In Week 9 of the IBM Full-Stack JavaScript Developer track, I stepped back from tutorials and asked a different question: what is the internet actually running on? The answer isn’t the framework that trended on X this morning. It’s older, quieter, and far more stubborn. COBOL: the 67-year-old that moves your money. Created in 1959, … Read more
Archive of Our Own, the popular online home of fan fiction readers and writers, has bad news for its community.
Bitcoin began its history back in the distant 2008–2009. During this time, it managed to transform from an obscure digital currency that was once used to buy pizza into a highly liquid asset. Although the basic principles of Bitcoin have remained the same, its price has changed dramatically during this period. Just a year ago, … Read more
Our courier app launched on the iPhone Duo simulator but there was no back button on the Messages screen. The details sheet covered the navigation controls. On a map, part of the route could easily be out of view. These were gaps in our app. We wanted to fix them before marking the app ready … Read more
The human element of communication Past communication tech conquered physical distance and time. But as generative AI becomes part of how we create, receive, and interpret human messages, it must focus not just on speed and ease, but on reducing the emotional and interpretive distance between people. Communication is one of the most basic human … Read more
Patrick Stewart, best known for his roles in Star Trek and X-Men, has died at age 86. A message posted to Stewart’s Instagram account says the actor died in his Los Angeles home on Wednesday “following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia.” Born in 1940 in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, … Read more
As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.
Reddit is announcing a huge shift: It’s going to start requiring users to log in. Right now, you can browse Reddit without having an account, and the site is generally a great resource for crowdsourced information on a whole range of topics. I know I’m not the only person who appends “reddit” to a lot … Read more
Rivian doesn’t disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.
Rivian is seeing strong enough sales of the new EV that it improved its guidance to Wall Street for the second time this year.
Rivian reported its third quarter earnings of 2026, providing us a closer look at the company’s financial health as it ramps up production of its all-important R2 electric vehicle – which is now, for the first time, outselling all of Rivian’s other EVs. Rivian said it brought in $2.155 billion in revenue, a 38 percent … Read more
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.
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General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims that it illegally sold driver and location information to data brokers, as reported earlier by Reuters. The agreement, which resolves a complaint from a coalition of 36 US attorneys general, requires GM to limit the driving data it collects and obtain “express consent” from … Read more
Now you can generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code directly within Google Gemini. The new file editing capabilities are available starting today for all Gemini users, and while PDF previews/editing works on both the web and mobile, all other file formats are only in … Read more
With its playful design, versatility, and relatively affordable price, the Ikea Varmblixt quickly became one of my colleague Jennifer Pattison Tuohy’s new favorite smart light products when she tested it in April. Now, the donut-shaped lamp is on sale for $79.99 ($20 off) through November 11th at Ikea. Ikea Varmblixt lamp Where to Buy: $99.99 … Read more
Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.
The new MacBook Pro brings with it a bunch of firsts for Apple laptops, the two flashiest being an OLED display and touchscreen functionality. But as an image-accuracy enthusiast, trained calibrator, and resident display expert, what excites me most about the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display is the technology it uses to display an … Read more
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Utah has filed criminal charges against Kalshi and its executives, accusing the prediction market of breaking anti-gambling laws, as reported by The Salt Lake Tribune and the Associated Press. The state has filed 14 charges against Kalshi, as well as CEO Tarek Mansour and COO … Read more
The US power sector could release 42 percent more planet-heating carbon dioxide pollution by 2030 than it did in 2025 as it builds out more fossil fuel infrastructure to meet data center electricity demand, according to a new analysis by the Sierra Club. That would essentially wipe out 15 years of greenhouse gas reductions. CO2 … Read more
Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can’t.
A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times.
rained on 100 million square feet of building permits, dream wants to disrupt Autodesk with AI.
SuperMe is a network of AI profiles built from the knowledge of real-life experts. When you ask a question, the platform determines which experts are best suited to answer and creates a group chat with their AI profiles.