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SZA Talks About Being Bullied and How It Motivated Her

SZA opened up about a time when she felt misunderstood and mistreated by her peers.“I was bullied because I wasn’t quiet and I was awkward at the same time,” the Grammy-winning singer said in an interview with with People. “I wasn’t this tiny sad victim, but I was more so attacked just because it was giving ‘what is wrong with you?’ energy.”The “Love Language” artist went on to add that the experience made her who she is today. SZA explained that she doesn’t regret a single chapter in her story. “I realized that all the…

Terra Founder Claims Fraud Allegations ‘Politically Motivated’

Do Kwon once hosted several live AMAs on the Terra YouTube channel, but since the collapse of Terra and the subsequent arrest warrant, he’s been keeping a far more low-key profile.Screenshot: Terra/YouTubeDo Kwon, the founder of failed crypto project Terra, the leader of failing crypto project Luna 2.0, and man hiding from his native country’s prosecutors for alleged violations of financial securities law, is—all in all—“a little disappointed” in the way things are going for him. On the latest episode of the Unchained

Does Marijuana Make You Lazy? Scientists Find That Cannabis Users Are Just As Likely To Be Motivated

Marijuana users are typically depicted as lazy. Could this stereotype be false?The study demonstrated that cannabis users are no less likely to be motivated or able to enjoy life’s pleasure. According to a new study, cannabis users of all ages are no more likely than non-users to lack motivation or be unable to appreciate life’s pleasures, showing that the stereotype often depicted in the media has no scientific basis.Additionally, compared to non-users, cannabis users exhibit no differences in reward-seeking motivation,…

Uber Says Breach Was by Lapsus$, a Teenage Hacking Group Motivated by Fame Over Money

Over the past year, some of the world’s biggest technology companies have been bested by an international group of hackers—some of them teenagers—whose motivations seem at times unusual, said security experts who have investigated the episodes. Uber Technologies Inc. UBER -2.66% said Monday that it was a victim of the group, called Lapsus$, saying it gained access to the company’s internal systems and posted messages, including a graphic image, to employees. It was the…

Uber Says It Is Victim of Lapsus$, a Hacking Group Motivated by Fame Not Money

Over the past year, some of the world’s biggest technology companies have been bested by an international group of hackers—some of them teenagers—whose motivations seem at times unusual, said security experts who have investigated the episodes. Uber Technologies Inc. UBER -1.38% said Monday that it was a victim of the group, called Lapsus$, saying it gained access to the company’s internal systems and posted messages, including a graphic image, to employees. It was the…

Are you a programmer struggling to stay motivated? Here are 5 tips you need to know

This article was originally published on .cult by (author name and link to bio). .cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries, and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the world. Everyone working as a software developer has experienced it at some point. There comes a time when you lose motivation for coding because, at the moment, you can’t solve a particular problem. Some code is not…

More mass shootings are happening at grocery stores; 13% of shooters motivated by racial hatred, criminologists find

Mass shootings are defined here as events in which four or more people are killed with firearms in a public place, with the murders not being attributed to any other underlying criminal activity. Credit: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND An apparently racially motivated attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, resulted in 10 deaths on May 14, 2022, with the teenage suspect allegedly targeting Black shoppers in a prominently…