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Instagram‘s top executive grilled over safety decisions at trial
The top executive at Meta Platforms’ Instagram defended the social media platform’s choices around features that some company insiders…
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Instagram boss defends app from witness stand in trial over alleged harms to kids
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge threatened to throw grieving mothers out of court Wednesday if they couldn’t stop crying during…
Business
McDonald’s beats quarterly global sales estimates as value bets pay off
The fast food chain is also delving deeper into the fast-growing beverage segment NALD’S topped Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter…
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ANZ Group cash profit jumps 17% as cost cuts take hold
The Australian bank said more than 60 per cent of the 3,500 job cuts it previously announced had taken place Group said on Thursday its…
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Oil up 1% as Middle East tension offsets large US crude stocks build
Oil prices gained about 1 per cent on Wednesday, as investors worried about escalating tensions between Iran and the US, which were…
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European shares hit record high as energy stocks surge; tech, financials stumble
PEAN shares closed at a record high on Wednesday, as gains in commodity-related stocks offset weakness in technology and financials, while…
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US stocks: Wall Street muted after strong jobs data nibbles at Fed rate cut bets
S&P 500 closed virtually unchanged on Wednesday as a stronger-than-expected employment report eased worries about the economy but also…
Culture
The Director of “Crime 101” on His Favorite Anti-Western Westerns
When the director Bart Layton—whose new film, “Crime 101,” opens on Friday—recently reflected on his favorite novels, he realized that…
Business
TotalEnergies halves buybacks as low oil, gas prices weigh on profits
It echoes similar moves by its peers – BP has completely suspended buybacks, and Equinor has reduced them by 70% TotalEnergies will halve…
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Wall St gains after stronger-than-expected jobs report
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Wednesday (Feb 11) following a stronger-than-expected jobs data that pointed to a resilient US…
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Soilbuild Construction bags new contracts totalling S$158 million
The deals enhance revenue visibility and bring group’s order book value to around S$1.07 billion as at end-December Soilbuild Construction…
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World’s biggest nickel mine in Indonesia told to cut output
Its 2026 quota is 12 million tonnes of ore production, down from 42 million tonnes in 2025 The world’s biggest nickel mine in Indonesia…
Business
Deutsche Bank looks to boost loans for rich clients’ sports bets
Billionaires with sports investments include India’s Mukesh Ambani, France’s Bernard Arnault and Josh Harris in the US Deutsche Bank is…
Business
Starhill Global Reit CEO and executive director Ho Sing to step down in August
Hospitality veteran Ho Sing is retiring and will step down as the chief executive officer and executive director of Starhill Global Real…
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Super Bowl spots spark fight over whether we're ready for ads from our chatbots
The chatbot wars entered the Super Bowl this year. At Super Bowl LX, a ChatGPT competitor paid millions of dollars for commercials mocking…
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How to validate your business idea using customer interviews
You probably already know the advice: “Don’t build until you talk to customers.” And yet here you are, with a Notion doc full of ideas, a…
Business
AI Won’t Replace Trust in Marketing
Generative AI is impressive, but it still misses what matters most in marketing: trust. That’s my stance, and it comes from hard-won…
News
“The President’s Cake” Is a Neorealist Treasure from Iraq
In the city, the story splits in half: Lamia gets separated from Bibi (for reasons I wouldn’t dare disclose) and searches for the one…
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'Ass power!' Hundreds gather in L.A. to play a video game about donkeys and the resistance
The donkeys are pissed off. Put upon, out of work and victims of decades-long systemic abuse, it’s time, they have decided, to protest.…
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The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
There are still plenty of places to read about literature, many of them excellent. There are older and more established outlets, like the…
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Trial starts in L.A. lawsuit alleging Instagram and YouTube knew apps harmed kids
A landmark civil trial that will ask jurors to decide whether social media companies can be held liable for pushing a product that they…
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Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Is Extravagantly Superficial
Catherine and Heathcliff—now played by Robbie and Elordi—will prove each other’s undoing as well. Fennell teases out the tricky evolution…
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Pierre Huyghe’s A.I. Art Monster Takes Over a Night Club in Berlin
In the far corner of the Halle, there’s a dim glow. Your job, you realize, is to grope your way toward that light, which reveals itself to…
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Barry Blitt’s “Split Screen”
In February, 1925, the first issue of The New Yorker was published, featuring a drawing by the art editor Rea Irvin of a top-hatted dandy…