A nurse from Barry, Wales, is warning others to check their payslips after discovering she had been overpaying income tax, resulting in a nearly £3,000 refund. Gemma Belby, who realized she was paying "nearly double" what her colleagues were, had to wait three months for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to rectify the issue, a process that reportedly affected her health, according to BBC Business.
Belby's experience highlights the importance of regularly reviewing tax codes. She discovered the error by chance during a conversation with colleagues. "Check your tax code on your payslips," she advised, as reported by BBC Business. HMRC has since corrected her tax code and issued the refund.
In other news, the state of Nevada is taking legal action against Kalshi, a prediction market platform, alleging it lacks the necessary licenses to operate and allows users under the age of 21. The lawsuit, covered by The Verge, underscores growing scrutiny of prediction markets.
Meanwhile, in the tech world, a 35-person startup called Venice is emerging from stealth with a claim to disrupt the identity and access management market, as reported by TechCrunch. The company, which has raised $20 million in Series A funding, aims to compete with established players like CyberArk and Okta. The rise of identity and access management startups reflects the growing need to manage digital identities for non-human entities like chatbots and AI agents.
The ability to predict the future continues to be a focus, with MIT Technology Review noting that humans have always been forecasters, driven by a desire to understand and control the future. The article points out that today, predictions are ubiquitous, with algorithms constantly analyzing data to anticipate outcomes.
Additionally, Hacker News discussed CEL (Common Expression Language), a tool used in various applications, including Kubernetes and Google Cloud, to evaluate expressions against data. CEL is designed to be fast, portable, and safe, allowing users to perform operations on simple values, Protobuf messages, or JSON objects.
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