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In her new book, the coach of the U. S. Women’s National Soccer Team shares her advice for how to lead and motivate others. What is leadership? Good question.

Susan Wojcicki, the former YouTube chief executive officer and longtime Google executive, has died, her husband said. She was 56. “My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after 2 years of living with non small cell lung cancer,” Dennis Troper said in a social media post late Friday. “Susan was not just my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a dear friend to many,” Troper said. No other details of her death were immediately provided. Wojcicki, who played a key role in Google’s creation, stepped down as YouTube’s CEO in 2023 after spending nine years running the video-sharing service that reshaped entertainment, culture and politics. Shortly after Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated their search engine into a business in 1998, Wojcicki rented the garage of her Menlo Park, California, home to them for $1,700 a month. Wojcicki and Troper’s 19-year-old son, Marco Troper, died in February at the UC Berkeley campus where he resided as a freshman student.

Security flaws in your computer's firmware, the deep-seated code that loads first when you turn the machine on and controls even how its operating system boots up, have long been a target for hackers looking for a stealthy foothold. But only rarely does that kind of vulnerability appear not in the firmware of any particular computer maker, but in the chips found across hundreds of millions of PCs and servers.

SEATTLE — Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, started 2023 by declaring it the “year of efficiency.” Like several of its big tech peers, Meta cut jobs and mothballed expansion plans. Then came AI. Zuckerberg started this year saying his company would spend more than $30 billion on new tech infrastructure in 2024. In April, he raised that to $35 billion.

LONDON — On the move and looking for an internet connection to check email or post a video to TikTok? It’s tempting to jump onto the free Wi-Fi at the coffee shop or the shopping mall. But don’t do it unless you’ve got protection. Using unsecured internet access can be risky.

Linia Patel leans on whole foods to avoid ultra-processed snacks. Getty Images/Linia PatelUltra-processed foods have been linked to health problems, including obesity and depression. Snacks make up 25% of US calorie intake and people tend to choose UPFs because they're convenient. A dietitian shared her go-to minimally processed snacks that stop her from reaching for UPFs.