Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it had recovered all of its cloud services after a networking outage took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook used by millions around the globe. Azure’s status page showed services were impacted in Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa. Only services in…
Microsoft Cloud Outage Hits Users Around the World
January 25, 2023
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The Washington Post Cuts 20 Newsroom Jobs
January 25, 2023
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The Washington Post announced that it will slash several positions in cutbacks, one week after the publication’s owner, Jeff Bezos, visited the offices. At least 20 newsroom staffers have been terminated, and 30 open positions will not be filled, according to a Jan. 24 note addressed to staff from the paper’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee. This is…
Newsmax, Dropped by DirecTV, Decries Anti-Conservative Censorship
January 25, 2023
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Millions of DirecTV subscribers no longer have access to Newsmax programming after the AT&T-owned satellite giant and the conservative news network failed to reach a new carriage deal. The official deadline passed at midnight on Tuesday. As a result, Newsmax’s programs went to a blackout for more than 13 million customers of the satellite service,…
Gingrich Questions DirecTV’s Motive in Canceling Newsmax: ‘A Lot More About Ideology’
January 25, 2023
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the latest to express alarm over broadcaster DirecTV’s decision to drop conservative channel Newsmax, a move he criticized as an “arbitrary use of power.” DirecTV removed the network overnight on Jan. 24 after its contract with Newsmax expired, blocking an estimated more than 13 million customer base from seeing…
Shareholders Getting Fed Up With Underperformance by ‘Woke’ CEOs
The Walt Disney Company may prove to be a cautionary tale for CEOs who have sworn allegiance to the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) movement. While it has become increasingly common for global clubs like the World Economic Forum and activist asset managers to pressure corporations to fall in line with the ESG agenda, Disney…
Wall Street Opens Lower as Weak Earnings Updates Dent Sentiment
January 25, 2023
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Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Wednesday as downbeat quarterly updates from Microsoft and Boeing added to fears of a recession, with technology shares leading the declines. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 187.74 points, or 1.66 percent, to 11,146.53 at the opening bell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 195.60 points, or 0.58 percent, at…
Twitter Faces Lawsuits Over Unpaid Rent for US HQ, UK Office
LONDON—More landlords are taking Twitter to court over unpaid rent, this time at the social media company’s headquarters in San Francisco and its British offices. Twitter is facing a lawsuit over allegations it failed to pay rent for its head office, according to California court documents. The owner of its premises in central London, meanwhile,…
Google Curates Data for AI: Whistleblower
January 24, 2023
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By curating the data that artificial intelligence (AI) uses to learn, tech companies like Google can bias the AI to censor information flowing on the internet, a Google whistleblower says. When Zach Vorhies was working for Google, he was concerned about how the company was curating data to generate AI biased with social justice or…
House Republicans Urge DirecTV Not to Drop Newsmax
January 24, 2023
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Republican members of Congress are calling on DirecTV to not drop the conservative news network Newsmax from its channel lineup as the satellite provider did to One America News (OAN) last year. Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas), along with 41 Republican colleagues, said in a letter that there are reasons to believe DirecTV is “moving to…
Spotify to Trim 6 Percent of Workforce in Latest Tech Layoffs
Music streaming service Spotify said on Monday that it will cut six percent of its workforce, or about 600 jobs, joining a growing list of technology companies in announcing job cuts to lower costs. CEO Daniel Ek announced the restructuring in a message to employees that was also posted on the company’s blog. “Over the…
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