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We used to go out on the weekends,” the displaced health worker told CNN. Palestinian siblings Ella Mohammed Hamouda (left) and Sila Mohammed Hamouda (right) ride a camel on a beach in northern Gaza, on October 6, 2023. Nearly five months into Israel’s offensive, Palestinian children in Gaza are living with violence, homelessness, starvation, and disruption to education. Several parents and carers told CNN they struggle to explain the war to children, who they say are psychologically terrorized by relentless bombardment. “I miss my room and my toys,” Ella told CNN in a voice message.

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☆ ‘Where will I leave these children, on the street?’ The struggle for survival faced by disabled Palestinians in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Rosa Rahimi | Sana Noor Haq | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

“There was chaos in the place, children crying, and smoke and fire spread,” Al-Naizi told CNN, sharing videos of the aftermath. It took about two hours to evacuate the group, according to Al-Naizi, as many of the children had to be carried. “Where will I leave these children, on the street?” Al-Naizi said. Streams of Palestinians – including women, children and the elderly – have been making their way south in a growing exodus along daily evacuation corridors announced by the IDF. Hazem Saeed Al-NaiziAs Israeli troops close in on Gaza City, Al-Naizi fears the orphanage will be displaced again.

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☆ Apple is marketing a feature that makes it easier for users to have their accounts stolen — despite a major WSJ investigation
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Apple is marketing a security feature after the WSJ revealed it can be used by iPhone thieves. Thieves have reportedly taken up to $10,000 through iPhones by using the Apple ID reset feature. Earlier this week, Apple made a post on X, previously known as Twitter, that included a short video on how Apple users can change the passwords to their Apple ID accounts. "I absolutely cannot believe Apple is marketing this as a feature," Stern wrote on X. "Of course, I tried it like minute three, I tried it," Ayas told Insider in reference to the "Find my iPhone" feature.

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Affirmative action supporters and counterprotesters shout at each other outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 29, 2023. Now that the Supreme Court has struck down race-conscious admissions, employers could face challenges in how they find diverse talent. A group of 13 Republican attorneys general suggested in the wake of the ruling that companies' diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs could be considered unlawful discrimination. In the wake of the ruling, many fear universities could become less reliable sources from which to recruit diverse talent. However, during the last year there has been a "step back" in terms of diversity hiring, said Reyhan Ayas, a senior economist at Revelio Labs, a workforce data and analytics firm.

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☆ iPhone thieves are using a security feature to lock users out of their Apple accounts, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

iPhone thieves are using the "recovery key" to get into Apple accounts and log users out. iPhone thieves are targeting an Apple security feature called the "recovery key" to lock users out of their own cell phones. That's because activating the recovery key feature turns off "account recovery," meaning you can't get back into your Apple ID account without it. In both cases, the thieves had gained access to their Apple ID account, and both suspected the thieves of having watched them while they entered their passcodes. Similarly to Ayas and Trent, he said thieves had changed his Apple ID account's password and enabled the recovery key.

☆ The layoffs are here for those who chose to 'learn to code'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Grace Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But for those who chose to "learn to code," Vox reported the wave of layoffs in 2023 is challenging that notion. "If we look at 2023 layoffs, it's software engineers who have overtaken recruiters in layoffs," Ayas told Insider. This shift also signals a change in focus for company layoffs, Ayas said. Since then, Revelio's new data suggests that nearly 5% of tech company layoffs impacted recruiters — the position that saw the most layoffs after software engineers. What started as a wave of layoffs in the tech industry has now rippled to the finance and media industries as well.

☆ Apple kept asking 'have you tried Find My iPhone?' after a woman got locked out of her Apple account and had thousands taken from her bank account when a thief grabbed her iPhone
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A woman said that soon after her iPhone was stolen, she was locked out of her Apple account. Reyhan Ayas said Apple was "not helpful at all" after $10,000 was taken from her bank account. She said Apple was unhelpful when she tried to regain access to her Apple account. Because she had lost access to her Apple account, she was unable to log on to her MacBook computer. Over the next 24 hours, $10,000 was taken from Ayas' bank account, according to a bank statement viewed by Insider.

☆ Man says Apple was 'incredibly unhelpful' when he tried to regain access to his account after his iPhone was stolen and replaced with a fake
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

He thought the battery had died, and only realized it wasn't his phone when he tried to charge it. He said Apple was "incredibly unhelpful" when he sought assistance to regain access to his account. "That's when I noticed it wasn't my phone," Trent told Insider. TrentTrent told Insider that he suspects the thief got into his iPhone by observing him until seeing him enter his passcode. Earlier this year Insider, reported on Reyhan Ayas, whose iPhone was stolen in November and who also found Apple unhelpful in regaining access to her account.

☆ A woman who got locked out of her Apple account minutes after her iPhone was stolen and had $10,000 taken from her bank account says Apple was 'not helpful at all'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A woman had her iPhone stolen and minutes later was locked out of her Apple account. Reyhan Ayas said Apple was 'not helpful at all' after $10,000 was taken from her bank account. She says Apple was unhelpful when she tried to regain access to her Apple account. Because she had lost access to her Apple account, she was unable to log on to her MacBook computer. Over the next 24 hours, $10,000 was taken from Ayas' bank account, according to a bank statement viewed by Insider.

☆ A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Joanna Stern | Nicole Nguyen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

NEW YORK—In the early hours of Thanksgiving weekend, Reyhan Ayas was leaving a bar in Midtown Manhattan when a man she had just met snatched her iPhone 13 Pro Max. Within a few minutes, the 31-year-old, a senior economist at a workforce intelligence startup, could no longer get into her Apple account and all the stuff attached to it, including photos, contacts and notes. Over the next 24 hours, she said, about $10,000 vanished from her bank account.

☆ Tech companies spoiled workers for decades. Now layoffs are bringing them down to Earth.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Asia Martin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The tech sector has already cut nearly 100,000 jobs this year. But for tech workers who were sold on the glamorous lifestyle these companies have provided over the last few decades, this is a blow to their self-image. It's unfortunate, Govindarajan said, but he added that these tech companies have disrupted other industries like photography, automobiles, and department stores. "There are many industries the tech sector disrupted where people got laid off. But now it's the turn of the tech sector itself," he told Insider.

In recent years, U.S. tech majors have stepped up hiring and made diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) a priority. But as the industry grapples with over-hiring since mid-2020, rising interest rates and changes in business and consumer behavior, tech companies have announced deep cuts, risking their diversity efforts. The rare shakeup in big tech companies risks further disrupting diversity pledges that have already grown stagnant as companies de-emphasize DEI efforts. Equal Employment Opportunity data for 2008-2016, found that about 7% of tech firms are actively trying to diversify their workforce. This will disrupt diversity efforts even further, said Benjamin Juarez, a recruiting consultant and co-founder of Latinos in Tech.

☆ The hidden upside of tech layoffs
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In the midst of a wave of wholesale layoffs, many tech workers are somehow bouncing back stronger than ever. Ayas and her colleagues analyzed the fate of laid-off tech workers by looking at data from Parachute and Layoffs.fyi, both of which compile information provided by out-of-work employees. Today, not only are laid-off tech workers finding jobs quickly, Revelio Labs found, but 52% are actually earning more than they were before. That's not to say that laid-off tech workers will continue to face great job prospects forever. If the layoffs continue, the economy will eventually become oversaturated with tech workers — at which point their job searches will take longer, and more will be forced to accept lower salaries.

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