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Contributed by: Brooke Guzman Former Tesla engineer Cristina Balan battles Elon Musk after bringing up her concern about the safety of Tesla’s breaks. Not only is she battling Musk but just finished her fight against breast cancer as well.
- BBC News is the British Broadcasting Corporation known for gathering news around the UK and around the world. It is the world's largest broadcast news organization and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day.
- I believe that BBC is a pretty credible source since in 2019 they put over 130 million dollars into their news reports as well as having over 5,500 journalists working for them.
- The main claim being made in this news story is to get justice for Christina Balan and for her side of the story to be heard.
Contributed by: Brooke Guzman Russian hackers are presumed to have used Microsoft access to steal government emails.
- Reuters is a news agency that is owned by Thomson Reuters. The agency was founded in 1815.
- I believe this source is credible since they have 2,500 journalists working for them and since they have been around for quite some time.
- The story claims that Russian hackers were able to gain access to government emails by going through Microsoft.
Contributed by: Brooke Guzman Who holds the power in the world’s supply chain?
- The Economist News is a British weekly newspaper that discusses current affairs, international business, politics, technology, and culture.
- This source is credible due to its professional work jobs such as finding the stories and getting journalists to write them as well as how long they have been around. Wikipedia states that they were established in 1843.
- The main claim is that supply chain managers can not seem to catch a break with all that has been going gon in our world today.
Contributed by: Brooke Guzman President Joe Biden has been urged to ban China-made electrical vehicles because they are a “threat to the American auto industry".
- This directly relates to professional ethics since Biden would be doing what his colleagues and peers would support.
- This directly relates to utilitarism since Biden would be banning these vehicles for the protection of our personal information that these Chinese-made vehicles could steal.
- This directly relates to organizational relativism since Biden would be doing what is consistent with the goals and norms of the United States of America.
Contributed by: Brooke Guzman EasyJet has stopped all flights to and from Tel Aviv after Iran’s airstrike over the weekend.
- This directly relates to respect for persons since the airstrike that occurred over the weekend was not fair to the innocent families that could have been hurt.
- This directly relates to the golden rule since I am sure that Iran would not like the Israeli people launching missiles and drones over their people.
- This directly relates to the principles of utility since this wrong produced unhappiness.
Contributed by: Brooke Guzman The electric vehicle company, Tesla, is set to let go of 10% of its employees.
- This directly relates to the trolley problem since Tesla is letting go of many employees for the greater good of the company, the employees let go are the ones that got the short end of the stick.
- This directly relates to the 2nd agreement in Don Miguel Ruiz's The Four Agreements because the employees who are let go should not take in personally since it was a business decision to make these cuts.
- This directly relates to organizational relativism since the decision to let go of 10% of their employees was to do what is consistent with the goals and norms of Tesla.
Contributed by: Brooke Guzman The first commercial plane to turn human waste into sustainable aviation fuel.
- This directly relates to environmental pollution because I can not imagine how this can be good for the air that we breathe in.
- This directly relates to the Clean Air Act of 1970 since this is going to affect our air quality in some way once it becomes more known we will know how much it will affect us.
- This directly relates to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 since I believe this puts the employees in hazardous conditions.
Contributed by: Brooke Guzman The USFAA proposes that Boeing airplanes should be required to place cap seals on certain collars inside the fuel tanks for better conditions on the planes.
- This directly relates to environmental pollution since the USFAA is trying to reduce the bad conditions while planes are flying.
- This directly relates to the Clean Air Act of 1970 since this requirement helps enforce this act.
- This directly relates to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 since this will help protect employees from hazardous conditions.
Contributed by: Brooke Guzman The Russian hackers have used their access to Microsoft to hack emails sent to and by the government.
- This directly relates to insider trading since the information the Russians received from the emails was confidential.
- This directly relates to corporate espionage since the Russians discovered secrets from an economic competitor.
- This directly relates to corporate negligence since Russia already had access to Microsoft, Microsoft should have made a more secure system so that Russia was not able to access it again causing government emails to be exposed.
Contributed by: Brooke Guzman Paramount Pictures is possibly going to have a merger with Skydance Media and the shareholders of Paramount have mixed feelings.
- This directly relates to shareholder primacy since the company is obligated to maximize stockholder profits.
- This directly relates to shareholder capitalism since the company’s decision to merge can affect its profits in either a more or less way.
- This directly relates to quid pro quo since each company has something to gain with the merger.
Contributed by: Brooke Guzman Tesla is settling their lawsuit with the family of the Apple Engineer who was wrongfully killed when using Tesla’s autopilot feature.
- This directly relates to quid pro quo because Apple is paying the family of the engineer who was killed in return for a settlement of the lawsuit.
- This directly relates to a B-Corp since Tesla is an all-electric motor vehicle company.
- This directly relates to the business judgment rule since it was not Tesla’s intent for this to happen it was a tragic accident the corporate officers and directors were protected under the law.
Contributed by: Brooke Guzman The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing truck drivers and transportation drivers to file lawsuits in court rather than through private arbitration.
- This directly relates to essential workers because these truck drivers and transportation workers are essential for our overall economic structure.
- This directly relates to workers rights since these companies are depriving them of wages by treating them as independent contractors instead of their own employees.
- This directly relates to labor trafficking since the customers were purchasing bread and not the transportation services.
CONTRIBUTED BY: OMAR ROSAS
The article outlines the case of Linwei Ding, a former Google software engineer charged with stealing trade secrets related to artificial intelligence (AI). Ding, also known as Leon Ding, allegedly stole over 500 confidential files pertaining to Google's supercomputing data centers, which are crucial for hosting and training large AI models.
CONTRIBUTED BY: OMAR ROSAS
The article discusses Altria Group's decision to sell a significant stake in AB InBev, the company behind popular beer brands like Bud Light and Stella Artois. Altria, known for its Marlboro cigarettes, will offload over $2.2 billion worth of shares in AB InBev, representing 35 million shares.
CONTRIBUTED BY: OMAR ROSAS
-I FOUND ON WIKIPEDIA THAT IT IS A PEER ORIENTED SITE. I WOULD SAY IT IS NOT SUSPICIOUS. -PEER REVIEW, AUTHOR CREDENTIALS, JOURNAL REPUTATION, METHODOLOGY, & CITATIONS. -The article, published in the Journal of Business Ethics, investigates the impact of officials' political incentives on corporate green innovation in China.
CONTRIBUTED BY: OMAR ROSAS
-I FOUND ON WIKIPEDIA THAT THERE IS A TON OF FAKE NEWS. I WOULD SAY THIS WEBSITE IS SUSPICIOUS.
-The main claim is that OpenAI plans to appoint new board members in March, resolving a previous leadership impasse. The story also mentions Microsoft's non-voting position and ongoing SEC scrutiny.
-MULTIPLE SOURCES, ATTRIBUTED INFORMATION, & VERIFICATION.
Submitted by: Dr. B
This article/story has me asking so many questions over here... Hoping some of us will get a chance to talk about this sometime.
CONTRIBUTED BY: OMAR ROSAS
-ON WIKIPEDIA I FOUND THAT THIS SOUCRE HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE. I WOULD SAY THAT THE ONLY THING SUSPICIOUS ABOUT MARKETPLACE IS THAT IT COMES THROUGH STEREO/PODCASTS. -SOURCE REPUTATION, REPORTER'S EXPERTISE, ATTRIBUTION, & VERIFICATION. -This news includes positive developments from Nvidia, Apple’s pull away from electric vehicles, and significant improvements in data privacy measures by the Joe Biden administration.
CONTRIBUTED BY: OMAR ROSAS
The article delves into the controversy surrounding Singapore’s decision to use taxpayer dollars to secure a Taylor Swift concert, which brings satisfaction and tension to the region
CONTRIBUTED BY: OMAR ROSAS
Despite Thailand legalizing marijuana two years ago, the country is now hinting that it may crack down on the legal marijuana market, the article reports.
CONTRIBUTED BY: OMAR ROSAS
The story includes flight attendants from the US. of major airlines organizing events in various airports, with a particular focus on Chicago O’Hare International Airport
Contributed by Abigail Reed
This article talks about cyber attacks that the British Library had to deal with last year and how that has affected their digital content.
- The first term that I associated with this article was Corporate Espionage. Another group of people was trying to hack into their data base to get information that was not legal theirs.
- I would also say that another term that may relate to this article is corporate negligence. If the library did not have good enough fire walls or something to better prepare themselves for these cyber attacks than it is corporate negligence
Contributed by: Dillon Caudle
Brief Description: Electricity, gas, and oil prices face numerous pressures over the next 12 months.
- This story directly relates to Environmental Pollution because it addresses global energy prices and discusses green gas alternatives and how they have affected energy prices.
- This story directly relates to the Clean Air Act of 1970 because the story discusses energy and greenhouse gases.
- Thankfully, this story does not relate to any of “the bad”
Contributed by: Dillon Caudle Brief Description: Ammonia is essential for fertiliser production but producing it is carbon intensive.
- This story directly relates to Environmental Pollution because it deals with creating less of it and finding less carbon-intensive strategies.
- This story directly relates to the Clean Air Act of 1970 because it deals with producing cleaner air.
- Thankfully, this story does not relate to any of “the bad”
Contributed by: Dillon Caudle Brief Description: Lawyers for sub-postmasters say some investigators may have conspired to pervert the course of justice at UK Post Offices.
- This story directly relates to Insider Trading because the UK Post Office was accused of accounting fraud.
- This story directly relates to Tax Evasion because the UK Post Office was accused of fudging numbers.
- This story directly relates to Price Fixing because the UK Post Office was accused of illegally dealing with the money of the business.
Contributed By: Gabriel Zamudio
The IRS said it is going after high-income earners who did not file tax returns in 125,000 since 2017
Tax evasion can be committed by corporations and individuals.
Contributed By: Gabriel
A charity is against the government approving e-bikes doubling legal power.
The doubling the power of e-bikes can lead to environmental pollution as fires would more prevalent.