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Robinhood launches margin trading in the U.K. - Fortune Europe

In June 2021, Robinhood was ordered to pay $57 million to the U.S.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and another $12.6
million plus interest in restitution to customers after providing
misleading information to customers on margin trading. It was the
largest punishment ever doled out by the regulator.

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How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong - The New Yorker
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On a drizzly day in Grnau im Almtal, Austria, a gaggle of greylag
geese shared a peaceful moment on a grassy field near a stream. One
goose, named Edes, was preening quietly; others were resting with
their beaks pointed tailward, nestled into their feathers. Then a
camouflaged speaker that scientists had placed nearby started to play.
First came a recorded honk from an unpartnered male goose named
Joshua. Edes went on with his preening. Next came a honk that was
lower in pitch than the first, with a slight bray. Edes looked up. As
the other geese remained tucked in their warm positions, incurious,
Edes scanned the field. He had just heard a recorded distance call
from his life partner, a female goose whom scientists had named Bon
Jovi.

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The Climate Short: Hedge Funds Pile Up Huge Bets Against Green Future
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The $5 trillion industry's move against clean energy and green
technology may prove more damaging than political pushback over "woke"
capitalism.















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OpenAI Is Going After Defense Contracts - Forbes
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Helmed by CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI started working with Carahsoft
earlier this year and was added to a defense contract vehicle in May,
as the contractor fights claims it has been overcharging the Pentagon.

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World lags on 2030 nature goals headed into UN COP16 talks
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Only 31 of 195 nations file biodiversity plan














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Swiss finish would take shine off UBSs M&A gift
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Was UBSs (UBSG.S), opens new tab Credit Suisse acquisition the deal of
the century? That phrase, coined, opens new tab by a Swiss lawmaker
last year, sums up the widely held view of the wealth giants
state-arranged rescue of its arch-rival in March 2023.

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Drug overdose deaths fall for 6 months straight as officials wonder
what's working
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“This is the largest recorded reduction in overdose deaths,” White
House officials said in a statement. “And the sixth consecutive
month of reported decreases in predicted 12-month total numbers of
drug overdose deaths.”














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Rockefeller, Bezos-Backed Group Eye Fix for Fickle Nigeria Power -
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Group backed by foundations trials interconnected mini-grids

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What Is Diverticulitis? Understand the Causes of This Sharp Pain in
Your Abdomen - Discover Magazine [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=81898&nl=daily]
Imagine waking up with sharp pain in your abdomen that just wont go
away. For many, this is how diverticulitis makes its presence known.
Its a condition that can strike suddenly, turning seemingly harmless
pockets in your colon into the source of serious discomfort. While
diverticulitis may sound like an obscure illness, its actually quite
common, especially as we age.














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The AI Investment Boom
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Last month, Microsoft made a high-profile announcement that it is
paying to reopen reactor one at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant to
meet the company’s growing data center power demand, joining Amazon
as the second major US tech company to turn to legacy nuclear
facilities for their increasing energy needs. Microsoft is the primary
investor and computing provider for OpenAI, who kicked off a
revolution in AI development with its release of ChatGPT less than two
years ago—and the Three Mile Island reopening underscored the
frenzied growth in physical investment currently going on to meet the
demands of these new AI systems.

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6 Essential Leadership Skills and How to Develop Them - Harvard
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The way we work has changed and so has leadership. Leaders are under
new pressures to perform at higher levels and adapt quickly to
changing demands. In this article, the author shares advice from three
leadership experts and outlines the six skills leaders need to
succeed: 1) emotional aperture; 2) adaptive communication; 3) flexible
thinking; 4) perspective seeking, taking, and coordinating; 5)
strategic disruption skills; and 6) resilient self-awareness.
Developing these six key leadership skills isnt just about your
personal growth, its about shaping the future of work and inspiring
those around you.














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Harris Outraised Trump By More Than 3-To-1 Margin In September,
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Kamala Harris campaign continued to widen its fundraising gap over
Donald Trump in September, as filings made on Sunday showed that the
vice president's main campaign committee outraised the former
presidents operation by a margin of more than 3-to-1 last month.

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Fragile confidence hinders global economic recovery - FT
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Political and economic uncertainties drag on business and household
mood, Brookings-FT Tiger index shows














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Donald Trump's chances of winning popular vote, according to odds,
poll
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No poll aggregators show that Trump is in the lead. Nate Silver's
model shows that he has a 24 percent chance of winning the popular
vote to Harris' 76 percent, with the pollster predicting that the
former president will capture 48 percent of the vote, compared to
Harris' 51 percent. That is down from the beginning of this week when
Harris' electoral college probability stood at 75 percent while
Trump's stood at 25 percent.

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The Harrowing True Story Behind 'Woman of the Hour'
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There are two movies at play in Anna Kendrick's directorial debut,
Woman of the Hour, that intersect in disconcerting fashion. In one
there's the story of a serial killer who is raping and murdering women
and girls across the country, offering to take their pictures before
his crimes. In another, there's the saga of an aspiring young actor
who takes a gig on The Dating Game for visibility. One of her
potential bachelors? That very serial killer.














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Israel killed Sinwar by forcing him from the tunnels - WSJ
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In the hunt for Hamasmilitants in the tunnels beneath southern Gaza,
Israel’s 98th commando division found a compound in February with a
kitchen, sleeping quarters and a bathroom with a tiled wall depicting
a beach sunset.

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How Russias Spies Hacked the Entire Nation of Georgia - Bloomberg
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With an election this week, documents seen by Bloomberg expose the
extent of Moscows infiltration of the former Soviet state.













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Russian oligarch found dead in Moscow after falling out of window
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A law enforcement source told Tass that Rogachev's body was found in
Protopovsky Lane in the Russian capital and that "the main version of
his death is suicide. The man suffered from cancer."

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The limits of Turkeys strategic autonomy - The Economist
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FOR OVER a decade, BRICS summits have featured the same cast of
characters, meaning the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and
South Africa. That will change on October 22nd, when the presidents of
Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates, which joined the
club earlier this year, pose alongside Vladimir Putin and other BRICS
veterans in Kazan, in south-western Russia. But an even more unusual
guest, the leader of a NATO country no less, is expected to make an
appearance. Russia has announced that Turkey’s president, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, will be on hand to make the case for his country’s
BRICS membership.

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Sick pay timebomb that risks a lost generation of workers
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We are heading to an all-time record for health-related benefits,
according to recent forecasts, and the Treasury is worried. The rise
in the bill for working-age health-related benefits has surged from
£36bn before the pandemic to £48bn in the last financial year, and
the official Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast is that
it will reach £63bn per year in the next four years, with all these
numbers accounting for inflation.

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Scientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal's brain for the
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Brains are bewilderingly complicated systems of connections between
neurons. Mapping those connections is an important step in
understanding how brains work. Scientists have recently completed the
most ambitious effort yet to construct such a map: a complete document
of every neuron and every connection in the brain of an adult fruit
fly. 

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Starship will change what is possible beyond Earth - The Economist
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IN ANY NORMAL week, the biggest-ever interplanetary probe blasting off
to look for signs of life in the depths of an occult ocean would hog
the headlines about space. But the launch of Europa Clipper on October
14th was eclipsed, spectacularly, by the test flight the previous day
of the Starship being developed by SpaceX, a launch provider,
satellite-communications supplier and Mars-settlement enabler founded
and run by Elon Musk. Seven minutes after take-off a thin, waggling
finger of rocket-fire guided the launcher’s huge first stage back to
its launchpad in Texas, there to be grasped like the quarry of a giant
praying mantis.

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Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service? - The Economist
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It’s not easy being a customer-service agent—particularly when
those customers are so angry with a product that they want to yell at
you down the phone. That’s the sort of rage that Sonos, a maker of
home-audio systems, encountered in May when it released an app update
so full of glitches it caused its share price to plunge.

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I've Found These Foods Give My Brain the Power to Stay Focused and
Function at Its Best
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Running an executive coaching business, writing for Inc., and raising
a family, I can’t afford not to be at my optimum best. To keep my
brain productive and alert during the day, I’ve looked for
alternatives to drinking coffee.

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The weird history of the barcode
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Few people think twice about the barcodes on their shopping, but in
the 75 years since they were first dreamed up, they have helped save
lives, gone into space and stoked fears of the Antichrist.

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Software Engineer Titles Have (Almost) Lost All Their Meaning
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Remember when being a “Senior Software Engineer” actually meant
something? I do, and I can’t help but feel nostalgic for that
clarity. In recent years, our industry has witnessed rampant title
inflation, turning what used to be a clear-cut junior-mid-senior
progression into a confusing parade of inflated roles.

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US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software in 2.4 mln cars after
fatal crash
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NHTSA opens inquiry after 4 reports of crashes where FSD used

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MIT team takes a major step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics
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Images for download on the MIT News office website are made available
to non-commercial entities, press and the general public under a
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license.
You may not alter the images provided, other than to crop them to
size. A credit line must be used when reproducing images; if one is
not provided below, credit the images to "MIT."

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Over 40% of foreigner deaths in Korea have unknown causes
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A migrant worker is seen working at a factory in Paju, Gyeonggi
Province, in this Oct. 21, 2021 file photo. The causes of deaths have
not been established for a significantly large portion of foreigners
who died in Korea in recent years, government data shows. Korea Times
photo by Lee Han-ho

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TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project
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Chinese technology giant ByteDance denied reports that the incident
caused more than $10m of damage.

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Seaport Therapeutics adds another $225 million to coffers to embrace
the golden age of neuroscience - STAT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=81898&nl=daily]
Seaport raised the Series B funds from General Atlantic, Foresite
Capital, T. Rowe Price Associates, and other investors. The startup,
which is based in Boston, is developing a new cohort of what
executives hope will be faster-acting, more effective treatments for
depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions.

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Scatter and survive: Inside US military shift to deny China big, juicy
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Runways emerging from the encroaching jungles on the tiny island of
Tinian, a U.S. territory, are part of a sweeping shift in how
America’s military would respond to a possible conflict in Asia.

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Why Bonobos Co-Founder Andy Dunn Says a Therapist Can Be an
Entrepreneur's Best Friend - Inc [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=81898&nl=daily]
Over the past two decades, Americans have become increasingly isolated
from one another, Bonobos co-founder Andy Dunn said Thursday at the
Inc. 5000 Conference in Palm Desert, Californiaand, he added, the
pandemic made things worse.

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Should We Abandon the Leap Second? - Scientific American
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Long ago we humans defined a day as the time it takes Earth to make
one rotation about its axis, with one sunrise and one sunset. Our
predecessors partitioned that day into 24 hours. But if Earths
rotation slows down a little, it takes a bit longer than one day to
complete it. That has been happening for many years. Because the
atomic clocks we use to pace everything from Internet communications
to GPS apps to automated stock trades never slow down, global
timekeepers periodically have added a leap second to the clocks to
keep them in sync with Earth. Since 1972 we have made this awkward
addition 27 times.

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I left my religion. Should I still raise my kid with it?
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The US presidential campaign is in its final weeks and were dedicated
to helping you understand the stakes. In this election cycle, its more
important than ever to provide context beyond the headlines. But
in-depth reporting is costly, so to continue this vital work, we have
an ambitious goal to add 5,000 new members.

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Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud
products | TechCrunch
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Microsoft has notified customers that it’s missing more than two
weeks of security logs for some of its cloud products, leaving network
defenders without critical data for detecting possible intrusions.

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Leaked documents show US intelligence on Israels plans to attack Iran,
sources say | CNN Politics
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The US is investigating a leak of highly classified US intelligence
about Israel's plans for retaliation against Iran, according to three
people familiar with the matter. One of the people familiar confirmed
the documents' authenticity.

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A Writer Sees Leniency in the Supreme Court's Approach to Public
Corruption
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The first case, from 2016, concerned Bob McDonnell, a former governor
of Virginia. Mr. McDonnell was convicted in 2014 after accepting
travel on a private jet, a Rolex, the use of a vacation home and a
Ferrari, along with substantial loans from a business executive whose
company made nutritional supplements that he hoped to have tested by a
state university.

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Inside the Last-Ditch Hunt by Harris and Trump for Undecided Voters
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This furious search for a fickle sliver of the country has grown more
urgent because the presidential contest is as close as any since the
advent of modern polling, with the two candidates nearly deadlocked
across the battleground states. The election could now ride on
undecided Americans who have unplugged almost entirely from political
news — making them tricky to find even for billion-dollar campaigns.

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What's Happening to Protect Nature? This Month, There's a Major Push.
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“When we destroy biodiversity, we are destroying the very links that
help the system to reproduce life,” said Susana Muhamad,
Colombia’s environment minister, who will be presiding over the
conference. “What is at stake is actually another wave of
extinction, which could be the sixth general extinction on Earth.”
The last one wiped out the dinosaurs.

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How Aleksei Navalny's Prison Diaries Got Published
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The memoir, which is being released in the United States by Knopf, was
pieced together after his death with the help of Yulia Navalnaya,
Navalny’s widow. It will be published in 22 languages, including
Russian. For Navalnaya, releasing the memoir is a way to instill hope
in the struggling Russian opposition movement, and to keep her husband
present in the world.

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How a TV Hit Sparked Debate About Birthrates in Africa
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Many African women have far more children than women on other
continents do: Women in Nigeria have an average of over five children,
while American and European women have about 1.5, and Chinese women
even fewer. And recent progress in reducing child mortality in Africa
means more of them survive into adulthood than ever before.

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Fethullah Gulen, Turkish Cleric Accused of Coup Attempts, Dies
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The Turkish government tried for years to have Mr. Gulen extradited to
stand trial, but the United States never agreed to send him back to
Turkey, leading to longstanding diplomatic tensions.

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Opinion | How Kamala Harris Can Really Put America First
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Ms. Harris won’t break sharply with her boss, the sitting president,
while on the campaign trail. If she takes his seat in January,
however, she should unburden herself of orthodoxy, out-innovate her
opponents and create a foreign policy fit, at long last, for the 21st
century. By setting the needs of Americans front and center at every
turn, she will strip Trumpism of its allure and deliver the global
leadership that the country craves. Call it America first, but for
real.

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Iran aided Russia against Ukraine. Now it needs to call in the favor
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"Russia could seek to support Iran by supplying weapons to
Iranian proxy forces, including Hezbollah and the Houthis," Smagin
said. "However, for the Kremlin, that would be more logical if such
deliveries were going to harm the United States, rather than Israel."

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Perplexity AI seeks valuation of about $9 billion in new funding round
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Despite the AI hype, Perplexity has been mired in controversy, facing
a slew of plagiarism accusations from media outlets like the New York
Times, which claim the company scrapes their content to generate its
answers. Perplexity has denied the allegations.

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Three in four Europeans support the use of AI by police and military,
study says
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Roughly a third (34%) of people aged between 18 and 34 would trust an
AI-powered app to vote for politicians on their behalf. This figure
falls to 29% for people aged 35 to 44, and just 9% for individuals
aged 65 and over.

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New Zealand airport causes stir with sign capping goodbye cuddles to 3
minutes
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Critics on a Facebook post that has had tens of thousands of views and
comments have told the airport they cannot dictate how long one is
allowed to hug, with one commentator describing the rule as
“inhumane”. Others have praised the airport for their friendly
approach, at a time when airports around the world are introducing
drop-off fees.

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The Quinceaeras Midlife Remix - The Atlantic
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On the day of her big coming-of-age bash, Audrey Calzada wore a tiara.
Mariachi played. Friends performed a synchronized dance to Rema’s
“Calm Down,” and she had a mid-party outfit change from a sequined
midnight-blue gown to a gold one—just like so many other girls might
do at their quinceañeras, the ritual for 15-year-olds that’s
celebrated across Latin American cultures and their diaspora. But
Calzada, who works in the oil industry in Texas, had passed the
quinceañera milestone decades ago. She was about to hit her 50th
birthday, and she was determined to celebrate with pizzazz. “The
joke in my community,” she told me, “is that I’m extra.”

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The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained | TechCrunch
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On October 17, Mullenweg posted another alignment offer on Automattic
Slack — with just a four-hour response window — with a nine-month
severance. However, if any person took the offer, they would also lose
access to the WordPress.org community, Mullenweg said.

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Amid Warren Buffett's $132 Billion Warning to Wall Street, He Can't
Stop Buying Shares of These 4 Unstoppable Stocks
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