Tech

Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat

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Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht “The Launchpad” | Image: Sylvain Lefevre / Getty Images Earlier this week, the Alaskan cruise ship Wilderness Legacy rescued a small skiff stranded near Farragut Bay after running out of fuel. But, according to tracking data reviewed by the Alaska Beacon and Halifax Shipping News, the closest vessel was actually Mark Zuckerberg’s … Read more

Sony’s disc-free PlayStation strategy could reshape China’s console market

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On July 1, 2026, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that it would stop producing physical discs for PlayStation games. This announcement was relatively ill-received by many around the world, but its implications are especially significant in China, where Japanese console makers play a unique role despite China’s relatively small console market. This move might seem inconsequential, … Read more

What Happens During a Production Deployment? A Behind-the-Scenes Guide

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You push your code. A few minutes later, it is live for real users. Between those two moments runs a long chain of machinery: builds, artefacts, migrations, health checks, traffic shifts. Every production engineer depends on that chain, and many teams still build and operate it themselves. Deployment infrastructure has quietly become operational overhead. It … Read more

How to Build an Education Platform That Supports People Through Different Stages of Life

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Over the past few years, the online education market has gone from niche courses to large-scale ecosystems capable of supporting people through different stages of life. One of the entrepreneurs who doesn’t simply watch these changes but shapes them is Timur Ibragimov, founder and CEO of the education platform Sotka. Starting with exam preparation for … Read more

LinkedIn’s AI Slop Crackdown Could Expose the Fake Experts Flooding the Digital Marketing Industry

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LinkedIn is taking aim at one of the biggest problems facing professional networks: the explosion of low-quality, AI-generated content designed to appear insightful, authoritative, and useful, but often delivering little more than recycled information dressed up as expertise. The platform has introduced a new “Seems like AI slop” reporting option, allowing users to flag posts … Read more

Dropbox is a PC builder’s best friend

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In 2018 I bet my reputation and self-worth on a huge crowdfunded game design project. It could have been a failure for many reasons, but the one I became most worried about was losing all of the work that was stored locally on my home-built PC – a scenario that would have left a lot … Read more