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HomeRun: Metal Structure Homes Demand Jump nearly 10 times in Romania

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  • Nearly 10 times increase for metal house structures in the last 12 months
  • Metal house structures cost almost half of the turnkey ones

Bucharest, March 10 2026 —Demand for alternative house construction methods in Romania is rising rapidly as homeowners increasingly prioritize affordability, faster build times, and practical designs. According to new data from the home services HomeRun, one of Romania’s leading online platforms for local services that connects consumers with trusted professionals, which analyzed requests for construction services submitted on the platform over the last 12 months (March 2025 – February 2026) and compared them with the previous 12-month period. The preferences of the platform users sees a clear shift away from traditional turnkey homes toward metal structure and wooden houses.

Overall demand for construction services across these categories increased by approximately 18% highlighting sustained interest in residential construction despite ongoing cost pressures in the sector.

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Automated automations

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I see people being happy automations.

Sometimes, they work very poorly.

You want to allow calendar meeting set-up, but you don’t check new appointments, and you go into a meeting, and you’re alone.

You want to automate sending bills to customers, but due to misconfigurations, you send the same bill multiple times.

Also with bills – you send one month after issuing a bill an email on it.

Sometimes, you wish to automate sending documents and create a platform for this, but a Google Drive would be a much better sand simpler solution.

You want to secure the chats, but for this purpose you force your clients to use a platform that requires login in two steps each time you want to send or read a message.

Automations are fine, but you need to check things multiple times, to make sure they work properly.

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Cotor, Libris’ AI bookseller, is Romania’s first intelligent virtual bookseller and a filter in the multitude of book recommendations

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The chatbot that turns book searching into a natural conversation has already handled more than 50,000 interactions with readers.

In the first weeks after launch, Cotor, Libris’ AI bookseller, generated more than 50,000 messages, with an average of 7 questions per session, demonstrating strong reader interest and confirming that Romanian readers were ready for a more intuitive way to discover books.

The launch comes at a time when the use of AI chatbots in online shopping is rapidly growing worldwide. According to specialized studies* in the e-commerce industry, shoppers who interact with AI chatbots convert at a rate of 12.3%, compared with 3.1% for those who do not use such assistance nearly four times higher. Moreover, consumers who receive AI assistance complete their purchases 47% faster.

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On ChatGPT

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Some pieces of news:

I have cancelled my OpenAI subscription. Currently, using Gemini PRO.

We’ll see how it goes. Perhaps it’s not the end. I’ll likely still use it, just not in the premium subscription.

“How do you know if someone is vegan? Don’t worry – they’ll tell you.” (via The Guardian)

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On Adolescence (TV Mini Series 2025) – a very powerful movie

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Adolescence (TV Mini Series 2025) – I think it is the best TV Series I’ve seen.

I enjoyed the very big, hugely, enormous cuts.

I liked most of the way the main characters played their roles.

I especially like that it’s a short TV series.

Highly recommended.

As an interesting note, most characters didn’t play in all four episodes. Quite nice.

10/10.

Reviews (Romanian):

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News priorities

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Yesterday, I went to CNN to see some news.

What struck me was the title – it was focused on American casualties.

So, America attacks Iran, lots of bad things happen over there. The most important piece of news, according to CNN? What are the casualties of the attackers.

Saddening.

This was supposed to be a joke, it seems it’s reality:

President Bush and Colin Powell are sitting in a cafe. A guy walks in and asks the waiter, „Isn’t that Bush and Powell sitting over there?” The waiter says, „Yep, that’s them.” So the guy walks over and says, „Wow, this is a real honor. What are you guys doing in here?” Bush says, „We’re planning WW III”. And the guy says, „Really? What’s going to happen?” Bush says, „Well, we’re going to kill 140 million Iraqis this time and one bicycle repairman.” The guy exclaimed, „A bicycle repairman? Why kill a bicycle repairman? Bush turns to Powell, punches him on the shoulder and says, „See, smart guy! I told you no one would worry about the 140 million Iraqis!”

Bicycle repairman

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75% Growth in Hungary, 61.6% in Romania: How Bulgaria, Greece and Croatia Compare in the eCommerce Race

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The full report is available for download here. Readers who wish to join the conversation live can use the exclusive 15% discount code media15 when purchasing their ticket for Balkan eCommerce Summit 2026.

eCommerce across Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Hungary, and Croatia continued to grow throughout 2025, but the pace and maturity of that growth varied significantly from market to market. These are among the key findings of “The State of eCommerce in the Balkans in 2025”, conducted over the span of nine months during 2025 by the Balkan eCommerce Summit team. The research provides an in-depth snapshot of how online businesses operate across five Southeast European markets and outlines the key expectations for 2026.

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Verified LinkedIn users’ data is shared in shocking ways, report claims

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Mashable: Verified LinkedIn users’ data is shared in shocking ways, report claims

One observant anonymous user is warning other LinkedIn users that the Microsoft-owned social network for professionals utilizes a third-party verification service that, in turn, shares users’ data with other companies.

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According to rogi, what concerned him was exactly what Persona could do with his data. Persona accessed rogi’s full name, passport photo, selfie, facial biometric data, NFC chip data (or the info stored on the chip inside his passport), his nationality, sex, birthday, age, email, phone number, physical address, IP address, geolocation, device type, MAC address, browser, OS version, and language.

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Bottom-up analysis

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About an analysis – should it be bottom-up or top-down? Should you go from the bottom and rise, or analyze from the top and go down.

When you analyze a professor or a university system, it’s much more appropriate to approach it like this:

“The good aspects of so-and-so are these. I refuse to focus on the negative ones, as long as the positives outweigh the negatives.”

The idea is that if you start by looking at the negative aspects, OR if you begin with an overall, global analysis, you’re likely to find shortcomings.

If, however, you start from the positive aspects, you will end up overlooking the negative ones.

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