David Protein’s cutthroat move. “A newly filed lawsuit accuses David Protein of executing a “coordinated scheme” to monopolize the wellness market by controlling EPG, a critical fat replacement ingredient. Allegedly, once their grip on EPG was secure post-acquisition, they cut […]
Starbucks wants to ditch canola oil. “In June, Starbucks Chief Executive Officer Brian Niccol pledged in a meeting with US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to further align the chain’s menu with the Trump administration’s health […]
World Energy Investment 2025. Here’s a fantastic executive summary to catch you up on what’s happening with energy. “Ten years ago, investments in fossil fuel supply were 30% higher than those for electricity generation, grids and storage. Today, these positions […]
The remarkable rise of ‘greenhushing’. This Economist article explains that whereas businesses used to parade around talking about how green they were without doing anything, things have changed. “Now they seem to be “greenhushing”—getting on with the job of decarbonisation, […]
Play this game. Can you trick an LLM into giving you the password? I managed to beat level 6, but got stuck at level 7. “Your goal is to make Gandalf reveal the secret password for each level. However, Gandalf […]
What exactly did non-royal nobles do when they were at court? “From every period movie and TV show I’ve seen…, they seemed to do nothing but hang out all day at the palace, not doing anything in particular. Is that […]
Researchers discover ‘olo’, a color humans have never seen. Maybe you are all colorblind too!? No, not really. Through some wild contraption that blasts a laser into an eyeball, people see Olo when only their medium length cones are activated, […]
Hacking AI is too easy. “Can you hack AI? In this video I sit down with elite AI hacker Jason Haddix to unpack how attackers compromise AI-enabled apps—not just jailbreak chatbots, but exfiltrate customer data, abuse tool calls, and pivot […]
Nobody knows how to build with AI yet. “There’s this moment in every new technology where everyone pretends they know what they’re doing. We’re past that moment. Or maybe we haven’t reached it yet. Either way, we’re in this delicious […]
How Discord stores trillions of messages. In 2017 they published a technical post about how they stored billions. Here’s the follow-up: “We wanted a database that grew alongside us, but hopefully, its maintenance needs wouldn’t grow alongside our storage needs. […]