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A composite image shows a Russian Osa system and a still from footage that Ukraine said showed an Osa destroyed by a drone.
  • Ukraine shared footage of what it claims was a cheap drone destroying Russian air defense equipment.
  • It said the Russian system was worth $10 million, while the drone cost a few hundred dollars.
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  • PubMatic conducted a layoff last week as part of a plan to focus on growth areas.
  • The layoff affected a dozen employees, or around 1% of staff.
  • PubMatic said it plans to increase its overall head count by 15% despite recent challenges.

PubMatic, the publicly listed adtech company, last week conducted a layoff as it looks to reorient its business toward growth areas



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Pairs of camouflage pants intercepted by Kaunas Territorial Customs in Lithuania on October 2, 2024.
  • Lithuanian customs intercepted military supplies leaving the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
  • It said the supplies were volunteer donations meant for the Russian army. It handed them to Ukraine.
  • Lithuania, once part of the Soviet Union, is one of Ukraine's largest



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If you always have trouble finding that specific pasta sauce like I do, there’s a smart grocery shopping cart that can map it out for you. Instacart’s Caper Cart, which has a touchscreen and payment terminal up front where you’d normally seat your toddler or play Jenga with your produce, now has a new store map system that can help



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We built our itinerary around a week in Valencia, Spain.

A year before my wife's 52nd birthday, I


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Erik and Lyle Menendez and their attorney Leslie Abramson in 1991.
  • Netflix released a documentary this week about Lyle and Erik Menendez with new interviews with the brothers.
  • It arrives after Netflix dramatized the brothers' trial in "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story."
  • Here are seven other documentaries and dramatizations of the Menendez brothers' lives.

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For several years now, it’s been possible to personalize your iPhone screen by creating your own icons, mostly by using Apple’s built-in Shortcuts app (and we have instructions for doing just that). But if you want to do a little customization in a short amount of time, a new feature in iOS 18 lets you tweak the color of your app



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  • Influencer marketers are moving away from campaigns with micro influencers and back to big stars.
  • A new survey from Linqia found a drop in marketing work among creators with fewer than 500,000 fans.
  • Instead, celebrities and creators with millions of fans were getting more deals, Linqia found.

A few years ago, influencer marketers were ditching their plans