Apple wants to launder the consequences of its own anticompetitive, anti-user choices through a credulous tech press. The goal is to frame regulators for Apple's own deeds. Lies by Any Other Name If this smells like bullshit, that's because it is. Apple tried similar ploys last year when it sprung a blatant attempt to kill PWAs on the EU as a price for having the temerity to regulate. The plan, it seemed then, was to adopt an exotic reading of the DMA and frame the EC for killing PWAs. What Apple's attempting now is even more brazen, particularly after 16+ months of serial non-compliance since the DMA came into force (h/t OWA). Remember that: Apple's browser, and by extension every iOS browser, fails on basic security and privacy controls, putting users at risk constantly. Apple serially misrepresents this situation to anyone who will ## Apple's Influence on Browser Choice and Internet Standards DevFeed: [Apple's Influence on Browser Choice and Internet Standards]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Alex Russell Published: 2025-09-02T00:00:00Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Alex Russell]() Topics: [interoperability](), [Internet](), [Web](), [browser](), [Software]() Tags: [browser](), [browsers](), [competition](), [internet](), [interoperability](), [standards](), [web](), [webdev]() ### AI overview The article argues that competition and interoperability are foundational to internet standards because they limit vendor power and enable users to switch software. It contends that Apple's control over hardware and software has restricted browser choice, weakened interoperability, and undermined the role of internet standards. ### Source excerpt TL;DR: Market competition underlies the enterprise of standards. It creates the only functional test of designs and lets standards-based ecosystems route around single-vendor damage. Without competition, standards bodies have no purpose, and neither they, nor the ecosystems they support, can retain relevance. Apple has poisoned the well through a monopoly on influence, which it has parleyed into suppression of browser choice. This is an existential threat to the web, but also renders web and internet standards moot. Internet standards bodies should recognise the threat and respond. Contents The Power of Interoperability Voluntary Adoption Is Foundational to Internet Standards Apple's Unique Monopoly How Apple Uses Its Monopoly to Centralise and Enclose Apple's Transgressions Against Voluntary Adoption Unilateral Off-Ramps How Apples Crimes Differ From Prior Episodes Necessary, Proportional Responses Why Now? Do Standards Matter? Internet enthusiasts of the previous century sometimes expressed the power of code by declaring the sovereignty of cyberspace, or that "code is law." As odd as these claims sound today, they hit a deep truth: end-users, and even governments, lack power to re-litigate choices embodied in software. Software vendors, therefore, have power. Backed by deeply embedded control chokepoints, and without a proportional response from other interests, this control is akin to state power. Both fear and fervour about these properties developed against a backdrop of libertarian1 attitudes toward regulation and competition. Attenuating vendor power through interoperability was, among other values, a shared foundation of collaboration for internet pioneers. The most fervent commitment of this strain was faith in markets to sort out information distribution problems through pricing signals,2 and that view became embedded deeply into the internet's governance mechanisms.3 If competition does not function, neither do standards. The internet's most consequential ## Announcing NeurIPS 2025 E2LM Competition: Early Training Evaluation of Language Models DevFeed: [Announcing NeurIPS 2025 E2LM Competition: Early Training Evaluation of Language Models]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Mouadh Yagoubi; Yasser Dahou; Billel Mokeddem; Younes B; Phúc Lê Khắc; Basma Boussaha; Ralami; Jingwei Zuo; Mughaira Published: 2025-07-04T12:25:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog]() Topics: [LLM evaluation / benchmarking](), [LLMs](), [hugging face](), [.NET Conf]() Tags: [2025](), [architectures](), [benchmarks](), [blog](), [competition](), [evaluation](), [google](), [hugging-face](), [language-models](), [models](), [neurips](), [ranking](), [technology](), [tokens](), [training](), [validation](), [verification]() ### AI overview The article announces the NeurIPS 2025 E2LM Competition, which seeks new benchmarks for evaluating early-stage training of Large Language Models on scientific knowledge. Participants will submit solutions based on the lm-evaluation-harness library, with submissions scored for signal quality, ranking consistency, and alignment with scientific knowledge. ### Source excerpt A Blog post by Technology Innovation Institute on Hugging Face [Next page]()