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I'm deeply skeptical of anyone who calls themselves an expert in the metaverse,

Those words, from a Senior Director of Product Design, brought to mind an old Aesop fable. A father is trying to get his sons to stop arguing, so he hands them a bundle of sticks and asks them to break it. They try, but they can't. Then he unties the bundle and asks them to break each stick individually. They snap them in half, one by one. Moral of the story? Individually weak, together strong.

Wiz Security's research team identified that a subset of repositories configured regular expressions for AWS CodeBuild webhook filters intended to limit trusted actor IDs, but these filters were insufficient, allowing a predictably acquired actor ID to gain administrative permissions. The four affected repositories that put the AWS Console supply chain at risk were the AWS SDK for JavaScript v3, the general-purpose cryptographic library aws-lc, amazon-corretto-crypto-provider, and awslabs/open-data-registry, a repository of publicly available datasets accessible from AWS resources.

Conservative newspaper the Daily Mail enlisted a top creative agency to help position it as a 'powerful positive force'. Many titles are embracing marketing to sell subscriptions and alter perceptions, but the 124-year-old title's efforts inspired a bit more attention. The paper's detractors, to put it kindly, made sure I knew how difficult a brief the agency had. Expletives were shared. Some questioned why the newspaper was even 'platformed' by The Drum. It's a brand that stirs strong emotion...

As explains, "if you are late for work, do some work from home, or do anything on Teams and Outlook from any network that is not your organization's, your employer would know about this. This obviously did not sit well with workers who either work in hybrid setups or do not appreciate this type of invasion of privacy."

The imperative for brands to reflect this rich tapestry of diversity in their content has never been more critical. In the contemporary corporate landscape, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) are not merely buzzwords but foundational elements of a robust business strategy, extending beyond workplace practices to the core of brand identity. The resonance of content - including marketing campaigns, social media engagement, and product design - with a diverse audience is pivotal.

Both YouTube's size and its ability to distract are a result of its most important feature - that it allows anyone to become a broadcaster. Because of this strategy, and the digital media revolution in general, there has been a shift in how we all consume media over the past few years. For example, with regards to broadcast media, CNN has 61,000 subscribers on YouTube, yet the otherwise unknown Young Turks news channel (the bombastic, longest standing all online American politics show),

With 12 years' heritage in AI as well as multiple patents granted and pending, LoopMe is at the forefront of applying AI to advertising. As the first to apply AI to brand advertising solutions, LoopMe has long been at the cutting edge of bringing the power of this technology to solve industry challenges. The AI Academy builds on LoopMe's commitment to making AI accessible to all through education and provides an opportunity to share its expertise with the wider industry.

An Instagram post from the official Marie Callender's social media account shares a video of "THE Kahlua Cream Cheese Pie!" being made, describing a "Velvety cream cheese pie with a chocolate cookie crust," infused with coffee liqueur. Fans in the comments section rave, "My favorite pie!," "The best pie," and "YES!! YES!! YES!!" Others lament the pie's limited availability, which seems to come and go just as the brick-and-mortar restaurant locations do.

With Jose Altuve, Jeremy Pena, Isaac Paredes, Carlos Correa, and Christian Walker all vying for playing time, not to mention Yordan Alvarez manning DH, it's a difficult puzzle to tackle. " We have to be creative," manager Joe Espada told reporters, including Chandler Rome of The Athletic. " And I have to find ways to get them all in the lineup and keep everyone healthy."

bell hooks saved me. I say that in all sincerity. At a critical time in my life, when I was at my lowest point, it was bell hooks, through her books, who pulled me out of a hole of profound depression and set me on a path of self-renewal on which I have remained ever since. Newly divorced with two very young sons, I was determined to give a better fatherhood experience than the one I had.

Kate Lister is a widely recognized thought leader on trends that are changing the who, what, when, where, why, and how of work. As the founder of Global Workplace Analytics, she has been helping organizations understand, pilot, scale, and optimize their workplace strategies and work practices for nearly two decades. Kate was one of only three witnesses invited to testify before a U.S. Senate committee regarding the post-pandemic potential for distributed work in government.

The history of winemaking in Oregon dates back over 150 years, but it wasn't until the 1960s that things really started to take off. The state - particularly the Willamette Valley region - became known for producing pinot noir, and more vineyards were planted to expand the local wine industry. While California produces the lion's share of American wine, Oregon is still considered a leader in the domestic industry, ranking fourth nationally for wine production by volume.

The English language is a marvelous thing. In just the past few years, we've been treated to the invention of words or terms that have captured new technologies or given voice to how it feels to be alive in 2026: rage bait, rizz, slop, hard pants, nepo baby, brain rot. But occasionally, new phrases arise that describe something much older-perhaps even ancient-to which no one has given a name.

This week has seen another wave of appointments and departures at brands, media owners and agencies. The Drum has rounded up the key moves from the EMEA, APAC and North America regions below. This week includes moves from Smart Energy, The Open University, McDonald's Vice, and Walgreens. Smart Energy Gavin Sheppard, chief marketing officer at Smart Energy GB, the government-backed joint venture of the British Energy industry, is to step down at the end of this year.

In the past six months two of the world's highest spending advertisers have come to the same radical solution to their marketing problems; that to survive in world where ad blocking is rising while attention spans dwindle they must now be in the business of creating content that is so good that they can actually sell it. PepsiCo's marketing boss predicts that the days of paying any and all platforms to shove adverts down people's throats are quickly drawing to a close.

So when Brooklyn Beckham began to speak openly about his relationship with his celebrity parents, former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and her spouse, pro-soccer player David Beckham, I related to his accounts of family dysfunction, toxicity, and desire to be done with the drama. But what I related to most was how long it took him to come forward. At 26 years old, he's only just beginning to speak openly about his experiences with his parents.

If built, the West London Orbital would link up parts of north and west London. By repurposing an old freight rail line that hasn't carried passengers since 1902, the new line would connect Hounslow to Hendon and West Hampstead via Old Oak Common. If approved, it would become the seventh branch of the Overground network.

They kept hearing about American Pie and pie and [asking], 'Daddy, what do you do with the pie?' and I had to have a conversation with my oldest,

The Realme 16 Pro+ flaunts a 200MP main camera (1/1.56", OIS) and a 50MP 3.5x periscope (1/2.76", f/2.8, OIS), plus an 8MP ultra-wide camera and a 50MP selfie module. It's not perfect (video stabilization and ultra-wide videos in particular being substandard), but it is better than most mid-range phones - many of which don't even have a dedicated telephoto camera.