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Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers (theguardian.com)

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Empty homes in England on rise, but not being used to solve housing shortage (bbc.co.uk)

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Publish or Perish: The Board Game of Academic Survival (the-scientist.com)

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Making hard choices? Try thinking less (npr.org)

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The "Great Hesitation" that's making it harder to get a tech job (wsj.com)

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I would love to work with you (robconery.com)

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Meta Battles an 'Epidemic of Scams' as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook (wsj.com)

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Everything You'll Ever Need to Know About Semantic Bleaching (merriam-webster.com)

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All BART (Bay Area rapid transit) shut down due to computer networking problem (twitter.com/sfbartalert)

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Tech Workers are just like the rest of us: miserable at work (wsj.com)

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Ask HN: Is there an intuition for Minesweeper parameters?

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Billionaire and Oscar winner make documentary about investing (wsj.com)

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They Named Their Companies Lumon. Then 'Severance' Aired (wsj.com)

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Apple Pledges to Fix Transcription Glitch That Replaces 'Racist' with 'Trump' (wsj.com)

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Has UK rail's Elizabeth line shown what rail investment can achieve? (theguardian.com)

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X hinted at possible deal trouble in talks with ad giant to increase spending (wsj.com)

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How to fix the job application nightmare (wsj.com)

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Robots have trouble walking in mud. Giving them hooves helps (wsj.com)

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Amazon's messy push to bring everyone back to the office (wsj.com)

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Trump wants to manage your investment portfolio (wsj.com)

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Phishing tests, the bane of work life, are getting meaner (wsj.com)

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She Wrote a Racy Book. Now She's Worried Her Son Will Find It (wsj.com)

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A "Pay Penalty" is keeping men out of classrooms (wsj.com)

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China's Deepsink Outsmarted America (wsj.com)

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Popcorn Is Taxed at Three Rates in India – Nation Says This Is Why We're a Mess (wsj.com)

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Rare knife showing up at Bay Area restaurant tables, confusing people (sfchronicle.com)

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"LinkedIn Catfish" Created a Fake Profile to Expose Racial Inequity in Hiring (teenvogue.com)

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Congestion Pricing Has Eased NYC Traffic. Not Everyone Is Happy (wsj.com)

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Spike in baby deaths on Lucy Letby ward surprising and unusual, says stat prof (theguardian.com)

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Zuckerberg Debuts 'Real Mark' in Push to Woo Trump (wsj.com)

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Reasons We Have Prison Gangs (asteriskmag.com)

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Kids Turn to a Mental-Health Chatbot to Share Their Anxieties (wsj.com)

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The Lessons from Kodak's Decline [pdf] (krlretirees.com)

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One Man's Attempt to Get a Perfect 850 Credit Score (wsj.com)

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UK must ban full hybrid cars by 2030 or face net 0 catastrophe, says EV UK (theguardian.com)

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The Levi Strauss Heir Elected to Save San Francisco (wsj.com)

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Do I Get Rich, or Go Bust? These Tools Predicted My Financial Future (wsj.com)

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Even Rich Retirees Fear Outliving Their Money (wsj.com)

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New Taiwanese boardgame offers chance to battle Chinese invasion (theguardian.com)

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For > 50 years BBC Somali service inadvertently broadcasted anti-colonial msg (theguardian.com)

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Civil war buffs drill for the 'hardest test in history' (wsj.com)

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The AI Researchers Pushing Computers to Launch Nightmare Scenarios (wsj.com)

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Amazon sued over slower deliveries to low-income neighborhoods (cbsnews.com)

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Civil War Buffs Drill for the 'Hardest Test in History' (wsj.com)

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Performance Improvement Plans are hated, and more popular than ever (wsj.com)

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Musk Unleashes Online Army on Federal Workers (wsj.com)

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The struggle to help homeless people who don't want help (wsj.com)

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Toilet queues disproportionately impact women (abc.net.au)

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San Francisco Learned to Love Self-Driving Cars (wsj.com)

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Costco Members Are Buying Platinum. Should You? (wsj.com)

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Billionaires back a new "anti-woke" university (wsj.com)

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Boris Johnson: we considered 'aquatic raid' on Holland to seize Covid vaccine (theguardian.com)

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Crystal Ball Trading Game (elmwealth.com)

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Scientists debunked one of conservation's most influential statistics (theguardian.com)

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Want to Ruin a Destination's Appeal for Others? Take a Selfie and Post It (wsj.com)

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How Will Self-Driving Cars Learn to Make Life-and-Death Choices? (wsj.com)

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We found North Korean engineers in our application pile (cinder.co)

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Gen Z-Ers Are Computer Whizzes. Just Don't Ask Them to Type (wsj.com)

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San Francisco Is Sinking in Bad Hotel Debt (wsj.com)

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Police can't stop sideshows. Solution: Make the streets more annoying (sfstandard.com)

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ML Can Predict Shooting Victimization Well Enough to Help Prevent It (nber.org)

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An Anonymous-Messaging App Upended This High School (wsj.com)

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His Ex Is Getting His $1M Retirement Account. They Broke Up in 1989 (wsj.com)

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Climate Game (ft.com)

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App designed by Indigenous people in W. Australia preserves language, culture (abc.net.au)

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"I'm Not Your Mom": Tech Exec's Videos Spark Clash over China's Work Culture (wsj.com)

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Apple apologizes for iPad ad showing hydraulic press destroying guitars, piano (cnbc.com)

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Why it's hard to get hired despite glowing jobs reports (wsj.com)

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Man tried and failed to steal a cigarette, has spent 18 years in prison for it (theguardian.com)

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Tcl's first original movie is an absurd-looking, AI-generated love story (engadget.com)

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'Made for Advertising' Websites Are Marketing Industry's Latest Messy Situation (wsj.com)

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My Dream Break from Work Wasn't What I Expected (wsj.com)

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SBF Is Going to Prison, but the Fight over Money at FTX Drags On (wsj.com)

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The Costco Shoppers putting $2000 gold bars in their carts (wsj.com)

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What Sam Bankman-Fried's Long Stretch in Prison Might Look Like (wsj.com)

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They Chose to Take a Pay Cut–and Say They're Happier (wsj.com)

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The Risk and Reward of Taking the Unsexiest Job at a Sex Company (wsj.com)

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Love Across Continents: The Surprising Cupid for Young Couples (wsj.com)

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Governments Across the U.S. Are Handing Residents Cash–No Strings Attached (wsj.com)

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Consultants Are Paid to Fix Businesses. Why Can't They Fix Their Own? (wsj.com)

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Realtors reach settlement that will change how Americans buy and sell homes (wsj.com)

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Phony Billionaires on Facebook Are Scamming Americans Out of Their Life Savings (wsj.com)

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Scientist Fought His Attackers in Court–and Won (wsj.com)

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I always knew I was different, I didn't know I was a sociopath (wsj.com)

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Former players are making a comeback in baseball’s executive ranks (wsj.com)

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Why Downpour is a great alternative to doomscrolling (theguardian.com)

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High shower pressure can help people save water, study suggests (theguardian.com)

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Uber and Instacart Are Showing More Ads in Their Apps. Not All Customers Like It (wsj.com)

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On job-hunting in 2024 as a machine learning engineer (acompa.net)

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Is Your 401(k) Destroying Capitalism? (wsj.com)

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You Can't Get a Table for Six at a Restaurant (wsj.com)

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AI Is Already Better Than You (cohost.org)

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What Companies Need to Know When Accounting for Leap Day (wsj.com)

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When High-Yield Savings Accounts Come with an Asterisk (wsj.com)

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A Psychiatrist Tried to Quit Gambling. Betting Apps Kept Her Hooked (wsj.com)

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Tech Millionaires Take on Politicians in Fight to Fix San Francisco (wsj.com)

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Pepfar and the Costs of Cost-Benefit Analysis (asteriskmag.com)

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Challenges to the credibility of two recent Netflix documentaries (wsj.com)

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Ex-Twitter Employees Turn Musk's Auctioned Relics into Home Decor (wsj.com)

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Walgreens's Ambitions Lean on Its Technology. It Has to Build Up Its IT Dept (wsj.com)