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Weekly news around the world of ecommerce, retail & technology. Host of the V Spot - home to the eCommerce Nearly News.

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Re-introducing friction. A component link to the success of automation, agentism and the increasing adoption of new but the same ol' shopping methods - https://t.co/MHgniLK1Mo

[The Southern Star @SouthernStarIRL]

A family from Shannon Vale, captures a close encounter with a basking shark while kayaking.

The video, shared with the Southern Star, shows the shark's dorsal fin breaking the surface of the water as it swims near the kayak.

The underwater footage provides a glimpse of the shark's massive body and gills as it filter-feeds on plankton.

[ana⁴⁴ @anapau_villa]

Adidas lanzó un corto de 5 minutos protagonizado por Timothée Chalamet donde recluta a Bellingham, Yamal y Trinity Rodman para vencer a un equipo de fútbol callejero y efectivamente es cine.

Messi, Zidane, Beckham, Del Piero, Bad Bunny… denle el Oscar.

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Opportunity Junkyism

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@mikefutia SHOP

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@sundarpichai @GeminiApp @sundarpichai dude you just killed my presnetation conference deck. You, owe me :)

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

10/10

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Affording the Luxury of Patience and the One-Year Window https://t.co/d8rYW0Fc7g

[Constantin Gurdgiev @GTCost]

This. Is. A. Masterpiece. Of. Socio-Economic Analysis.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

New version of Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP 2026-04-08) just got finalized.

Carts (!), Catalog discovery features, Order status,, Signals support, ...

Big step step function upgrade for agentic commerce.

https://t.co/Q9hGXUUmLr

Coming soon to every Shopify storefront.

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Do you suffer from Chronic Acronym Anxiety, or CAA.

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A Timeline of Every LLM Announcing, Cancelling, Pivoting, and Re-Announcing Ecommerce Shopping

https://t.co/2mxROzMinN

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Moda

[Brett @BrettFromDJ]

Not saying Canva should be worried.

But this is the first thing I've seen in a while that made me think someone's finally coming for them.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨 Andrej Karpathy just explained the scariest thing happening in software right now..

someone poisoned a Python package that gets 97 million downloads a month.. and a simple pip install was enough to steal everything on your machine..

SSH keys.. AWS credentials.. crypto wallets.. database passwords.. git credentials.. shell history.. SSL private keys.. everything..

and here's the part that should terrify every developer alive..

the attack was only discovered because the attacker wrote sloppy code.. the malware used so much RAM that it crashed someone's computer.. if the attacker had been better at coding.. nobody would have noticed for weeks..

one developer.. using Cursor with an MCP plugin.. had litellm pulled in as a dependency they didn't even know about.. their machine crashed.. and that crash saved thousands of companies from getting their entire infrastructure stolen..

Karpathy's take is the real wake up call.. every time you install any package you're trusting every single dependency in its tree.. and any one of them could be poisoned..

vibe coding saved us this time.. the attacker vibe coded the attack and it was too sloppy to work quietly.. next time they won't make that mistake.

[Garda Info @gardainfo]

A new virus has arrived which targets the system that powers Apple devices. Here’s what you need to know 👇

Victims of the malware should consult a competent cyber security professional and report the crime to their local Garda Station.

#KeepingPeopleSafe

[Ros Atkins @BBCRosAtkins]

Two minutes on Donald Trump's mixed messages on the war with Iran. Produced by Katerina Karelli. The BBC News live page on the war is here: https://t.co/Bz4SFSqHHG

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Agentic Commerce, The Musical

https://t.co/sUInexQdsz

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Endgame Economics https://t.co/8MKI3cxUa0

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Endgame Economics

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@rcbregman Read Empire of AI - he should be no where near any of this.