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A customer warns against purchasing from 'The Yota Store' after not receiving their order and discovering others with similar complaints. The store failed to respond to email or Instagram messages, hid negative comments, and is accused of accepting payments without delivering products.

Threat actors are exploiting Shop, an order-tracking app from Shopify, by inserting fake purchase receipts into users' order histories to deceive them into divulging sensitive information or installing remote access software.

Shopify has agreed to ban the sale of all vaping products and e-cigarettes on its platform following pressure from a bipartisan coalition of 25 attorneys general, including Hawaii Attorney General Lopez, in an effort to reduce youth access to addictive products.

Big Tech companies like Stripe, Google, Shopify, and Microsoft are actively building a carbon removal credit market by committing upfront capital to purchase future credits, aiming to create demand certainty for startups. These efforts focus on scaling carbon removal technologies despite challenges like inconsistent pricing and lack of regulatory enforcement.

Shopify is experiencing an outage, as indicated by its status page. The incident is being discussed on Hacker News with 7 points and 4 comments.

WordPress's market share has declined to 41.9% from 43.2% over six months, according to W3Techs data. The drop coincides with ongoing disputes between Automattic and WP Engine, including lawsuits and public conflicts, while competitors like Wix and Shopify show gains.

Craig Campbell, a former Meta engineer, exited the AI boom to launch a website business, choosing a non-AI path despite investor encouragement. He previously sold an e-commerce tool for Shopify businesses in 2022 as the AI boom started.

The article critiques how business leaders and politicians are communicating about AI's job displacement impact, arguing they need more honest and empathetic messaging. It highlights how companies are using different narratives for investors versus employees, and warns that AI will become a major political issue if leaders fail to demonstrate how the technology benefits ordinary Americans.

Yukihiro Matsumoto, also known as Matz, is developing Spinel, a native compiler for Ruby with assistance from Anthropic's Claude Code, which can compile Ruby code into a native executable, resulting in significant performance improvements. The project is experimental and currently supports only a subset of Ruby features. Spinel has the potential to optimize Ruby code, especially for helper functions.

Shopify and National Bank of Canada are investing in a new digital currency designed to facilitate 24/7 trade settlements. This investment aims to enhance the efficiency of trade transactions. The new digital currency is built for continuous settlement of trades.

A Shopify analyst who predicted the company's recent stock selloff warns that it is still too early for investors to buy shares. The analyst's caution suggests ongoing uncertainty about Shopify's market performance and recovery timeline.

The Seiko USA website was defaced by hackers who claimed to have stolen its Shopify customer database and demanded a ransom to prevent data leakage. The attackers displayed a message threatening to release the data if their demands were not met.

The article highlights the author's enthusiasm for stablecoins and Coinbase's role in building infrastructure for this technology. It praises Coinbase's partnerships with JP Morgan, Shopify, and Stripe, positioning the company as a key player in the evolving fintech landscape.