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Boeing's union representing white-collar engineers and technical workers has approved the company's contract offer, averting a strike. The vote ends a period of uncertainty for the aerospace giant, which has faced extended labor disputes with other employee groups. Details of the vote margins and contract terms were not immediately available, but the agreement secures labor peace across Boeing's salaried workforce for now.

Boeing has avoided a strike after SPEEA, the union representing its engineers and technical workers, approved new labor contracts. The vote removes the threat of a work stoppage that would have added to the aerospace company's production and financial pressures. Details of the contract terms and vote margins have not been widely reported, but approval means both worker groups will remain on the job under the new agreements.

Economist Tyler Cowen's Marginal Revolution blog is asking readers what questions to put to Moxie Marlinspike, the cryptographer and creator of the Signal messaging protocol, ahead of an interview. Readers are submitting suggestions touching on encryption, open source software, and cryptocurrency, and the request is circulating among tech and privacy-minded communities.

Bitcoin mining companies are increasingly repurposing their data centers and energy infrastructure to serve artificial intelligence workloads, according to industry coverage. As AI drives surging demand for electricity and computing capacity, miners with access to cheap power are finding AI contracts more attractive than crypto mining, which faces thinning margins after the halving and fluctuating bitcoin prices.

Agricultural biotechnology company Pivot Bio is encouraging farmers to conduct field-by-field reviews of their input costs as a way to identify savings. The recommendation comes as growers look for ways to trim expenses without sacrificing yield, with nitrogen management among the key areas where efficiency gains can be made.