Meta plans to lay off up to 5 percent of its employees based on performance ratings, according to an internal memo to workers on Tuesday viewed by The New York Times.“I’ve decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster,” Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta, said in the memo. “We typically manage out people who aren’t meeting expectations over the course of a year, but now we’re going to do more extensive performance-based cuts during this cycle.”Mr. Zuckerberg said in the memo that workers whose roles were cut would be replaced by new hires in…
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Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is yet another example of disastrous DEI policies. The city cheered Crowley as the first LGBTQ member to hold the post and it appears Crowley was focusing more on the woke agenda than important matters like refilling the water reservoirs. “As the fire chief, if confirmed, I vow to take a strategic and balanced approach to ensure we meet the needs of the community we serve. We will focus our efforts on increasing our operational effectiveness, enhancing firefighter safety and well-being, and fully commit to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture within the…
Credit: 23andMe via Wikimedia Commons The genetic testing company 23andMe and similar organizations have been providing customers with information about their genetic backgrounds for many years now. Clearly, it takes a good bit of trust to send your genetic material to a corporation. Unforuntately, for some customers, that trust was broken. In 2023, the company 23andMe experienced a data security incident that exposed personal information for up to six million customers. This extremely sensitive personal information included health, genetic, and ethnic information. Some of this information reportedly ended up on the dark web. If you are one of the customers…
A French woman, Anne, was scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars after being tricked into believing she was in a relationship with Hollywood actor Brad Pitt.The scam began with messages from accounts posing as Pitt and his mother, using AI-generated images of the actor to build trust.The fraudster claimed Brad Pitt needed money for cancer treatment, exploiting Anne’s vulnerability, who, despite warnings, continued sending money until realizing the deception.Article continues below advertisementFrench Interior Designer Falls Victim To Elaborate Romance Scam Involving Fake Brad PittMEGAA French woman was scammed out of hundreds of thousands of pounds after being tricked…
Bloomberg characterised Beijing’s consideration of a possible Musk transaction as “still preliminary,” noting that Chinese officials have yet to reach a consensus on how to proceed.Musk is a close ally of Trump and is expected to play an influential role in Washington in the coming four years.He also runs the electric car company Tesla, which has a major factory in China and counts the country as one of the automaker’s biggest markets.Trump has repeatedly threatened to enact new tariffs on Chinese goods, which would expand a trade war begun in his first term and which was largely upheld, and in…
Hopes are running high that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza might finally be reached.Negotiators in Doha, Qatar appear to be on the brink of breaking a deadlock in ceasefire talks to end 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza. In his final foreign policy speech, the outgoing US President Joe Biden hinted that a deal was imminent. Israeli media have leaked details of the proposed deal. It’s what Biden has previously called a “roadmap to an enduring ceasefire” in three phases. So, is the growing sense of optimism warranted this time? And just how much of…
The Reds reached a surprise agreement with Main Street Sports/FanDuel Sports Network (the rebranded entities formerly known as Diamond Sports Group and Bally Sports) Monday — a one-year cable and streaming rights deal that’ll take care of the team’s broadcasts for the upcoming 2025 season. With Diamond Sports Group in bankruptcy proceedings, the Reds had turned their broadcast rights over to the league (as have several other clubs) in a less lucrative arrangement. It’s still not clear how much extra revenue Cincinnati will pick up in the wake of this new agreement, but president of baseball operations Nick Krall told the…
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, announced sweeping changes last week to the company’s approach to disinformation and hate speech. Its fact-checkers, Zuckerberg claimed, “have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created.” Henceforth the company will be removing fewer posts; it will instead append “Community Notes.” Along the way, it will dramatically pare down its content restrictions on topics like immigration, potentially risking the same sorts of crises that have long eroded trust in the company.What happens on Meta’s platforms is more than just a matter of company policy. The prevalence of false…
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An artist’s impression of Blue Ghost landing on the moonFirefly Aerospace Two private spacecraft aiming to land on the moon are set to blast off onboard a SpaceX rocket, in a sign of increasing commercial activity on the lunar surface. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander and ispace’s Resilience lander have both got a ride on the same Falcon 9 rocket, which is currently scheduled to liftoff on 15 January at 6.11am GMT (1.11am EST) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch will be ispace’s second attempt at landing on the moon. Its first ended in failure when its…