PayPal has announced that its Venmo app can now be used to pay college tuition, after partnering with education payment platforms Illumia, Nelnet Campus Commerce and TouchNet. The move turns Venmo, best known for splitting small everyday costs such as rent or takeaway orders among friends, into a channel for one of the largest bills…

GitHub has published a post-incident report attributing this week’s near eight-hour outage to a chain of infrastructure failures rather than a single cause. The company traced the problem to saturated load balancers in its Central US facility, a misconfigured autoscaling policy that failed to monitor a key concurrency limit, and a previously unknown retry bug…

The article is a first-person piece by a Verge reporter explaining how she uses an Apple AirTag to keep tabs on her pet corgi, Jelly, attaching the tracker to the dog’s collar via a silicone holder. She argues that pet tracking is one of the most sensible uses for AirTags, comparing it to insurance: rarely…

Excel, long seen as a dull but essential office tool, has become the unlikely subject of a growing online subculture where influencers build huge followings by showing off high-speed spreadsheet mastery. Creators such as London’s Dan Kidney and Los Angeles-based Jonathan Tristan post “speedrun” videos racing through self-designed obstacle courses and teach keyboard-only techniques, turning…