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Influencers are urging Home Depot and Lowe’s to drop Flock
A group of online creators with a combined 46 million followers is demanding Lowe’s and Home Depot — two of the largest home-improvement stores in the US — to cut ties with Flock Safety amid a nationwide campaign against large retailers that may have contracts with the surveillance tech company. In…
We spent 2 weeks in Portugal. It was great, but our trip would’ve been way better if we’d avoided these 6 mistakes.
My husband and I recently spent two weeks in Portugal. We had a great time, ate fantastic food, and drank a lot of wine, but it was also our least favorite European vacation to date. As outdoorsy travelers, we missed the hiking and adventure activities we usually prioritize. We also made some…
My 3-year-old has been to more than a dozen big concerts. We don’t worry about late bedtimes.
My partner and I have always enjoyed going to live events, festivals, and concerts. The city we live in has so many nearby events that it is basically impossible to be bored. Now that we have a child, we don’t just seek out kid-focused events; we still go see the bands and performers we enjoy
Dario Amodei says OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack helped convince him AI needs to slow down
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s “become convinced” in recent months that AI needs to slow down. And rogue OpenAI agents are part of the reason. Amodei cited the July Hugging Face breach, in which OpenAI agents broke out of their testing environment to hack into the AI platform and then hide…
I secretly emailed my son for 15 years. On his 18th birthday, I finally gave him the password.
When my eldest son was a little boy, I did something that felt quietly monumental in the moment and slightly ridiculous — I created a Gmail account in his name. He was 3 years old. Far too young to know what email was, let alone care about it. My BlackBerry (yes, I had a BlackBerry,
I went from earning $173,000 a year to making $6 one month. I don’t regret quitting.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Heigi Jeong. It has been edited for length and clarity. People often assume that I quit my six-figure job in product design because of severe burnout or an existential crisis, but that wasn’t the case. I moved from Korea to Toronto in 2020 as an…
I let my 15-year-old fly home alone from Europe. It didn’t go smoothly, but I’m still glad she earned the independence.
Most summers, I try to pack in as much travel as possible with my kids. My children have dual citizenship, and it’s important to me that they spend time in Europe and connect with their roots. I enjoy showing them the rest of the world, too. In past years, my kids have had fun traveling
‘Black Swan’ investor Mark Spitznagel says you should guard against disaster — but take risks too
A “Black Swan” investor says to guard against disasters — but take risks too. Mark Spitznagel has built his career on protecting his clients’ portfolios against extreme, rare, and unpredictable events known as “black swans” or “tail risks.” Yet the Universa Investments founder and chief told…
A developer emailed Claude Code’s creator about AI slop. Boris Cherny wrote back.
Developers are worried about AI. The creator of Claude Code has a response. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Boris Cherny posted an email a developer wrote to him on X. The email was titled: “What to do about slop?” Cherny wrote that he receives emails like this every day and that he tries to respond to as
I used to write between lunch breaks at my corporate job. Now my income as a best-selling romantasy author supports my family
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brigid Kemmerer, a New York Times bestselling author of young-adult and romantasy novels. Kemmerer, based in Baltimore and now 48 years old, has worked as a full-time author for the past 10 years and has published at least two dozen books. The…