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Gen Z Grads Are Being Fired Months After Being Hired
After complaining that Gen Z grads are difficult to work with for the best part of two years, bosses are no longer all talk, no action — now they’re rapidly firing young workers who aren’t up to scratch just months after hiring them. “According to a new report, six in Read more…
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Did Canals Help Build Egypt’s Pyramids?
How were the Pyramids built? New evidence was published earlier this year in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. The theory? “[A]n extinct branch of the Nile River once weaved through the landscape in a much wetter climate.” Dozens of Egyptian pyramids across a 40-mile-long range rimmed the waterway, the Read more…
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Octopuses Recorded Hunting With Fish – and Punching Those That Don’t Cooperate
Octopuses don’t always hunt alone — but their partners aren’t who you’d expect. A new study shows that some members of the species Octopus cyanea maraud around the seafloor in hunting groups with fish, which sometimes include several fish species at once. The research, published in the journal Nature on Read more…
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If 23andMe Is Up for Sale, So Is All That DNA
23andMe is not doing well. Its stock is on the verge of being delisted. It shut down its in-house drug-development unit last month, only the latest in several rounds of layoffs. Last week, the entire board of directors quit, save for Anne Wojcicki, a co-founder and the company’s CEO. Amid Read more…
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Meta Fined $102 Million For Storing 600 Million Passwords In Plain Text
Meta has been fined $101.5 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for storing over half a billion user passwords in plain text for years, with some engineers having access to this data for over a decade. The issue, discovered in 2019, predominantly affected non-US users, especially those using Read more…