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☆ A bored hacktivist browsing an unsecured airline server stumbled upon national security secrets including the FBI's 'no-fly' list. She says what she found reveals a 'perverse outgrowth of the surveill
  + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +15 min
A Swiss hacker says she found a copy of the FBI's "no-fly" list on an unsecured server. "The ever-expanding scope of these lists are due to the revelations of people in the course of investigations," Gray told Insider. When looking at the list, crimew told Insider, "you start to notice just how young some of the people are." crimew told Insider. "I just hope they maybe learned their lesson the second time," crimew told Insider.
☆ Family offices' favorite investment for 2023: private equity
  + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Robert Frank | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
Family offices are poised to pour billions into private equity and private companies in 2023 as they seek greater returns and control over their investments, according to family office experts. "The key story this year is about private equity," said Rebecca Gooch, senior director of research at Campden Wealth. While family offices have been shifting from public to private markets for years, 2023 could mark an acceleration, experts say. At the same time, family offices have plenty of cash on the sidelines ready to put to work. More willing to talk The attraction of family offices investing in family businesses -- or "family-to-family deals" -- is also likely to get a boost from valuations.
☆ Sick and family leave are top union demands post-Covid-pandemic
  + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Eli M. Rosenberg | Eli Rosenberg Is An Investigative Tech Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +7 min
Rail workers nearly went on strike over paid sick leave. Glen Stubbe / Star Tribune via AP fileMore than 100,000 rail workers were days away from a likely strike after the rail companies refused demands for five paid sick days. Labor experts and organizers say the pandemic aimed a floodlight at the public health ramifications of in-person work, elevating for workers the importance of paid leave in contract disputes. “This was the sticking point for the railroads.”Following Congress’ resolution of the impasse, activist investors have put forth proposals to get two of the biggest rail companies, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, to offer their workers paid sick leave next year. “We appreciate the work of the negotiating teams and the mediator in reaching this agreement in principle.”Other unions are paying attention to these fights — and gearing up to make sick leave a major part of their negotiations.
☆ Dozens of times drought, ice melt, and storm surge unearthed unusual and unsettling discoveries this year
  + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Among the unearthed finds are old sites, ancient artifacts, rare fossils, and even human remains. This summer, low water levels created an eerie boat graveyard of previously sunken ships and beached boats, the Associated Press reported. The manmade reservoir's plummeting water levels also revealed human remains on at least six occasions since May, The Guardian reported. In Spain's Vilanova de Sau in the Catalonia region, plummeting water levels in a reservoir exposed a 11th century Romanesque church, the Associated Press reported. Switzerland's melting glaciers revealed the remains of a 1968 plane in August.
☆ Krispy Kreme agrees to pay workers more than $1.1 million over wage theft claims
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Krispy Kreme has agreed to pay 516 workers more than $1.1 million in back wages and damages. Federal investigators had uncovered "widespread and systemic" wage theft at the company. According to investigators, the North Carolina-based company failed to include those employees' monthly bonuses when calculating their overtime rate. "Employers who fail in their obligation to pay minimum wage and overtime wages as the law requires make it harder for workers and their families to make ends meet." Krispy Kreme, for its part, said it is "strongly committed" to paying its workers fairly.
☆ Hurricane Nicole unearthed 6 human skulls from a Florida beach, and it's the latest case of long-buried remains found after worsening weather
  + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Beachgoers found skulls and other bones in Florida after Hurricane Nicole, according to local news. "They are ancestors of the Seminole people," Tina Osceola, a member of the Seminole tribe in Florida, told WPTV. Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesBones won't stay buried in eroding beachesThis is not the first time that hurricanes have unearthed Indigenous remains. Switzerland's melting glaciers unearthed human remains and the wreckage of a historic plane crash. More recently, melting glaciers in the Swiss Alps revealed two sets of human remains and the wreckage of a 1968 plane crash that had been frozen beneath snow and ice this summer.
☆ U.S. courts still grappling with election lawsuits as midterms near
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Jacqueline Thomsen | Thomson Reuters | Based In Washington | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
“We are seeing more litigation in 2022 relating to elections and election administration and the like than we have ever seen before,” Elias said. Consovoy McCarthy, a 20-lawyer Washington law firm that represented Trump in lawsuits over congressional subpoenas, is playing an especially active role on the Republican side. The lawyers' real test may come after election day, when close or contested results are likely to spark fresh lawsuits, attorneys said. Whatever shape those cases take, "you have to be ready,” said Adam Bonin, an election lawyer who has represented Democrats in Pennsylvania. Opinion polls show Republicans are set to win back control of the House of Representatives and perhaps also the Senate at the midterm elections.
☆ Gen Z's not lazy — they're just refusing to put up with the toxic work culture that Boomers created
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Kim Kelly | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
"And I personally think that all of us in Gen Z, when we experienced that with our parents, we were like, 'Fuck that. And now, Gen Z is turning to organizing as a way to stand up to corporate bosses. But she and her Gen Z peers are not ready to accept that mode of thinking. Put simply, young workers want something better than their parents had and aren't afraid to seek it out. Because if there is one quality that Gen Z has in spades, it is audacity — and no mass movement has ever succeeded without it.
☆ Angela Bassett’s tribute to courageous women is the inspiration you need today
  + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Chloe Melas | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —Angela Bassett gave a rousing speech about female empowerment at the Glamour Women of the Year event on Tuesday night. “We are underestimated like Rosa Parks, who was presumed to be meek and mild, voiceless,” she said. “We are resilient like Tina Turner, who gave up everything she’d worked for, except her name, to gain freedom from abuse,” she said. “She started over, reimagining her career as a rock ‘n’ roll artist, a genre that no Black woman had successfully charted. “The legacies of these women and so many more are what keep me going when the deck seems stacked against me.
☆ 4 social-media managers say the job requires long hours and unrealistic expectations. They share the breaking points that made them quit.
  + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Jacqueline Gualtieri | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
While the social-media profession continues to grow in popularity, many social-media managers are deciding to leave their positions for greener pastures. According to Zippia, 29% of social-media managers stay in their roles for less than a year. Even though 70% of social-media managers wanted to be promoted, only 40% saw any possibility to advance where they were, according to the 2020 study. Insider spoke with four social-media managers about how they reached a breaking point in their corporate jobs and what they've chosen to do now instead. Through working with other social-media managers, she's seen how things have changed since her days of working in their shoes.
☆ Workers lacking paid leave quit at higher rates in pandemic, report shows
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Eli M. Rosenberg | Eli Rosenberg Is An Investigative Tech Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
The report found that workers without paid sick leave quit at three to four times the rate of comparable workers between 2019 and 2021. About a quarter of workers in the U.S. do not have paid sick leave, a proportion that is higher among lower-wage workers. In the congressional report, salaried workers — who typically enjoy more benefits and stability — fared better than hourly workers within companies. Female hourly workers experienced worse outcomes than male hourly workers 30% of the time, but among salaried workers, the difference was less than 10%. Both Black and Asian hourly workers were less likely to be promoted than their white counterparts, while Black hourly workers were fired at higher rates than white ones.
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