Darie Nani

Custom Digital Solutions (CDS), the Charleston, South Carolina, digital marketing agency that Audrey Bakhach ran alongside a full-time job for its first five years, is a finalist for Fastest Growing Women-Owned or -Led Company of the Year at the 23rd Stevie Awards for Women in Business. CDS handles SEO, paid media, social media, email and SMS marketing, analytics, websites and programmatic advertising for clients ranging from owner-operated businesses to national brands.

World Mobile Group went from opening a QA specialist role to a signed hire, ready to start, within one working day, with MetaDay running every step between the hiring manager's brief and the final decision. “Nobody spends the final interview on salary, start dates or whether the role is remote.

In the middle of September, a developer known online as vladtrc published IW4L, a new engine for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 written from scratch in the Rust programming language, and two weeks later a modder called chasm had used it to put Skate 3's skateboarding and a working Minecraft world into the 2009 shooter. "This whole project is written by an LLM," vladtrc writes in the project's documentation.