The death of the $8 coffee! As pricey Starbucks scales back, $2 java jolts from Chinese coffee giants are the hot new NYC way to wake up

New Yorkers tired of being overcharged for coffee are turning away from Starbucks and other increasingly pricey shops — ...
The Guardian Nigeria

When random isn’t really random: The science of digital chance

An explainer on how pseudo-random number generators shape outcomes in online games and why digital chance is not truly random.
InfoQ

OpenAI Codex-Spark Achieves Ultra-Fast Coding Speeds on Cerebras Hardware

In a major shift in its hardware strategy, OpenAI launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first production AI model deployed on ...
ADTmag

Catching Up with GraalVM: When “Faster Java” Turns into Patch Tuesday—and a Clean Break with Intel Macs

The story of GraalVM in early 2026: a project settling into a quarterly cadence, tightening its support matrix, and—thanks to Oracle—being very explicit about what it is no longer going to be.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (CDNS) Presents at Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference 2026 Transcript

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. ( CDNS) Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference 2026 March 4, 2026 5:35 PM EST Okay. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to San Francisco. We're on the stage ...
AOL

The Secret Endgame Connections You Missed In The Avengers: Doomsday Trailers

With "Avengers: Doomsday" set to premiere on December 18, there are still many months to go before we find out all the secrets the movie is hiding. It may be even longer before we decipher all the ...
The New York Times

Seven People Died at Private Homes in N.Y.C. Cold Snap, Officials Say

It was not immediately clear whether any of the buildings in question had faulty heating systems. By Mihir Zaveri and Dana Rubinstein The known death toll resulting from the brutal cold snap that has ...