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

Five years after it took on Steam, Epic Games Store is yet to make a penny of profit

Epic hoped to scoop up half of all PC gaming revenue back in 2021.
Read more: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/five-years-after-it-took-on-steam-epic-games-store-is-yet-to-make-a-penny-of-profit?source=Snapzu

X unveils new premium subscription plan, including ad-free tier for $16 a month

Is free Twitter/X on the way out? Elon Musk adds new subscription tiers: The more you pay, the fewer ads you'll see.
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/x-unveils-new-premium-subscription-plan-including-ad-free-tier-for-16-a-month/?source=Snapzu

Linux Foundation Adopting Terraform Fork Provokes Ire of HashiCorp CEO

Less than a month after a handful of small companies forked HashiCorp's flagship IaC software, the Linux Foundation swooped in to support the project. This did not sit right with HashiCorp CEO David McJannet.
Read more: https://thenewstack.io/linux-foundation-adopting-terraform-fork-provokes-ire-of-hashicorp-ceo/?source=Snapzu

The Pebble falls: A 'friendly' Twitter replacement closes its doors

When Elon Musk took over Twitter, numerous new social networks rose up. Now, one of them, Pebble, has thrown in the towel.
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-pebble-falls-a-friendly-twitter-replacement-closes-its-doors/?source=Snapzu

Would you pay a buck to Tweet? X takes a step toward paywall

Elon Musk says his social platform is fighting bots with $1 subscriptions. Will charging a fee really help stop fake accounts?
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/would-you-pay-a-buck-to-tweet-x-takes-a-step-toward-paywall/?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk’s New, Inventive Way to Vandalize the Social Network He Owns

Twitter was really good at one thing. No longer.
Read more: https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/elon-musk-x-twitter-news-links-headlines-why.html?source=Snapzu

You're never too old to start a business

Whether that's a good idea is another matter.
Read more: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3708213/youre-never-too-old-to-start-a-business.html?source=Snapzu

Publishing A Book Means No Longer Having Control Over How Others Feel About It, Or How They’re Inspired By It. And That Includes AI.

There’s no way to write this article without some people yelling angrily at me, so I’m just going to highlight that point up front: many, many people are going to disagree with this article, and I’…
Read more: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/05/publishing-a-book-means-no-longer-having-control-over-how-others-feel-about-it-or-how-theyre-inspired-by-it-and-that-includes-ai/?source=Snapzu

Navigating the Buzzwords Behind an ‘Ethical’ Bag of Coffee

A complex production chain can turn choosing which coffee to buy into a complicated decision for consumers.
Read more: https://modernfarmer.com/2023/09/buzzwords-ethical-coffee/?source=Snapzu

It's 2030, and digital wallets have replaced every card in our purses and pockets

OpenWallet, now joined by Microsoft, looks to the near future when digital wallets replace traditional wallets in the same way debit cards replaced checkbooks.
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/finance/its-2030-and-digital-wallets-have-replaced-every-card-in-our-purses-and-pockets/?source=Snapzu

Realtor Questions To Ask When Selling

When getting your home ready to sell, it’s important to have a reliable real estate agent by your side. We will examine the important questions to ask a realtor when you sell your house.
Read more: https://snapzu.com/lukeskar/realtor-questions-to-ask-when-selling?source=Snapzu

‘De-dollarisation’ gains traction among emerging economies ahead of BRICS summit

Expansion rate of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa economic bloc seen determining speed at which it stops using US dollar systems.
Read more: https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3231585/china-led-de-dollarisation-gains-traction-among-emerging-economies-ahead-brics-summit?source=Snapzu

Where have my X (aka Twitter) images gone?

X isn't rendering pictures and links on posts made before December 2014. I lost years' worth of links and images. Did you?
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/where-have-my-x-aka-twitter-images-gone/?source=Snapzu