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A dead juvenile Gray Whale sits in the sand on Limantour Beach at Point Reyes National Seashore on May 25, 2019 in Point Reyes Station, California.
A dead juvenile Gray Whale sits in the sand on Limantour Beach at Point Reyes National Seashore on May 25, 2019 in Point Reyes Station, California.
  • Gray whales have been dying off at an alarming rate since 2019.
  • Scientists at Oregon State think the deaths could be due to melting sea ice, a new study says.
  • The melting ice may be causing a decrease in the crustaceans the



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US President Joe Biden speaks at a roundtable with Jewish community leaders in the Indian Treaty Room of the White House on October 11, 2023.
US President Joe Biden speaks at a roundtable with Jewish community leaders in the Indian Treaty Room of the White House on October 11, 2023.
  • President Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday amid the escalating war with Hamas.
  • Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the visit comes at a "critical moment for Israel."
  • It will be Biden's second trip to a

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The Wall Street Journal's latest report suggests Goldman is potentially looking for the exit as it looks to minimize its consumer-lending footprint.
  • A Goldman partner criticized the bank's launch of Apple savings accounts as a mistake, WSJ reports.
  • Goldman has reportedly been exploring offloading its Apple partnership to AmEx.
  • The report comes amid Goldman

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A person in a grey overcoat and trousers poses in an elevator with a Meta Quest 3 on their head while recording and watching a movie.
Quest 3 in an elevator. | Video: @kukurio59 (TikTok)

It’s happening: people are once again walking into public places wearing a video-recording face computer on their heads. Only this time, the faceputer is sold by Meta, not Google.

Say hello to Meta’s Glassholes.



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The logo of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seen during the 4th annual America Digital Latin American Congress of Business and Technology in Santiago, Chile, September 5, 2018. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
  • Amazon Web Services is a cloud service offered by Amazon.
  • Outages can be tracked by Downdetector and Amazon's own AWS dashboard. 
  • Many popular businesses from streaming companies like Netflix to Google and Slack are AWS customers. 

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LinkedIn laid off over 600 staffers on Monday.
LinkedIn laid off over 600 staffers on Monday.
  • Some workers at LinkedIn found their names on an internal list a day before they were laid off.
  • Two workers told Insider the list caused a stir as workers tried to figure out if they were on it.
  • LinkedIn announced it had laid off more than 600 employees on Monday.

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Sam Bankman-Fried
Court sketch of Sam Bankman-Fried on the first day of his trial
  • Sam Bankman-Fried's defense attorneys say he doesn't have enough Adderall.
  • Before the trial began, they had written to the judge asking for "uninterrupted access" to the drug.
  • They argued Monday that SBF still isn't getting enough medicine, asking the court to take a half day.

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Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave
Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave
  • The CEO of a top technology conference in Europe accused Israel of committing war crimes.
  • The country of Israel, as well as several industry leaders, have since pulled out of the conference.
  • Tech is the latest sector grappling with the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians. 

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Photo illustration of Sam Bankman-Fried on a background of cryptocurrency dissolving into pixels.
What, me worry? | Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Westend61 and Bloomberg, Getty Images

Nishad Singh says he tried to get Bankman-Fried to do the right thing — but he wouldn’t listen.

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