Guru's Tech Bytes — April 20, 2026
Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 017, for Monday, April 20th, 2026. First up, a deep dive into GitHub's fake star economy is making the rounds, pulling back the curtain on a thriving black market of inflated repo stars. The investigation suggests a worryingly large slice of popular projects have been quietly juiced with paid endorsements. A healthy reminder that on the modern web, popularity is rarely as organic as it looks, and maintainers would do well to scrutinise the numbers. Second, Reuters reports the NSA is quietly using Anthropic's Mythos model, despite the agency's own…
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