Utah residents outraged after HOA plans to more than double monthly fees to $800: ‘There’s no way we’re ever moving out of here’

Homeowner associations are sometimes the villains in the housing world, especially when they ask people for more money when they are already paying a lot. In Bountiful, Utah, residents of a certain apartment were told their monthly fees could soon rise to more than $800, a local outlet KSL reported. That’s more than double what…

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Why Fifth Third’s CIO mostly buys, not builds, technology in the race to compete with the banking giants

Fifth Third Bancorp ranks 17th among America’s 20 largest banks, with operations stretching from the upper Midwest to the lower Southeast. But even with that reach, the company needs to carefully consider its technology spending to better compete with much larger rivals. “Fifth Third is not a trillion-dollar bank — I don’t have the IT…

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Wayne Chang’s Reasoner argues that AI has made great strides in reliability

Serial entrepreneur Wayne Chang takes the wraps off an AI reasoning engine called Reasoner, which he claims can produce much more accurate and explainable results than large language models like OpenAI’s o1 series—and at a much lower cost. The AI ​​industry is pushing hard to build thinking capabilities into technology, partly to get closer to…

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The latest luxury must-have? Surfing pools

Cabo Real Surf Club in Los Cabos, Mexico is a private club community that provides many of the amenities ultra-wealthy Americans now expect in their real estate offerings. For these clients, golf championships, wellness and recovery spas, and a private beach are just table stakes. But this is not your grandfather’s country club community. Club…

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