Costco Wholesale has launched a comprehensive overhaul of its warehouse checkout operations, deploying mobile scanning ...

This story was originally published on CX Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily CX Dive newsletter. Costco’s scan-and-go pilot is improving checkout speed by up to 20% ...

You may be familiar with ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), but now there's also packer-as-a-service. Security vendor Sophos on Dec. 6 published research on "Shanya," a packer-as-a-service family that ...

Multiple ransomware gangs are using a packer-as-a-service platform named Shanya to help them deploy payloads that disable endpoint detection and response solutions on victim systems. Packer services ...

Where does a painter’s grief go? Onto the canvas, in spectral realms. By J Wortham There’s an adage floating around social media about grief that posits it is love in another form, accumulating as a ...

Even before her partner, the much-adored poet April Freely, passed away in 2021, Jennifer Packer was a painter of remembrance. Her solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum, which opened months after ...

Throughout my reading of Ann Packer’s new novel, “Some Bright Nowhere,” all I could keep thinking was “poor Eliot.” It is strange to be worried about Eliot, given that it is Eliot’s wife, Claire, who ...

The new novel "Some Bright Nowhere" focuses tightly on a long-, mostly happily married couple. Eliot and Claire have raised two children, built two careers. By the time we meet them, Claire is very ...

It feels fitting, in a way, that so many notable books this week are premised on endings — of lives, relationships, eras, even. After all, Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day — also known as Veterans ...

‘The Emergency’ was published on Nov. 11, 2025, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In the excerpt below, a hospital’s chief surgeon finds himself estranged from his city, his colleagues and his own family, ...

Ann Packer’s latest novel, “Some Bright Nowhere,” explores the unexpected rupture that a terminal cancer diagnosis causes in a long and happy marriage. By Joan Silber Joan Silber’s most recent novels ...

“Some Bright Nowhere” is infuriating, and it’s supposed to be. Ann Packer’s novel is about Claire, who is dying of cancer and who wants to be in charge of that as much as possible. How her ...