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Ivy Coach, a college admissions consultancy, reports that many prospective clients fail to notice or retain crucial information like pricing, even when it's clearly stated in emails and consultations. The company outlines strategies such as repeating key facts, using visual emphasis, short paragraphs, and verbal reinforcement to ensure important details actually register with recipients.
A freelance professional shares advice on ending client relationships gracefully, drawing from personal experience of leaving a steady gig due to disagreement with the company's public stances. The piece emphasizes that maintaining professionalism during an exit is crucial since the freelance/solo work community is tightly interconnected.
An entrepreneur with over 15 years running a public relations firm outlines five practical habits for scaling a business without letting customer service quality slip. The core recommendation is treating business development as a scheduled, recurring task rather than an afterthought squeezed in during slow periods.
Revolut disclosed that it inadvertently sent personal and financial data of some customers to a threat actor who impersonated a government agency using an authenticated domain. The leaked data reportedly includes identity documents, selfies, account statements, IBAN numbers, and transaction histories, including Bitcoin transactions. Revolut says the breach affects a limited but undisclosed number of accounts and that customer funds remain unaffected.
Anthropic has published instructions for managing Claude's memory feature, which organizes saved information by topic and can be edited or deleted through the web client at claude.ai or the mobile app. The company also introduced an 'Include sensitive topics in memory' setting, since Claude normally avoids storing details about health, race, religion, politics or gender identity unless a user opts in.
Google's Android 17 release becomes the first mobile OS to support Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), a TLS feature that hides the destination website names during connection setup, preventing ISPs and network snoopers from seeing which sites users visit. The update also lets carriers disable 2G connections on devices, cutting off a common vector for malicious SMS-blaster attacks, alongside stricter local-network permissions and default Certificate Transparency.
Independent consultants report that client attitudes toward AI have evolved rapidly since ChatGPT's debut, moving from outright bans to conditional acceptance for speeding up certain tasks. Solopreneurs are now expected to clarify their own AI practices and ensure they match what clients expect or permit.
Google detailed further network security changes coming with Android 17, including support for the Encrypted Client Hello protocol that encrypts DNS server lookups, a feature letting carriers automatically block low-security 2G connections used in SMS Blaster spam attacks, and restrictions preventing apps from scanning home networks for vulnerable devices. The update also builds on previously announced Certificate Transparency enforcement to ensure phones connect using legitimate SSL certificates.
Google has built Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) directly into Android 17, making it the first major mobile operating system to support the standard at the platform level and turning it on by default. ECH hides the specific website or domain a device is connecting to, so internet providers can only see the content delivery network being used, not the actual destination. Alphabet's Jigsaw division, which developed the feature, says it addresses a long-standing gap in HTTPS privacy protections.
Google's next Android release will support Encrypted Client Hello, a TLS extension that encrypts the hostname portion of the connection handshake so it can no longer be read in plain text. Paired with private DNS, this stops internet providers and Wi-Fi operators from easily seeing which sites or apps a device is contacting. The feature will be on by default for apps targeting Android 17 that use updated networking libraries like OkHttp, WebView, or HttpEngine.
Businesses are increasingly asking to automate workflows or build apps and agents using no-code tools, driven by how easy it now is to spin up software. Yet many teams jump into building without first mapping requirements, ownership or long-term maintenance needs.
A developer detailed a step-by-step process for running a personal website on OpenBSD hosted on DigitalOcean, using the platform's custom image upload feature to install OpenBSD's miniroot image and configuring the server with httpd and Let's Encrypt for HTTPS. The setup costs about $4.24 per month after tax, positioned as an alternative to free static hosting services like GitHub Pages or Cloudflare Pages.