How Low-Priced Services Can Cost You More in the Long Run | Entrepreneur

October 27, 2026October 26, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

We all crave a bargain, especially entrepreneurs chasing the best deals on goods and services. In a perfect world, we would always land a low price and top-notch results. True harmony happens when value and price align. But too often, that rock-bottom price balloons when someone has to step in and fix or redo a purchase that turned out to be more trouble than it was worth.

I’ll admit that I’m drawn to a low price. Yet, after more than twenty years in business, I’ve learned to be cautious of work that’s simply cheap. While I love a good deal as much as anyone, the rates I offer my transcription clients aren’t the lowest, but what I consider an exceptional value.

Hardly a week passes without our team being asked to rescue a botched transcription from a competitor. We appreciate the business, of course, but I can’t help but wonder why clients leap at the lowest rate without weighing the quality of service.

Replacing a Founder? Here’s How to Get It Right. | Entrepreneur

October 27, 2026October 26, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

From the outside, taking over from a founder can look like the ideal leadership opportunity. The company already exists, the product is in the market, revenue is coming in, and the team is built. Compared with starting from nothing, stepping into that environment can feel like inheriting momentum.

That impression usually fades once you are inside.

Founders leave deep impressions. Over time, companies begin reflecting their instincts, communication style, and decision-making patterns. Employees learn what matters by observing what the founder rewards, ignores, accelerates, or delays. Even when none of it is written down, everybody inside the company understands how the system operates.

Proton Flock camera map: Find surveillance devices near you | Mashable

October 26, 2026October 25, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

You probably know where the coffee shops and gas stations are in your neighborhood. But the cameras logging your license plate as you drive past? Those can be a little harder to keep track of.

Proton, the Swiss privacy company behind Proton Mail and Proton VPN, is helping make them easier to find by hosting a free map of Flock surveillance devices on its servers (you can explore the map on Proton’s website). Flock tried to get the researcher behind the original project to take it down, according to The Intercept.

iPhone Duo problems: Shoddy-looking apps, hinge, FaceTime camera | Mashable

October 26, 2026October 25, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Apple’s iPhone Duo is currently in that strange limbo where it’s been announced, it’s available to pre-order, but it’s not widely available yet.

In this period, every issue and bug gets amplified, especially when the device is so different from anything Apple has done before. We’ve seen people declaring they would never buy this phone, as well as lists of reasons why that’s a good decision.

Having had the iPhone Duo in my hands for a little over a week now (not counting my time with a bunch of Duos at Apple’s September event in Cupertino), I got to experience the good and the bad firsthand. And, since I switched to the Duo as my primary phone, I can tell you that I haven’t yet encountered anything that would make me go back to a different iPhone.

Websites shut down globally after AI finds cybersecurity flaw affecting 70% of the internet | CNN Business

October 23, 2026October 22, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Governments and companies around the world are racing to fix vulnerabilities revealed by artificial intelligence that could affect 70% of the world’s websites.

Some websites and services briefly went dark after the set of vulnerabilities were announced Wednesday.

The US National Security Agency and Europe’s cybersecurity agency advised companies to take immediate action to address two critical flaws in PHP, a programming language that powers 70% of the world’s websites.

‘We could not beat this description of gravity’: Lightest known pair of neutron stars proves Einstein right yet again | Live Science

October 22, 2026October 21, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Astronomers have discovered the lightest known pair of neutron stars — two ultradense stellar remnants that circle each other every 2 hours, 22 minutes, veering toward an inevitable collision about 82 million years from now. By timing radio pulses from one of the stars, the researchers detected three subtle effects predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and found that the theory describes the pair’s motion to within about 1% — proving the visionary physicist right yet again.

The researchers published their findings Sept. 15 in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive stars that exploded as supernovas. Each packs more mass than the Sun into a ball roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter. Some, called pulsars, spin rapidly and sweep beams of radio waves across the sky like cosmic lighthouses. Their rotation is so steady that their pulses work as extraordinarily precise clocks.

Could ‘body clocks’ play a role in depression? Study proposes a new ‘circadian’ subtype | Live Science

October 22, 2026October 21, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Some people with depression sleep far more than average, wake up exhausted, habitually stay up late, and experience mood shifts with the seasons. A new study suggests that these symptoms may cluster in a distinct subtype of depression that’s tied to the body’s internal clock.

While research has long linked a scrambled circadian rhythm to a risk of mood disorders, neuroscientists are now proposing that these disruptions define a specific form of depression that they call “circadian depression.” First conceptualized in 2021, the body-clock subtype may affect about 1 in 4 people with severe, recurrent or persistent depression, the researchers estimate.

In their new study, published Wednesday (Oct. 21) in The British Journal of Psychiatry, the team identified the subtype in about 2,600 people out of over 11,000 evaluated.

How to Use Your College Alumni Network for Success | Business News Daily

October 20, 2026October 19, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Just because you’ve graduated from college doesn’t mean your alma mater needs to become a distant memory. By staying connected with your college through an alumni organization, you can build relationships with students who are studying to enter your field and other alumni who are professionals and potential partners, and even boost your brand profile by sponsoring events and becoming a presence on campus. This guide offers ideas for how to engage with your college’s alumni network for the benefit of your small business.

What is an alumni network?

An alumni network is an organization created by either a college/university or alumni to keep graduates connected with other alumni, current students, and the school’s faculty. Alumni networks allow people with shared experiences and similar interests to network on an ongoing basis. That could mean introducing employers to graduating students, connecting potential business partners with one another, or helping to mutually promote the school and alumni brands. Alumni networks can be a powerful tool and useful resource if you know how to leverage them correctly.

How to Show Qualifications With Limited Work Experience | businessnewsdaily.com

October 20, 2026October 19, 2026 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

If you’ve just graduated from college and are heading into the job hunt with limited experience, take the following steps to increase your chances of getting hired.

1. Create different resume variations.

By tailoring your resume to the job instead of using a generic version for each application, you improve your chances of standing out in a stack of resumes. Spend time adapting your resume to each job while noting the position’s broader category and the job description’s keywords. When creating resume variations, here are some elements to keep in mind:

Highlight relevant experience. For example, if you’re applying for a management position, include relevant leadership experience in clubs or internships that show you’d be a strong fit to become a first-time manager. On the flip side, sharing that you were a food columnist at your college’s student newspaper likely has no relevance to the position and doesn’t merit space on your resume. If you’re applying to be an entry-level chef, however, your food column may regain relevance and demonstrate your culinary knowledge.