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Digital life
fromAol
3 hours ago

This City Was Just Named the Most Affordable in the U.S. for Digital Nomads

Springfield, Missouri is the most affordable major U.S. destination for digital nomads, with average monthly expenses of $2,299 and one-bedroom rents around $925.
Digital life
fromFast Company
6 hours ago

The 6 most common reasons digital transformations fail

Digital transformation requires organizational change in strategy, people, operations, use of data and processes; technology must catalyze new ways of working, not just replace systems.
Wellness
fromFast Company
11 hours ago

Why career development feels impossible for parents-and what they can do

Parents have only two hours weekly for personal development due to caregiving duties, causing stalled growth and burnout.
OMG science
fromTechCrunch
2 hours ago

Blue Origin delays second New Glenn launch again due to solar storms | TechCrunch

Solar activity prompted Blue Origin to delay New Glenn's second launch due to potential effects on the NASA-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft.
Wellness
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 day ago

Is the wellness industry just for the privileged?

Wellness industry growth raises tension between holistic, belief-based practices and science-driven, data-based medicine, prompting debate over coexistence or division in future healthcare.
Wellness
fromThe Atlantic
20 hours ago

Now You Can Wear Your Vitamins

Wellness patches offer a cosmetically appealing, convenient transdermal alternative to oral supplements despite unclear efficacy and absorption.
OMG science
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
6 days ago

Scientist believes 3I/Atlas 'acceleration might be the technological signature of an internal engine' - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

3I/Atlas is an interstellar object showing unusual behavior, including non-gravitational acceleration and an unexpected blue color possibly from artificial or natural sources.
OMG science
fromwww.standard.co.uk
1 week ago

How to see the biggest supermoon of the year over London on Bonfire Night

The Beaver Supermoon on November 5 will be the closest, largest, and brightest full moon of 2025, appearing up to 14% larger and 30% brighter.
#gdpr
fromwww.theguardian.com
13 hours ago
EU data protection

The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

fromwww.theguardian.com
13 hours ago
EU data protection

The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

more#gdpr
Tech industry
fromFortune
7 hours ago

How CEOs are navigating the global economy's 'frog-boiling' conditions | Fortune

CEOs are shifting strategies—investing in AI, retaining talent, diversifying supply chains, and reshoring automation—becoming more optimistic as tariffs have not derailed trade.
Tech industry
fromTechCrunch
5 hours ago

Exclusive: Microsoft-backed VEIR is bringing superconductors to data centers | TechCrunch

Superconducting low-voltage cables enable 3 MW rack power delivery, reducing heat and space constraints for future multi-megawatt data centers.
UX design
fromMedium
5 hours ago

UI Design with Midjourney

Use a Midjourney prompt template with design-specific vocabulary and system flags (--ar, --v, --style raw) to generate cleaner, functional UI designs.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
8 hours ago

Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan

Kingfisher rejected SAP's mandated S/4HANA upgrade, moved ECC to Google Cloud, and hired Rimini Street for support to avoid steep licensing and migration costs.
UX design
fromMedium
1 week ago

Intuitive Interfaces: What Actually Makes Them Clear

Intuitive interfaces require systematic alignment of business goals, product structure, and user mental models, with visual quality and predictability reinforcing clarity.
UX design
fromFrontendmasters
1 week ago

Perfectly Pointed Tooltips: All Four Sides

Use CSS position-try-fallbacks and flip values (flip-block, flip-start, flip-inline) to switch tooltip placement among top, right, bottom, and left while keeping relative centering.
Privacy professionals
fromThe Independent
6 hours ago

Google warns billions of users over critical VPN threat

Fake VPN apps impersonate legitimate services to spy on users and steal financial credentials, cryptocurrency and other sensitive data from Android devices.
Privacy professionals
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

AI's Impact on Social Psychology: Ethical Guardrails Matter

Ubiquitous connected devices and AI-driven personalization erode privacy and autonomy through covert data collection, forced consent, and misuse of personal information.
Privacy professionals
fromYahoo
1 day ago

Yahoo is part of the Yahoo family of brands.

Yahoo uses cookies and similar technologies to provide services, authenticate users, measure usage, and, with consent, perform analytics and personalized advertising.
#windows-kernel
fromThe Hacker News
6 hours ago
Information security

Microsoft Fixes 63 Security Flaws, Including a Windows Kernel Zero-Day Under Active Attack

Microsoft released patches for 63 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited Windows Kernel privilege escalation zero-day (CVE-2025-62215) that can allow local elevation to SYSTEM.
fromComputerWeekly.com
29 minutes ago
Information security

Microsoft users warned over privilege elevation flaw | Computer Weekly

CVE-2025-62215 is a Windows Kernel elevation-of-privilege vulnerability exploitable in the wild via a race condition and double-free to gain SYSTEM.
more#windows-kernel
Social media marketing
fromSocial Media Explorer
7 hours ago

How Risk Management Feeds Your Social Media Strategy - Social Media Explorer

Integrating risk and resilience software with social media transforms crisis communication from reactive panic to proactive, trust-building public messaging.
#ai-agents
fromIT Pro
6 hours ago
Artificial intelligence

Appian wants to usher in the age of 'serious AI' where processes are automated in unglamorous places

fromIT Pro
6 hours ago
Artificial intelligence

Appian wants to usher in the age of 'serious AI' where processes are automated in unglamorous places

more#ai-agents
Marketing tech
fromMarTech
4 hours ago

Hightouch enters the fray for agentic AI for marketers | MarTech

Hightouch Agents connect to data warehouses and marketing stacks to automate marketers' slow workflows using a marketing context layer for precise, purpose-built insights.
Marketing tech
fromMarTech
4 hours ago

How to (re)build a playbook that helps people buy | MarTech

Being data-driven is often a pretense; treat data as informed opinion, address FOBO and ownership gaps, and prioritize human-centered, actionable insights over vanity metrics.
Marketing tech
fromExchangewire
8 hours ago

Ad Tech Innovation, or the Cat and the Laser Pointer

Ad tech repeatedly chases fleeting trends, rapidly reorganizing around each new 'Year of...' distraction instead of focusing on sustained, practical progress.
Europe news
fromwww.theguardian.com
9 hours ago

Ukraine suspends justice minister amid energy corruption scandal Europe live

German Galushchenko suspended amid an alleged $100m energy-sector corruption scheme linked to Timur Mindich and now subject to an active investigation.
Books
fromScary Mommy
3 hours ago

The 20 Best Books Of The Year, According To Amazon Editors

Exceptional 2025 books span family epics, memoirs, and science nonfiction that blend emotional resonance, betrayal, resilience, humor, and surprising twists.
Privacy technologies
fromPrivacy International
3 hours ago

Technology, data and elections: A card game

Data protection is essential during elections to safeguard voter privacy, limit unregulated data-driven practices like micro-targeting, and ensure transparency, accountability, and ethical data use.
Remote teams
fromBusiness Insider
8 hours ago

Microsoft's AI CEO explains why he wants employees in the office, working at open desks

Mustafa Suleyman requires his Microsoft AI team to work at least four days per week in open-plan offices to maximize in-person collaboration.
Privacy technologies
fromThe Hacker News
9 hours ago

Google Launches 'Private AI Compute' - Secure AI Processing with On-Device-Level Privacy

Google launched Private AI Compute to run Gemini cloud models securely while keeping user data encrypted and inaccessible to Google.
Privacy technologies
fromThe Walrus
6 hours ago

Workplace Surveillance Is Here, Counting Your Mouse Clicks and Bathroom Breaks | The Walrus

Workplace surveillance technologies monitor remote white-collar workers, tracking inactivity and enforcing productivity targets, transforming homes into continuous-measurement work environments.
Food & drink
fromEater NY
3 hours ago

A Masa Protege Opens a 12-Seat Omakase in Midtown With Sky-High Ambition

Eugeniu Zubco opened Yūgin, a 12-seat, $475 2.5-hour omakase in Midtown with European-influenced technique, hinoki counters, and skyline views.
Remote teams
fromIndependent
1 hour ago

Denis O'Brien says graduates are 'entitled' and 'dictate to employers' - is he right?

Graduates' unrealistic expectations clash with critiques that hybrid working hampers productivity and that demanding full-time office work harms work-life balance.
Social media marketing
fromTech Times
7 hours ago

How LinkedIn Humor Posts Are Shaping Professional Networking Trends and Boosting Authenticity Online

Humor on LinkedIn increases authenticity, fosters approachable professional connections, and reshapes networking trends and platform engagement.
Major League Baseball
fromMLB Trade Rumors
13 hours ago

MLB, MLBPA Hold Preliminary Meeting On Labor Issues

MLB and the Players Association held preliminary contact on economic structure ahead of the CBA's December 1, 2026 expiration, with substantive bargaining unlikely until next spring.
Food & drink
fromEater NY
2 hours ago

A Thai Chicken Finger Joint in Nolita That Deserves to be Hyped

Mommy Pai's serves Thai-spiced halal, gluten- and dairy-free fried chicken fingers with tropical frozen drinks, distinctive sauces, and roadside-style window service in Manhattan.
Food & drink
fromCN Traveller
6 years ago

The best restaurants in Bristol: 21 lip-smacking spots

Two Bristol venues offer high-quality, affordable dining: a Southville Italian-inspired pizzeria from Mary Glynn and Pegs Quinn, and Adelina Yard's refined tasting menus.
fromLondon On The Inside
8 hours ago

Pour Decisions | Beaujol-YAY! 'Tis the Season

November, specifically the third Thursday of the month, is a big date in the wine calendar as that's when the first bottles of that year's Beaujolais Nouveau are released, at exactly one minute past midnight. The wine is a vin de primeur, meaning it's sold in the year that it's harvested - in fact there are just weeks between it being produced and being sold, making it very fresh, light and juicy.
Social media marketing
fromBuzzFeed
2 hours ago

31 Moms Who Put Some Seriously Unhinged Stuff Online For All To See

BuzzFeed published simultaneous dark and wholesome mom posts to measure reader preference via clicks and encourages sharing to promote the preferred tone.
Wine
fromFuncheap
1 day ago

Tarot & Wine Night: Tarot Vin Pop Up at Wine Down (SF)

Tarot and wine pop-up in San Francisco offers tarot and astrological readings paired with wine to deepen intuitive palate connection and gather insights.
Writing
fromFuncheap
1 day ago

Free Poetry Night: Woman Life Freedom w/ Banoo Zan (Berkeley)

Revolutionary poetry readings with Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom at Pegasus Books Downtown, Berkeley, November 14, 2025; free to attend, books for sale.
Wine
fromThe Mercury News
1 day ago

Sonoma County winegrowers face grape glut as vines pulled statewide

A severe slump in the California wine market has left many growers with unsold grapes, prompting vine removals and farmers to exit the business.
Writing
fromThe New Yorker
2 days ago

The Art of the Profile

Five New Yorker staff writers and the executive editor appeared onstage at the 26th New Yorker Festival in New York City, presenting conversations and performances.
Europe news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 days ago

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,353

Ukrainian forces intensified assaults near Dobropillia, struck a Russian petrochemical plant, Russia claimed Uspenivka, and concerns rose over troop movements, energy outages, and foreign fighters.
Writing
fromwww.npr.org
5 days ago

If we're being truthful, people are saying 'honestly' all the time

Use of the word "honestly" has surged in recent decades and functions as a prevalent marker of authenticity across online platforms and media.
English Premier League
from101GREATGOALS.COM
1 week ago

Newcastle striker Woltemade has been 'first class' says Howe

Nick Woltemade has scored six goals in nine starts after a £69m transfer, showing strong technical ability and team ethic but needing greater consistency.
London music
fromTime Out London
6 hours ago

2025 breakout star CMAT is headlining London music festival LIDO in London in 2026

CMAT will headline LIDO at Victoria Park on Friday 12 June 2026 and will curate a day-long lineup of notable indie artists.
Node JS
fromInfoWorld
9 hours ago

Node.js tutorial: Get started with Node

Node.js is a cross-platform JavaScript runtime for server-side applications, with NPM, modules, and frameworks (http, PM2, Express) for building scalable servers.
Gadgets
fromZDNET
50 minutes ago

Google just gave Pixel users 5 compelling reasons to update their phones - here's what's new

Pixel phones are receiving free November Pixel Drop updates including scam detection, prioritized VIP notifications, notification summaries, and new photo and messaging tools.
SF music
fromThe Bold Italic
3 months ago

I came to Outside Lands tired. I left with a better soundtrack

Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park delivered stirring, diverse performances—punk, pop, and theatrical rap—that briefly lifted spirits during an unusually cold summer.
London music
fromTime Out London
5 hours ago

One of London's best music festivals could double in size in 2026

GALA plans to expand to two weekends in May 2026, adding Afrobeats, Mahrajan and a concert, hosting up to 9,999 and 8,000 attendees.
#golden-state-warriors
more#golden-state-warriors
SF LGBT
fromThe Bold Italic
6 months ago

I waited 15 years to see Hunky Jesus - and yes, he delivered

Queer communities respond to repression by turning protest into celebratory, life-affirming DIY fashion and communal Pride gatherings that center solidarity and creativity.
Marketing
fromMarTech
4 hours ago

How the new attention standards turn feeling into data | MarTech

Attention measurement complements viewability by revealing how people actually experience ads, enabling diagnostic insights to optimize creative and link exposure to outcomes.
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