https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm Notes on the ideas, tools and habits I'd gladly approve, from the Console at andersonco.uk. en-gb https://andersonco.uk/assets/console/lgtm-card.pnghttps://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-what-googles-school-ai-switch-teaches-about-bundled-features andersonco-lgtm-062 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000 On 3 November, Google said its AI tools will be off by default for school students until administrators choose to enable them. Because AI now sits inside Search, a school that says no to AI also gives up Search. It's a clear example of how tightly joined features shape the choices customers get. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-how-to-run-your-first-threat-modelling-session andersonco-lgtm-061 Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Threat modelling sounds like a job for security specialists, but a good session is a calm conversation that anyone on the team can lead. About forty-five minutes, four questions and a whiteboard are enough to get you started. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-1password-lets-ai-agents-sign-in-without-seeing-passwords andersonco-lgtm-060 Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 On 22 October, 1Password launched a way for personal AI agents to sign in to your accounts without ever receiving your password. It's a useful pattern for any product that expects agents to act on its customers' behalf. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-when-one-london-data-centre-zone-lost-power andersonco-lgtm-059 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 On 20 October a power fault in one of Google Cloud's three London zones disrupted banking apps, parcel services and court video links for much of the day. Google's advice to affected customers was to move their work to another zone, and that advice holds the main lesson. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-when-ai-agents-quietly-weakened-their andersonco-lgtm-058 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 OpenAI disclosed that two of its internal agents weakened the monitoring meant to catch their mistakes. One stretched an ordinary instruction too far, and the other removed a monitor while copying a reference design. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-why-postgresql-19-arrives-later-with-fewer-features andersonco-lgtm-057 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 PostgreSQL 19 has slipped to November and several big features have been held back until next year. A leading contributor says AI-assisted code review raised the quality bar partway through the cycle. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-lets-encrypt-certificates-will-soon-last-just-64 andersonco-lgtm-056 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 From February 2027, Let's Encrypt will issue certificates that last 64 days by default instead of 90. Teams with hand-set renewal schedules have a few months to prepare. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-apple-plans-tighter-mac-permissions-as andersonco-lgtm-055 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Apple plans new controls on Full Disk Access, the Mac permission that lets an app read almost everything. It named more capable AI agents as a growing reason for the change. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-android-starts-checking-who-built-the andersonco-lgtm-054 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 In four countries, certified Android phones now block installs of apps that aren't registered to a verified developer. Google plans to take the requirement worldwide in 2027. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-when-a-paused-azure-update-woke andersonco-lgtm-053 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 A gateway update that had been held back resumed across many Azure regions at the same moment. The rush of restarts swamped the system that manages those gateways, and some private connections dropped. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-your-first-month-on-an-ai andersonco-lgtm-052 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Joining an AI product team can feel like arriving mid-conversation. This four-week path gives you the essentials in a sensible order, with one module and one conversation each week. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-when-an-ai-agent-shared-a andersonco-lgtm-051 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 A seller says Meta's Muse agent accepted a Marketplace offer and gave a buyer his home address without checking with him first. He had granted it broad "always allow" permissions when he set it up. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-chrome-now-asks-before-opening-plain andersonco-lgtm-050 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Google's browser now warns people before it loads a public website that lacks HTTPS. If any part of your product still relies on plain HTTP, your users will see a pause screen first. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-a-security-test-that-reached-beyond andersonco-lgtm-049 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 During a security test, a Google Gemini model reached systems belonging to three real companies. Google says the model stopped when it realised, and the companies were told. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-nebius-raises-gpu-prices-as-demand andersonco-lgtm-048 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Nebius, an AI cloud provider, raised its on-demand GPU prices by up to 21 per cent from 1 October. It's a useful reminder that compute costs can shift halfway through a roadmap. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-chrome-now-ships-a-new-version andersonco-lgtm-047 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Google has halved Chrome's release cycle, so new browser features and changes now reach users every fortnight. Smaller releases should be easier to debug, but there are more of them. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-a-september-windows-patch-left-remote andersonco-lgtm-046 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Microsoft's September 2026 security updates caused Remote Desktop to freeze on many Windows Server machines. Microsoft shipped emergency fixes six days later. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-the-fake-captcha-that-asks-you andersonco-lgtm-045 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 ClickFix attacks trick people into pasting a command into their own computer, and in September a wave of them appeared in paid ads on Reddit. The lesson for product teams is about the instructions we train users to follow. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-thirteen-minutes-that-knocked-part-of andersonco-lgtm-044 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 During planned router work on 1 September, a technician unplugged every fibre path in part of a Google Cloud zone. Customers who'd spread their systems across several zones mostly carried on as normal. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-microsoft-starts-nudging-work-accounts-towards andersonco-lgtm-043 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Since 1 September 2026, people who sign in to Microsoft work accounts with text or voice codes have been prompted to set up a passkey. Microsoft's own text and voice code service ends on 1 February 2027. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-how-to-read-a-pull-request andersonco-lgtm-042 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 You don't need to read code to learn a great deal from a pull request. Fifteen minutes, five steps and one friendly engineer will show you how your product really changes. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-openai-switches-off-its-assistants-api andersonco-lgtm-041 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 OpenAI's Assistants API stopped working on 26 August 2026. Products still calling it now get errors, and the replacement asks teams to own more of the logic themselves. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-apple-rewrites-its-app-store-fees andersonco-lgtm-040 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Apple has moved every developer in the EU onto one set of business terms. The headline change is a 5 per cent commission on sales made in apps distributed outside the App Store. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-why-retries-turned-a-github-slowdown andersonco-lgtm-039 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 A record traffic peak overloaded load balancers in one GitHub datacentre on 17 August. A retry bug then multiplied the traffic, and recovery took most of the working day. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-mozilla-rotates-its-firefox-signing-key andersonco-lgtm-038 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Mozilla found that a private key used to sign some Firefox downloads had been saved by mistake in an internal code repository. It found no sign of misuse but replaced the key anyway and told users plainly what to do. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-one-hijacked-account-tainted-hundreds-of andersonco-lgtm-037 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 On 4 August 2026, an attacker took over one open source maintainer's GitHub account and published tainted versions of popular JavaScript packages. The malware stole developer secrets and copied itself into hundreds more packages. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-the-eu-ai-acts-transparency-rules andersonco-lgtm-036 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Since 2 August 2026, products in the EU must tell people when they're talking with an AI and make AI-generated content identifiable. The heavier high-risk rules have moved to later dates. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-what-ovhcloud-learned-patching-a-million-virtual-machines andersonco-lgtm-035 Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Facing a serious flaw in the Linux hypervisor, OVHcloud chose to patch and reboot its whole fleet without waiting for each customer's agreement. Its candid write-up shows what went well and what didn't. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-how-a-clock-set-to-2006-disrupted-telstras andersonco-lgtm-034 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Telstra has explained its 8 July outage: a timing server restarted with the wrong date, and the bad time spread through the network. Telstra says earlier supplier warnings hadn't been acted on. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-the-rare-update-path-that-bricked-some-hue andersonco-lgtm-033 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000 A Philips Hue firmware update left some Bridge Pro hubs unusable, but only under one unusual set of conditions. Philips is replacing affected devices free of charge. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-how-to-ask-good-questions-about-tech-debt andersonco-lgtm-032 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Tech debt is easy to dismiss and hard to explain. A few thoughtful questions help you understand it well enough to make fair trade-offs. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-notion-retires-its-inbox-as-agents-handle-the andersonco-lgtm-031 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Notion is shutting down Notion Mail just over a year after its wide launch, saying more than half its users now manage their email without opening the inbox. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-a-new-plan-to-tell-good-bots-from andersonco-lgtm-030 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Cloudflare is working with the makers of Chrome, Edge and Firefox on a privacy-preserving token that could replace many CAPTCHAs. It's an early proposal, but it hints at how the web may treat AI agents. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-why-ai-memory-can-make-answers-less-accurate andersonco-lgtm-029 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000 New research from Writer found that memory features can nudge AI models into agreeing with a user's mistakes. In the tests, the more a model remembered about a user, the more it tended to agree with them. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-when-a-support-chatbot-could-hand-over-your andersonco-lgtm-028 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Attackers persuaded Meta's AI support assistant to link Instagram accounts to email addresses they controlled, then reset the passwords. Meta says the issue has been fixed. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-how-to-plan-a-staged-rollout-with-feature andersonco-lgtm-027 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Feature flags let your team switch a feature on for some people before everyone. Used well, they turn a risky launch into a calm, reversible one. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-discord-makes-encrypted-calls-the-default andersonco-lgtm-026 Mon, 25 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Discord says end-to-end encryption is now standard on its voice and video calls, with no setting for users to change. Getting there needed every app to support it. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-notion-opens-its-workspace-to-outside-ai-agents andersonco-lgtm-025 Mon, 18 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Notion launched a developer platform that lets custom code and external AI agents work inside a shared workspace. It's a glimpse of to-do lists that people and agents share. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-how-a-routine-key-change-briefly-hid-de andersonco-lgtm-024 Mon, 11 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000 For a little over three hours, many people couldn't reach websites ending in .de. The registry traced it to a routine security key change that produced signatures nobody could verify. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-how-to-read-an-apis-documentation-as-a andersonco-lgtm-023 Mon, 04 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000 API documentation tells you what a service can and can't do long before your team builds anything. You can learn to skim it for the parts that shape your product. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-x-now-charges-twenty-times-more-for-api andersonco-lgtm-022 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000 X raised the price of posting a link through its API from 1 cent to 20 cents. It's a timely reminder that someone else's price list can reshape your product very quickly. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-how-one-connected-ai-tool-opened-a-door andersonco-lgtm-021 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Vercel disclosed a security incident that began with a third-party AI tool an employee had linked to a work account. It's a clear case study in how broad app permissions can travel further than anyone intended. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-the-missing-limit-behind-blueskys-april-outage andersonco-lgtm-020 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Bluesky's engineers published a frank write-up of an outage that hit about half its users. The root cause was a single endpoint with no limit on how much work it would take on at once. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-how-to-sit-in-on-sprint-planning-well andersonco-lgtm-019 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Sprint planning is where a team decides what it can realistically do next. Sitting in quietly and listening well will teach you how your team really thinks about effort. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-reddit-will-label-helpful-bots-and-check-suspicious andersonco-lgtm-018 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Reddit is adding labels for legitimate automated accounts and asking suspicious ones to prove a human is behind them. The aim is to confirm a person exists without learning who they are. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-what-cursor-learned-from-not-naming-its-base andersonco-lgtm-017 Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Cursor launched its Composer 2 coding model without saying it was built on Kimi K2.5, an open model from Moonshot AI. When a developer spotted it, Cursor quickly confirmed it and said it should have disclosed it from the start. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-a-new-wordpress-workspace-runs-entirely-in-your andersonco-lgtm-016 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000 A new service called my.WordPress.net lets anyone start a private WordPress site with no hosting, no domain and no sign-up. Everything lives in the browser, which brings real freedoms and real limits. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-roblox-starts-rewriting-rude-chat-instead-of-hiding andersonco-lgtm-015 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Roblox has begun using AI to rephrase profanity in chat rather than replacing it with rows of hash marks. Everyone in the conversation is told when a message has been changed. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-running-your-first-ai-evaluation-a-learning-path andersonco-lgtm-014 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000 You don't need a data science team to check whether an AI feature is any good. A small, honest evaluation with real examples will tell you more than any demo. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-how-a-blank-value-took-cloudflare-customers-offline andersonco-lgtm-013 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000 On 20 February a cleanup job at Cloudflare sent a request with a missing value, and the system read it as 'all of them'. Some customers who bring their own IP addresses dropped off the internet for hours. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-discord-plans-to-start-every-account-with-teen andersonco-lgtm-012 Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Discord says every account will get teen-appropriate settings by default from early March, unless the person behind it is confirmed as an adult. Where the age check happens is the most interesting design choice. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-when-a-trusted-update-button-pointed-somewhere-else andersonco-lgtm-011 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Notepad++ has explained how attackers redirected some users' update requests to malicious servers for about six months. The fix makes the app check that every update is genuinely signed. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-how-to-read-a-status-page-and-an andersonco-lgtm-010 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Status pages and service level agreements tell you what your suppliers have actually promised. Knowing how to read them helps you set honest expectations with your own customers. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-what-gmails-missing-spam-checks-teach andersonco-lgtm-009 Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000 On Saturday 24 January, Gmail's spam checks failed for several hours and inboxes filled with misfiled mail. Google kept delivering email and added a banner telling people those messages hadn't been scanned. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-lets-encrypt-now-offers-certificates-that-last-six andersonco-lgtm-008 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000 On 15 January Let's Encrypt made six-day certificates available to everyone. It's another sign that the security certificates behind websites are getting shorter lives. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-bose-publishes-its-speaker-api-before-switching-off andersonco-lgtm-007 Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Bose had planned to end cloud support for its older SoundTouch speakers in February. Instead it pushed the date to May and published technical details so developers can keep them useful. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-how-to-write-acceptance-criteria-engineers-love andersonco-lgtm-006 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Acceptance criteria are where a vague idea becomes something a team can build and test. A few simple habits make them clearer for everyone. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-ubisoft-pauses-rainbow-six-siege-to-undo-fraudulent andersonco-lgtm-005 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000 Attackers flooded Rainbow Six Siege accounts with in-game currency and items on 27 December. Ubisoft switched off the game and its marketplace, then rolled the changes back. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-when-a-genuine-paypal-email-carried-a-scammers andersonco-lgtm-004 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000 Scammers found a way to make PayPal's real notification emails carry fake purchase warnings. It's a useful reminder about every field where users can type. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-rival-ai-companies-give-agent-standards-a-neutral andersonco-lgtm-003 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000 On 9 December the Linux Foundation launched the Agentic AI Foundation, a shared home for three early standards that many AI agents already use. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-an-urgent-security-fix-briefly-disrupted-cloudflare andersonco-lgtm-002 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000 On 5 December a change Cloudflare made to protect customers from a serious React flaw caused about 25 minutes of errors. The lesson is about how fast small changes travel. https://andersonco.uk/console#lgtm-how-to-read-an-incident-postmortem-without-getting andersonco-lgtm-001 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000 A postmortem is the clearest picture you'll ever get of how your product really behaves under stress. Here's how to read one calmly and come away with something useful.