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YouTube introduced livestream upgrades, AI-driven Shorts editing, easier reaction/interactive features, and monetization updates to simplify content creation, streaming, and revenue generation.

Elizabeth Banks credits adequate sleep, hydration, better nutrition, and a positive mindset for helping her age well and embrace growing older.

Working from home has increased sedentary time, causing people to sit for long hours and prompting the need for regular movement breaks.

Women in midlife increasingly choose solo yoga and wellness retreats to reconnect with their bodies, breath, inner knowing, and to experience renewed wholeness and clarity.

Many people in the UK are switching from smartphones to minimalist dumbphones to reduce digital distractions and screen time.

Americans increasingly spend multiple hours daily on smartphones, with younger generations averaging the most screen time and apps dominating device use.

BB(6) lower bounds have been dramatically increased, producing numbers so large they cannot be written in ordinary decimal notation.

NASA discounted a Harvard astronomer's hypothesis that interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas is an artificial, potentially threatening object sent intentionally toward the inner solar system.

Break into UX in 2026 by prioritizing real UX work, communication and alignment, market validation, practical portfolios, networking, and AI-enabled skills.

Confirmation dialogs intentionally pause users to prevent errors, balance trust and friction, and require thoughtful design, alternatives, and accessibility to be effective.

YouTube will retroactively insert branded segments and AI-generated shoppable timestamps, while Cambridge Analytica resulted in minor penalties and small user settlement payouts.

MediaTek will unveil the Dimensity 9500 SoC on September 22, one day before Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 announcement.

Data collaboration enables privacy-centric customer intelligence and improved targeting while European regulatory and local-data challenges complicate ad tech expansion.

Nothing raised $200M at a $1.3B valuation and will launch AI-native devices while building hyper-personalized, cross-form-factor operating systems.

NYPD collects, stores and shares vast personal data from public and private sources, creating broad unbounded surveillance repositories that threaten privacy and civil liberties.

A DHS intelligence-sharing platform was misconfigured in 2023, exposing sensitive but unclassified intelligence to thousands of unauthorized users, including foreign nationals and contractors.

AI-driven marketing amplifies the harms of messy, misaligned data, making data quality and unified measurement essential to avoid large-scale bad decisions.

Privacy is essential for censorship resistance; loss of privacy enables external coercion and drives widespread self-censorship.

Front-end Developer needed to build a white-label self-serve AdTech platform using Vue.js and TypeScript integrating ad servers, CRMs, and payment systems.

Stargate UK is Britain's largest AI supercomputing initiative, providing domestic GPU compute to train next-generation AI models and reduce reliance on foreign capacity.

Predictive AI personas create dynamic, real-time customer profiles that anticipate actions, enabling proactive, autonomous marketing and improved conversion rates.

Check Point acquired Lakera to assemble an end-to-end AI security stack that secures models, agents, and data with runtime protection and continuous adversarial testing.

Magnite sued Google's ad unit alleging an exclusionary monopoly in open-web advertising that harmed Magnite, publishers, advertisers, and competition.

A CEO's distinctive, consistent voice is essential to company reputation, signaling direction, building trust, and differentiating the brand.

A walking tour in North Brooklyn teaches urban heat mapping, thermal comfort assessment, and emphasizes McGolrick Park's tree canopy supporting livable city design.

Nolan Arenado returned from a shoulder injury and will likely play remaining games; offseason trade interest centers on his two-year, $37M remaining contract, no-trade.

Nostr's adoption stalled because content creators and audiences remain concentrated on established platforms, and mainstream users are not motivated by censorship-resistance.

People Inc. is shifting away from Google search by diversifying traffic and revenue sources and building stronger direct-to-consumer relationships to adapt to AI-driven search.

Social media platforms must employ multiple age-assurance methods to prevent under-16s accessing services in Australia from Dec 10.

The Mets will abandon orthodox pitching roles and flexibly deploy starters and relievers to maximize wins during the final 12 games.

Criminals increasingly bypass MFA by tricking employees with sophisticated phishing, driving business email compromise and largely irretrievable wire fraud losses.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild plans to sell her 20% voting stake in The Economist, potentially fetching around £400 million and altering long-standing ownership.

The Miami Marlins' strong starting rotation faces significant risk at Coors Field due to pitching struggles and Colorado's altitude effects.

Mixue Ice Cream & Tea, with over 45,000 stores, is the world's largest fast-food chain and will open its first U.S. location in NYC.

A ten-million-square-meter masterplan will convert a former military site along the River Tigris into a million-tree urban forest and mixed-use district, capturing CO₂ and restoring ecosystems.

Ten critically ill Gaza children were evacuated to the UK for urgent NHS treatment as part of a scheme to bring hundreds for free care.

FinWise suffered an insider attack that may have exposed sensitive customer data, including customers of American First Finance (AFF).

Winfield House is the private 35-room official residence of the US ambassador in central London, used for diplomatic hospitality, exclusive events, and high-profile entertaining.

A Rowhammer variant called Phoenix can corrupt and expose data on SK Hynix DDR5 modules, bypassing current protections and posing practical security risks.

At least 142 environmental advocates were killed worldwide in 2024, mostly indigenous people and farmers, with Colombia the deadliest country.

Chef Alexander Diestra becomes Executive Chef at The Tavern at the Heathman Hotel, blending Peruvian flavors with Pacific Northwest ingredients and seafood expertise.

Cross-genre general-interest non-fiction offers practical, transferable insights that strengthen security, risk management, and leadership practice.

The novel reframes storytelling as comforting gathering rather than conflict, centering a depressed nature writer and a nurturing, multitasking magical creature named Carl.

Fox News Digital led all major news brands in August across multiplatform minutes, multiplatform views, and unique visitors, showing growth versus last year.

Morena's Kitchen is a family-owned Dominican restaurant in Corona offering a homey atmosphere, dishes like pastelitos and oxtails, and a lively bar with happy hour.

Summarily dismissing Bitcoin undermines credibility of monetary reform arguments and alienates readers focused on digital-currency-driven monetary futures.

LinkedIn introduced company page verification, with eligibility based on meaningful engagement and commercial relationships; eligible pages request verification via desktop Settings and receive email outcomes.

Costco is recalling Kirkland Signature Prosecco Valdobbiadene sold in 12 states because unopened bottles may shatter; customers should discard affected bottles and can receive refunds.

A German man suspected in Madeleine McCann's 2007 disappearance was released after serving a seven-year sentence for a separate 2019 rape conviction; investigations continue.

AI automation will expand remote and hybrid work by improving flexibility, productivity, and customer service while increasing cybersecurity and management challenges.

Alice Birch creates formally daring plays that rigorously interrogate masculinity and the novel, demanding intense labor over long periods despite brief bursts of composition.

Lesser-known Spanish wine regions offer unique indigenous grape varieties, distinctive landscapes, and thriving wineries beyond well-known areas like La Rioja and Penedès.

Kirkland Signature Prosecco bottles sold at Costco can shatter without warning and are being recalled for purchases made April 25–August 26 in multiple Midwestern states.

Uniball Jetstream Edge delivers a 0.28 mm ultra-fine ballpoint with archival hybrid ink combining gel-like smoothness and rapid-drying, smudge-resistant performance.

A visceral Eden scene portrays God as a butcher, revealing appetite, violence, and a human-like tyrannical divine beneath biblical narrative.

Bournemouth have their best Premier League start with nine points from four games but must stay humble and continue improving to sustain success.

Martin Odegaard left the Nottingham Forest match with a shoulder injury and will be assessed, compounding Arsenal's list of key absentees this season.

Russian drones deliberately entered Polish airspace to test NATO and the U.S., prompting NATO jets to shoot down multiple drones and Poland's Article 4.

Ange Postecoglou's tactical arrival won't immediately transform Nottingham Forest; Arsenal are expected to beat Forest as the Premier League returns.

Poland faces tangible Russian threats, manages major logistical support to Ukraine, and prioritizes protecting supply operations over deploying troops abroad.

France faces political unrest and national strikes while debating a global minimum tax for the super-rich, evaluating education and birthrate trends, and promoting autumn activities.

A recall of Supervisor Joel Engardio succeeded overwhelmingly, signaling recalls have become a grassroots weapon independent of billionaire backers.

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Ilkay Gundogan expressed deep gratitude to Pep Guardiola for shaping his career and providing everything he wanted in football before joining Galatasaray.

Syracuse Mets beat the Lehigh Valley IronPigs 4-3, strengthened their bullpen performance, and remained three games behind in the International League second-half standings.

San Francisco election results for District 4 were reported by grouped precincts, reducing granularity; historical precinct data were consolidated to permit accurate comparisons.

Bo Horvat says Islanders have renewed optimism with new management, the first-overall pick Matthew Schaefer, new acquisitions, and a camp focus on improving special teams.

A German man under investigation in Madeleine McCann's disappearance was released after completing an unrelated seven-year prison sentence; he has not been charged in that case.

Liverpool would need to pay around £100m-plus to sign Michael Olise from Bayern Munich in 2026.

ADOH! is a new Covent Garden Sri Lankan street-food restaurant centered on kothu, island-inspired dishes, vibrant design, cocktails and desserts.