Jeff Layfield and his wife, Mamiko, left Hawaii to retire in Japan.Provided by Jaff Layfield.Jeff Layfield and his wife, Mamiko, left Hawaii and retired on Suo-Oshima, an island in Japan.They bought one of Japan's vacant homes, known as an akiya, for about $25,000."In most places in the US, we'd have to live in a very rural area for me to be able to afford a home," Layfield said.Jeff Layfield spent years imagining where in the US he and his wife would retire after leaving Hawaii.
Nicolás Ortega for BIThere's been endless discussion about AI changing the workplace. One job has felt it to the core: coding.Business Insider set out to understand exactly how deep this transformation was, for better and worse — and often both.We wanted to talk with engineers about their feelings and experiences: the excitement and trepidation, their day-to-day work, and career outlook. Was AI making them more productive?
Zach Golden wrote the theme song for this year's World Cup.Courtesy of Zach GoldenZach Golden is a 37-year-old creative director at UMPG Audio Branding.He led the composition of the theme song for the FIFA World Cup 2026.The goal was to make listeners feel as if they were at the stadium, watching the game in person.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Zach Golden.
The year is only halfway through, yet 2026 has already been filled with data breaches, hacks, and cybersecurity incidents.So let's take a look back at the biggest cybersecurity breaches of 2026 so far. Mashable has picked the six most impactful incidents. There's likely lessons to be learned in order to protect yourself for the rest of the year.Here they are, in no particular order.Grand Theft Auto VI fans and Rockstar GamesGTA 6, the most anticipated video game for the past decade, will finally be released this year.
The year is only halfway through, yet 2026 has already been filled with data breaches, hacks, and cybersecurity incidents.So let's take a look back at the biggest cybersecurity breaches of 2026 so far. Mashable has picked the six most impactful incidents. There's likely lessons to be learned in order to protect yourself for the rest of the year.Here they are, in no particular order.Grand Theft Auto VI fans and Rockstar GamesGTA 6, the most anticipated video game for the past decade, will finally be released this year.
Priyanka Devi Ramesh (left), Iren Azra Zou (center), and Udit Mehrotra (right) say many common assumptions about working in tech miss the mark.Priyanka Devi Ramesh (left), Iren Azra Zou (center), and Udit Mehrotra (right)Business Insider asked six tech workers about the biggest misconceptions in the industry.Workers challenged assumptions about AI, Big Tech, and what their jobs actually involve.Some said AI has changed the nature of tech work — but not in the ways many people think.If you ask tech workers what people misunderstand about working in their industry, they'll tell you — plenty.In interviews with Business Insider, tech professionals from companies including Amazon, Google, and Snap challenged assumptions that their jobs are mostly coding, that AI has made their work easier, and that Big Tech is the only worthwhile career path.
The author said she didn't take piano lessons as a child, but is enjoying learning alongside her own children now.Courtesy of Saba Khonsari.I didn't take piano lessons as a kid, but wanted my kids to learn an instrument.My oldest fell in love with the piano, and soon after, I started taking lessons, too.My grandmother is a pianist. As often happens, the pendulum swung the other way with my mom, who neither had an interest in taking piano lessons nor in making her kids do so.
When Databricks claimed to have cracked an age-old database problem, it came with a clear marketing message: "One data, zero compromises, zero copies." Inevitably, that led engineers to search for clarity. After all, the company claimed to have unified OLTP and OLAP with "no data duplication." Databricks, which was founded around the open source unified analytics engine Apache Spark, called its invention LTAP, which stands for lake transactional/analytical processing.
Meta is recovering DDR4 memory from old servers, installing it in new machines, and using a custom Compute Express Link (CXL) ASIC to share the memory across applications – without encountering latency problems. The social networking giant calls its tech "Vistara" and will present it at ISCA 2026 on Monday, but The Register found the company's paper ahead of the talk. Our sister site, Blocks and Files, also happens to have reported on this on Friday.
It's back! After Donald Trump shuttered the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate.gov website in 2025, cutting off public access to its 15-year archive of climate information, former members of the site's team have brought much of it back at a new domain. “Trusted climate information should not disappear when politics change,” Climate.us managing director Rebecca Lindsey said of the new platform in a press release.
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