Technology

Why More Backtesting Can Make Your Trading Strategy Worse

Why More Backtesting Can Make Your Trading Strategy Worse

Two people showed me a strategy in the same week. The first had never tested his — he read about the setup, it made sense to him, and he funded the account on Monday. The second had a spreadsheet with 380 backtests in it and he was proud…

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Productivity: A Mismatch Made in Corporate America

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Productivity: A Mismatch Made in Corporate America

Productivity—it’s quite the buzzword these days. Popular podcasts are built entirely around the topic, and the corporate world has gone mad trying to measure it in its employees. That is a large reason why people use AI—it has been touted…

GitHub Flagged Me High Risk. The Pattern Was Right, the Intent Was Wrong

GitHub Flagged Me High Risk. The Pattern Was Right, the Intent Was Wrong

On 2 August 2026 I opened a pull request to github/awesome-copilot and GitHub's Agent Governance Toolkit flagged my account HIGH risk. The signals were recent_repo_burst (29 repos in 90 days), awesome_fork_burst (15 awesome-list forks in…

Drone with explosive device found at German airport, detonator removed

The Hindu

Drone with explosive device found at German airport, detonator removed

Meanwhile, an apparent second flying object collided with a freight airplane after it aborted a landing because the runway was closed, police and prosecutors said

The Hindu

Elon Musk is not pleased with Mamdani's grocery stores idea, calls him 'a thief'

Times of India

Elon Musk is not pleased with Mamdani's grocery stores idea, calls him 'a thief'

Elon Musk criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's grocery store proposal. He believes AI and robots will eventually offer cheaper goods and services. The city plans five grocery stores, aiming for significant shopper savings…

Times of India

RNZ

The trade-off between te reo Māori and big tech companies

One professor says Māori place names have been "bastardised" for years, and AI tools may start correcting that.

RNZ

TikTok is laying off 250 employees in its Nashville office

Straits Times

TikTok is laying off 250 employees in its Nashville office

The office was home to members of the app’s content moderation team.

Straits Times

Facebook isn't just giving these agitators a platform: it's paying them

Facebook isn't just giving these agitators a platform: it's paying them

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.

Trading Discipline Fails When Stress Rewrites Your Judgment

Trading Discipline Fails When Stress Rewrites Your Judgment

Seventeen traders on a City of London floor spat into test tubes twice a day for eight days. Eleven in the morning, four in the afternoon. Not the most glamorous research design ever approved. What John Coates and Joe Herbert found…

Remotely Controlling Google Slides Without an Official API

Remotely Controlling Google Slides Without an Official API

I’m a big fan of Google Slides. As someone who often helps out with multimedia at events, I much prefer receiving Google Slides over a PowerPoint file. This is for two main reasons. For one, it’s so much easier to collaborate with. The…

Explosive-laden drone found at German airport hosting Ukrainian fleet

Al Jazeera

Explosive-laden drone found at German airport hosting Ukrainian fleet

German authorities are investigating how a drone packed with explosives reached Leipzig/Halle Airport.

Al Jazeera

Extra fingers and too much detail: Rise in AI-generated tattoo requests

Extra fingers and too much detail: Rise in AI-generated tattoo requests

Tattoo artists are concerned about customers increasingly requesting designs based on AI-generated images, which they say often contain errors and set "unrealistic expectations".