Weekend reading: Are you positively giddy with the FTSE’s excitement going into 2026?

What caught my eye this week. Despite all the noise about US mega-cap tech shares and the gloom around the moribund UK economy, London’s FTSE 100 index beat the hallowed US markets in 2025: Source: Google Finance These figures don’t even include dividends. Adding them in would favour the FTSE further, with its higher yield. […]

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2025 Investing Lessons – A Wealth of Common Sense

Finance content is seasonal. Tax stuff in the spring. Earnings coverage is once a quarter. Someone is contractually obligated to write a Sell in May blog post that month every year. Right now it’s a combination of look-backs and look-forwards. It’s outlook season for the upcoming year — biggest risks, opportunities, price targets, etc. for 2026. […]

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Why 2026 smartphones won’t have this game-changing camera tech

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Modern smartphone cameras are impressive beasts, as many camera phones combine cutting-edge hardware with advanced image processing capabilities. Some of the more notable innovations in recent years include periscope cameras, 200MP sensors, and all-pixel autofocus. However, one of my favorite hardware features arrived in 2022: one-inch camera sensors. Unfortunately, adoption […]

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The most dangerous shortcuts in software

January 2, 2026 Ryan sits down with Tom Totenberg, head of release automation at LaunchDarkly, to discuss the perils of taking too many shortcuts in software development, how business pressures and AI code tools have contributed to dangerous corner cutting, and the importance of balancing speed with sustainability to maintain system integrity. Source link

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A Complete API For Fetching Search Engine Data — Smashing Magazine

From competitive SEO research and monitoring prices to training AI and parsing local geographic data, real-time search results power smarter apps. Tools like SerpApi make it easy to pull, customize, and integrate this data directly into your app or website. SerpApi leverages the power of search engine giants, like Google, DuckDuckGo, Baidu, and more, to […]

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Even as global crop prices fall, India’s Arya.ag is attracting investors — and staying profitable

Arya.ag, an Indian agritech company offering storage facilities near farms and offering lending services to hundreds of thousands of farmers, has drawn investor interest and remained profitable even as global crop prices continue to fall in a volatile commodities market. The investor interest has taken shape in the latest all-equity Series D round from GEF […]

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How To Minimize The Environmental Impact Of Your Website — Smashing Magazine

As responsible digital professionals, we are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental impact of our work and need to find effective and pragmatic ways to reduce it. James Chudley shares a new decarbonising approach that will help you to minimise the environmental impact of your website, benefiting people, profit, purpose, performance, and the planet. Climate […]

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GhostAd Drain, macOS Attacks, Proxy Botnets, Cloud Exploits, and 12+ Stories

Jan 01, 2026Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News The first ThreatsDay Bulletin of 2026 lands on a day that already feels symbolic — new year, new breaches, new tricks. If the past twelve months taught defenders anything, it’s that threat actors don’t pause for holidays or resolutions. They just evolve faster. This week’s round-up shows how […]

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