Daniel Jalkut:
For these scenarios, Xcode provides a handy checkbox that can be used to automatically attach when one of an app’s XPC services is launched. Look deep in the “Options” tab of the scheme editor’s “Run Action” page[…]
While this feature is great for XPC services in particular, there are many caveats. For example, Xcode will not automatically attach to XPC services that you didn’t build yourself. So, while an app that uses WebKit will employ many XPC services for accessing network resources or rendering web page content, Xcode will not attach to those processes automatically unless you built the WebKit project locally and are running against that version.
[…]
But here I run into another unfortunate limitation of Xcode’s attachment functionality: Xcode only attaches to the first named process it finds. FastScripts always keeps at least two RSScriptRunner processes going, so that when a script is invoked there will always be a process “primed and ready”. When several scripts are running in parallel, several RSScriptRunner processes are running. How do I attach to the one I care about debugging?
The solution I’ve come up with is to attach to them all. I’ve created an AppleScript that determines the process identifiers for every running process of a given name, and asks Xcode to attach to each one.
AppleScript Debugging Extensions FastScripts Mac macOS Tahoe 26 Programming WebKit Xcode XPC
Matthew Prince (Hacker News):
The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a cyber attack or malicious activity of any kind. Instead, it was triggered by a change to one of our database systems' permissions which caused the database to output multiple entries into a “feature file” used by our Bot Management system. That feature file, in turn, doubled in size. The larger-than-expected feature file was then propagated to all the machines that make up our network.
The software running on these machines to route traffic across our network reads this feature file to keep our Bot Management system up to date with ever changing threats. The software had a limit on the size of the feature file that was below its doubled size. That caused the software to fail.
[…]
This post is an in-depth recount of exactly what happened and what systems and processes failed. It is also the beginning, though not the end, of what we plan to do in order to make sure an outage like this will not happen again.
He also has a HN comment about the writing of the postmortem.
John Gruber:
This is how it’s done.
See also: How Complex Systems Fail (via Thomas Ptacek).
Brian Krebs:
Some affected Cloudflare customers were able to pivot away from the platform temporarily so that visitors could still access their websites. But security experts say doing so may have also triggered an impromptu network penetration test for organizations that have come to rely on Cloudflare to block many types of abusive and malicious traffic.
Manton Reece:
Cloudflare’s outage yesterday shows the mind-boggling scale of their network. The graph has 25 million HTTP 500 errors per second.
Miguel Arroz:
Unpopular opinion, apparently: companies like cloudflare and Amazon provide very high quality services people and enterprises actually need, with a level of uptime and security vastly superior to what most of their customers would achieve on their own or using traditional providers. Their downtimes being so visible is a consequence of their success.
Dave Rahardja:
2025 is the year we learn that a tiny number of large companies have become single-point failures for the Internet in the US.
I feel like this kind of consolidation is undesirable for Internet resiliency, but also inevitable as the cost of implementing “undifferentiated” (in AWS’ parlance) infrastructure is not profitable to web service owners.
Previously:
BBEdit Cloudflare Database Outage Web
Google (MacRumors, The Verge, Hacker News, model card, Hacker News):
And now we’re introducing Gemini 3, our most intelligent model, that combines all of Gemini’s capabilities together so you can bring any idea to life.
It’s state-of-the-art in reasoning, built to grasp depth and nuance — whether it’s perceiving the subtle clues in a creative idea, or peeling apart the overlapping layers of a difficult problem. Gemini 3 is also much better at figuring out the context and intent behind your request, so you get what you need with less prompting. It’s amazing to think that in just two years, AI has evolved from simply reading text and images to reading the room.
And starting today, we’re shipping Gemini at the scale of Google. That includes Gemini 3 in AI Mode in Search with more complex reasoning and new dynamic experiences. This is the first time we are shipping Gemini in Search on day one. Gemini 3 is also coming today to the Gemini app, to developers in AI Studio and Vertex AI, and in our new agentic development platform, Google Antigravity — more below.
Google (Hacker News):
Today, we are introducing Google Antigravity, our new agentic development platform. While the core is a familiar AI-powered IDE experience with the best of Google’s models, Antigravity is evolving the IDE towards an agent-first future with browser control capabilities, asynchronous interaction patterns, and an agent-first product form factor that together, enable agents to autonomously plan and execute complex, end-to-end software tasks.
[…]
We believe Antigravity’s product form factor represents the next fundamental step function in agent-assisted development. Thus, our goal is to channel it into the best product offering possible for end users. In today’s public preview:
- Google Antigravity for individuals at no charge
- Compatibility with MacOS, Linux, and Windows
- Access to Google’s Gemini 3, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 models, and OpenAI’s GPT-OSS within the agent, offering developers model optionality
It’s an Electron app based on Visual Studio Code and requires signing in with a Google account.
Dare Obasanjo:
A key innovation is how the tool reports its work. It shares task lists, plans, screenshots, and browser recordings to make it easier for the developer to confirm it’s doing the right thing.
In addition to the traditional IDE view it also has a Manager view is designed for controlling multiple coding agents at once.
Too bad they’ll probably kill it in a year 😁
Previously:
Antigravity Artificial Intelligence Electron Google Google Gemini/Bard Google Search Mac Mac App macOS Tahoe 26 Visual Studio Code Web
