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  • A new lawsuit alleges that a Taco Bell holiday party last year went off the rails.
  • The lawsuit alleges the party devolved into employees getting drunk and having sex in public.
  • An employee alleges in the lawsuit that she faced threats after she reported the incident.

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Flipboard is the latest company to end its presence on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. In a Medium post published Tuesday, the company said it would no longer be “actively monitoring or posting updates on X,” save for the occasional retweet. Instead, Flipboard will be refocusing its efforts on Mastodon and other open social platforms.

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Christmas has come early for indie / solo game developers. GameMaker, the game engine software program used to make Undertale, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Hotline Miami 2, and more, has announced that it’s making significant changes to its pricing structure — but don’t worry, they’re the good kind of changes.

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Dave Filoni in April at Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London. | Photo by Jeff Spicer / Getty Images for Disney

Dave Filoni just got rewarded for the success of Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, and other Star Wars shows with a promotion to chief creative officer of Lucasfilm. According to details in a new Vanity Fair interview, he’ll work alongside head developer Carrie Beck



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Duane Baughman in 2010.
  • A photographer accused Democratic strategist Duane Baughman of sexual assault.
  • In a new lawsuit, she alleges he assaulted her while working on Mike Bloomber's 2001 mayoral campaign.
  • Baughman filed his own lawsuit against her in June, saying she's run "a 20+ year smear campaign" against him.

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  • US stocks fell on Tuesday with the S&P 500 snapping a five-session winning streak.
  • Minutes from the Fed's last meeting indicated restrictive policy remains on the table.
  • Investors also looked to Nvidia to release its earnings after the market close.

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Robots during the production of the Tesla Model Y in the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany. In Tesla's gigafactory plant in Texas, the atmosphere is tense — with near daily verbal fights, The Information reported.
  • Tesla's Texas gigafactory is home to near-daily worker outbursts, The Information reported.
  • The police have also responded to multiple



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Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, the owner and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has agreed to step down and plead guilty to breaking anti-money-laundering laws, according to papers filed in a Seattle court on Tuesday. This comes as part of the major settlement the Department of Justice announced this afternoon, which will require Binance to fork over



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  • The average travel insurance premium this week is $311.07, about the same as last week's.
  • For travel in the United States, the average premium is $97 to $418.
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As Tesla prepares to deliver its first Cybertrucks to customers, a new report paints a grisly picture of the Texas factory where the truck is being built, including a casting machine explosion and a robot allegedly goring a worker.

The Information reported some of the gruesome incidents that have occurred at the Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, where one out of