The $10 trillion reason to rethink your RTO strategy
Low employee engagement is a widespread problem that is having a profound and costly impact on workplaces. According to Gallup, the analytics and advisory company, low engagement resulted in approximately $10 trillion in lost productivity last year. That’s the...
OpenAI wants to be the underdog against Apple. That won’t be easy
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence pioneer, is trying on a new public image: the scrappy underdog David defending itself from Apple’s creaky Goliath. It’s an understandable strategy, but making that image stick won’t be easy. The root of the dispute is OpenAI’s plan...
Who wants to buy NYC’s last MetroCard vending machine?
The last of New York City Transit’s MetroCard machines are being auctioned off to the highest bidders. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority stopped selling and refilling MetroCards at the end 2025 and retired its vending machines after that. On August 5, the...
With AI, we’re all the sorcerer’s apprentice
Hello again and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. On August 4, the U.K.’s AI Security Institute (AISI) issued a report on the disturbing behavior it had detected while testing two of the latest frontier AI models. Faced with solving a cybersecurity challenge,...
How SpaceX rockets could transform the global cargo system
You might think about rockets as powerful vehicles that blast astronaut crews and robotic missions off into space. But what if they could be used to send cargo from one side of the Earth to the other, in a fraction of the time it would take a plane? The company SpaceX...
How Prediction Market Platforms Changed Crypto Trading
Crypto trading once forced almost every market view through a token price. Traders bought spot assets, opened perpetual futures, or moved into stablecoins when they expected a policy decision, court ruling, election result, protocol launch, or economic release to move...
Top Kubernetes-Native Inference Servers Ranked (2026)
Your shipping needs are more than one model on Kubernetes. Embeddings, reranking, something to extract, a guardrail, and a generative model to mix it all together. You might be shopping for a serving layer underneath all of that without hiring a dedicated platform...
Why Trading Intuition Never Gets Better
A firefighter walks into a burning building, feels something wrong about the floor, and pulls his crew out. The floor collapses thirty seconds later. He can't explain how he knew. That story is true, and it's most of the reason people believe in gut instinct. It's...
Bajaj Life eTouch II Term Plan Review: Coverage, Premium, and Claim Settlement
Term insurance in India has followed a fairly predictable path for decades. For years, the standard was a simple structure: pay a premium, get life cover, and if the policy term ends without a claim, that money is gone. It served its purpose, but it also meant...
How to Run ONNX Transformer Models on iOS With Swift
IntroductionArtificial Intelligence has become one of the most influential technologies in modern software development. From chatbots and recommendation systems to sentiment analysis and intelligent search, machine learning models are now expected features in many...
Axis Robotics Secures $12 Million Seed Funding
Axis Robotics, a Physical AI data company founded in 2025, has raised $12 million in seed funding to scale its Compounding Data Engine. The round was led by Hack VC and included Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and several angel investors.The...
How Memecoins Took Over Robinhood Chain
A Blockchain Built for Finance, Adopted Through Memecoins When Robinhood unveiled its blockchain in July 2026, the vision was to build an infrastructure for tokenized real world assets, tokenized stocks, and on chain finance. As crypto has shown time and time again,...
How to Debug 403 Errors When Scraping Websites
A 403 Forbidden error means the server understood your scraping request but refused to authorize access. To debug it, check headers, cookies, sessions, IP reputation, rate limits, JavaScript challenges, robots rules, and request patterns. Most 403 errors can be...
Nodexo Crosses 50 Verified GPUs on Bittensor
Nodexo, a decentralized compute network operating as Bittensor subnet 106, announced Friday that it has crossed 50 verified GPUs online. The network spans seven GPU classes across six countries, including consumer-grade RTX 4090s and high-end NVIDIA H200s, with 99.9...
Designing an XP System for Real-Life Skills
Check out the previous entry in the series:Can a new iOS developer ship an app in two monthsIn case you still decide to skip on reading arguably one of the best literary articles ever written, let me just remind you that Levely is an RPG inspired focus-timer app in...
A Three-Layer Setup for Multiple GitHub Accounts on One Machine
A three-layer setup routes Git commit identity, HTTPS push credentials, and the GitHub CLI account by repository folder, including in headless shells. TL;DR.Two GitHub accounts on one machine, routed entirely by which folder a repo lives in. Three problems, three...
You’ll Never Win the Microsecond. Own the Month Instead
A latency arbitrage race on the London Stock Exchange lasts between five and ten millionths of a second. That's the entire event. A signal fires, a handful of firms sprint for the same stale quote, one of them wins, and the whole thing is over before a human being...
Benchmarking Cheap LLMs for Production Agent Traces
We run one LLM call on every agent trace we ingest: it reduces the trace to a short, searchable digest. Because it runs on every trace from every customer, it is the most frequent LLM call we make, and its cost is the one that grows fastest with our usage. So we...
When AI Automation Measures the Wrong Thing
You called your bank last week, or your airline, or your phone company. And somewhere in the first thirty seconds you did the thing everybody does. You pressed zero. Or you said “operator.” Or you said “representative” a little louder than you meant to.Hold onto that...
BIP-110 Is Coming: Can Bitcoin Users Take Back the Network?
The controversial BIP-110, a soft fork with which normal Bitcoin users will take the power back from suitcoiners and scammers, is upon us. Learn all about it below… but first… The BIP-110 Train Remains On Schedule I failed the BIP-110 supporters and the larger Bitcoin...
Why Banks Have Nothing to Fear from a Water-Price Based Stable Coin but Everything to Gain
Every time a new currency appears, the financial world reacts the same way: fear. Will this replace us? Will it drain our deposits? Is this the end of banking? It's an understandable reflex. In the case of a Water-Price-Based Stable Coin O, it's also wrong. A new...
Token Debt Is the New Technical Debt
In almost twenty-five years in development I have watched the economics of software change: we paid for servers, then for compute, then for requests and data.In 2020, after the GPT-3 API launched, we started paying per token, and the token became a unit of billing. In...
Fastest HR Systems to Implement in 2026
BambooHR is often reported to get a small team up and running in around two weeks. A Workday rollout for the same headcount is measured in months, sometimes closer to a year and a half. Same category of software, wildly different timelines, and that gap is exactly...
Fixing One-Pixel Edge Artifacts in Jetpack Compose drawBehind
How one extra tab exposed a fragile rendering edge case in an inDrive design-system component — and how a small overscan made the result robust.A TabBar looked perfect with four tabs and broke with five. Here is how we traced a one-pixel seam to edge-aligned drawing...
The Creator Economy Doesn’t Need More Content. It Needs Better Strategy
Attention is the scarcest resource on the internet. Every platform knows it. Every algorithm is built around it. And yet most creators are still competing for it with the same tool: more content. That’s not working anymore. Over the last decade, social platforms...
‘Asimov was right’ about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director
EXCLUSIVE Don't waste time worrying about AI models achieving sentience – they're essentially already there, according to former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis. “If they pass the Turing test to everyone that they come into contact with, they're probably...
Truck Brake Controller’s Safety Recall Doubled as Hidden Security Fix
NMFTA research shows a Bendix EC80 brake controller safety recall also patched remote code execution and DoS vulnerabilities. The post Truck Brake Controller’s Safety Recall Doubled as Hidden Security Fix appeared first on SecurityWeek.
How humanitarian organizations are using AI to reach people faster
Minutes after catastrophic earthquakes struck Venezuela in June, GiveDirectly got an AI-generated snapshot of the disaster from an internal tool. Then it used other AI tools that analyze satellite imagery to pinpoint the hardest-hit neighborhoods, paired that with...
Malware Can Abuse Windows Hello for Business Keys for Persistent Entra ID Access
Security researcher Malcolm Stagg has disclosed a new attack class called NatJack that manipulates network address translation (NAT) connection state to hijack active TCP sessions, spoof DNS responses, disclose victim IP addresses and mapped ports, and exhaust NAT...
Claude Code and Gemini CLI Flaws Let a GitHub Issue Reach CI Workflow Secrets
A GitHub issue opened by an account with no repository privileges was enough to execute code on the CI runners behind Anthropic's and Google's own coding-agent repositories. On OpenAI's, it was enough to hijack the next agent run. Novee Security ran the attack against...