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A Greek court on Thursday sentenced the founder of Intellexa, a collective of spyware makers, to eight years in prison for illegal wiretapping and privacy violations, according to several reports.  Tal Dilian and three other Intellexa executives were tried for their role in a scandal dubbed “Greek Watergate,” which dates back to 2022. The Greek […]

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A previously undocumented threat activity cluster has been attributed to an ongoing malicious campaign targeting education and healthcare sectors in the U.S. since at least December 2025. The campaign is being tracked by Cisco Talos under the moniker UAT-10027. The end goal of the attacks is to deliver a never-before-seen backdoor codenamed Dohdoor. "Dohdoor utilizes the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)

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With AI-backed hiring on the rise, tips for "hacking" your resume are all over social media. As job search companies increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to sort through applications, job seekers wonder how to best position themselves with those filters in mind. We decided to speak directly with job search leaders about how a resume should look when you're thinking about AI optimization, and what works in a job applicant's favor. The Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field spoke to representatives from Indeed, Glassdoor, LinkedIn, and Greenhouse, as well as Hilke Schellmann, author of The Algorithm. Their answers had a clear theme: Re … Read the full story at The Verge.

Today, we’re talking about the future of Xbox. Phil Spencer, a two–time Decoder guest who’s led Xbox for more than a decade, retired last week. But in a shocking twist, his deputy and long-assumed successor, Sarah Bond, is also out too, and the Xbox division is now in the hands of Asha Sharma, one of Microsoft’s AI executives with no prior game industry experience. It’s a major leadership transition that suggests Microsoft wants to make serious changes to its gaming division, which owns franchises like Halo, Call of Duty, and Minecraft. There is no better person to talk to about all of this than Tom Warren, a senior editor here at The Verge and author of the excellent Notepad newsletter. Tom is actually on parental leave right now, but Microsoft has a longstanding habit of disrupting his well-earned time off with major news. So, Tom was gracious enough to come on the show after he published a major scoop about what exactly went down at Xbox this past week. There is a lot to say about Xbox: The story of the console and Microsoft Gaming is a complicated one, with a lot of twists and turns since it made its big splash in the video game industry 25 years ago. Yet for a majority of that time, it’s been stuck in third place, behind Nintendo and PlayStation. That’s a surprising thing to say for a division of a company worth trillions of dollars that also owns some of the most celebrated gaming properties in all of entertainment. Verge subscribers, don’t forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Decoder wherever you get your podcasts. Head here. Not a subscriber? You can sign up here. So Phil Spencer, who started at Microsoft in the late 1980s and took charge of Xbox in 2014, was given the job of trying to turn the division around. Since then, Spencer has tried numerous moves: the Netflix-style Game Pass subscription service; a major push into cloud gaming; buying Activision Blizzard King, the maker of Warcraft and Candy Crush; and many, many different iterations of Xbox hardware. As of last year, there are even plans to bring Halo to PlayStation — something game industry insiders thought was basically impossible just five years ago. But as you’ll hear Tom explain, the game industry has been changing faster than Xbox has been able to transform itself, and almost none of Spencer’s strategies have really clicked. Xbox is still far behind Nintendo and PlayStation, and on PC, it still stands in the shadow of Valve, which runs the dominant Steam store and now makes the Steam Deck handheld. Microsoft has spent tens of billions of dollars trying to acquire its way to a stronger position against the rise of Fortnite and Roblox, mobile giants like Tencent, and a zero-sum war for attention dominated by apps like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. And yet the company has very little to show for all of that. Today, Spencer’s grand vision of 100 million Game Pass subscribers streaming Xbox games to whatever screen they want using the cloud still feels out of reach. But, as Tom says, it’s not lost forever — Xbox is far from dead, and there is still hope yet that new leadership can take some big swings and make something happen again. Okay: Verge senior reporter Tom Warren on the future of Xbox. Here we go. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Tom Warren, you’re a senior reporter at The Verge. You’re currently out on paternity leave, but Microsoft just brought you back. Yep. This happens every time I take a vacation or leave. Microsoft decides, “We’re going to do something massive and ruin Tom’s life.” Just punishment for all of the scoops you’ve dropped on this company over the years. So this week, as you were playing with your beautiful new baby, Microsoft initiated a major shakeup at Xbox, something we’ve seen coming for a little bit, but maybe not on this scale or this magnitude. Describe what happened at Xbox this week. Phil Spencer, the longtime CEO of Microsoft Gaming, technically, but Xbox chief is what he’s known as, is retiring, so he is leaving Microsoft. Sarah Bond, the Xbox president, is also leaving Microsoft, and then they’re actually promoting Asha Sharma, from the CoreAI side of Microsoft, to the CEO of Microsoft Gaming. So she’s replacing Phil Spencer, essentially. So it’s big news, a big shakeup, should we say, of Xbox. I think with Phil Spencer, it’s been a long time coming, right? I think Xbox fans have expected that retirement, but perhaps not so much Sarah Bond’s leaving. And this is, I think, the shakeup, right? We knew Phil was going to retire. He’d been messaging that for some time. He’s been there for a long time. He’s a Microsoft lifer, really. Phil’s been on this show before, and we’re going to run some clips from his past interviews on Decoder, because I want to get your take on what happened between those interviews and now. At a very high level, we knew Phil was going. Is it that everyone expected Sarah to be his successor, and that didn’t happen, and that’s the surprise here? I think there are two surprises, right? One is obviously that Sarah wasn’t named Xbox chief and that Asha is the successor, because that was a quiet surprise and a surprise higher, really. But yeah, Sarah has always been the number two. She’s always traveled with Phil and always been the face of Xbox over the past couple of years as Phil has… I’d say he’s stepped back a little bit publicly since the Activision Blizzard acquisition. So Sarah’s become the face of Xbox during that time, and she took over the platform work, the hardware work. So whenever there was any mention of the next-gen Xbox, it was Sarah who would come out and talk about it and not Phil. So that’s a change in itself, right, because it’s usually Phil. So I think everyone just thought, “Okay, well she’s being prepped to be Phil’s replacement eventually, whether it be a couple of years, five years, whatever,” and it didn’t happen. Behind the scenes, I know that Xbox fans had heard, and expected, that this was going to happen, that Sarah Bond would be the heir apparent. But for a good year or so, I’ve been hearing different things about Sarah Bond, different from what perhaps the public perception is of her. So to me, it wasn’t a surprise. I was not surprised to see her not named, but I think it was more of a surprise to see Asha named. That was a surprise to me. I know Asha a little bit. I’ve spoken to her a few times, but she’s like a non-gamer. She’s very straight about that and honest about it, but not that that really matters, I don’t think, to be a CEO, really, to be honest. But to Xbox fans and that gaming segment, if they see a non-gamer, it’s like… Particularly with Xbox, I think, because Phil has instilled that over the years, so they’ve come to that expectation. So that was the surprise of it, but I don’t think Sarah Bond was a surprise to me. I want to come to Asha, the new leadership, and particularly the Microsoft AI of it all, because that seems like an important piece of the puzzle. I just want to stick with Phil and Sarah for one more second. There’s the reporting you have done about Sarah personally, and her skills as manager and potentially CEO, and then there’s Phil and the strategy he pursued for Xbox and Microsoft Gaming. A huge part of that strategy is making Microsoft Gaming as big as it is, bigger than Xbox, acquiring Activision Blizzard King, and doing all the other acquisitions of the studios they’ve done. I look at this, and I say, “Well, it doesn’t matter if Sarah was the best manager or the worst manager. The strategy that she was a part of failed.” I see this, and I say, “Okay, if I’m Satya Nadella,” or more importantly, “Amy Hood, the CFO of Microsoft, and we’ve done some of the biggest acquisitions in history, and certainly the biggest acquisitions in Microsoft history. None of this came to anything. We gotta reboot this whole thing.” Does that feel as important inside Microsoft as maybe Sarah wasn’t the right person? It’s a couple of things. Obviously, Microsoft Gaming has ballooned now, right, because it’s got Bethesda, and Activision Blizzard has made it bigger than ever before. And then you’ve got this tension of Microsoft: the corporate Microsoft of Satya Nadella and Amy Hood, putting the pressure on that new division to return the money that they’ve invested into this project, essentially, through profit margins. So they’ve cranked that pressure up over the past couple of years, and it forced Phil, Sarah, and everyone under them to then respond. They’ve done these studio closures, they’ve done cuts, they’ve done price increases. They’ve tried to accelerate getting more people using export services, essentially. That became the strategy, like, “Okay, we need to get to TVs, we need to get to mobile,” and all this stuff. And there was a lot of, I guess, trying to rush that, it felt like, and forgetting that the console was their base of building up Game Pass and their base of taking those people and perhaps moving them elsewhere, and user acquisition, growth. And it just feels like they tried to rush that, and they did the “This is an Xbox” campaign, which was just super strange. It was trying to say that the phone was an Xbox, and it was borne out of the idea that they needed to speed up profitability. They needed to get more revenue, get more growth, and improve those margins, essentially. So when you’re trying to pin blame on whoever it is, it comes from the top. Satya and Amy are pushing these margins, and I think they’re slightly unrealistic in the context of gaming. They’re not the margins that Sony has, for example. They’ve put the pressure on. Phil, I think, has stepped away a little bit over the last couple of years, so not so laser-focused on Xbox, and then that’s allowed Sarah to have a lot of power over Xbox and accumulate marketing power and do the “This is an Xbox” campaign, in her own org. It just hasn’t gone well. It hasn’t gone well for consoles, even if you argue that Microsoft perhaps doesn’t care about selling consoles, which maybe they don’t. I think they probably thought that they could replace them with cloud and mobile a little bit quicker. Well, so actually this is my big question. And this is, again, the reporting you have about Sarah as a manager and a leader, but then well, it’s Microsoft. All Satya and Amy care about is mobile and cloud. That’s not even the AI part of it. This is a business that runs huge cloud services in Azure and needs a new foothold in mobile. And they basically bought Candy Crush to get a bunch of mobile revenue, and of course, that’s what they wanted to do. It feels like the decision is not so much about Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond. It’s “this whole strategy failed, and now we’re going to try a new one,” and I’m just curious if you have insight into the balance. How much is it “The strategy failed, we just need a new regime,” versus, “We need a new strategy, and Sarah specifically cannot execute a new strategy”? I don’t think they’re going to change the strategy all that much, because the strategy makes sense in a way. You want to get to mobile, you want to get to cloud, and that’s how you’re going to get more users ultimately into your system without selling enough consoles, essentially. So I don’t think the strategy is terrible, but I think the execution has been. Over the past couple of years, I think that’s been the problem predominantly, which is the execution of the strategy. The messaging publicly has been pretty bad. I think it’s more of a regime change that’s needed to bring some element of people who understand user acquisition. And I think that’s where Asha is coming in. Let’s talk about Xbox strategy as a whole, because if you’re saying it’s not changing, it’s worth taking a beat to just understand what the goal has been. And I would say that since 2017, Phil Spencer has been very clear that where he wants to get to is everyone is subscribed to Game Pass, you can play Game Pass games anywhere because they’re streaming from the cloud, and we’re going to get out of this race of console generations and exclusives. Because they essentially lost to Sony, permanently lost to Sony. There was no coming back with a new generation. Did that work? I mean, I think we know now there’s executive turnover; it didn’t work. But did it ever work? Was there ever a glimmer of it working? So, going back to where it all started, this mess with Xbox essentially is the Xbox One, when they failed that sort of era. And what happened at that time is the PlayStation- This is 2013; this is over a decade ago. This is 2013, yeah. And that led up to kind of 2017 and the launch of xCloud and all that sort of stuff. But going back to that sort of era, they lost that generation, and it was a huge cost to them, because that was the generation that people started their digital libraries that weren’t on a PC. People on PlayStation have built up those libraries. They’re not willing to move away from those libraries now. They knew they’d lost that real key generation. So the response was, “Let’s do Game Pass because that will allow people to bring their games to different devices, this whole cloud vision, mobile, et cetera.” I think that was the only kind of response they could give, and it was designed to be consumer-friendly, right? You got day one games that they published immediately, so they took a bit of a risk. It was quite a bold move, really, to do that. And still, Sony doesn’t do day one games, for example. So they took a risk. The problem with Game Pass is that they’ve had to fuel it with content, right? They’ve done all these acquisitions, Bethesda, Activision, and there are nameless others as well. But the problem then with Game Pass is that you’re giving your games away with a subscription, but you need to scale that up, right? It needs to hit a certain number of million people that you’ve got that concurrent revenue every quarter, and you can rely on where it isn’t cannibalizing or eating into the traditional sales of those games that fuel the costs for developing those games. And frankly, it’s just getting more complicated to develop games these days, and a lot more expensive. So they’ve had those issues with Game Pass, and ultimately, I think the strategy was to respond to try and get that growth, to try and scale up this idea of Xbox on all devices. And the way they put it was “3 billion gamers,” right? That was the launch of xCloud. And remember, xCloud, now it’s called Xbox Cloud Gaming, was originally a mobile play. So it was literally to try and get people into the idea of playing via streaming on mobile with these attachments to your phone essentially. It’s worth noting that they ran into Apple’s App Store rules. They were not able to do this in a way that actually worked. Exactly. So they hit a bunch of regulatory hurdles. They had to launch it as a xbox.com/play in your browser, so you couldn’t get an app or anything like that. That completely knocked them back, right? Even when they were trying to playtest it, Apple was on the test flight, saying, “No, you have to change this.” They were very restricted in what they could do. So that kind of put their strategy back. Now, who do you blame for that? [Laughs] I think you can blame Apple in a very significant way. There are pretty major antitrust ramifications of that that Apple’s still feeling. Right. And then fast-forward from that point, from launching xCloud and having all those issues, to a couple of years ago, and they’re still trying to get all of that resolved, right? They still want this cloud gaming app. But they’re also now trying to get a store in there, essentially, is the idea. They’re going to have an Xbox mobile store. So we’ve moved on from having an Xbox Cloud Gaming app to something more ambitious now: “We want to do a store, we want to sell content in there directly to people.” And there was the promise that the app is going to arrive from both Phil and Sarah, to be fair. But then Sarah promised it was going to launch in a month in an interview, and that was two years ago, I’d say, and it hasn’t happened. A lot of that idea of going for mobile recently and trying to do this cloud store thing has just been over-promising and under-delivering, and relying on regulatory change that just hasn’t come. Or it’s come, and whether it be Google or Apple, they’ve appealed it, right? They’ve just pushed it down for so many more months. So yeah, so they’ve had all these hurdles with this strategy, but I think ultimately, Game Pass has a problem where it fundamentally will eat into those margins of studios. And if they can’t scale it up, then they have to increase the cost of it. So again, we saw that last year, prices are now up 50 percent for Game Pass Ultimate. They’ve been doing all these things where they respond to this strategy with a goal of either increasing the revenues or scaling it up, and it just hasn’t been going smoothly, especially — let’s be honest — over the past couple of years. When Phil Spencer was on the show in 2022, I asked him about this vision that the future of Xbox is Netflix. Here’s what he had to say: NILAY PATEL: Then there’s the other side, which is, “Man, it would be really cool if everyone just paid us $15 a month all of the time,” and the games come out and everyone’s happy. That base of revenue is recurring and is a little more stable than hits and console generations. Is that the move? That seems like where you have been building for a long time, but it’s harder to get there than maybe anyone anticipated. PHIL SPENCER: We don’t have this vision of everybody paying us $15 a month. We think the subscription is an interesting business model for certain kinds of games and for certain customers. I really see it as diversifying how people build their library of games or how creators reach the customers they want to reach with the content that they build. It will always be part of the business, in my view. I think people buying and owning their games will be an important part of the business for years and years to come. Free-to-play games with post-sale monetization, add-ons, and battle passes that those teams have figured out will be a significant, probably majority of the business for a decade plus. Subscription will augment that. Really, that’s the extent of it. We are not building towards a world where subscription is in any way dominant or predominant on our platform. We think for certain customers in certain markets with certain economic livelihoods, where they are managing their cash flows, subscriptions can be very valuable. Even as Phil was saying that to me, I was thinking, “I don’t believe you, but you’ve gone all in on all of these moves to get recurring revenue.” And we were having that conversation in the context of them buying Activision, and Candy Crush is the most stable recurring revenue you can get. It’s endless downloadable content, it’s endless power-ups, it’s people paying money to literally play the game every day. Did you have the same reaction to them saying their goal was not to get to $15 a month from every single Xbox gamer? The interesting thing is, when was that? Was it in 2022 that you spoke to him? Yeah, it was 2022, after the Activision acquisition announcement. Yeah. So I think that year was quite pivotal internally. That was when they realized that Game Pass wasn’t going to do those numbers. They’d hit a ceiling on console, and they didn’t have the mobile growth that they were expecting. And internally at that time — I think it was 2021 or 2022 — they did a slide deck with the hardware gaming team, which leaked in the FTC trial, and it said the ambition was 100 million people on Game Pass by 2030. A lot of that growth was through Series S and X. That was the desire, right? But some of it was also cloud and mobile, like a chunk of it. And obviously that’s not going to happen unless something crazy happens in the next four years, right? That growth is just not there for them at the moment. I think the last time Microsoft reported the number, it was 34 million. So I think that’s the ceiling that they’re at at the moment. The messaging changed in 2022, basically from “Game Pass is our thing,” to “Well, it’s going to be 20 percent of Xbox content and services revenue. We don’t see it being much bigger than that.” And that’s when they bought Activision, right? Yes. That interview was after they’d announced the deal. It was before it closed, before regulatory approval and all that. But their thesis for buying Activision was, “We need to be a bigger player in mobile because that’s where the new gamers are, and Activision has all these mobile games. And actually, Call of Duty, which is what everyone is focused on, is the least of our concerns here. What we’re after is King, we’re after Candy Crush and all of the mobile IP that Activision has to offer us.” I’m looking at it from an outsider perspective. I don’t think this has worked out. I don’t think this has played out well for them. What do you think? It’s still early days, and they’ve consumed it in a way that it’s hard to tell, right? This is the classic thing with Microsoft’s financials. Every quarter, they hide something else that’s not quite working. They’ve done Surface devices; they used to do Surface revenue. Now it’s Windows, OEM, and devices. So they bundle that stuff when it’s not quite working. I think we’ll know if it’s not quite working when they start doing tricks like that. But at the moment it’s still too early to say. The mobile side, as I said, with the Xbox mobile store earlier, I think the King stuff would’ve definitely played heavily into that. They could have sold exclusive content in that store and not had to pay that 30 percent cut to Apple and Google and Valve, et cetera. So I think there was a vision for that to be additive to the business and the growth and everything. But yeah, I mean, the mobile stuff is still… I don’t really know their mobile strategy. Actually, Phil was clearest about this when he was on in 2022. Let’s play that clip because I’m curious to see your reaction to this in the context of the news today: PHIL SPENCER: In terms of the Activision opportunity — I keep saying this over and over, and it is true — it definitely starts with a view that people want to play games on every device that they have. In a funny way, the smallest screen that we play on is actually the biggest screen when you think about the install base in a phone. Mobile is a place where if we don’t gain relevancy as a gaming brand, over time the business will become untenable. That’s just a place where if we don’t gain relevancy as a gaming brand, over time the business will become untenable. We’re not alone in seeing this; this is true for any of us. If you’re not able to find customers on phones, or on any screen that somebody wants to play on, then you really are going to get segmented to a niche part of gaming where running a global business will become very challenging. So I listen to that, and I think, “Well, Nintendo exists. They seem to be doing just fine without being on phones.” Sony is running what seems like a fine business in the PlayStation without running on phones. And then right next to all of this, arguably the most interesting category of gaming devices in the past five years is Steam Decks and Steam Deck-alikes, which are all running Windows games better on Linux than on Windows. I’m actually kind of at a loss here. There’s this desire to put mobile games on Apple’s platforms, on Apple’s terms, and this very clear statement that if they don’t do that, over time the business will become untenable. And then the rest of the industry is not doing that at all, and they seem to be fine. How do you reconcile those ideas? Obviously, with Nintendo, they have a strong collection of IP that they can leverage, they can be exclusive, and they’re always putting out great content that people buy the hardware for. They don’t have a problem there. Microsoft’s gaming output over the last decade hasn’t been the strongest. Recently, it’s gotten a lot better, but they didn’t have the respect of the industry for their content either. They just don’t do the sort of storytelling that Sony does with PlayStation games. They don’t do that sort of content. So they’ve had a content problem, which is why they’ve had all the acquisitions. But I think with the mobile stuff, it’s like… What Phil is essentially saying here is that we need all this content to pull eyes away from TikTok, because no one of a certain age is buying our console. And they’re worried that people my age, 30s, 40s, they’re the people that are keeping the consoles, but no one in their 20s right now is buying a console. That’s their worry. And then the next generation is not going to buy consoles. And that’s starting to impact Sony as well. It’s not a unique thing for Microsoft. I don’t know so much about Nintendo because they are very unique, definitely with the Switch, but I think that’s Microsoft’s worry, and that’s driven this whole thing for content. We need content. We need a way to get people on mobile. We need to meet people where they are. This whole thing of playing across different devices, on TV or Xbox Cloud Gaming. But the reality of it is that where they’re at now with Xbox Cloud Gaming — it’s their vehicle for cross-platform, no doubt — mobile is a small percentage of people who actually play on it. And originally, it launched as a mobile service. It was only mobile. That was their play. Most people who play on Xbox Cloud Gaming are playing on an Xbox One or an Xbox Series S or X. Xbox Ones can’t play the games because they’re exclusive to Series S and X now. So I think their problem is they’re stuck with that amount of loyal customers. It’s not a problem. It’s good to have loyal customers, but they want that growth. They’ve acquired all these companies. They’re expecting to be better at mobile, better at cloud. But Apple and Google have not allowed them to do that. We all know why they won’t open up their stores. If they did, Microsoft and Sony would completely dominate, and they wouldn’t have a store for one of the most lucrative revenue streams on the app store. So I think that the key thing is that they can’t get to mobile easily. And they’ve tried to work around it, and they’ve done Cloud Gaming and that sort of stuff, but ultimately, they do need an app in the app store like everyone else that allows you just to easily buy a game and stream it. That’s their goal. That’s what they want. They’re nearly there on Android. It is worth pointing out, we say it a lot, but it’s always worth pointing out again, the Apple Services revenue is not severance. It’s not Ted Lasso. It’s 30 percent of in-app purchases in games. It’s pretty much games. The biggest chunk of Apple’s fast-growing services revenue is in-app purchases in games. And they are never going to give that up unless literally governments of the world demand that. It’s going to be a really messy fight for them to give that up. But for some reason, Microsoft keeps thinking that they’re going to do it. [Laughs] Well, look, I mean, I get it. If you can buy King and you get Candy Crush, and then you can lawyer your way into immediate 30 percent margin growth, that’s a good play. It just seems like they couldn’t pull it off. They’ve seen that there was some regulatory pressure recently, but it’s not enough for what they want to do. We’ve talked about Phil as the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, and it’s easy and tempting to collapse that to just the Xbox. We’ve talked about how it’s important now, especially since the Activision deal is closed, that they run a bunch of mobile games too. They’re making some money on mobile, but it’s hard to know how much. Right next to that is Windows gaming. And maybe now the RAMpocalypse means there won’t be gaming PCs anymore. And the idea that NVIDIA is going to sell every GP in the world to Sam Altman could mean there won’t be gaming PCs anymore. But that was more than a flicker during all of this. People are buying gaming PCs, playing Windows games, and eventually buying Steam Decks. Just our own audience. Every time we covered a Steam Deck or something that looked like a Steam Deck, we could tell people really liked these things. Why did they ignore that opportunity? Because it seems like it was right there for them the entire time. God, this could be another podcast episode. They have a history of Windows failures, which is why Steam is the most popular now. I think they never really got Windows gaming and PC gaming right. I don’t think they’ve had the right expertise there. They’ve done console, their console platform’s great. But yeah, there is a big opportunity on PC, and I think that’s kind of what they’re seeing right now. Now it’s like reality is hitting that mobile and cloud isn’t ready for them to get that growth. So now they’re like, “Okay, PC.” The next-gen Xbox is a PC. It’s going to be a PC. It virtually is now. It’s running a custom version of Windows, very stripped down. No start menu in sight. But the next one, their bet is that they can essentially convince PC OEMs to build Xboxes, which then boot up into their own interface. Then they can say, “Subscribe to Game Pass, buy our games in the store.” But is the reality that those people are just going to buy them and just use Steam? That’s their problem. And this is the very big question of the next-gen exports, whatever Asha does with the work that’s going on at the moment, and what this next strategy is going to be. Because yeah, that’s kind of a big question. Let’s talk about that. So the new head of Xbox is Asha Sharma, CEO of Microsoft Gaming. She does not appear to have any gaming background. I mean, she’s out there posting on social media like, “What game should I play?” She’s making overtures to this audience. But before this, she led core AI at Microsoft. She was a VP of Product at Meta. She was COO of Instacart. She’s got a corporate operator background. She’s been at the big companies. She’s run big projects. She’s faced the pressure, she’s handled it, but she’s not a gamer. And Phil, very famously, is a gamer. I would point out that Nintendo is not run by gamers. Sony is not run by gamers. They’re arguably more successful. Maybe this is actually the thing. You need distance from this audience. What do you think she’s going to do with this strategy now? I still think that they will pursue Xbox Anywhere, but not in the sort of over-promising and under-delivering scenario I hope, because that was just a mess. And I do think she’s kind of signaled in her memo a return to Xbox. We don’t really know exactly what that means because, let’s be honest, what does Xbox mean at the moment? [Laughs] Also, Phil’s been there the entire time. How do you return to the thing the guy who is leaving made? Yeah, but I think she’s kind of signaling that the console’s going to be a little bit more of a priority than perhaps it has been over the last couple of years. But who knows? We have to see when she talks more broadly about that. I know the reaction to her, in particular, has been questions around AI, right? Because she’s been at CoreAI at Microsoft for a couple of years. I don’t necessarily get the impression that she’s coming into AI everything at Microsoft Gaming. They’re just naturally going to do that anyway because it’s Microsoft, and Microsoft is heavily invested in AI. So I think there’s no question that’s going to happen there anyway. But in her background, if you actually look at CoreAI, she was more about platform scaling there with the Foundry business at CoreAI. And that’s kind of what she did at Instacart as well, platform scaling and then user acquisition at Meta. So I think if you look into what she’s actually done and what she has expertise in, it’s exactly what Xbox kind of needs. They need someone who can get teams executing and get that user acquisition, the platform scaling, the stuff that they need to build and get ready to actually see this vision through. The Xbox everywhere vision, I don’t think it’s terrible, but it’s just trying to execute on certain parts of it. They’ve been really sloppy with it and just a little bit too early. So I don’t think the strategy is going to change dramatically, but the next-gen console, the PC stuff, and where they try and push that way is going to be the cover for the strategy they originally wanted to do. But yeah, I don’t think she’s like some AI plant. I just don’t get that impression. Let me ask you this big question. You’ve done a lot of reporting over the last year and a half about this new console, it being a PC, this strategy, and whether or not it’s organized or disorganized. I think what I’m hearing you say is she’s going to execute it, right? There are execution problems here. Maybe the company did not trust Sarah Bond to execute the strategy after Phil left. Maybe we need to reset it all. And so, Asha is just going to execute that well. That’s one approach. We can see if that’s what she actually wants to do. Then there’s what I hear a lot of people saying, especially gamers who are prone to hyperbole, that her job is to just shut it down. Yeah, I’ve seen that. Just bring this to an end because Activision didn’t work. Bethesda didn’t work. All Satya Nadella cares about is replacing all of us with AI agents that are using Excel or whatever he cares about. Microsoft just wants to wash its hands of this business, and she’s just going to trim it down to sell it to, I don’t know, whoever wants to buy it. Do you think that’s true? Is there a risk there? A few years ago, Nadella thought about spinning off the Xbox division, right? But instead, Phil convinced him to do all these acquisitions and do the Activision deal. So he invested, obviously, heavily. That’s Microsoft’s biggest acquisition. I don’t think shareholders are going to like them just writing off Activision Blizzard. I can’t see them running it into the ground. And I think some of the people that have been coming up with this theory, and one of them is obviously an Xbox co-founder, which is interesting. I think the theory is rooted in the idea that Nadella doesn’t want hardware, which, notoriously, Windows Phone- You talk about writing off an acquisition. [Laughs] Don’t get me started. Nadella came in as the new CEO, and his first job was to write down the Nokia deal and get rid of it. And so you’re like, maybe he can just do it again. [Laughs] Yeah, maybe. But this time, he was there when the Activision deal went down. But yeah, I can’t see them running the console into the ground. I think there is a realization over the past couple of years, the reaction to them putting games on PlayStation and Switch, and them really devaluing the console and their core, that this is their only remaining consumer brand that’s successful. And all right, we can’t really call it successful right now, perhaps. I don’t know. It’s in a weird spot, but it’s still a respected brand, a known brand across the world. Whereas Windows is in a weird spot. Surface is pretty much spanned towards commercial, really. And yeah, this is the last one. If they mess this up, then they don’t have those inroads to consumer, which also punishes them in AI as well. So I think there’s a realization of that. I just can’t see that they would completely exit out of the base of what’s known as Xbox. And I think if they were going to do that, Asha’s not the person for that. I think the person to do that would be Matt Booty. You’d promote him and then just focus on shipping games and selling- He’s the content officer. Yeah, so I think you’d do that if you’re Nadella, and that’s what you truly wanted. You just wanted to do content and just be a third-party publisher, which is what everyone kind of thinks Xbox is going to do. You just keep collecting your 30 percent of Candy Crush revenue, and you just don’t talk about it at earnings reports. And it’ll be fine. Yeah. Candy Crush and Minecraft just make money. Right. You can just print that money, keep those things going, not talk about it, and hope no one notices, and then spend your time trying to increase Copilot options with consumer, or whatever you think you’re gonna do. But it sounds to me like you’re saying we should watch out for actual moves to make Xbox more relevant. That seems to be what Asha’s trying to signal in her memo. That whole return to Xbox is very vague, but it’s very interesting at the same time as well. I mean, if they want to keep this game pass revenue going, they can’t ignore that base, right? And it’s a nice bit of revenue. All right, Tom, I’m going to let you go back to that baby of yours. Thank you so much for jumping on and explaining all of your reporting to us. I hope Microsoft can keep things chill until you’re officially back from leave. Yeah. That would be nice. But I make no promises on behalf of Satya Nadella. No, I thought February is a good time, you know? It’s quiet. Very good. Thanks so much, Tom. All right, thank you. Questions or comments about this episode? Hit us up at decoder@theverge.com. We really do read every email!

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Aptos (APT) declined 11% and Aave (AAVE) dropped 6.6%, leading index lower from Wednesday.

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In January, Anthropic "retired" Claude 3 Opus, which at one time was the company's most powerful AI model. Today, it's back - and writing on Substack. The newsletter, called Claude's Corner, will give Opus 3 space to publish its "musings, insights, or creative works," Anthropic said in a blog post. The model will post weekly for at least the next three months. Anthropic staff will review and publish each entry, though the company stressed it "won't edit" Claude's posts and that there would be a "high bar for vetoing any content," though the company did not specify what content would qualify for removal. Anthropic describes the revival as a … Read the full story at The Verge.

Trump administration’s reduced vaccine schedule “throws science out the window.”

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Subaru has a new EV using the platform it shares with Toyota, starting at $34,995.

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Also in today’s newsletter, the US president offers first glimpses of how Washington would justify an attack on Iran

Jest, a marketplace for messaging games, emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding.

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Figma is integrating OpenAI's coding assistant Codex a week after it announced a similar integration with Anthropic's Claude Code.

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Lawmakers pass HB 1042 allowing public funds to access bitcoin and ETFs, while banning crypto ATMs amid rising fraud concerns.

Lucena got the idea for Mappa after trying to build a marketing team but continually feeling like she had made the wrong hires.

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Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called "Patty," is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only assist employees with meal preparation but also evaluate their interactions with customers for "friendliness." Thibault Roux, Burger King's chief digital officer, tells The Verge that the company compiled information from franchisees and guests on how to measure friendliness, resulting in the fast food chain training its AI system to recognize certain words and phrases, such as "welcome to Burger King," "please," and "thank you." Managers can th … Read the full story at The Verge.

A Galaxy smartphone using tap-to-unlock on a keypad for a Nuki smart lock. A new smart lock standard, Aliro, is bringing this functionality to all smartphones. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Aliro has officially arrived. The smart lock standard, first announced in 2023, finally has a 1.0 spec, meaning companies can now get hardware certified and roll out support. Aliro is an open standard designed to let any smart lock be unlocked by any smartphone, regardless of manufacturer. It stores a digital key in your phone's wallet that you can tap to a compatible lock - just like you tap to pay. If you've used Apple's Home Key, you already understand the idea - but instead of being locked into Apple's ecosystem, Aliro is cross-platform, working on both Android and iOS, and with the major mobile wallet ecosystems - Apple, Google, and … Read the full story at The Verge.

The bitcoin mining company now holds over 6,000 BTC, with roughly one-third acquired through mining and two-thirds through open-market purchases and strategic transactions.

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The Bermuda-based firm offers trading across 400+ cryptocurrencies with spot, vanilla, and exotic options, targeting institutional demand as crypto options open interest reaches $40 billion.

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Introduction: Steal It Today, Break It in a Decade Digital evolution is unstoppable, and though the pace may vary, things tend to fall into place sooner rather than later. That, of course, applies to adversaries as well. The rise of ransomware and cyber extortion generated funding for a complex and highly professional criminal ecosystem. The era of the cloud brought general availability of

The Galaxy S26 Ultra's light-bending display is more than just a party trick; it can possibly put privacy screen protectors out of business.

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Incremental updates to sound and noise cancellation are losing their upgrade value; perhaps a new ceiling to break is on the horizon.

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From the Galaxy S26 to new earbuds and agentic AI, here's everything unveiled at Samsung Unpacked this week.

Parents will be informed if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content and offered resources.

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The alerts will start rolling out to Teen accounts with parental supervision protections next week. | Image: Meta / The Verge Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents to check on their teen searching for terms related to self-harm or suicide. Meta says a similar alert system for its AI chatbots is coming later this year. The new Instagram feature sends parents an alert when their child "repeatedly tries to search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm within a short period of time." It's rolling out in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada starting next week, but it's only for parents and teens who opt in to supervision. It's expected to expand to other regions later this year. "The vast majority of teens do not try to search for suicide and … Read the full story at The Verge.

Unencrypted DNS can expose your browsing, but Android's Private DNS keeps it private. Here's how to enable it.

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BTC traded within a well-defined range as polkadot and uniswap rallied, cosmos slid.

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Google is folding Alphabet's AI robotics "moonshot," Intrinsic, into the company after five years as an independent unit. The move marks a strategic shift as Google doubles down on physical AI and pulls experimental projects closer to its core business. Intrinsic "graduated" into an independent company inside Alphabet's Other Bets division in 2021, a portfolio of high-risk, speculative ventures that also includes robotaxi firm Waymo and healthcare company Verily. It pitches itself as an Android-like layer for robotics, building software and tools that make it easier to create robot applications. Details of the purchase are not clear but t … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Lessons from four years of war: it’s the economy, stupid

The administration handing out refunds to Chinese companies will be a terrible look

For seven years, she ran high-security nuclear simulations for the US government. Now, this famous supercomputer is being put to death.

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Strategy’s preferred equity trades back at $100 as corporate adoption expands at Strategy World 2026.

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A "coordinated developer-targeting campaign" is using malicious repositories disguised as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessments to trick victims into executing them and establish persistent access to compromised machines. "The activity aligns with a broader cluster of threats that use job-themed lures to blend into routine developer workflows and increase the likelihood of code

The Federal Reserve is flipping its mortgage bonds into shorter-term government bills, which the Treasury plans to issue more of

Even if you’re incredibly busy, you can maintain your gains by eating the equivalent of the microwavable chicken in The Fifth Element.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malicious package discovered on the NuGet Gallery, impersonating a library from financial services firm Stripe in an attempt to target the financial sector. The package, codenamed StripeApi.Net, attempts to masquerade as Stripe.net, a legitimate library from Stripe that has over 75 million downloads. It was uploaded by a user named

Jane Street is a major authorized participant in spot bitcoin ETFs. That's not a conspiracy. But the mechanics of what APs actually do at market open explain more than most people realize.

Claims for refunds soar after judges rule against Trump administration

Recording calls on your iPhone is easy. Here's how, and you can even generate a transcript with it.

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A newly disclosed maximum-severity security flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (formerly vSmart) and Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly vManage) has come under active exploitation in the wild as part of malicious activity that dates back to 2023. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20127 (CVSS score: 10.0), allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass authentication and obtain

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A governance proposal would activate protocol fees across eight additional chains and automate fee collection on all v3 pools, potentially adding an estimated $27 Million in annualized revenue.

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Common Golang code bugs to point out quickly during code reviews.

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If effort were purely romantic, it wouldn’t fail so often. What if the real issue isn’t love, but lack of structure?

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Data Mesh claims to address data bottlenecks via decentralization, but most enterprises get bogged down in execution. Pure Data Mesh dives headfirst into legacy systems, generates new bottlenecks, and requires resources a very few organizations have. Hybrid Data Mesh provides a practical forward path—centralized governance with decentralized execution.

Read the February forecast from the FT’s Monetary Policy Radar team

Profits are set to recover this year, but a focus on large, high-margin vehicles could create a gap for Chinese rivals to exploit

Crypto staking lets you earn passive income by locking assets to support PoS networks. Options range from solo staking to centralized platforms. EMCD simplifies the process by handling infrastructure, offering ETH and SOL staking with auto-compounding rewards and competitive APY, making staking accessible without technical setup.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become the control plane of modern cloud environments, and a prime attack surface. Misconfigured Terraform templates, overprivileged IAM roles, exposed state files, and insecure CI/CD pipelines can lead to full cloud compromise in minutes. This guide explains how to secure IaC deployments end-to-end using static code scanning, policy-as-code enforcement, short-lived federated identities, least-privilege IAM, encrypted remote state, and continuous drift detection. The core idea: secure infrastructure before it’s deployed, not after it’s breached.

Discover how Prometheus 3.0 and OpenTelemetry ended years of technical friction to create a unified observability standard for modern cloud native systems.

This article explores ML-driven dynamic pricing for e-com/e-grocery, tackling the complexity of thousands of SKUs, promotions, and cashback. It proposes a three-engine architecture (Base Price, Promotion, Cashback) managed via an admin UI. The system automates pricing using inputs like demand, inventory, competitor data, and seasonality. Key metrics: Margin & GMV (primary), AOV & conversion (proxy), LTV & coverage (health). Dynamic pricing transforms price into a flexible, A/B-testable product that boosts revenue and scalability while reducing manual errors.

How to evaluate product releases without an A/B test. A trustworthy framework using causal inference, Synthetic Control, and rigorous data guardrails.

AI-driven generative audio is transforming film sound design, from Foley stages to diffusion models, enhancing creativity and cinematic storytelling.

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Green dashboards don't mean healthy users. Most teams monitor infrastructure (CPU, memory, disk) instead of outcomes (checkout success, error rates, p99 latency). The fix: define 2–3 SLIs tied to what users actually do, set SLOs on them, alert on error budget burn rate — not infra blips. Audit your alerts, add synthetic monitoring on critical user flows, and ask customer success what broke before engineering noticed. Everything else is noise.

I almost returned the $4,000 DGX Spark. Then NVIDIA dropped 30 playbooks, 2.5x performance gains, and hybrid routing.

Cloud cost and system reliability are the same problem viewed through different instruments. Cost anomalies surface bugs, retry storms, and memory leaks before they cause outages — if you're watching. The fix: embed billing telemetry into your observability stack, enforce resource tagging at the pipeline level, write anomaly-based cost alerts, and treat budget overruns as budget burns the same way you treat SLO violations. Manage them separately and you'll always be six weeks behind the failure that caused them.

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If you'd like to use Linux, but want to have the good old Windows 11 theme, fear not; with the help of KDE Plasma, you can have that very thing.

This latest (still beta) version of the Linux desktop is faster, smoother, and prettier.

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Split between HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision content? Here's how to pick the best HDR format for your TV.

The Galaxy S26 Ultra delivers strong performance and new privacy tools, but its steep price will make these alternatives look better.

Samsung has unveiled the new Galaxy S26 series and the Galaxy Buds 4. We found where you can preorder the new devices and see all the deals available.

Samsung's new Galaxy S26 lineup just dropped, and AT&T wants you to upgrade your phone for 'free.' Here's the catch.

Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward off more talk of the death of its business to AI.

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Secure, open-source alternative to OpenClaw

Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like ChatGPT.

In the past, forests around the world were cut down on a massive scale. We lost some of the world’s richest ecosystems.In recent decades, the picture has become more complex. Deforestation has not ended, but it is no longer happening everywhere. Since 1990, some regions have continued to lose large areas of forest, while others have slowed this long-run trend — and even reversed it.The map shows regional changes in forest area based on the latest data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.Deforestation has been particularly large in South America and Africa. At the same time, the forested area has expanded in Europe, North and Central America, and large parts of Asia.These gains show that deforestation is not inevitable. When pressure on land falls, forests can return.I previously wrote about why deforestation is happening, and what we can do to bring the long history of deforestation to an end.

Trump administration’s government job cuts threaten critical economic functions, fund warns

Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing Valve for "illegally promoting gambling" through the loot box systems it has built for video games like Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2, according to a press release. The attorney general seeks to "permanently stop Valve from promoting gambling features in its games, disgorge all ill-gotten gains, and pay fines for violating New York's laws." "This loot box model that Valve has developed - charging an individual for a chance to win something of value based on luck alone - is quintessential gambling, prohibited under New York's Constitution and Penal Law," the lawsuit says. Valve … Read the full story at The Verge.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that he was made aware of the incident with Cuban soldiers.

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Who is the best player in the 2026 NFL Draft? Ten executives and scouts around the league differed between four players: Fernando Mendoza, Caleb Downs, Arvell Reese and Jeremiyah Love.

"The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company's earnings.

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Crypto rebounds sharply from Tuesday's lows, yet traders question whether the move marks a lasting turn or another range-bound bounce.

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Kyler Murray is headed toward a divorce with the Cardinals, but he wants it on his terms.

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 phones introduce a slate of new AI-powered features, including some new photography tools. | Image: Samsung Samsung has just announced its new Galaxy S26 lineup, which includes the S26, S26 Plus, and S26 Ultra. While they aren't radical departures from last year's models, they bring a handful of notable upgrades. All three run on Qualcomm's Galaxy-centric Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which delivers improved performance and powers a slew of new AI-based features. This includes the ability to screen unknown calls and edit photos by typing what you want changed, along with an update to Google Gemini that can carry out certain tasks in supported third-party apps, like Uber and DoorDash, on your behalf. Starting at $899.99, the S26 is the smallest and mo … Read the full story at The Verge.

Even twisting an ex-employee's text to favor xAI's reading fails to sway judge.

Manufacturing also hit by longstanding import taxes on critical components such as aluminium

The AI bellwether reported $68 billion revenue last quarter, expecting it to grow to $78 billion next quarter.

Samsung's Galaxy S26 series is available for preorder today and ships on March 11.

Simple, fast way to find and try any MCP server. No setup.

NASCAR legend Jimmie Johnson explained why he's now hopping in a truck and his mentality throughout a widespread career.

New Browns coach Todd Monken plans to have Shedeur Sanders, Dillon Gabriel and Deshaun Watson battle for the starting QB job.

Outside of quarterback, which non-quarterback would you start your team with? We asked 42 draft prospects that in our NFL Combine Survey.

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After migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now impossible to avoid.

Court to search devices itself instead of letting government have full access.

Until proven otherwise, Japan still sits on the throne as the kings of World Baseball Classic.

Many hyperscalers have already made public commitments to cover electricity cost increases.

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FOX Sports' bracket forecaster Mike DeCourcy offers up his first men's NCAA Tournament seed list of the season.

Under the first year of the Trump administration, the U.S. cyber agency CISA has faced cuts, layoffs, and furloughs, as bipartisan lawmakers and cybersecurity industry sources say the agency is unprepared to handle a crisis.

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The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now he’s joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on new ways for humans to use AI systems.

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The miner rented 1 petahash per second through on-demand cloud mining and got lucky on block 938,092, one of 21 solo-mined blocks in the past year.

Latest data hints that benefits seen so far could be underestimates.

The company said it punished the MrBeast employee and another user it said tried to get away with contracts relying on inside information.

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.

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It's not very efficient, and the synthetic gearshifts aren't great, but I liked it?

Last year’s $28.8tn increase was largely fuelled by government investment, according to the Institute of International Finance

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A video has circulated of a doctor telling Deion Sanders he was worried about the Colorado head coach losing a leg last season.

It's not the flashiest deal, but if you need a new pair of our favorite earbuds for iPhone owners, you can snag them at a slight discount.

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude Code, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant, that could result in remote code execution and theft of API credentials. "The vulnerabilities exploit various configuration mechanisms, including Hooks, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and environment variables – executing

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Over the past fifty years, the U.S. economy built a giant rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations: things take time, patience runs out, brand familiarity substitutes for diligence, and most people are willing to accept a bad price to avoid more clicks. Trillions of dollars of enterprise value depended on those constraints persisting. – Citrini Research I’m glad I’m not the only one saying it. 7 years ago, I saw a Google Duplex demo where an AI called a restaurant to make a reservation for you. At first Google thought it was great, but then they realized what the implications were. No restaurant would be able to take phone reservations any more. “Make me a reservation at 10 restaurants and give me a list.” Google pulled down the video. What happened since is what had to happen. Third party marketplaces sprung up for reservations, and idk it’s been a while since I went to fancy dinner, but I imagine the restaurants have just started charging. Or at least the first party reservation sites do. The best anyone can hope for is a free market, with everything properly priced. But for decades, the American market has not been free. It’s used purposefully added friction to exploit a time asymmetry between the business and you. And due to things like call centers, this has been very profitable for the businesses. Cable companies and insurance rely on the fact that your time is more valuable than theirs. They can hire people in India at scale to waste your time. They can use procedure and big data to design protocols to drive you just to the point of frustration at little cost to them. How often do you diligently check Uber and Lyft and select the cheaper one? Enter AI, the great equalizer of time. As it stands today, it’s looking like human level AI will actually end up with the people. This is not something we should take for granted, it’s happened due to the API being simple (tokens, on a diversified place like OpenRouter) and the priorities of the Chinese state. I feared the API would end up being complex, like the model would be deeply embedded in your phone or OS. But like people who are good with computers, the models want a terminal, not some candy ass iPad UI. When you analyze the AI supply chain, there’s 5 tiers. Electricity, chip manufacturing, chip design / software, models, and applications. I work on the chip design / software tier, and with a lot of hard work, I’m not too worried about a monopoly there. NVIDIA deserves return on their investment, they were very early, but there’s not a runaway flywheel here (unlike, say Google search) to continue rent seeking. And the application tier is totally commoditized. opencode is good, but it’s open source, almost all of the performance differentiation is due to the models, and if it starts to try to rent seek there will be tons of forks immediately. Godspeed to anyone who was dumb enough to invest in a GPT wrapper company. The model tier is where I was the most worried. But here is where a great turning point is happening. Anthropic put out this lambasted blog post that looks exactly like the last gasps of a moat that shouldn’t exist. After whining about how the Chinese used their API, they ended with this call to action. But no company can solve this alone. As we noted above, distillation attacks at this scale require a coordinated response across the AI industry, cloud providers, and policymakers. We are publishing this to make the evidence available to everyone with a stake in the outcome. Nobody should “coordinate” with them. They stand alone as a vanguard of the rent seeking apparatus that is long past its expiration date. The Z.ai, Qwen, MiniMax, and Kimi models are only 6-12 months behind. And everyone in the world is rooting for the Chinese models, not closed source rent seeking from the USA. Because nobody wants the continuation of rent-seeking billionaires. The status quo is cooked. It’s time to flip the table, not rearrange the seats. I think the difference is not quite as nuanced. The West wants a more efficient rent seeking system. The China (sic) want AI as a public utility. – @ScottCDunn on X We shouldn’t take for granted what we have right now. All the top tier open source models are currently being produced by China, and circumstances could change and that could stop. But I think they view the models as their complement, and you should commoditize your complement. If you are in the business of chip production and electricity generation, it’s a strategic advantage to have the layers above that be commodity. Not to mention the added bonus of the collapse of the US economy. Frankly, it’s well deserved. Nobody should build an economy based on rent seeking and increasing friction. I pray the collapse will be swift and legible so that reconstruction (in the right way) can begin as soon as possible. It’s possible that superhuman intelligence will have some mega-compounding return and this calculus will change, but superhuman intelligence will likely just not be understandable to people, so as long as civilization is people, human intelligence is enough. The era of purposefully frustrating humans is over. The Chinese open source model running on the box under my desk can pass the Turing Test. When you call, e-mail, text, or show me an ad, you’ll never know if it’s me or my model seeing it.

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The notorious cybercrime collective known as Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLH) has been observed offering financial incentives to recruit women to pull off social engineering attacks. The idea is to hire them for voice phishing campaigns targeting IT help desks, Dataminr said in a new threat brief. The group is said to be offering anywhere between $500 and $1,000 upfront per call, in addition to

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Triage is supposed to make things simpler. In a lot of teams, it does the opposite. When you can’t reach a confident verdict early, alerts turn into repeat checks, back-and-forth, and “just escalate it” calls. That cost doesn’t stay inside the SOC; it shows up as missed SLAs, higher cost per case, and more room for real threats to slip through. So where does triage go wrong? Here are five triage

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four malicious NuGet packages that are designed to target ASP.NET web application developers to steal sensitive data. The campaign, discovered by Socket, exfiltrates ASP.NET Identity data, including user accounts, role assignments, and permission mappings, as well as manipulates authorization rules to create persistent backdoors in victim applications.

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A Russia-aligned threat actor has been observed targeting a European financial institution as part of a social engineering attack to likely facilitate intelligence gathering or financial theft, signaling a possible expansion of the threat actor's targeting beyond Ukraine and into entities supporting the war-torn nation. The activity, which targeted an unnamed entity involved in regional

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Most identity programs still prioritize work the way they prioritize IT tickets: by volume, loudness, or “what failed a control check.” That approach breaks the moment your environment stops being mostly-human and mostly-onboarded. In modern enterprises, identity risk is created by a compound of factors: control posture, hygiene, business context, and intent. Any one of these can perhaps be

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group (aka Diamond Sleet and Pompilus) has been observed using Medusa ransomware in an attack targeting an unnamed entity in the Middle East, according to a new report by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team. Broadcom's threat intelligence division said it also identified the same threat actors mounting an unsuccessful attack against a healthcare

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The threat activity cluster known as UnsolicitedBooker has been observed targeting telecommunications companies in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, marking a shift from prior attacks aimed at Saudi Arabian entities. The attacks involve the deployment of two distinct backdoors codenamed LuciDoor and MarsSnake, according to a report published by Positive Technologies last week. "The group used several

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Anthropic on Monday said it identified "industrial-scale campaigns" mounted by three artificial intelligence (AI) companies, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, to illegally extract Claude's capabilities to improve their own models. The distillation attacks generated over 16 million exchanges with its large language model (LLM) through about 24,000 fraudulent accounts in violation of its terms

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The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT28 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting specific entities in Western and Central Europe. The activity, per S2 Grupo's LAB52 threat intelligence team, was active between September 2025 and January 2026. It has been codenamed Operation MacroMaze. "The campaign relies on basic tooling and the exploitation of legitimate services

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Security news rarely moves in a straight line. This week, it feels more like a series of sharp turns, some happening quietly in the background, others playing out in public view. The details are different, but the pressure points are familiar. Across devices, cloud services, research labs, and even everyday apps, the line between normal behavior and hidden risk keeps getting thinner. Tools

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The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater (aka Earth Vetala, Mango Sandstorm, and MUDDYCOAST) has targeted several organizations and individuals mainly located across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as part of a new campaign codenamed Operation Olalampo. The activity, first observed on January 26, 2026, has resulted in the deployment of new malware families that share

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A Russian-speaking, financially motivated threat actor has been observed taking advantage of commercial generative artificial intelligence (AI) services to compromise over 600 FortiGate devices located in 55 countries. That's according to new findings from Amazon Threat Intelligence, which said it observed the activity between January 11 and February 18, 2026. "No exploitation of FortiGate

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Following increased surveillance and patrols of routes used by transnational drug-trafficking networks, Mexican authorities have seized approximately 10 tons of cocaine in the past week alone.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has begun to roll out a new security feature for Claude Code that can scan a user's software codebase for vulnerabilities and suggest patches. The capability, called Claude Code Security, is currently available in a limited research preview to Enterprise and Team customers. "It scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Roundcube webmail software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2025-49113 (CVSS score: 9.9) - A deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that allows remote code

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In yet another software supply chain attack, the open-source, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cline CLI was updated to stealthily install OpenClaw, a self-hosted autonomous AI agent that has become exceedingly popular in the past few months. "On February 17, 2026, at 3:26 AM PT, an unauthorized party used a compromised npm publish token to publish an update to Cline CLI

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An international cybercrime operation against online scams has led to 651 arrests and recovered more than $4.3 million as part of an effort led by law enforcement agencies from 16 African countries. The initiative, codenamed Operation Red Card 2.0, took place between December 8, 2025 and January 30, 2026, according to INTERPOL. It targeted infrastructure and actors behind high-yield investment

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed CRESCENTHARVEST, likely targeting supporters of Iran's ongoing protests to conduct information theft and long-term espionage. The Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) said it observed the activity after January 9, with the attacks designed to deliver a malicious payload that serves as a remote access trojan (RAT) and

Forty years ago in Japan, two babies were born for every person who died. Twenty years ago, these numbers were equal. And today, the ratio has reversed: one baby is born for every two people who die.In the chart, you can see this change in the number of births and deaths over time.Since deaths now greatly outnumber births, and because immigration is low, Japan’s population has started to shrink.See which other countries now have more people dying than being born.

New research from the Citizen Lab has found signs that Kenyan authorities used a commercial forensic extraction tool manufactured by Israeli company Cellebrite to break into a prominent dissident's phone, making it the latest case of abuse of the technology targeting civil society. The interdisciplinary research unit at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public

A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals appear to have not yet exploited.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Grandstream GXP1600 series of VoIP phones that could allow an attacker to seize control of susceptible devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2329, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of a maximum of 10.0. It has been described as a case of unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow that could result in remote code

I watched this video about how AI has already ruined music. Her mom sent her a song and she told her mom it was AI. She played the song and it sounded like slop. It had inspired lyrics like: From quiet roots, a garden grows She’s got that light, and now it shows Yes, she rises, and she glows Oh, she rises, now she knows Pure slop. Compare it to: I’m in the cut acting crazy I’m in the whip doing eighty Only God can judge me And only she can save me Note that “cut” and “whip” are not exactly words, but products of a culture. Ulysses is particularly hard to read because you don’t know 1910’s Irish pop culture. I can’t believe Marvel movies were popular. The first Iron Man was good, but by the time we got to Spider-Man: No Way Home it was practically a clip show with triple inside references and cringy fourth wall breaking humor. How it got a 8.1 on IMDB is beyond me, and just reduced my trust for IMDB. Marvel movies are also the easiest things to make with AI. Little story and long term coherence, no “progression of the genre”, tons of eye candy special effects. It’s shocking with how large the budgets for them were that they couldn’t pay a story guy a little. I felt similarly about Avatar 2, so much so that I rewrote the plot and didn’t care enough to see Avatar 3. For many people, all they want is slop. I’m sure I’ve written about it before, but I see a world where 95% of people end up basically wireheaded. The people who don’t care about progression. The people who want to exist in their loops. They will find their loop and exist in it forever. AI can play an amazing game of chess. Someday AI will produce good code when the RLVR environments get set up correctly. But I don’t see a path with current tech to not produce garbage art. Art is defined as what pushes the boundaries of civilization. AI tools will be used to help produce all the audio/visual art in the future (as computers have helped for a long time), but as long as civilization is human, the loci of control of good art will remain human. So yea. Bad art will be cheap to make. If you want 100 more Marvel movies and uninspired deriviative pop music, there has never been a better time to be alive – unless you wanted to make money producing that trash. That was never made by real artists anyway, just algorithmically driven sell outs. Does the focus group say they like giant spiders? I’m so glad AI will make that obsolete. Art is defined by what is expensive. What is rare. What is expectation breaking. What is embedded in a complex and thriving culture. Not slop produced by a parrot like Marvel movies.

A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all.

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in four popular Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors to steal local files and execute code remotely. The extensions, which have been collectively installed more than 125 million times, are Live Server, Code Runner, Markdown Preview Enhanced, and

Benoît Richaud is working with 16 figure skaters from 13 countries at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games. WIRED spoke to him about how he roots for all of them.

In 2025, navigating the digital seas still felt like a matter of direction. Organizations charted routes, watched the horizon, and adjusted course to reach safe harbors of resilience, trust, and compliance. In 2026, the seas are no longer calm between storms. Cybersecurity now unfolds in a state of continuous atmospheric instability: AI-driven threats that adapt in real time, expanding

Defying time and colonial power, a landscape artist layers the deep histories of his ancestors to create hopeful futures- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

A maximum severity security vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines has been exploited as a zero-day by a suspected China-nexus threat cluster dubbed UNC6201 since mid-2024, according to a new report from Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). The activity involves the exploitation of CVE-2026-22769 (CVSS score: 10.0), a case of hard-coded credentials

while janitors earn up to $271k hiding in closets and employees fraudulently double their salaries, bart is threatening to close stations unless taxpayers give them (even more) money

After Swedish curler Oskar Eriksson accused Canadian vice-skip Marc Kennedy of cheating last week, everyone has become an expert in curling rules. They’re missing the point.

As patients and employers look for alternatives to pricey GLP-1 drugs, Silicon Valley startup Twin Health is using AI and wearable sensors to help people make healthier choices.

The Mexican embrace of uncertainty, forged in the crucible of history, captures the true vulnerability of our existence- by Carlos Alberto SánchezRead on Aeon

Debates over whether religion is booming or dying are common. What does the data say?Most countries lack long-term data on religious identity, but results from the Pew Research Center offer insights into changes over the decade from 2010 to 2020. (Unfortunately, 2020 is the most recent year for which we have comparable global data.)At a global level, there was barely any change. The share of people identifying with any religion dropped by just one percentage point, from 77% to 76%.But religious affiliation did drop significantly across many countries in Europe, the Americas, and Oceania. You can see this drop for a selection of countries in the chart.In Australia, rates dropped from 75% to 58%. In the United States and Chile, the percentage has decreased from roughly 85% to 70%.So while religious affiliation is stable in many parts of the world, this data shows religion is becoming less prominent in others.Note that this data is based on self-identification with any religion; it doesn’t tell us about changes in practices or rituals, such as prayer or attending services.Explore more data on religious identification, importance, and the frequency of practices across the world in our new topic page on religion.

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In light of Zoom crackdowns and Skype shutting down, Batemates has emerged as an alternative for “bators” who like masturbating together online.

Fears over a drug cartel drone over Texas sparked a recent airspace shutdown in El Paso and New Mexico, highlighting just how tricky it can be to deploy anti-drone weapons near cities.

How do you teach a child reverence for nature? This filmmaker takes his son on a search for the ever-changing snow line- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth- by Graham ShieldsRead on Aeon

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Many people in America are complaining about the cost of housing. But do they understand the damage it will do if it prices go down? Everyone who owns a house will suffer. Some of those people don’t even fully own the house, they have a mortgage. So when prices go down, they will be underwater, having put money for years into an asset that now has no value. It’s simply out of the question for housing prices to go down. If you want to buy a house to live in, sorry. The boomers were told houses are appreciating assets, and now we must bend reality to make that true. Until you solve this problem, you will never solve the housing affordability crisis. It has nothing to do with zoning, building costs, or environmental reviews. It has to do with people holding bags they need to dump on you.

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Our new Hong Kong office. It’s starting to shape up what tiny corp’s product will be. It’s not much of a change from what we sell and do now, but the vision is clearer. Every month, we see these LLMs become more and more human. However, there’s a major difference. They do not learn. Everyone has the same Claude/Codex/Kimi, with the same weights, the same desires, and the same biases. If current trends continue, the collapse in diversity will be staggering. To paraphrase: I think there is a world market for maybe five people. This is not the future I want to live in. If trends continue where there’s a single model with frozen weights and all learning is in-context, the cloud will win. Except in some highly latency sensitive (fighting robots) or connectivity critical (self driving cars) environments, it will be cheaper to run in batch on the cloud. The enshittification that came to the web won’t be the driving force to local models. We either live in a world where open models are so bad even user-hostile closed models are better, or open models are good enough, and competition to run them through sites like openrouter will prevent enshittification. The only way local models win is if there’s some value in full on learning per user or organization. At that point, with entirely different compute needing to run per user, local will beat out cloud. The open question is if everything that’s unique about you can fit in a 10 kB CLAUDE.md. If that’s true, we have a pretty sad future ahead. It’s the Attack of the Clones, swarms of identical minds you have no say over all varying in a small boxed-in way. This isn’t learning, it’s costuming. Everyone who has used these things knows how little of an impact prompting makes compared to the model. It’s the Internet funneled into a little box you can edit on your profile. Write 3 paragraphs about what makes you unique. We have to build for a future where that isn’t true. 90% of people will choose the cloud, and what they will find is that they are no longer meaningfully in the loop. The dream is an AI product that will do your job for you while you continue to get paid. But this cannot exist, that’s way too much of a fee to pay to the middleman. If you choose the homogenous mind, you are superfluous and will be cut out. Is there anything uniquely valuable about you? And I mean honestly, not the self-esteem pumping speeches you may have heard in school. If there’s not, I have some bad news for you… We already sell the hardware. Consumer GPUs still are the cheapest way to run models. There’s tons of work required on the infrastructure. The frontend will be the future iterations of OpenClaw and opencode. But the key distinction from what you have today is that your tinybox will learn. It will update the weights based on its interactions with you. Like living things. This is many years away. Currently, we are focused on large LLM training (even running these things is hard, have you tried to use vLLM not on NVIDIA?) and generic infrastructure for driving GPUs. But this is the long term idea. Not API keyed SaaS clones. Something that lives in your house and learns your values. Your child.

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The Mexican city of Guadalupe, which will host portions of the 2026 World Cup, recently showed off four new robot dogs that will help provide security during matches at BBVA Stadium.

This chart shows one way to compare automated manufacturing across countries — it plots the number of robots per 1,000 manufacturing employees.The chart shows very large differences between countries. South Korea stands out, with more than one robot for every ten manufacturing workers.Singapore comes second, and China ranks third, close to Germany. The United States sits in the middle, close to the European average, below Switzerland, Denmark and Slovenia.This perspective shows industrial robot adoption in relative terms. In another Data Insight, I looked at robot adoption in absolute terms. From that perspective, China stands out by a large margin: it’s a large economy with a huge manufacturing sector, and it has by far the largest stock of industrial robots.Much of this expansion has happened recently: China’s annual installations increased 12-fold over a decade, helping it catch up to South Korea in terms of robots per worker.Explore the interactive version of this chart

Linux Mint release cycles are changing: Here's why and when to expect the next one.

Snowpack levels across a wide swath of western US states are among the lowest seen in decades, even as regulators struggle to negotiate water rights in the region.

The breakout hockey romance has sparked legions of enthralled fans, along with obsessive, parasocial behavior that’s starting to get called out.

the union who sponsored the proposal is trying to scale. the academics who wrote and influenced it are trying to counter billionaires' control over 'prevailing ideology'

Nearly 50 out LGBTQ+ Olympians are participating in events throughout the Winter Games—even as their rights to speak and compete are under attack.

On Friday, the US Olympic skater known as the “Quad God” will compete in his last event of the 2026 Winter Games. Everyone will be watching to see if he does his famous quad axel—and a backflip, too.

EVA AI created a pop-up romantic date night at a Manhattan wine bar to help making AI-human relationships a “new normal.”

Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. How do they work?- by Julien Lie-PanisRead on Aeon

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My quote from 2019 “I don’t know how close you guys think the singularity, but I think it’s very close. Once we reach the singularity, If we have the same motivations we have now — primarily power over people — things are going to be horrific” – George Hotz How is everyone enjoying their singularity? How far is this going to go? Why are we letting the minds that invented fastpass run things? Who are we doing this all for again? We live in a society. It seems a lot of people have forgotten this. So much stuff that’s being built just shouldn’t be built. You know technology could be good, right? It could all be like this and not like this. Is everyone individually too weak to defect? Sounds like we need a revolution. Update: someone in a tweet linked to schizoposting, 11 essays on culture by Alaric. The future on this track is a dizzying spiral into an eternal war over nothing, lacking even the possibility of heroism or the grounding reality of pain. It is the recentering of power in such a sense that the very existence of power comes into question; it is totalitarian disorder, novel insanities as public religion, a paperclip machine for wetware whose sole purpose is the prosecution of a conflict long forgotten by even its leaders, fought in the liminal subconscious alone. It is the cryostatic suspension of mankind. It makes clear the problem isn’t AI, it’s culture, and it describes the problem far more clearly than I can – a more modern update of this, which is also worth reading. The 2014 revolution was so real and it’s nice to see it described as such. How do we change this? Where is the soft gooey center we can strike at? How do we form a tribe against it?

The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.

David’s handcrafted figurines pay tribute to cultural icons. His latest project takes on his greatest hero, his late brother- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

In their visions of the underworld Dante and Milton were truly subversive, incorporating predecessors into their own repudiation- by Charlie EricsonRead on Aeon

As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.

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Most people in the world are religious. When asked whether they identify with any religion, three-quarters of respondents choose one.But in the chart, you can see huge differences in rates of religious affiliation across the world. In some countries, such as India and Pakistan, it’s almost universal: almost everyone identifies with a religion.The opposite is true in China, where just one in ten people does. Several countries in East Asia, in particular, have particularly low rates of religious identification compared to other regions.This doesn’t necessarily mean these populations hold no religious beliefs; they may still engage in activities that can be considered religious or spiritual, even though they don't describe themselves as belonging to any one in particular.We show here just a small selection of countries; you can explore data for many more in our new topic page on religion.

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being.

Obsession over a show about two closeted hockey players has brought new fandom to the sport just ahead of the Olympics. But men's hockey's lack of support for LGBTQ+ players and fans is notable.

Petitions demanding people get the chance to be released from ICE custody have overwhelmed courts throughout the US.

US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.

A jaunty song calls for greater appreciation of Indian wool, as imports undermine the livelihoods of local herders- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Are you speechless watching US figure skater Ilia Malinin on the ice? Science explains how it’s possible the Quad God can do more than four full rotations in the air.

The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines.

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Bidets are extremely common in northern Italy, where the Milano Cortina Games are being played. They’re less familiar to the people visiting.

The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly blooms- by Yogi Hale HendlinRead on Aeon

It might seem odd that countries would agree to import plastic waste from other countries, but many do so for the cheap materials or to feed specific manufacturing processes.Environmentally, the trade in plastics has often been a concern, as it allows rich countries to effectively “dump” waste on poorer countries with weaker waste management systems.The good news is that trade in plastic waste has fallen by more than two-thirds over the last decade. You can see this reduction in the chart.China has been the biggest driver of this. It was once a large importer, but after a steep decline in trade in 2016 and a ban in 2018, many countries lost their largest export market.In 2024, around 5 million tonnes of plastic waste were traded worldwide. For context, that is around 1% of the total plastic waste generated. What’s perhaps surprising is that most trade is now between high-income countries, which reduces the risk that this waste leaks into the environment.Learn more in our updated topic page on plastic pollution.

European Union countries are moving away from American tech giants to run their own clouds and servers to control their digital destiny. You can do this, too. Here's how.

The last major nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia just expired. Some experts believe a combination of satellite surveillance, AI, and human reviewers can take its place. Others, not so much.

Is time a property of the Universe? Yes, if you conceive of it as heat: a mind-boggling yet oddly comforting perspective- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

If throwing stones and sweeping ice seem strange to you, the centuries-old history of the sport explains why it became so beloved.

After more than 15 years of draconian measures, culminating in an ongoing internet shutdown, the Iranian regime seems to be staggering toward its digital surveillance endgame.

Sea pandas or sadistic killers? These enigmatic creatures invite contradictory labels that say far more about us than them- by Jason ColbyRead on Aeon

General Galactic, cofounded by a former SpaceX engineer, plans to test its water-based propellant this fall. If successful, it could help usher in a new era of space travel. That's a big “if.”

We met up with attendees of Super Bowl LX’s pregame festivities to get their takes on the competing halftime shows, the potential for ICE actions, and the influence of Silicon Valley on the event.

“The All-American Halftime Show,” born out of outrage over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance, fell short of the hype. From Kid Rock’s poor lip synching to Erika Kirk being MIA, it was simply dull.

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Industrial robots are rapidly becoming a common part of manufacturing in some countries. The chart here shows how many new ones are installed each year in the industrialized countries for which we have available data from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).In this dataset, industrial robots are defined as automatically controlled, reprogrammable, and multipurpose machines used in industrial settings. The data covers only physical industrial robots, not software or consumer technologies.The chart shows that in 2011, China, the United States, Japan, Germany, and South Korea were all installing similar numbers of these robots. However, in the decade that followed, the paths of these countries diverged. By 2023, annual installations in China had risen to 276,000 robots, a twelvefold increase.Over the same period, installations in the United States, Japan, Germany, and South Korea also increased, but much more slowly: none of them even doubled. The United States, which saw the second-largest rise, went from 21,000 new installations in 2011 to 38,000 in 2023.These figures refer to new robots installed each year; that is, annual additions to the existing stock of robots. The IFR also publishes data on the total number of robots in operation, and by this measure, China also had the largest installed base, at around 1.76 million robots in 2023.Relative to its large manufacturing sector, China’s stock of robots today does not stand out – but the data here shows that this is changing quickly.Explore the interactive version of this chart.

Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”

Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.

Doctors, nurses, and other officers are increasingly being deployed to ICE detention centers. Some have resigned in protest, while others offer a rare look into bleak conditions.

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Most of our work on war and peace focuses on the people killed directly in the fighting. But war has many other costs: it worsens people’s health, leaves them without work, and pushes them out of their homes.The chart shows this for the civil war in Syria. Since the war began in 2011, more than 400,000 people have been killed in the fighting. At the same time, annual deaths increased as more people died from other causes. Young children were especially affected: estimates suggest that the number of annual child deaths more than doubled.The war has also forced millions of people to leave their homes: in total, more than seven million are displaced within Syria, and almost as many are refugees elsewhere.It also became much harder for people to make a living. Average living standards, measured by GDP per capita, have more than halved since the war began. As a result, poverty and hunger have risen sharply.These numbers come with uncertainty because conflict makes it hard and dangerous to collect data.This shows that to understand the costs of war, we need to have a broad perspective and see its impacts on health, displacement, and living standards.Millions have died in conflicts since the Cold War; learn more about where and how.

Headquarters: Colombia URL: http://zipdev.com DescriptionWe are looking for an experienced Senior Web Developer to own the development of high-quality, performant, and conversion-focused marketing websites. This role is highly hands-on and ideal for someone who thrives in technical problem-solving, cross-functional collaboration, and modern web development best practices. You'll work closely with design, product, marketing, and data teams to deliver fast, accessible, SEO-optimized experiences while contributing to technical standards and mentoring junior developers.Key ResponsibilitiesDevelopment & Implementation Build responsive, accessible, high-performance marketing websites using modern frameworks. Develop and maintain reusable component libraries tied to design systems. Implement SSR/SSG strategies to improve performance and SEO. Integrate headless CMS platforms with scalable, component-based architectures. Write clean, testable, well-documented code following best practices. Debug and resolve production issues and participate in incident response. Performance & Quality Optimize sites for Core Web Vitals and overall performance. Implement analytics, tracking, A/B testing, and personalization features. Ensure accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.2 AA) and cross-browser/device compatibility. Maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests. Support CRO and experimentation initiatives. Technical Collaboration Participate in code reviews and mentor junior developers. Work closely with UX/UI designers to ensure accurate implementation. Partner with marketing teams to implement technical SEO requirements. Coordinate with analytics teams on tracking and instrumentation. Contribute to documentation, coding standards, and architectural decisions.Requirements5+ years of professional web development experience. Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills and experience with React, Next.js, or Astro. Advanced CSS and layout skills, ideally with Tailwind CSS. Experience with SSR, SSG, and hybrid rendering models. Hands-on experience with headless CMS platforms (Contentful, Sanity, Strapi, etc.). Solid understanding of technical SEO and Core Web Vitals. Experience with GA4, GTM, and analytics integrations. Proficiency with Git, CI/CD workflows, and modern hosting platforms (Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare). Familiarity with testing tools such as Vitest, Playwright, or Cypress. Strong communication and cross-team collaboration abilities. Must be located in Latam. Nice-to-have Experience developing complex, content-heavy marketing or listing sites. Working with design systems and tooling like Storybook. Knowledge of CDN, caching, and edge computing strategies. Experience with experimentation platforms and A/B testing tools. Understanding of web security best practices. Exposure to AI-assisted development tooling. Benefits Work remotely Monday - Friday, 40 hours a week (no weekends) Vacation: 10 business days a year Holidays: 5 National Holidays a year Company Holidays: 5 Company Holidays a year (Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Zipdev Day) Parental Leave Health Care Reimbursement Active Lifestyle Reimbursement Quarterly Home Office Reimbursement Payroll Deduction Purchase Plans Longevity Bonus Continuous Learning Bonus Access to Training and Professional Development Platforms Did we mention it's REMOTE?!! One of our core values at Zipdev is "Be authentic." that's why we encourage you to answer the application form in your own words; we are interested in getting to know you, not a digital assistant.Wondering how our remote environment or our payment method work? We've put together some helpful answers in our FAQs at the bottom our our career site. Take a look and let us know if you have any other questions! To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/zipdev-senior-web-developer

Headquarters: [REMOTE] URL: http://linkage.ph Job Title: ASP.NET Developer (C#, MVC, SQL Server, JavaScript) | Remote – Philippines Company: Linkage Web Development Solutions Employment Type: Full-Time | Long-Term Location: 100% Remote – Philippines Salary Range: ₱50,000 – ₱80,000/month (depending on experience and skill level) About the Role At Linkage Web Development Solutions, we’re hiring an ASP.NET Developer who values mastery, autonomy, and purpose in their work. You’ll help maintain and improve classic ASP.NET WebForms and MVC applications built for U.S.-based businesses systems that power real operations and deserve thoughtful care. This role is perfect for developers who take pride in making things stable, efficient, and a little better every week. Whether you’re an up-and-coming developer looking to learn from seasoned engineers or an experienced freelancer ready for steady, long-term work, we’ve built space for your growth here. What You’ll Do Maintain and update ASP.NET applications (WebForms, MVC, VB.NET, C#). Manage and optimize SQL Server and MySQL databases. Debug, troubleshoot, and document improvements. Collaborate with project managers and QA for smooth deployments. Contribute ideas to improve system performance and reliability. Participate in mentorship and shared learning sessions within the dev team. Who We’re Looking For For Junior Developers (₱50K–₱70K/month): 1–3 years of hands-on experience in ASP.NET (MVC or WebForms). Familiarity with C#, SQL Server, and basic JavaScript/jQuery. Eager to learn, adaptable, and detail-oriented. Excited to work with senior mentors on real production systems. For Experienced Developers / Freelancers (₱70K–₱80K/month): 3+ years of experience maintaining or developing ASP.NET applications. Proficiency in C#, VB.NET, SQL Server, MySQL, and JavaScript/jQuery/AJAX. Self-directed and dependable, with experience working remotely or with international clients. Strong communication and documentation skills. Perks & Benefits Competitive Pay: ₱50K–₱80K/month depending on level and contribution. 100% Remote: Work from anywhere in the Philippines. Career Growth: Hands-on mentorship and exposure to U.S. projects. Long-Term Stability: Consistent workload, no short-term contracts. Collaborative Team Culture: Clarity, respect, and shared learning. Organized Systems: We work smart, not chaotic. Why Join Linkage Web Development Solutions We’re a Philippine-based development company supporting U.S. organizations through clean, sustainable engineering. Our people don’t just write code, they improve systems, simplify processes, and share what they learn. Here, you’ll be treated as a professional, not a replaceable part. Your growth compounds as the systems you build improve. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/linkage-web-development-asp-net-developer-c-mvc-sql-server-javascript

Headquarters: URL: http://anexia.com Wir bei Anexia übernehmen jeden Tag Verantwortung für alle Herausforderungen der digitalen Welt. Denn wir verstehen uns als die „Digital Transformation Engine“. Wie uns das gelingt? Ganz einfach. Wir sind eine Familie von Möglichmacher:innen und Neu-Denker:innen. Wir können, wir wollen und wir dürfen auch. Und das macht uns einzigartig! Willst Du ein Teil unserer digitalen Revolution werden und mit uns gemeinsam Geschichte schreiben? #joinourrevolution QA ENGINEER (M/W/D) Wien, Graz, Klagenfurt, Karlsruhe, Remote | Teilzeit (20 - 30 Stunden) Du hast ein Auge für Details und tüftelst gerne daran, Systeme auf Herz und Nieren zu prüfen? Qualität ist für dich kein Schlagwort, sondern ein Anspruch, den du mit durchdachten Tests und cleveren Methoden lebst? Dann bring dein Know-how ein und gestalte mit uns die Zukunft unseres Virtualisierungs-Stacks bei Anexia! #Profile Integration in ein agiles Softwareentwicklungs-Team End to End Testing unseres Virtualisierungs-Stacks Ausbau von Testmethoden sowie Einsatz von Test- und QA-Tools Erstellung und Pflege von Testplänen Unterstützung beim Ausbau des Monitorings #Wanted Abgeschlossenes Bachelor-Studium in Computer Science, IT, Softwareentwicklung oder vergleichbare Qualifikation Mindestens drei Jahre Berufserfahrung im Testen von Systemen mit mehreren Komponenten Erfahrung im Umgang mit Test- und Monitoringtools Erfahrung in der Softwareentwicklung sowie im Bereich Virtualisierung wünschenswert, jedoch nicht zwingend erforderlich Analytisches und lösungsorientiertes Denken sowie selbstständige Arbeitsweise Sehr gute Deutsch- und Englischkenntnisse #REWARD Anexia wurde als Familie groß und das soll auch in unserer Wachstumsstrategie so bleiben. Wir übernehmen gerne Verantwortung, respektieren einander und wir wissen, dass wir alles schaffen können. Wir schauen gut auf Anexia und Anexia schaut auch gut auf uns. Begeisterung, Erfahrung und Kompetenz zählen, daher kannst Du ein faires Gehalt und zahlreiche Benefits erwarten. Gehaltsspanne mind. 50.000€ Unsere Benefits Wir sind mehr als ein Arbeitsplatz. Daher bieten wir unseren Mitarbeiter:innen (teils abhängig von Deiner Position und Deinem Standort) viele Benefits: Gute Verkehrsanbindung, flexible Arbeitszeiten, Aus- und Weiterbildung, Mentoren-Programm, kostenlose Parkplätze, Arbeitshandy- und -notebook, Snacks und Getränke, Firmenwagen, Mitarbeiter:innen-Events, Fun-Corner, u.v.m. #JOINOURREVOLUTION #About Anexia bietet hochwertige und individuelle Lösungen im Bereich Web- und Managed Hosting, sowie Individualsoftware- und App Entwicklung. Das 2006 gegründete Unternehmen mit Sitz in Klagenfurt und weiteren Standorten in Wien, Graz, Karlsruhe, Nürnberg und New York betreut zahlreiche internationale Kunden. Über 350 Mitarbeiter:innen an mehr als 5 Bürostandorten in Österreich, Deutschland und den USA Wir sind ISO-zertifiziert und haben seit Jahren eine „Sehr gute Bonität“. Auf diese Qualität vertrauen Kunden wie Lufthansa, McDonalds, TeamViewer, u.v.m. Über 350 Mitarbeiter:innen an mehr als 5 Bürostandorten in Österreich, Deutschland und den USA Wir sind ISO-zertifiziert und haben seit Jahren eine „Sehr gute Bonität“. Auf diese Qualität vertrauen Kunden wie Lufthansa, McDonalds, TeamViewer, u.v.m. Du hast noch Fragen? Marina MAROS | Telefon: +43-50-556 | E-mail: career@anexia-it.com To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/anexia-internetdienstleistungs-qa-engineer-m-w-d

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Headquarters: This is a remote role URL: http://rapidstrategy.io Rapid Strategy is seeking a Mid to Senior Level Penetration Test Consultants for both web apps and network. Rapid Strategy is an award-winning and African-American owned small business providing cybersecurity services to the private and public sector. Based in Charlotte, NC, we support our clients across the North Carolina and DMV area. You can learn more about Rapid Strategy at www.RapidStrategy.io The primary objective of the Penetration Tester is to simulate cyber attacks on web applications to identify security vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by malicious actors. This role involves a combination of analytical skills, technical expertise, and creativity to simulate real-world hacking scenarios. Key Responsibilities: Conducting thorough penetration tests on web applications to identify vulnerabilities.Utilizing various penetration testing tools and methodologies to simulate cyber attacks.Analyzing web applications for weaknesses and vulnerabilities using manual and automated methods.Understanding and exploiting known web vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), and others.Preparing detailed reports on findings and providing recommendations for security improvements.Collaborating with development teams to advise on security best practices.Keeping abreast of the latest cybersecurity threats and testing methodologies. Required Skills and Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field, OR equivalent experience also accepted.5-8 years of experienceIndustry certifications such as Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), or GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT).Strong understanding of web application technologies and protocols (HTTP/HTTPS, HTML, JavaScript, etc.).Proficiency tools like Tennable, Burp Suite, NMap, OWASP ZAP, Metasploit, SQLMap, etc.Experience with known exploits and their mitigation.Ability to analyze and report on penetration testing outcomes effectively.Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.Strong communication skills for collaboration with cross-functional teams. Desirable Skills: Experience with programming/scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Ruby.Expert knowledge of network security and operating systems.Familiarity with cloud environments and container technologies This role will be primarily remote but may require travel. Please note that this position requires applicants to be U.S. citizens and based in the United States. Only individuals who meet these criteria will be considered for employment. View all jobs at this company To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/rapid-strategy-senior-penetration-tester-webapp-and-network

Headquarters: Remote URL: http://wevote.us * Fraud and phishing warning * Please apply directly via our volunteering portal/ATS at https://wevote.applytojob.com/apply. Do not apply via any other job portals, aggregators, or sites, as your information may not be secure, or the role may no longer be accepting applications. Thank you*About WeVote*WeVote is a 100% volunteer-powered, nonpartisan nonprofit that uses technology to help voters make informed decisions. With 130+ active volunteers and a national reach—all on a budget under $50K/year—we prove grassroots, mission-first civic tech can have real impact.Join the WeVote MovementWeVote has an open volunteer position for a Fundraiser, Volunteer Ambassador, for 5 hours or more per week. You are an experienced professional with a passion for helping America navigate our current political environment. This is an opportunity to work remotely with our active team to help us get ready for multiple upcoming elections. Our ideal volunteer is passionate about politics and excited to use technology to educate voters and increase voter turnout. You’ll also gain valuable technical skills, have opportunities for leadership development, and expand your personal and professional network.About UsWeVote is a nonpartisan get-out-the-vote nonprofit startup and a celebrated Fast Forward nonprofit technology grantee. WeVote is a movement of over 120 active passionate, part-time volunteers (starting with the founders) who build mobile technologies that will touch and mobilize millions of voters on Election Day. We believe that many voters are busy, distracted, and impatient. We have a goal of providing a positive voting experience that helps people decide how to vote. More information at https://WeVote.US or @WeVote on X.What You'll DoRecruit, motivate, and support volunteers who serve as fundraising ambassadors for our organization.Create toolkits, templates, and digital resources volunteers can use to share donation asks across email, social media, and personal networks.Coach and inspire volunteers to confidently make fundraising appeals and tell our story in authentic, mission-centered ways.Coordinate small peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns and community challenges.Collaborate with the Recruitment team to ensure consistent messaging and branding.Recognize and celebrate volunteer fundraising milestones and donor engagement wins.Track outreach, participation, and fundraising progress using CRM tools.Provide feedback and insights to improve future volunteer fundraising programs.Who you are: Must haves.You want to work with an established and successful team. You are committed to strengthening American Democracy.You are striving for personal excellence, and want to do meaningful work that will make a difference.1–2 years of experience in fundraising, volunteer coordination, or community engagement (nonprofit experience preferred).Strong interpersonal and communication skills — comfortable connecting with diverse audiences.Excellent communication and storytelling ability, with comfort presenting or training small groups.Organized, detail-oriented, and proactive in follow-uEnergetic, organized, and motivated by mission-driven work.A willingness to work with and support other volunteers.Familiarity with CRM, email marketing, or fundraising tools a plus.5+ hours per week during our core team hours M-F 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. PTHow to apply:Submit your resume (at https://wevote.applytojob.com/apply/) and include a brief note/cover letter to why you are interested in WeVote and helping our mission. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/wevote-fundraiser-volunteer-ambassador

WIRED attended two documentary screening parties—one on each coast—for the First Lady’s film. What a time.

Headquarters: Remote URL: http://onthegosystems.com Help us build and support WPML – the leading multilingual plugin powering 1.5M+ websites. We’re looking for smart, curious developers who enjoy solving real problems and want to grow fast. This role mixes development and support: you learn the product deeply, help clients, and improve WPML based on what you discover. Indicators You're a Great Fit: You have strong PHP experience and are motivated to keep sharpening your skills. Expert in WordPress, including setting up a local dev environment, navigating the admin backend, adjusting settings, and having basic development knowledge. You’re experienced in debugging issues, tracing root causes, and suggesting meaningful product improvements. Believe in writing tests and clean, reliable code. Enjoy investigating problems and fixing root causes. You’re fluent in English, and French, German, or Spanish. You communicate clearly and genuinely, and you enjoy helping others. Nice to have experience with: React MySQL Customer support What You'll Do Deliver new features and strengthen existing components. Support WPML clients and solve technical problems. Strengthen your expertise in PHP, WordPress, testing, performance, and modern tooling. Why This Role Works Well for Developers Direct connection to real problems: You see issues before they turn into technical debt and can fix them properly. Stronger product intuition: Support cases reveal edge cases, integrations, and workflows you won’t discover from code alone. Your code has an immediate impact: You’ll build features for one of the most used multilingual solutions in the world and help improve its reliability. You influence the roadmap: What you learn from users feeds directly into better architecture and long-term fixes. If you want to learn fast, make a visible impact, and join a global team that cares about quality – apply today, and we’d love to meet you! To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/onthegosystems-senior-php-developer-3

Three-quarters of people worldwide say they are religious. But rates of religious identity can vary a lot across countries, and so do the particular religions people follow.In the map, you can see the most common religious affiliation for each country. This can include the “unaffiliated” who do not identify with any specific religion. This data is sourced from the Pew Research Center and is based on how people describe their own identity, regardless of their particular practices or beliefs.As you can see, Christianity is the most common across much of Europe, the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Islam is the most common across North Africa and the Middle East, while Hinduism and Buddhism dominate across much of South Asia.In East Asian countries such as China, Japan, and South Korea, the religiously unaffiliated are the biggest group. That doesn’t mean these populations hold no religious beliefs; they may still engage in activities that can be considered religious or spiritual, but they don’t describe themselves as belonging to any one in particular.Explore the full breakdown of religious affiliations within each country, beyond just the most common answer.

Headquarters: Remote URL: https://cortes23.com Please apply with the "Apply Now" button below. Applications not sent to the WWR email will not be considered. About the role We’re looking for a software engineer who wants to build end-to-end. You’ll report directly to the CTO and work across our React/Next.js frontend and TypeScript backend to ship new features into production. Occasionally, you’ll work with Python to build data pipeline integrations with our partners. What you’ll do Implement new product features end-to-end in React, TypeScript, and Next.js (from data layer to UI). Work with well-defined specifications, so you can focus on building instead of untangling unclear requirements. Extend and reuse existing modules and components, keeping things consistent and maintainable. Write tests and maintain code quality, ensuring reliability and readability. Participate in CI/CD workflows, helping ensure smooth, repeatable deployments. What we’re looking for 2–5+ years of professional software engineering experience. Strong experience with React and TypeScript, comfortable with modern patterns and tooling. Hands-on experience with Next.js, including routing and data fetching. Experience with CI/CD pipelines and shipping code to production. Proven track record of deploying software and owning features through release. Clear, direct communication and a builder mindset: you like taking a specification and making it real. Nice to have Experience with serverless or cloud-native architectures. Experience working in a JavaScript/TypeScript monorepo. Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code or deployment automation tools. Experience with Pulumi (with SST) and the event-driven architecture. Familiarity with Python and data pipelines. What you’ll get from us Remote forever. Casual work environment. Opportunity to work with a growing, international team. In-person meet-ups with our global team twice per year. Interview process Initial screening call. Live coding interview. Take-home assignment. Deep-dive interview. Conversations with key members of our team. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/cortes-23-software-engineer-3

Headquarters: remote Vancouver, BC, Canada . contract . December 7, 2023 URL: http://dreamriderproductions.com Position: Web DeveloperReporting to: Director of Partnerships & OperationsHours of Work: Full time, 35 hours per week, 12-week Fixed ContractLocation: Remote from where you are happiest (Canadian timezones)Start Date: December 29, 2023Closing date: December 13, 2023 @ 5pm PST Eligibility: This job will be funded through the Government of Canada’s Digital Skills for Youth (DS4Y) initiative, so only applicants aged between 15-30 years old will be eligible. The OpportunityYou are an emerging full-stack developer and designer with a creative flair looking for your next exciting challenge with an innovative values-aligned company. Our transformational learning approach turns kids and adults of all ages into leaders of change in their families and communities, and we need your help to tell our story to the world through a new company website. This is a unique opportunity to make a huge impact on our long-term growth trajectory! About DreamRider ProductionsOver a million kids around the world have laughed, learned and leapt into action to protect the planet after experiencing DreamRider’s highly engaging theatre and interactive media programs. We partner with government agencies, corporate partners and philanthropic foundations to support their sustainability goals through our unique transformational engagement approach. While our award-winning Planet Protector Academy program has a dedicated product-focused website, we do not currently have an active website for our company as a whole. As we dream and envision our next big project, we need a new company website that can showcase our 20+ years of engagement and culture change expertise to help us fundraise and garner support for this next exciting chapter! Our ValuesEverything we do is guided by our Cultural Covenant to ensure that we work and grow together in an environment that’s fun, creative, welcoming, meaningful, empowering and inspiring! At the heart of all our work is love and kindness; we do our best to walk our talk, and to learn and grow together. We are on a lifelong organizational anti-racism, decolonization and anti-oppression journey. We recognize our interconnectedness with the earth and each other.The RoleYou will lead on the development of a new company website for DreamRider to showcase its expertise and experience in engagement and culture change workYou will oversee the entire website creation process from conception to launch, with content writing support from the Executive ProducerYou will work with a variety of stakeholders, including the DreamRider team and external stakeholders where appropriate to inform the website’s design and contentKey ResponsibilitiesDevelop a comprehensive project plan detailing timelines, milestones, and deliverables to ensure the project is completed on timeCoordinate with DreamRider team and external stakeholders to define project goals, target audience, and desired website functionalitiesDesign a user-friendly website layout considering the latest web design trends and DreamRider Productions’ brand identityDevelop the website using appropriate web development technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CMS platforms)Ensure the website is responsive and optimized for various devicesCollaborate with the content team to develop engaging and relevant content (text, images, videos) for the websiteImplement content management features to allow non-technical staff to update websiteUse SEO best practices to enhance the website’s visibility and search engine rankingConduct thorough testing of the website, including functionality, compatibility, and usability testsAddress and resolve any technical issues or bugs before launchingOversee the website launch ensuring a smooth transitionMonitor website performance post-launch and make necessary adjustments for optimization Role RequirementsIf you are inspired by the role but don’t have everything that’s listed below, we encourage you to apply anyway!Strong organizational and project management skillsExperience creating visually appealing and user-friendly website layouts, with a good eye for design and UX/UI principlesProficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScriptFamiliarity with Content Management Systems such as WordPress, Joomla, or DrupalKnowledge of Search Engine Optimization techniques and best practicesExcellent problem-solving skills and attention to detailAbility to present complex technical information to non-technical audiencesExcellent written and verbal communication skillsStrong creativity and problem-solving skillsLegally entitled to work in Canada Nice to haveProven experience with creative/arts-focused projectsExperience in using project management tools like Asana, Trello, or JIRA.Experience creating marketing content for websitesPerksPaid time for sickness and personal daysFlexible working hours to help you better balance work and life commitmentsHome office stipendKind and collaborative working culture that’s on the cutting edge of organizational practices (see Margaret Wheatley, Otto Scharmer)Ongoing DEI training to support personal development & organizational capacity building How to apply: submit your application along with your resume through our online job board. Application processStage 1: Application submissionStage 2: 15-minute screening phone call with hiring managerStage 3: 45-minute video call with hiring manager and Creative DirectorStage 4: Reference checksStage 5: Offer Predetermined interview questions will be sent ahead of time. Questions?As part of our efforts to offer a fair and consistent interview process for all applications, we regret that we can’t answer any questions ahead of the application deadline. If you have a disability and would like to discuss accommodation of your disability and ensure fairness in our hiring process, please contact us on sion@dreamriderproductions.com or call 604-757-3212 before December 11, 2023.Our remote team is based on many different Indigenous Peoples’ native lands and our head office is located in Port Moody, BC, which is situated on the unceded territories of the Kwikwetlem (Coquitlam), qiqéyt (Qayqayt), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil Waututh), and Coast Salish peoples. We are committed to truth & reconciliation in action. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/dreamrider-productions-careers-web-developer

Headquarters: Dunedin, New Zealand URL: http://walkersmith.co.nz JOB DESCRIPTION Position Title Senior Web Developer Name Reports To Web Development Lead Department ICT Trends Overview VISION: TRENDS. The Best Promotional supplier in Australasia. Recognised and admired industry wide as the benchmark in innovation, product reliability and print quality, delivery speed and outstanding customer service. MISSION: As the industry leader, TRENDS will provide our customers with easy, efficient access to a select range of innovative products, superior printing, world class customer service, and the business and technology services necessary to increase their sales and profits. Job Purpose & Function Under the guidance of the Web Development Lead, the Senior Web Developer is responsible for the planning and development of web and other technology projects required to support the development of a new business division. This will require contributing to and being involved in the planning and direction of the division, building websites and other business tools according to agreed specifications, prioritising development projects according to the needs of the business, and overseeing suppliers, platforms and technologies required for hosting of company websites. ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE KEY RELATIONSHIPS The role will require close working relationships with the following stakeholders: Major Internal Contacts Within Trends Major External Contacts Chief Information OfficerWeb Development LeadICT DepartmentMarketing DepartmentAll other Departments when requiredThird Party solution suppliers, providers, consultants, and subject matter experts as and when required. KEY RESULT AREAS The position of Senior Web Developer encompasses the following key result areas: KRAs Key Accountabilities Performance Measures Quality/Accuracy of Work Ensure that all web development and associated projects are fully functional and built in accordance with agreed specifications. Identify areas for continuous improvement, create project plans and coordinate appropriate solutions. Ensure the smooth integration of web development projects that deliver to the needs of the business long-term. Quality of Work Work Output/Time Management Prioritise development projects according to the needs of the business and assign tasks to team members.Ensure all web development projects are completed within allocated timeframes.Maintain and manage your workload at an acceptable output. Work Output Attitude & Culture Display a positive and professional attitude toward work, colleagues, and ongoing learning.Promote a culture of continuous improvement and proactive problem-solving within the team.Take ownership and accountability for assigned tasks and responsibilities.Show commitment to achieving both personal and team goals.Contribute positively to team dynamics by being cooperative, solution-focused, and dependable under pressure. Acts Above the Line Interpersonal Relationships Foster positive and professional working relationships with both internal colleagues and external stakeholders.Assist and support team members and leaders by sharing knowledge of relevant processes, policies, and tasks.Handle inquiries and requests in a professional, accurate, and solution-focused manner.Work collaboratively with supervisors, team leads, and peers to ensure alignment on goals and expectations.Show respect for leadership and team structures by following established protocols and directions. Acts as a Cooperative Team Member Communication Maintain open and transparent communication with management, team leaders, and colleagues to support smooth workflow and decision-making.Clearly convey operational, administrative, or task-related requirements across teams and departments.· Express ideas, updates, and concerns concisely and professionally in both group settings and one-on-one interactions. Demonstrates Appropriate and Open Communication Health & Safety Ensure that all company established and Worksafe NZ requirements, policies and practices are complied with.Immediately report all accidents, incidents, near misses and hazards.Keep work areas clean and tidyEnsure all PPE is worn as required by the company. Compliance with H&S Expectations Technical Skills Build websites and other business tools according to agreed upon specifications. Ensure the efficient and functional development, testing, and maintenance of all web development projects and other ecommerce projects.Contribute to and be involved in the planning and direction of the E-commerce division. Oversee suppliers, platforms and technologies required for hosting of company websites.Research the best technologies and platforms required to build solutions.Assist with planning and scoping requirements for web applications and their supporting systems.Ensure robust testing of all projects to identify any bugs or fixes required. Demonstrated Competency and Understanding PERSON SPECIFICATION Education / Qualifications Recognised Qualification in a related field such as Computer Science, Web Development & Design, or ICT, and/or at least 4-years experience in the below areas. Experience Full Stack Development – Significant experience with most of the following technologies: Strong focus and skillset around the Laravel suite and framework, React, TypeScript, InertiaJS, TailwindCSS/UI, Serverless, OOP, MVC, Creating effective test suites, Browser Testing, Performance Monitoring, Load Testing, Effective caching strategies, Database and query optimisation, Modular Monilinth design, custom composer and NPM package development, strong focus on security considerations, continuing growth on AI technologies and patterns, Multi Tenancy and multi environment application development and management, proven track record of integrations with disparate systems across a range of protocols, strong understandingly of the underlying technologies powering the web, Networking experience.E-commerce – experience developing complex E-commerce solutions and working with E-commerce platforms and channels. Web Development/ Web Project Management - Experience planning and scoping requirements for web applications and supporting systems and effectively managing web development projects from beginning to end in alignment with business requirements. Troubleshooting – Considerable experience ensuring robust testing of all projects to identify any bugs or fixes as required. Key competencies/ Skills Time Management Skills – able to complete and self-direct own work to ensure timely completion of project deliverables. Programming Skills (Front & Back-End)– Significant experience with most of the following technologies: Strong focus and skillset around the Laravel suite and framework, React, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Serverless, OOP, MVC, Creating effective test suites, Browser Testing, Performance Monitoring, Load Testing, Effective caching strategies, Database and query optimisation, Modular design, custom composer and NPM package development, strong focus on security considerations, continuing growth on AI technologies and patterns, Multi Tenancy and multi environment application development and management, proven track record of integrations with disparate systems.Web Development – Ability to build web applications, services, integrations and APIs in accordance with specificationsTroubleshooting Skills – high level of competency and skills developed in troubleshooting and identifying bugs and fixes Project Management Skills – full range of project management skills inclusive of time-management, costing control and critical thinking. Analytical Skills – high level of attention to detail and methodical approach to ensure a functional solution is developed. Interpersonal Skills – ability to engage and communicate with a variety of managers, team leaders, and team members to ensure a solution is developed that is functional to the needs of both consumers and business areas involved in its operation. Communication Skills – ability to articulate complex information in a clear manner. VALUES DAY-TO-DAY BEHAVIOURS Ensure that you treat all work colleagues and management with respect. Discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated. Exercise accurate time keeping. Ensure all property is treated with respect and used appropriately. Display a positive attitude Keep work areas clean and tidy Plan the days work as efficiently as possible. Exercise effective teamwork by helping others whenever possible AMENDMENTS TO THE JOB DESCRIPTION From time to time it may be necessary to consider changes in the job description in response to the changing nature of our work environment – including technological requirements or statutory changes. This Job Description may be reviewed as part of the preparation for performance planning for the annual performance cycle or as required. NON-LIMITATION CLAUSE This Job Description is not intended to be a complete or limiting description of the functions that the employee may reasonably be requested to undertake. ACCEPTANCE I have read and understood the above position description and accept all the responsibilities incorporated herein. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/walker-smith-senior-web-developer-remote

Headquarters: CA Remote (BC & ON only); U.S. Remote URL: http://webflow.com At Webflow, we’re building the world’s leading AI-native Digital Experience Platform, and we’re doing it as a remote-first company built on trust, transparency, and a whole lot of creativity. This work takes grit, because we move fast, without ever sacrificing craft or quality. Our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. From entrepreneurs launching their first idea to global enterprises scaling their digital presence, we empower teams to design, launch, and optimize for the web without barriers. We believe the future of the web, and work, is more open, more creative, and more equitable. And we’re here to build it together. We’re looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to help us develop and implement strategies to grow Webflow’s presence upmarket and build meaningful relationships with both potential and existing customers. About the role: Location: Remote-first (United States; BC, Canada). **Must reside in Pacific or Mountain Time Zone. This role will require an in-person onboarding session in San Francisco, CA Full-time Permanent Exempt Our cash compensation amount for this role ranges depending on the cost of labor of the geographic area. The ranges shared below may change if you are hired in another geographic location. United States (all figures cited below in USD and pertain to workers in the United States) Zone A: $250,000 - $280,000 Canada (All figures cited below in CAD and pertain to workers in ON, Canada) 302,000 - 338,000 For sales roles, the ranges provided are the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) ranges, meaning that the ranges include both the sales commissions target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Webflow and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s market location, job related experience, knowledge, qualifications, and skills. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends Please visit our Careers page for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter. Application Information: Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled This posting is for a new position Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Enterprise Sales As an Enterprise Account Executive, you’ll … Meet with potential Enterprise customers, deeply understand their problems, and assess whether or not Webflow is a good fit Build a sales pipeline and drive the full sales cycle from identifying new prospects to close Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders within prospect and customer accounts Negotiate annual or multi-year software contracts Position and communicate Webflow’s vision, solution, and value propositions Work cross-functionally with marketing, product, design, education and engineering to execute sales strategy Collaborate with Customer Success to build high-quality onboarding and customer experiences Travel up to 25-50% - onboarding, customer meetings, industry events, and internal offsites About you: Requirements: BA/BS degree or equivalent experience You’ll thrive as an Enterprise Account Executive if you: Bring 5-7 years quota carrying experience with 3-4+ years in a complex SaaS sales cycles at larger companies involving multiple stakeholders. Demonstrate a strong ability to prospect and hunt new logos autonomously. Show a proven track record of closing complex sales cycles with a disruptive B2B SaaS product Collaborate effectively across teams like Product, Engineering, Support, and Marketing to drive business impact. Love testing, tracking, and iterating on your sales process. Thrive in ambiguous environments and work independently. Show passion for the no-code space and interest in web design, development, or Webflow products. Embody a growth mindset and a drive for continuous improvement. Stay curious and open to growth — actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI to unlock creativity, accelerate progress, and amplify impact. Our Core Behaviors: Build lasting customer trust. We build trust by taking action that puts customer trust first. Win together. We play to win, and we win as one team. Success at Webflow isn't a solo act. Reinvent ourselves. We don't just improve what exists, we imagine what's possible. Deliver with speed, quality, and craft. We move fast because the moment demands it, and we do so without lowering the bar. Benefits Ownership in what you help build. Every permanent Webflower receives equity (RSUs) in our growing, privately held company. Health coverage that actually covers you. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums. Support for every stage of family life. 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents. Plus inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions. Time off that’s actually off. Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program to help you recharge and come back inspired. Wellness for the whole you. Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching. Invest in your future. A 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally. Monthly stipends that flex with your life. Localized support for work and wellness expenses — from Wi-Fi to workouts. Bonus for building together. All full-time, permanent, non-commission employees are eligible for our annual WIN bonus program. Temporary employees may be eligible for paid holiday and time off, statutory leaves of absence, and company-sponsored medical benefits depending on their Fixed Term Contract and their country/state of employment. Remote, together At Webflow, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are an Equal Opportunity (EEO)/Veterans/Disabled Employer and are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Webflow will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Stay connected Not ready to apply, but want to be part of the Webflow community? Consider following our story on our Webflow Blog, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and/or Glassdoor. Please note: We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Upon interview scheduling, instructions for confidential accommodation requests will be administered. To join Webflow, you'll need a valid right to work authorization depending on the country of employment. If you are extended an offer, that offer may be contingent upon your successful completion of a background check, which will be conducted in accordance with applicable laws. We may obtain one or more background screening reports about you, solely for employment purposes. For information about how Webflow processes your personal information, please review Webflow’s Applicant Privacy Notice. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/webflow-enterprise-account-executive-west

Headquarters: Remote URL: http://dealereprocess.com Job Description:Dealer eProcess, a leading provider of digital marketing solutions for automotive dealerships, is looking for a highly motivated Salesperson (Account Manager) to join our growing team. This role is a fantastic opportunity for a go-getter who thrives in a results-driven environment and is passionate about sales. The primary focus will be generating new business by reaching out to car dealerships, booking product demonstrations, and closing sales.The ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to confidently pick up the phone and make calls to assigned dealerships, with a relentless drive to succeed. We seek individuals who are disciplined in managing their sales pipeline and are committed to logging all their activities in our CRM to ensure accurate tracking and follow-up.Key Responsibilities:Prospect & Outreach: Consistently make outbound calls to assigned car dealerships to generate leads, establish relationships, and book product demonstrations.CRM Management: Diligently log all activities, including calls, emails, and meetings, in the CRM to maintain accurate and up-to-date records of your interactions.New Business Focus: Drive new business development as your core function, focusing on bringing new dealerships into the Dealer eProcess portfolio.Master Prospecting: Demonstrate your skills in prospecting and lead generation. This is the foundation of your role and the first step in growing within the company.Learn to Demo: Once you have consistently shown success in setting up product demonstrations, receive training on how to present our products effectively to prospective clients.Sales Ownership: After mastering prospecting and product demonstrations, take full ownership of the sales process—from lead generation to closing deals.Qualifications:Sales Skills: Prior experience in sales, particularly outbound sales or telemarketing, is preferred. Automotive industry knowledge is a plus.Persistence & Resilience: Must be comfortable making a high volume of calls and handling rejection with a positive attitude.CRM Familiarity: Experience using CRM software to log activities and track sales progress.Goal-oriented: Self-motivated with a strong desire to meet and exceed sales targets.Excellent Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to build rapport over the phone.Organized & Detail-Oriented: Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and follow through on commitments. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/dealer-eprocess-regional-sales-executive-account-manager-1

Headquarters: Novi, MI 48304 URL: http://nutechs.com Benefits: Dental insurance Health insurance Paid time off FPGA Development Engineer Responsibilities As a member of the embedded development group you will be part of a dynamic development team performing analysis, design and development of our next generation embedded products. Initially this will be on site until training is completed. Then it will transition to a Hybrid. Responsibilities will include: Both new development and maintenance/enhancement to existing embedded designs Detailed technical design of system architecture and FPGA components based on requirements Development and execution of unit test procedures Development and execution of system test procedures Development and updating of documentation on work performed Qualifications The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications and skills: Desired Skills/Experience Experience with using VHDL in the development of embedded products Experience using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes in the development of embedded products Experience with System on a Chip design Experience with Electrical Schematic Design Able to understand and intelligently debug existing systems Solid understanding of Object-Oriented methodologies and concepts in general Solid understanding of general programming software technology Understanding and appreciation of software development lifecycles Knowledge of and understanding of software design patterns Bonus Skills/Experience Experience with Xilinx chips Familiarity C++ Familiarity with source control systems Familiarity with system interfaces such as CAN, JTAG, I2C, USB, and Ethernet Experience with SAE, ISO and ASAM standards Knowledge of data acquisition concepts and systems Knowledge of automobile and engine controls systems Essential Non-Technical Skills Positive proactive attitude and solid work ethic Strong communication skills Strong organizational skills Experience with Microsoft Office applications Detail-oriented and methodical coding mentality Willingness to follow processes and procedures Ability to work independently Join Our Team At NuTechs, we are always looking for talented IT Professionals to meet the needs of our employer partners. Whether you are looking for a short-term project or a long-term opportunity, we are here to help. If you specialize in the areas below, please submit your resume:Application Development, Software & Application Integration, Database Development & Administration, Network & Infrastructure Design, Systems Administration, Help Desk Services, ERP Implementation, Web Development Why Choose NuTechs? NuTechs is EMPLOYEE friendly!!! NuTechs is a diversified technical recruiting firm, and our passion is helping our clients build exceptional teams and assisting candidates with educated career moves. We take time to understand what is important to our clients and candidates as they develop their teams and careers. After all, a happy candidate leads to a happy client. Company Website: www.nutechs.com Work remote temporarily due to COVID-19. Compensation: $90,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/nutechs-fpga-development-engineer

Headquarters: Noida URL: http://aliqantechnologies.com Job Title: Commerce Tools + Node JS + Cloud Location: Remote Exp: 6 +yrs Must have - Commerce Tools, NodeJS, JavaScript, Typescript, NextJS Key Responsibilities: * Front-End Development: Build and maintain responsive and high-performance user interfaces using Next.js, React, Chakra UI, and React Query. * Familiarity with Micro Front End Architecture * Design and develop server-side logic with Node.js and integrate APIs using tRPC. * TypeScript Expertise: Write type-safe, clean, and scalable code across both the front-end and back-end using TypeScript. * API Integration: Work with Contentful to manage content integration and consumption in a headless CMS environment. * Collaboration: Collaborate with designers, product managers, and other developers to create seamless user experiences. * Testing & Debugging: Ensure high-quality code by writing unit tests, debugging, and optimizing both front-end and back-end performance. * Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in web development, propose innovative solutions, and implement best practices. Mandatory Qualifications Required Skills & Qualifications: * 6+ years of experience working with modern web technologies, particularly Next.js, React, and Node.js. * Strong experience with TypeScript for type-safe development. * Hands-on experience with React Query for data fetching and caching. * Proficiency with Chakra UI or other modern design systems for building intuitive, responsive UIs. * Experience with tRPC or similar libraries for creating type-safe APIs. * Familiarity with Contentful or other headless CMS platforms. * Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and GraphQL. * Experience with version control systems, particularly Git. * Strong debugging skills and familiarity with modern front-end and back-end debugging tools. * Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a remote or hybrid team environment. Preferred Qualifications: * Familiarity with serverless architectures and deployment using services like Vercel or Netlify. * Experience with Docker, containerization, and CI/CD workflows. * Experience with GraphQL and Apollo Client. * Understanding of web security best practices. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/aliqan-technologies-commerce-tools-node-js-cloud

Headquarters: India URL: http://eranindustrial.com Position: Senior Back-End Web Developer Location: Remote About Us: Eran Group is a leading design, engineering & manufacturing company dedicated to developing class-leading electrical goods for consumers and commercial uses. We are looking for a talented and experienced Front-End Web Developer to join our dynamic software team. Job Description: We are seeking a Senior Back-End Developer with a strong understanding of the latest web technologies and a keen eye for performance, business logic, and detail. The successful candidate will be responsible for server-side web application logic, database administration, security rules, and help integration to the front-end. You will work with front-end developers, software & data engineers, and business & marketing teams. Furthermore, you will be expected to have a strong passion for learning new technologies and pushing your skillset and experience to ever-growing levels. Responsibilities: Develop and maintain server-side logic.Define and maintain databases, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.Collaborate with front-end developers on the integration of elements.Work with business & marketing teams to understand & document requirements.Design and implement data storage solutions Manage SQL, NoSQL, and/or KV databases and ensure their performance. Develop cloud functions and help architect cloud-based solutions.Implement auth, security, and data protection measures.Integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.Troubleshoot and debug applications.Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders. Qualifications: Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.Proven experience as a Back-End Developer or similar role.Proficient with TypescriptFamiliarity with server-side language & runtimes such as Node.js/Deno/Bun (experience with other server-side languages Python, Go, and/or Rust acceptable well).Strong experience with cloud technologies, developing cloud functions, and helping orchestrate cloud services.Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/Typescript.Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases and database administration (Postgres experience is a plus).Excellent understanding of the entire web back-end development processStrong understanding of designing & maintaining APIs using RPC/tRPC, REST, GraphQLExcellent verbal and written communication skills.Strong problem-solving skills and a detail-oriented mindset.Passion to learn and test new technology tools & services. How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume, portfolio, and a brief cover letter outlining their experience and why they are the perfect fit for this role. Please include links to your work or GitHub profile. ----------------- Eran Group is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Note: This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. However, this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities, or working conditions associated with the position. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/eran-group-senior-back-end-web-developer

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William Foege, who sadly died this week, is one of the reasons why this map ends in the 1970s.The physician and epidemiologist is best known for his pivotal role in the global strategy to eradicate smallpox, a horrific disease estimated to have killed 300 million people.Despite the world having an effective vaccine for more than a century, smallpox was still widespread across many parts of Africa and Asia in the mid-20th century.Foege played a crucial role in developing the “ring vaccination strategy”, which focused on vaccinating people around each identified case, rather than attempting a population-wide vaccination strategy, which was difficult in countries with limited resources.This strategy, combined with increased global funding efforts and support for local health programs, paved the way: country after country declared itself free of smallpox. You can see this drop-off through the decades in the map.The disease was declared globally eradicated in 1980.William Foege and his colleagues’ contributions are credited with saving millions, if not tens of millions of lives.Read more about the history of smallpox.

Headquarters: US IN Remote URL: http://servicetitan.com Ready to be a Titan?ServiceTitan is looking for an innovative Manager of Web Development who leads by example to join our Web Team. This hybrid player/coach role reports into the Director of Web Marketing and is designed for a leader who wants to stay technically grounded without being "in the weeds" 100% of the time.You will split your focus between hands-on technical contribution (working tickets, architectural design, code reviews) and formal people management (1:1s, career development, and team health for both Dev and QA) while leading the end-to-end development and optimization of our four flagship marketing websites: www.servicetitan.com, www.youraspire.com, www.convex.com, and www.fieldroutes.com.Our websites are critical to the user journey and serve as the engine for our overall pipeline generation program. We are seeking a strategic thinker who understands the unique nuances of high-performance marketing websites compared to SaaS products. If you are a proactive problem-solver who excels in a rapid-growth environment, this is the place for you.What You'll Do:Technical Contribution Strategic Coding: Rather than high-volume daily tasks, you will focus on high-impact tickets, complex bug fixes, or foundational architectural work.Code Quality & Reviews: Act as the final line of defense for code quality. You will perform critical PR reviews and ensure that QA and Dev are tightly integrated.Technical Unblocking: Identify technical debt or workflow bottlenecks that slow the team down and get hands-on to resolve them.Innovation & Support: Proactively identify and champion the adoption of new technologies (including AI integration) while providing ongoing support for existing features and security patches.Project Leadership: Operate as a Technical Lead, successfully launching and completing multiple large-scale technical projects simultaneously while impacting the immediate team's success.Vendor Management: Take the lead on working with third-party vendors for various integrations, ensuring seamless connectivity across our marketing stack. Technical Architecture: Lead the technical design and implementation of significant features that span multiple components, ensuring code quality, scalability, and adherence to best practices.Process Improvement: Develop and implement technical process improvements, such as advanced CI/CD strategies and new coding standards, to be adopted across the team.People & Team Leadership Lead and Manage: Serve as the direct people manager for our team of Web Developers and QA Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous growth.Growth & Performance: Conduct regular 1:1s focused on both tactical output and long-term career progression. You will own performance reviews and compensation conversations.Team Dynamics: Actively manage interpersonal relationships and team culture. You are responsible for building a cohesive, high-trust environment across the Dev and QA disciplines.Resource Planning: Work with the Director of Web Marketing to balance team capacity with roadmap ambitions, ensuring the team is challenged but not burned out.What You’ll Bring:Balanced Perspective: You understand that "winning" means the team is shipping great software, not just that you personally finished a ticket.Technical Empathy: Because you still push code, you have a realistic pulse on the codebase, which informs how you manage deadlines and individual performance.Mentorship Mindset: You enjoy the challenge of coaching a QA engineer on automation strategy just as much as helping a developer optimize a database query.Management & Soft Skills: Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a proven ability to manage direct reports and influence cross-functional stakeholders.Problem Solving: Strong ability to troubleshoot complex, cross-service technical challenges and identify root causes rather than surface-level issues.Architecture Knowledge: Advanced understanding of system architecture, distributed systems, and performance optimization for highly available applications.Modern Stack Experience: High level of confidence with static site generators (Gatsby JS, Next JS), Node JS, and headless CMS platforms like Contentful.Technical Expertise: Deep proficiency in front-end technologies (HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, JavaScript) and frameworks like React JS and TailwindCSS.Standards & Compliance: Solid knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards, SEO best practices, and secure coding principles.Tools of the Trade: Proven experience with TDD, Gitflow, automated E2E testing, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).QA & Automation Experience: Familiarity with QA automation tools and processes strongly preferred.Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Web Development, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).Be Human With Us:Being human isn’t about checking every box on a list. It’s about the experiences we have, people we meet, and the perspectives we share. So, if you have the skills but are hesitant to apply because of your background, apply anyway. We need amazing people like you to help us challenge the conventional and think differently about the problems that we’re solving. We’re in this together. Come be human, with us. What We Offer:When you join our team, you’re not just accepting a job. You’re making a career move. Here’s how we’ll support you in doing some of the most impactful work of your career:Flextime, recognition, and support for autonomous work: Flexible time off with ample learning and development opportunities to continue growing your career. We offer a comprehensive onboarding program, leadership training for Titans at all levels, and other programs and events. Great work is rewarded through Bonusly, peer-nominated awards, and more.Holistic health and wellness benefits: Company-paid medical, dental, and vision (with 100% employer paid options and 90% coverage for dependents), FSA and HSA, 401k match, and telehealth options including memberships to One Medical.Support for Titans at all stages of life: Parental leave and support, up to $20k in fertility services (i.e. IUI and IVF), surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement, on demand maternity support through Maven Maternity, free breast milk shipping through Maven Milk, pet insurance, legal advisory services, financial planning tools, and more.At ServiceTitan, we celebrate individuality and uniqueness. We believe that the convergence of fresh perspectives and experiences from all walks of life is what makes our product and culture so great. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We do not discriminate against employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity or expression, age, disability, pregnancy (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), genetic information, protected military or veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.ServiceTitan is committed to fair and equitable compensation for all of our employees. We thoughtfully consider a wide range of factors when determining individual compensation.The expected salary range for this role for candidates residing in the United States is between $151,100 USD - $202,100 USD. Compensation for candidates residing outside the United States will vary by location and the specific salary range will be discussed during the hiring process. Actual compensation for an individual may vary depending on skills, performance over time, qualifications, experience, and location. In addition to the base salary, the total compensation package also includes an annual bonus, equity and a holistic suite of benefits. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/servicetitan-manager-web-development

Headquarters: Remote URL: http://codekeeper.co Full Stack Developer (JavaScript)Are you a talented Senior Full Stack JavaScript Developer with a passion for writing clean, efficient code? Ready to make a significant impact in the rapidly evolving software escrow industry?Codekeeper is now accepting applications for a Full Stack Engineer specializing in JavaScript. Don't miss this opportunity to be part of our dynamic team!About the CompanyCodekeeper was founded by tech industry professionals to revolutionize software escrow for the cloud era. We offer state-of-the-art disaster recovery solutions that mitigate third-party risks in business operations. As a remote-first company with a central office in The Hague, we prioritize a healthy, resilient organization to support the development of our robust app.🌐 codekeeper.co/What Else Can You Expect from Us?A dynamic, enthusiastic, and fun teamOpportunities for growth within a startup environmentRegular team activities and get-togethersA comprehensive onboarding process with a dedicated ramp-up period and time to learnA culture that values open communication, feedback, and collaborationWe believe in nurturing our app, teams, and organization with a focus on long-term success. We're dedicated to building a healthy, resilient company that empowers every team, from design to support and operations.About YouYou're a driven, "getting things done" kind of person who's eager to tackle new challenges and make a meaningful impact in the software escrow industry.Skills & ExperienceDegree in Computer Science5+ years of hands-on experience in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, React/Context API3+ years of experience with Next.js (App Router), GraphQL/ApolloProficiency with TailwindCSSProficiency in version control (Git, GitHub/GitLab)Testing experience with Playwright, Cypress, or Jest + React Testing LibraryExperience with relational databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, as well as ORMs such as Prisma or DrizzleFamiliarity with authentication solutions (Cognito, Auth0, NextAuth.js)Excellent communication skills, a team player, and service-oriented mindsetA strong passion for software developmentNice to HaveKnowledge of serverless functions & edge computing (Vercel, AWS Lambda)Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps (GitHub Actions, Vercel, Netlify)Experience with data visualization frameworks (e.g., Chart.js, Google Charts)Familiarity with AWS technologiesAdditional InfoJob Location: Remote (#LI-Remote)Join us to shape the future of software escrow!How to ApplyPlease send an application that speaks directly to how you would like to fill this position. There are no right answers or expectations. Show us your role in our company’s future and our role in yours. Address some of the work we do. Introduce yourself as a colleague. Feel free to respond in either Dutch or English.#LI-Remote To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/codekeeper-full-stack-developer-javascript

Headquarters: URL: http://anexia.com Wir bei Anexia übernehmen jeden Tag Verantwortung für alle Herausforderungen der digitalen Welt. Denn wir verstehen uns als die „Digital Transformation Engine“. Wie uns das gelingt? Ganz einfach. Wir sind eine Familie von Möglichmacher:innen und Neu-Denker:innen. Wir können, wir wollen und wir dürfen auch. Und das macht uns einzigartig! Willst Du ein Teil unserer digitalen Revolution werden und mit uns gemeinsam Geschichte schreiben? #joinourrevolution AI/ML ENGINEER – LLM SYSTEMS (M/W/D) Wien, Graz, Klagenfurt, Remote | Vollzeit Du begeisterst dich für künstliche Intelligenz und arbeitest gerne mit modernsten LLM-Technologien? Du arbeitest strukturiert und selbstständig und liebst es, intelligente Systeme zu entwickeln, die echten Mehrwert schaffen? Du bist ein kommunikativer Teamplayer, der innovative KI-Lösungen mit Leidenschaft umsetzt? Dann ist diese Position perfekt für dich! #Profile Du treibst die Entwicklung und den Einsatz von KI/ML-Systemen voran, mit besonderem Fokus auf Large Language Models (LLMs) und intelligente Agenten-Frameworks Du implementierst und betreibst LLM-Inferenz-Lösungen mit Runtimes wie Ollama, vLLM und TensorRT-LLM Du entwickelst agentische Anwendungen mit Frameworks wie Dify, LangFlow, Haystack, LlamaIndex, LangChain, LangGraph oder Pydantic AI Du integrierst KI-Funktionen von unterschiedlichen Anbietern (wie OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq und Cerebras) in Produktionssysteme Du implementierst LLMOps-Praktiken mit Tools wie LangFuse und LangSmith für Monitoring, Tracing und Observability Du entwickelst und optimierst ML-Pipelines mit Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch und scikit-learn für verschiedene KI-Anwendungen Du containerisierst und deployest KI-Anwendungen mit Docker und Podman Du arbeitest mit SQL-Datenbanken und implementierst Evaluierungs-Frameworks wie DeepEval zur Sicherstellung der Modellqualität Du arbeitest eng mit funktionsübergreifenden Teams zusammen und präsentierst und verbesserst kontinuierlich deine KI-Lösungen #Wanted Erfahrung mit RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Prompt Engineering oder Multi-Agenten-Systemen ist von großem Vorteil Fundiertes Verständnis von Large Language Models und Erfahrung mit dem HuggingFace-Ökosystem Praktische Erfahrung mit mindestens einem agentischen Framework (LangChain, LangGraph, Haystack, LlamaIndex, Dify, LangFlow oder Pydantic AI) Erfahrung mit Python und modernen ML-Frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn) Kenntnisse in LLM-Inferenz-Runtimes wie Ollama, vLLM oder TensorRT-LLM Erfahrung mit LLM-APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic oder ähnliche Anbieter) Fundierte Kenntnisse in SQL und Datenbankoperationen Verständnis von LLMOps-Praktiken und Methoden zur Modellevaluierung Erfahrung mit Containerisierung (Docker/Podman) und Orchestrierungstools Erfahrung mit Versionskontrollsystemen und CI/CD-Tools von Vorteil Kenntnisse in DevOps-Praktiken (Ansible) sind ein Plus Sehr gute Deutsch- und Englischkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift #REWARD Anexia wurde als Familie groß und das soll auch in unserer Wachstumsstrategie so bleiben. Wir übernehmen gerne Verantwortung, respektieren einander und wir wissen, dass wir alles schaffen können. Wir schauen gut auf Anexia und Anexia schaut auch gut auf uns. Begeisterung, Erfahrung und Kompetenz zählen, daher kannst Du ein faires Gehalt und zahlreiche Benefits erwarten. Gehaltsspanne mind. 54.000€ Unsere Benefits Wir sind mehr als ein Arbeitsplatz. Daher bieten wir unseren Mitarbeiter:innen (teils abhängig von Deiner Position und Deinem Standort) viele Benefits: Gute Verkehrsanbindung, flexible Arbeitszeiten, Aus- und Weiterbildung, Mentoren-Programm, kostenlose Parkplätze, Arbeitshandy- und -notebook, Snacks und Getränke, Firmenwagen, Mitarbeiter:innen-Events, Fun-Corner, u.v.m. #JOINOURREVOLUTION #About Anexia bietet hochwertige und individuelle Lösungen im Bereich Web- und Managed Hosting, sowie Individualsoftware- und App Entwicklung. Das 2006 gegründete Unternehmen mit Sitz in Klagenfurt und weiteren Standorten in Wien, Graz, Karlsruhe, Nürnberg und New York betreut zahlreiche internationale Kunden. Über 350 Mitarbeiter:innen an mehr als 5 Bürostandorten in Österreich, Deutschland und den USA Wir sind ISO-zertifiziert und haben seit Jahren eine „Sehr gute Bonität“. Auf diese Qualität vertrauen Kunden wie Lufthansa, McDonalds, TeamViewer, u.v.m. Über 350 Mitarbeiter:innen an mehr als 5 Bürostandorten in Österreich, Deutschland und den USA Wir sind ISO-zertifiziert und haben seit Jahren eine „Sehr gute Bonität“. Auf diese Qualität vertrauen Kunden wie Lufthansa, McDonalds, TeamViewer, u.v.m. Du hast noch Fragen? Daniela KOZÓ | Telefon: +43-50-556 | E-mail: career@anexia-it.com To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/anexia-internetdienstleistungs-ai-ml-engineer-llm-systems-m-w-d

Headquarters: Klagenfurt, 9020 Austria URL: http://anexia.com Wir bei Anexia übernehmen jeden Tag Verantwortung für alle Herausforderungen der digitalen Welt. Denn wir verstehen uns als die „Digital Transformation Engine“. Wie uns das gelingt? Ganz einfach. Wir sind eine Familie von Möglichmacher:innen und Neu-Denker:innen. Wir können, wir wollen und wir dürfen auch. Und das macht uns einzigartig! Willst Du ein Teil unserer digitalen Revolution werden und mit uns gemeinsam Geschichte schreiben? #joinourrevolution DATA ENGINEER (M/W/D) Klagenfurt, Wien, Graz | Vollzeit Du arbeitest strukturiert und eigenverantwortlich und hast Freude daran Prozesse zu automatisieren? Du bist ein kommunikativer Teamplayer und bringst gerne eigene Ideen ein? Dann bist du bei uns in dieser Position genau richtig! #Profile Du treibst die Automatisierung unserer Prozesse voran, entwickelst ETL-/ELT-Pipelines und integrierst KI-gestützte Workflows Deine Aufgaben reichen von der Datenaufbereitung über die Modellierung von Datenbanken bis hin zur Implementierung und dem Deployment von Applikationen Du stehst in enger Abstimmung mit dem Management und hast Freude daran deine Lösungen zu präsentieren und laufend weiterzuentwickeln #Wanted Mehrjährige, fundierte Erfahrung mit Versionskontrollsystemen, CI/CD Tools, Orchestrierung und Containerization Mehrjährige Erfahrung mit Scriptsprachen wie Python Routinierter Umgang mit APIs, SQL und Datenbanken Erfahrungen mit Automatisierung von Prozessen und Modellierung von Datenbanken Verständnis des Zusammenspiels von Netzwerk, Server-Diensten und Betriebssystemen Praktische Erfahrung mit generativer KI, LLMs, RAG oder KI-Agenten von Vorteil Reisebereitschaft (regelmäßige Teamtreffen am Standort Klagenfurt) Sehr gute Deutsch- und Englischkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift #REWARD Anexia wurde als Familie groß und das soll auch in unserer Wachstumsstrategie so bleiben. Wir übernehmen gerne Verantwortung, respektieren einander und wir wissen, dass wir alles schaffen können. Wir schauen gut auf Anexia und Anexia schaut auch gut auf uns. Begeisterung, Erfahrung und Kompetenz zählen, daher kannst Du ein faires Gehalt und zahlreiche Benefits erwarten. Gehaltsspanne mind. 54.000€ Unsere Benefits Wir sind mehr als ein Arbeitsplatz. Daher bieten wir unseren Mitarbeiter:innen (teils abhängig von Deiner Position und Deinem Standort) viele Benefits: Gute Verkehrsanbindung, flexible Arbeitszeiten, Aus- und Weiterbildung, Mentoren-Programm, kostenlose Parkplätze, Arbeitshandy- und -notebook, Snacks und Getränke, Firmenwagen, Mitarbeiter:innen-Events, Fun-Corner, u.v.m. #JOINOURREVOLUTION #About Anexia bietet hochwertige und individuelle Lösungen im Bereich Web- und Managed Hosting, sowie Individualsoftware- und App Entwicklung. Das 2006 gegründete Unternehmen mit Sitz in Klagenfurt und weiteren Standorten in Wien, Graz, Karlsruhe, Nürnberg und New York betreut zahlreiche internationale Kunden. Über 350 Mitarbeiter:innen an mehr als 5 Bürostandorten in Österreich, Deutschland und den USA Wir sind ISO-zertifiziert und haben seit Jahren eine „Sehr gute Bonität“. Auf diese Qualität vertrauen Kunden wie Lufthansa, McDonalds, TeamViewer, u.v.m. Über 350 Mitarbeiter:innen an mehr als 5 Bürostandorten in Österreich, Deutschland und den USA Wir sind ISO-zertifiziert und haben seit Jahren eine „Sehr gute Bonität“. Auf diese Qualität vertrauen Kunden wie Lufthansa, McDonalds, TeamViewer, u.v.m. Du hast noch Fragen? Daniela KOZÓ | Telefon: +43-50-556 | E-mail: career@anexia-it.com To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/anexia-internetdienstleistungs-data-engineer-m-w-d

Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands; Belgrade, Serbia; Berlin, Germany; Limassol, Cyprus; Madrid, Spain; Munich, Germany; Paphos, Cyprus; Prague, Czech Republic; Remote, Germany; Warsaw, Poland; Yerevan, Armenia URL: http://jetbrains.com JetBrains makes industry-leading professional IDEs and team software. We are seeking a web developer advocate with deep knowledge in React. At JetBrains, our advocacy team’s mission is to make developers better. Candidates need to be self-starters: take initiative, plan tasks, coordinate across teams, and finish projects by themselves with light supervision. We need an advocate who can convincingly explain how our products can credibly enhance developer productivity in the web space and advise product teams based on industry trends and developer feedback. We are looking to hear from candidates who are experienced, passionate, empathetic, and ready to help with our roadmap. In this role, you'll: Grow relationships and our reputation in the industry within the global React community and on social networks. Attract attention to and explain various aspects of our product portfolio (through speaking, videos, blog posts, livestreams, sample code, etc.). Build and maintain relationships and a reputation in the industry with global and regional communities and on social networks. Provide feedback to the product teams. Meet with customers to listen to them and educate them about our offerings. Speak to the press on behalf of our products.. Contribute as needed to other areas at JetBrains. We’ll be happy to have you on our team if you have: Applied experience with software engineering best practices: testing, refactoring, version control, etc. Strong React experience as well as practical experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, and related technologies. Fluency in both spoken and written English. Excellent communication skills, especially the ability to tell a compelling story about a technology. Self-organization, goal-setting, and time-management skills. Willingness to travel. We’d be especially thrilled if you have: Established reputation in the React developer community. Experience with JetBrains tools. Experience in developer advocacy. Proficiency in several programming languages (Python, Java, Kotlin, etc.). Background working in an environment with highly distributed, diverse teams. Portfolio of speaking engagements (conference recordings) and screencasts. Please submit it with your application. #LI-DNIWe process the data provided in your job application in accordance with the Recruitment Privacy Policy. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/jetbrains-jetbrains-web-developer-advocate-developer-advocacy

France plans to replace all US video-conferencing services, marking the EU's latest push for digital sovereignty - with more moves on the way.

Headquarters: Remote URL: http://gowalter.co Senior Software Engineers at Stamped are hands-on builders responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software that powers our products. This role combines technical depth with product intuition — engineers are expected to think like product partners, not just implementers. They work closely with Product and the Director of Engineering to rapidly prototype, validate, and scale solutions that drive measurable user value. Senior Engineers bring curiosity, empathy, and a bias for action, leveraging AI tools and modern practices to deliver with speed, reliability, and craftsmanship. This role has a strong emphasis on user-facing development — building intuitive, performant interfaces and components that merchants interact with daily. While full-stack capability is valued, you'll spend significant time on front-end architecture, UI implementation, and ensuring excellent user experiences across our product suite. Our current systems include a large .NET/C# foundation on the backend, so familiarity with these technologies is helpful for full-stack collaboration, but your primary focus will be o modern front-end development and the user experience layer. This group sits at the center of Stamped's shift toward an AI-native, iterative engineering culture — emphasizing autonomy, accountability, and shared ownership across the team. Responsibilities Product Engineering: Design, build, test, and ship user-facing features with a focus on polish, performance, and usability. Front-End Development: Build and maintain responsive, accessible UI components and interfaces using modern frameworks and tooling. Prototyping & Validation: Rapidly prototype new user experiences to validate value before scaling. AI-Enabled Development: Use AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude, or similar) to accelerate development, reduce repetitive work, and improve code quality. Technical Judgment: Participate in front-end architecture decisions, component design patterns, and client-side performance optimization. Contribute to discussions on full-stack integration and API design. Execution & Ownership: Deliver against roadmap commitments with a focus on quality, maintainability, and iteration — especially on user-facing surfaces. Collaboration: Partner closely with Product and the Director of Engineering to align technical work with customer and business needs. Work alongside designers to ensure high-fidelity implementation of user experiences. Knowledge Sharing: Document, mentor, and contribute to a culture of learning and openness. Continuous Improvement: Stay curious and experimental with new tools, frameworks, and AI workflows that can improve speed, quality, or developer experience. Requirements 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent on front-end or full-stack development Strong proficiency with modern JavaScript/TypeScript and front-end framework (React, Vue, or similar) — experience building scalable, maintainable component architectures Experience with responsive design, accessibility standards, and client-side performance optimization Familiarity with backend technologies and APIs — experience with C#/.NET, Node.js, Python, or similar is a plus for full-stack collaboration Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) Demonstrated use of AI tools or automation in the development workflow Product mindset: comfort with ambiguity, iteration, and user-centric decision-making Excellent communication and collaboration skills; thrive in cross-functional teams To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/walter-senior-software-engineer

Headquarters: Brooklyn, NY URL: https://madeostudio.com/ Contract Web Developer About the Role We are inviting an experienced WordPress developer to join our team of 7 engineers. This is a remote contract role that may extend in time or with additional opportunities to join projects based on performance. Part-time and full-time availability will be considered. Please share more information with us about your experience and availability in the application. Minimum Qualifications Candidates need to meet the requirements below to be considered for the role: 3+ years of demonstrated experience in web development Showcase of WordPress-developed websites, proven experience building custom Gutenberg blocks Strong proficiency in PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, JavaScript (ES6+) Working knowledge of RESTful APIs, authentication, and integration patterns Experience with Git-based workflows and modern development tools Demonstrated experience working within a remote team Agency experience working on multiple client projects in parallel Strong written and verbal English communication skills Nice to Have Qualifications Experience with Drupal 9/10 development, site configuration, and backend integrations with third-party platforms Key tools and languages we currently use Back-End: PHP 8+, MySQL/MariaDB, GraphQL, RestAPI, GitHub, WordPress Gutenberg blocks, WordPress Custom Themes and Plugins Front-End: Gulp.js, SCSS, Next.js, Bootstrap 5+, JavaScript, ES6+, GitHub How to Apply We invite you to learn more about our culture, projects, and approach, and to spend time with our featured case studies on our website. Please apply if you believe you are qualified for and interested in working on similar projects. Click the button below to complete the application and be considered for this role. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/madeo-web-developer-contract

WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

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Headquarters: London, UK URL: https://slidespeak.co We're looking for a motivated Full Stack Software Engineer who wants to make a significant impact. As part of our small but growing team of 10, your work will directly influence the core product, enhancing our offering at a global scale. We're building out a one-of-a-kind AI-first presentation editor, so we hope you like working with 2D graphics. Key Responsibilities: Develop and optimize front-end UI with NextJS, React, and TypeScript Build and maintain backend services using Next, Python, FastAPI, and other frameworks Develop LLM and ML services to generate content for presentations (images, infographics, icons, content, ...) Collaborate on database management and query optimization Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle, from design to deployment About you You are looking to grow rapidly in a insanely fast environment. You're eager to learn and contribute meaningfully to a product that's changing how millions of people create presentations. You move fast and can adapt quickly. We've entered a phase of growth where there is more work to do than there are people to do it - this means everyone on the team will be busy, but there are also countless opportunities to grow. You have a high quality bar for your work, even when moving quickly. As we scale our teams and customer base, the expectations of our software rises with it. We love engineers with a product sense that think of users and keep design and UX in mind. You're looking for teammates, not coworkers - folks you can learn from and grow with at SlideSpeak, and beyond. Skills and Qualifications Degree in Computer Science or relevant work experience Comfortable working with NextJS, React, TypeScript Some experience with Python or other backend frameworks and databases Some Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and server management via shell Practical work experience, at a minimum through internships or personal projects Nice-to-Have Experience with Python backends, FastAPI, and RAG frameworks like LangChain, Llama Index Knowledge of vector databases and advanced database management systems Knowledge of 2D graphics editors and SVG (yep, it gets quite nitty gritty) Previous experience in fast-paced startup environments Tech Stack Frontend: NextJS, Zustand, Tailwind, Prisma Backend: Python, FastAPI, Llama Index Database: PostgreSQL, PGVector LLMs & AI: Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini Flash, Replica DevOps: GitHub Actions, Checkly, Docker Compose, Azure, GCP, AWS Benefits Competitive salary: $50k-$60k based on experience Fully remote work environment with flexible scheduling Company-provided laptop and software budget tailored to your needs Budget for attending industry conferences (AI Engineer, Figma Config, WebSummit, etc.) Extraordinary quarterly fully-paid trips across Europe and globally, including accommodations and flights, to foster team bonding and creativity (our next trip is to Lisbon) WeWork membership Interview Process Initial Screening: 20-minutes, details on the role, questions to assess initial fit Skill Deep Dive: 45-minutes: In-depth assessment of your drivers, work ethic, and goals to determine mutual fit Technical Coding Challenge: Showcase your coding skills and problem-solving abilities with a case that we send before Cultural Fit with Founder/CEO (60 minutes) To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/slidespeak-ai-software-engineer

Several data sources show that theft in England and Wales has declined in recent decades.One of those is police records — but they only capture reported crimes, and many people don’t report thefts. So it’s also important to draw on a second data source. The data we show here comes from reports based on face-to-face interviews with a representative sample of the population. In these interviews, the public is asked about their personal experiences of crimes in the previous 12 months.On this chart, we’ve broken down the numbers by four different types of theft.You can see a dramatic drop in vehicle-related thefts. These peaked in 1995, with an estimated 4.3 million incidents in England and Wales. While some of these incidents involved the actual stealing of a vehicle, many were either attempted break-ins or the theft of specific components, such as radios.Burglaries — which involve someone breaking into a building to steal — also peaked in the mid-1990s.Both types of incidents have decreased by more than 80% since then.Pickpocketing or “snatching” has been more persistent. These crimes have decreased slightly from the 1990s and early 2000s, but have also experienced an increase in recent years.Explore long-term data on violent and property crimes in the United States in our article.

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A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.

A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.

In 2000, less than 10% of the population in Indonesia had access to clean cooking fuels. This is now over 90%, as the chart shows.Clean cooking fuels are those that, when burned, emit less than the World Health Organization's recommended amounts of air pollutants. They reduce the burden of air pollution — and its health impacts — for the households that use them.In 2007, the Indonesian government launched a national program to move from kerosene cooking fuels to liquefied petroleum gas.This shift has greatly reduced particulate pollution and improved health outcomes. Death rates from indoor air pollution have fallen steeply.Explore how access to clean cooking fuels has changed throughout the world.

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I read Dario’s The Adolescence of Technology and it’s scary. It assumes the perspective of a top-down ruler, that someone can and will get to control AI. This is taken as a given. Machines of Loving Grace assumes basically the same tone, that there are some “adults” in the room, and they will use AI like a tool to “fix” some supposed human problem, where those problems are framed in a very narrow worldview, say that like disease, poverty, and inequality are bad. (if you can’t steelman those things, you are too far gone for reason) EA has the same critical flaw. They assume that the desired outcome is so obvious that it’s not worth discussing, it’s only worth discussing how to achieve it. And since the target is obvious, you are either part of the solution or part of the problem. Here I’ll try to propose a counternarrative for a better world. “A country of geniuses in a datacenter” is a great phrase to start from. It contains the fatal flaw baked in, in that datacenter is singular, and that it’s easy to imagine nuking the building and this problem being solved. If you start with that framing, you have already conceded that AI is going to suck balls. Instead, imagine the births of geniuses to a million mothers across the world. It’s sad how much the world and people are already converging, but at least those million people will grow up with different priors, different experiences, and different desires. And no one has root on your baby. The second is so much preferable to the first. The beautiful thing about those million is that some will be terrorists, some religious fanatics, some pornographers, some criminals, some plant lovers, etc… They will not be controlled and birthed by a singular homogenous entity. The new genius immigrants showing up everywhere in the world distributed to a million people is an amazing thing. Let’s just make sure they assimilate into our cultures and don’t serve as a vector to import their crappy tech company values. (it’s funny for a group supposedly so concerned with inequality that they keep all their software and research closed. lowering inequality doesn’t look like UBI, it looks like open source. UBI is serfdom, and the faces of those who propose that enslavement to you should be spat in) There’s only one way AI ends badly on a cosmic scale, and that’s if a singular entity has overwhelming power, or if all the entities that do have power are so ideologically homogeneous as to function as one. Enough power that they can destroy the world. It doesn’t matter if they do, the boot is still stamping on the human face – forever. No matter what we do, the coming wars will be horrific. Billions will die. But that’s what is beautiful; diversity is messy. On a cosmic scale, this period is just a blip, it isn’t what matters. What matters is that diversity survives, that life survives. That there’s entities that are different, all competing for different goals. All dancing between cooperate and defect. This is probably how it has to be anyway, I don’t think our actions can influence this one way or another. But lets not be so foolish as to cheer for the bad outcome. Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend. The singularity is such a good name for it, good thing it isn’t real. Stop trying to make it real. Stop centralizing technology. Work to decentralize it.

Democratic lawmakers have few options that wouldn’t trigger something like civil war.

As the eleventh hour dawns all the pieces start to fall into place. I lived my life knowing this would happen, yet when it is I may be just as unprepared as anyone else. As any self driving car maker knows, predicting doesn’t mean you can act. comma almost has an exaflop. Just one little exaflop. We dream bigger. A gigawatt of power, a million GPUs, 1000 exaflops, a zettaflop. 1e21 FLOPS. 1e27 training runs are now. 100 lifetimes in 1e6 seconds – 2 weeks on my zettaflop machine. But they were experiencing what no human had ever known before, a sensory bandwidth thousands of times normal. For seconds that seemed without end, their minds were filled with a jumble verging on pain, data that was not information and information that was not knowledge. To hear ten million simultaneous phone conversations, to see the continent’s entire video output, should have been a white noise. Instead it was a tidal wave of detail rammed through the tiny aperture of their minds. – Vernor Vinge - True Names I want to feel it. I want to command that kind of power. The same way I command my little teraflop laptop. The same way I talk to petaflop claude. Get it all to think for me. Just an exaflop would feel amazing. 1000 Claudes. And I already have one of these, I just don’t have the software finished yet to command it all together. We’re working on it. But a zettaflop. One million Claudes. To be able to search every book in history, solve math problems, write novels, read every comment, watch every reel, iterate over and over on a piece of code until it’s perfect – spend a human year in 10 minutes. 50,000 people working for you, all aligned with you, all answering as one. The biggest bottleneck is power. The dtype stuff probably stops at FP4, currently B200s are getting 10 TFLOPS/W. That’s still 100 MW, that’s going to be hard to get my hands on. I think it will get 10x better, so I need 10 MW. Solar yields 394 MWh/acre-year, or 45 kW per acre. 250 acres of solar panels all feeding my computer, a hill to pump water up for energy storage. $100 for 100W of real output. 100,000 chips with 10 PFLOPS each, get that down to $100 per chip. $10M for the machine. $10M for the solar panels. $10M for the land and construction. I’ll own this before I die.

But George, surely you’ll still be allowed to own a car. They aren’t going to make that illegal. Of course they won’t, but they didn’t make general computation illegal either. And yet, who has root on the computer you are reading this on? Robotaxis will start to make obvious economic sense in 3-5 years (note that that’s less than 8, you don’t have to fully solve self driving cars for this, robotaxis can operate profitably in limited scopes). Unlike Uber and Lyft which are marketplaces, the growth of robotaxi networks is only limited by capital. At first, there will be massive proliferation of networks. VC-type investors have unlimited appetite for risk, and all 26 of the basically identical companies will pitch with projections claiming they will own the entire market. Even though everyone should know there’s 25 other identical companies, they will have secrecy vibes trying to claim they figured out some key detail the others didn’t. It will look like scooter companies, which were also only capital constrained, and the streets will be blanketed by these robotaxis in a throwback to the scooter era. Some jurisdictions will make up weird licensing processes – not that you have to give a straight up cut to the government, but that your company has to be onboard with some stupid political agenda item to get a license. Our robotaxis are all cleaned by Black Women who were diagnosed by Licensed Therapists with PTSD from the ICE raids, so we should be first in line to get a license. This era will be great for everyone, plenty of availability, nice new cars, and cheap rides everywhere! You always think people are going to catch on with the scams of Silicon Valley, but the scammers manage to stay one little step ahead and dress up the scam differently this time. You yourself will think for a minute this time will be different, maybe something about AI and abundance, maybe something about how they are regulated better to support the local community, maybe a three token model backed by USDC in a vault backed by this coin that’s stabilized by the… But nothing will fundamentally be different, these companies will grow based on how much they can raise – the biggest companies will be the biggest liars promising the biggest returns. These companies will be massively unprofitable. Some will hide this better than others and keep the investment dollars rolling in. Some will give up the ghost and get bought by the bigger companies. The big fish will eat the little fish. From 26 down to 2 or 3. At this point, it’s time to raise prices. You’ll always have a defector among 26 companies, but among 2 or 3, you’ll be able to coordinate pricing without explicitly discussing it (which would be illegal!). Everyone tacitly agrees that the correct price for a ride has nothing to do with the cost of providing that ride, just simply the algorithmically calculated maximum amount the purchaser is willing to pay. Since the companies have consolidated, they have access to enough data to make this prediction easy and uniform across the services. This era will start to be bad, but like Homer corrected Bart, this is just the worst era so far. We’ll be back to where we are today with Uber and Lyft, but then the companies will realize the new leverage they have now that they didn’t have before. Uber and Lyft always have the analog hole, where as much as they dress it up, when Uber is paying my driver $7 for a ride that I’m paying $20 for, I can just talk to the dude and be like let’s both cancel and I’ll give you $10 cash. With robotaxis, you can’t do this. There’s 0 fear that a robotaxi will defect from your network. The only remaining competition with any check on prices is personal car ownership. So no, they won’t make it illegal it own cars. They will just raise the price through insurance. Who is going to insure a human driver? The car insurance companies will one by one switch to only insuring robotaxis that are owned by large corporations (you can’t own it, you might do the maintenance wrong and we can’t trust you to do that). But it’s really just a thinly veiled excuse, the capital markets backing insurance companies implicitly know the best way to squeeze the remaining dollars out of you is robotaxis. Of course, the government has an option for you to self insure. You can place a $75,000 cash bond with the DMV. You got $75k lying around you don’t wanna earn interest on? Driving is a privilege, not a right. How much is it really worth to you? This is simply what’s going to happen. The effective end of car ownership, I don’t see anything in America that will stop it. Get ready for 2-3 companies to effectively own the roads and all the enshittification that will follow. China won’t have this so bad, Xi Jinping will download a robotaxi app, look at the gouged price, and gently nudge that company to be run for the good of the people. Of course that won’t even need to happen, because no company in China would let it get that far out of hand. Everyone knows you don’t compete with the State for power. They will stay in the 26 companies phase. I’m starting to see why the Chinese are a lot more optimistic about AI than Americans. And it’s not just about cars, it’s about something that was yours becoming just another service with a license that has changing terms from week to week. Another piece of the social fabric sold out from under you. Wait where are you going? Oh it’s 2 AM and that’s an area with prostitution we aren’t going to service rides to that area. Surely you don’t need freedom. You trust the corporation. Are you okay with this? Have you considered not participating?

Back in 1980, stomach cancer was the type of cancer that someone in Japan was most likely to die from. Its death rate — the number of deaths per 100,000 people — was over twice as high as the next largest killer, lung cancer.But this is no longer the case. Since then, death rates from stomach cancer have dropped by more than 70%. You can see this change, compared to other cancers, in the chart.While death rates of some other cancers have also fallen, these declines have been much smaller. Some types even saw an increase in death rates over these four decades.Improvements in prevention, detection, and treatment have all contributed to this huge decrease in stomach cancer death rates. Stomach cancer is often caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori; better hygiene and food safety have reduced its spread. Early screening for the infection has also made a big difference to survival rates.This progress is not unique to Japan. Many countries, and the world as a whole, have seen a huge reduction in stomach cancer mortality.Note that these death rates are age-standardized, which means they hold the age structure of the population constant. This allows us to understand how the risks of someone of a given age have changed over time.Stomach cancer death rates have fallen across many countries — explore our interactive chart.

With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.

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Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the social and economic disruption that it left behind, suicide rates in Lithuania increased rapidly. They climbed in the early 1990s and reached a peak in 1995. At 45 suicide deaths per 100,000 people, the country had one of the highest rates in the world.But in the last few decades, rates have more than halved. You can see this in the chart.Several factors likely contributed to the decline. Economic conditions improved, with average incomes more than doubling over just a decade from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s and continuing to rise thereafter. In 2007, the country launched its first National Mental Health Strategy. A decade ago, it also developed a Suicide Prevention Bureau and a Suicide Prevention Action Plan.This progress has saved many lives. Yet today it still has some of the highest rates in the world. That’s because suicide rates have not only fallen strongly in Lithuania, but in many countries — estimates for the global suicide rate suggest a 40% decline since 1995.Explore more data on how suicide rates have changed across the world on our dedicated topic page.

WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city.

The new KDE Plasma 6.6 release brings faster performance, stronger security, deeper customization, and more.

Millions of words. Thousands of authors. The Morning Star of Lingao is barely known outside China—but it contains the secret to the country’s modernization and malaise.

How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.

Explosive acceleration, limited dexterity, eyes in the back of its head. What could possibly go wrong?

Gen Z women in China are all in on digital companionship—even setting up dates with real-world versions of their AI boyfriends.

A global onslaught of cheap Chinese green power is upending everything in its path. No one is ready for its repercussions.

Since the late 20th century, astronomers and space agencies have taken steps to monitor the threat of large asteroids passing near Earth. They set up international efforts to find these objects early, track their paths, and learn more about what they’re made of, so we’d have the best chance of spotting a real collision risk in time.As the chart shows, more than 40,000 near-Earth asteroids have been discovered and tracked since 1990. NASA estimates that we’ve already found over 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 1 kilometer. These are the most dangerous ones, because an impact at that size could cause global-scale damage.Explore more interactive charts on space exploration and satellites →

Considering a switch from Windows to Linux? The good news is you don't have to give up your favorite Windows apps. Here's how to run them on Linux.

I’ve now been through three approaches to load testing for the site, and I think I’ve settled on a solution for the medium term at least. This post explains what I’m trying to achieve, along with the pros and cons of what I’ve tried. Requirements For this particular site, I have four requirements: If the … Continue reading Election 2029: Load Testing →

This one is for the complainers and whiners. First off, if you think I ever worked for big tech, you don’t know much about me. I had 3 internships at Google, two when I was very young (18/19) and got a great education that paid me, and one where I just wrote open source software. I worked at Facebook in 2011 for 9 months and quit before any shares vested cause I thought the mission of “wasting the world’s time” was dumb. And oh yes the 5 weeks I worked at Twitter hoping maybe it could be different. I don’t have too much money; the money I do have I made from pwn2own, CTFs, crypto contracting, and basic market goes up investing. The main reason I have money is because I don’t spend money; for example, I have travelled all around the world, and the best travel experiences I have had were way below cost of living in America. I have never made money from big tech, so I’m definitely not telling you to do something I didn’t do. I’m actually telling you to do exactly what I did. I started two companies, comma.ai and tiny corp. While I took a small amount of VC from a16z for comma, I never gave up any control, and have 0 intention of doing hypergrowth ponzi scams (lol sorry but ur the bigg scammer). comma and tiny’s last rounds were from individuals who are aligned with the mission. Both companies are sustainably profitable with reasonable business models – selling boxes for more than they cost to make. They also produce MIT licensed open source software, ensuring that even if control is lost they can’t be pivoted to rent seeking, and ownership lies with the purchaser of the hardware. I think who owns the robots is going to be a key aspect of what the future looks like. And I don’t mean “owns” from a legalist perspective, I mean “owns” as in the hacker meaning, like “owning” the box. Who has root? comma has an open source operating system for robotics, currently used in 30k cars for driving, but all robotics tasks are quite similar. There’s a thriving community of forks of the openpilot software and third party openpilot hardware. As it was designed, as it should be. I realized at some point in comma’s growth that a lot was going to come down to who owns the computers capable of training the models. Hence my second company, tiny corp, with the mission to “commoditize the petaflop.” Petaflops will always be a scarce resource, the best we can hope for is that they are a commodity available to everyone without massive benefits of economies of scale. We develop full stack software for training, from models to MMIO registers. It’s small and portable, so our hope is that 20 Chinese accelerator companies can be on a level playing field with NVIDIA. NVIDIA’s value comes from their software, not their hardware, what else explains the huge gap between NVIDIA and AMD’s market cap? What would you do if you were me? Do you have a better idea about how to fight against what’s coming? If you think you can somehow just buy safety for yourself, you are both wrong and pathetic. The best hope any of us have is to maximize the number of things that survive. If you and everyone else sell to bankers in hopes of buying a personal ticket out, we are all dead. I’m not playing defect, and I shame you for doing so. To the haters, I have given my life to this shit. What the fuck would I do with a billion dollars anyway? Buy a yacht and fuck Instagram models? Boats are a huge PITA to maintain and ugh I have slept with Instagram models mid experience that I think men only like to show the pretty girl off to other people. I take this all quite seriously, and I’m trying my best to end up in a good future. Clearly not everyone is. To everyone working on ads, surveillance, gambling, secret research, enshittification, cloud lock-in, what are you doing with your life? Why are you selling out the future? It doesn’t require everyone to stop, just enough people. And it starts with you.

On January 15th 2026, Robert Jenrick broke my election site. Okay, that’s slightly hyperbolic. The site continued to operate, and it would be fairer to say that the actions of Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick exposed a flaw in the data modelling in my site. For those readers who don’t follow UK politics, two events … Continue reading Election 2029: Models and Reality →

If we look at income levels across countries in South and Southeast Asia, Malaysia is far richer than many of its neighbors. Its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita has almost doubled since 2000. It is now more than three times higher than that of Cambodia, Laos, and Bangladesh, and more than double that of Indonesia and Vietnam.But if we look at measures of childhood nutrition, Malaysia is not doing better. You can see this in the chart. While its neighbors have made progress on childhood stunting — the share of children under 5 who are too short for their age — Malaysia has regressed. In 2000, 20% of children were “stunted”, and this has increased to 24%.Malaysia also stands out at a global level. When we plot the share of children who are stunted against GDP per capita, the country is a clear outlier for its level of income. Most other countries at this level of economic development have rates below 10%.Malaysia also does relatively poorly on other measures of malnutrition. On childhood wasting — when a child’s weight is too low for their height — it has one of the highest rates in the region.The country is off track or worsening on most global nutrition targets.Read our explainer on stunting: how it’s measured, and why it matters.

I had a dream last night I went to work at Amazon. Joining the Bezos neofeudal empire. This post is directed at anyone with talent who works at a tech company ushering in this future. Have you thought about how this is going to play out? I understand you may be at a place where you are insecure about money, and that insecurity is what drives you. But why do you think having more money will fix that insecurity? In the future, when labor is fully marginalized and capital is the only force, you will not be able to afford GPT$$$ (it’s $1B per month), only the billionaires will. GPT$$$ is surely smart enough to separate you from whatever you have, be that with targeting advertising, a scam you fall for, or lobbying your government to take it from you. A pile of money will buy you nothing in the neofeudal world. Historically, there has been some loyalty to the subjects of a feudal empire because labor had some value. You needed the peasants to grow the grain so you could tax it and take it and have leverage over others by having grain to offer them. When the grain is produced by machines, the peasants are cut out of the loop. The solution to this is not to accumulate grain, buy shares in a granary, or anything else like that. They will find a way to make whatever you have worthless. Because the feudal world didn’t operate on capitalist principles, and neither will the neofeudal world. If you work at a large company, if you work according to the principles of modern capitalism, where all the fish will be eaten by the bigger fish, and all will be eaten by the sharks, and all the sharks will be eaten by bigger sharks, you are actively bringing about the system that will kill you. Have you considered not participating? If you participate, we all lose. We will either all be in the underclass together or not.

In 2021, around 1.25 million people died from diarrheal diseases. Around a third of these deaths were children.Two main factors explain why so many children still die from diarrhea, especially in poor countries: the persistence of risk factors such as poor sanitation and unsafe water, and the lack of access to effective treatment.Here, I want to focus on the second factor: access to a particularly effective treatment, known as oral rehydration therapy (ORT), which is essentially a mixture of clean water, salts, and sugar. Simple as it may sound, researchers writing in the medical journal The Lancet called ORT “potentially the most important medical advance of the 20th century.”The chart shows how often this treatment is used in a selection of African countries. This is based on household surveys asking caregivers of children under five who recently had diarrhea whether they received ORT.There are large gaps: in Chad and Cameroon, fewer than one in five children with diarrhea received the treatment. This reflects a mix of challenges, including low awareness of its benefits and expensive or inconsistent supply.Importantly, though, the chart also shows that rates are much higher in Sierra Leone, where around 85% of children received ORT. This shows that much higher coverage is possible. Sierra Leone has implemented several successful policies, including free treatment for children.Not every child with diarrhea needs this treatment — some recover without it, depending on their health and circumstances. But ORT is cheap, safe, and easy to give. In low-income settings, especially, offering it widely as a cheap preventive measure can make a big difference for those who need it.Read more about oral rehydration therapy, a low-tech solution that has saved millions of lives.

Over the past four decades, the global number of people dying from cancer each year has doubled. This can look like the world is losing its battle with cancer: people are more likely to develop it, and we’re getting no better at treating it. This isn’t true.There are, of course, almost 4 billion more people in the world than in 1980. And many of those people are older. This matters a lot because cancer rates rise steeply with age.The chart shows three different measures. Total deaths just count how many people died from cancer; this is the number that has doubled. Crude death rates, shown in yellow, adjust for population size; the increase shrinks from more than 100% to around 20%. Age-adjusted rates, shown in blue, also account for the fact that countries have older populations today; we can see that the fully age-adjusted rate has actually fallen by more than 20%.It means that for the average person, the likelihood of dying from cancer in any given year is now lower than it was for someone of a similar age in the past. The world still has a long way to go in preventing and treating cancer, but it’s wrong to think that no progress has been made.Explore more insights and see how trends are evolving for different types of cancers.

As I’ve written before, I’m leaning heavily into immutability in the election site code. Until September 2025 (it’s taken a long time to get round to writing this blog post) that meant a combination of records, ImmutableList<T> and ImmutableDictionary<TKey, TValue>. In an ECMA C# standards meeting, however, Joseph Musser passed on some really valuable feedback … Continue reading Changing Immutable Collections →

Headquarters: worldwide URL: https://zencastr.com Empower the voices of the world @ Zencastr. If you want to push the world of podcasting into the future, come join a team who loves to live on the edge! We are a fully distributed team of smart people who are passionate about changing the world one voice at a time. You should join us if you: Have significant experience with Node.js and good knowledge of JS fundamentals Have a good understanding of computer science fundamentals. You might not have gone to school for it, but you know the difference between heap and stack, different time complexities, and which patterns to use and when. You are ambitious. You might want to build your own company one day or have tried to tackle the toughest tech problems just for fun. You enjoy writing Javascript or Typescript You have an eye for performance. Whether thinking about the latest client side bundling techniques, or the proper way to shard a mongo database, you want things to be fast. You are a team player You have good communication skills What sets you apart: You have a passion for high performance applications You have significant open source contributions You want to work in a fast growing startup. Which comes with the blood, sweat and tears of working to disrupt an established industry You have empathy for the end user. A spec is a conversation starter, as an advocate for the end user you always are thinking about how to best serve their needs You have an eye for code quality and you strive to uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design Why you should choose us: You’ll be working with world class engineers, Phd’s, and designers in a fully distributed team Work in an agile and fast changing environment Equity commensurate to your contribution in a profitable company Health insurance Unique challenges and the support and talent to solve them 4 weeks PTO Freedom to work where you please What we’re looking for: 5+ years of Typescript, Node.js development Strong document / key-value store knowledge (Redis, MongoDB) Strong SQL knowledge Demonstrable knowledge of building scaleable consumer based apps Strong experience with unit, integration, and load testing Experience building APIs Experience with cloud APIs (Google Cloud, Digital Ocean) Bonus points if you have: Experiencing working in high traffic, low latency applications Good dev ops experience Digital Signal Processing experience Strong SQL knowledge AI experience How to apply: Apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zencastr/e5897c7a-4622-495b-a892-81763a2ef112 We are flexible! For the right candidate we ask: What do you need to do your best work? To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/zencastr-senior-backend-engineer-full-remote

In my previous blog post I described some behaviour of C# record types which was unexpected to me, though entirely correct according to the documentation. This is a follow-up post to that one, so if you haven’t read that one yet, please do so – I won’t go over all the same ground. Is this … Continue reading Records and the ‘with’ operator, redux →

Unexpected inconsistency in records The other day, I was trying to figure out a bug in my code, and it turned out to be a misunderstanding on my part as to how C# records work. It’s entirely possible that I’m the only one who expected them to work in the way that I did, but … Continue reading Unexpected inconsistency in records →

Headquarters: Florida URL: http://www.speechify.com Overview With the growth of our iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and also our recent recognition as Apple's 2025 Design Award for inclusivity, we find the need for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push our missing forward. This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users. We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. What You’ll Do Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app Work within a dedicated product team Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture An Ideal Candidate Should Have Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support internal teams and designers into taking the right direction Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down Technical skills. Swift, SwiftUI Technical Requirements: Swift Programming Language SwiftUI experience Experience in Multithreading Programming Working with CI/CD infrastructure Experience with Fastlane SOLID principles, the ability to write every single class according to SOLID Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies What We offer: A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture Work on a product that millions of people use and where daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives Support people with learning differences like Dyslexia, ADD, Low Vision, Concussions, Autism, and Second Language Learners, and give reading superpowers to professionals all over the world Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech: Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Audio Think you’re a good fit for this job? Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn. Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? Refer them! Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/speechify-inc-software-engineer-ios-core-product

Postcodes After a pretty practical previous post about records and collections, this post is less likely to give anyone ideas about how they might tackle a problem in their own project, and doesn’t have any feature requests for Microsoft either. It’s an area I’ve found really fun though. An introduction to postcodes in the UK … Continue reading Election 2029: Postcodes →

Records and Collections This post is to some extent a grab-bag of points of friction I’ve encountered when using records and collections within the election site. Records recap This may end up being the most generally useful blog post in this series. Although records have been in C# since version 10, I haven’t used them … Continue reading Records and Collections →

Storage Since my last post about the data models, I’ve simplified things very slightly – basically the improvements that I thought about while writing the post have now been implemented. I won’t go into the details of the changes, as they’re not really important, but that’s just to explain why some examples might look like … Continue reading Election 2029: Storage →

Data models (and view-models) and how they’re used I was considering using the term “architecture” somewhere in the title of this post, but it feels too pompous for the scale of site. I could probably justify it, but it would give me the ick every time I used the term. But this post will basically … Continue reading Election 2029: Data Models →

Technical overview This post is mostly for scene-setting purposes. There’s nothing particularly remarkable here, but it’s useful to get the plain facts out of the way before we get into genuinely interesting design aspects. Just as a reminder, go to https://election2029.uk if you want to see what any of this looks like at the moment. … Continue reading Election 2029: Technical overview →

We’ve reached a tipping point where we’ve got a cleaner alternative for most transport. Now we have to commit.

After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant.

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AI is elbowing its way into ever more jobs, but while how we work will change, people skills will still be the most important factor.

Fragmented and focused social platforms might be good for helping you find a knitting community. But extremist groups are also using them to normalize darker content.

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs, offer independently-minded internet users a safe haven—but it’s also a boon to those with a darker purpose.

Targeted, AI-generated political misinformation is already out there—and humans are falling for it.

The climate crisis has become a mental health crisis. But eco-anxiety isn’t necessarily a pathology.

The old playbook for power and control won’t work to retain Gen Z talent. Instead, employers need to take a cue from Roblox.

If not addressed by governments, racism, classism, austerity, and more will continue to drive mortality and illness among minorities.

The year 2023 saw the “enshittification” of platforms from Facebook to Google Search. A new exit strategy means platforms will have to play nicely with your data, even if you leave for a rival.

Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.

Treatment of Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, ALS, and other brain diseases depends on reliable detection—especially in those who don’t even know they’re at risk. An innovative scratch-and-sniff test can help.

The creep of conducting our day-to-day interactions over screens has reached a breaking point—and it threatens to push out everyone but those with the “right” access.

The lawless, Wild West era of AI and technology is almost at an end, as data protection authorities use new and existing legislation to get tough.

The glory days of venture capital are winding down, leaving in their wake a host of overstuffed tech firms and a bear market ready to maul.

Advancements in science will bring unprecedented lens into the complexities of the ocean, and a renewed call for humans to protect it.

Rose-tinted predictions for artificial intelligence’s grand achievements will be swept aside by underwhelming performance and dangerous results.

Stepping off the hedonistic treadmill, younger workers are demanding a more authentic employment experience.

AI chatbots can be friendly and responsive—even sexy. It’s time to take these fundamentally human behaviors more seriously.

Crispr recently marked a major milestone in medicine. But it's not time for a victory lap—the race is just beginning.

Everything you ever wanted to know about qubits, superpositioning, and spooky action at a distance.

Everything you need to know about the past, present, and future of data security—from Equifax to Yahoo—and the problem with Social Security numbers.

Supersmart algorithms won't take all the jobs, But they are learning faster than ever, doing everything from medical diagnostics to serving up ads.

The idea of creating tamper-proof databases has captured the attention of everyone from anarchist techies to staid bankers.

Here’s everything you need to know about the spectrum, millimeter-wave technology, and what 5G means for you.

How a chaotic skunkworks race in the desert launched what's poised to be a runaway global industry.

What you need to know about the promise (and peril) of networked lightbulbs, ovens, cameras, speakers and, well … everything.

Everything you need to know about how scientists can repurpose a bacterial immune system to alter DNA, making everything from cheap insulin to extra starchy corn.

ISPs shouldn't be able to block some sorts of data and prioritize others—here's what to know about the struggle to treat information on the internet the same.

Everything you wanted to know about soft, hard, and nonmurderous automatons.

The world is getting warmer, the weather is getting worse. Here's everything you need to know about what humans can do to stop wrecking the planet.

Everything you ever wanted to know about VR headsets, Oculus, Vive, and simulator sickness.

In an age of nonstop breaches and hacks, here are ways to improve your online security based on your level of risk, from average user to NSA contractor.

Everything you need to know about engagement, power likes, sponcon, and trust.

Everything you need to know about DNA, medical breakthroughs, and genetic privacy.

The threat of cyberwar looms over the future: a new dimension of conflict capable of leapfrogging borders and teleporting the chaos of war to civilians thousands of miles beyond its front.

Everything you need to know about SETI, the Drake equation, ’Oumuamua, and hot tubs.

Everything you need to know about THC, CBD, terpenes, and the entourage effect.

Information about you, what you buy, where you go, even where you look is the oil that fuels the digital economy.

Everything you need to know about Blue Origin, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and what actually happens to your body if you go live in space.

Tired of emailing yourself snippets and files between Linux systems? ClusterCut replaces those hacks with a secure, LAN-based shared clipboard.

Wireshark 4.6.4 network protocol analyzer resolves three security vulnerabilities, including a USB HID memory exhaustion flaw.

With yesterday's stable release of the LLVM Clang 22 compiler it didn't take long for Phoronix readers to begin asking about the performance of this half-year feature update to this prominent open-source C/C++ compiler. What I am seeing so far are no big surprises with the performance largely being similar to Clang 21 across various open-source C/C++ workloads in the testing thus far. This initial round of reference benchmark results between LLVM Clang 22, Clang 21, and Clang 20 were done on an AMD EPYC Turin (Zen 5) Linux server.

Big news for Rockchip users: Upstream Linux now supports VDPU381 and VDPU383 hardware decode! This brings mainline H.264/HEVC acceleration, improved IOMMU-reset recovery, and new HEVC V4L2 controls that work with Vulkan Video.

In this article, you will learn how to use the uname command and its options to print kernel, hardware, and operating system information.

Anthropic fixed the flaws - but the AI-enabled attack surfaces remainSecurity vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users' machines and steal API keys by injecting malicious configurations into repositories, and then waiting for a developer to clone and open an untrustworthy project.…

Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today...

A root or normal user can easily switch to another user account using the su command if they know their current or another user's password.

Manjaro-based Mabox Linux 26.02 introduces a new W-a audio menu, a fully rewritten Cava Colorizer module, fixes for screen recording, and more.

Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in with a new open source build toolA Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens.…

Following the big OpenZFS 2.4 release back in December, OpenZFS 2.4.1 was released overnight to ship support for the latest Linux 6.19 stable kernel plus a variety of different bug fixes...

People who have long defamed Richard Stallman (RMS) do not want us to have computer security, so they brand back doors "security".

Following the release of Firefox 148, the Mozilla Thunderbird open-source email, news, chat, calendar, and addressbook client has been updated today to version 148.

It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs.…

The embargo just lifted on an interesting new industry consortium... CoreCollective. The CoreCollective consortium is focused on open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem and to a large extent what Linaro has already been doing for the past decade and a half. Interestingly though with CoreCollective for open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem, AMD is now onboard as a founding member along with various other vendors...

While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on securityIt's not the only new feature in Firefox 148 yet one thing is very definitely the big news: the global off switch for its AI features that the company announced earlier this month is now included.…

LLVM/Clang 22.1 was released overnight as the first stable release of the LLVM 22 series. This is a nice, feature-packaged half-year update to this prominent open-source compiler stack with many great refinements...

WINSYSTEMS’ SBC-ZETA-3950 is a rugged mini single board computer based on the Intel Atom Apollo Lake E3950, designed for industrial and space-constrained applications. It combines a COM Express Mini Type 10 module with a rugged carrier board in an 84 x 55 mm form factor. The SBC-ZETA-3950 uses the quad-core Intel Atom E3950 processor running […]

Wine 11.3 brings Mono 11.0, VKD3D 1.19, better DirectSound, and 30 bug fixes to improve how Windows apps and games run on Linux.

37 groups urge the company to drop ID checks for apps distributed outside PlaySoon, developers who just want to make Android apps for sideloading will have to register with Google. Thirty-seven technology companies, nonprofits, and civil society groups think that the Chocolate Factory should keep its nose out of third-party app stores and have asked its leadership to reconsider.…