TIL: May 26, 2025 - Weekly Reading: Go, Security, AI

Go

• What’s New In Go - Cameron Balahan, Marc Dougherty (Google)

  A very basic presentation of new features in Go 1.24. It looks like it was done for Google I/O 2025 but it’s not one of the in-person sessions. It covers the improvements to iterators, json package’s new omitzero option, improvements to WASM targets, post-quantum cryptography, and performance improvements to Go maps via the new Swiss Tables implementation.

Security

• Domestic abuse victim data stolen in Legal Aid hack - Aoife Walsh & Graeme Baker (BBC News)

  A hack of the Legal Aid Agency in the UK has resulted in the personal data of domestic abuse victims being stolen. The breach was discovered in April 2025. Stolen info apparently includes addresses, dates of birth, national ID numbers, criminal history, employment and financial data. It’s terrible that the victims are some of the most vulnerable people.

Artificial Intelligence

• The Who Cares Era - Dan Sinker

  Dan Singer writes about how people don’t care that what they read is true anymore. He argues that writers, editors, and readers just don’t seem to care whether something is true or not as long it it’s “good enough” and sounds plausible and that AI is a major cause. He also talks a bit about how using AI contributes to creating dumbed-down content that doesn’t challenge readers to think critically.

  Just like with programming, it feels like folks who actually know the underlying skills and do the work will have an advantage over folks that just blindly use AI tools.