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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. I dream of (54) truly synergistic African economies and of synergy in our leadership.
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The Theranos CEO and convicted fraudster reveals all — or possibly fools the world again — in a shocking, hilarious, sad film from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim.
Tap here for our film review: ft.trib.al/v0lJrdr
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In 1975, Steve Jobs told Steve Wozniak that Atari had paid them $700 for a game they built together. He handed Woz a check for $350.
Atari had actually paid Jobs about $5,000.
In the video below, Woz says: "Who cares about money? Well, you do care about friendship and honesty."
Jobs was working the night shift at Atari. The company wanted a new arcade game called Breakout, built with as few chips as possible.
Jobs couldn't build it. Woz could. He already had a full-time job at Hewlett-Packard, and Jobs said they had four days. Woz went four days with no sleep. Both of them came down with mono.
Woz did it in 45 chips. Atari's own engineers were using 150 or more.
He took his $350 and was happy with it. Jobs took the rest and went up to Oregon to buy into a farm.
About ten years later, Woz read the real number in a book about Atari. By then the two of them had built Apple, and Woz was a multimillionaire.
If Jobs had just told him he needed the money, Woz says, "I would say take it all."
It wasn't the last time. Before Apple went public in 1980, Jobs refused to give stock options to Daniel Kottke, his friend since college, who had helped build the first Apple computers.
Woz did the opposite. He sold his own shares cheaply to Kottke and other early employees who had been left out.
One friend kept almost all of a $5,000 bonus. The other gave away millions.
Was Jobs a genius who knew what business takes, or just a bad friend?
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Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died. nyti.ms/3U9IrTj
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Minutes before he was sentenced Monday to life in prison for the murder of his wife, Caleb Flynn sobbed as his in-laws read letters written by his two daughters, asking him heartbreaking questions about their mother's death. cnn.it/4j74zb8
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Scientists studying the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease say they have new clues to how it works and how its damaging effects on the brain could potentially be reversed. 📩 Reuters Health Rounds explains: reut.rs/3VismLi
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The reports about the events at Cornell—and the lack of accountability for the perpetrators—are sickening. So is the victim blaming in response.
Victim blaming: “If you don’t want to be raped, don’t go to a frat party.”
Responsibility: Don’t. Rape. Women.
The right focus is not on teaching girls and women to avoid harm. It’s on raising boys and men who don’t commit it in the first place.
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Breaking news: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed that an OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government health service website in June, in the latest high-profile cyber incident involving AI ft.trib.al/gloVAyn
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KLM is investigating an incident on a flight from Amsterdam to Curaçao after a power bank caught fire on board yesterday.
The flight was KL735, operated by a Boeing 777-300ER, PH-BVP.
And Dutch news reports are absolutely roasting the former KLM CEO, and I quote:
“The fire was caused by a former KLM CEO who was charging his power bank in Business Class — which, by the way, is banned under KLM rules — and fell asleep while it was charging.”
Imagine being the former CEO of an airline… and getting caught breaking your own airline’s power-bank rules.
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🇹🇿 Tanzania is taking the first steps toward a monorail in Dar es Salaam
1) Sweden’s Swedfund is financing the feasibility study, while French firm SYSTRA will assess the routes, technology, costs and implementation model.
2) The study is expected to take 9 months, with private firms expected to play a major role in construction and operation.
3) The proposed network would connect key corridors including Mwenge, Sam Nujoma, Ubungo, Morogoro Road, Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road and the airport.
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The mental load, the invisible work of remembering, planning, and tracking everything that keeps a household running, falls disproportionately on women, and a 2019 study confirmed it is cognitive labour that takes a measurable toll.
The concept was described by sociologist Allison Daminger at Harvard in a study that broke household management into four cognitive stages: anticipating needs, identifying options, making decisions, and monitoring the results. She found that women performed the majority of the anticipating and monitoring, the two stages that are hardest to see and hardest to share, while decision-making was more evenly split.
Anticipating means noticing that the milk is almost gone before anyone asks for it. Monitoring means checking that the dentist appointment was actually made, the permission slip was signed, the prescription was picked up. These tasks run in the background of a woman's day like software she cannot close, and they consume cognitive resources that are then unavailable for other things.
The toll is not abstract. Studies on working mothers show higher cortisol levels on workdays and, in some cases, on weekends, compared to working fathers in the same household. The stress does not come from any single task. It comes from the fact that the list never empties, and the person holding it cannot put it down because nobody else knows it exists.
The phrase "just tell me what to do" is itself part of the problem. It puts the work of identifying, assigning, and monitoring the task back on the person who is already carrying the list. The study says the load is real, it is unequal, and it is invisible by design. doi.org/10.1177/000312241985…
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Ethiopia is in negotiations with three Italian banks for €400 million in loans to complete the 1,800-megawatt Koysha dam bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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My father hated our neighbor for 11 years. He said he was rude, cold, and arrogant. Every morning, the guy ignored everyone and left without saying hello. One winter, my father slipped on the ice in front of our house. He took a bad fall and couldn't move. Guess who came running across the street first? The "arrogant" neighbor. He called the ambulance, covered my father with his own coat, and stayed with him for 40 minutes in the freezing cold. At the hospital, my father asked: "Why were you always so unfriendly?" The man seemed confused and then said:
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We found another cyberattack by internal OpenAI agents, this time targetting @rubygems.
They:
1) gained arbitrary remote code execution on rubydoc.
2) developed a novel exploit to steal user API keys (but we do not know if they succeeded).
They used package names including hack.rb, evil.rb, inject.rb, and exploit.rb.
We thank @j0wimo for initially discovering that agents had posted to RubyGems.
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*BRILLIANT*
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘_white, angry old man’s_’ advice to go back where they came from.*
Keep going!
“People with big auras and undeniable star power often get crucified in average environments. What makes them magnetic to the right people can make them threatening to those committed to staying ordinary. Sometimes you’re not too much. The room is simply too small.”
