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☆ 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' lives on, 20 years later
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

That was like queer eye for the straight guy!”Carson Kressley, left, in "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy." “And of course as luck would have it, ‘Queer Eye’ was our very first attempt at a reality show,” he added. It’s not that they’re bigger, they just became louder,” said Rob Eric, “Queer Eye” executive producer and longtime associate and friend of Collins and Williams. They’ve also enjoyed seeing the legacy they’ve created evolve and grow to new heights with Netflix’s gender-neutral and more succinctly titled “Queer Eye” – which wrapped its seventh season earlier this year. “The new ‘Queer Eye’ wouldn’t happen without these guys,” Collins said.

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☆ Netflix sets its sights on video games for its next chapter as growth slows for the streaming giant
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Netflix launched its video game streaming service in November 2021, investing in mobile app games. The pivot to interactive streaming comes as Netflix's growth has slowed to single digits. As Netflix chases younger audiences and grapples with keeping its current subscribers content, the streaming giant has fixed its sights on a new chapter: video games. In late 2021, Netflix began dabbling in creating its mobile app games. The pivot to video games comes as Netflix's growth has slowed tremendously — according to records kept by Stock Analysis, the company's annual growth had never been below 12% until last year.

Persons: Max, The, We've, Sean Krankel Organizations: Netflix, Disney, HBO, Night School, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Stock Analysis, Google, TechCrunch Locations: Helsinki, Finland

☆ 'OG Mark' is back – and some think Zuck has Elon Musk to thank for his new attitude
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mark Zuckerberg's new attitude is being hailed by Meta insiders as "OG Mark," per the WSJ. In many ways, Zuckerberg might have his rival Elon Musk to thank for Meta's turnaround. The much-hyped launch of Threads, Meta's Twitter killer, might have a particularly Musky scent to it — but this time, it could be coming from Meta's CEO. Encouraged by the chaos at Twitter since Musk's takeover, he launched "Project 92" to create Threads, Meta's own text-based app, the Journal reported. Mark Zuckerberg with UFC legends Isreal Adesanya and Alex Volkanovksi.

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☆ Zuckerberg Channeled ‘OG Mark’ to Fast-Track Secret Effort That Became Threads
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Salvador Rodriguez | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Outdoor Voices founder is mocking the athletic brand on social media after her contentious ouster 3 years ago
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Haney founded the activewear brand in 2013 and stepped down as CEO in 2020. She founded Outdoor Voices in 2013 as a direct-to-consumer activewear apparel brand catering to everyday women who participate in recreational activities like jogging and leisure hikes. Outdoor Voices had raised $64 million in funding, reached a $110 million valuation, and gained a cult following of millennial women. Tyler Haney founded the activewear brand Outdoor Voices in 2013. Haney and Outdoor Voices did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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☆ I Walk Everywhere in These Stylish Flats (and They’re Machine Washable)
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Sunshine Flint | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +4 min

Usually breaking in a pair of flats or sandals meant getting raw blisters on the back of my ankles, even after religiously applying blister stick. So thank you to the algorithm gods that kept serving up pretty images of the Allbirds Tree Breezers flats in my social feeds. Can you really pop out the wool or Tencel insoles and throw the shoes in the washing machine? Allbirds Tree Breezer Point Shoe $110 at AllbirdsI brought both pairs to Greece and wore them to dress up my business casual outfits and for evening dinners out. Comfortable flats?

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☆ Crypto crackdown: Is there anywhere safe left for crypto investors in the US?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“Look, we don’t need more digital currency,” Gensler told CNBC on Tuesday. “We already have digital currency: It’s called the US dollar. Many crypto investors appear to be abandoning so-called “alt-coins” and sticking with the relatively more reliable OG virtual currency, wrote Ed Moya, a senior market analyst with Oanda. Bottom line: “The SEC looks like it is playing Whac-A-Mole with crypto exchanges,” Moya wrote. Because of that, crypto investors will have to decide whether they are confident that the offerings on various exchanges will remain available to trade.

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☆ Why bots make it so hard to buy Nikes
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Sydney Boyo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Sneaker bots can accelerate the checkout process, wait in a virtual line or even fill out billing information. Sneaker bots took off in 2012, when Nike released its Air Jordan Doernbecher 9 shoes on Twitter. According to Nike, bots can make up to 10% to 50% of entries depending on demand. "People are successfully able to still bot Nike SNKRS," said Nova. Watch the video to learn more about sneaker bots and how companies like Nike are handling them.

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☆ Miss ‘Succession’ Already? Here’s What to Watch Next
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Margaret Lyons | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The end of “Succession” leaves a Waystar Royco-sized hole in our hearts. Bickering and jockeying abound, fueled by the mutually understood but outwardly denied reality that no one in the second generation is truly up to the task. The daughter is married to a bumbling oaf, whom she bullies with real glee. In “Succession,” the stakes are grave, but the characters approach them with flippancy; in “Gemstones,” the circumstances are absurd, but the characters take them incredibly seriously. If “Succession” is an ice bath, “The Righteous Gemstones” is a slip-n-slide, but the water is springing from the same source.

☆ 'Couples Therapy' psychoanalyst Orna Guralnik wants us to get more honest about our finances
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Orna Guralnik Source: ShowtimeNot long after I began working as a personal finance reporter at CNBC in 2018, I started psychoanalysis. When I first saw Guralnik's documentary series "Couples Therapy" on Showtime, in which she provides therapy to real patients in a room with hidden cameras, I couldn't look away. I wanted to ask her about relationships and money, and got the chance to do so at the end of April, just when the new episodes of Season three of "Couples Therapy" premiered. OG: Money is a very important point of contact with reality. For couples, often, 'the breakup is not about money'AN: What are the biggest differences around money for couples?

☆ Pentagon leak suspect Jack Teixeira was reading a book on a porch when the feds showed up to arrest him
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( John Haltiwanger | Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jack Teixeira, 21, was arrested in connection with the recent leak of secret military documents. Teixeira is a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who worked in the 102nd Intelligence Wing. He was reading a book on a porch when federal agents arrived to arrest him. Teixeira worked in the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. The secret military documents that were leaked on various social media platforms exposed US spying on allies and adversaries alike.

☆ MAGA-world is rushing to defend Jack Teixeira, the accused Pentagon leaker who allegedly dumped secret documents online to impress his teenage gamer buddies
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The leak represents the worst military intelligence breach in roughly a decade. To them, Teixeira is a martyr for revealing the truth about the stalemated war in Ukraine to the American people. "Tonight, the news media are celebrating the capture of the kid who told Americans what's actually happening in Ukraine," Carlson said. The leaks could hurt Ukraine on the battlefieldThe leak of the documents allegedly perpetrated by Teixeira represents the worst US military intelligence breach in roughly a decade. The secret documents offered details on US spying on friends and foes alike, many of which pertained to the war in Ukraine.

President Joe Biden suggested on Thursday morning that officials appeared to be nearing a breakthrough in their investigation into who leaked the documents online. The Washington Post was the first news outlet on Wednesday night to report about the gaming group, and only identified him as "OG." The Post said it reviewed approximately 300 photos of classified documents that the suspect allegedly leaked, most of which the report said have not been made public. NBC News has not yet verified the details about the gaming group and that it was the source of where the classified documents were first shared. He also said that it appears that some of the classified documents had been altered from their original form.

☆ The man who may have leaked top-secret Pentagon documents was a fit and armed military guy who controlled a group of young gamers united by their worship of guns and God: WaPo
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

He was the leader of a group of young gamers who loved guns, military gear, and God, per the outlet. As early as 2020, OG began sending the classified information to his Discord server, which was once named "Thug Shaker Central," per The Post. And at least 10 documents were later sent to another Discord server dedicated to the video game "Minecraft," Toler reported. "He said something had happened, and he prayed to God that his event would not happen," one of the young Discord members told The Post. The "Thug Shaker Central" server has been deleted, Bellingcat reported.

☆ Intelligence leak: NYT: Leader of online group where leak documents were posted is a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Kevin Liptak Jeremy Herb Natasha Bertrand Evan Perez | Kevin Liptak | Jeremy Herb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman has been identified by The New York Times as the leader of an online gaming chat group where a trove of classified documents was posted. CNN has not independently verified the identity of the chat leader or the FBI’s interest in talking with him. While there’s a large number of people who had access to the documents, investigators have been able to home in on a small number for closer scrutiny thanks to the forensic trail left by the person who posted the documents. On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that the person behind the leak worked on a military base and posted sensitive national security secrets in an online group of acquaintances. The Pentagon has begun to limit who across the government receives its highly classified daily intelligence briefs following a major leak of classified information discovered last week.

CNN —The person behind a massive leak of classified US military documents worked on a military base and posted sensitive national security secrets in an online group of acquaintances, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The leaker, going by the moniker “OG,” began posting messages to the Discord chatroom last year that referenced military jargon, The Post reported. In the months that followed, the leaker posted messages in which he appeared to transcribe classified information from US documents, according to the report. “If you could think it, it was in those documents,” the friend and member of OG’s Discord group told the Post. Bellingcat, an investigative outlet, first reported on the connection between the leaked documents and the two Discord servers.

☆ Big U.S. intelligence leak was by gun enthusiast in 20s -Washington Post
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

April 12 (Reuters) - The person who leaked U.S. classified documents prompting a national security investigation is a gun enthusiast in his 20s who worked on a military base, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing fellow members of an online chat group. The Post based its report, which did not name the person, on interviews with two members of the Discord chat group. The Department of Defense and the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. U.S. national security agencies and the Justice Department are investigating the release to assess the damage to national security and relations with allies and other countries, including Ukraine. Reporting by Daniel Trotta and Idrees Ali Editing by Don Durfee and Raju GopalakrishnanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Meta signals more layoffs could be coming after 'thousands' of workers are reportedly given low performance reviews
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Meta gave about 10% of its staff performance reviews indicating they were underperforming, WSJ reported. The performance reviews signal that Meta could be gearing up for another round of layoffs. Meta let go of about 11,000 workers late last year and dubbed 2023 the "Year of Efficiency." A Meta spokesperson told Insider that the performance reviews are intended to incentivize employees, while also giving them actionable feedback. "Nothing about this year's performance review process has changed or is different than what we've already communicated to employees," the spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

☆ Did investors learn nothing from last year’s market meltdown?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-05 | by ( Paul R. La Monica | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Shares of movie theater chain AMC (AMC) have soared nearly 65% so far in 2023, and AMC (AMC)’s companion preferred stock (which trades under the ticker APE as a nod to the nickname AMC (AMC) fans have given themselves on social media) has more than doubled. So did investors learn nothing from last year’s market meltdown? I don’t agree with this market rally in meme stocks,” said Erik Ristuben, chief investment strategist with Russell Investments. Another strategist agrees this recent rally for meme stocks and other speculative bets may not end well. If they’re upbeat about spending, that could keep the rally in consumer stocks going.

☆ Glossier changed its beloved lip balm, igniting fury among its most loyal fans
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Glossier reformulated Balm Dotcom, a star product and fans are voicing their frustration. Some fans say the lip balm no longer works as well and are accusing the company of ignoring its customers. Glossier has gone through several changes over the past year, including a new CEO and a deal with Sephora. The reformulated balm, or BDC as fans call it, will have a redesigned applicator tip and a "new clinically-tested hydrating, vegan formula," Glossier wrote in an Instagram post. In addition, Glossier is discontinuing the cherry-flavored balm, a popular flavor that had a sheer, red tint.

☆ Here's what's next for the tech sector in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I'm your host, Jordan Parker Erb, and I've got some news: Today is my last edition of 10 Things in Tech. Below, we're taking a look ahead at the new year, and discussing what's next for the tech sector. Wall Street analysts explain why they think tech is headed for a huge rebound in 2023. Tech companies saw a challenging 2022, but analysts at Wedbush say the industry will grow in the coming year, with nowhere to go but up. The past 12 months have been volatile for the ad industry — and it foreshadows even more change in 2023.

☆ Women journalists remember Barbara Walters: 'Her powerful legacy lives on'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters report from London during the wedding of Prince William and Princes Kate in 2011. Guthrie posted a throwback photo of Walters at the “TODAY” anchor desk with the caption: “thank you, Barbara. Harry Reasoner and Barbara Barbara on the set of ABC's evening news in 1976. "Her powerful legacy lives on in all the women journalists who were influenced by her passionate work and searing interviews," Roberts wrote. 'This is my legacy'Led by Oprah, 25 women journalists who were influenced by Barbara Walters say goodbye to her during her final co-host appearance on "The View" in 2014.

☆ Winning Gifts for the Guys at the Top of Your List
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Nathan Simpson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It’s wrapping paper season once again, and to make matters worse, you gave a great gift last year. For stressed-out shoppers, we’ve got you covered with an extensive list of the most covetable gifts from every category. The most exclusive collabs, new and noteworthy tech, genuinely useful yet luxurious home essentials and even top-shelf skin care—it’s all here. Shear WonderKeep the cold at bay in this fuzzy version of Clarks’s Originals Wallabee, designed in collaboration with the OG winter expert Moncler. 2 Moncler 1952 x Clarks wallabee shoe, $605.

☆ Hydrow's compact, affordable rowing machine is perfect for holiday gifting
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Maria Cassano | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Designed by rowing experts, made for everyoneA Hydrow rowing machine has two main components. Then there’s the crystal-clear display, which immerses you in scenes of actual waterways from around the world and brings you rowing workouts led by world-class athletes and Olympians. This holiday season, there are plenty of sales and freebies to get either rowing machine in a loved one’s home (or your own) for less. Until Dec. 23, each Hydrow Wave comes with free Jaybird headphones, a free Polar heart rate monitor and free standard delivery (a $240 value). Check out the two Hydrow rowing machines below.

☆ Triller is planning to go public in a few weeks despite removing major-label music from its app
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The update comes as the company removed last week the song catalogs of major labels from its video app. In 2020, Triller partnered with Billboard to publish weekly "Top Triller US" and "Top Triller Global" charts. In its statement to Insider, Triller suggested that removing music from major labels could help save the company money. The Triller app remains just one piece of the company's overall business. Triller even invoked TikTok in its statement about its decision to remove the catalogs of major music labels, writing that, "TikTok and the labels have aligned so closely."

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