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WorkMotel 6 Is Sold to Oyo, an Indian Hotel Company Expanding in the U.S.“This transaction is a terrific outcome for investors and is the culmination of an ambitious business plan that more than tripled our investors’ capital and generated over $1 billion in profit over our hold period,” Rob Harper, a senior managing director at Blackstone, said in a statement. WorkOpen source maintainers underpaid and going grayThe majority of open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work, spend three times as much time on security than they did three years ago, and have become less trusting of contributors following the xz backdoor, according to open source package security firm Tidelift.
WorkWorkThe Algorithm and the Hippocratic OathSeveral years ago, I was involved in a case that illuminates the difficult position many doctors today find themselves in. The patient was pregnant, close to delivery, and experiencing dangerous declines in her baby’s heart rate. She had been on a blood thinner, which kept me, the anesthesiologist, from placing an epidural in her back. She also had strange airway anatomy, which would make it a struggle to put her to sleep quickly if an emergency cesarean section became necessary. I advised the obstetrician to perform an elective cesarean section now, in advance, while we had good working conditions, and not to wait for an emergency, where time is of the essence, and where the delay needed to induce general anesthesia might seriously injure the baby.
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WorkA hard-edged battle over squishy toys - WSJ (No paywall) The Squishmallow, a hybrid stuffed toy and plush pillow, soared in popularity during the pandemic as consumers sought comfort in huggable versions of cute animals and food. Behind that cuteness is an intellectual property battle that is anything but cuddly. WorkHow Kamala Harris Hopes to Take North Carolina Back for the Democrats - The New Yorker (No paywall)At 10 A.M. on the Tuesday after Labor Day, the traditional start of the final sprint to Election Day, ten people in the eastern North Carolina town of Wilson sat in folding chairs, typing numbers into their phones and waiting to see if anyone answered. Many didn’t, and some who did had little time for what the callers were offering. The pitch was for the campaign of Kamala Harris, who, until two months ago, was the largely undefined understudy to an unpopular President. “O.K., so you’re definitely a strong Trump supporter?” Ruth Thorne, a volunteer, said into her phone. The woman on the other end said yes. Thorne resumed her pitch, but the woman hung up. “She said we’re going to Hell,” Thorne reported, “and ‘I’m not going to listen to your bullshit.’ ” But earlier, as the negative responses had piled up, Jill Ortman-Fouse, a regional organizing director for the Harris campaign, had reassured her, saying, “Every so often, you get a win.”
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WorkIt's Time to Unbundle ESG - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)ESG is at an inflection point. It has come to represent a broad and inchoate aspiration for what business should be doing beyond maximizing shareholder value. With ESG advocates on the defensive, business leaders need a new roadmap to determine which factors to incorporate into their business strategies and operations – and their political advocacy – and how they will communicate this to their stakeholders. Leaders should adopt a two-pronged approach: 1) Identify the sustainability issues that have the most potential impact on the bottom line and solve for them; and 2) Identify the most material negative impacts your firm is having on society and solve for them. Both of these require scanning for the biggest opportunities and threats that environmental, social, and governance issues pose to your company’s short- and long-term competitiveness. Work
WorkWorkDonald Trump's IVF dilemma"I have been a leader on IVF, which is fertilization," Trump said during a debate against Vice President Kamala Harris. "I've been a leader on it. They know that and everybody else knows it." WorkEarth Is Temporarily Getting a Second Moon From Sept. 29 until Nov. 25, astronomers calculate that 2024 PT5— which is what scientists think is an asteroid but have dubbed a “mini-moon”—will be looping around Earth. It will eventually break free of the planet’s gravitational orbit. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHow the Kremlin Finds Ways to Spread Its MessagesThe online pages of RT and other, related outlets like Sputnik built a worldwide audience on Facebook of more than 88 million followers, according to data released on CrowdTangle early this year. RT’s basic message that the West remains an imperialist aggressor meshed well with widespread distrust of the United States and Europe. WorkHer Children Were Sick. Was It 'Forever Chemicals' on the Family Farm?The crisis of contaminated sludge fertilizer is starting to raise concerns about the safety of the American food supply as it hits farms and families nationwide. Wastewater treatment plants produce immense amounts of sewage sludge, and for decades the federal government has encouraged farmers to spread it on millions of acres as fertilizer. WorkMove Over, Nvidia: Billionaires Are Selling Its Shares and Buying Up These 2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks InsteadBank of America is an advertising partner of The Ascent, a Motley Fool company. Manali Pradhan has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs Group, Microsoft, and Nvidia. The Motley Fool recommends Intel and recommends the following options: long January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft, short January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft, and short November 2024 $24 calls on Intel. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. WorkWorkWorkWorkAmerica's fallen tech giant Intel is facing a crossroads - Business Insider (No paywall)Chip and wireless communications competitor Qualcomm approached Intel about a takeover deal, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. And on Monday, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sent out an email announcing "the next phase of Intel's transformation," which included the creation of an independent subsidiary for its foundries and expanded business with Amazon. Intel also plans to lay off 15,000 staff. WorkWorkWorkGoing Solo: How to Plan for Retirement When You're on Your OwnIf you’re a solo ager or might be one day, experts recommend you begin thinking about your options as soon as possible, before a crisis hits. “You cannot plan for every eventuality,” said Ms. Geber, who now has a support system in place, and after years as a management consultant in Los Gatos, Calif., has made a second career as a solo aging consultant. “But you can ensure your most urgent needs are covered.” WorkMeet the Birkin Bag of the Book World: Collectible, Covetable and Priced to MatchThe priciest, The Ultimate Collection — limited edition volumes, some the size of small coffee tables and bound in leather or encased in velvet or pigskin — sell in the five-figure range. A special edition on Versailles, presented in a velvet clamshell, and priced at $4,900, is offered with a private tour of the château’s interior. (The company said that The Ultimate Collection represents more than 25 percent of its annual revenues.) WorkWorkAfter Apple, Jony Ive Is Building an Empire of His OwnThe “huge volume” was a parking lot. Each time Mr. Ive, Apple’s former head of design, looked at the empty stretch of asphalt, he saw something more: a garden, a pavilion, a place where people could socialize outside like they do at his favorite restaurant in London, the River Cafe. So he bought the building next door. And then he bought another and another. Eventually, he owned half of a city block, including the vacant blacktop. WorkWhat We Know (and Don't Know) About 'Forever Chemicals' in FoodStill, some public-health advocacy groups have questioned the F.D.A.’s methodology, and the agency itself warns that “PFAS exposure from food is an emerging area of science and there remains much we do not yet know.” This year, Consumer Reports said it had detected PFAS in some milk, including in brands marketed as organic, and researchers have found the chemicals in products as varied as eggs, fruit juice and seafood. WorkWhat happened during the 1983 bombings in Beirut?In 2000, Israeli helicopters fired on Mr. Aqeel’s car in an attempt to avenge the killing of a Lebanese militia leader aligned with Israel, but he survived with only slight injuries. Five civilians were also lightly wounded, including an infant. WorkOur Taste for Flesh Has Exhausted the EarthIts fans praise its extreme efficiency: feet, tails, feathers, snouts are eliminated. Its detractors say it’s a threat to culture and livelihoods. To some people, it’s just uncanny, or maybe it’s just the natural next step in how uncannily the modern food system has denatured meat. WorkRivalries Are the Heart of College Football. But Many Are Going Away.And while conference hopping has rekindled a handful of rivalries — the University of Texas will play Texas A&M for the first time since 2011 now that Texas has moved to the SEC — it has shifted others to new conferences, like Arizona versus Arizona State now in the Big 12. Some have uncertain futures, while others have disappeared entirely. U.C.L.A. and Cal, the flagship schools of the University of California system, will not play each other this season for the first time in 92 years. WorkShoulder SeasonIsrael’s attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon this week — exploding pagers on Tuesday, an airstrike yesterday — mark a significant escalation of the war on its northern border, Patrick Kingsley writes. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkNASA has a fine plan for deorbiting the ISS--unless Russia gets in the way CNMN Collection WIRED Media Group © 2024 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Ars Technica Addendum. Ars may earn compensation on sales from links on this site. Read our affiliate link policy.Your California Privacy Rights | Do Not Sell My Personal Information The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast.Ad Choices WorkWorkBushfire risk on Sydney's northern beaches downgradedPeople in those areas were told they should consider their lives at risk, and seek shelter in a house or other solid structure, actively monitor for embers or spot fires, and stay out of the way of the open path of the fire, the RFS advised. WorkWorkDutch row over which victims of Nazis get 'stumbling stone' plaquesThese stumbling stones - proliferating across Dutch streets - are both metaphors and memories. Van Basten Batenburg added: "Whenever my niece, who just turned four, sees one, she gets on her knees and wipes it free of dirt or leaves. They are a bit of light in the sidewalk which catches the soul of the people who are commemorated." |
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