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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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WorkHow Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong - The New Yorker 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. Work
WorkOpenAI Is Going After Defense Contracts - Forbes 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. Work
WorkSwiss finish would take shine off UBSs M&A giftWas 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. Work
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WorkThe AI Investment BoomLast 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. Work6 Essential Leadership Skills and How to Develop Them - Harvard Business Review 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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WorkDonald Trump's chances of winning popular vote, according to odds, pollNo 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. WorkThe Harrowing True Story Behind 'Woman of the Hour'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.
WorkWork WorkWorkThe limits of Turkeys strategic autonomy - The Economist 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. WorkSick pay timebomb that risks a lost generation of workersWe 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. WorkScientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal's brain for the first timeBrains 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. WorkStarship will change what is possible beyond Earth - The Economist 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. WorkCan artificial intelligence rescue customer service? - The Economist 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. WorkWorkThe weird history of the barcodeFew 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. WorkSoftware Engineer Titles Have (Almost) Lost All Their MeaningRemember 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. WorkWorkMIT team takes a major step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics 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." WorkOver 40% of foreigner deaths in Korea have unknown causes 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 WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkShould We Abandon the Leap Second? - Scientific American 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. WorkI left my religion. Should I still raise my kid with it?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. WorkWorkWorkA Writer Sees Leniency in the Supreme Court's Approach to Public CorruptionThe 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. WorkInside the Last-Ditch Hunt by Harris and Trump for Undecided VotersThis 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. WorkWhat's Happening to Protect Nature? This Month, There's a Major Push.“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. WorkHow Aleksei Navalny's Prison Diaries Got PublishedThe 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. WorkHow a TV Hit Sparked Debate About Birthrates in AfricaMany 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. WorkWorkOpinion | How Kamala Harris Can Really Put America FirstMs. 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. WorkWorkWorkWorkNew Zealand airport causes stir with sign capping goodbye cuddles to 3 minutesCritics 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. WorkThe Quinceaeras Midlife Remix - The Atlantic 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.” WorkThe WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained | TechCrunchOn 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. TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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