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Having a clean and tidy home is a joy. Cleaning and tidying said home is less of a joy. Though there are some elevated beings among us who find scrubbing their stovetop a meditative experience, most people consider such tasks exhausting, reviled chores only undertaken with reluctance.

Fortunately, the steady march of technological advancement continues to lighten the burden of domestic labour. The

• OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair said the key to a small and efficient team was not hiring middle managers.
• She only hires senior and junior talent in the company, which has a lean team of 42 full-time staff.
• In recent years, Big Tech has endured the "great flattening," a

• A steel shield preventing radiation spread from the Chernobyl site isn't working as intended anymore.
• The IAEA said on Friday that the New Safe Confinement shelter had "lost its primary safety functions."
• The shield was hit in February by a

• Young people face a tough job market, but AI isn't the main culprit, an economist says.
• Hiring has stalled after post-pandemic overexpansion, policy uncertainty, and tariffs.
• Sectors most exposed to AI aren't losing more jobs, suggesting deeper economic issues.

Young people entering

• Surge AI CEO says companies are focused on flashy AI responses over solving real problems.
• He criticized industry leaderboards such as LMArena, where anyone can vote on responses.
• Other experts have criticizde AI benchmarks for prioritizing performance over economic usefulness and truth.

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Tonight marks day 18 of the lunar cycle, meaning the Moon is in its waning gibbous phase. More than half of its surface is still illuminated, but it’s slowly shrinking each night as it moves toward the New Moon. Keep reading to find out what this means.

What is today’s moon phase?

As of Monday, Dec. 8, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous. This means 83% of the moon is lit up tonight, according to NASA

• Trump has thoughts about Netflix's $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
• He said their combined market share "could be a problem" and said he would be involved in the deal.
• In 2017, Trump opposed AT&T's proposed acquisition of Time Warner.

President Donald Trump is getting involved in the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal.

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• OpenAI staff recently shared six tips on how to get better results from ChatGPT.
• I tested each one to see whether it actually improves the experience.
• The tips made my use of ChatGPT feel more intentional and smarter.

OpenAI staff recently shared several tips for getting more

Today's Connections: Sports Edition will be easy if you live in the Mile High City.

As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new

Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.

Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.

Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move onto the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you

• When Toccara Best's request for a year off was denied, she quit her job anyway to travel with her husband.
• Their "gap year" stretched into five as they kept traveling through blog work and housesitting gigs.
• Their son's birth brought them back to the US. Traveling the