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In 2017, Emily Olson, a stay-at-home mom based in Boulder, Colorado, started selling prints and custom-made puppy portraits on Etsy.Her watercolors were simple and relatively cheap—images of saucer-eyed corgis and malamutes in mini-tuxes, which she sold for $75 to $300 each—but dog owners adored them: “They were a labor of love,” she says. In 2021, she says she made more than $40,000 off her Etsy store, and her social media following ballooned to 180,000 followers on YouTube.But in 2022, she noticed something odd: Her sales started precipitously declining. Competitors flooded the platform, and she kept finding copies of her work…

The math on solar panels is getting tougher.President Trump ended the federal tax credit last year, but the story goes back further than that. Over the last decade, more than a third of U.S. states have changed their rules to allow utilities to pay homeowners less for the energy they send to the grid.In some places, those changes have reduced savings for homeowners by hundreds or thousands of dollars each year, making solar a less appealing investment and dealing a blow to the industry.The changes all spin out from a simple fact: Solar generates most of its power in the…

To the sailors recruited from India, it was just another job. But the ship they boarded was a shadow fleet tanker destined for a war zone.The Settebello had spent at least five years moving Iranian oil that was under U.S. sanctions, often disguising its location, according to a maritime tracking firm. It hid again in early June in the Gulf of Oman, east of the Strait of Hormuz, where it loaded fuel from other ships at sea.On the morning of June 10, it became a target of the U.S. Navy.Shortly after 7 a.m., U.S. missiles blasted into the engine room…

The World Cup is over but there are still more than six weeks to go in the transfer window. Here are 58 players to keep an eye on for the rest of the summer.Julian Alvarez Barcelona are desperate to sign the forward, but Atletico Madrid insist there will be no sale. The 26-year-old says he wants to leave – and his preference is Barca. Arsenal are keen and will be watching on closely. His contract includes a £426m release clause. Image: Barcelona and Arsenal are interested in Julian Alvarez Carlos BalebaManchester United are looking to add a third midfielder, who…

Researchers at Sysdig have linked a second attack on the same Langflow server to JADEPUFFER, the AI-agent-driven operator it first documented earlier this month. The same operator has now been spotted deploying ENCFORGE, a new compiled Go ransomware designed to encrypt model weights, vector indexes, training datasets, and other AI infrastructure files across the host filesystem. The entry point did not change. Langflow versions before 1.3.0 expose the /api/v1/validate/code endpoint without authentication, allowing any remote attacker to execute arbitrary Python on the server. The flaw, CVE-2025-3248, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 and has been in CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities…

An Australian woman gave birth last week to naturally conceived identical quadruplet girls who shared one placenta after splitting from one fertilized egg, in what doctors described as an extremely rare event.The woman, Jenitar Sau Na’amoana, 34, and her husband Jortham, have four children aged from 1 to 10, and had not planned on having any more, the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, where she gave birth, said in a statement on Monday. They were surprised to find they had naturally conceived the quadruplets, the hospital said. And the surprises kept coming.Alexa Bendall, the hospital’s maternal fetal medicine specialist and…

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is designing a new server chip to help its in-house Gemini models operate more efficiently. The new chip, internally dubbed “Frozen v2,” is slated to be released sometime in 2028, The Information reported, citing anonymous sources. According to the report, the chip could be between six and 10 times more efficient than Google’s existing AI chips, measured by the number of tokens generated per unit of power. In a response to TechCrunch, the company didn’t directly confirm the report. It didn’t deny it either. “Our teams are constantly researching and experimenting with new innovations to deliver…

rawintanpin/iStock via Getty Images Beyond the AI Boom In the second quarter, the stock market resumed its uptrend after a sharp 1Q decline triggered by the war in Iran. Market returns continued to be dominated by AI-related technology stocks as the S&P 500 gained 15.2%. Our equity funds delivered positive returns but trailed the index, not fully participating in the narrow, AI-driven market leadership (see our Quarterly Commentaries for fund-specific information). The brightest stars of the “AI trade” were computer chips, both processing and memory. The SOX Semiconductor Index rose 88% in the quarter and 101% in the first half.…

After joining Amazon as a product leader in 2022, I saw a series of layoffs and return-to-office mandates over the following three years that made any semblance of presence in home life impossible. The tech industry layoffs disproportionately impacted women, and the workers that remained struggled in a workplace with lowered morale and increased expectations.  Then I stumbled upon the entrepreneurship through acquisition space. The ETA premise is simple: Rather than founding a company from scratch or climbing someone else’s ladder, you buy an existing, profitable business. {“blockType”:”mv-promo-block”,”data”:{“imageDesktopUrl”:”https:\/\/images.fastcompany.com\/image\/upload\/f_webp,q_auto,c_fit\/wp-cms-2\/2026\/07\/p-1-91570281-these-women-moms-ditched-corporate-life-to-buy-their-own-businesses.jpg”,”imageMobileUrl”:”https:\/\/images.fastcompany.com\/image\/upload\/f_webp,q_auto,c_fit\/wp-cms-2\/2026\/07\/p-1-91570281-these-women-moms-ditched-corporate-life-to-buy-their-own-businesses.jpg”,”eyebrow”:””,”headline”:”These moms ditched corporate America to buy their own businesses”,”dek”:””,”subhed”:””,”description”:””,”ctaText”:”Read More”,”ctaUrl”:”https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91570281\/these-moms-ditched-corporate-life-to-buy-their-own-businesses”,”theme”:{“bg”:”#2b2d30″,”text”:”#ffffff”,”eyebrow”:”#9aa2aa”,”subhed”:”#ffffff”,”buttonBg”:”#3b3f46″,”buttonHoverBg”:”#3b3f46″,”buttonText”:”#ffffff”},”imageDesktopId”:91570378,”imageMobileId”:91570378,”shareable”:false,”slug”:””,”wpCssClasses”:””}} I spent…

British No 1 Arthur Fery will head into the American hard-court swing with areas he can improve ahead of the US Open – but that’s “exciting”, says Tim Henman.The wild card’s surprise run to the Wimbledon semi-finals has injected a much-needed shot of positivity and given British fans a new name to follow in the Grand Slams – starting at the US Open in New York – live on Sky Sports Tennis from August 30. The challenge for the 24-year-old now is to acclimatise to his new standing in the game and the loss of anonymity and the freedom that…