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• A mass IT outage is affecting flights, banks, and supermarkets around the world.
• James Bore, a cybersecurity expert, told BI there's no remote or automatic solution for the problem. 
• Here's his suggestion for fixing your Windows PC if you're facing the "blue screen of death."

Airlines, banks, retailers

If you ever used Google’s URL shortening service goo.gl before it was shut down in 2019, be warned — those links will stop working on August 25th, 2025. Google announced in a blog post that “the time has come to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener,” and that any links in the https://goo.gl/* format will respond with a 404 error next

• Elon Musk praised Singapore's first prime minister, calling him a 'brilliant' man.
• Musk shared a blog lauding Lee Kuan Yew's foresight in developing Changi Airport.
• Lee's policies rapidly transformed Singapore into a prosperous global financial hub. 

Elon Musk

• Amazon has started rolling out AI in several different aspects of its business.
• AI can offer advice from which shoe size to buy to deciding how to minimize packaging waste.
• Here are six ways that Amazon is using AI right now.

If you've gotten an Amazon package or bought a sweater on the company's website, there's a good chance you've been touched by

• Europe has been noticeably bolder at helping Ukraine than the US despite Russia's threats.
• It has taken the lead in giving Ukraine advanced weaponry and the freedom to use them.
• One expert described a pattern where Europeans lead and "the US eventually comes along."

Ukraine's

• An IT outage is causing global chaos, with reports that 911 services are down across several US states.
• The Alaska State Troopers confirmed that 911 services are down due to a "nationwide" outage. 
• Emergency services in New Hampshire and Ohio posted on social media reports of

• My husband and I stopped eating meat when we got married, almost 50 years ago. 
• We don't miss meat, though I did have to up my protein intake recently.
• I started paying attention to the protein content in the foods I eat.

I stopped eating meat by default. Because I was the daughter who washed dishes rather than helped my mother

• Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and American Airlines issued ground stops on Friday.
• United and American warned pilots that communication was intermittent.
• Several industries have been disrupted by an IT outage linked to CrowdStrike.

Major airlines have warned pilots they may be unable to communicate with ground services.

American

If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.

By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

• Rachel Stolba quit her six-figure B2B tech marketing job in June after being unhappy for a long time.
• Stolba struggled with depression and anxiety, exacerbated by remote work and lack of connections.
• She plans to move to Sayulita, Mexico, to improve her mental health and start a new chapter.

This as-told-to essay is based on a

• Arthur Begtine was born in France but moved with his family to Atlanta when he was eight.
• Begtine felt reverse culture shock when he moved back to France for his father's job when he was 14.
• He told Business Insider he was desperate to return to the US because it has more social mobility.

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed