Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and his dancer girlfriend Melanie Hamrick have put their Florida home up for sale.

A listing on Realtor.com says the lakefront home with four bedrooms and 5.5 baths is listed at $3.499 million and it looks like the Jagger connection is a key selling point.

You cant always get what you want but this house is definitely what you need! the listing overview says, quoting part of the famous Stones song written by Jagger and Keith Richards in 1969. This magnificent, custom-built Rutenberg home in the premier gated community of The Lake Club was designed with privacy in mind.

Jagger and Hamrick bought the home in the Lakewood Ranch area east of Bradenton along the Gulf coast for a little over $1.9 million in October 2020. The property was registered to Hamrick and was chosen mainly because her family lives in the area. Its original purchase price was $1.2 million in 2010.

The overview says the home covers more than 5,700 square feet (529 square meters) in living space and includes features such as a heated saltwater pool, three balconies and a bell tower, top quality kitchen appliances, remote-controlled window treatments and a large media room with a wet bar.

The possibilities for that room are endless, the listing says.

Jagger, the 79-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and Hamrick, 36, have a 6-year-old son together, Deveraux. They also reside in New York City among other places around the world. Jagger and Hamrick, a former ballerina and choreographer at American Ballet Theatre, have been together since 2014.

We are getting it done here in Philly, Gov. Josh Shapiro said at a briefing at Philadelphia International Airport after the flyover that included members of Congress and the citys mayor.

Biden outlined the substantial initial federal commitment and longer term support for a permanent fix for the vital roadway. I know how important this stretch of highway is to Philadelphia and the Northeast Corridor, he said. Over 150,000 vehicles travel on it every day, including 14,000 trucks. Its critical to our economy and its critical to our quality of life.

Shapiro, offering a timeline that would be welcome news to commuters and long-haul truckers alike, said with Biden at his side: I can state with confidence that we will have I-95 reopened within the next two weeks. We are going to get traffic moving again thanks to the extraordinary work that is going on here.

He said folks here in Philly have a real renewed sense of civic pride through this project and that theres something special happening in our community with people coming together.

The stretch of the East Coasts main north-south highway collapsed early last Sunday after a tractor-trailer hauling gasoline flipped over on an off-ramp and caught fire. State transportation officials said the driver was trying to navigate a curve and lost control.

Ive directed my team to move heaven and earth to get this done as soon as humanly possible, Biden said. He said he told the governor, Theres no more important project right now in the country as far as Im concerned. The president described it as an all hands on deck project to address a crisis.

Were with you. Were going to stay with you until this is rebuilt, until its totally finished, he said at the briefing.

Pennsylvanias plan for the work involves trucking in 2,000 tons of lightweight glass nuggets for the quick rebuilding, with crews working around the clock until the interstate is open to traffic. Instead of rebuilding the overpass right away, crews will use the recycled glass to fill in the collapsed area to avoid supply-chain delays for other materials, Shapiro has said.

After that, a replacement bridge will be built next to it to reroute traffic while crews excavate the fill to restore the exit ramp, officials have said.

Biden said the design was incredibly innovative in order to get this work done in record time.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the area Tuesday, promised that the federal government would provide the needed assistance to repair the destruction, although he warned that the wreckage will likely raise the cost of consumer goods in the short term because truckers must now travel longer routes.

Joining Biden on the presidential Marine One helicopter were Shapiro, Sens. Bob Casey and John Fetterman and Rep. Brendan Boyle and Mayor Jim Kenney, all Democrats. Later Saturday, Biden was to attend a 2024 campaign event with union workers at the convention center.

In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsofts flagship office suite including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service attacks.

Initially reticent to name the cause, Microsoft has now disclosed that DDoS attacks by the murky upstart were indeed to blame.

But the software giant has offered few details and did not immediately comment on how many customers were affected and whether the impact was global. A spokeswoman confirmed that the group that calls itself Anonymous Sudan was behind the attacks. It claimed responsibility on its Telegram social media channel at the time. Some security researchers believe the group to be Russian.

Microsofts explanation in a blog post Friday evening followed a request by The Associated Press two days earlier. Slim on details, the post said the attacks temporarily impacted availability of some services. It said the attackers were focused on disruption and publicity and likely used rented cloud infrastructure and virtual private networks to bombard Microsoft servers from so-called botnets of zombie computers around the globe.

Microsoft said there was no evidence any customer data was accessed or compromised.

While DDoS attacks are mainly a nuisance making websites unreachable without penetrating them security experts say they can disrupt the work of millions if they successfully interrupt the services of a software service giant like Microsoft on which so much global commerce depends.

Its not clear if thats what happened here.

We really have no way to measure the impact if Microsoft doesnt provide that info, said Jake Williams, a prominent cybersecurity researcher and a former National Security Agency offensive hacker. Williams said he was not aware of Outlook previously being attacked at this scale.

We know some resources were inaccessible for some, but not others. This often happens with DDoS of globally distributed systems, Williams added. He said Microsofts apparent unwillingness to provide an objective measure of customer impact probably speaks to the magnitude.

Microsoft dubbed the attackers Storm-1359, using a designator it assigns to groups whose affiliation it has not yet established. Cybersecurity sleuthing tends to take time and even then can be a challenge if the adversary is skilled.

Pro-Russian hacking groups including Killnet which the cybersecurity firm Mandiant says is Kremlin-affiliated have been bombarding government and other websites of Ukraines allies with DDoS attacks. In October, some U.S. airport sites were hit. Analyst Alexander Leslie of the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future said its unlikely Anonymous Sudan is located as it claims in Sudan, an African country. The group works closely with Killnet and other pro-Kremlin groups to spread pro-Russian propaganda and disinformation, he said.

Edward Amoroso, NYU professor and CEO of TAG Cyber, said the Microsoft incident highlights how DDoS attacks remain a significant risk that we all just agree to avoid talking about. Its not controversial to call this an unsolved problem.

He said Microsofts difficulties fending of this particular attack suggest a single point of failure. The best defense against these attacks is to distribute a service massively, on a content distribution network for example.

Indeed, the techniques the attackers used are not old, said U.K. security researcher Kevin Beaumont. One dates back to 2009, he said.

Serious impacts from the Microsoft 365 office suite interruptions were reported on Monday June 5, peaking at 18,000 outage and problem reports on the tracker Downdetector shortly after 11 a.m. Eastern time.

On Twitter that day, Microsoft said Outlook, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business were affected.

Attacks continued through the week, with Microsoft confirming on June 9 that its Azure cloud computing platform had been affected.

On June 8, the computer security news site BleepingComputer.com reported that cloud-based OneDrive file-hosting was down globally for a time.

Microsoft said at the time that desktop OneDrive clients were not affected, BleepingComputer reported.

Pour one out for the stress balls and tchotchkes working overtime these days. Stress for the American workforce remains at record highs, finds analytics company Gallup in its most recent State of the Global Workplace report44% of 122,000 employees surveyed say they feel a lot of stress. In 2019, that level sat at 38%, but over 40% of workers have consistently been stressed ever since the pandemic hit.

This past May, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 was no longer a national emergency. Even as the pandemic ebbed (and flowed) since the early days of lockdown, theres still a pervasive level of exhaustion as we discover its lingering side effects, continue to manage a public health issue, and deal with the aftermath of an event that challenged how we view society. Work has not remained unscathed, as the pandemic brought into question the purpose of a 9-to-5 and gave rise to a greater existentialism and feeling of malaise. Its hard to feel checked into a job and engaged when youre largely unhappy. 

While employee engagement is on the rise globally, Gallup found, its declined in East Asia, Canada, and the U.S.where workers also happened to report the highest levels of stress. Actively disengaged workers overall reported 26% more stress than engaged employees, which Gallup says indicates a correlation between engagement levels and stress levels.

However, that correlation varies by country, and employee engagement is only one factor of many. Across the globe, remote and hybrid workers are more likely to experience high levels of stress than fully onsite workers (43% and 45%, respectively, compared to 38%)despite reporting higher engagement.

Some leaders who have strongly advocated for a return to office, like Elon Musk or Jaime Dimon, might rejoice in this finding. But remote and hybrid employees stress levels may be less about time spent working from home and more about how theyre being managed. Gallup attributes their stress to a less predictable or structured work life.

Hybrid and remote work, if not managed right, can produce less predictabilitypeople are less likely to be able to quickly resolve issues like they often can in-person, Jim Harter, Gallups Chief Scientist of Workplace and Wellbeing, tells Fortune. Unclear expectations can cause frustration, as can more limited opportunities to develop. He added that some homes are not set up for optimal success at work.

And while work plays a role, he noted, so does social, financial, physical, and community wellbeing. Since employee engagement and stress are correlated, but stress has remained high globally while engagement has improved, the high stress is most likely related to the work-life intersection.

That might explain why younger employees under 40, who unequivocally strive for a greater work-life balance but are having a harder time achieving it, report more stress (43%) than older workers (39%). 

Its not the nature of remote work that leads to well-being issues, but a larger lack of work-life balance, Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of consultancy firm Disaster Avoidance Experts, points out in a Fortune piece. A 2022 Cisco survey found that many said remote and hybrid work improved their well-being, citing the flexible schedule and eliminated commute. But the expectation to always be on and a lack of certainty about expectations does tend to drag workers down.

Still, though, Gallup finds that employee engagement has 3.8 times as much influence on employee stress as work location. What people are experiencing in their everyday worktheir feelings of involvement and enthusiasmmatters more in reducing stress than where they are doing their work. No location can fix poor management, the report reads.

The power to decrease stress therefore lies in managements hands. It is increasingly important that managers are reskilled to have strengths-based meaningful conversations weekly with each person, Harter says, adding that remote work can increase the likelihood that employees feel more distant from their employers, which can lead to them looking for other opportunities. 

Youve heard the adage screening saves lives and youve probably undergoneor had your doctor recommenda range of routine screenings from diabetes and depression to cervical and colorectal cancer. These screenings are in addition to regular blood pressure and cholesterol screenings that are part of annual wellness care.

Screening is a big part of preventive care, says Dr. Soenda P. Norman, a family physician with Duke Primary Care Arringdon Family Medicine. We want to catch something before it becomes problematic and there are irreversible consequences.

Here are the screenings you may need in your 30s, 40s and 50s.

In Your 30s

New guidelines recommend screening all adults for depression.

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Depression

Rates of depression are at an all-time high with 29% of adults reporting a diagnosis of depression in 202310% higher than 2015.

In 2022, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), an independent medical panel that makes evidence-based recommendations for preventive care, recommended screening all adults for depression.

Your doctor might ask questions about changes in appetite and sleep patterns, feelings of sadness or struggles with motivation at your next appointment to determine if you are experiencing depression. Screenings will continue annually throughout adulthood, according to Dr. Tina-Ann Thompson, director of the Division of Family Medicine and the Emory program lead, primary care, at the Emory University School of Medicine.

Cervical cancer

Starting at age 30, those with a cervix should be screened for the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is responsible for almost half of all high grade cervical pre-cancers.

Younger women can get the virus and sometimes clear it on their own, says Dr. Matthew Bonzelet, internist at Washington University in Saint Louis. If [the virus] is still present at [age] 30, we need to start paying closer attention.

Screening is recommended every five years in addition to a regular pap test, regardless of your sexual history or HPV vaccination status. Healthcare providers may recommend earlier or more frequent screening for those who are at high risk of cervical cancer.

Diabetes

Blood glucose testing to screen for pre-diabetes and diabetes starts at age 35. While USPSTF only recommends screening those who are overweight or obese but the American Diabetes Association advises screening for all adults 35 and older, regardless of their risk factors. 

Your doctor may also recommend screenings for sexually transmitted infections and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in your 30s, depending on your health and risk factors, Thompson adds.

In Your 40s

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Vision

Aging is associated with changes to your vision, so a baseline eye disease screening with an ophthalmologist is recommended at age 40. The screening can detect eye diseases like glaucoma and cataracts that become more common when you reach your 40s.

Over time, the lens in your eyes get stiff and that changes their ability to adjust to [see] near and far, says Bonzelet. The 40s is the general timeframe when that starts to happen.

Colorectal cancer

The rates of colorectal cancer in adults under age 50 has increased and accounts for more than 10% of new colorectal cancer cases. As a result, screening is recommended starting at age 45.

Colorectal cancer screening is incredibly important but colonoscopy is not the only way to do it; stool testing can be just as good, says Dr. Ronald Adler, associate professor of family medicine and community health at UMass Chan Medical School. The best test for that is the one that gets done.

Breast cancer

Earlier this year, the USPSTF issued new draft guidance for breast cancer screening. The task force lowered the recommended age for biennial screening from 50 to 40 for women for women at average risk of breast cancer. (The American Cancer Society has recommended annal mammograms starting at age 40 since 2003).

The USPSTF pointed to higher rates of breast cancer death in Black women as one of the reasons for adjusting the screening guidelines.

But the effectiveness of mammography screening is controversial with one study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found strong links between increases in breast cancer screening and over-diagnosis of breast cancer.

There are debates about the proportion of mammographically-detected breast cancers that are over-diagnosed; its at least 15% but could be as high as 30%, Adler says. So, 2,400 women in their 40s need to be screened to prevent one breast cancer death and in that group, there are going to be hundreds of false positives and about a dozen over diagnosed cases.

If your healthcare provider suggests mammography starting at age 40, Adler suggests asking about the potential downsides to screening and making a decision based on your risk factors.

In Your 50s

Prostate cancer screenings usually happen at 50, but may be earlier depending on your risk.

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Prostate cancer

Conversations about prostate cancer screening start around age 50 (though your healthcare provider might recommend screening earlier if you are 45 or older and African American or have at least one first-degree relative who was diagnosed with prostate cancer, putting you at high risk of developing the disease).

Bonzelet notes that a prostate cancer screening may include a blood test for levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) or a digital rectal exam.

The screening for prostate cancer is set up that no man should have be screened until after he has participated in a shared decision making process [with his healthcare provider] in which he considers his risk, the benefits and his own preferences and values, Adler adds.

Lung cancer

Smokers may be advised to undergo lung cancer screenings.

The low-dose CAT scans are recommended for those who have accumulated 20 pack years as smokers, which is a calculation of the number of cigarettes smoked per day multiplied by the number of years they have smoked. One pack of cigarettes per day for 20 years or two packs of cigarettes per day for 10 years is the equivalent of 20 pack years.

Were essentially looking for any sort of nodule or mass that could be cancerous so we can refer them to appropriate care or at least recommend more frequent surveillance, says Norman.

Additionally, Norman notes that lung cancer screening is an opportunity to counsel those who are still actively smoking on smoking cessation and providing support they need to successfully quit.

Its important to be aware of age and risk related screening recommendations, but you should always have honest conversations with your healthcare provider to decide which screenings are right for you.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a new front in its campaign against crypto. In its latest gambit, the agency is targeting the entire domestic decentralized finance industry by proposing a fundamental change to how it defines an exchange. If successful, the SEC could drive one of the most innovative sectors of financeas The Economist highlighted with its 2021 DeFi coverfrom American shores.

The new legal fight over exchanges is similar to the dispute over which crypto entities should be considered brokers, a saga that united much of the industry in opposition in the summer of 2021. 

Specifically, the SECs latest proposed rulemaking seeks to amend existing rules regarding Alternative Trading Systems, or ATSs, to broaden the definition of a securities exchange to bring in many digital asset industry participants that havent been included. The new definition would include a group of persons who make available communication protocol systems that allow people to express interest in potentially trading a security.

This raises the obvious question of what a communication protocol system is in the first place. But the proposed rule never defines the ambiguous term, and instead contends that a group of persons can exist whenever people act in concertthrough even an informal agreementeven if none of them individually, or as a group, exercise any control over an exchanges functions or facilities. This comically broad interpretation means that even an unassociated collection of individuals with no actual participation in an exchanges core functions could be subject to securities regulation for operating an exchange.

This contorted definition of exchange would fundamentally alter the traditional understanding of how we conceive of one. Its akin to expanding the definition of a baseball team from the group of people directly associated with itthe players, possibly the manager, the coaches, and front office staffto one in which the teams fans and even third-party sportscasters who perform certain function[s] associated with putting on a game become part of the team. Its doubtful that anyone would consider a ticket scalper in the parking lot part of the team, but in the SECs new view, its possible depending on the facts and circumstances. Its easy to imagine other examples of how this language could become stretched to absurd degrees. Does a power company that supplies electricity to servers powering a communication protocol system count as a partner in the exchange? And so on.

The SECs exchange initiative is the agencys latest, and most egregious, attempt to expand its regulatory power beyond the authority granted by Congress. For example, there is no law on the books right now that classifies digital assets as securities, and it therefore remains an open question as to whether the agency has the authority to regulate digital assets. This rulemaking proposal does a convenient end-run around this question, establishing a new interpretation of an exchange that gives the agency broad new leeway to regulate a wide array of industry participants, far beyond the statutory limits established by the Exchange Act. Indeed, Republicans from the House Financial Services Committee filed their own letter to push the SEC to withdraw the proposal because of concerns about regulatory overreach.

You can make the case that its best to take SEC Chair Gary Gensler at his word and give the commission the benefit of the doubt that its pursuing this rulemaking to reflectchangessince Congress put in place the definition of an exchange. However, given that the agencys proposal comes after a history of enforcement actions and very little forward-looking guidance provided to the digital asset industry, Gensler doesnt deserve the benefit of the doubt.

While there has been a lot of attention paid to the SECs recent enforcement actions, its important that the agencys crypto rulemaking effortsincluding its push to expand the agencys powersnot fly under the radar. Congress must monitor Genslers efforts closely and hold him accountable if theyre not based in law and commonsense.

By attempting to broaden the SECs regulatory authority and open a new front in his ongoing war against crypto, Gensler exposes the agency to increased Congressional scrutinyexactly the opportunity for crypto advocates to make their strongest case. The exchange definition may seem niche and technical, but the anti-tech impulse and regulatory overreach behind the proposal should concern every Americanregardless of how they feel about crypto.

Amanda Tuminelli is chief legal officer for the Defi Education Fund, where she leads the organizations impact litigation and policy efforts. The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solely the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of Fortune.

Talk about a power lunch. Its not every day that the worlds two richest people sit down for a meal together, but it happened Friday in Paris when Tesla CEO and LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault dined at Cheval Blanc with family members. 

Each man is worth well over $220 billion, with Musk currently holding the richest-person title theyve repeatedly traded. 

Also at the lunch was Musks mother, Maye Musk, and Arnaults oldest son Antoine, who posted photos from the lunch meeting on his Instagram account.

Several European countries want to host Teslas next battery factory, and Musk has been on a tour of the continent meeting various leaders, including Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni and French President Emmanuel Macron. 

Musk also spoke at the VivaTech conference in France on Friday, reiterating his warnings on the dangers to humanity posed by artificial intelligence, while also admitting that he didnt think anyone would actually agree to the pause on A.I. development he called for back in March. 

He also joked, If Im so smart, why did I pay so much for Twitter?

The two billionaires are familiar figures on the rich list. Arnault has built LVMH into the worlds biggest luxury groupthink Louis Vuitton luggage, Moet champagne, or Givenchy perfume. He bested Musk last year but took a hit as the slowing economic recovery in a Chinaa key market for luxury goodsmade investors less enthusiastic about LVMH shares.

Tesla shares, meanwhile, have surged more than 140% this year, helping Musk reclaim his perch last month. Musk is also CEO of SpaceX and could see his wealth soar even higher if the company spins off its Starlink satellite-broadband unit in an IPO. 

It wasnt the first meeting between the Musk and Arnault. They also met in Los Angeles last year, with the luxury tycoon later admitting to The Telegraph that he made a faux pas by laughing when Musk said he would colonize Mars. I thought he was joking, Arnault told the British paper. But he was serious, and I dont think he was best pleased.

Musk could have the last laugh thanks to his space ambitions. In January, venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya predicted that a Starlink IPO would happen this year and that Starlinks valuation will be at least half of SpaceXs current private worth. That same month, CNBC reported that Musks space company had raised $750 million at $137 billion valuation.

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