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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

• 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

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

• I took my wife, daughter, and niece on a five-country Europe trip to celebrate my wife's birthday.
• We booked most of the flights and hotel rooms using credit-card points and miles.
• The rewards-booked flights were all business and first class, and the hotel rooms were luxurious.

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

• 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.

Netflix's

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

• 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

• Viktor Bout is brokering weapons sales to Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, per The Wall Street Journal.
• Bout was released in a prisoner swap for Brittney Griner after a decade in US custody.
• Houthi rebels have been attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea since last year.

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