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Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The job market is booming, despite headline-grabbing layoffs at tech behemoths like Amazon and Google. As illustrated by that contrast in fortunes, however, the hiring surge hasn’t been distributed equally. For waiters and bartenders, job boards are lighting up; for computer programmers, they’re relatively dim. The strong job market […]

Helen King/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Buzzy catchphrases like “Quiet Quitting” and “Great Resignation” have captured frustration among some employees as the pandemic has upended their workplace routines and called into question work as a lifestyle priority. Now there is a new viral trend: “Bare minimum Monday.” Marisa Jo, who boasts 154,000 followers on TikTok, […]

Courtesy of Jared Rosenholtz (NEW YORK) — YouTube personality Steve Hammes leased a Hyundai Kona Electric sport utility vehicle for his 17-year-old daughter Maddie for three reasons: it was affordable, practical and allowed Maddie to put her cash toward college, not fuel. Now, the upstate New York resident has a dilemma many EV owners can […]

5./15 WEST/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — European Commission employees will have to remove TikTok from their work phones for security reasons, the European Union’s executive body said Thursday. The Commission said in a statement that all its employees will have to comply by March 15. This measure aims “to protect the Commission against cybersecurity threats […]

The Cohasset Police Department demonstrates the equipment used to mine cryptocurrency in the crawl space. — Cohasset Police Department (COHASSET, Mass.) — A small Massachusetts town enlisted the help of the Department of Homeland Security to track down the person who illegally installed a cryptocurrency mining operation in a crawl space of a middle school. […]

Noel Hendrickson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — To call Ukraine home is to embody the love of food and sharing it with others — a tradition the country has historically embodied in the role it plays in feeding the world. The fertile soil in the region, known as the “breadbasket of the world” due to its […]

US CPSC (NEW YORK) — Two million Cosori Air Fryers have been recalled due to fire and burn hazards, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety and Commission announced in a press release Thursday. About 250,000 air fryers in Canada and 21,000 air fryers in Mexico have also been recalled. According to the CPSC announcement and an […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces four additional criminal charges of conspiracy contained in a superseding indictment unsealed Thursday. The new charges include conspiracy to commit bank fraud and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transfer business. Bankman-Fried, 30, now faces a total of 12 charges since the collapse of […]

Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — One year into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, a new report by the social media company Meta details the evolution of pro-Russian influence campaigns online. The report describes a declining presence for Russian state media outlets on Meta’s platforms Facebook and Instagram, as well as crude efforts by […]

Helen King/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A pilot program that involved nearly 3,000 employees testing out a four-day workweek is giving new hope to those seeking to change the way people work. Over 90% of the employees and 61 companies that took part in the pilot program supported keeping a four-day workweek, according to the […]