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- Meta employees in wearables and ads were told on Tuesday to work remotely on Wednesday.
- The HR email comes as layoffs loom over the Big Tech company's 79,000 staff.
- Meta announced a significant stock-based compensation plan for top execs on Tuesday.
Some Meta employees received a message
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- Ukraine's air force said it had detected nearly 1,000 Shahed and other strike drones in one day.
- It said it shot down or disabled 906 of them, at an interception rate of 95.5%.
- Kyiv's latest account breaks Russia's previous launch record of 728 such drones.
Ukraine said on Tuesday
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- Namrata Yadav has always loved creative writing and poetry.
- She said law school, research, and finally consulting at KPMG failed to bring her fulfillment.
- So she quit her job, moved back to India, and is now trying to establish herself as a spoken-word poet.
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If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.
There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give

Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you're always learning.
If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you frequent the movie theater.
Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an

The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you keep up with the news.
Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games 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
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- Six top Meta execs are set to receive huge pay increases — excluding CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
- But that hinges on Meta meeting "exceedingly aggressive" stock prices over five years, Meta said.
- It's getting expensive to retain top leaders as AI makes tech more

For the past four years, BTS has been something international fans watched from a distance, as the members completed their mandatory military service in South Korea. In the meantime, they pursued solo projects and toured globally as individuals, while the group itself lived on through archived livestreams and social media posts.
On Monday night in New York City, they were back on stage as seven.
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- Delta halted special services for Congress, including perks that get them through security faster.
- Delta cited the "impact on resources from the longstanding government shutdown" for its decision.
- Other airlines, including United and Southwest, have not announced