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Prison. Bankruptcy. Suicide. How a software glitch ruined lives

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After a piece of software incorrectly showed that money had gone missing, a trusted, centuries-old British...
After a piece of software incorrectly showed that money had gone missing, a trusted, centuries-old British government corporation used its financial and legal might to convict and bankrupt hundreds of people who ran its branches. Some family members say their loved-ones were left so distressed they took their own li...
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A woman bought a vintage dress. It had a secret pocket with a mysterious note

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The Victorian dress in the Maine antique mall was unlike anything Sara Rivers Cofield had seen...
The Victorian dress in the Maine antique mall was unlike anything Sara Rivers Cofield had seen before. Its fitted bodice, puffy bustle and lace cuffs reflected a bygone era. As a vintage costume collector, Rivers Cofield recognized it as a dress from the 1880s — but despite its age, its delicate embroidery, bronze s...
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Tech sector is pouring billions of dollars into AI. It keeps laying off humans

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The tech sector has kicked off the new year with a spate of fresh job cuts...
The tech sector has kicked off the new year with a spate of fresh job cuts that are coming at the same time as the industry is doubling down on investments into artificial intelligence. While AI tools putting workers out of jobs has been a major point of anxiety in Silicon Valley and beyond over the past year, not a...
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US fines PwC $7M for allowing cheating in audit exams in China

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Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter, which explores what you need to...
Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter, which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. A US regulator has hit the China arm of prestigious “Big Four” firm PwC with a $7 million fine. The company failed to detect or prevent extensive cheating by its...
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Apple knew AirDrop users could be identified and tracked as early as 2019

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Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter, which explores what you need to...
Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter, which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Washington CNN — Security researchers warned Apple as early as 2019 about vulnerabilities in its AirDrop wireless sharing function that Chinese authorities claim...
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Hertz is selling 20k electric vehicles to buy gasoline cars instead

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Hertz, which has made a big push into electric vehicles in recent years, has decided it’s...
Hertz, which has made a big push into electric vehicles in recent years, has decided it’s time to cut back. The company will sell off a third of its electric fleet, totaling roughly 20,000 vehicles, and use the money they bring to purchase more gasoline powered vehicles. Electric vehicles have been hurting Hertz’s f...
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Iran seizes oil tanker in Gulf of Oman

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Iran has seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman and is transferring it to...
Iran has seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman and is transferring it to an Iranian port in retaliation for the United States confiscating the same vessel and its oil last year, Tasnim News Agency reported Thursday. The media outlet, which is associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, cited a state...
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Welcome to the end of college football as we know it

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Editor’s Note: Will Leitch is a contributing editor at New York Magazine, the founder of the...
Editor’s Note: Will Leitch is a contributing editor at New York Magazine, the founder of the late sports website Deadspin and the author of six books, including the novels “How Lucky” and “The Time Has Come.” He writes a free weekly newsletter. The views expressed here are his own. Read more opinion on CNN. On Monda...
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Boeing acknowledges mistake that led to terrifying Alaska Airlines flight

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Boeing CEO David Calhoun acknowledged the company’s “mistake” in the wake of the Alaska Airlines incident...
Boeing CEO David Calhoun acknowledged the company’s “mistake” in the wake of the Alaska Airlines incident at a staff-wide “safety meeting” Tuesday. “We’re going to approach this number one acknowledging our mistake,” Calhoun told staff, according to a partial readout of the meeting shared with CNN. “We’re going to a...
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'De-extinction' plan to reintroduce Dodo bird to Mauritius

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An audacious collaboration between geneticists and conservationists plans to bring back the extinct dodo and reintroduce...
An audacious collaboration between geneticists and conservationists plans to bring back the extinct dodo and reintroduce it to its once-native habitat in Mauritius. US-based biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences, which is pursuing the “de-extinction” of multiple species, including the wo...
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China feels the country isn't patriotic enough. A new law aims to change that

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On a brisk December day, junior high school students in Fuzhou, southeast China, converged at a...
On a brisk December day, junior high school students in Fuzhou, southeast China, converged at a country park to study the thoughts of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Unfurling a red banner that declared their outing a “walking classroom of politics and ideology,” they sought enlightenment by retracing the footsteps Xi to...
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Navajo Nation's objection to landing human remains on the moon

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries,...
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The White House has convened a last-minute meeting to discuss a private mission to the moon — set to launch in days — after the largest group of Native Americans in the Uni...
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Short sellers lost more betting against Tesla than any other company last year

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Here’s something sure to make Elon Musk smile – short sellers, those investors who placed bets...
Here’s something sure to make Elon Musk smile – short sellers, those investors who placed bets that the value of Tesla shares were going to go down, lost a combined $12.2 billion last year, more than short sellers lost on any other company in 2023. That estimate, from markets analytics firm S3 Partners, isn’t a shoc...
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More Americans can now get insulin for $35

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More Americans with diabetes will get a break on their insulin costs in 2024. Sanofi is...
More Americans with diabetes will get a break on their insulin costs in 2024. Sanofi is joining the nation’s two other major insulin manufacturers in offering either price caps or savings programs that lower the cost of the drugs to $35 for many patients. The three drugmakers are also drastically lowering the list p...
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Claudine Gay to resign Harvard presidency

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Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay said Tuesday she is stepping down from her post. “It is...
Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay said Tuesday she is stepping down from her post. “It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president,” Gay wrote in a letter to the Harvard community. “After consultation with members of the Corporation, it has...
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X must face a lawsuit after staff accused the company of failing to pay bonuses

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A federal judge has ruled that X, formerly Twitter, must face a lawsuit after staff accused...
A federal judge has ruled that X, formerly Twitter, must face a lawsuit after staff accused the company of failing to pay bonuses promised to them. The judge on Friday denied X’s motion to dismiss the case. X stands accused of failing to pay out annual bonuses to staff after its October 2022 acquisition by billionai...
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