Meta plans first wave of 8,000 layoffs on May 20 Meta plans to lay off 8,000 employees in its first wave of cuts on May 20, with more expected later this year, Reuters is reporting.

Meta plans first wave of 8,000 layoffs on May 20

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Brazil fires labor inspector after flagging Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD for modern slavery Brazil’s top labor inspector was fired just days after he added Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD to the country’s official registry of companies linked to slave-like labor conditions.

Brazil fires labor inspector after flagging Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD for modern slavery

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Marvel Undergoes Layoffs Amid Companywide Disney Cuts Marvel Lays Off 8% Of Staff Amid Companywide Disney Cuts

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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

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Booking.com confirms hackers accessed customers’ data

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Brazil's Supreme Court postpones decision on how Rio picks a governor, extending political chaos Brazil’s Supreme Court decided on Thursday to postpone a decision on who can be governor of Rio de Janeiro state amid a power crisis in the country’s postcard region.

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Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.

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Colombia’s Petro asks Brazil to extend Pix payment system - UPI.com Colombian President Gustavo Petro asked Brazil to extend its instant payment system Pix to Colombia and questioned U.S. financial sanctions.

Colombia's Petro asks Brazil to extend Pix payment system

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Brazil says it will not change Pix payment system after U.S. criticism - UPI.com Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said his government won't modify instant payment system Pix after new criticism from the United States

Brazil says it will not change Pix payment system after U.S. criticism

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Single Gesture Could Land Tourist, 29, In Prison For Years Under Anti-Racism Laws “It was an emotional reaction. I never imagined the gravity of it all, said lawyer Agostina Páez, charged with racial defamation. Crime, Society

Single Gesture Could Land Tourist, 29, In Prison For Years Under Anti-Racism Laws

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Oracle Lays Off Thousands to Offset AI Spending Over 500 Oracle workers are being laid off in Kansas City alone.

Oracle Lays Off Thousands to Offset AI Spending

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Man fleeing out the window on a roap ladder suspended from a helicoper says to the new hire: "You're joining the company at a very exciting time."

Atlassian in Trouble for Firing Employee Who Mouthed Off to CEO Fresh off of annihilating a tenth of its workforce, Atlassian is being accused of illegally firing an employee.

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Meta begins laying off hundreds of employees across five divisions Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has indicated the company is shifting resources toward artificial intelligence.

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Fora ad.

I keep seeing this ad for Fora. To be a work from home travel agent apparently. Is travel agent still a valuable role in the era of online booking?

How Organizations Lose Their Minds — From Circuit City to the 2026 AI Layoffs Four books that show the companies firing fastest will die first. It was early morning on March 28, 2007.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica is the latest giant to sue OpenAI The group, which also runs the online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is alleging that OpenAI misused Britannica's reference materials to train AI models.

Encyclopaedia Britannica is the latest giant to sue OpenAI

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Brazil’s age verification law takes effect March 17, 2026 and nobody’s ready

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Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools | TechCrunch Digg laid off a significant number of staff and shut down its app, but says it's not giving up on the startup.

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Trying A Vibe-Coded Operating System If you were to read the README of the Vib-OS project on GitHub, you’d see it advertised as a Unix-like OS that was written from scratch, runs on ARM64 and x86_64, and comes with a full GUI, n…

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Mass Layoffs Begin At These Major NJ Companies More than 1,300 New Jersey workers were laid off last week, with more to come from companies such as Verizon, Target, Walmart, and more.

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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.

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Block Lays Off 40% Of Staff And Blames It On AI. Don’t Buy The Excuse. Block’s 40% layoffs spark questions about AI’s role and overhiring. Here’s what the data shows about headcount, compliance risk and what the cuts could signal.

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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Block lays off nearly half its staff because of AI. Its CEO said most companies will do the same | CNN Business Block, the company behind Square, Cash App and Afterpay, is cutting its staff by 40%. The reason: “intelligence tools,” according to a letter to shareholders by co-founder Jack Dorsey.

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CEO Marc Benioff's ICE jokes stir outrage in a pivotal time for Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's ICE jokes at a Salesforce event stirred employee backlash, adding to company challenges like stock decline.

"Minutes into his keynote on Tuesday, Benioff asked people who had traveled from outside the US to stand up, then suggested ICE agents were waiting for them in the back, employees who heard the comments said."

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Reddit fined £14m by UK data watchdog over age verification checks The UK's data watchdog said the failings meant children could be exposed to harmful material online.

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Nvidia could launch its first laptops with its own processors later this year Nvidia is preparing to launch its first laptop processors later this year, marking a major return to consumer PCs with new Arm-based designs and AI-focused performance.

Nvidia could launch its first laptops with its own processors later this year

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Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is running into some serious issues while overhauling his financial services company, Block.

“Top-down mandates to use large language models are crazy,” one employee told Wired. “If the tool were good, we’d all just use it.”

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