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Great Scott! The ‘Back to the Future’ mall could become a data center
Oh, this is heavy, Doc . The Puente Hills Mall in Southern California’s City of Industry is better known to fans of Back to the Future as the Twin Pines Mall. That, in case you haven’t watched the film lately, is where Marty McFly and Doc Brown were chased by terrorists, unhappy that Doc had taken…
Anthropic’s IPO Is a $2 Trillion Bet on a Story. The Same Move That Builds a Business Can Sink One
A company with little revenue is being priced near $2 trillion on belief alone, and the story driving that number is the same one that can turn on a business overnight.
Anthropic’s IPO filing is the start of the ‘put up or shut up’ era of AI
Tech’s worst-kept secret is finally out: Anthropic has filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission , paving the way for an IPO. A reported investor road show could begin as soon as November 9, attempting to drum up interest befitting its targeted $1.5 trillion valuation. In doing so,…
Starbucks drops holiday menu 2026: When to get your free holiday cup on Red Cup Day
Good news for coffee lovers: The holidays are coming early to Starbucks this year. The countdown is on to Starbucks’s holiday menu , which arrives next Thursday, November 5. Starbucks’s highly anticipated lineup of seasonal drinks will include some returning classics—Peppermint Mocha, Caramel…
When your coding model refuses your own AppSec work
If you do application security, you have probably watched a coding model decline something routine: writing a proof of concept for a bug in your own staging app, or explaining how a flaw in your own handler would be exploited so you can fix it. That leaves the defender with less help than an…
A practical CI and supply-chain hardening checklist you can run with a terminal agent
Your CI is code that runs with your secrets and publishes what your users install. Cloudflare's open-source security-audit skill includes a SUPPLY-CHAIN-AND-RELEASE.md reference whose core rules are useful questions to ask your own pipeline, even without running a full review: A known-vulnerable or…
A structured security review of your own repo, from the terminal
Most "AI security review" prompts give you a pile of plausible-sounding warnings. Cloudflare's open-source security-audit skill (MIT) describes a more disciplined method: map the code, hunt by coverage, try to disprove every candidate, and write findings as structured records. I work on free-pi, a…
Finding verified factories on Global Sources with Python, no browser
I built this actor; it's a paid tool on Apify with a free trial credit. Global Sources is the older, more curated cousin of Alibaba: a Hong Kong B2B marketplace where most suppliers are paying, ranked members, many of them verified on site as factories, and plenty exhibit at its trade shows. If you…
The One Question That Tells You If a Business Needs an App
A reader asked me something after a piece about which small businesses actually buy an app : that article describes a test you run in your own head before calling. But what do you actually say on the phone? What is the one question that sorts the prospects fastest? It is a better question than the…
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PDFme, the offline PDF toolkit I built after my college fest nearly broke me Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥 Parnita Singh Parnita Singh Parnita Singh Follow Oct 25 PDFme, the offline PDF toolkit I built after my college fest nearly broke me #…
A Ransomware Incident Response Plan Your Team Can Actually Follow
Most ransomware plans fail on decisions, not technology. Here is a short checklist for the first hour and beyond. First hour Confirm the incident and rate its severity. Isolate affected systems from the network, and do not power them off until evidence is captured. Name an incident lead, a…
Assumption log template for business analysts: rank the ones that can sink you
Every project template has an assumptions section. The RAID log has a tab for it. The BRD has a heading for it. And on almost every project I have seen, that section is a list of fifteen sentences that nobody reads after week two. The problem is not that BAs forget to write assumptions down. It is…