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How Fibre came to replace Copper.

If you have half an hour to spare, this Veritasium breakdown of how fibre came to replace copper is well worth your time. In the 1960s, copper wiring was hitting its physical limits, yet early glass fibres lost far too much light to be useful over any real distance. It took the relentless dedication of pioneers like Charles Kao whose own boss dismissed the idea as a “wild goose chase” and a small team of scientists at Corning to pull off one of the greatest materials-engineering breakthroughs in history and lay the foundation for the modern internet.

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Partnering, then not using the service?

I could count on one hand (and I only need two fingers) how many times this has happened in the last 20 years; a company signs up and partners with us, and then there’s radio silence.

They simply go silent. They don’t take advantage of the partnership to get the value we want to offer them.

It’s really odd, and I’ve never understood the psychology behind it.

At the end of this month, we’re offboarding a micro accounting company that signed up with us in October last year.

And during that time, I haven’t been able to build any relationship with them. I barely know them.

I know some people are introverted, but when you’re paying for a service you’re not using, it’s odd. Especially when we got on so well pre-agreement.

Pretty much every interaction I’ve tried to have with them has just been met with complete silence.

Even though they asked for help with specific areas of Google Workspace pre-onboarding, when I’ve gone to follow up with them, they’ve just ignored it.

  • Advice on how best to manage their data in Google Drive.

  • Advice on Google Workspace features they could use to save time.

  • Advice about scams they should be aware of.

  • All attempts to give them value from our service.

All ignored.

The only time one of the owners ever got in touch was a couple of months ago. They’d used AI, which had led them down the wrong path with an app they were vibe-coding. I gave them advice and guidance on deploying their app and offered to help them get it to the finish line.

The message was read, and I never heard back from them then.

Really, really weird. I don’t get why you’d partner with someone, then not use the service at all and ignore all attempts to provide value.

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This looks good! The Altruists, a new Netflix series about SBF and the rise and fall of FTX.

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Google has nailed the branding here with their Granola competitor. Why brand it Gemini when Google AI Edge Foresight simply rolls off the tongue? And, of course, it is another standalone app. 🤦‍♂️

Source: techcrunch.com/2026/10/0…

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You might be charging your phone wrong!

I was chatting with AI today about battery settings on my Pixel phone. I asked whether it’s better to set it to charge only to 80% or to let it charge to 100%. Gemini came back with an interesting perspective I hadn’t considered.

“The irony of the 80% charging rule is simple: to prevent your battery from losing 20% of its capacity over three years, you voluntarily throw away 20% of its capacity on day one.

In attempting to protect the hardware, people impose the exact restriction they were trying to prevent: an artificially shortened runtime.”

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Kai (Kimbley AI) dealing with a no-context request that came in this morning. He asked one question to determine what was needed, then came back with an answer with no human involvement. Kai is essentially handling support requests autonomously now.

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This is the most ridiculous Malaysian GP. Why are they not starting the race? Why are the stewards waiting until the track is bone dry? F1 was better in the 2000s when they raced in the wet.

Update: Basically, the delay was caused by a software bug, with an update needing to be pushed out to all the cars.

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This is very impressive. I can already envision use cases for Griffin within Kimbley IT, through our AI agent Kai.

Kai already interacts daily with our clients and their team members.

Having Kai host a video call to guide someone through a process would be incredibly valuable when following complex text-based steps isn’t ideal or practical.

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If you are using Claude, watch out for the new terms and conditions pop-up that’s appearing.

By default, they have enabled the option to use your chats for training.

The worst part is that if you confirm this and allow it, **they can keep your data for up to 5 years! **

It’s really important that, when this pops up on your screen, you deselect the option before accepting.

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This is becoming blatant PR to help hype the IPO and build a regulatory moat to protect frontier businesses. Their developer day is today, and they would have known this in advance, but held off announcing the cancellation of the release until today.

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/aafe…