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Patrick Stewart was thinking about AI ethics years before ChatGPT launched
Yesterday, the world lost one of its great thespians. Sir Patrick Stewart, known on stage for his riveting portrayals of Shakespeare’s characters and, more broadly, for his film portrayals of the X-Men’s Professor X, passed away after a short battle with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia.…
Polymarket trading paused over a security issue involving third-party U.K. provider
Polymarket temporarily halted trading on its international platform Thursday because of a security incident that compromised a third-party provider, the company said. Trading was paused for about an hour and resumed Thursday afternoon. The company has promised to fully reimburse any affected…
Everyone has a different way of managing projects. Some people like to use their inbox to keep track of tasks. Others prefer to visualize work on a Kanban board or in a calendar view, while some even prefer the old pen and paper system. That's fine on an individual level, but when you collaborate…
Starbucks store closures update: Coffee giant reveals an optimistic plot twist after recent mass shutterings
Starbucks Coffee Company on Thursday provided an update on store closures, as well as fresh plans for future store growth, as it reported earnings for its Q4 and full fiscal year 2026. Here’s what to know: Starbucks earnings snapshot The Seattle-based coffee company reported adjusted earnings of 80…
The next great founder may be hiding in healthcare
Academic medical centers and universities produce groundbreaking research every day. An autism researcher who builds an AI game to clinically improve behavioral problems. A basic scientist who discovers how the environment of tumors impacts treatment. An electrical engineer who nano-sized a method…
Amazon posts 3rd quarter results that fall short of Wall Street’s expectations
Amazon offered a cautious sales outlook for the current fourth quarter that encompasses the critical holiday shopping period after delivering fiscal third-quarter results that came in below Wall Street analysts’ expectations. The Seattle-based tech giant, however, posted strong sales growth in its…
As AI slop floods feeds, luxury brands are going all in on handmade ads
In the age of AI , handmade work is becoming radical (and chic), and consumers are taking notice. Prada’s new holiday campaign, Drawing Prada , celebrates craft and process, earning praise on social media for its use of handmade animation. The campaign transports the actors Chen Haoyu, Luther Ford,…
Our Leaver Process Forwarded Her Mailbox to the Manager Her Grievance Was About
When someone leaves us, a workflow does most of the work. On the leaving date it disables the account, removes licences and group memberships, raises a ticket for the depot to collect the laptop, and forwards the person's mailbox to their line manager for ninety days, so that nothing from a…
You Are Going Back to Coding After Two Years as a Manager
After two years of running a team, you have decided that management is not for you. You miss building things. Your company has agreed to move you back to a senior engineering role, and you start next month. You are relieved. You are also quietly afraid that you have forgotten how to do the job, and…
If your checkout reads the card number to decide which currency to show, Visa says you are doing dynamic currency conversion, and its registration, disclosure and dispute rules apply. Pick the same currency from the shopper's IP address and it counts as multi-currency pricing, and almost none of…
Why Is My Shopify Store Not Showing on Google? Indexing Fixes
Originally published on CodingCush . Your Shopify store is not showing on Google most often for one of four boring reasons: the store is still password-protected or too new, Google has not indexed your pages yet, your products are in draft or missing from your sitemap's reach, or your pages are…
When someone brings a half-formed idea to an AI assistant, the fastest answer is not always the most useful one. They may need to see a few different ways to begin, understand what each way assumes, and keep the choice for themselves. That is the small experience I am building with Aribito : a…
We added a sleep before shutdown and our pods ran out of time to shut down
After every deploy of our returns service in May, somewhere between ten and forty returns went missing. The customer had a label, the courier had the parcel, and we had no record of either. The service accepts a return, answers the customer, and writes the record to Kafka through a producer that…
RackDoc DCIM: Building a Visual Datacenter, Rack & Sensor Management Platform with Argon
Managing physical datacenter infrastructure often falls into one of two extremes: fragile spreadsheets and static Visio diagrams that go out of date the moment someone moves a patch cord, or bloated enterprise DCIM suites that take months to configure. To bridge that gap, I built RackDoc DCIM — an…
Your Scripts Reach the File Share by IP Address and Windows Wants a Name
The nightly export copies a file to a share. Backslash backslash, ten dot twenty dot zero dot fifteen, backslash exports. Someone wrote it years ago, because the DNS name was not working that week. It has worked ever since. And every night, without telling you, it signs in with a protocol Microsoft…