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The ranking order on the Netflix top 10 list has finally changed, and its new #1 series is one of the best new shows that the service has seen in a while.Nemesis has been knocked down to #3 after a long while on top, and we still haven’t heard anything about season 2 renewal. It has now been replaced by The Boroughs, the new series produced by the ex-Stranger Things pair, Matt and Ross Duffer. It’s another story about a band of friends trying to take on corporate and monstrous threats, though this time, a bunch of retirees, rather than…

Fans of the Mexican casual food chain Guzman y Gomez were surprised to learn last week that the Australia-based competitor to Chipotle Mexican Grill had abruptly closed all of its U.S. locations. And the chain’s customers weren’t the only ones surprised by the news. Now, some of its former employees are suing the company over the unexpected closures. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? On May 21, Guzman y Gomez, a chain of Mexican fast-casual restaurants based in Australia, abruptly announced that it was closing all of its U.S. locations. According to the company’s Australian website, Guzman y…

Yelling is a malignant relationship habit that can only be stopped if replaced with more adaptive ones. Here are two you can rely on to protect the foundation of your relationship.gettyConflict in romantic relationships is not, by itself, the problem. Decades of relationship research have established that disagreement is a normal and even healthy feature of long-term partnerships. What predicts relationship deterioration is not how often couples argue, but the communication patterns that take hold once an argument begins. And what’s even more dangerous is how quickly those patterns can spiral: a conversation that starts as a complaint about household…

Katelyn Ide was thirteen when she first logged onto Twitter from a small town in Connecticut and discovered Justin Bieber’s fervent online fandom. Like most fans, she wasn’t content to just hang back and idolize from a distance, but to actively participate any way she could. She ran multiple fan accounts, mastering engagement back when Twitter allowed only 140 characters. Her “finish the lyric” tweets and song prompts circulated widely enough that she accumulated nearly 20,000 followers. “It became my whole personality,” she told me. What Ide didn’t realize at the time was that she was gaining valuable skills for…

The invited teams for TI 2026.Credit: Valve Valve has announced the seven teams that have been directly invited to The International 2026, the biggest Dota 2 tournament of the year.Team Liquid, Team Falcons, Aurora Gaming, Tundra Esports, Xtreme Gaming, Team Yandex and BoomBoys have all received direct invitations to The International 2026 after their performance across the season.If you are wondering who is on the BoomBoys roster, given it is a new name in the Dota world, it is simply the BetBoom roster that is seemingly being forced to play under a name not related to the gambling site that…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways When leaders delay decisions, teams stop escalating concerns early, partners hesitate before committing resources and managers avoid taking strong positions in meetings because past suggestions remained unresolved. Dashboards, meetings and updates stay active, but the quality of what gets surfaced declines as people filter risks based on past leadership response patterns. Once teams lose confidence in concerns moving once they’re raised, organizations become harder to read from the top. By the time leaders recognize the shift, the most important warnings have already stopped traveling upward. A senior leadership team spends…

Generation Z has reshaped workplace expectations. Valuing transparency, authenticity, and purpose-driven leadership, in some senses they have mobilized management to up their game. It could probably be said that these aspirations should have been prioritized all along, however, work simply has not always been this intentional. As companies have returned to the office and established new norms, value-driven elements are no longer nice-to-have’s, they are baseline expectations. So, what happens when these expectations are not constantly met . . . by anyone? As asynchronous work has been replaced by on-demand performance, a surprising truth is emerging. The same Generation Z…

Blue bubbles are best.NurPhoto via Getty ImagesApple’s new iOS 26.5 update delivers “a new milestone for secure cross‑platform messaging,” the mobile standards agency GSMA said last week. The RCS upgrade that has now come to both iPhone and Android will “improve privacy and security.” So, why does Apple say iMessage and not RCS is still “best.”GSMA says that for smartphone users, the RCS upgrade benefits are simple. “E2EE RCS messages can’t be read by anyone but the sender and receiver when they’re being sent between Apple and Android devices, even by Apple or Google.”ForbesFBI Warns Microsoft Users—New Attack Gains Access…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We’ve entered a stage where AI is no longer optional for entrepreneurs. The question is no longer whether to use AI, but how to use it effectively to reduce costs, scale smarter and operate more efficiently.This shift is accelerating as AI tools become faster and more sophisticated. With new breakthroughs unlocking new capabilities, building strategic applications of large language models (LLMs) has become essential for entrepreneurs who want to stay competitive.The speed breakthroughs reshaping how entrepreneurs buildOne of the most exciting developments is the rise of advanced training methods that make it…

Few companies are a stronger barometer of the American economy today than Uber, and few executives have a clearer view of what’s coming than its president and COO, Andrew Macdonald. He shares what Uber’s real-time data reveals about consumer behavior amid surging gas prices, and confronts the uncomfortable question at the heart of Uber’s autonomous vehicle push: What does the company actually owe its millions of drivers?  This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response, hosted by former Fast Company editor-in-chief Robert Safian. From the team behind the Masters of Scale podcast, Rapid Response features candid conversations…