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• Mark Zuckerberg's Meta declared its first dividend and another $50 billion in approved buybacks.
• The social-media giant may just be a cash cow, but it risks signaling its growth is slowing.
• Warren Buffett has flagged the downsides to paying a dividend, and railed against bad buybacks.

Meta announced its first dividend and another $50 billion of authorized stock buybacks

• When I applied to Yale and got in, I thought the hard part was behind me.
• But on campus, there was even more competition to get into the top clubs, organizations, and classes.
• The competitive nature of college admissions breeds more competition on Ivy campuses.

Applying to college in 2017 was one of the most stressful

• Tesla settled a lawsuit alleging it mishandled hazardous waste in California.
• District attorneys alleged Elon Musk's company disposed of waste at the wrong trash sites.
• Tesla previously said it's addressing its waste management programs.

Tesla is set to pay $1.5 million to settle a

• Malaysia's new king was appointed on Wednesday as part of the country's rotating monarchy. 
• The king and his family are worth an estimated $5.7 billion, Bloomberg reported.
• He spends his wealth on luxury cars, private jets, and Singapore real-estate.

Malaysia has a new billionaire king who spends his fortune on vintage cars

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Gary Bowser loves video games, but Nintendo turned him into a villain. No, not just because he shares a name with Bowser, the actual villain of the Mario franchise. The human Bowser helped mod Nintendo’s gaming consoles so people could play free, pirated versions of its video games. Then one day, he woke up with three…

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Lurking inside your reheated fried rice is a dangerous bacterial killer—at least, that’s what you might think after watching one of the latest viral videos shared on TikTok and other social media platforms. There is a grain of truth to this claim, and you should try to properly store your leftovers, but the risks of…

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Japan’s SLIM, the Smart Lander for Investigation Moon, has entered a dormant mode on the Moon’s Shioli Crater, facing a 14-day lunar night with temperatures dropping below -200 degrees Fahrenheit.

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• The US economy is in a better-than-Goldilocks state, economist Paul Krugman wrote for The New York Times.
• "We have an economy that is both piping hot (in terms of growth and job creation) and refreshingly cool (in terms of inflation)."
• It places the Fed in a tough position, as it has reasons to cut or

The Browser Company makes no effort to hide its gleeful disdain for the reigning King of Search, also known as Google. It is openly taking aim at the tech giant’s advertising business with new features for Arc, its AI-powered web browser.

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• Richard Tornetta sued Tesla in 2018 over Elon Musk's $55 billion compensation plan.
• The Tesla shareholder is a former heavy metal drummer for the thrash-metal band Dawn of Correction.
• A Judge sided with Tornetta and struck down the pay package, calling it unfair to

Tesla’s latest massive recall is a weird one. It’s not about reported problems with sudden braking or driver monitoring alerts or seat belts. Nope, this one is all about font size.

It turns out that the font size for Tesla’s brake warning system is a bit too small. How small? Smaller than 3.2 millimeters, or one-eighth of an inch, as