Walmart to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees, Relocate Remote Workers Back to the Office
The news comes just a day ahead of the company’s highly-anticipated Q1 2024 earnings report.
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CPI Report: Inflation Fell Slightly, But Rising Home and Gas Prices Are Keeping It Steady
Food prices stayed the same between March and April.
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Senate study proposes ‘at least’ $32B yearly for AI programs
A long-running working group in the Senate has issued its policy recommendation for federal funding for AI: $32 billion yearly, covering everything from infrastructure to grand challenges to national security risk assessments. This “roadmap” is not a bill or detailed policy proposal, but nevertheless it gives a sense of the scale lawmakers and “stakeholders” are […]
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FBI seizes hacking forum BreachForums — again
The FBI along with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies seized the notorious cybercrime forum BreachForums on Wednesday. For years, BreachForums has been a popular English-language forum for hackers and cybercriminals who wanted to advertise, sell, and trade stolen data. Just recently, a threat actor advertised Dell customers’ personal information and data stolen from […]
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Netflix to take on Google and Amazon by building its own ad server
The announcement signifies a significant shake-up in the streaming giant’s advertising approach.
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A wave of retractions is shaking physics
Recent highly publicized scandals have gotten the physics community worried about its reputation—and its future. Over the last five years, several claims of major breakthroughs in quantum computing and superconducting research, published in prestigious journals, have disintegrated as other researchers found they could not reproduce the blockbuster results. Last week, around 50 physicists, scientific journal…
5 Ways Solopreneurs Can Scale Their Business Through Collaboration
Our culture loves to perpetuate the myth that entrepreneurs must go it alone. But for many, the path to success is found in collaboration.
McDonald’s Is Responding to Sky-High Fast Food Price With a $5 Value Meal — But There’s a Catch
The news comes as the chain looks to redirect back to customer “affordability.”
Matt Garman taking over as CEO with AWS at crossroads
It’s tough to say that a $100 billion business finds itself at a critical juncture, but that’s the case with Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm of Amazon, and the clear market leader in the cloud infrastructure market. On Tuesday, the company announced that CEO Adam Selipsky was stepping down to spend more time with […]
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