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• Instagram is testing a feature that makes some ads unskippable.
• YouTube has a similar strategy, which requires non-paying users to view ads before watching videos. 
• Instagram's focus on new features like Reels may have helped it surpass TikTok in growth.

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Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end

• Doug Leone wrote on X that he will support Donald Trump for president in this year's election.
• Leone previously rebuked Trump, saying he'd incited the riot at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
• Leone's endorsement adds him to a growing

• Ethan Liebross, a first-year medical student, lives full-time in a DIY-converted van in California.
• Liebross, 24, bought the van for $20,000 and spent $13,460 on the conversion.
• He says he hopes that living minimally will help him become a better person and future doctor.

Some medical students choose to stay in dorms, while others opt to

A Ticketmaster data breach that allegedly includes details for 560 million accounts and another one affecting Santander have been linked to their accounts at Snowflake, a cloud storage provider. However, Snowflake says there’s no evidence its platform is at fault.

A joint statement to that effect made last night with

• The H5N1 bird flu virus has infected a third person in the US, this time with respiratory symptoms.
• The new patient's cough and sore throat could help the virus get better at infecting humans.
• Experts fear the US is missing critical opportunities to check the virus's DNA for new mutations.

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• Keith Gill may face an E-Trade ban, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
• A post to Gill's Reddit account seemed to show he had a $116 million position in GameStop.
• E-Trade, owned by Morgan Stanley, is said to be worried

• Tech, consulting, and finance jobs are harder to secure because of hiring cuts and more competition.
• Students are stacking internships and appear to be expanding their job searches to other sectors.
• Plagued by layoffs, hiring in tech seems to have taken the biggest hit

• A Google leak exposed thousands of privacy incidents, according to a 404 Media report.
• The information obtained from an anonymous tipster details incidents flagged by employees.
• It's the second Google leak in the last week, and it highlights how the giant manages data.

A leaked copy of an internal Google database revealed thousands

New York is poised to pass a law that will bar social media platforms from showing algorithmic feeds to teens without parental consent. The Wall Street Journal reports that lawmakers in the state have reached a “tentative agreement” on a bill that will be voted on later this week.

State officials, including Governor Kathy Hochul, introduced a bill requiring parental consent for algorithmic feeds l

• The Epoch Times, a media company linked to China's Falun Gong movement, has grown massively.
• It says its pro-Trump, conspiracy theory-heavy editorial content has won donations and subscriptions.
• But federal prosecutors say its growth was fueled largely by its CFO's pandemic-era cybercrime spree.

The Epoch Times, a US media company linked to Chinese dissidents that

Keith Gill, the popular investor who sparked the skyrocketing of GameStop’s stock back in 2021 and appears to be back at it again, might have his E*Trade account shut down, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal Monday. The stock trading platform and its owner Morgan Stanley reportedly have concerns about…

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