With Offices Sitting Empty, Landlords Are ‘Handing Back the Keys’

Office landlords, hit hard by the work-from-home revolution, are resorting to a desperate measure in the real estate world: “handing back the keys.” When this happens, the landlord stops paying the mortgage on the office building or declines to refinance it.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/offices-sitting-empty-landlords-handing-150748386.html?source=Snapzu

Why do companies do holiday layoffs?

For employees laid off when companies downsize in November and December, it’s not the most wonderful time of the year. Enough already!
Read more: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3711444/why-do-companies-do-holiday-layoffs.html?source=Snapzu

OpenAI's loss is Microsoft's gain: How the AI race just changed

With Sam Altman, OpenAI's former CEO, and friends landing at Microsoft, the Redmond crew is positioned to take over generative AI. The stock market agrees.
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/openais-loss-is-microsofts-gain-how-the-ai-race-just-changed/?source=Snapzu

Georgia Restaurant Goes Viral After Charging Parents a $50 Fee for Poorly Behaved Children

Is your child known to act up at dinner? You may want to avoid Toccoa Riverside Restaurant, as it charges an extra fee for poorly behaved children.
Read more: https://www.foodandwine.com/toccoa-riverside-restaurant-charges-extra-fee-for-poorly-behaved-kids-8384540?source=Snapzu

Want a handsomely paid job in tech? Here's what you do

At KubeCon, the need to bridge the skills gap was clearer than ever
Read more: https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/10/kubecon_opinion/?source=Snapzu

Farmers or foragers? Pre-colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple

For a decade, debate has raged over Dark Emu’s account of Aboriginal agriculture. But ancient food production in Australia is more complex than labels like farming or hunter-gathering suggest.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/farmers-or-foragers-pre-colonial-aboriginal-food-production-was-hardly-that-simple-216988?source=Snapzu

Spotify's new royalty payment update hurts indie musicians even more than before

Every sub-1,000 stream will still generate revenue for the company — but now, that revenue will not be shared.
Read more: https://boingboing.net/2023/11/11/spotifys-new-royalty-payment-update-hurts-indie-musicians-even-more-than-before.html?source=Snapzu