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Ireland’s Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) handed down the ~$600,000 fine in favor of Gary Rooney, who was fired from Twitter in 2022 after failing to click “yes” in an email asking employees to accept Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” work culture or leave.

If you often fall asleep while watching a video, you can try YouTube Premium’s experimental sleep timer through September 2nd. It pauses your content after a certain amount of time, so that way autoplay doesn’t eat up all your internet data for the month.

The layoffs, which affect around 2,000 workers, come as Paramount looks to cut costs ahead of its merger with Skydance. In its earnings report today, Paramount also revealed a $5.98 billion write-down on its legacy networks — similar to Warner Bros. Discovery.