Sport
How a fight like Makhachev vs Garry is actually scored
Garry made the champion look human for the first time in years and still lost four of five rounds on two scorecards. That is not a robbery — it is what the criteria say, and almost nobody reads them in order.
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The complete VJOURNAL issue, ordered by editorial signal and publication date.
AI
GPT-6 Astra: what it can do, what access really means, and when it is worth using
GPT-6 Astra is a high-capability OpenAI model for reasoning, coding, computer use, research and document creation, but practical value depends on integration, permissions, task design and total workflow cost.
AI
Claude Fable 5.1: what changed, how cache pricing works, and a safer migration plan
Released September 1, Claude Fable 5.1 targets difficult reasoning, coding, research and document work. The headline cache reduction applies to eligible reads only, while migration details can break old conversation flows.
AI
Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber: access, temporary pricing, and a sensible pilot
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Flash and the restricted Flash Cyber on September 2. Flash is positioned as a coding, agentic and reasoning workhorse, but token use on difficult tasks still belongs in the budget.
AI
Lyria 3.5 in Gemini: AI music features and a practical production guide
Google announced Lyria 3.5 on September 4 with claimed improvements to vocals and arrangements. The useful question is how to brief, compare and approve outputs without assuming pricing, rights or exclusivity.
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AI
Mistral Agentic Search: where it improves document retrieval and where ordinary RAG still wins
Mistral Agentic Search is an orchestration layer over retrieval rather than a new general frontier model. Its value appears when a question requires multiple document-navigation steps; simpler retrieval can still be the better choice.
People
Islam Makhachev after UFC 330: the champion who controls the terms
Makhachev's first welterweight title defense was not effortless, which made it more revealing: when the striking became competitive, he returned to the part of the fight he could govern.
People
Ian Machado Garry after UFC 330: the challenger who made the champion adjust
Garry did not leave Philadelphia with the belt, but he showed the division a repeatable problem: length, patience and clean middle-round striking can force Makhachev away from cruise control.
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Company News
What pages a website should have: the list across three layers
Asked about pages, most people answer with menu items. But a site has three layers, and the third — the utility pages — gets built in a rush or not at all. The full list by layer.
Company News
Customer reviews on a website: collecting real ones and placing them
Five cards reading Anna K. and everything was great convince nobody. When to ask for a review, how to phrase the question so people answer, and why a dedicated reviews page is useless.
Design
Pitch Deck Design: The Structure the Conversation Rests On
A pitch deck gets skimmed in three minutes without you. Design decides what gets read in them. The defining property of a pitch deck is almost always overlooked: most of the time it is opened when you are not in the room.
Design
How to Write a Logo Brief: Eight Points That Decide the Outcome
A brief is about constraints, not about a picture. Eight points that determine what the mark becomes. A brief is usually treated as the place where a client describes the picture they want.
Design
How to Choose a Brand Typeface: Licence, Weights and the Checks That Come Too Late
A typeface is chosen on a large sample and lived with in tables, captions and small print. A typeface is nearly always chosen from a large specimen: the brand name set at a hundred points, judged on impression.
Design
Website Design: Three Different Jobs Under One Phrase, and How to Choose
The phrase "website design" covers three different jobs with different prices and timelines. What separates them, when each is enough, and how to tell you have bought the wrong scope.
Design
Which Programs Design Is Made In: Raster, Vector, Interfaces and Generation
"Which program do you use" almost always means something else: will I receive files I can open and hand on. The four classes of tool, their boundaries, and what belongs in a handover.
Company News
Mobile version of a website: eight places it breaks most often
Opening the site on your own phone and scrolling is not a check: your phone is newer, the connection faster, and you know where to tap. Eight places a mobile version breaks most often.
Company News
Website ROI: how to calculate it honestly and what gets left out
The site does not pay for itself is said far more often than it is calculated. A four-number formula, three ways of fooling yourself, and what to set up so there is something to count.
Design
How Much a Logo Costs: What the Price Is Made Of and What Belongs in the Quote
The price of a logo is almost always the price of verification, not of drawing. A breakdown of the four line items, the three budget levels, and how to compare proposals.
Design
What a Brand Identity Actually Includes, and What You Can Safely Postpone
An identity is a set of rules for assembling a brand, not a folder of files. Brand identity is often used to mean an archive containing a logo in five formats.
Design
Which Logo Files You Should Receive, and Why Vector Is Not Optional
A logo without vector cannot be printed. What belongs in a handover, and what each file is for. Files get discussed last and encountered daily once the project ships.
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