With a deep, caramel richness and a bitter undertone, this cake is an excellent addition to your home baking roster

There’s enough dark chocolate in this gluten-free cake to put it firmly in chocolate cake territory, but the hero flavour comes from the sweet, creamy nuttiness of walnuts, so it’s important to use very fresh ones, because stale walnuts can quickly turn bitter. The dates bring a deep, caramel richness, while the espresso pulls everything back from being overly sweet. Despite all that richness, the cake is wonderfully light in texture. Serve with creme fraiche and perhaps some poached pears, if you want to turn it into a full-blown dessert.

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Most of the betting industry is urging the chancellor not to double slot machine duty to raise up to £460m more a year

Gambling industry kingpins are fuming about reports that the chancellor, John Healey, is considering increasing taxes on high-street slot machines in his first budget.

The influential Social Market Foundation thinktank, the most vocal advocate for a rise in machine games duty (MGD), from 20% to 40%, thinks the measure could raise between £275m and £460m annually, on top of the roughly £610m collected last year.

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Ik heb geprobeerd om de toekomst voor me te zien die de grote AI-bedrijven ons beloven. Een wereld zonder frictie, waarin je met een druk op de knop altijd meteen krijgt wat je nodig hebt. Hoe is dat?

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De inflatie in Nederland is in september gestegen naar 3,4 procent. Dat meldt het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) in een snelle raming. De stijging komt vooral door de hoge brandstofprijzen. In augustus was de inflatie nog 3,3 procent in vergelijking met een jaar eerder.

Lyft has to pay out $272 million for the fraud they perpetrated on their employees from 2016 through 2020!

But then in 2020, they spent $200 million to make that fraud legal, so now they won't have to pay that again in the future!

According to methane-breathing money-ghouls who run our world, this was a great investment: they could have just spent an additional $50M/year on salaries, but now they legalized an across-the-board salary reduction that pays itself back in only 4 years. Half that, actually, because they went halfsies on it with Uber! Someone's getting a raise.

This goes way beyond "a fine is a price".

Lyft is set to pay a historic $272.5 million settlement to resolve allegations around misclassifying its drivers as independent contractors instead of employees:

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San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said it was "the largest wage-and-hour settlement in California history." [...]

That's a time before voters approved Proposition 22, an Uber- and Lyft-funded ballot measure that classified ride-hail drivers as independent contractors, meaning they would not receive the benefits and wage protections afforded to other workers. The gig companies spent more than $200 million on the measure.

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In een woning in Hellevoetsluis heeft de politie donderdagavond zwaar vuurwerk aangetroffen. Een paar honderd kilo aan vuurwerk is in beslag genomen en het huis is volledig doorzocht door de politie.

In een woning in Hellevoetsluis heeft de politie donderdagavond zwaar vuurwerk aangetroffen. Een paar honderd kilo aan vuurwerk is in beslag genomen en het huis is volledig doorzocht door de politie.

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date stamped on back of photograph, February 2001