Tech giant Meta reportedly fired roughly two dozen staffers based in Los Angeles for abusing the company’s $25 meal vouchers to purchase non-food household items. The Financial Times reported that Meta fired the workers last week after the company discovered that the workers were abusing its food credit system by using …
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The leader of Hamas is dead. Source link
Read More »Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl
She was the 20th hire at Google, then the head of Yahoo, and now the CEO of Sunshine. For Mayer, geekery supersedes gender. Source link
Read More »Tony Bennett, who delivered Virginia first men’s basketball championship, retires at age 55
Virginia coach Tony Bennett — one of the winningest college basketball coaches in the history of the ACC and the sport at large, who delivered the program’s first and only national championship in 2019 — is retiring, the school announced Thursday afternoon. Bennett’s retirement is effective immediately and he will …
Read More »Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for Oct. 18, #495
Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Need the answers for the New York Times Connections puzzle? To me, Wordle is more of a vocabulary test, but …
Read More »Art Show of the Season? Glow-in-the-Dark ‘Siena’ at the Met Is Revelatory
The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met, are revelatory for their emotional intensity and 24-karat beauty. Source link
Read More »A Sam Altman-backed nuclear power stock soared 150% in a month
As tech giants turn their attention toward nuclear power for artificial intelligence and data centers, one producer is seeing its shares surge. Oklo, a nuclear power company that counts OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman as an investor, has seen its shares climb around 150% in the past month. The stock …
Read More »Former Olympic Snowboarder Wanted by F.B.I. on Murder and Drug Charges
Ryan Wedding, 43, was indicted with 15 others on charges of trafficking drugs into Canada and the U.S., the authorities said. He is believed to be living in Mexico. Source link
Read More »This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats
The researchers say that if the attack were carried out in the real world, people could be socially engineered into believing the unintelligible prompt might do something useful, such as improve their CV. The researchers point to numerous websites that provide people with prompts they can use. They tested the …
Read More »How an 80-year-old basketball Hall of Famer thrives as a pickleball contender
Some people name-drop. With Rick Barry, it’s more like a name-deluge. It takes only a few questions for the former NBA and ABA star to recount conversations with his fellow basketball Hall of Famers, life-changing advice from a golf icon, a bond with a group of tennis greats and a …
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