UK develops AI CV-writing tool to ease pressure on job support staff

UK develops AI CV-writing tool to ease pressure on job support staff

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK employment myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ministers are developing artificial intelligence tools to write CVs and covering letters for jobseekers, as they seek to free up Jobcentre staff to work on more complex cases and reduce the UK’s welfare bill. Officials…

Only 44% of US Bitcoin ETF buying has been for hodling — 10x Research — TradingView News

Only 44% of US Bitcoin ETF buying has been for hodling — 10x Research — TradingView News

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund investors have primarily been using the vehicle for arbitrage strategies, with just 44% of inflows tied to long-term investments, according to a crypto research firm. Spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States have attracted around $39 billion in net inflows since their January 2024 launch. However, only $17.5 billion, less than…

DOGE’s USDS Purge Included the Guy Who Keeps Veterans’ Data Safe Online

DOGE’s USDS Purge Included the Guy Who Keeps Veterans’ Data Safe Online

The dozens of USDS cuts last week hit teams like product management, design, and procurement. Kamens and other sources told WIRED that he is the only person from the USDS engineering team who was fired. He and others speculate that he was targeted because he had been publicly critical of DOGE in the weeks before…

Why are people protesting against India’s ambitious water project

Why are people protesting against India’s ambitious water project

Vishnukant Tiwari BBC Hindi BBC Protesters say the project will destory their homes and livlihoods Thousands of villagers in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are protesting against a multi-million-dollar river-linking project which, they say, will rob them of their homes and livelihoods. The Ken-Betwa project, with a budget of 440bn rupees ($5.06bn; £4.05bn),…

Sharon Osbourne Admits ‘Biggest Mistake’ She Made with Husband Ozzy

Sharon Osbourne Admits ‘Biggest Mistake’ She Made with Husband Ozzy

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Sharon Osbourne is coming clean about a past decision she made for husband Ozzy Osbourne. “Do you want to know the biggest mistake I ever made with Ozzy?” Sharon, 72, said on the Wednesday, February 19, episode of “The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan” podcast. “He got offered to go and read for Pirates…

Favoritism For Bivol: Coach Stephen Edwards Criticizes Scoring And Commentary In Beterbiev-Bivol 2

Favoritism For Bivol: Coach Stephen Edwards Criticizes Scoring And Commentary In Beterbiev-Bivol 2

Coach Stephen Edwards felt that last Saturday’s rematch between undisputed light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol should have been scored a draw or a narrow 115-113 for either guy. Edwards didn’t understand how one judge scored it 8-4 [116-112] in Bivol’s favor. (Credit: Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing) The Scorecard Debate The judges scored a…

Germany’s election winner pledges ‘independence from US’

Germany’s election winner pledges ‘independence from US’

Germany’s Friedrich Merz promised to “achieve independence” from the US after his centre-right bloc won federal elections, putting him at the head of a potentially complex coalition during a time of upheaval for Europe.  In an election where Germany shifted to the right, Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) came first with 28.6 per cent of the…

Bybit Funds on the Move, Could be Headed for Bitcoin Mixers ‘Next’: Elliptic

Bybit Funds on the Move, Could be Headed for Bitcoin Mixers ‘Next’: Elliptic

North Korean hackers have started laundering stolen Bybit funds, with blockchain intelligence firm Elliptic tracking over $140 million in initial transactions designed to obscure the money trail. The stolen funds are being systematically moved through anonymous exchanges before being converted to Bitcoin, a process that makes it harder to trace and recover the assets, the…

DOGE Put Him in the Treasury Department. His Company Has Federal Contracts Worth Millions

DOGE Put Him in the Treasury Department. His Company Has Federal Contracts Worth Millions

There is some precedent for corporate executives to simultaneously work in the US government. When the US was at war in the early 1900s, the federal government recruited business leaders to fill key posts. They retained their private sector jobs and wages; the government pitched in a $1 annual salary to the executives who became…