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Global Tech-Sector Layoffs Surpass 244,000 In 2025 - Slashdot
Global Tech-Sector Layoffs Surpass 244,000 In 2025 - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Network World: The global technology sector eliminated some 244,851 jobs in 2025, according to a report from RationalFX. The U.K.-based financial services company says the worldwide downsizing reflects how companies in 2025 restructured their operations to fo...
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Global Tech-Sector Layoffs Surpass 244,000 In 2025 - Slashdot
Yet Another ICE Nightmare Unfolds Miles Away From Fatal Shooting
Yet Another ICE Nightmare Unfolds Miles Away From Fatal Shooting
An account of a seemingly random arrest of a 20-year-old U.S. citizen by ICE agents with weapons drawn occurred just one day after Renee Good’s killing.The first sign of an impending nightmare for …
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Yet Another ICE Nightmare Unfolds Miles Away From Fatal Shooting
The Kingdom of Alarm
The Kingdom of Alarm
You notice it first in the places you stop going.
·hybridhorizons.substack.com·
The Kingdom of Alarm
Democratic US senators demand Apple, Google take X and Grok off app stores over sexual images - CNA
Democratic US senators demand Apple, Google take X and Grok off app stores over sexual images - CNA
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 : Three Democratic U.S. senators are calling on Apple and Alphabet's Google to remove X and its built-in artificial intelligence chatbot Grok from their app stores, citing the spread of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors on the platform.In a letter published on Friday, senators
·channelnewsasia.com·
Democratic US senators demand Apple, Google take X and Grok off app stores over sexual images - CNA
Record Ocean Heat is Intensifying Climate Disasters, Data Shows - Slashdot
Record Ocean Heat is Intensifying Climate Disasters, Data Shows - Slashdot
The world's oceans absorbed yet another record-breaking amount of heat in 2025, continuing an almost unbroken streak of annual records since the start of the millennium and fueling increasingly extreme weather events around the globe. More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity's carbon emissions ...
·news.slashdot.org·
Record Ocean Heat is Intensifying Climate Disasters, Data Shows - Slashdot
Evening Roundup, January 9
Evening Roundup, January 9
Featuring Tim Dickinson, Jennifer Rubin with Ezra Levin, Shalise Manza Young, Mayor Cognetti, Meredith Blake, Pets, The Pod, and What YOU Can Do This Weekend
·contrarian.substack.com·
Evening Roundup, January 9
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
·404media.co·
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
Ranked: U.S. States by Number of Households Without Income
Ranked: U.S. States by Number of Households Without Income
States With the Highest Number of Households With No IncomeSee visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible …
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Ranked: U.S. States by Number of Households Without Income
'American Reich' author details a national surge in bigotry and white supremacy
'American Reich' author details a national surge in bigotry and white supremacy
Journalist Eric Lichtblau says President Trump's incendiary rhetoric has stoked a "new age of hate." His book centers on a murder committed by a young neo-Nazi in Orange County, Calif.DAVE DAVIES, HOST:This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies. Many Americans appalled by the violence of the January 6 assaul
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'American Reich' author details a national surge in bigotry and white supremacy
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune:[An ICE agent] shot and killed a woman in south Minneapolis during a morning confrontation between community members and
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shut Down After 58 Years - Slashdot
Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shut Down After 58 Years - Slashdot
After Congress approved President Donald Trump's rescission package eliminating federal funding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve after 58 years, rather than continue to exist and potentially be "vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse." The shutdown leaves hun...
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shut Down After 58 Years - Slashdot
UK Urged To Unplug From US Tech Giants as Digital Sovereignty Fears Grow - Slashdot
UK Urged To Unplug From US Tech Giants as Digital Sovereignty Fears Grow - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Open Rights Group is warning politicians that the UK is leaning far too heavily on US tech companies to run critical systems, and wants the Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill to force a rethink. The digital rights outfit says the bill, which is due to receiv...
·tech.slashdot.org·
UK Urged To Unplug From US Tech Giants as Digital Sovereignty Fears Grow - Slashdot
A Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' Fungus Infected 7,000 Americans in 2025 - Slashdot
A Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' Fungus Infected 7,000 Americans in 2025 - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent: Candida auris, a type of invasive yeast that can cause deadly infections in people with weakened immune systems, has infected at least 7,000 people [in 2025] across 27 U.S. states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control a...
·science.slashdot.org·
A Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' Fungus Infected 7,000 Americans in 2025 - Slashdot
Trump’s Risky War in Venezuela
Trump’s Risky War in Venezuela
Trump’s new war is illegal because he received no permission to wage it, and it was not an emergency response to an attack on our homeland or the imminent threat of one.
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Trump’s Risky War in Venezuela
U.S. says it has captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro during a ‘large-scale strike’ on the country
U.S. says it has captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro during a ‘large-scale strike’ on the country
The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and said its president had been captured and flown out of the country after months of intense pressure on Nicolás Maduro’s government — an extraordinary nighttime operation announced by President Donald Trump on social media hours after the attack.
The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and said its president had been captured and flown out of the country after months of intense pressure on Nicolás Maduro’s government — an extraordin
·inquirer.com·
U.S. says it has captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro during a ‘large-scale strike’ on the country
Reporter in Caracas describes hearing loud bangs and planes
Reporter in Caracas describes hearing loud bangs and planes

Reporter Ana Vanessa Herrero is in the Venezuelan capital Caracas - she said she began hearing planes at 02:00 local time. President Trump says the United States has captured President Nicolas Maduro following large scale strikes against the country.

Reporter Ana Vanessa Herrero is in the Venezuelan capital Caracas - she said she began hearing planes at 02:00 local time.President Trump says the United States has captured President Nicolas Maduro following large scale strikes against the country.
·bbc.com·
Reporter in Caracas describes hearing loud bangs and planes