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The Lightning connector really only had two jobs: be tiny and be foolproof. Apple developed the new port for the iPhone 5, which at the time was simultaneously the largest, thinnest, and lightest iPhone the company had ever made. That made

• Boeing is trying to get employees back to the office with happy hours and alpaca visits, the WSJ reports.
• CEO David Calhoun has taken over 400 private jet trips from his homes and is rarely seen in the office.
• While Boeing recently opened a small office five minutes away from the CFO's home. 

Boeing's CEO is enjoying private-jet commutes while

• Part of Ukraine's fightback against Russia includes using fake weapons.
• One Ukrainian company makes fake M777 155mm howitzers for under $1000, using sewer pipes.
• It wants Russia to waste expensive missiles and drones targeting cheap decoys, Metinvest told CNN.

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• A Russian mercenary group listed equipment failings that troops are suffering on the front line. 
• The group, known as Rusich, said soldiers were buying their own communications equipment. 
• Ru

• Navaid Farooq was one of Elon Musk's first friends during his time at Queen's University, Canada. 
• Farooq came to work for Musk at his first company, Zip2, but quit just six weeks into the job.
• Farooq told biographer Walter Isaacson that he soon "found himself in

Tech companies spend over €113mn per year on lobbying the EU’s decision-making policies, a new study by the Corporate Europe Organisation (CEO) has found. Alarmingly, the tech industry’s lobbying power has also increased by 16.5% over the past couple of years — from €97mn in 2021 to €113mn in 2023. Overall, a total of 651 companies are attempting to influence the bloc’s digital economy. Among them

Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. is setting the record straight. After Variety reported earlier this week that an AI-generated track echoing the voices of Drake and The Weeknd could be considered for a Grammy Award in songwriting categories, Mason is insisting that’s not the case.

In an interview with The New York Times only last week, Mason suggested the track would be “absolutely eligible”

• One executive uses a hiring strategy called the "coffee cup test" on candidates in job interviews.
• He said in a resurfaced 2019 clip that he doesn't hire people who don't offer to wash their cup after the interview.
• Social media users are calling him out for playing a "deeply

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Welcome back. Today is always a difficult day, particularly here in New York, as we remember the innocent lives lost 22 years ago. 

If you only read one piece on the incredible acts of heroism that took place, I recommend this profile of Rick Rescorla. As a VP of security at Morgan Stanley

• The Fed has curbed inflation without causing a recession, Goldman Sachs' chief US economist said. 
• There's "a lot of signs that inflation will fall quite a bit further," David Mericle said.
• The Fed could make its first cut to interest rates by the second quarter of 2024, he said.

The Federal Reserve appears to have beaten back inflation