Verizon’s massive outage knocked out 5G and LTE service for hundreds of thousands, stopping calls, texts, iMessage, and mobile data. Was it a cyberattack caused by foreign hackers? The evidence points to a software failure, especially since Verizon MVNOs stayed online. That doesn’t rule out a hack, but with no hacker claims and no signs of AI-driven attacks, it’s probably … Read More

Earth’s astronomers and scientists use radio telescopes to listen to signals from space for extraterrestrial life, but Earth’s own signals have become too quiet for the rest of the universe to hear us, even from the closest stars. Speedify engineers discuss how humanity’s radio signals have become harder to detect over time, and what that means for finding intelligent alien … Read More

JavaScript is the most widely used programming language in the world, but that popularity comes with tradeoffs. JavaScript is accessible, flexible, and everywhere, yet increasingly fragile at scale. The origins of JS trace back to Netscape’s rushed creation of a scripting language for web browsers, branded as JavaScript despite no relation to Java, and now Oracle has control of the … Read More

Is Go still the right choice for backend development in 2025 or has its concurrency model become a performance liability? Alex and Brian from Speedify break down the real-world engineering tradeoffs between Go, Rust, Node.js, and C++. They dive into Golang’s goroutines, mutex locking, race conditions, and synchronization overhead, explaining how these issues surfaced at scale inside Speedify’s infrastructure. Using … Read More

Why do ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLMs struggle with Swift and SwiftUI? In this video, we break down why Apple’s ecosystem is harder for AI to learn from limited public Swift code to Apple’s constant breaking changes. We discuss how most real-world Swift projects aren’t open-source, why AI often misses recent language updates, and what happened with Apple’s promised Swift … Read More