🚀 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ Category: Apps,Government & Policy,TC,app store,Apple,developers,Japan,regulation 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Apple announced that it will allow alternative app stores in Japan and allow developers to process payments for digital goods and services outside of its in-app purchasing system in iOS. The iPhone maker isn't making these changes because it wants to be more open; It was forced - in this case, to comply with the country's Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA), which has now gone into effect. With this update, Apple's App Store revenue in another major market is affected due…
🔥 Discover this must-read post from Business News đź“– đź“‚ Category: đź’ˇ Key idea: Eli Lilly & Co. logo. At the company's Digital Health Innovation Center in Singapore, on Thursday, November 14, 2024.Ore Huying | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesEli Lilly She said Thursday that the closely watched obesity pill helped patients keep off the majority of the weight they lost after they switched directly from taking the company's Zepbound injections and Novo NordiskWegovy was shot by his rival late in the trial. The company also said it has applied for FDA approval for its daily GLP-1 pill, called orforglipron, to…
✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: 📌 Main takeaway: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work 18th December 2025 In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of LLM tool, who deposits giant, untested PRs on their coworkers—or open source maintainers—and expects the “code review” process to handle the rest. This is rude, a waste of other people’s time, and is honestly a dereliction of duty as a software developer.…
đź’Ą Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Television,Artificial intelligence (AI),Trade unions,Film,Hugh Bonneville,Adrian Lester,Harriet Walter,Culture,Stage,Technology,Television & radio đź’ˇ Main takeaway: Actors voted to reject digital scanning to prevent AI from using their images in the fight against AI in the arts.Members of performing arts union Equity were asked whether they would refuse to be scanned while on set, a common practice by which photographs of actors are taken for future use - with 99% voting in favor of the move.Secretary General, Paul Fleming, said: “Artificial intelligence is the challenge that defines our generation. For the…
🚀 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ Category: AI,Startups,menlo ventures,CapitalG,vibe coding,Lovable 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Swedish programming startup Lovable has more than tripled in value in just five months. Stockholm-based Lovable said Thursday it has raised $330 million in a Series B funding round led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures, at a valuation of $6.6 billion. Khosla Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and other investors also participated. The raise comes just months after Lovable raised a $200 million Series A round that valued the company at $1.8 billion in July. One of the quickest companies to capitalize…
✨ Read this insightful post from Business News đź“– đź“‚ Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Chipotle will debut its high-protein menu on Tuesday, Dec. 23, with items ranging from 15 to 81 grams of protein per item.Source: Chipotle Mexican GrillChipotle Mexican Grill It is in the field of snacks.The fast-casual giant announced Thursday that it will roll out its first-ever "high-protein menu" later this month, featuring quick protein cups. Starting Tuesday, customers in the U.S. and Canada can purchase a 4-ounce serving filled with chicken or steak adobo.The move is designed to revitalize demand as the chain known for…
🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: âś… Main takeaway: Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites — are now configured to redirect visitors to sites that foist scams and malware. A lookalike domain to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center website, returned a non-threatening parking page (left) whereas a mobile user was instantly directed to…
✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Television,Television & radio,Blue Peter,Culture,Life and style,Sophie Ellis-Bextor,Children's TV,Atheism,Religion,UK news âś… Here’s what you’ll learn: CAnnette Ellis is exactly as you might remember her from her days as a Blue Peter presenter: impish movements, lively eyes and a piercing side that could smell bullshit a mile away but wouldn't be rude to mention. She lives in London with her 21-year-old grandson and a cute Italian girl named Angela, who follows her everywhere. The dog is a surprise, it is the size of a horse. It adds an element…
🚀 Read this must-read post from Business News đź“– đź“‚ Category: âś… Key idea: Olive Garden restaurant in Milpitas, California, United States, on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDarden Restaurants On Thursday, it reported strong sales growth, helped by demand at Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse.For the second straight quarter, the company raised its full-year revenue growth forecast, though it only reiterated its earnings forecast. “The second quarter exceeded our expectations, with every segment achieving positive same-restaurant sales,” Darden CEO Rick Cardenas said in a statement.The company's shares rose more than 4% in pre-market…
đź’Ą Read this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: đź’ˇ Here’s what you’ll learn: When it comes to fighting climate change, you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Under the Trump administration, U.S. efforts to track planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions face an existential threat, but that isn’t stopping one team of researchers from producing this essential data. In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature Scientific Data, the team presented findings from the fourth version of Vulcan, a dataset that captures every source of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion across the United States at an…
