Lifestyle - Wednesday, April 29, 2026

PocketOS was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. PocketOS, which sells software that car rental businesses rely on, descended into chaos after its databases were wiped, the company’s founder Jeremy Crane said. The culprit was Cursor, an AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model, which is one of the AI industry’s flagship models. As more industries embrace AI in an attempt to automate tasks and even replace workers , the chaos at PocketOS is a reminder of what could go wrong. Continue reading...

These food storage containers with clever, reheat-friendly vented lids are ‘endlessly versatile, lightweight and durable’ The Anyday glass food containers transformed how I store leftovers Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better things You know those round deli containers people love to keep after getting takeout pho? Recently, I’ve been using some new food storage containers in the same shape that stack the same convenient way. But that’s where the similarities end. The Anydeli plastic-free silicone containers were just released by Anyday, the maker of my favorite glass food storage system . (I raved about those previously .) After testing a set at home for a few weeks, I have no notes. Well, I have notes, but they’re all very positive, because the containers are endlessly versatile, lightweight and durable enough to send in my kids’ lunchboxes without worry. They’re also cute. The best plastic-free food storage containers: Anydeli Silicone Mixed Set of 3 The best plastic-free food storage full set: Anydeli Silicone Mixed Set of 6 Continue reading...

Washington Post food critic Elazar Sontag entertains your restaurant questions, rants and raves.

The service on the Uber app is rolling out to U.S. users over the next few weeks. The company promises it’ll save you money, so we tried it.

There isn’t enough research about the vaginal microbiome. But that doesn’t mean you need ‘feminine probiotics’ that companies are pushing Wellness culture is coming for your vagina . On Instagram, in the vitamin aisle, and even on the subway , the billion-dollar “feminine probiotic” industry promises healthier, better-smelling, infection-free genitalia. The proliferation of vaginal probiotic supplements and suppository capsules is driven, in part, by frustration: there are few effective treatments for conditions related to the vaginal microbiome. Continue reading...

Breakfast, lunch, dinner: there’s no meal I can’t spoil with my desire to get more than my fair share. And it’s been this way ever since I was a kid I have identified my worst character trait. In such a crowded field, this has been no easy task. This one wins out because it’s two equally unappealing traits rolled into one. They both concern food, or rather eating. Number one: I cannot stop coveting what others have on their plates. Number two: I cannot bear to give anyone anything off my own plate. The hypocrisy is as unattractive as a half-eaten pot of yoghurt covered in mould. A Russian study into whether “moral transgression might enhance gustatory pleasure” has concluded that it does. French fries were fed to participants in a number of ways, one of which saw one person eating another person’s chips. Deliciously, these (identical) chips were considered by the thieves to be altogether nicer. It would also be nice if I could cite this as the logic behind my desire to pilfer from the plates of others, but for me it’s not always about the taste, or hunger. I just want it for the sake of wanting it, like a dog looks at you longingly when you’re eating even if you’re eating something the dog wouldn’t want. Continue reading...

Lunch & dinner on lock. The post These 10 Pasta Recipes All Use Fewer Than 10 Ingredients (And Somehow Taste Better) appeared first on Camille Styles .

Physical phone-blocking devices, powered by NFC wireless technology, are becoming a popular solution for doomscrolling. Brigid Delaney puts one to the test Wake up, 100 messages from group chat overnight about something – what? another assassination attempt; a village destroyed in Lebanon; the football result in England; the weather in Iran being manipulated; the pesticides causing lung and bowel cancer, so everyone who eats salads is now at risk of cancer; meditate for 20 minutes, then fire up x.com, a place I thought I’d never want to revisit, with its carnival barkers and supplement salesman, and have you seen the Lego thing calling Trump a paedo?, you gotta see the Lego thing , and this is before my first coffee, yet x.com is the coffee and the tea , whatever Elon has done to the For You algorithm is evil genius , it’s like the global collective id, nasty and funny and addictive and compelling – like gawking at a car crash, like soaking in a hot bubble bath of anger, and memes, and geopolitical dramas, and Trump, Trump, Trump – soaking in Trump, and then, For Me (just as Elon promised). So begins the circuit around my phone , that goes all day and night, around the tiny screen with its icons (when a born-again Christian once told me he had favourite icons, for a long time I thought he meant apps, not pictures of the Virgin Mary). I started to feel like I was in Canberra, on one of those enormous roundabouts, rotating between the icons – not Joseph, not Jesus, but X and WhatsApp and TikTok and even LinkedIn for Christ sakes – round and round from one app to the next, just checking, checking in case something is happening. I watched tiny videos and maybe, occasionally, got distracted by the novel I am meant to be writing, which is due on 31 July. But the novel is boring, just a static Word doc on a screen, it’s not giving ; it’s taking hard work. So I spend six minutes with my novel, and then it’s time to go back to my phone, to circle the roundabout visiting all my icons again, like a demented Stations of the Cross, because I can’t focus, I just can’t focus on work right now when there is so much good scrolling to do … Continue reading...

The promotion that once helped sink the business has returned. Elazar Sontag ate 43 of the garlicky and fried delights.

Jennifer Skiles said hearing her father’s voice for the first time “felt like home.” Four years later, their emotional bond is now a legal one.