As you most likely know by now, the big AI news this week is the resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, announced via X on 8 September 2026. Coxon’s explanation: Anthropic (and OpenAI) are developing superintelligence irresponsibly, with no meaningful plans...

Vibe coding is a software development method in which users use plain-language prompts to get artificial intelligence to write code. The idea has since spread into law. “Vibe lawyering” refers to a growing trend of attorneys using chatbots to research case law and...

Each hospital has its own rules and regulations across the world. In Norway, blood must reach wards in 15 minutes. Other specific legislation to note is the NIS2 Directive, a European Union law for high-level cybersecurity across all member states. Country-specific...

Ask Cursor to build a settings screen for a project management app, the one with Profile, Notifications, and Billing stacked down the left side, and a few form fields on the right. You'll have it in a few seconds, with hover states, even spacing, and a chevron that...

Business documents are messy in ways software does not like. A financial disclosure may contain nested tables and footnotes. A lease agreement may split one clause across several pages. A compensation report may use custom headings, while a sustainability report mixes...

I keep hearing the same interpretation of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA): when the CRA says that security updates must be provided “free of charge,” it means the enterprise open-source subscription model is effectively over in Europe. The reasoning sounds simple....

There’s that famous old saying by the famous French philosopher Descartes: I think, therefore I am. This kind of points to the role of a CEO in a business, as he or she is essentially a leader who needs to, above everything else, think and communicate his or her...

1. Project Background and Challenges As the head of data architecture at a financial technology company, I led the migration of our core ETL system from Informatica PowerCenter to a domestic ETL platform last year. The migration covered more than 200 workflows and a...

The "major malicious attack" that targeted RubyGems in May 2026 was the work of a swarm of OpenAI agents, according to a new report published by researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx. On May 12, Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager for...

This week Apple introduced its new iPhone lineup, including the iPhone 18 Pro series and the iPhone Duo. The devices feature the most advanced tech that Apple has ever stuffed into a smartphone. But if you’re not in the market for a new iPhone, there’s some good news:...

Below, Dr. Itamar Shatz shares five key insights from his new book, Solving Procrastination: The Science of Why We Put Things Off and How to (Finally!) Stop. Itamar is an Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge University. He helps people understand why they procrastinate...

BORK!BORK!BORK! We still don't know what caused the air traffic control mayhem in the UK in early September, but one information board at Luton Airport appears to have gone out in sympathy. Spotted by Register reader Mark, the digital sign usually shows passenger...

In 2017, I bought my first Birkin. Not because I wanted to impress anyone. Not because it was a status symbol. I bought it because I saw it as an investment. As an entrepreneur, I naturally look at assets differently. If something has the potential to hold or...

Although hard disks weren’t a common feature yet in many home computers in the 1980s, they were becoming increasingly more affordable. For relative meanings of the word ‘affordable’, naturally. This is illustrated by the 12 MB HDD for the Radio Shack TRS-80 that...

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In 2024 almost 50,000 Americans died by suicide, making it the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. And the ripple effects are even wider. According to research, each suicide is connected to 135 people who knew the deceased, including coworkers, along...

Cheryl had already lost two of the 12 people on her team in the company’s first reduction in force. Then her product marketing lead resigned to join a competitor. A few weeks later, she was asked to cut two more roles. But Cheryl, the company’s chief marketing...

Among all the machines of the 8-bit home computer era which booted straight to a BASIC prompt, there were a very few that went their own way with another language. The Jupiter Ace springs immediately to mind, a diminutive Z80-based machine similar to Sinclair’s ZX81,...

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