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Why dont women use artificial intelligence? - The Economist (No
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productive. That is how ChatGPT, a generative-artificial-intelligence
tool from OpenAI, sells itself to workers. But despite industry hopes
that the technology will boost productivity across the workforce, not
everyone is on board. According to two recent studies, women use
ChatGPT between 16 and 20 percentage points less than their male
peers, even when they are employed in the same jobs or read the same
subject.

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Tome Biosciences files notice to lay off virtually entire staff - STAT
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The Massachusetts WARN notice comes a day after STAT reported the
company was in dire straits, with one source saying that it planned to
wind down operations and seek a buyer by Nov. 1 after the company
struggled to raise money or find a partner.

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Democracy Needs the Loser - The New Yorker (No paywall)
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The election was all anyone could talk about. The country would soon
choose a new President, and conversations in homes, marketplaces, and
houses of worship were dominated by a single topic: Who would win?
Lurking behind these discussions was a more ominous question: Would
there be violence? During the previous election, four years earlier,
mobs had burned buildings, snatched ballot boxes, and targeted
government leaders for assassination. When the outcome was announced,
supporters of the vanquished candidate had erupted. The election, they
claimed, had been stolen. Roughly two hundred people died in a matter
of days.















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Indian Billionaire Kumar Birla To Invest $10 Billion In Aluminum,
Copper Projects - Forbes (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=54406&nl=daily]
Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of Aditya Birla Group and Grasim
Industries Ltd., during a media ... [+] event at the Grasim
Industries' paint factory for Birla Opus in Panipat, Haryana, India,
on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024.

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Stakeholder Capitalism Still Makes Business Sense - Harvard Business
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Five years ago, 181 CEOs issued a new statement on the purpose of a
corporation, pledging to serve five stakeholders: customers,
employees, suppliers, communities, and shareholders. but even then, it
lagged behind what’s needed. Their commitment mattered and drove
progress. But more recently, especially in the U.S., enthusiasm for
many stakeholders’ sustainability priorities — such as climate
change or DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) — has seemingly
stalled. The authors reflect on what has happened since the statement,
and where we’re going. Ultimately, they argue, that given the stress
on our largest natural and societal systems, we need accelerated
action — deeper work to build better, more regenerative businesses
— and bold, decisive leadership to ensure a sustainable and
equitable future for all.














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Big Tech Likes California's AI Content Deal, but Journalists Disagree
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Google will soon give California millions of dollars to help pay for
local journalism jobs in a first-in-the-nation deal, but journalists
and other media industry experts are calling it a disappointing
agreement that mostly benefits the tech giant.

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What to Know About the KP.3.1.1 Variant of COVID-19
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Chances are, at least one person you know—and probably many people
you know—have caught COVID-19 this summer. Ever since the
“FLiRT” variants emerged this spring, the U.S. has been hit with
one new variant after another, leading to a seemingly never-ending
wave of cases. The amount of virus in wastewater has steadily risen
since May and levels are now “very high,” in part because
there’s yet another new variant on the scene: KP.3.1.1.

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Big Pharma claims lower prices will mean giving up miracle
medications. Ignore them.
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For the first time, the federal government has negotiated directly
with pharmaceutical companies over the prices for a handful of drugs.
The new prices, which were announced mid-August, take effect in
January 2026, and they will help the Medicare program cap what
individual patients spend out of pocket on their prescriptions in a
year at $2,000.














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Greta Thunberg leads high-stakes protest at Norway's largest oil plant
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Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion activists staged a dramatic
blockade of Norway’s largest oil and gas processing plant, Karsto,
on Saturday. Despite their efforts, Equinor confirmed the facility was
still operating normally while police managed the protestread more

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Polaris Dawn Is the Most Ambitious--And Risky--Private Spaceflight Yet
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In the early-morning hours of August 27, the four-person crew of the
Polaris Dawn mission is set to launch into an ultrahigh orbit—and
into history books—from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.














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Starlink tests show how to save radio astronomy from satellites - New
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Radio telescopes observing the cosmos face growing challenges because
of electromagnetic interference from thousands of satellites in low
Earth orbit. Now, experiments involving SpaceX’s Starlink satellites
have shown how to virtually eliminate one form of this problem.

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Fauci "Recovering" after being hospitalized with West Nile virus
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Anthony Fauci, one of America's foremost infectious disease experts,
was hospitalized this month for six days after contracting West Nile
virus before returning home, according to his spokesperson.














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The founder building a wealth-management product her grandmother would
have loved | TechCrunch
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At least 200 workers at DeepMind, Google’s AI R&D division, are
displeased with Google’s reported defense contracts — and
according to Time, they circulated a letter internally back in May…

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VCs are so eager for AI startups, they're buying into each others'
SPVs at high prices | TechCrunch
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At least 200 workers at DeepMind, Google’s AI R&D division, are
displeased with Google’s reported defense contracts — and
according to Time, they circulated a letter internally back in May…














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Threads is testing disappearing posts that expire after 24 hours
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Threads is testing the option for users to put a 24-hour expiration
timer on their posts, after which the post and all replies would
disappear, Stories-style. A spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that
the feature is being tested.

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Meta took down WhatsApp accounts connected to Iranian hackers
targeting the US election
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Meta has blocked WhatsApp accounts involved in "a small cluster of
likely social engineering activity" on the service.













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In Hawaii, a Sense of Alertness Without Panic Ahead of Tropical Storm
Hone
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In August 2018, Hurricane Lane drenched the Big Island with 58 inches
of rainfall, damaged over 100 buildings and killed one person —
despite the eye of the storm passing over 100 miles south of the
state.

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Ronda Rousey Apologizes for Reposting Sandy Hook Conspiracy Video
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In 2018, Ms. Rousey became the first woman to be inducted into the
U.F.C. Hall of Fame. She also won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics
in middleweight judo and for years was one of the biggest stars for
WWE.

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'Run, Kamala, Run': Mention of Harris's Father Was a Rare Homage to a
Fleeting Figure
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“My father remained a part of our lives,” Ms. Harris wrote. “We
would see him on weekends and spend summers with him in Palo Alto. But
it was my mother who took charge of our upbringing. She was the one
most responsible for shaping us into the women we would become.”

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Fire Destroys Grandstand From 'A League of Their Own'
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Because wood construction was susceptible to fire, most professional
baseball stadiums from the early 20th century were built with less
flammable materials, such as brick, concrete and steel.

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Biden's Asylum Restrictions Are Working as Predicted, and as Warned
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Under the new rules, border agents are no longer required to ask
migrants whether they fear for their lives if they are returned home.
Unless the migrants raise such a fear on their own, they are quickly
processed for deportation to their home countries.

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Pavel Durov: Telegram CEO arrested at French airport
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Mr Durov founded Telegram in 2013 and he left Russia in 2014 after
refusing to comply with government demands to shut down opposition
communities on his VKontakte social media platform, which he sold.

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How Media Outlets on the Right and Left Covered Kennedy's Trump
Endorsement
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Though polling suggests Mr. Kennedy’s decision is unlikely to
significantly shift the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and
Mr. Trump, many conservative commentators said the decision could
swing the contest. Ben Shapiro, the editor in chief of The Daily Wire,
said in a livestream after Mr. Kennedy suspended his campaign that the
announcement, which was made during a speech in Phoenix, could
“dwarf” the positive impact of the Democratic National Convention
for Ms. Harris.

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The N.F.L. May Soon Welcome a New Kind of Owner
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Who’s in? The N.F.L. has whittled the potential list of permitted
private equity investors to just a handful of firms. They include
firms that focus on sports, like Arctos Partners and Dynasty Equity,
as well as larger firms like Blackstone, CVC Capital Partners and
Carlyle Group, which expanded its sports with its recent purchase of
the women’s soccer team Seattle Reign F.C. The firms were reported
earlier by Sportico.

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NASA Extends Boeing Starliner Astronauts' Space Station Stay to 2025
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Norman Knight, the chief of NASA’s flight director office, said he
had talked to Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore, and that they backed the
extended stay in orbit, which officials have resisted describing as a
stranding.

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Boeing Starliner returning empty as NASA turns to SpaceX to bring
astronauts back from ISS
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Instead, the flight test is further setting back Boeing's progress in
NASA's Commercial Crew program and, with over $1.5 billion in
losses absorbed already, threatens the company's future involvement
with it.

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On Ukraine's Independence Day, Zelensky Celebrates Push Into Russia
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In the prisoner exchange, Ukraine said it had freed soldiers held in
Russia since early in the invasion. That included dozens of soldiers
who had held out for months in the siege of the Azovstal steel mill in
Mariupol, before surrendering on the orders of Mr. Zelensky when
escape or further resistance became hopeless.

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The DMZ Is an Unhealed Wound for Korea. It's Also a Source of Great
Honey.
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Some of the farmers are motivated by something that transcends
business. In a land where a 1953 armistice divided many Korean
families for generations, they are seeking closure for wartime traumas
that have never quite healed.

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Opinion | My Play Went to Broadway. Then a Death Changed Everything.
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The show finally arrived at the Cherry Lane Theater in Greenwich
Village and after a few nights, New York audiences found it. Three
weeks at Cherry Lane turned into a year and a half as the show climbed
the ladder to nicer and nicer theaters in other cities. An amused Adam
flew over from his home in England to sleep on my couch and help
restage it every time we opened in a new venue. Finally and
improbably, in the spring of 2023, we found out the show would move to
the Hudson Theater. It would be the Broadway debut for both of us.

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Italian Authorities Open Manslaughter Investigation in Yacht Disaster
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In addition to possible manslaughter charges, the authorities are also
investigating the possibility of a negligently caused shipwreck, a
crime that carries up to several years in prison upon conviction.

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Trading Fed rate cuts: These banks are primed to outperform when rates
fall, Evercore ISI says
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It's official: NASA calls on Crew Dragon to rescue the Starliner
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Starliner astronauts will come home in February on a SpaceX Crew
Dragon
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Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will come home in February
2025 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon, and the Boeing Starliner they flew to
the International Space Station on in June will return uncrewed.

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Valve finally confirms its next game, Deadlock, with a bare-bones
Steam page
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Deadlock is still only available to play via invitation. There’s no
release date or even release window on the page, and the 22-second
teaser it includes isn’t particularly enlightening. But now that
Valve is finally acknowledging this thing publicly, we could see more
about it soon. Back in May, YouTuber Tyler McVicker, who has long
reported on Valve, described Deadlock as what’s “meant to be
Valve's next major competitive game. The next Counter-Strike. The next
Dota.”

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One Btn Bosses gets a ton of mileage from single-button gameplay
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One side note: this is one of the first batch of games that received
backing from Outersloth, a side project of Among Us developer
Innersloth. The whole idea behind Outersloth is to offer indie
developers an alternative funding model and to help "fun, original and
clever games get made." One Btn Bosses definitely fits the brief.

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How do you best choose an Australian aged care facility and what do
the star ratings mean?
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Under Labor’s proposed new aged care act, Gear says his
understanding is that the star ratings will be updated with the
act’s enhanced quality standards. Currently accreditation is
pass/fail, meaning homes that only just meet the standards are rated
the same as those which have the highest performance. The new system
will allow for gradation to better reflect homes that are exceeding
standards, he said.

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Man suspected of attempted arson against synagogue arrested in France
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There has been a surge in antisemitic acts in France since the Hamas
attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. Darmanin told journalists earlier
this month the number of reported acts had almost tripled since the
start of 2024, with 887 incidents compared with 304 during the same
period last year. In 2023 there were 1,676 reported antisemitic
incidents, four times more than the previous year, the minister said.

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Telegram app founder Pavel Durov reportedly arrested at French airport
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Citing a representative from the Russian embassy in France, TASS
reported there had been no appeal from Durov’s team to the embassy,
but that it was proactively taking “immediate” steps.

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German police make second arrest over fatal stabbings in Solingen
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In May, German police shot and wounded a man who injured six people in
a knife attack at a rightwing demonstration in the south-western city
of Mannheim. Among the victims was a 29-year-old policeman who
intervened and was fatally stabbed.

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Solingen stabbing comes amid steep rise in knife crime in Germany
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“That won’t scare off young perpetrators,” he told public
broadcaster MDR. “And in weapons-ban zones you’ve got to have
checks and the question is whether we have enough personnel.”

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Israeli airstrikes kill at least 36 Palestinians in southern Gaza
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A major impasse has been the Philadelphi corridor along Gaza’s
border with Egypt and the Netzarim east-west corridor across the
territory. Netanyahu has insisted that Israel retain control of the
corridors to prevent smuggling and catch militants.

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Hamas sends delegation to Cairo peace talks but rules out direct
participation
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On Saturday afternoon, local media reported that two Israeli men had
gone missing in the West Bank town of Qalqilya. An Israeli army effort
to rescue them was met by roadside bombs, and an exchange of fire, the
reports said. The fate of the two missing men was unclear by Saturday
evening.

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Man dies after alleged assault at Southwark tube station in London
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Keir Starmer warns of tough times ahead to fix 'Tory ruins'
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"But I promise this: you will be at the heart of our government, in
the forefront of our minds and at the centre of everything we do. That
this government is for you, back in your service."

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Victims of UK's infected blood scandal to start receiving payouts by
end of year
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"People have waited far too long for this. We are still examining the
information released today and awaiting further detail, but remain
concerned by the disparities in proposed compensation for people who
were given hepatitis C, hepatitis B and HIV.

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'It felt like it was plucked out of thin air': how rape trial was
derailed by sexsomnia claim
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McCrossen-Nethercott no longer has faith in the systems set up to
protect victims, and she is haunted by the fact that in her case, a
rapist may have walked free."It's an immense feeling of being let
down," she said. But if something good is to come from her ordeal, she
hopes it is that sexsomnia claims will be more robustly challenged in
future - with lab tests, bed-partner interviews, and medical history
obtained as a minimum - and that there will be a "frank, public
conversation" to ensure potential miscarriages of justice are
prevented.

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Unite calls for 1% wealth tax on super-rich to fund UK public sector
pay rises
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Such demands will further add to the strains between Labour and its
union backers after a series of pay deals between the Starmer-led
government and striking workers in sectors ranging from healthcare to
the railways.

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Deaths in England and Wales to be reviewed by senior doctor if not
referred to coroner
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“In the majority of cases, there are no serious concerns, and
positive feedback from families is often received and passed on to
staff providing care,but where there are issues, the independent role
of medical examiners, underpinned by statute, will provide a new
avenue for bereaved people and NHS staff to share any concerns
they have, and for healthcare providers to learn, and improve care
for future patients.”

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Nasa says astronauts stuck in orbit to return with SpaceX crew in
February, not on Boeing Starliner
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Currently, Nasa and SpaceX are working on several items prior to
launch including seat reconfiguration on the Crew-9 Dragon, in
addition to adjusting the manifest to carry additional cargo and
personal effects, as well as Dragon-specific spacesuits for Wilmore
and Williams.

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Statue of John Lewis unveiled in Georgia to honor late civil rights
leader
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