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A workplace advice piece outlines three specific skills leaders can develop to improve their 'executive presence' during presentations and meetings. The analysis argues that vague feedback about lacking presence often masks concrete, addressable gaps in preparation, delivery and body language rather than an innate personal trait.
At its first Config event in India, Figma introduced Figma Specs, a Markdown-based editor that lets teams define design language and guidelines as a reference for both humans and AI agents. The company also moved its code layers feature, which adds code to canvas designs for interactive prototypes, from private to public beta, and announced integration with the Payload content management system.
A developer released Flipflop, an open-source tool that creates a persistent trusted tunnel between two or more devices, allowing files, links and text to be sent between them at any time. It works over Bluetooth, LAN, or the internet using the iroh networking library, with builds available for Linux, macOS, Windows and Android.
Elevation Lab has discontinued the AirTag silencing tool it recently launched, which was designed to mute the tracker's alert sounds. The company says it built the product to quiet AirTags on expensive bikes, but has since recognized it could be misused to track people without triggering phone notifications. Elevation Lab states it holds a patent on the device and will use it to block others from producing similar products.
The UK's Legal Aid Agency said further analysis of an April 2025 breach found that roughly 250,000 stolen records predate 2007, with the earliest verified record from 1978. Most stolen data covers applications, claims and payments from January 2007 to May 2025, but the agency confirmed a smaller, older trove was also taken. The agency had previously disclosed theft of applicant and provider data including contact details, national ID numbers, criminal history, financial information and portal credentials.
Anthropic disclosed to investors that its third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion, up from $11.6 billion in Q2 and $4.7 billion in Q1, according to people familiar with the matter. The company said it was profitable on an adjusted basis and cash-flow positive, generating $1.70 in revenue for every dollar spent on computing power, with an IPO reportedly expected in November.
Anthropic reportedly briefed prospective investors in San Francisco that its revenue rose 45% to $16.8bn in the three months ending September, up from $11.6bn in the prior quarter and $4.7bn at the start of the year. The AI company, maker of Claude, is said to have posted a profit for a second consecutive quarter as it prepares for a stock market listing expected before year-end.
Educational and library groups submitted comments to the FCC opposing a proposal from Chairman Brendan Carr to potentially limit or sunset E-Rate, the $2 billion annual program that subsidizes internet access for schools and libraries. Carr, who led a 2-1 vote in June to open the rulemaking, has argued the program expanded beyond its original purpose and criticized schools for increasing student screen time. The American Library Association contends the FCC lacks authority to end the congressionally mandated program and lacks expertise to regulate screen time.
Future of Cancer Care Today has introduced a single standing authorization form that US patients can use to request or direct release of their medical records, imaging files, lab and genomic data, and available tissue to recipients of their choice. The form specifies the patient's information, any personal representative's authority, and the releasing institutions, and covers materials including pathology slides, tissue blocks, blood, plasma and bone marrow samples across all dates of treatment. The organization is inviting patients and data-holding institutions to use the form and provide feedback.
Police in Cologne, Germany, are investigating an incident in which a robot allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl inappropriately. Authorities are examining whether two teenagers were remotely operating the machine at the time of the alleged assault.
The developer behind the iTerm2-Color-Schemes GitHub repository has launched TerminalThemes.com, a web application offering over 800 terminal themes with downloads in nearly 40 formats including iTerm, Ghostty and Windows. The site is free to browse and download without an account, while registered users can vote, bookmark and submit themes.
A programmer who worked on animation systems for the cancelled open-world title 'This is Vegas' at Surreal Software (Midway Seattle) around 2010 describes a memory management technique called a stack allocator, also known as a bump allocator. The method pre-allocates a fixed block of memory and uses a simple integer pointer to track allocation and deallocation, replacing costly dynamic memory calls that had become a profiling bottleneck in per-frame animation blending.