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Wellness
fromPsychology Today
2 hours ago

Three Skills to Make Work More Meaningful in 2026

Sustained workplace motivation and well-being are driven most by meaning, built through community, contribution, and challenge; daily habits reinforcing these sustain change.
Digital life
fromMedium
2 months ago

20+ best bookmarking tools for people who loves to save links

Curating and saving favorite links using modern bookmarking tools optimizes discovery, organization, and sharing of books, songs, articles, and creative resources.
Wellness
fromFortune
11 hours ago

If you want your employees back in the office, try feeding them, says Gensler executive | Fortune

Employees and employers want food-focused, wellness-centered, flexible, experience-driven workplaces that make the office more than just a place to work.
Wellness
fromBuzzFeed
22 hours ago

Experts Say These 19 Daily Habits Are Silently Sabotaging Your Health

Small, imperfect actions consistently accumulate; doing something is better than nothing and prevents the all-or-nothing trap.
OMG science
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
1 day ago

Harvard scientist believes alien 3I/Atlas could have been sent to 'seed' life on Earth - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS shows anomalous comet-like behavior prompting speculation about possible non-natural origins, including deliberate seeding by advanced life.
OMG science
fromThe Atlantic
5 days ago

Day 3 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Galactic Cluster

Galaxy Cluster Abell 209 contains over 100 galaxies about 2.8 billion light-years away whose combined mass gravitationally lenses and stretches background galaxies.
Tech industry
from24/7 Wall St.
11 hours ago

Oracle Turned $1,000 Into $5,726 Over a Decade but Recent Buyers Lost 37%

Oracle transformed into an AI-focused cloud provider, with cloud services comprising 77% of revenue and hyperscale AI driving rapid growth and GPU demand.
UX design
fromMedium
12 hours ago

Thought-shaped UI, sigma () shaped designers, Figma's new DS features

Choose between thought-shaped interfaces atop legacy systems or rebuilding software from the ground up to faithfully represent human thought and preserve agency.
EU data protection
fromSocial Media Today
1 day ago

Meta Gains Approval for EU Data Usage Proposal

EU users can choose fully personalized ads by consenting to full data sharing or less personalized ads by sharing less personal data, from January 2026.
Tech industry
fromThe Motley Fool
14 hours ago

Billionaires Buy 2 Brilliant AI Stocks as the Nasdaq Bull Market Rolls Toward 2026 | The Motley Fool

Meta Platforms and Alphabet are positioned to gain in the Nasdaq bull market supported by major hedge-fund purchases and Meta's ad and AI advantages.
UX design
fromMedium
2 months ago

I stopped using Figma for 70% of my product design work...and my output doubled.

Design problems usually stem from unclear thinking, not Figma; clarify users, goals, and business needs before high-fidelity prototyping.
Tech industry
fromTechRepublic
4 days ago

India Scraps Mandatory App Preinstall Following Pushback

India rescinded a mandate requiring undeletable Sanchar Saathi preloaded on new smartphones after unified resistance from Apple, Samsung, and privacy advocates.
EU data protection
fromThe Verge
8 hours ago

Facebook and Instagram will let European users see fewer personal ads

Instagram and Facebook users in the EU can choose to limit personalised ads beginning January 2026 to meet EU Digital Markets Act requirements.
Privacy professionals
fromZDNET
10 hours ago

Forget burner phones - you can join this new carrier with just a ZIP code (no ID necessary)

Phreeli is a US MVNO offering privacy-by-design mobile service requiring only ZIP code, username, and payment, with prepaid plans and optional crypto payments.
Privacy professionals
fromMedium
3 months ago

Child Safety vs. Corporate Profits Online

Platforms that prioritize adult monetization over child safety enable harmful interactions; robust age verification and developer controls are necessary to protect minors online.
#remote-work
fromBlack Enterprise
12 hours ago
Remote teams

What 2025 Taught Us About Remote Work And Building Distributed Teams

Companies that optimize distributed work through intentional management will outperform by lowering costs, accessing larger talent pools, and retaining top performers.
fromForbes
11 hours ago
Remote teams

20 Companies Hiring For $100,000+ Remote Jobs In 2026 & How To Get One

Several major employers continue offering six-figure fully remote jobs across fintech, SaaS, healthcare, education, and other industries despite widespread return-to-office mandates.
more#remote-work
#retail-media
fromExchangewire
13 hours ago
Marketing tech

The Retail Media Rush: What's in Store for 2026? - ExchangeWire.com

Retail media growth accelerates with new networks and Gen AI-driven traffic and conversion gains, requiring harmonisation and standardisation to scale by 2026.
fromGrocery Dive
1 day ago
Marketing tech

Why incrementality is the new currency for retail media

Incrementality measurement must be prioritized by CPGs to prove retail media-driven sales and optimize ad investments using multi-method approaches.
more#retail-media
Marketing tech
fromMarTech
11 hours ago

Why privacy, not AI, is the biggest marketing shift to watch | MarTech

Privacy regulations and the decline of third-party data require marketers to prioritize first-party and zero-party data, transparency, and privacy-compliant technologies immediately.
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
11 hours ago

Weekly Recap: USB Malware, React2Shell, WhatsApp Worms, AI IDE Bugs & More

Critical React Server Components vulnerability CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell) enables unauthenticated remote code execution and is being exploited within hours of disclosure.
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
14 hours ago

Sneeit WordPress RCE Exploited in the Wild While ICTBroadcast Bug Fuels Frost Botnet Attacks

A critical RCE (CVE-2025-6389) in Sneeit Framework WordPress plugin (≤8.3) is actively exploited; update to 8.4 to mitigate.
Food & drink
fromEater NY
5 hours ago

The Decadent NYC Hot Chocolate Worth Lining Up For

Decadent, halal-friendly torched-marshmallow hot chocolate at Rockefeller Center and fresh, chocolate-chip-studded ricotta cannoli from Madonia Bakery are standout seasonal treats in NYC.
Writing
fromPR Daily
13 hours ago

5 ways to keep your writing human in an AI-heavy workplace - PR Daily

Communicators must strengthen writing and editing skills and integrate AI thoughtfully to preserve a distinct, trustworthy, and human brand voice while meeting business goals.
Remote teams
fromHR Dive
1 day ago

Overcome the commute in the return-to-work era

Vanpool programs can cut commuting costs dramatically, reduce congestion and parking demand, boost office attendance by lowering commute barriers, and support sustainability goals.
Food & drink
fromEater LA
5 hours ago

The Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: December 8

Super Peach's SP Chicken Salad and Hermon's loaded potato fritters stand out for balanced flavors, textures, and craveable, shareable appeal in Los Angeles dining.
Books
fromwww.npr.org
7 hours ago

Maureen Corrigan's 10 favorite books of 2025 with plenty for nonfiction lovers

Notable 2025 novels combine sweeping historical scope, intense character focus, and themes of immigration, contingency, and longing across American and global settings.
Books
fromScary Mommy
9 hours ago

The Best Book Of Every Genre In 2025, According To Goodreads Users

Goodreads Choice Awards 2025 reflected reader favorites with 7.5 million votes across 300 nominees, highlighting winners like Fredrik Backman, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and John Green.
Food & drink
fromEater LA
4 hours ago

One of Los Angeles's Best Thai Restaurants Just Expanded to Santa Monica

Holy Basil opened a Santa Monica location, offering chile chicken, steak with Thai basil chimichurri, and tom yum risotto with non-alcoholic pairings, limited hours and upcoming takeout.
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
6 hours ago

OpenAI says ChatGPT saves the average worker up to an hour each day - here's how

ChatGPT Enterprise saves workers roughly 40–60 minutes per workday, with productivity benefits varying by role and driven by enterprise-scale adoption.
Writing
fromPsychology Today
4 hours ago

How Writing a Book Convinced Me I'm an Introvert

Writing a book revealed an introverted temperament through solitary work, focused routines, and preference for small-group interactions.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
10 hours ago

AI is rewriting the rules of work. Our job is to shape what comes next | Fortune

AI is rearchitecting work; leaders must redesign roles, build trust, and prepare people so humans and AI collaborate, creating net job growth and human renaissance.
Social media marketing
fromThe Drum
7 hours ago

'Sat-Cif-faction' rode the #CleanTok wave to be Unilever Homecare's most viral campaign

A digital-first, humor-led campaign repositioned Cif Creams to demonstrate product usage and win back Millennials and Gen Z, targeting a +500 basis-point penetration increase.
Artificial intelligence
fromInfoWorld
5 hours ago

AWS takes aim at the PoC-to-production gap holding back enterprise AI

Managed modules and SageMaker serverless customization automate trace capture, episode compression, and model fine-tuning, reducing MLOps overhead and accelerating agentic system deployment.
Books
fromPortland Monthly
9 hours ago

Portland Monthly's Best Books of 2025

Portland-based books in 2025 emphasized empathy and solidarity across genres as many of the country's leading writers live and work in Oregon.
Privacy technologies
fromTechCrunch
2 hours ago

FTC upholds ban on stalkerware founder Scott Zuckerman | TechCrunch

The FTC denied Scott Zuckerman’s petition and kept a ban preventing him from offering, promoting, selling, or advertising any surveillance app, service, or business.
#data-centers
more#data-centers
fromZacks
9 hours ago

Pardon Our Interruption

As you were browsing something about your browser made us think you were a bot. There are a few reasons this might happen:
Privacy technologies
fromComputerWeekly.com
9 hours ago

How police live facial recognition subtly reconfigures suspicion | Computer Weekly

Live facial recognition reshapes police suspicion and undermines human-in-the-loop safeguards by making officers intermediaries acting on algorithmic suggestions, normalizing automated surveillance.
Writing
fromPsychology Today
5 hours ago

Why Mexico City Was Good for My Mental Health

An unplanned month in Mexico City provided healing, restored sanity, and immersion in present through local interactions, sensory experiences, and deliberate disengagement from distressing news.
Europe news
fromwww.npr.org
5 days ago

Belgium rejects EU plan to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine

Belgium rejected using frozen Russian assets as collateral for a reparations loan, citing major economic, financial and legal risks and potential legal action.
Wine
fromTime Out New York
3 days ago

'Wine Enthusiast' opens its first-ever shop in Soho

Wine Enthusiast opened its first physical SoHo flagship at 27 Greene Street, offering monthly pours, accessories, consultations, and event programming.
Wine
fromwww.7x7.com
3 days ago

29 Fun Things to Do This Week (12.08.25)

Bay Area offers diverse holiday events including themed dinners, wine and Champagne experiences, family markets, performances, and cultural festivals for winter celebrations.
#liverpool
more#liverpool
Wine
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

What to drink on Christmas Day, from morning to night

Order a wider variety of appropriate wines and non-alcoholic alternatives well ahead to match each Christmas moment and avoid underpreparation.
Europe news
fromwww.npr.org
5 days ago

Belarus weather balloons force repeated closures of Lithuania's main airport

Belarus-launched balloons repeatedly closed Vilnius airport, causing major disruptions and prompting Lithuania to call the incidents deliberate hybrid attacks amid Belarus-Russia tensions.
#golden-state-warriors
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 hours ago
Golden State Warriors

Warriors cut ties with rookie Alex Toohey, who was part of Kevin Durant trade

Warriors waived 2025 second-round pick Alex Toohey due to a knee injury requiring surgery and signed forward Malevy Leons to a two-way contract.
fromThe Mercury News
22 hours ago
Golden State Warriors

Warriors instant analysis: Jimmy Butler leads winning effort in return to Chicago

Warriors defeated Bulls 123-91 in Chicago while Jimmy Butler received cheers and contributed 19 points as Golden State excelled offensively.
more#golden-state-warriors
Online marketing
fromwww.forbes.com
1 day ago

Why Your SEO Stopped Working And The Exact Moves To Fix It In 2026

Google's AI overviews extract answers and reduce organic clicks; prioritize branded search visibility and reputation to recover traffic and lead generation by 2026.
Los Angeles Rams
fromLos Angeles Times
1 day ago

Rams back on top of their game and the NFC with blowout win over Cardinals

Rams routed the Cardinals 45-17 as Sean McVay returned to coach, offense and defense dominated, and the team reclaimed the NFC's top seed at 10-3.
New York City
fromwww.amny.com
3 hours ago

NYC Council members ramp up immigrant protections as ICE raids continue throughout the city

NYC advocates and council members demand legislation granting undocumented immigrants private legal recourse and barring federal immigration enforcement on city correctional sites.
New York City
fromCity Limits
6 hours ago

Opinion: How New York's Next Mayor Can Tackle Homelessness on Day 1

New York's homelessness crisis requires compassionate, evidence-based leadership that improves shelters, increases funding, and protects services for families and vulnerable individuals.
Gadgets
fromZDNET
22 hours ago

6 hidden Android features that are seriously useful (and how they made my life easier)

Android includes useful hidden features such as sharing Wi‑Fi via QR codes and enabling Developer options to access advanced settings.
Real Madrid
fromwww.fourfourtwo.com
7 hours ago

Real Madrid's stance on Xabi Alonso's future laid out after Los Blancos booed off ahead of Manchester City showdown

Xabi Alonso's Real Madrid were booed after a 2-0 home defeat to Celta, slipping four points behind Barcelona and facing pressure before a Champions League test vs Manchester City.
SF music
from48 hills
9 hours ago

Win tickets to Dillinger Escape Plan, Tape B, Ranger Trucco, MYD - 48 hills

48 Hills is giving away pairs of tickets to local SF shows; enter by emailing marke@48hills.org with the show name and sandwich spot by Wed/10 midnight.
Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
11 hours ago

Germany news: Berlin rejects US criticism of Europe DW 12/08/2025

Friedrich Merz filed hundreds of criminal insult complaints as parliamentary group leader, prompting police searches and court scrutiny, with penalties later donated to charity.
National Hockey League
fromESPN.com
1 day ago

The NHL's best this week: Terry Ryan and hockey dreams

Terry Ryan blends acting success on Shoresy with playing hockey in the Shoresy Fall Classic, joining cast games against NHL alumni at UBS Arena on Dec. 10.
New York Rangers
fromBlue Seat Blogs
7 hours ago

NY Rangers Fan Confidence Poll-December 8, 2025: Turning a corner? - Blue Seat Blogs

Rangers stayed unbeaten in regulation during a tough stretch, showing improved play despite injuries and roster uncertainty.
Silicon Valley
fromTechCrunch
2 hours ago

Investor letter reveals skyrocketing growth of Waymo's robotaxi rides | TechCrunch

Waymo now provides 450,000 robotaxi rides per week and plans expansion into 12 additional cities in 2026.
Pittsburgh Steelers
fromESPN.com
1 day ago

DK Metcalf (stomach) spends night in Baltimore

DK Metcalf remained in Baltimore after stomach pains on the team plane, was sent to a Baltimore-area hospital for evaluation, and is expected back Monday.
#branding
more#branding
Online marketing
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
12 hours ago

Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)

Google Search experienced marked weekend ranking volatility while Search Console reporting lagged and Google has not been regularly confirming core updates, spurring wide SEO concern.
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