The Survivorship Bias Trap in Trading

In 1943, the U.S. military studied bombers coming back from Europe and mapped every bullet hole. The damage clustered on the wings and the tail. The obvious move was to armor those spots. Abraham Wald, a statistician working the problem, said no. Armor the places with...

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Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8GB Core i5

BORK!BORK!BORK! Paris might sometimes be called "The City of Light" or perhaps "The City of Love" by the romantically inclined. Judging by this hotel's elevators, "The City of Bork" is more appropriate. Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Nathaniel in a Paris hotel,...

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Fluke – 821,100 breached accounts

In July 2026, electronic test and measurement equipment company Fluke was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published more than 100GB of data allegedly taken from the company. The corpus contained largely corporate...

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Mentoring is reciprocal

A prominent Philadelphia retailer once told me the surest way to be mentored by her was never to ask. The people she ended up investing in were the ones who simply kept showing up (volunteering, staying curious, doing the work) until one day she looked up and thought,...

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South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot

South Korea’s government has posted a tender seeking suppliers to build a universal basic AI chatbot, and an AI agent for government services. The “AI for everyone” plan calls for private entities to create and operate the AI systems under contracts that expire in the...

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