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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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McCarthy Tétrault, one of Canada’s top corporate law firms, is dealing with a major data breach that has compromised thousands of files, including client information.
The breach occurred over the last week, according to two sources familiar with the matter, and one source directly involved said 31,000 files were stolen.
The Globe and Mail is not naming the sources because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
McCarthy Tétrault confirmed the breach to The Globe and Mail, but declined to comment on the number of affected files.
The firm, which advises on some of the highest profile deals in Canada, has been reaching out to Bay Street clients this week and informing them of the breach. Clients are currently in the process of learning what information has been compromised.
theglobeandmail.com/business…
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A Russian Shahed struck a park near a café in the Kharkiv region. Six people were killed, including one-year-old in her stroller and an 11-year-old girl. Fourteen were wounded, six of them children.
"Lives must be protected. Ukraine needs air defense."
@ZelenskyyUa
A horrific Russian strike in the Kharkiv region. A “shahed” struck people directly – in a park near an ordinary café. Pure atrocity. Six people were killed, including children. A little girl was killed in a stroller – her name was Angelina, she was just over a year old, born in August 2025… Her mother’s name was Inna. She died in the hospital… Another girl who was killed was 11 years old. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Another 14 people were injured, including six more children.
I am grateful to everyone who supports Ukraine under these circumstances and helps us shoot down “shaheds,” shoot down missiles, and stop Russian assaults. These are horrific photos, but behind them are shattered lives and the truth about this war. Lives must be protected. Ukraine needs air defense. You can't think about making money with Russia as long as it continues its asinine war. We ask that sanctions on Russia stay in place as long as the killings continue. We ask America to be strong, and we ask it to apply the Lindsey Graham law. We ask Europe to continue its support. We ask that everything possible be done to bring peace and guarantee security. Ukraine wants peace. It is Russia that has insisted on continuing the killing all this time. The world has enough strength to stop the war. That strength must finally be used – against the murderers.
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A few words on Wednesday’s Apple event.
daringfireball.net/2026/09/t…
Mega deduction includes patent costs.
Prime Minister Carney introduces new Productivity Mega Deduction to boost Canada’s advantage as the most competitive G7 country for new business investment: pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releas…
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Prime Minister Carney introduces new Productivity Mega Deduction to boost Canada’s advantage as the most competitive G7 country for new business investment: pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releas…
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Tesla’s event poster announcing the new Roadster shows:
✅ The “Where we’re going” message hidden
✅ 4 lights highlighting the patented revolutionary aerodynamic system with 4 fans and a deployable skirt (see comments)
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Left: 9/11, 2001, New York
Right: 9/11, 2026, Odesa
Please explain to me why we killed the terrorist responsible for the image on the left, while rolling out the red carpet for the terrorist responsible for the image on the right.
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NEW blog post is up!
"Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future"
My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago.
Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious: millions of people have a vague sense that AI is changing things. And LLMs sure are convenient for getting answers quickly. My team and I use Claude and other tools daily.
But far fewer people have first-hand experience with the speed and intensity of disruption that’s happening. Not in a year, not in six months, but right now.
So let me show you, using my own books as the cadaver on the table, what a fatality looks like.
(Link below)
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The fastest way to expose whether a CEO actually uses their own product: make them do the most basic task on camera.
Outlook has over 400 million active users. Microsoft’s productivity segment generated $77.8 billion last year. And the official Microsoft support page for “Outlook search not working” tells users to open the Windows Registry Editor and manually create DWORD values.
That’s the fix. For a product used by almost every Fortune 500 company on Earth. Edit your registry.
The reason Outlook search has been broken for years is the same reason it will stay broken: Microsoft sells to IT procurement, not to the person trying to find last Tuesday’s email. The buyer and the user are completely different people. The CIO signs a 3-year enterprise agreement based on security compliance, Azure integration, and per-seat bundling. Nobody in that purchasing decision opens Outlook and types “Q3 budget” into the search bar to see what happens.
This is why Gmail search works and Outlook search doesn’t. Google built for the end user first and sold enterprise later. Microsoft built for the enterprise buyer first and shipped whatever search users would tolerate.
345 million paid seats. The switching cost is so high that Microsoft could ship Outlook with no search at all and most companies would renew anyway.
Every CEO of an enterprise software company knows this. The product doesn’t need to be good. It needs to be locked in.
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NEWS: Apple has introduced the MacBook Neo, their most affordable laptop ever.
• Price: $599 ($499 for students)
• 16 hour battery life
• 13" display, 500 nits
• A18 Pro chip
• 256GB or 512GB of storage
• Four colors: silver, indigo, blush, and citrus
• Weight: 2.7 lbs
• Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 6 connectivity
• 8GB RAM
• 1080p front-facing camera, dual mics with directional beamforming, and dual side-firing speakers with Spatial Audio.
• Lowest-carbon Mac. Features 60% recycled materials, more than any other Apple product.
• Available starting March 11
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Jim Balsillie, former CEO of BlackBerry:
“Canada thought we were the smartest in the world: just cut taxes, cut regulations, get out of the way and let efficiency take you there.
When in fact, [intellectual property] is about structural inefficiency.
It's about introducing friction to capture a rent. You got strategic behaviour by other nation states.
We didn't think there was any place for that whatsoever.”
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Lawyer uses ChatGPT to help write a brief, ChatGPT hallucinates cases and quotations.
Court sanctions lawyer and 4 co-counsel (for not catching the errors).
The lawyer who used ChatGPT "has practiced for over thirty years."
He prompted ChatGPT: "write an order that denies the motion to strike with caselaw support ...."
He told the court that he normally doesn't use ChatGPT and used it this time because he was caring for his dying family members.
He said none of his co-counsel were aware of this use of generative AI.
Court says that because "all five ... attorneys signed both documents that included these errors, and they admit that not one of them verified that the case law in those briefs actually exist ..., their conduct violates Rule 11(b)(2).
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Yuri Chumak has been recognized twice in the Client Choice @lexology Index rankings. He was ranked as “Highly Recommended” in the Trademarks category and “Recommended” in the Copyright category. Learn more here: bit.ly/3YsNPQ9 #iplaw
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Taxpayers deserve the benefit of the bargain. If Harvard won’t honor the Bayh-Dole Act, then we will find someone who will.
Yes, It’s a Design Flaw
Signal’s security features are strong, but its group chat system lacks safeguards to prevent accidents in high-stakes contexts. The absence of confirmation steps, granular permission controls, and enhanced verification mechanisms makes it too easy for a user like Mike Waltz to add the wrong person—like Jeffrey Goldberg—to a sensitive chat. This isn’t just a user error; it’s a design flaw that fails to account for the realities of human error, especially in scenarios where the consequences of a mistake are severe (e.g., leaking military plans). Signal could and should improve its design to better protect users, particularly those in high-security roles, while still maintaining its commitment to privacy and usability.
