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Employee engagement in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in a decade in 2024, Gallup reported Tuesday, with only 31% of employees engaged. This matches the figure last seen in 2014. The percentage of actively disengaged employees, at 17%, also reflects 2014 levels. Gallup: The percentage of engaged employees has declined by two percentage points since 2023, highlighting a growing trend of employee detachment from organizations, particularly among workers younger than 35.
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Users are exploring RedNote and Lemon8 as TikTok ban looms. RedNote, with over 300 million users, has emerged as a leading choice. In just a couple of days, the United States will decide whether to officially ban TikTok. As the clock counts down, TikTok users are finding creative ways to resist the impending ban, and... Read more » Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg said Meta plans to make more extensive performance-based cuts." Staff have questioned how they will work in practice. Read more ›
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg starts another year by focusing even more on efficiency. This time, he's targeting low-performing employees. Read more ›
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Trump said his new "external revenue service" will go into effect on January 20 to help the US collect more revenue from foreign countries. Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg wants more masculine energy at the social companies run by Meta. But his products are used by more women than men. Why is that? Read more ›
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Diamond Comics Publishers, which once held a near-monopoly on the distribution of comics in America, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Read more ›
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The tech industry has come around to Trump after shunning him during his first administration. Read more ›
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A high school student has created a Doom port that runs inside a PDF file. DoomPDF was inspired by the recent release of Pdftris – Tetris in a PDF. Read more ›
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BlackRock veteran Mark Wiedman is planning his exit from the firm, shaking up the race to succeed CEO Larry Fink. Read more ›
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We already knew Baldur's Gate 3 players loved mods, thanks to developer Larian previous announcements on the matter, but it turns out Baldur's Gate 3 players really love mods - with the studio now revealing over 100m mods have been downloaded for the acclaimed RPG. And what better way to celebrate that impressive milestone, you might be asking yourself, than by giving PC, Mac, and console players an officially curated... Read more ›
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Although the top U.S. military contractors export tech to foreign countries, there's one plane so advanced that the government banned its sale. Read more ›
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Hwang Jun-ho spends most of season two in a boat—but season three of the Netflix hit is poised to lead him into another fiery confrontation. Read more ›
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Meta's annual performance-based job cuts strategy aims to boost employee standards, increase non-regrettable attrition, and remove lowest performers. Read more ›
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Judging by CES 2025, there’s little ‘altered reality’ about the AR glasses available today. Read more ›
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I am haunted by a pointless fact about a N64 game. Read more ›
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Economists at Goldman Sachs expect the LA wildfires will lower first-quarter GDP growth by about 0.2 percentage points. Read more ›
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Apple today released new firmware designed for the 25W MagSafe Charger that is compatible with the iPhone 12 and later and the latest AirPods and Apple Watch models. The updated firmware is version 2A143, up from the 2A138 firmware that the accessory shipped with. In the Settings app, you'll see a different version number than the internal firmware number. The 2024 MagSafe charger was released alongside the iPhone 16 models,... Read more ›
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A star system 5,000 light-years from Earth, surrounded by layers of dust, could help scientists better understand the final stages of stellar life. Read more ›
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Meta is preparing for even more layoffs, according to reporting by Bloomberg. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a company memo that he plans on cutting about five percent of its "low-performers." “I’ve decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster,” Zuckerberg 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... Read more ›
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Frontier has detailed its update roadmap for Planet Coaster 2, with new features on the way from February until May. Read more Read more ›
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Scientists have discovered that quarks and gluons inside protons are quantum entangled, challenging traditional views of proton structure and revealing a more complex, dynamic system influenced by strong interactions. Space.com reports: Entanglement is the aspect of quantum physics that says two affected particles can instantaneously influence each other's "state" no matter how widely separated they are -- even if they are on opposite sides of the universe. Albert Einstein founded... Read more ›
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OpenAI has shut down the developer behind a viral device that could respond to ChatGPT queries to aim and fire an automated rifle. Futurism reports: The contraption, as seen in a video that's been making its rounds on social media, sparked a frenzied debate over our undying attempts to turn dystopian tech yanked straight out of the "Terminator" franchise into a reality. STS 3D's invention also apparently caught the attention... Read more ›
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VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered subtitle system. From a report: The new feature automatically generates real-time subtitles -- which can then also be translated in many languages -- for any video using open-source AI models that run locally on users' devices, eliminating the need for internet connectivity or cloud services, VideoLAN demoed at CES.... Read more ›
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"I know, I know: 'Year of the Linux desktop ... yadda, yadda'," writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, a ZDNet senior contributing editor. "You've heard it all before. But now there's a Linux-powered PC that many people will want..." He's talking about Nvidia's newly-announced Project Digits, describing it as "a desktop with AI supercomputer power that runs DGX OS, a customized Ubuntu Linux 22.04 distro." Powered by MediaTek and Nvidia's Grace Blackwell Superchip,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has said Meta's decision to end factchecking on its platforms and remove restrictions on certain topics means "extremely dangerous times" lie ahead for journalism, democracy and social media users. The American-Filipino journalist said Mark Zuckerberg's move to relax content moderation on the Facebook and Instagram platforms would lead to a "world without facts" and... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized Apple's innovation record and business practices in a Joe Rogan podcast interview on January 10, claiming the iPhone maker has not "invented anything great in a while" and is "just sitting" on its flagship product 20 years after Steve Jobs created it. Zuckerberg accused Apple of using arbitrary App Store rules and 30% developer fees to offset declining iPhone sales. He also said Apple blocks... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The six biggest banks in the US have all quit the global banking industry's net zero target-setting group, with the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump as president expected to bring political backlash against climate action. JP Morgan is the latest to withdraw from the UN-sponsored net zero banking alliance (NZBA), following Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs. All six... Read more ›
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SC Media reports on a new jailbreak method for large language models (LLMs) that "takes advantage of models' ability to identify and score harmful content in order to trick the models into generating content related to malware, illegal activity, harassment and more. "The 'Bad Likert Judge' multi-step jailbreak technique was developed and tested by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, and was found to increase the success rate of jailbreak attempts... Read more ›
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BleepingComputer's Sergiu Gatlan reports: "Today, the White House announced the launch of the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a new cybersecurity safety label for internet-connected consumer devices. The Cyber Trust Mark label, which will appear on smart products sold in the United States later this year, will help American consumers determine whether the devices they want to buy are safe to install in their homes. It's designed for consumer smart devices,... Read more ›
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"What if they ban TikTok and people keep using it anyway?" asks the New York Times, saying a pending ban in America "is vague on how it would be enforced" Some experts say that even if TikTok is actually banned this month or soon, there may be so many legal and technical loopholes that millions of Americans could find ways to keep TikTok'ing. The law is "Swiss cheese with lots... Read more ›
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