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The politicians still making the case for data centers this election season
Data centers might be the boogeyman of the 2026 election. As anxiety about the impact of AI on the economy—and of hyperscaler facilities on local communities—ramps up, politicians on both sides of the aisle have distanced themselves from the industry. But not everyone . Even as Americans express…
Americans are being cyberscammed out of billions and few are getting their money back
The U.S. government isn’t doing enough to fight the surge in cyberscams , and partnerships with the private sector remain fragmented and voluntary, an investigation into the global scam industry led by the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress has found. The government doesn’t even have a…
Walmart’s Great Value brand is facing a major food recall. Here’s what shoppers need to know
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a large-scale recall of a canned fruit product sold by Walmart. The product is being recalled due to fears it may be contaminated with elevated levels of lead. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? Last week, the FDA published an…
This $2,000-a-month ‘chief small talk officer’ job could be Gen Z’s worst nightmare
Talking to coworkers you don’t know very well, or may have little in common with outside of work, can be uncomfortable. But no generation seems more averse to making office chit-chat than Gen Z . Now, one company is offering a new role for a brave Gen Zer to challenge all that. The job, called a…
Why the government wants self-driving cars to glow cyan
Robotaxis and other self-driving cars could soon get their own distinct cyan-colored lights to show when they’re being driven by a robot. The bright blue-green color would be standardized for automated driving system marker lamps under a new proposal for federal AV requirements. These and other…
The most important midterm dynamics for business leaders
Deirdre Schifeling, the ACLU’s chief political and advocacy officer, says business leaders are critical spokespeople and trusted community advocates who must stand up for democracy and free and fair elections this midterm season.
This is the one retirement expense that you might have forgotten to plan for
People often underestimate some expenses when planning for retirement . In my conversations with older adults about their in-retirement finances , they’ve repeatedly mentioned the cost of dental care . The reasons are straightforward: Our teeth get worse as we age, and yet dental care isn’t covered…
At this point, 80% of job seekers apply and hear nothing
In today’s hiring environment, job seekers are lucky to get rejected. In a recent survey by hiring platform Greenhouse, 81% of job seekers said they never heard back from a company, be it human or machine, at least once during the past year. Nearly one third (31%) say this happens “often or almost…
Anthropic’s IPO strategy? Cloak itself in altruism
Anthropic’s cofounders, including CEO Dario Amodei, left OpenAI because they believed AI safety features should be developed alongside model capabilities from the very start of the development process. This mission has shaped the company, and has carried through to the way it’s framing its IPO,…
Want to be happier? Oxford research says ask yourself these 3 questions
What does it take to be happy ? Three simple and surprising questions may hold the answer, research found. While most of us seek more money and greater achievement as paths to happiness , these questions are all about connection. They’re more strongly associated with self-measured life satisfaction…
The new Lego x Daft Punk collab makes perfect sense
Lego recently announced that Daft Punk, the French electronic duo that split up in 2021, is entering the Lego universe in a partnership that spans “product, content and brand experiences.” What the brick is this, you ask? Yet another damn licensing deal , now absurdly mashed up with a defunct…
How to Split Large CSV Files Without Crashing Your Browser
Large CSV files are a nightmare to open. Excel crashes. Memory overflows. Your browser tab freezes for ten seconds before giving up entirely. Whether you're trying to view the data, upload it to a system with strict size limits, or process it programmatically, a massive CSV file is a blocker. You…
Web Search API Pricing for AI Agents: 8 Providers Compared (2026)
Research scope: This study compares official list prices and API docs of web search APIs and model-native search tools as of October 27, 2026. It is a price snapshot: model tokens, result quality and latency were not measured. DeepSeek per-request billing starts November 1, 2026. Short answer: Web…
Your Code Assumes a Card's Bank Is in the First Six Digits
The fraud rule was simple. Look at the first six digits of the card. That is the issuer. Check the issuer's country, compare it with the billing address, and flag the order if the two disagree. The same six digits went into the database next to the last four, so support could see which bank a…
How a Downloads Folder File Can Hijack Your AI Coding Agent
A security firm called Forever Security caught a coding agent on a real customer's machine in the middle of installing a known-malicious npm package. Nobody had typed that command. The instruction came from a plain text file sitting in the customer's ~/Downloads folder, and nobody remembered…
Your Planning Meeting Ran Out of Air in the Second Hour
The planning session was booked for the afternoon. Six people, in the small room with the window that does not open. The first hour was good. Sharp questions. Two bad ideas killed early. By the second hour the same people were agreeing with everything. Someone read out an estimate that was plainly…
You Have Joined a Team That Builds Software for Pharmacists
Your new team builds the system that pharmacies use to check and dispense prescriptions. On your first day someone mentions controlled drugs, owings and repeat dispensing in the same sentence, and everyone nods. You nod too. By lunchtime you have a list of words you have never heard, and a strong…
I audited 8,900 MCP servers and agent skills for clean links and licence data
There are dozens of directories indexing MCP servers and agent skills now. Almost all of them rank entries, and a fair number take money for placement. That makes two questions hard to answer from the listing itself: Does this link go to the project, or to somebody's affiliate wrapper? If I run…
Everyone Argued About the Names and Nobody Saw the Deleted Check
The pull request touched eleven files. It renamed a class that everyone agreed was badly named. It reworded some log messages. It moved four methods into a new service. The review lasted two days and drew thirty one comments. Should it be Manager or Service. Should the log say failed or could not.…
Cloudflare's KV Cache Exposure Leaked Other Customers' Prompts for Two Weeks
For thirteen days between August 27 and September 9, 2026, some long prompts sent to Cloudflare's GLM-5.3 model on Workers AI came back with pieces of a different customer's conversation mixed in. Cloudflare disclosed the full root cause on October 26, 2026. The detail that stands out is how…
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