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The single economic variable that determines whether AI creates or destroys jobs — and why almost nobody is measuring it

The question everyone asks about AI and jobs is the wrong question. People wonder whether AI will take their jobs, but this ...
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Apple’s Supreme Court bid could redefine who controls platform pricing across the app economy

Apple has filed to petition the U.S. Supreme Court in its years-long App Store battle with Epic Games, seeking to overturn a ...
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Psychology says the most damaging people in your life are rarely the obviously cruel ones – they’re the ones who were kind just often enough to keep you doubting you…

I had a business partner once — let's call him Frank — who could make you feel like the most capable man in the room on a ...
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Data centers are now military targets: Iran threatens Stargate AI facility after strikes on AWS and Oracle in the Gulf

The satellite footage shows annotations over Abu Dhabi. Coordinates marked. Infrastructure highlighted. Facilities that don't appear on Google Maps, circled ...
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Nobody talks about why Gen Z’s refusal to overwork triggers boomers so deeply – it’s not laziness they’re seeing, it’s a generation making a choice they never felt ...

There's a conversation that happens at almost every family gathering I've been to in the last five years. It starts with someone older mentioning how hard ...
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One maintainer, one compromised laptop: How North Korean hackers hijacked the Axios open source project

In early April 2025, security researchers confirmed that North Korean state-sponsored hackers had successfully compromised the Axios HTTP library. It is one ...
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Why Apple would rather go to the Supreme Court than drop its App Store fee below 27%

Apple's decision to take its App Store fight with Epic Games all the way to the Supreme Court isn't legal stubbornness — it's ...
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Psychology says people who’ve mastered not caring aren’t detached – they went through a period of caring so much it nearly broke them, and came out the other si…

Those who seem effortlessly unbothered by life's chaos aren't naturally detached — they're survivors of their own emotional ...
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The one dataset that could predict AI job displacement barely exists — and nobody is collecting it

Of the thousands of job categories tracked by the US government, almost none have reliable data on the one variable that ...
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There’s a certain kind of loneliness that only hits after 60 — not the loneliness of being alone, but the loneliness of being with people who love the person you’ve ...

When the people who've loved you for decades keep looking for someone you're not sure exists anymore, you realize the hardest ...
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A single maintainer, a fake company, and a three-hour window: inside the Axios supply chain hijack

The most widely used JavaScript HTTP library on the internet — embedded in millions of production applications, relied on by ...
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The thing boomers know now that younger generations are still learning the hard way – that the people who make you feel small usually need the room you’re takin…

The lawyer in the thousand-dollar suit who called him "just an electrician" was drowning in his own failures, but it took ...