Meta plans to build a $10 billion private, “mother of all” undersea fiber-optic cable network spanning over 40,000 kilometers around the world. The project, dubbed “W” for its shape, would run from the U.S. east coast to the west coast via India, South Africa and Australia, avoiding regions prone to Read more…
A broad coalition of Canada’s major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC, is suing tech giant OpenAI, saying the company is illegally using news articles to train its ChatGPT software. It’s the first time all of a country’s Read more…
A Chinese commercial vessel that has been surrounded by European warships in international waters for a week is central to an investigation of suspected sabotage that threatens to test the limits of maritime law — and heighten tensions between Beijing and European capitals. Investigators suspect that the crew of the Read more…
Performance improvement plans, a controversial corporate tool for managing underperforming employees, are becoming increasingly prevalent in U.S. workplaces. HR Acuity data shows workers subject to performance actions rose from 33.4 per 1,000 in 2020 to 43.6 per 1,000 in 2023. While companies maintain PIPs offer a path to improvement, WSJ Read more…
Transport for London (TfL) has dropped its investigation into how it could introduce driverless trains on the London Underground. One of the many conditions imposed on TfL during the pandemic to keep services running when most of us were stuck at home was that it would investigate how it could Read more…
Last December, Hyperloop One, the futuristic transportation company pursuing Elon Musk’s dream of tube-based, airplane-speed travel, announced its shutdown. However, the concept itself has found a new lease on life in a scaled-down version overseas. According to The Verge’s Andrew J. Hawkins, “The hyperloop, in fact, lives on — as Read more…
Schneider Electric confirmed that it is investigating a breach as a ransomware group Hellcat claims to have stolen more than 40 GB of compressed data — and demanded the French multinational energy management company pay $125,000 in baguettes or else see its sensitive customer and operational information leaked. The Register: Read more…