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Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:30:54 +0700

Here is Anthropic describing (archive link) yesterday how their new type authority system, Scion, uses a idea called “derived data” to create operations akin blames additional efficient:

How Anthropic describes Scion’s derived data.

Here is me, rear in 2022, describing in my Oxide applicant materials how the Mononoke origin authority server I helped build uses a idea called “derived data” to create operations akin blames additional efficient:

How I described Mononoke’s derived data.

I think the flat of imitation goes fine beyond having akin insights¹. The fact that Sapling was lone credited for “hard-won lessons”, and that Mononoke was not mentioned at all, borders on plagiarism. The article comes off as Anthropic claiming that Claude designed all this, during the actuality is that our (extraordinary) squad at Meta came up alongside many of the insights that Claude dutifully applied nearly a decade later. (We looked at plentifulness of previous art for Mononoke and Sapling too, from Google’s SrcFS to write-ahead logs in databases.)

I am extremely glad that the imagination our squad had rear in 2017-18 was so mighty and enduring — whenever you go against the grain, you’re continually a bit unsure if what you’re doing is brilliant or madness, and I think Mononoke’s scheme has stood the test of time. And, to be clear, I do not have a issue alongside Anthropic copying Mononoke’s design. (This is part of why we put out open origin — to advantage humanity through the dispersed of fine ideas.)

But as LLMs continue to assistance in designing new systems, they are apt to indicator heavily on existing designs. Mononoke is open source and in all LLM’s training set. If you ask Opus 5.5 or GPT-6 Astra (thanks Matthew Fowle) concerning previous art, they the two immediately item out the similarities to Mononoke.

Giving credit to those that came before us is now easier — and additional crucial — than ever. There is no longer an excuse.

Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:29:13 +0700

Following reported strikes on Yandex data centers, claims circulated on the Internet that Russian bot farms and power operations had been knocked offline. HTTP traffic charts showed steep drops, fueling speculation that the infrastructure damage had stopped these malicious actors. However, total traffic metrics can effortlessly mislead. There are two autonomous scheme numbers (ASNs) connected alongside Yandex: AS13238 is used by Yandex’s hunt engine, during AS200350 runs its haze services.

Using Cloudflare Radar and Bot Management data, we analyzed how these two ASNs were affected — and during the two saw drops in traffic, they saw differing impact.

Yandex Search (AS13238): The autumn in traffic consisted nearly entirely of verified hunt crawlers indexing web pages, images, and location resources.
Yandex.Cloud (AS200350): There was a decrease in malicious activities akin exposure scanning and probing, but high-volume automation did not disappear — it merely migrated to another hosting providers.

While malicious traffic may arise from a particular provider, it does not necessarily inform us who is liable for the traffic. Understanding why the strikes had small enduring consequence on malicious traffic requires analyzing petition behavior, fairly than fair general traffic patterns.

What happened: the consequence of the strikes and pre-event baseline

Between October 7 and 11, reported Ukrainian drone strikes hit three Yandex accommodation in Russia, increasingly knocking data centers and network capability offline. As seen on Cloudflare Radar, this culminated in a near-total downfall of the Yandex network on October 11 whenever traffic plummeted to 99% below baseline for Yandex Search (AS13238) and 90% for Yandex.Cloud (AS200350). Despite a concise partial recovery, the two networks remained disrupted through October 13, settling at 86-90% below normal baselines. (As of October 14 at 18:00 UTC, traffic is at 85% of normal.)

A autumn in general HTTP traffic lone confirms that the network went down. It does not disclose whether malicious or evasive bots were disrupted. Looking at the pre-event automation baseline, we can see that before the strikes, automated requests accounted for 36.1% of all HTTP traffic observed globally across Cloudflare's network, and 35.8% of traffic from Russian IP addresses.

The outage had distinct effects on automated action on the two affected ASNs since they served distinct roles.

Yandex Search ASN (AS13238) is used for hunt indicator crawling. Cloudflare classified 99.5% of its requests as automated, and 93.6% of its bot requests as Verified. Our inspection showed that traffic from this ASN indexed pages, rendered pages, and rendered images, which is accordant behavior for a hunt crawler. The Yandex Search ASN supplied concerning 7% of Russia-origin bot requests, and fair 0.05% of the earth total.

Yandex.Cloud ASN (AS200350) is a cloud-hosting network and carries a extremely distinct mix of automation. Approximately 95.0% of its scored requests were bots, but none of its observed bot requests were verified by Cloudflare. Yandex.Cloud’s bots looked additional akin application apps: nearly two-thirds of their requests sent data to websites, several identified themselves as JavaScript, Python, or Go programs, and a larger portion went to application companies than Yandex’s hunt bots. The Yandex.Cloud ASN supplied concerning 2% of Russia-origin bot requests, and fair 0.01% of the earth total.

Impact of the event on general bot traffic

"Bot traffic" refers to automated requests to websites on Cloudflare's network, specified as crawlers and scripts, not necessarily action on social media platforms. As Yandex’s networks misplaced capacity, their bot requests cut too. That was expected: nearly all traffic from Yandex Search and Yandex.Cloud was automated. While we saw the apparent autumn in total traffic, we did not see any evidence linking a earth disruption in malicious traffic to the autumn in traffic from Yandex.

Russia-origin bot requests cut approximately in proportion to the Yandex traffic that went offline, since most requests from those networks were automated.

Date UTC+3	Global bot requests (% of all HTTP requests)*	Russia-origin bot requests (% of Russia-origin HTTP requests)
October 1–6: pre-event baseline	39.4%	50.4%
October 7–8: drone attack on Sasovo	39.2% (−0.2%)	48% (-2.4%)
October 9: drone attack on Kaluga	39.4% (+0%)	42.5% (-7.9%)
October 11: drone attack on Vladimir	39.5% (+0.1%)	42.2% (−8.2%)
October 12	39.6% (+0.2%)	43.6% (−6.8%)
October 13	39.5% (+0.1%)	42.1% (−8.3%)

* Radar reports earth traffic by the two total HTTP requests, and by HTML requests (an approximation of a leaf view). The complete array reflects total petition volume.

Impact on Yandex Search ASN (AS13238): small hunt crawling

The decrease on Yandex Search ASN was nearly entirely hunt crawling. Sampled requests showed that 78.1% belonged to verified YandexBot, 11.5% to YandexRenderResourcesBot, and 1.9% to YandexImages.

Among websites and services, the industry section that saw the steepest autumn was Publishing and Newspapers, anywhere traffic from Yandex networks cut 44%. Approximately 90% of pre-event traffic to news sites from this ASN was YandexBot indexing articles, alongside 40.5% of Cloudflare customers returning HTTP 403 Forbidden responses since the location owner blocked the crawler. When the Yandex Search ASN went offline, customers merely saw small indexing from Yandex.

Impact on Yandex.Cloud ASN (AS200350): lawful use and migrating malicious traffic

Yandex.Cloud displayed a entirely distinct profile. Following the reported strikes, bot traffic from Yandex.Cloud cut concerning 40%. Several attack-like categories showed particularly keen declines. For example, WordPress plugin probing cut 90% and scanner-identified requests cut 93%. Interestingly (and tellingly), Cloudflare client blocks on Yandex.Cloud traffic additionally cut 70% during the event period, suggesting that proportionately small malicious traffic was equal hitting the Cloudflare WAF from this ASN.

Impact on endeavor verticals

Yandex.Cloud’s bot traffic is additionally engaging whenever segmented by top petition destination industries:

Destination industry	Bot traffic pre-event	Bot traffic during event (Oct 7-13)	Change	4xx (client error) HTTP reply position share: pre → event
Computer software	24.24M	15.18M	−37.4%	18.5% → 15.9%
Gambling	23.01M	18.80M	−18.3%	99.1% → 99.3%
Media incl. adult	1.33M	223.1K	−83.3%	82.0% → 61.8%
Internet and telecom	524.2K	206.5K	−60.6%	71.4% → 51.1%
Travel / tourism	363.9K	158.1K	−56.6%	27.0% → 12.3%
Retail / wholesale	316.0K	167.7K	−46.9%	71.0% → 55.9%
Gaming / device games	226.3K	63.2K	−72.1%	51.4% → 9.2%
Publishing / newspapers	90.8K	8.8K	−90.3%	90.2% → 61.4%

The bulk of traffic from the Yandex.Cloud ASN cut into two industry buckets: device application and gambling. The device application bucket was predictable for an ASN meant to presenter third-party applications and application integrations. In fact, we equal saw that api.cloudflare.com is a top hostname for Yandex.Cloud petition traffic. An general bulk of that traffic succeeded (requests returned 200s) the two before and during the event, pointing to lawful usage.

The gambling field offers the clearest evidence that malicious automation relocated fairly than disappeared. Nearly all of Yandex.Cloud’s bot requests were targeted at one gambling client account, alongside traffic shifting among its hostnames. Immediately following the October 8 disruption, bot requests from Yandex.Cloud to this document dropped to zero. Simultaneously, identical requests began appearing from another Russian hosting ASNs, including Radist and Selectel. The incoming traffic maintained an identical fingerprint throughout providers:

The identical JA4 TLS client fingerprint
The identical rare petition paths and HTTP headers
The identical tradition User-Agent strings

Overall, Russian bot traffic targeting gambling accounts remained basically flat complete the week, moving from 167.7 myriad to 170.1 myriad requests (+1.4%). The automation never stopped running; the operators merely migrated their workloads to substitute haze providers formerly Yandex.Cloud became unavailable.

Across most industries, the portion of bot requests from Yandex.Cloud returning any HTTP 4xx reply fell. This is mostly because of a autumn off in the attack-like traffic mentioned above. This, in blend alongside the gambling client analysis, shows that malicious traffic that was sending requests through Yandex.Cloud merely shifted its “services” to another providers following the assistance disruption.

Finally, whenever we analyzed social media traffic, we established no unexpected changes in traffic either from Russian-origin IPs (0.6% decrease in total traffic complete the event period) or globally (1.2% addition in total traffic complete the event period). We repeated the inspection on bot traffic hitting the “post”, “reply”, and “like” endpoints for a particular social media phase and likewise did not discover an unexpected change before or during the event duration from either Russian-origin IPs (5.7% decrease in total traffic complete the event period) or globally (1.1% addition in total traffic complete the event period). Based on our assessment, the data does not appear to assistance the claims that the strikes impaired social media manipulation, although without additional inspection alongside data exterior of Cloudflare, we cannot conclusively say there is no connection.

What the data told us — and what it didn’t

When traffic from Yandex networks collapsed, speculation dispersed throughout the Internet that Russian power operations and malicious botnets had suffered a crippling blow. Cloudflare data tells a distinct story: throughout Cloudflare's network, there was no evidence that the strikes knocked social media manipulation offline or alternatively disrupted malicious action on the Internet. Instead, the data demonstrated:

Search indexing dropped. The overwhelming bulk of the traffic that dropped from Yandex Search ASN consisted of verified YandexBot crawlers fetching news articles and web assets. The chief effect was reduced satisfied finding in Yandex Search.
Malicious automation migrated alternatively of stopping. While exposure scanning and plugin probing temporarily dropped on Yandex.Cloud, high-volume operations quickly moved to substitute hosting networks.

A network disruption method that particular servers stopped sending requests, but it does not average an automated danger disappeared. Cloud workloads are portable, so whenever a data center goes dreary or an IP prefix gets blocked, operators can migrate their scripts to another provider in hours.

Our inspection current is a reminder that client ASN traffic quantity is an unreliable proxy for interpreting automated bot behavior. Defending against automated threats requires inspecting petition behavior, specified as identifying shared JA4 fingerprints, monitoring anomalous petition rates, and applying WAF rules to delicate endpoints, despite of which network the petition begins from. Physical infrastructure is static, but malicious automation is built to move.

Microsoft and Japan took down a cybercrime network behind over a billion scam messages

support@mycoding.id (Stevie Bonifield) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:03:43 +0700

Stevie Bonifield

is a news author covering all things person tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag penning news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.

We’ve all gotten a scam content concerning a nonexistent parking ticket or a counterfeit bundle delivery, but hopefully you’ll commencement seeing small of them. Microsoft says it helped dismantle a market for scammers sending phishing messages akin those about the world. Through an inquiry alongside Japan’s National Police Agency, it tracked scam action rear to a market called YAM Store and a brace of phishing kits, CoGUI and Iron Man:

Since January 2026, YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man have collectively enabled additional than one milliard malicious messages targeting complete 75,000 organizations worldwide, including additional than 750 myriad messages geared toward Microsoft customers alone. These messages have been used to mark consumers, healthcare organizations, financial institutions, and another businesses in additional than 150 countries, generating tens of millions of dollars for their operators.

According to Microsoft’s report, scammers could buy taken or fraudulent Microsoft and Google accounts on YAM Store and use the phishing kits to dispatch scam messages. Microsoft says YAM Store additionally hijacked genuine organizations’ expired web domains and created websites for nonexistent organizations, which it used to get Microsoft accounts it could resell.

The Iron Man phase was additionally offering complete 2,300 templates scammers could use to impersonate organizations akin banks and constabulary departments. Microsoft says it impaired complete 20,000 accounts connected to YAM Store and blocked complete 100,000 web domains being used for impersonation and fraud. With health field cybersecurity non-profit Health-ISAC, Microsoft additionally seized and redirected web domains that were powering all three platforms.

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Ukraine says a sudden Starlink speed limit disrupted its most important drone missions

support@mycoding.id (Jake Epstein,Tom Carter) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:37:18 +0700

Ukraine is heavily reliant on Starlink for armed forces operations. Inna Varenytsia/REUTERS

Ukraine's admission to Starlink net assistance was abruptly disrupted for unidentified reasons, interfering alongside armed forces operations, sources in the country's defence ministry and a top presidential adviser stated Wednesday morning.

Serhii Beskrestnov, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stated in a social media article that Elon Musk's SpaceX had implemented speed limits for Starlink terminals overnight. Beskrestnov stated the limitation throttles the procedure of Starshield, the company's dedicated moon network for armed forces services, at speeds complete 100 miles per hour, or approximately 161 kilometers per hour.

Sources in Ukraine's defence ministry confirmed the disruption and told Business Insider that SpaceX had restricted the Starshield operations without alert the military. They stated several units have informed a defeat of association whenever drones attain speeds as low as 45 mph.

The sources stated that the disruption has complex military operations, particularly drone missions. This includes mid-range strikes, front-line logistics, and air defence intercepts, several of Ukraine's most crucial drone missions.

Because Starlink does not activity inner Russia, the disruption is constricted to drone operations inside Ukrainian district and Russian-occupied territory.

Later in the day on Wednesday, the Ukrainian defence ministry reported that SpaceX continues to enforce a speed bounds of 161 km/h, although restrictions were considerably tighter before in the day. Communication norm has since improved at speeds up to 160 km/h.

Ukraine has stated it is in communication alongside the US, SpaceX, and NATO partners and is operating to instal backup communication channels.

Starlink antennas are a average perspective in Ukraine. Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

Amid questions concerning the Starlink assistance disruptions, Musk responded to erstwhile Ukrainian defence curate Mykhailo Fedorov's concerns and gratitude for partial restoration on social media, saying that "Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government."

"Any limits on speed or use are decided by the US armed forces and ultimately POTUS," he said.

"Starlink is a business assistance owned and controlled by SpaceX," Musk said. "Usage of Starlink is constricted to noncombatant or protective activities and cannot be used for insulting armed forces action, as doing so would be inappropriate for a business company."

Critical in combat

As the innovation has in armed forces and manufacturing sectors worldwide, SpaceX's Starlink has rotate into critically important to Ukraine's military.

Kyiv has adopted it as a battlefield communications tool and additionally uses it in drone warfare. Drones armed alongside Starlink dishes, which can be controlled remotely by pilots hundreds of miles distant and adapted to new targets mid-mission, have rotate into among the country's most potent weapons in the battle against Russian forces.

Ukraine's dependence on Starlink has made it reliant on Musk and SpaceX, however.

As Business Insider lately reported, Starlink has provided Musk a critical origin of power and gentle power that stretches the globe. In 2023, the world's richest man stated he refused a petition from Ukraine's armed forces to activate Starlink to assistance a Ukrainian assault on Crimea, and Reuters reported final twelvemonth that SpaceX jeopardized a 2022 Ukrainian counteroffensive by cutting Starlink admission to front-line troops.

Recently, Musk has proven to be additional supportive. In February, SpaceX clamped downward on Russian forces' use of Starlink terminals in Ukraine following Ukraine's then-defense minister made a individual petition to the billionaire CEO, a move that allowed Ukrainian forces to pay a prosperous counteroffensive.

'It is apparent this act is not coincidental'

Musk has not yet addressed reports of Starlink disruptions in Ukraine.

On Saturday, he reignited former criticisms of Zelenskyy alongside a post on X that the Ukrainian chairman had "gone too far" alongside his strikes on Russian refineries.

The Starlink disruption comes following a sequence of Russian ballistic missile attacks against Kyiv on Monday and Tuesday nights. Ukrainian officials stated that in the two cases, global partners did not provision an advancement alert concerning their launch, breaking from norm practice.

Elon Musk receives the National Medal of Science from President Donald Trump. Win McNamee/Getty Images

Asked by reporters before the assault on Tuesday if the US would cut intellect alongside Ukraine complete its strikes on Russian energy sites, President Donald Trump stated that Washington continued to portion it.

Zelenskyy's adviser suggested that the Starlink disruption could be connected to tensions between the US and Ukraine.

"It is apparent that this act is not coincidental and is connected to the current governmental situation," Beskrestnov stated on Telegram, according to a translation of his statement. The cause, however, remains unclear.

Fancy Curl Sites

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:29:12 +0700

March 18, 2026 (Updated: October 14, 2026)

So a fine during ago I added a fun curl type of my site, meant for viewing in the terminal. Try operating these commands!

 curl nytpu.com/gemlog/2026-03-18 # or curl nytpu.com

(sorry Windows users, not my error that ANSI escape codes are disabled-by-default in cmd.exe. And not my error that in Powershell you have to use curl.exe alternatively of curl since Powershell inexplicably pseudonyms that to Invoke-WebRequest.)

I posted concerning it a bit on the Fediverse, but alternatively didn't detailed much on it becuase I figured it was fairly self-explanatory. But I've had a fistful of group ask me how I did it, so I decided it power really be value it to compose a article concerning how I did it (…like seven months late).

I should note this idea came from trinkey's (curl trinkey.com) and strongsand's (curl proot.party) curl sites, I didn't arrive up alongside it myself. Even although I did go concerning it fairly a bit alternatively from them, all credit for the extremely chill idea goes to them. (UPDATE: unfortunately neither of their curl versions are functional anymore as of 2026-10-14.)

First, since it's the additional engaging part, really generating the ANSI-marked-up records to dispatch to the clients. I entirely hand-wrote the index page and about page.

Note that I accept trinkey and strongsand create theirs on-the-fly alongside the ratatui archive (or similar), which is likely additional convenient; hand-writing it seemed additional expedient to me though.

I had the chief escape code—ESC[, ie \x1b[—¹ in a Vim enroll to effortlessly paste whenever needed, and afterward the Wikipedia leaf for the chief graphics codes open to citation the particular escape codes. And, yeah, that's concerning it. I experimented to decide on accordant styling I liked, and fair referenced the Gopher type of my pages whenever crafting the marked-up curl pages.

Now, the notable item concerning my type is that I have curl versions of the entirety of my blog, fairly than fair one or two pages being available. This is entirely because of a convenient coincidence: complete four years ago I implemented outputting ANSI-marked-up plaintext in my tradition markup tongue I use for my blog, Gemroff. Originally it was fair to authorize convenient previewing of drafts in the terminal during writing; but it was trivial to plug into my fixed location generator to immediately get Curl versions generated.

I did manually compose a wrapper template for blog posts, as fine as a template for the indicator leaf listing posts, but that affirmative a few additional lines in my fixed location generator was all that was needed to cable it up.

This is the chief item that makes it difficult to say it's easy! since it was lone uncomplicated for me since I use an entirely tradition markup tongue and fixed location generator and I happened to create the correct scheme choices years ago—e.g. my SSG additionally happened to already have assistance for multiple, standardized output formats alternatively of solely HTML akin another SSGs, since I tri-host my location on HTTP, Gemini, and Gopher.

However, offering nothing but a few hand-written pages for fun is a entirely satisfactory way to set up a location akin this anyways, since it's fair a neat gimmick and no one's apt to really use it additional than a few minutes of browsing.

Finally, the final stage is really presenting the Curl type of your location to any person delegate containing curl, which for me was fair a few changes to my Nginx config, alongside another servers it'd presumably be equivalently simple. The chief characteristic I wanted was an override header (X-Original: true) so you could motionless get an unmodified HTTP reply akin person casually operating Curl apt wanted, and I wanted everything to be served statically still.

And… that's really it! As I said, whenever I archetypal set it up it seemed fairly self-explanatory to me, but it is extremely non-orthogonal to what group normally do alongside either web servers or ANSI escape codes so I can see anywhere people's curiosity/confusion came from. It would be neat to see additional sites doing this trick around!

EMDASH! AI-GENERATED! acksually I'll have you cognize that my markup tongue has had an definitive markup component for emdashes since November 2022. And accept it nor not: LLMs are trained on crap copied from genuine authors, so LLMs wouldn't be using emdashes if they weren't already used in human-written works.

And what, am I expected to evade having twenty parentheticals a paragraph, to anywhere I awareness the need to use emdashes to change it up? Unthinkable! ↩︎

Things to know if you get cancer in 2026

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:26:30 +0700

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I was diagnosed alongside squamous division carcinoma in my mouth in May 2026. Here are several things I learned according to that cognition so far.

You need to be doggedly persistent on scheduling things. Yes this method many of phone calls. If you get an project a few weeks out, call rear a few days afterward and ask for item sooner and see if they have any cancellations. I could lone get an project 4 weeks out alongside an ENT (this was before I knew item was wrong). My spouse made me call rear and I was capable to get in that week because of a cancellation.
AIs may downplay the seriousness of things. I was chatting alongside assorted models and most pushed me in the direction of “you don’t have cancer” for a while. Just item to note.
You may need to shove for thorough familial testing. Some doctors were weird concerning this and didn’t command it promptly, equal following telling me they would. My surgeon, who told me he’d get it done, eventually referred me out to an oncologist. This caused a multi-month postpone to getting familial results, since the archetypal results were done on the operation tumor, not the biopsy tumor. No one cares additional concerning your case than you, so obtain authority and dispatch many of follow-ups.
You can discover the “Standard of Care” stream charts for all malignancy type. Look and get through this yourself to see what the options are according to how things have progressed. NCCN guidelines. You may need to create an account, which you can do as a non-professional. I akin the PDF files. They additionally have an interactive navigator. Use AI to assistance you fig out what to choice according to your case.
If operation is recommended, I would try and conversation to person who has undergone the surgery. I did not do this and regret it. Ask them how serious things were, what it felt like, etc. My surgeon talked me through my surgery, but it was a lot rougher on me physically than I expected. Ask the surgeon how many of these surgeries they do a twelvemonth and what the complication charge is.
Get a second opinion as shortly as possible, no matter how much you akin your plan. This may necessitate a lot of calling and getting on an airplane, but I’d move to agenda it at a top malignancy center as shortly as you are comparatively certain of your diagnosis. Ask for a second peruse of the pathology at the center anywhere you get the second opinion.
I started a new directory on my Mac, and following appointments I’d dictate what happened and what the doctor stated and have the AI create a new document summarizing things and asking its own follow-up questions for next time. Nice to be capable to mention to this complete time.
Check out all the resources and materials at the Sijbrandij Foundation. Sid (GitLab cofounder) took matters into his own hands whenever norm of attention ran out. Schedule a call alongside these guys. They are awesome and have fine materials and questions to ask your doctors.

5 reasons Netflix is struggling as it cuts about 1,000 staffers

support@mycoding.id (James Faris) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:23:47 +0700

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos is looking to kickstart growth at the streaming giant. Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images; Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Netflix is in a slump — and it's not fair since you can't discover a hot new display to watch.

The streaming titan's shares are downward 42% in the final 12 months and have been nearly cut in fractional from their all-time elevated final summer. Netflix had its biggest circular of layoffs in four years on Wednesday, cutting concerning 1,000 employees, approximately 6% of the company.

So, what's going wrong?

Netflix's viewership growth has slowed as liberated competitors akin YouTube acquire momentum, and initiatives akin games and podcasts have yet to rotate into breakout hits. Add in the company's astonishment bid for Warner Bros., which it afterward abandoned, and several investors are emotion on edge.

Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters stated in a memo that entertaining the earth "requires us to be disciplined concerning anywhere we prioritize our group and resources" but added that the business is motionless on track to attain its financial goals this year.

Many of Netflix's struggles aren't distinctive to the "Stranger Things" maker, which disrupted Hollywood by pioneering paid TV streaming and has a important power complete culture.

"Even the top streaming companies are not immune to stagnation and financial difficulties," stated Ross Benes, a media expert at EMARKETER, Business Insider's sister company.

Other amusement giants like Disney and NBCUniversal have turned to layoffs recently.

Here are five of the biggest challenges facing Netflix correct now.

1. Engagement growth is slowing

Although Netflix is still expanding revenue at a fit gait during generating billions in profits, Wall Street is concerned concerning its viewership trends.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos told Bloomberg at an event final duration that "we're not expanding as accelerated as I desire us to, and we're operating on making that move faster."

Netflix grew earth viewing hours by 2% twelvemonth complete twelvemonth to 97 milliard in the archetypal fractional of 2026. The streaming elephantine additionally announced final fourth that it would portion its involvement study lone formerly a year, downward from twice a year.

When announcing the move, Netflix told investors that "engagement is not fair the amount of perspective hours, but additionally refers to the norm and assortment of our offering."

Investors are concerned that slowing involvement growth could hurt Netflix's capability to keep customers and convince them to pay more, although the streamer has an industry-low cancellation rate.

Engagement is additionally "the aureate compass for advertisers" since higher use helps them attain broader audiences, stated Brandon Katz, an expert at Greenlight Analytics. If Netflix keeps expanding viewership, it could accusation advertisers higher rates.

The deficiency of a new breakout hit is additionally troubling for Netflix analysts. "Stranger Things," the platform's biggest display ever, ended final year, and the streamer needs to discover new franchises and buzzy hits that can substitute it.

"Entertainment is an inherently subjective and streaky industry," Katz said.

2. Competition is heating up from liberated streamers and social media

While Netflix is motionless foremost its paid peers in viewership and profits, liberated streaming services akin YouTube, Tubi, and The Roku Channel are gaining popularity, particularly among younger audiences.

YouTube's viewership portion on US TVs was 14.2% in July — nearly twice Netflix's 7.8% share, according to Nielsen.

Roku's liberated streamer and Tubi are additionally formidable competitors alongside shares of 2.9% and 2%, respectively. These no-cost services have grown as paid streamers akin Netflix have raised their prices.

Netflix is considering starting a liberated offering in several markets, co-CEO Greg Peters has said.

Then there's the fame of social media platforms akin TikTok and Instagram, which are hoovering up viewership hours.

Netflix is looking to oppose social-media foes by investing in video podcasts and creators to addition involvement and nexus alongside younger viewers without breaking the bank.

"With force mounting, Netflix volition appearance to rotate the tide by getting a boost from low-cost content," Benes said.

3. The Wall Street narrative soured following Netflix's unsuccessful bid for Warner Bros.

Netflix spooked several shareholders by making an $82.7 milliard bid for the Warner Bros. studio and streaming assets. Paramount Skydance eventually bought the entire company.

Although adding HBO Max and the Warner Bros. studio could have stated Netflix a boost, investors concerned that its leaders had run out of ideas for growth since Netflix hasn't historically turned to important dealmaking. Besides that narrative, shareholders were concerned concerning Netflix taking on a enormous debt burden and going through a complex integration process, Katz said.

Even although Netflix pocketed a $2.8 milliard breakup fee whenever the agreement cut apart, the inventory never completely recovered.

4. Games and podcasts haven't rotate into runaway hits

Netflix has made major pushes into games and podcasts, although neither has been a equivalent changer so far.

The streamer close downward a brace of equivalent studios this summer and laid off several staffers in October 2024 as well.

Netflix hasn't shared many particulars concerning how its games or podcasts are performing. The business stated in its July shareholder letter that it had successfully launched games akin "FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition" and "Unhinged," and that the kids app Netflix Playground tripled its regular person count, but it didn't define how much period those games generated.

Neither games nor podcasts were on final quarter's involvement report. If either were a significant hit, business guidance would apt desire to portion particular metrics of their achievement to investors enthusiastic to see new growth areas.

Games are "not a bad idea" but apt are "not going to get any subs," stated Alan Wolk, a media expert at investigation resolute TVREV. He added that it "remains to be seen if group volition commencement observing podcasts on Netflix," saying the streamer should modify its mobile app interface to enhance the experience.

Still, podcasts are a cheap way to develop into verticals akin news and are additionally "laundry folding programming" that can form habits, Katz said.

5. Sports entitlements are costly and tied up

Another way Netflix is trying to boost involvement is investing in live sports — including NFL games on Christmas Day and the day before Thanksgiving, the MLB Home Run Derby, and one-off events akin a boxing equivalent between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.

While Netflix executives have stated these events run subscriptions at an unusually elevated rate, sports entitlements are additionally increasingly costly because of bidding wars between TV networks akin ESPN and tech giants akin Amazon and YouTube.

Live sports are an productive acquisition tool and can assistance Netflix measure its budding promotion business.

"Sports are the final vestige of the monoculture and anywhere they can attain all the group who never alternatively see ads," Wolk said.

However, sports aren't cheap and recommendation small to no replay value, making them additional of a impermanent fix for involvement than a long-term controller of viewership.

Netflix additionally have to be imaginative alongside its sports investments since most of the marquee entitlements — from the chief NFL packages to the NBA, university football, NFL, and global football — are tied up for years. The streamer did safe live entitlements to the Women's World Cup in 2027 and 2031, which it hopes volition grasp the traditional zeitgeist.

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Epic Games is already showing what its 'huge pivot' toward AI looks like

support@mycoding.id (Brent D. Griffiths) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:10:09 +0700

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has stated the business wants to use AI to allow developers to do more. Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Epic Games is releasing a revamped type of its launcher that the "Fortnite" creator says it vibe coded.

"Programming is hard," the business wrote in an notice on Wednesday. "So, alternatively of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that's way faster and additional receptive than the current one, and has a new look."

Epic Games says its new launcher is "light on features" for now and that users should "think of it as a speedboat and not a yacht!"

The announcement, which additionally outlined plans to bring Fortnite to Linux, came days following Epic CEO Tim Sweeney stated there was a important change underway at the company.

"We have a huge pivot underway current at Epic, moving developers about to retool for maximum AI acceleration," Sweeney wrote on X on Monday.

Sweeney stated the business isn't looking to shed developers, but fairly allow them to do more.

"The aim isn't to do the identical material alongside small people, but to allow everyone current to build MORE and BETTER stuff, and to bring the benefits to all teams using Unreal," he said.

Epic's chief made akin comments in March whenever the Fortnite maker announced that it was laying off additional than 1,000 employees. Sweeney stated the cuts were not connected to AI.

"Since it's a item now, I should note that the layoffs aren't connected to AI," he wrote in a memo to workforce that the business shared publicly. "To the degree it improves productivity, we desire to have as many notable developers evolving awesome satisfied and tech as we can."

The AI race is back on

support@mycoding.id (Robert Hart) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:06:03 +0700

The AI race is back on. Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked akin they had the AI competition to themselves, pulling onward alongside increasingly mighty models that remaining their rivals in the du...

Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men

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How to Preorder the 'HomeView' and Apple's Other New Smart Devices

support@mycoding.id (Jake Peterson) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0700

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Apple announced a lot of new devices during its "Welcome Home" event yesterday. The Apple HomeView, the company's archetypal astute display hub, stole the show, alongside its squared-off seven-inch display and its "oversized Apple Watch meets iMac G4" design, but Apple is additionally collaborating alongside LG and Schneider on a gathering of astute devices, akin lights, doorbells, and cameras, that the HomeView can control. Plus, the business additionally announced updates to existing products, including the Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini.

None of these items is currently accessible to choice up in-store. However, many—but not all—of them are already accessible to preorder, if you're curious in being among the archetypal to try them. Here's how you can reserve the HomeView, Apple TV 4K, and HomePod mini 2 today.

The finest preorder agreement on the Apple HomeView

Apple's HomeView is a distinctive merchandise for the company. With it, you can authority your complete astute home, conversation alongside Siri AI, inspect your messages, obtain FaceTime calls, and perform music, among another tasks. Though it's mostly far additional constricted than an iPad, it's the lone equipment of the two to recommendation individualized experiences per user: It can acknowledge up to six group in your family and display personalized data (like Messages) for each. You can preorder the HomeView from stores akin Apple, Amazon, and Best Buy. However, if you opt for Amazon, you can obtain $10 off the Space Gray and Starlight norm models:

Just remember: If you're purchasing a wall-mounted option, you'll need to buy the genuine mount separately. If you buy the Power Mount USB-C partition connector, that'll add $59.99 to your total, during the Power Mount AC-wired option volition add $79.99.

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How to preorder the Apple TV 4K

Apple's newest Apple TV 4K looks a lot akin the former model, but what's inner has changed. This example uses Apple's A19 part and can nexus to up to four HomePod devices at once. The new Siri Remote supports Precision Finding through Find My, and has a speaker you can ping if you endure it in your couch. Apple doesn't continually create its merchandise names all that clear. For example, the latest repeat of Apple TV 4K is merely called "Apple TV 4K." If you're looking to buy one, don't fair buy any "Apple TV 4K" you see. Instead, create certain it is the fourth-generation model. You'll have two clues there, furthermore the (4th-gen) label: First, it isn't currently accessible to purchase, so you'll lone be capable to preorder it; second, it expenses $299, $100 additional than the third-gen Apple TV 4K.

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How to preorder the HomePod mini 2

The HomePod mini 2 comes in refreshed colors that fair so happen to equivalent Apple's iMacs. The new speakers run on the Apple S10 part and arrive alongside a new "Sound Glow" characteristic that can beat to the music alongside colors that equivalent the track's gathering art. They can additionally act as default speakers for iMacs complete Wi-Fi 6e. Amazon doesn't have Apple's latest HomePod mini equipment prepared to preorder. If you hunt for it, you'll lone discover previous-generation speakers accessible to acquisition now—and lone renewed versions, at that. In supplement to Apple, Best Buy additionally has the new HomePod mini 2 accessible to preorder in all five colors:

You can't preorder the Apple Home Collection yet

The Apple Home Collection is pricey, but Apple won't be taking your prosperity for it fair yet. While the business has a landing leaf for the new astute devices, including the $349.95 LG Smart Deadbolt Lock and $399.95 LG Floodlight Cam, none of them are officially accessible to preorder or purchase. Apple says several of these devices volition be accessible in December, during others volition attain in first 2027, although it doesn't say which devices volition initiate when.

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Google Launches A Video Series For Odd Technical SEO Questions

support@mycoding.id (Matt G. Southern) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:51:41 +0700

Google lately introduced “The Non-Canonical Cabinet,” a Search Central YouTube sequence discussing border case specialized SEO issues. On Oct. 14, they published the archetypal video of this new series, which addresses items that may and may not be included inside a domain name or URL way (such as emojis) as fine as whether using keywords inside URLs affects hunt rankings.

Gary Illyes and Cherry Prommawin are hosting this series. Google announced the sequence by posting a teaser video on Oct. 6, and asked all viewers to provision their own edge-case questions in the comments division of all post.

What The Series Is

A trailer released by Google on Oct. 6 says that the display “The Non-Canonical Cabinet” is a sitcom-style wit based off particular questions asked by website owners and the SEO industry. Here is how the event clarification puts it:

“These are questions that don’t pertain on a norm FAQ leaf but are motionless helpful for Search and generative AI features.”

In supplement to this Illyes hosted “How Search Works,” a five part video sequence on Search Central from 2024. This video sequence took users through the procedure of crawling, indexing and serving. “The Non-Canonical Cabinet” nevertheless starts alongside users asking questions concerning search, alternatively of starting alongside the basics.

Domains And URL Paths Follow Different Rules

ICANN and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have established the specialized guidelines for domain names. The IETF’s guidelines (RFC 1035, RFC 1123) contain allowing letters, numbers, and hyphens inside domain names; Prommawin stated that Google adheres to these identical standards.

The supplement of scripts to assistance languages another than Roman-based scripts (Chinese, Arabic) allows users to use domain names written in native scripts. These Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are translated into Punycode (“xn--“), a cord that starts alongside ‘xn--‘. Browsers volition normally display IDNs in their native script. However, Illyes mentioned that several IDN scripts merge akin characters to those in another languages, which can confuse group and browsers. For example, a Cyrillic letter is extremely near in appearance to an English “p”.

According to him, the current net standards for domains do not authorize “emojis in the domain name.” A 2017 ICANN Board Resolution states that emoji are “disallowed by the current specialized standards for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).” The resolution does note that during emoji characters are prohibited under current standards, they can motionless be registered in certain country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) at the second level.

The URL way has small limits. Illyes stated Googlebot volition crawl a way that contains an emoji, and “our scheme volition really procedure it.” Browsers percent-encode those characters, so the episode’s poultry emoji becomes %F0%9F%90%94 in the path.

He stated not all browser or social media app volition display the emoji, and several display “a cord of gibberish” in its place. Google’s URL construction documentation already covers the way side. It recommends percent encoding for non-ASCII characters and uses emoji in one of its examples.

Keywords And Word Separators

Illyes called keywords in a URL “an incredibly small signal.” “It really lone matters whenever we have entirely nothing alternatively to go on,” he said, giving the example of a location that’s seconds old alongside no content. Once Google sees content, keywords in the domain and URL “become basically irrelevant,” he said.

John Mueller called URL keywords a “very small ranking factor” in 2016 and a “very extremely lightweight factor” in 2021, statements I gathered whenever I looked at URLs as a ranking factor in 2023.

On separators, Illyes stated Google treats words joined by underscores in a URL way “as one lengthy word.” He added that this is sometimes fine, since Google may motionless be capable to use the words, and that Google recommends hyphens as the average term divider throughout the web. Google’s records gives the identical advice. It cites “historical reasons,” since underscores frequently grade concepts meant to remain together, specified as function names in programming.

Why This Matters

The archetypal Non-Canonical Cabinet event provides you alongside Google’s on-record responses to clients’ inquiries concerning emojis, non-English characters, and keywords in URLs. The way direction provided is redundant alongside the URL construction documentation, hence websites that are currently adhering to this document volition need no modifications.

The keyword reply from Illyes can be used as a citation for whenever your client desires URLs alongside elevated keyword density. He has indicated that there would be several value connected alongside specified pages lone if Google knew entirely nothing alternatively concerning them. In supplement to the complete information, the episode’s concluding recap tells viewers to halt trying to equivalent hunt results by including ample amounts of keyword data into their URLs.

The comments division of all video provides a forum anywhere you may bring up additional border cases that have not been covered inside the authoritative documentation.

Looking Ahead

The next Non-Canonical Cabinet event covers robots.txt. Neither video clarification gives a publish schedule, and the trailer and archetypal event went up eight days apart.

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How the Military Will Hack the Election

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:43:57 +0700

U.S. CYBERCOM troops

Secreted distant inner a windowless construction at 7700 Potranco Road in San Antonio, Texas, is a darkened area that serves as the hub of Task Force Raider. This armed forces project power is secretly at activity as part of a government-wide “election safety group,” guarding against “interference” in the upcoming midterm elections.

Interference, however, is a loaded word. While it connotes the Kremlin hacking into polling places or changing the ballot count, Task Force Raider is really additional focused on the broader category of “influence”, specifically Russian or Chinese attempts to alter minds fairly than to alter votes.

But the genuine mark is the American people, whom the national authorities sees as vectors for abroad influence.

“The complete ballot safety scare is to indulge President Trump and assuage Democrats, all of whom fear interference and shenanigans, but not from abroad shores,” says a elder armed forces intellect officer, who said to me concerning the concealed effort.

He and another armed forces officers expressed unease alongside the sprawling mission. It encompasses everything from sending millions of anonymous content and sound messages abroad, to outright deleting social media posts or taking downward complete websites, as documents I obtained reveal.

Entrance to Task Force Raider’s basis of operations

All of this is in infringement of longstanding prohibitions against any armed forces involvement in elections whatsoever, yet enjoys the assistance of the two important governmental parties.

What’s more, for all the handwringing concerning ballot interference, the Trump administration hasn’t substantiated that any nation (or any another foreigners) are preparedness to interfere or have any chance of meaningfully altering an outcome. But that hasn’t stopped the national authorities from designating ballot safety the figure one “operational priority” — a goal that insiders are calling “no fail.”

That is the goal directive that Pete Hegseth issued to the San Antonio cyber institution final week, as I reported on recently. Yet since Hegseth’s war is extremely classified, takes location in cyberspace and entails a fit dose of covert actions that would close downward possible attacks as fine as cut off normal influencers and average citizens who search to sway voters (what several power call ‘democracy’), nothing has been written concerning Hegseth’s genuine ballot interference.

“These are not merely Keystone Cops battling against pimple-faced amateurs and anarchists,” says a former elder armed forces authoritative who has been engaged in ballot safety since the 2016 presidential year. “Every capability that the US possesses, in Cyber Command, the CIA, NSA, and another agencies, the Russian and Chinese governments additionally have,” he says. “We are exactly engaged in a regular battle in cyberspace.”

Despite this underground war, the authoritative questions the expanding armed forces involvement in safeguarding voting. “Influencing the influencers? That’s creating a precedent that I’m not comfortable with,” he said. As he sees it, this is not fair a slippery incline to boots on the dirt at polling places but of construction and having national authorities capabilities that volition eventually be capable to authority community address and assembly.

The officer, who describes himself as a nonpartisan believer that the Constitution continually comes first, points out that the hundred-plus-year ban against posting national soldiers at polling places had fine logic rearward it afterward and fine logic now.

“Granted, those in uniform are assistant to an interagency noncombatant effort,” he says, “but the build of lone fearing boots on the dirt is obsolete. We need to update our thinking, and the law, to contain the cyber world. And we need to oppose the idea that a robust, equal foreign-based debate, requires national intervention.”

To comprehend how near we are to abridging the First Amendment, regard that before this month, Senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla of California wrote to the heads of fractional a dozen social media companies to notify that they — YouTube, Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Google — weren’t doing adequate to “combat misinformation and disinformation … during the 2026 midterm elections.” It was a entirely partisan letter alongside a predictable dose of Donald Trump this and Donald Trump that. But there it was: two notable Democrats and liberals threatening that Congress must “consider investigations and law to remedy” ballot mis- and disinformation.

“Congress shall create no law,” the armed forces authoritative says, whenever asked concerning the projected legislation. “It’s the archetypal declaration of the First Amendment to the Constitution. Period.”

Now, however, a law, and control, is the norm. And Hegseth, for any reason, wants the Pentagon in on the action, that is, under the misleading guise that it is lone operating against “foreign” actors.

The armed forces has been quietly engaged in protecting national elections against cyber assault since Donald Trump appeared on the national phase in 2016, in the environment of WikiLeaks, Kremlin power operations and their hacking of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

Whether any of what happened was crucial adequate to have the least effect on the American ballot or not, the Obama White House was spooked adequate that it gave the CIA covert act authorities to close downward websites and social media accounts — including taking a Russian military-created website called “DCleaks” offline — that power publish additional materials. Whatever you think concerning Obama’s motivations or Trump’s, the regulation of the authorities act then, as it is now, is that it restricts liberated speech.

Task Force Raider (or its predecessor) was mobilized to assistance Homeland Security and the FBI in “defending” the United States. To drag together the correct group alongside the top talent, the Task Force operates under a “best athlete” approach, picking the most qualified idiosyncratic despite of armed forces service, noncombatant agency or defence contractors. Eventually, complete 350 group got to activity on the project force.

A $10 myriad Rewards for Justice program was unveiled, and complete 56,000 “psychological operations” (PSYOPS) messages were posted complete the internet. The power warriors of Task Force Raider sent complete three myriad (!) content and sound messages to group in “countries of interest,” according to documents I’ve obtained. All of this took location in secret.

Some of the activity and preparations were focused purely on defense. One unit, the “Demon Chasers” of the “91st Cyber Operations Squadron,” the military’s premier insulting cyberspace squadron, contributes its ability to the mix. Working from their 42,600-square-foot “multi-domain” safe facility that contracting documents say is authorized to grip Top Secret “sensitive activities” (SA), “sensitive compartmented information” (SCI), “special admission program” (SAP) flat information, insulting cyber operations (OCO), and “special specialized operations” (STO), the 91st specializes in freezing out communications.

One document says that the squadron, and its Special Program Office, has the goal to “degrade, disrupt, deceive and utilize adversary telephony and data system.” It cut its teeth in Afghanistan, anywhere it perfected “cellular safety blackouts,” that is, the capability to close downward cellphone communications in a constricted area.

Another component operates a “malware lab” that collects together application and data from all sorts of adversary hacks and cyber operations, conducting inspection of “malicious artifacts,” and penning counter-software to thwart incoming attacks and implants.

An enormous part of the general attempt is “persona operations” — anywhere soldiers and another literal keyboard warriors create false identities and counterfeit net addresses to run in cyberspace without authorities attribution, to scout the web and surf social media, to affect idiosyncratic users, and to do several influencing of their own.

My sources who are privy to this Top Secret attempt all agree: the armed forces is not fair thwarting abroad actors from sowing discontent. They are additionally regulating what appears in social media, regulating lawful debate.

Cyber Command’s (CYBERCOM’s) Joint Force Headquarters – Cyber, functioning from its war area inner the National Security Agency-Texas facility in San Antonio, oversees Task Force Raider and another armed forces ballot safety efforts. On the million-square-foot “security hill,” not far from the NSA facility at the erstwhile Kelly Air Force Base, another component has built a “state-of-the-art weapons scheme to mimic the gathering efforts of abroad intellect services,” according to documents I’ve obtained.

After the 2020 elections, the Joint Force Headquarters activated an ballot safety “enclave” to assistance “the most delicate activities.” The Pentagon defines specified activities as “activities that, if compromised, could logic enduring adverse effects on U.S. abroad guideline or armed forces operations, or guide to important embarrassment for the U.S. government, its allies, or the military.”

In another words, actions that power damage the national authorities and the military, not actions that power damage democracy.

Online assistance for Palestinians and opposition to Israel’s behavior in the Gaza war; vitriol against Donald Trump, or ICE, or the CIA and the FBI; or “disinformation” in general? None of these are a grave danger to our democracy. Yet somehow the national authorities and the Pentagon have convinced us that they need to obtain extreme action, including controlling speech, to oppose it.

What Americans see of armed forces involvement in the election, they beautiful plainly don’t like. When video circulated of DC National Guardsmen appearing in forefront of a ballot autumn box, it quickly went viral, stoking outrage.

What group don’t see is that the armed forces is additionally eyeing the ballot in a much additional systematic way in cyberspace. Why isn’t anyone asking what they are really doing? And who is the genuine target? And what is it that they have in intellect to do on or before ballot day to transport out their own power campaign?

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As a TV enthusiast, I was hoping for more from the Apple TV 4K

support@mycoding.id (John Higgins) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:38:59 +0700

It’s been four lengthy years since the final Apple TV 4K was released, and in that period there have been many of hopes and dreams for features in any comes next. A new chip, 4K/120Hz support, audio passthrough, a distant locator, improved residence authority integration — the 2022 Apple TV 4K is a awesome box, but there’s motionless plentifulness of area for improvement. With the fourth-gen Apple TV 4K announced on Tuesday, several of those hopes were met, during others were unfortunately remaining out.

Coloring the notice is the device’s price. Apple eliminated the cheaper 64GB, Wi-Fi-only model, leaving fair the 128GB, Wi-Fi and Ethernet example — and bumped up its cost to $300. I repeat, $300 for a streaming device. It’s a hefty cost whenever all another important streamer on the market is at least fractional the cost.

There are new features I akin concerning this year’s Apple TV 4K. More handling power is awesome — although my third generation is motionless operating plentifulness accelerated — as is the Find My assistance for whenever the distant inevitably gets misplaced in the couch cushions or tangled up in blankets. Built-in far-field mics for talking to Siri are nice, too, provided you don’t material the box into a credenza akin I do. The fourth-generation Apple TV 4K additionally adds a dedicated AV1 decoder, which allows for higher-quality streaming from apps that assistance it, specified as Netflix, which is excellent. Any possible betterment to streaming satisfied is a greeted one.

My chief concern, though, is how the Apple TV 4K performs as an integral part of my residence theater. Apple added the capability to create a encircle audio scheme by using its HomePod 2 and HomePod Mini 2 astute speakers in matching pairs for fronts and surrounds. For Apple ecosystem fans looking to build out a encircle setup akin to Sonos or Bose, it’s an engaging idea (and I’m all for getting group into immersive audio in their residence theaters). But as I anticipate is the identical for many group curious in pricey streaming hardware, I already have a audio scheme — it’s an Atmos setup alongside a blend of SVS and Revel speakers. I’m not environment up my two HomePod 2s in my living area and spending another $300 on a brace of HomePod Mini 2s to substitute my existing speakers.

The Apple TV 4K pairs alongside up to four HomePods (such as the Mini 2 pictured here) for encircle sound.

What I, and many current users, have been expecting for from the Apple TV 4K for years is the supplement of audio passthrough. This would authorize my additional costly and capable audio/video receiver to decode the raw audio stream alternatively of the Apple TV using its Continuous Audio Connection, which can logic several playback issues.

Additionally, it would have been nice to see Apple assistance 120fps output, particularly for those who use Moonlight to stream games to it. That’s a characteristic that would have set the Apple TV 4K distinct from all the another streamers, which top out at 60fps, and helped to validate the elevated price. Apple could have additionally used it to pivot additional into TV gaming. (For movies, though, the 60fps bounds is not a huge deal, as the box can be set to output 24fps, allowing a native 120Hz TV to fair use 5:5 pulldown.)

Other premium features that would set Apple’s streaming box distinct and create residence theater enthusiasts throw their prosperity at it contain an HDMI input for HDMI passthrough or a digital optical out. I comprehend leaving them out if it meant raising the cost further. This box is already costly enough. But it does depart the Apple TV 4K in an uncomfortable spot, pairing a high-end cost alongside features that are mostly matched elsewhere for much less.

Are these high-end omissions a involvement for the bulk of people? Not really. But those group are going to appearance at the $300 cost tag of the Apple TV 4K and afterward at Google, Roku, or Amazon streaming devices, which are all fractional that cost or less. The Apple TV 4K is looked at as the premium streamer option, but the now additional premium cost without several of the, admittedly niche, features gives me pause.

Maybe the new Apple TV 4K volition astonishment me. I’ve certainly been looking onward to it for a while. I already value the way Apple handles privacy, and if Apple adds features in coming months, perchance it could be value it. But that $300 price? It power be improved spent elsewhere in your residence theater setup.

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Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:37:21 +0700

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By Elena Lalowa, dpa

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev confirmed on Wednesday that there had been a blaze at a facility of the Starlink moon net assistance near the chief Sofia final week.

Two young men holding German passports have been taken into custody in association alongside the suspected attack, Bulgarian media afterward reported, citing investigators.

The moon network is a strategically crucial part of Ukraine's defence in the war against Russia's invasion.

The blaze had earlier been made community by the pro-Western opposition alliance Democratic Bulgaria (DB). Radev stated he would not provision any additional particulars in ray of the ongoing investigations.

According to DB, 11 of 17 antennas at a Starlink facility near Sofia were deliberately set on blaze on October 9. The antennas were used in the war in Ukraine, DB said.

Pro-Western opposition parties stated they suspected Russia was connected to the attack.

Two German passport holders in custody

Two men old 20 and 21, the two holding German passports, were detained in Bulgaria on Monday in association alongside the suspected attack, multiple Bulgarian media outlets reported on Wednesday evening, citing investigators.

According to the news outlet Faktor.bg, the two suspects have immigrant backgrounds and had legally entered Bulgaria from Greece through the Kulata border crossing.

The website reported that investigators were examining whether the suspects belonged to a larger sabotage network possibly connected to two men arrested in Germany before this week complete a latest assault on a Starlink facility in Poland.

Sabotage suspected

Bulgarian officials stressed that the Starlink facility near Sofia was privately owned.

Bulgarian Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev told parliament that additional safety measures had been introduced at akin facilities, equal although duty for their safety rested alongside their owners.

Plamen Tonchev, caput of Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security (DANS), stated he believed the blaze at the Starlink facility was an act of sabotage.

"Such acts of sabotage cannot be ruled out in the forthcoming either," he warned lawmakers.

A blaze additionally bankrupt out at a Starlink dirt terminal south of Warsaw on September 23.

Two suspected saboteurs accused of carrying out that assault in Poland were arrested on Tuesday in Nürtingen, near Stuttgart in south-western Germany.

The authorities in Warsaw suspects Russian intellect services were rearward the attack.

A dietitian says GLP-1s aren't 'a free lunch' — you need a plan when you stop taking them. Here are her 3 best tips.

support@mycoding.id (Julia Pugachevsky) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:35:30 +0700

Dr. Linia Patel is a registered dietitian and author of "Life After Weight-Loss Medication." Liudmila Pokrychuk

For those alongside positive experiences on GLP-1s, the benefits are enormous. They power study emotion physically better, having additional confidence, or improved relationships alongside their spouses.

It's the instant whenever several people go off the medications that can logic stress, particularly if they don't have a scheme for maintaining their new weight.

"Weight defeat is the short-term part, and afterward the everlastingly bit is the importance care part," Dr. Linia Patel, a registered dietitian in the UK and author of "Life After Weight-Loss Medication," told Business Insider. One review published in March 2026 established that about 60% of the importance misplaced volition be regained following one twelvemonth off a GLP-1 specified as Ozempic, Wegovy, or Mounjaro. It additionally projected a 75% importance regain in the lengthy term.

When stopping a GLP-1, importance regain, specifically fat, can additionally awareness quicker. It's why medicinal professionals frequently advance incorporating power training and eating adequate protein during on the medication; otherwise, you power endure too much muscle, which is crucial for importance maintenance.

While Patel stated the medications can be an enormous help, they have to be seen as a part of the puzzle, not a magic bullet. Without a exercise regular in location or a mindful method to meals, she stated it's uncomplicated to yo-yo.

"There's no specified item as a liberated lunch," she said, noting that importance administration following GLP-1s requires intentionality. "Somewhere alongside the line, you're going to have to get on the manner factors."

Patel shared a few tips to remain complete longer and silence food noise, the two dietary keys to weight maintenance.

'Satiety stack' alongside high-protein and high-fiber foods

Patel stated avocado toast alongside egg has protein, fiber, and fit fats to keep you fuller for longer. DronG/Getty Images

GLP-1s work by keeping you emotion complete for longer. By that logic, "what you desire to do whenever you arrive off the medications is to eat in a way that feels filling and satisfying," Patel said.

She calls it "satiety stacking": construction meals about protein, fiber, and fit fats, which can assistance authority appetite by triggering the publish of hormones that indication fullness to your brain.

Patel recommends aiming for concerning 25 to 30 grams of protein per meal, obtained from foods specified as meat, fish, eggs, tofu, and Greek yogurt. Ideally, you'll brace it alongside fiber-rich foods akin vegetables, oats, legumes, and entire grains, as fine as fit fats specified as oliva oil, nuts, seeds, or avocado.

The idea is to discover combinations you actively enjoy, she said, which volition assistance you remain consistent.

Delay overeating alongside elevated quantity and crunchiness

Starter salads can obtain up many of area in your stomach and additionally obtain longer to chew, making it harder to overeat. Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images

Patel has two another tips for staying complete longer.

One is to concentration on high-volume foods — ones that "physically obtain up a lot of area and don't provision you as many calories." Starting a meal alongside miso broth or a flank dish can assistance you evade overeating a calorie-dense chief course, specified as noodles or pizza. It's additionally a awesome regulation for your chief meal, specified as focusing on leafy greens and grains akin quinoa for a hearty salad.

The another tip is to prioritize crunchy, high-fiber foods that obtain longer to chew. Think: carrots, nuts, or seeds. "The additional you dilatory downward how you're eating, the additional you're going to authorize your build that period for it to commencement doing its indication from your stomach to your brain that you're really full," she said, foremost to small calorie intake.

Hush your food noise

Stir-fries are satiating and uncomplicated to customize, assisting alongside food noise. LauriPatterson/Getty Images

One of the most talked-about effects of GLP-1s is their capability to eliminate "food noise." For many group taking them, the desire to eat or overeat ultraprocessed foods merely vanishes — lone to come back formerly they go off the medication.

"What I would say is not to try and combat your appetite, but to rebuild the rely between your brain and your body," Patel said.

She has a three-pronged method to tackling food noise. The archetypal is physiological. Besides dining satiating foods, another manner factors, akin proper sleep, fine hydration, and emphasis management, can additionally assistance you fend off cravings.

The next method is psychological. Patel stated it's crucial to be conscious of whenever you're emotionally eating. She calls it a "HALT-B" check-in: Are you hungry, angry, anxious, lonely, tired, or bored? "How can you create a intermission that is exactly five seconds that allows you to create an intentional choice versus that autopilot mode?" she said.

The final stage is examining your own association alongside diet culture, specified as labeling certain foods as "bad" or "cheat" foods, which can create you desire them more.

"It's not a ethical test," Patel said. "Approaching food alongside this idea of curiosity alternatively of guilt creates that area for elasticity and enjoyment and a healthier association alongside eating."

Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:32:52 +0700

JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, SMBC and MUFG are quietly buying pieces of the AI debt heap they helped build, a sign the lenders closest to the prosperity have started hedging their own bet.

Six months ago, banks were racing all another to underwrite data center loans tied to Oracle, Meta and the remainder of the AI buildout. Now several of the identical banks are trying to get that debt off their books. JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, SMBC and MUFG have been exploring important hazard transfers, according to a study from the Financial Times. These are deals that let a financial institution keep a debt on document during shifting its riskiest piece to exterior investors. The banks are doing this since they are bumping up against inner limits on how much AI-linked visibility any one lender can hold.

One case shows how stuck this has gotten. A collection of banks including JPMorgan and MUFG has spent additional than six months trying to allocate $38 milliard in building debt tied to a Texas and Wisconsin data center project leased to Oracle, Bloomberg has reported. Some lenders are now consenting to market pieces of it to non-bank buyers at a discount, fair to move it. Six months is a lengthy period to sit on debt nobody underwrote to clasp forever.

Matthew Moniot, co-head of credit hazard sharing at Man Group, told the Financial Times the agreement sizes engaged are "out of measure to item we've idea about, ever." That is not a hedge-fund director talking downward a commerce he wants no part of. It is person whose job is pricing exactly this benevolent of risk, saying the numbers no longer fit any example he has used before.

Oracle is the clearest tell. Its five-year credit default swaps, the disbursal of insuring against the business defaulting, climbed to about 151 basis points in first October, levels final seen in 2009, according to market data cited by Bloomberg. S&P had already cut Oracle's credit ranking to BBB-, a sole notch complete junk, rear in July. The business is reportedly targeting additional than $40 milliard in additional debt and equity this financial year. That is on top of the $18 milliard in bonds it sold in a sole day final September, and the prosperity is needed to keep backing its Texas, Wisconsin and New Mexico sites.

Demand for that document has thinned out, too. Bonds from Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle now commerce at a premium to likewise rated non-AI company debt. Order books for their offerings have shrunk from approximately five times the amount on transaction rear in February to under two times by July, Bloomberg has reported. That is the difference between a association that sells itself and one a financial institution has to activity to place.

None of this is happening in isolation. The 10-year Treasury output hit 5.304% this month, its highest since 2002, following a $39 milliard auction cleared at 5.30%, the highest auction output since 2000. The Federal Reserve's own September gathering minutes named AI-related company borrowing as a contributor to that move. Capital Economics argues the bigger controller is plain old cost increase and authorities deficits, not tech business association sales. Whoever is correct concerning the cause, the consequence is the identical for anyone trying to backing a data center correct now: the risk-free charge they are borrowing against fair got a lot additional expensive.

Frankly, the mechanics current matter additional than the header number. Banks do not market downward debt they are assured in. They market downward debt whenever they are concerned concerning concentration, which is exactly what "approaching inner limits" method in plain English: too much of this bank's balance panel is now one bet on one field holding up. Spreading $120 milliard of AI infrastructure spending throughout particular intent vehicles was expected to create that hazard easier to swallow. That is the construction Oracle, Meta, xAI and CoreWeave have all used to keep debt off their own balance sheets. Instead the hazard is turning up at the banks that financed the SPVs in the archetypal place.

The investors who motionless desire in have gotten pickier concerning where. Capital is rotating toward data centers leased to investment-grade hyperscalers akin Microsoft and Google, and distant from weaker credits, Bloomberg has reported. That is exactly why CoreWeave-leased document prices at 7.00% to 9.875%, against the 5.70% to 7.875% that hyperscaler-leased bonds command, per association market data compiled by CCIR. A smaller, small capitalized AI infrastructure business trying to lift debt next fourth is now competing for the identical nervous pond of lenders as Oracle. Except without Oracle's balance panel or its existing client basis to item to.

That's the part of this narrative that does not display up in a sole day's inventory move. The AI surge motionless runs on the assumption that credit stays open indefinitely at sensible terms. Six months of a financial institution struggling to market $38 milliard in loans is the clearest evidence yet that assumption is being tested in genuine time, not in several theoretical downturn motionless years away.

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OpenAI says it's 'very concerned' that its trade secrets could help Apple's push into AI-enabled devices

support@mycoding.id (Brent D. Griffiths) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:31:30 +0700

OpenAI alleged that a erstwhile employee briefed top Apple executives concerning the products its developing. Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images

OpenAI is escalating its trade-secrets combat alongside Apple on the heels of Apple announcing a family of astute home-focused devices.

The AI business alleged in a new lawful filing that an unnamed erstwhile employee sent themselves "a hundred extremely confidential files" on their final day alongside OpenAI in June. The records contained data concerning at smallest one unreleased equipment OpenAI is developing, the filing said. The AI business stated the erstwhile employee worked at Apple for six months before joining OpenAI, and he is now rear at Apple.

OpenAI stated it's the company's understanding that the unnamed employee afterward briefed "Apple's elder leadership, including Apple's vice chairman of operations in Asia" concerning the AI company's merchandise plans.

"That display appears to have happened months ago—and now, armed alongside that information, Apple is making a new shove into AI-enabled products," OpenAI's lawyers wrote in the filing.

In a statement, Apple stated it has established nothing to assistance OpenAI's claims. It stated the filing on Wednesday is an attempt to distract from its own claims concerning own erstwhile OpenAI workforce have taken Apple's commerce secrets.

The files, OpenAI said, contained "highly confidential engineering and manufacturing data concerning the device(s)" and "supplier data and project files, standards for cosmetic finishes, and reports concerning covering and sealing of hardware components."

In July, Apple sued OpenAI, alleging that the AI business busy in "a coordinated form of misconduct at an organizational level" to pilfer its commerce secrets. OpenAI has denied wrongdoing and stated it is not curious in Apple's commerce secrets.

In an August blog post, OpenAI ruined the "careless, assured and oddly individual lawsuit sadly doesn't live up to that reputation." In a lawful filing, OpenAI poked at Apple's perceived struggles amid the AI endowment war.

On Tuesday, Apple announced HomeView, a $299 display and the company's archetypal astute residence device, which is powered by Siri AI.

Apple additionally announced a presenter of astute residence products it developed alongside LG Electronics and Schneider Electric. Apple's notice highlighted how its AI systems could add to the devices, allowing a person to do everything from summarizing what's happening in footage captured by an outdoor camera to automatically adjusting a thermostat whenever they act a room.

OpenAI stated it is concerned that the data the employee took could be used by Apple.

"OpenAI is extremely concerned that its commerce concealed and confidential data is now circulating inner Apple," the company's lawyers wrote, "where Apple engineers can form Apple's upcoming products according to OpenAI's confidential and innovative work."

In referencing Apple's ambitions, OpenAI's lawyers connected in a footnote to the tech giant's gathering of new devices, including HomeView.

AI Is Changing Your Company Culture Whether You Planned for It or Not. Here’s How to Shape What Happens Next.

support@mycoding.id (Maren Perry) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0700

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

Key Takeaways

Employees are finding ways to merge AI into their activity faster than many organizations can create policies, norms or expectations about its use.
The guidance inquiry is no longer simply, “Should our group use AI?” It’s: “Are the ways group are using AI strengthening the civilization we say we desire or unintentionally operating against it?”

In the former few years, the use of AI has accelerated. An employee asks AI a inquiry they formerly would have discussed with a colleague. A presentation that used to obtain all day is prepared before lunch. Is this a fine change? Or not?

It’s hard to cognize since we’re adopting this new technology so quickly that establishing policies and strategies for its use often lag behind.

Your AI civilization is forming before your AI policy

The use of AI to research, draft, analyze, summarize and resolve problems is quickly reshaping how group activity together. As new habits obtain hold, expectations concerning speed, collaboration and good work shift. That’s how AI starts changing a company’s culture. Too often, those changes obtain clasp before leaders have considered how AI use can fortify the company’s center values.

Gallup’s 2026 research gives us a glance of how alternatively workforce are experiencing these changes. At workplaces that had implemented AI, 24% stated their civilization had improved complete the former year, during 25% stated it had worsened. These two extremes display that AI solitary doesn’t decide the outcome. The choices that leaders create concerning how AI is used are what really matter.

AI is rewriting the unwritten rules of work

As AI becomes part of the workday, leaders visage three key tradeoffs. How leaders grip these plainly signals to workforce what the institution values — and what it doesn’t

Speed vs. crucial thinking

A report that once took five hours now takes one. That’s helpful, but person motionless needs to inquiry the findings and decide what they mean. If the reply is “produce more reports,” there may be small period remaining for thinking, lone doing — and the norm of output power suffer.

Access to data vs. collaboration

An employee can ask AI a merchandise inquiry alternatively of calling person in R&D. That saves the two group time, but they endure a conversation. The employee may never study why a decision was made, and R&D may never comprehend what customers are asking. If that keeps happening, it becomes harder for the teams to resolve problems together.

Efficiency vs. workload

What happens to the period AI saves? It could provision person area to tackle a harder problem, build a accomplishment or activity alongside another team. Or it could merely mean more activity is expected, and the hazard of burnout increases.

AI doesn’t make those choices. Leaders do — and complete time, their choices rotate into the unwritten rules of work.

Use AI to reinforce the culture you actually want

It’s easy to concentration on whether workforce are using AI correctly and young female how it’s changing the way they activity alongside one another. Deloitte calls the problems that build up whenever organizations concentration on how group use AI but ignore its consequence on how they activity together “cultural debt.” Leaders can commencement to forestall it by taking the values their organizations already conversation concerning and making apparent what those values appearance akin whenever group use AI.

Collaboration: Let AI grip straightforward questions. When a decision would benefit from a colleague’s experience, make time for that conversation.

Critical thinking: An AI-generated answer is a location to start. Check the facts, ask what power be missing, and decide for yourself what the data means.

Learning: Give group area to try AI tools and conversation openly concerning what worked, what didn’t and what they discovered alongside the way.

Trust: Make certain everyone knows whenever to say they’ve used AI, who checks the activity and who is liable for the final result.

Strategic thinking: When AI saves time, depart area to tackle a harder inquiry or think through a decision before adding additional tasks.

This is how the values on the partition rotate into part of the workday. Our administrator coaches see a lot of scenarios anywhere teams get it correct and wrong. Here are a brace of examples that positively reinforced the company’s values.

A director asked their team to use AI to prepared for a client meeting, then brought them together in advance to test that preparation. What did the tool assume concerning the client? What questions were still unanswered? What did person on the squad cognize that isn’t in the summary? The squad went into the gathering improved prepared, and the procedure reinforced the habit of learning from one another — before relying on an AI-generated answer.

A team used AI to diagram out options for a new project, then gathered colleagues from another departments before choosing a final direction. Their colleagues spotted practical problems the squad missed and had a chance to explain how a projected alter would power their work. AI tools helped people get started, but the decision was better since they made it together.

AI is already changing the gait of activity and the way group rotate to one another for help. Leaders can form those changes by making their values apparent in mundane decisions: giving group period to think, encouraging them to search a colleague’s viewpoint and recognizing attention as fine as speed. The question isn’t only how much activity AI can obtain off people’s plates. It’s what you desire group to do alongside the period and notice it gives rear — and whether that brings your squad nearer to the civilization you want.

Bringing AI into your organization deserves the identical attention you’d give to a new employ or a new department. You need to think through how it fits and how it volition power the group already there. That attention helps you build a civilization by choice fairly than by default.

Key Takeaways

Employees are finding ways to merge AI into their activity faster than many organizations can create policies, norms or expectations about its use.
The guidance inquiry is no longer simply, “Should our group use AI?” It’s: “Are the ways group are using AI strengthening the civilization we say we desire or unintentionally operating against it?”

It’s hard to cognize since we’re adopting this new technology so quickly that establishing policies and strategies for its use often lag behind.

Your AI civilization is forming before your AI policy

The Best OLED TV for Most People Is $400 Off Right Now

support@mycoding.id (Daniel Oropeza) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0700

Daniel is Lifehacker's Shopping Editor covering tech deals and reviewing TVs, headphones, speakers, and projectors. He earned his master’s in reporting from Columbia University and has reported for the Miami Herald. He lives in Atlanta.

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The display's anti-reflective covering helps eliminate glare and reflections during observing TV during the day or whenever lamps or lights are placed at angles that can create the display small visible. This is a huge benefit—OLED TVs are known to already not be as brilliant as QLEDs. On top of the specialized coating, the ray output of the S90H is comparable to additional costly OLEDs, akin the LG C6, reaching up to 1,600 nits of brightness.

The S90H comes alongside Amazon Alexa built in, has AI Motion Enhancer Pro (a category of motion smoothing), 4K AI Upscaling Pro (an upscaling innovation that increases the resolution), and comes alongside Samsung's updated Tizen OS.

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Asian Paints AMT Sales and Marketing Interview Guide

support@mycoding.id (Board Infinity) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:23:06 +0700

Asian Paints: Assistant Management Trainee Sales and Marketing Interview Guide

The Assistant Management Trainee Sales and Marketing function at Asian Paints is built for candidates who can change market scheme into site execution. The activity connects revenue growth, conduit relationships, collections, inventory decisions, client cognition and business outcomes throughout assigned markets.

This guide is for MBA and early-career candidates preparing for the LEAP pathway into revenue and promotion leadership. It covers the role, required skills, regular responsibilities, discussion process, role-specific questions, preparedness areas, a four-week scheme and growth paths.

1. About the Assistant Management Trainee (Sales & Marketing) Role

This function prepares trainees to oversee a defined market akin a endeavor unit. That method tracking demand, improving dealer reach, ensuring gathering discipline, solving inventory preparedness issues and deciding anywhere market betterment attempt should go first.

The trainee plant throughout retailing sales, project sales, services and retailing, adhesives, residence decor and another growth businesses. Asian Paints presents its person and decor categories on the Asian Paints authoritative website, which is helpful environment for understanding the range of channels and customers involved.

2. Required Skills and Qualifications

Skills Overview

3. Day-to-Day Responsibilities

A representative week mixes market visits, reviews alongside frontline teams, dealer conversations, data checks and coordination alongside inner functions. The function is commercial, people-facing and execution-heavy, alongside decisions tied to the two growth and profitability.

Grow the Market

The trainee studies anywhere petition is coming from, which outlets or client segments need notice and anywhere growth can be profitable. The activity may contain reviewing revenue trends, identifying feeble pockets, preparedness market visits and pushing implementation through the squad without losing perspective of margins and collections.

Lead Frontline Teams

The function requires converting endeavor priorities into uncomplicated site actions for frontline revenue teams. That could average environment regular concentration areas, reviewing dealer coverage, checking follow-ups and coaching the squad whenever implementation slips. Interviewers anticipate candidates to display comfort alongside foremost group first in their career.

Manage Market Relationships

The trainee builds rely alongside dealers, contractors, architects, builders and organizational customers. In practice, this method understanding their endeavor needs, resolving conflict points, aligning them alongside business plans and ensuring the association supports sales, assistance and long-term market development.

Make Commercial Decisions

The function involves decisions throughout sales, distribution, inventory, collections and market development. A powerful applicant thinks in trade-offs: pushing revenue during avoiding mediocre collections, expanding attain during preventing inventory imbalance and prioritising initiatives that enhance client cognition as fine as endeavor performance.

Use Market Intelligence

The trainee uses data and site inputs to comprehend what is changing in the market. That can contain competitor activity, dealer feedback, project pipeline movement, merchandise petition shifts and assistance gaps. The goal is to rotate observations into clear, applicable decisions.

Coordinate Across Functions

Sales outcomes depend on additional than the revenue team. The trainee plant alongside Marketing on campaigns, Supply Chain on inventory availability, Finance on collections and Operations on assistance delivery. The strongest candidates display they can align timelines before implementation problems attain the customer.

4. Key Competencies for Success

High performers in this function merge site power alongside organized business judgement. They do not treat revenue as lone relationship-building; they nexus people, data, market realities and implementation discipline.

5. Interview Process at Asian Paints

For a evidence revenue and promotion guidance role, prepared for a procedure that tests endeavor thinking, site orientation, communication, guidance maturity and business fit. Expect interviewers to investigation why you desire a market-facing function fairly than a desk-only promotion profile.

Application Shortlist

The archetypal display checks scholarly background, guidance exposure, internships and fit alongside a revenue and promotion guidance track. Your resume should create site projects, squad leadership, business thinking and measurable outcomes uncomplicated to discover inside a quick scan.

Assessment or Case Screen

This phase may measure numerical comfort, endeavor judgement and written clarity. Practise abbreviated market cases anywhere you evaluation demand, construe a revenue dip, choose between conduit options or propose actions following study constricted data.

Group Discussion or Market Case

A collection exercise tests listening, construction and influence. The finest candidates example the problem, bring others in, use numbers anywhere imaginable and evade dominating. In a revenue case, keep the answer applicable adequate for a site squad to execute.

Business Interview

This circular normally goes deepest into the role. Expect questions on dealer relationships, collections, inventory, frontline teams, project sales, market betterment and data-led decisions. Interviewers may provision scenarios and ask what you would do in the archetypal week.

Leadership and Fit Interview

The final conversation checks motivation, resilience, mobility, comfort alongside site power and capability to guide teams early. Prepare apparent answers for why revenue and marketing, why Asian Paints and why you can grip duty throughout customers, teams and numbers.

Candidates frequently endure dirt whenever they depict promotion lone as campaigns and branding. For this role, nexus promotion to dealer activation, project conversion, client experience, collections, inventory and profitable market growth.

6. Interview Questions

Use the Story, Task, Action, Result example for behavioural answers and a organized issue-tree method for endeavor cases. Asian Paints interviewers volition value applicable judgement, clarity under force and the capability to nexus site implementation alongside business outcomes.

Behavioral and Company-Fit Questions

Role-Specific Sales and Marketing Questions

Product and Market Case Questions

7. Topics and Areas of Focus

Preparation should concentration on how a market is run, how channels behave and how business decisions are made under constraints. The strongest candidates can move from site study to a organized endeavor action.

8. Preparation Plan

Freshers: concentration on conceptual degree and organized answer frameworks specified as Story, Task, Action, Result and Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive thinking. Experienced candidates: prepared 3-5 particular effect stories from internships, live projects or activity cognition alongside measurable outcomes and ownership.

Week 1

Company and Role

Understand Asian Paints categories, LEAP expectations and market-facing responsibilities.

Week 2

Sales Fundamentals

Build fluency in channels, Profit and Loss thinking, inventory and collections.

Week 3

Cases and Stories

Practise market cases and change former cognition into interview-ready stories.

Week 4

Mock and Refine

Run timed mocks, tighten answers and fix feeble areas before interviews.

Pre-Interview Checklist

9. Career Growth & Next Roles

The LEAP pathway is designed to build first endeavor ownership in revenue and marketing. Progression depends on implementation discipline, squad leadership, business judgement and the capability to grip broader markets, channels and growth businesses complete time.

Assistant Management Trainee

At this stage, the concentration is organized visibility throughout retailing sales, project sales, services and retailing, adhesives, residence decor and growth businesses. The applicant must demonstrate learning agility, site comfort, data site and the capability to activity alongside multiple inner and external stakeholders.

Unit Head or Market Manager

The next phase involves owning a defined market alongside duty for sales, distribution, inventory, collections, client cognition and squad execution. Movement into this flat requires confidence alongside site reviews, dealer engagement, issue assessment and cross-functional coordination.

Regional or Channel Leadership

With stronger experience, responsibilities can develop throughout larger geographies, channels or endeavor verticals. Candidates must demonstrate they can guide through managers, enhance market systems, grip bigger business complexity and translate scheme into repeatable execution.

Business Leadership Path

Long-term movement can branch into revenue leadership, marketing, retailing, services, residence decor, new businesses or broader endeavor leadership. The average necessity is the capability to merge client understanding, group leadership, business degree and disciplined execution.

10. Conclusion

The most crucial preparedness project is to think akin a market owner, not akin a applicant memorising revenue terms. Every answer should nexus client behaviour, conduit relationships, squad execution, data and business discipline.

Before the interview, practise one dealer scenario, one collections circumstance and one market-growth case all day. Build keen stories that demonstrate you can guide people, grip ambiguity and create trade-offs whenever sales, inventory, assistance and profitability drag in distinct directions.

Pick one feeble market case today and resolve it in 20 minutes: diagnose the issue, catalog three site actions, choose two metrics and explain how you would assessment advancement following one week.

Top Tips for Interview Success

Container ship sinks in Strait of Hormuz as Iran steps up attacks

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:20:44 +0700

A receptacle container sank in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday as Iran escalated its attacks on business vessels.

The GFS Pride, registered in Singapore, sank following it was struck by an unidentified projectile and caught fire. The ship's 21 squad members were safely evacuated and no injuries were reported, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.

"Such attacks are unprovoked, unjustifiable and a breach of global law," the Singapore maritime authority stated in a declaration Wednesday.

Containers were floating in the h2o following the container sank, Pakistani maritime authorities warned in a navigational alert.

A second Singapore-registered receptacle ship, the GFS Giselle, sustained damage to its hull following it was hit by an unidentified projectile on Wednesday. The container has arrived at harmless anchorage and none of its squad were hurt, the Singapore maritime authority said.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed first Wednesday that a receptacle container exploded and sank following hitting a naval mine, according to the state news agency Tasnim. But there is no autonomous evidence to verify that a quarry is what caused the Pride to sink, according to the maritime safety resolute Marisks.

Iran's claims are "consistent alongside an ongoing mental operations run aimed at generating fear, expanding doubt and discouraging business shipping" in Hormuz, Marisks stated in a safety alert.

Iran has escalated its strikes on business ships transiting Hormuz in latest weeks, as it tries to choke off a rebound in crude oil exports through the strait.

More than 20 vessels, mostly oil tankers, have arrive under assault this duration in Hormuz, the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, according to event reports from the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre.

The attacks this duration have remaining two sailors missing and 12 injured, according to the International Maritime Organization, a United Nations' agency.

Crude oil exports through Hormuz hit prewar levels in September as the U.S. armed forces guided tankers through the strait, but shipments have since pulled rear as attacks have increased.

Exports through Hormuz averaged 8.5 myriad barrels per day (bpd) in the week ended Oct. 12, nearly 40% below normal levels before the Iran war, according to data from Kpler.

Shipments from the Middle East, including pipelines to the Gulf of Oman and Red Sea, stood at 14 myriad bpd, or nearly 20% below prewar levels, the data showed.

Daily crude flows are extremely volatile, alongside lone 3 myriad barrels of crude transiting Hormuz on Monday during 6 myriad barrels passed through the strait on Friday, according to Kpler.

Asian Paints Careers: Company and Interview Guide

support@mycoding.id (Board Infinity) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:16:50 +0700

Asian Paints Limited is an Indian paints, coatings and residence décor business whose authoritative overview describes a endeavor spanning decorative paints, manufacturing coatings, waterproofing, partition coverings and design-led home-improvement categories (Asian Paints About Us). It sits in the construction materials, person durables and residence betterment space, anywhere brand strength, distribution, color technology, contractor networks and assistance norm all matter. For candidates, the business is helpful since it is not lone a manufacturing business; it additionally plant akin a person brand, a retailing ecosystem, a supply-chain network and a services platform. That mix makes discussion preparedness distinct for sales, marketing, operations, technology, design, backing and HR roles. A powerful applicant should comprehend how coat products, décor services, dealers, applicators and homeowners nexus in one functioning model.

This guide covers anywhere Asian Paints came from, who owns and governs it today, and the products and services that form its rivalrous context.

1. Company Overview

About Asian Paints

Asian Paints is finest understood as a consumer-facing materials and residence décor business alongside profound manufacturing, allocation and assistance implementation rearward the brand. That makes it a helpful case study for interviewers since many roles necessitate cross-functional thinking: a revenue applicant may need to comprehend dealers and contractors, a promotion applicant may need to conversation colour-led demand, and an operations applicant may need to nexus merchandise preparedness alongside assistance fulfilment.

Company History

For discussion preparation, the helpful takeaway is that Asian Paints evolved from a coat manufacturer into a broader home-improvement and services business. Interviewers may investigation how the business built a person brand, expanded into neighboring categories and used allocation power to assistance newer décor and service-led offerings.

1942 Founding

Asian Paints was founded in Bombay by Champaklal Choksey, Chimanlal Choksi, Suryakant Dani and Arvind Vakil, a milestone recorded in the company’s authoritative former (Asian Paints About Us).

1954 Brand Building

The business introduced Gattu, the well-known coat mascot created by cartoonist R. K. Laxman, strengthening Asian Paints’ recall as a person brand (Asian Paints About Us).

1967 Scale

Asian Paints became a foremost name in the Indian paints market, a turning item the business highlights in its authoritative company former (Asian Paints About Us).

1982 Ownership

Asian Paints entered its public-company phase, which is why candidates should comprehend listed-company governance, capitalist reporting and promoter-public shareholding whenever discussing the endeavor (Asian Paints Investor Relations).

1997 Industrial Coatings

Asian Paints deepened its industrial-coatings existence through its affiliation alongside PPG, adding an crucial business-to-business size alongside decorative paints (Asian Paints PPG).

2013 Home Improvement

The business expanded into standardized kitchens through Sleek, showing its move from partition finishes toward broader home-improvement solutions (Asian Paints Products).

2014 Modernisation

Asian Paints entered bathing fittings through Ess Ess, reinforcing the strategic change from paint-only conversations to complete residence décor and betterment journeys (Asian Paints Products).

2. Mission, Vision & Values

Mission

Asian Paints frames its direction through its published vision, brand commitment and home-improvement offering fairly than a separately labelled goal line. In interviews, nexus your answer to person experience, dependable execution, colour-led choice and assistance quality.

Vision

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"Asian Paints aims to rotate into among the top five decorative coatings companies world-wide by leveraging its ability in the higher growth emerging markets. Simultaneously, the business aims to build lengthy term value in the manufacturing coatings endeavor through alliances alongside established earth partners."

This is the company’s published imagination declaration on its authoritative company overview (Asian Paints About Us). Use it to explain how a function can assistance decorative coatings, manufacturing partnerships, emerging-market implementation and long-term category expansion.

Core Values

Asian Paints’ authoritative community pages example behavior through governance, person focus, innovation-led products and home-improvement implementation fairly than a compact values charter. For discussion preparation, build examples about the themes the business often publishes: client understanding, innovation, disciplined execution, ethical behavior and cross-functional ownership.

Prepare stories against those published themes fairly than using a generic values catalog that could use to any person company.

3. Products and Services

Asian Paints’ offering extends from coat products to services and neighboring home-improvement categories, which makes it applicable for candidates in sales, product, brand marketing, operations, technology, scheme consulting and provision chain. Its authoritative merchandise catalogue covers coat finishes, waterproofing, partition coverings, décor products and service-led residence solutions (Asian Paints Products).

Decorative paints and partition finishes The center portfolio covers inner and exterior partition paints, emulsions, enamels, primers, textures and finishes used by homeowners, contractors, architects and dealers.
Waterproofing and protective solutions The business offers products for terraces, exterior walls, bathrooms, damp patches and exterior protection, making this category applicable for roles that nexus merchandise achievement alongside site-level issue solving.
Wood and metal element coatings Asian Paints serves furniture, doors, grills, railings and another surfaces through timber finishes, enamels and protective coatings that necessitate the two specialized merchandise cognition and retailer-contractor education.
Wall coverings, textures and décor surfaces This includes wallpapers, decorator textures, stencils and specialised finishes, which are crucial for candidates preparing for scheme advisory, premium retail, ocular merchandising and consultative marketing roles.
Painting services and color consultancy Asian Paints provides assisted artwork and colour-led services anywhere the client journey includes shade selection, location inspection, contractor coordination, implementation norm and post-service experience.
Home betterment categories The company’s broader residence offering includes standardized kitchens, bathing products, lighting, furnishings and connected décor solutions, giving candidates a way to conversation cross-selling beyond paint.
Industrial and automotive coatings Through its industrial-coatings endeavor and PPG association, Asian Paints additionally participates in business-to-business covering applications anywhere specialized specifications, OEM relationships and achievement standards matter.

4. Key Competitors of Asian Pants

Asian Pants competes in India’s paints and home-decor market, particularly decorative partition paints, exterior coatings, waterproofing, timber finishes, and connected artwork services. Competition is not lone concerning brand size; it runs on dealer reach, shade availability, artist influence, merchandise durability, cost tiers, project advisory, and how effortlessly customers can complete a repainting job.

Berger Paints India

DECORATIVE AND INDUSTRIAL PAINTS COMPANY

Competes on: inner and exterior partition paints, waterproofing, timber coatings, protective coatings, dealer access, and contractor-led repainting demand.

Position: A powerful straightforward competitor for customers comparing established Indian coat brands throughout mid-premium and premium home-painting choices.

Kansai Nerolac Paints

DECORATIVE, AUTOMOTIVE AND INDUSTRIAL COATINGS BRAND

Competes on: partition paints, enamels, timber finishes, waterproofing, color solutions, artist relationships, and covering credibility throughout decorative and manufacturing use cases.

Position: Particularly applicable anywhere the buyer values a long-running coat brand alongside the two home-painting products and wider coatings expertise.

Dulux India

PREMIUM DECORATIVE PAINTS BRAND FROM AKZO NOBEL

Competes on: premium inner emulsions, exterior finishes, color inspiration, durability claims, design-led positioning, and municipal repainting projects.

Position: A straightforward premium substitute whenever customers are choosing paints according to complete quality, color experience, and brand awareness fairly than lone price.

Indigo Paints

DECORATIVE PAINTS AND SPECIALTY COATINGS COMPANY

Competes on: inner and exterior paints, primers, enamels, waterproofing, differentiated finishes, local retailing presence, and value-premium merchandise choices.

Position: A challenger brand that can be applicable in interviews whenever discussing merchandise differentiation, retailing push, and competition beyond the bequest top players.

In a competitive-analysis answer, difference Asian Pants alongside rivals on client segment, merchandise overlap, distribution, pricing ladder, artist influence, assistance model, and brand positioning; do not decrease the answer to which business is bigger.

For a paints and coatings endeavor akin Asian Paints, CSR connects closely alongside safer communities, liable asset use, artist livelihoods, plant-adjacent betterment and improved living spaces. Candidates should example CSR as part of how the business manages its wider impact, not as a flank activity; before naming a particular program in an interview, verify the latest business communication, CSR guideline or annual report.

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Environment & Resource Use

A paints endeavor is expected to attention concerning liable h2o use, emissions, discarded handling and safer manufacturing practices.

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Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

CSR themes can contain community admission to spotless water, sanitation and hygiene, particularly about manufacturing and functioning locations.

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Education & Skill Building

This can contain vocational training, employability assistance and capability construction for group connected to the broader residence betterment ecosystem.

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Health & Community Wellbeing

Plant-adjacent and market-facing companies frequently assistance health awareness, preventive attention and wellbeing initiatives in local communities.

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Painter & Contractor Livelihoods

Because painters, dealers and contractors are chief to the category, livelihood assistance and accomplishment betterment are natural CSR-adjacent themes.

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Community Infrastructure

A built-environment business can contribute through school, public-space, neighbourhood and essential infrastructure improvements anywhere it operates.

6. Interview Process & Selection Rounds

Hiring at Asian Paints normally follows a organized path, but the degree of evaluation changes by function, seniority and location. Sales and promotion roles lean additional on market judgment, client handling and endeavor sense, during manufacturing, provision chain, R&D and digital roles add deeper functional or specialized evaluation. Senior candidates should additionally anticipate stronger concentration on stakeholder management, decision norm and ownership of outcomes.

Application Screening

Recruiters measure education, applicable experience, location fit and function alignment. For revenue roles this may concentration on district visibility and conduit comfort, during specialized roles are screened for domain depth, projects, tools and factory or lab readiness.

Aptitude, Case or Functional Assessment

This circular checks analytical ability, issue solving and function readiness. Management, revenue and promotion candidates may get market scenarios or endeavor cases, during operations, provision chain, R&D and innovation candidates may visage functional tests, procedure problems or tool-based tasks.

Group Discussion or Business Exercise

For evidence and early-career hiring, candidates may be assessed on clarity of thought, listening, organized communication and business awareness. Sales and administration candidates should anticipate category or market topics, during specialized candidates may get collaboration-led issue discussions.

Functional Interview

Hiring managers test whether the applicant can execute the genuine job. A revenue applicant may conversation dealer relationships and petition generation, a manufacturing applicant may explain norm and safety routines, and a digital applicant may stroll through product, data or scheme decisions.

HR, Leadership and Offer Discussion

The final circular checks motivation, values fit, mobility, compensation expectations and long-term intent. Senior roles may contain guidance conversations on judgment, ambiguity, ethics and cross-functional power before the recommendation is finalised.

7. Common Interview Questions Across Roles

These are questions any Asian Paints applicant can visage throughout functions; role-specific specialized questions pertain in that role's own discussion guide.

General, Company-Fit & Behavioral Questions

8. Required Skills & Tools

Required skills at Asian Paints are not one flat list; they alter by occupation route, and this array maps to the identical routes used in Career Opportunities below.

9. Career Opportunities at Asian Pants

Careers at Asian Pants are finest understood by route: business roles visage customers and markets, during specialized and enabling roles build the product, operations, systems and controls rearward the business. For discussion preparation, map your examples to the path you are applying for, since all path rewards a distinct promotion signal.

Sales & Business Development

This path covers customer-facing titles specified as Sales Officer, Territory Sales Officer, Area Sales Manager and Key Account Manager, anywhere the activity includes dealer relationships, retailing visibility, contractor involvement and category growth. Promotion normally follows accordant district performance, stronger conduit power and the capability to develop endeavor without losing implementation discipline.

Marketing & Brand Management

This path includes roles specified as Brand Executive, Assistant Brand Manager, Product Manager and Marketing Manager, alongside activity throughout person insight, run planning, merchandise positioning, launches and commerce communication. Promotion comes whenever a applicant can nexus brand scheme alongside measurable market outcomes and apparent revenue enablement.

Manufacturing & Operations

This path covers factory and shop-floor titles specified as Production Engineer, Process Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Quality Officer and Operations Manager, anywhere the concentration is safety, throughput, reliability, norm authority and uninterrupted improvement. Promotion is driven by safer operations, lesser procedure losses, improved uptime and the capability to guide teams under manufacturing pressure.

Supply Chain & Procurement

This path includes Supply Chain Executive, Planning Executive, Logistics Officer, Procurement Executive and Vendor Development Manager, alongside activity throughout petition planning, inventory, dispatch, sourcing, vendor coordination and assistance levels. Promotion depends on dependable fulfilment, disbursal control, vendor site and the capability to forestall disruptions before they attain customers.

Research, Product & Technology

This path covers titles specified as R&D Chemist, Product Development Executive, Technical Service Officer, Innovation Manager and Application Specialist, anywhere candidates activity on formulations, merchandise performance, shade systems, evaluation and customer-use problems. Promotion follows from solving reiterate specialized issues, improving merchandise achievement and converting lab or site understanding into scalable endeavor value.

Finance, HR & Corporate Functions

This path includes Finance Executive, Accounts Officer, Business Analyst, HR Business Partner, Talent Acquisition Executive, Legal Executive and Compliance Manager, supporting controls, group processes, reporting, hazard administration and endeavor partnering. Promotion is signalled by sharper stakeholder trust, cleaner governance, faster issue resolution and decisions that assistance endeavor teams run alongside confidence.

10. Future Outlook and Strategic Plan

Asian Paints today positions itself beyond a traditional coat manufacturer, alongside its authoritative overview covering decorative paints, manufacturing coatings, residence décor, waterproofing and connected services (Asian Paints About Us). For candidates, the direction connects rear to the company’s first Indian manufacturing roots, its afterward guidance in decorative paints, and its gradual enlargement into a broader home-improvement ecosystem.

Home betterment ecosystem

Be prepared to explain how paints, waterproofing, décor, color consulting and implementation services can activity together as one client resolution fairly than distinct merchandise categories.

Consumer-led brand strength

Prepare examples of how a applicant would comprehend homeowner behaviour, contractor influence, retailer relationships and trust-building in a high-involvement purchase.

Execution and conduit discipline

Expect discussion conversation about availability, dealer servicing, influencer administration and local market execution, since category guidance depends heavily on accordant site performance.

Innovation in products and services

Have a item of perspective on applicable innovation: finishes, durability, waterproofing, color tools, artwork services and how these decrease conflict for homeowners and professionals.

Competitive response

Be prepared to difference Asian Paints alongside competitors specified as Berger Paints, Kansai Nerolac, Akzo Nobel and Indigo Paints on brand, reach, merchandise degree and assistance experience.

11. Conclusion

Asian Paints sits at the premium end of India’s organised paints and residence décor market, alongside a lengthy functioning history, powerful person recall and profound conduit dependence. Its direction depends on protecting coat guidance during making neighboring services dependable for homeowners, contractors and dealers. For person joining, that method the function is improbable to be narrow. Candidates have to be prepared to activity throughout brand, distribution, assistance quality, merchandise cognition and local-market execution, during staying vigilant to competitors that difficulty on price, attain and category focus.

Creators Are Handing Their Video Edits to AI. Here’s Where It Starts to Backfire.

support@mycoding.id (Usman Qamar) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0700

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

Key Takeaways

Full AI editing tends to neglect in a specific, repeatable way. A new immediate to fix one small matter frequently breaks item that was earlier fine, turning editing into an endless iteration alternatively of a completed product.
A video doesn’t have to appearance bad to awareness akin AI made it. Pacing, transitions and small imaginative choices can be technically fine and motionless peruse as hollow, and viewers notice equal whenever they can’t say why.
AI is genuinely helpful for narrow, mechanical work. Motion graphics, essential cleanup, noise and color correction — tasks anywhere there’s a apparent correct answer.
The final imaginative call should remain human. That judgement can’t be completely stated in a prompt, and re-prompting blind is slower than fair making the alter yourself.

Full AI video editing appears akin the apparent upgrade. Describe what you want, let the tool build it, move on to the next thing.

In practice, a lot of creators who try to hand the entire edit to AI end up location alternatively entirely, stuck in a iteration anywhere fixing one small item quietly breaks item that was already right.

The fix one thing, interrupt another loop

Here is what that iteration really looks like. You prompt an edit. The pacing feels off, so you ask for a change. The pacing improves, but now a passage that worked before feels abrupt. You immediate again to fix the transition. That fixes the passage and shifts the timing on a caption that used to district perfectly.

None of these are theatrical failures. Each one is small adequate to explain distant as one additional quick fix. The issue is that a complete AI edit has no recollection of why item worked in the archetypal place, so all new immediate is a caller conjecture fairly than a targeted adjustment. You are not editing anymore. You are negotiating alongside a dreary box, one small commerce at a time.

This is distinct from a tool being unreliable. The AI is normally doing exactly what was asked. The matter is that a video is a scheme of small decisions that depend on all other, and asking for one alter at a time, without being capable to see or contact the underlying structure, method you are continually one stage rearward your own edit. Ten prompts in, a lot of creators acknowledge they have spent longer chasing the fix than a straightforward edit would have taken from the start.

What really makes a video awareness akin AI

A video does not need to appearance damaged to awareness akin AI made it. Pacing that is technically fine but emotionally flat. A cut that lands on the accurate example but at the incorrect moment. Captions that are exact but timed akin a metronome alternatively of a conversation. None of these display up as errors. They display up as a video that feels hollow, and viewers notice that emotion equal whenever they could not item to the particular example that caused it.

This is the part that is uncomplicated to young female whenever judging AI editing purely on specialized correctness. Technical correctness was never the bar. The bar was continually whether a viewer stays, and that has additional to do alongside beat and intuition than alongside whether a cut is exactly on beat. A absolutely executed edit can motionless endure a spectator in the archetypal four seconds if the beat feels off, and beat is not item most tools are really optimizing for.

Where AI really earns its place

None of this makes AI useless in an edit. It makes it helpful for a particular category of task: the ones alongside a apparent correct answer. Cleaning up backdrop noise. Matching color throughout clips attempt in distinct light. Generating a archetypal continue at motion graphics or captions that a individual afterward adjusts. These are tasks anywhere AI can do in seconds what used to obtain an publishing company an hour, and the outcome does not depend on taste.

The error is assuming that since AI handles those tasks well, it should additionally grip the tasks that do not have a apparent correct answer. Where a cut should land, what gets cut entirely, how lengthy a intermission should breathe before the next row — these are judgment calls, not correctness checks. There is no dirt fact to converge on, which is exactly why prompting toward it in circles never fairly arrives. A apparent correct answer can be automated. A judgement call can lone be made.

Why straightforward authority strikes indirect control

The creators who get the finest results treat AI as a tool they operate, not a collaborator they negotiate alongside through prompts. When you can open the timeline yourself and nudge a cut by a few frames, you create one change, and you can see immediately whether it worked. When you can lone depict the alter and delay for a new version, you are guessing at the input and expecting the output matches what you pictured, and all conjecture risks moving item alternatively out of place.

This is not an disagreement against AI in the workflow. It is an disagreement for keeping a individual hand on the parts that necessitate judgment, during letting AI grip the parts that do not. The creators who figured this out are not the ones avoiding AI. They are the ones who stopped trying to completely assign the one part of editing that was never going to be a immediate distant in the archetypal place, and who treat all hr saved on the mechanical parts as an hr they can expend on the part lone they can really do.

Key Takeaways

Full AI editing tends to neglect in a specific, repeatable way. A new immediate to fix one small matter frequently breaks item that was earlier fine, turning editing into an endless iteration alternatively of a completed product.
A video doesn’t have to appearance bad to awareness akin AI made it. Pacing, transitions and small imaginative choices can be technically fine and motionless peruse as hollow, and viewers notice equal whenever they can’t say why.
AI is genuinely helpful for narrow, mechanical work. Motion graphics, essential cleanup, noise and color correction — tasks anywhere there’s a apparent correct answer.
The final imaginative call should remain human. That judgement can’t be completely stated in a prompt, and re-prompting blind is slower than fair making the alter yourself.

Full AI video editing appears akin the apparent upgrade. Describe what you want, let the tool build it, move on to the next thing.

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