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Some small business owners are relieved after an overtime pay rule was blocked

A federal judge in Texas blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S.

Small business owners have had a mostly positive reaction to a judge’s decision to strike down an overtime rule that would have qualified more workers for overtime pay.

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47 Gifts For People Who Spend All Day At Their Desks

Just a little something to help them enjoy the workday a little more.

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Will Knight, Louise Matsakis

US to Introduce New Restrictions on China’s Access to Cutting-Edge Chips

The new limits, which are expected to be announced Monday, are intended to slow China's ability to build large and powerful AI models.

The Verge

Ash Parrish

Baldur’s Gate 3 has yet another big patch on the way

Image: Larian Studios

Larian Studios isn’t done with big updates for Baldur’s Gate 3 just yet. The studio is planning yet another quality-of-life update for the game with Patch 8.

“Arriving next year, this update will introduce some of the most eagerly awaited features to BG3: cross-play, and photo mode, along with 12 new subclasses,” Larian wrote on its Steam Community page.

Cross play will introduce multiplayer capabilities between any of the game’s platforms including...

The Verge

Wes Davis

Google Chat’s new huddles make it even more like Teams and Slack

Illustration: The Verge

Google Chat is launching huddles, a Google Meet-powered addition that lets you start a quick call with your coworkers. Google said it would add huddles to Google Chat in customer preview over a year ago, but we haven’t heard about it since then. The company says the feature has started rolling out and should reach all Workspace users by January 6th.

As we noted last year, this is the same feature as Slack’s Huddles, using the same exact name. There aren’t...

The Verge

Lauren Feiner

Microsoft is being investigated by the FTC over antitrust concerns

Image: Laura Normand / The Verge

Microsoft is being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission in a wide-ranging antitrust probe, making it the fifth Big Tech company to fall under such scrutiny in several years.

The agency is looking into Microsoft’s cloud and software licensing business, cybersecurity services, and AI offerings. Bloomberg first reported the news and The Verge confirmed the investigation with a person familiar with the matter, granted anonymity to speak to a...

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Nick Wagoner

49ers LB Warner playing with fractured ankle

49ers linebacker Fred Warner revealed for the first time Wednesday that he's been playing through a fractured bone in his ankle that he suffered in a Sept. 29 win against the Patriots.

ESPN.com

Ramona Shelburne

Leaks, team meetings, losses: The factors driving the Sixers' dreadful start

What began with the most exciting offseason of the Joel Embiid era in Philly has devolved into chaos -- with no easy answers in sight.

BuzzFeed - Latest

40 Gifts For Almost Everyone — And I Mean Almost Everyone — On Your List

Friends, family, acquaintances, strangers, and people you haven't even met yet but may need to buy a gift — we've found something for all of 'em.

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Wired Top Stories

Ryan Waniata

The Apple AirPods Pro Are The Cheapest We've Ever Seen

We just found the best Black Friday deal on the best earbuds for iPhone owners.

Mashable

Spotify Wrapped 2024 date: When it comes out, how to view yours

Spotify users look forward to their Wrapped all year long. And for those who can hardly wait, don't fret: Spotify Wrapped 2024 is nearly here.

What is Spotify Wrapped?

Started in 2016, Spotify Wrapped is exactly what it sounds like: your year in Spotify, neatly wrapped up in a colorful — and uniquely shareable — interactive experience.

Spotify combs through your data and tells you your top artists, songs, albums, and more. For instance, you might find out you were in the Top 1 percent of...

Mashable

OpenAI Sora leak: What it was and what it wasn’t.

A group of artists that were early testers for OpenAI's Sora leaked access to the AI video generator on Tuesday. But let's get the facts straight so the story isn't oversimplified.

OpenAI has since shut down access to Sora for all early testers. But for about three hours, the public could test out Sora for themselves. According to a statement shared with the demo hosted on Hugging Face, the artists released access to Sora as a protest against "art washing," which they believe they were "lured...

Mashable

Bluesky has growing pains. Heres what it can learn from X/Twitter

File this under nice problems to have: Bluesky is growing like gangbusters. But hiding beneath that nice problem is a whole viper pit of nasty ones, as any study of Twitter history will tell you.

The Twitter-like social media underdog (or, given its logo, under-butterfly) zipped past the 20 million-user mark last week, with more than a quarter of those users arriving after the U.S. election. An election in which the owner of Twitter/X put his giant thumb on the scale for Donald Trump and...

The Verge

Allison Johnson

The best Black Friday phone deals I’d actually recommend to real people

Big phones, big discounts. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge

Black Friday, you may have noticed, is no longer a specific date on the calendar. This year especially, with a late Thanksgiving in the US, it’s a vibe. The deals started arriving well before Friday and they’ll last all weekend, just like turkey leftovers. If the new vibes-based Black Friday means shopping for discounted phones and accessories online any day you please rather than standing in line at the mall, well,...

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Aurelien Breeden and Marlise Simons

France Suggests It Would Not Immediately Arrest Netanyahu Despite I.C.C. Warrant

The Foreign Ministry did not say outright that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel would be free to travel to France, but it argued that an I.C.C. rule on immunity may apply to him.

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Devlin Barrett

Trump Cabinet Picks Face Bomb Threats and ‘Swatting’

A Trump transition team spokeswoman said law enforcement officials had “acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted.”

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Rebecca Robbins, Christina Jewett and Kate Kelly

Drug Companies Face Hostility as They Hope for Allies Among Trump’s Health Picks

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other candidates for top health posts are at odds with the drug industry, setting the stage for tense battles over regulatory changes.

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David A. Fahrenthold, Alan Rappeport, Theodore Schleifer and Annie Karni

Musk’s Slashing of the Federal Budget Faces Big Hurdles

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, with Elon Musk as co-leader, has advantages that past budget-cutters did not, but laws and court challenges can still make change slow and difficult.

Fast Company

Associated Press

Why drivers in America and Europe are more skeptical to buy EVs than in China right now

Concerns about range, charging infrastructure, and higher prices are sore points among both electric car enthusiasts and skeptics in Europe and the U.S.

While sales of electric vehicles surge in China, adoption of more environmentally friendly vehicles is stumbling in the United States and Europe as carmakers and governments struggle to meet years-old promises about affordability and charging stations.

Fast Company

Reuters

How Trump’s transition agreement differs from ones signed by Biden and Harris

There are no guidelines about individual stock sales, or any stock sales in the Trump pledge.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump‘s team signed an agreement on Tuesday with President Joe Biden‘s administration to coordinate with federal agencies and share documents, after weeks of delays.

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