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☆ Mountain Dew is putting the mountain back in its logo
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —“Mtn Dew” is getting a makeover, with the word “mountain” reappearing on cans and bottles following a roughly two-decade-long hiatus. “Mountain Dew appears ready to shake off the adrenaline rush that has defined the brand’s marketing for almost two decades, when a key strategy was to market Dew like an energy drink to an energy drink crowd,” Duane Stanford, editor and publisher of Beverage Digest, told CNN. A major change in marketing is essential for Mountain Dew. The new look for Mountain Dew is more about an “evolution and nurturing that we wanted to give to this beloved franchise,” said JP Bittencourt, vice president of marketing at Mountain Dew. “This design has been in the works for some time, so this is not a response to anybody.”A rebrand could also attract drinkers that have perhaps forgotten about Mountain Dew.

Persons: ” Duane Stanford, Spelling, ”, Mauro Porcini, Porcini, ” Porcini, Stanford, Ramon Laguarta, ” —, Bittencourt Organizations: New, New York CNN —, Mtn, PepsiCo, CNN, Beverage Digest, Mist, Dew, Rockstar Energy Locations: New York, North America, Tennessee Smoky

☆ After 5 years in tech, I wanted something new. An internship on a tea farm in Japan was the wake-up call I needed.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Erin Liam | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Cherie Luo worked at a matcha farm as part of a requirement during her time at Stanford Graduate Business School. She graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business in June. In order to graduate, Stanford MBA students are required to fulfill an international program known as the Global Management Immersion Experience. However, the opportunity to work at a matcha farm in Japan for a month stood out. I'm starting a matcha business with my sisterThe matcha farm was located in Wazuka, a town an hour from Kyoto.

Persons: Cherie Luo, Luo, —, matcha, Daiki Tanaka, san, that's, we've Organizations: Stanford Graduate Business School, Luo, Service, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, Global Management, LinkedIn Locations: Silicon Valley, Long Island, Manhattan, Asia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, New York, Flushing , Queens, Wazuka, Kyoto

☆ Dell's sudden 5-day return-to-office order leaves parents scrambling to find childcare
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Attendance was tracked, but the system was flexible in practice, and many ended up leaving at lunchtime, Dell workers told Business Insider. Some parents and other caregivers on the sales team told BI that the lack of notice sparked panic. Two other parents at Dell told BI they were facing the same issue finding day care. Workers told BI that Dell's Round Rock HQ has been busy since the company introduced a 5-day RTO for the sales team. Brandon Bell / GettyTwo parents from the sales team told BI that managers were trying to be lenient where they could.

Persons: Dell, they've, —, they'd, Bill Scannell, John Byrne, Scannell, Byrne, Michael Dell, Brandon Bell, Nick Bloom, wouldn't, Johnny C, Taylor, it's Organizations: Dell, Business, Service, Global, BI, Workers, Stanford, Society for Human Resource Management

☆ Anthropic's power players: Here are the 11 leaders helping shape the future of the Amazon-backed AI company
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

It's sought to position itself as the safer, more responsible AI company. She, along with her brother Dario, was part of the team that left OpenAI with the goal of creating a more responsible AI company. Krishna Rao, Chief Financial OfficerAs any emerging AI company can attest, conducting groundbreaking research isn't enough. In this role, he's building deep relationships with users and helping to turn Anthropic's research into a mass-market product. These capabilities are essential to Anthropic's positioning of itself as the safer AI company.

Persons: Anthropic, It's, —, OpenAI's, Dario Amodei, Amodei, Dario, Daniela Amodei, She's, Jack Clark ,, Clark, Jared Kaplan, Kaplan, Chris Olah, Sam McCandlish, McCandlish, Tom Brown, Brown, Krishna Rao, Rao, Mike Krieger, São Paulo, Krieger, Claude, Brian Israel, it's, Brian, Sam Bowman, Bowman, Jan Leike Organizations: Service, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google, Princeton University, Hertz, Stanford University School of Medicine, sager, Bloomberg, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, Research, Organization, Core Resources, Stanford University, Brandeis University, Core, Blackstone, Bain & Company, Anthropic, State Department, NASA Locations: OpenAI, Anthropic, Airbnb, São, Menlo Park, San Francisco, New York, Israel

☆ Want to get into the AI industry? Head to Abu Dhabi.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The UAE's AI minister believes we'll have "centers and nodes of excellence across the world." Last year, the country's wealthiest emirate, Abu Dhabi, launched Falcon — its first open-source large language model. Abu Dhabi's ruling family also controls several of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, including the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Mubadala Investment Company, a founding partner of MGX. In 2010, New York University launched a branch in Abu Dhabi that has since developed a focus on AI. Its "true strengths lie in the leadership's strategic vision, substantial investments in AI research and compute capacity, and government-led initiatives in industry.

Persons: we'll, —, Omar Sultan Al Olama, Al Olama, Abu Dhabi's, PwC, It's, Mohamed bin, Abu Dhabi, Nancy Gleason, Mohamed Organizations: United, United Arab Emirates, Service, Stanford's Center, Atlantic Council, International Trade Administration, Abu, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Mubadala Investment Company, Atlantic, New York University, University of Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence, NYU Abu Locations: United Arab, Silicon Valley, Malta, Paris, United Arab Emirates, UAE, Silicon, Abu Dhabi, United States, China, Dubai, University, Abu, NYU Abu Dhabi

☆ Elon Musk's mother, Maye, appears to encourage voter fraud in X post
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Bruna Horvath | Bruna Horvath Is An Intern On Nbc News' Tech Team. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, appeared to encourage a form of voter fraud in a post on X. It appeared to echo conspiracy theories about large-scale voter fraud that have been shared by Elon Musk. The code, however, doesn’t appear to forbid Maye Musk’s statements of encouragement, Persily said. Maye Musk’s post was made the day her son spoke at a rally for former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania — where Trump was injured in an assassination attempt in July. Proponents of the laws say they prevent voter fraud, which studies have found to be extremely rare.

Persons: Elon Musk’s, Maye, ”, ” Musk, Elon Musk, Democrats haven’t, Nate Persily, What’s, Persily, Maye Musk, Gavin Newsom, “, Newsom, ” Persily, Donald Trump, Trump, Musk, Trump’s, ” Elon Organizations: Elon, Democrats, Stanford Law School, NBC, U.S, Social, Democrat, Trump, PAC America PAC Locations: California, New York , Massachusetts, Minnesota, Butler , Pennsylvania, Georgia, “ California

☆ A heated election season hangs over the Supreme Court's new term: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

In today’s edition, senior Supreme Court reporter Lawrence Hurley looks at how the upcoming election is looming over the high court as justices return for a new term. The threat of election chaos looms as the Supreme Court returns to actionBy Lawrence HurleyThe Supreme Court returned from its summer break Monday with a new slate of cases to decide, but an issue not even on the docket yet is at the center of attention: the presidential election. “There’s going to be something,” said Nate Persily, an election expert at Stanford Law School and an NBC News contributor. Read more → ⚖️ Georgia abortion latest: The Georgia Supreme Court reinstated a six-week abortion ban, halting a recent lower court ruling that had overturned the law. Read more →The Georgia Supreme Court reinstated a six-week abortion ban, halting a recent lower court ruling that had overturned the law.

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The new nine-month Supreme Court term officially starts Monday, with the justices appearing in the courtroom to hear oral arguments. Major cases at the Supreme Court: U.S. v. Skrmetti — Challenge to state laws that ban gender-affirming care for trans teenagers. When the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore, its reputation took a hit but quickly rebounded. Republicans challenged those changes, but the Supreme Court never took up a case about the issue at the time. The Supreme Court has relatively few cases of consequence on the argument calendar so far.

Persons: WASHINGTON —, Donald Trump, Bush, Gore, George W, Joe Biden's, Nate Persily, Garland, Paxton, Richard Glossip's, Wade ., Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Franita Tolson, Zack Smith, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Jill Stein, Elena Kagan Organizations: Republican, Stanford Law School, NBC, Trump, Supreme, Coalition, . Oklahoma, Democratic, Wade, University of Southern California Guild School of Law, Heritage Foundation, Green Party, New York University School of Law Locations: Texas, ., Oklahoma, In Pennsylvania, Georgia, DeKalb County, Roe, New York, Nevada, Arizona

☆ AI expert Gary Marcus thinks OpenAI will be the 'most Orwellian company of all time'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AI expert Gary Marcus says OpenAI may be forced to become a surveillance company to make money. AI expert Gary Marcus says the company shaping the global AI arms race is on the cusp of turning what Orwell imagined into reality. "What they're going to be pressed to do is become a surveillance company." But Marcus thinks the company won't be able to earn enough money to support its valuation that way because the technology isn't advanced enough. Marcus suspects that OpenAI will eventually tap into this potential income stream and become a powerful surveillance company.

Persons: Gary Marcus, OpenAI, —, George Orwell's, Orwell, Peter Norvig, Marcus, Paul Nakasone, Edward Snowden, Snowden, Sam Altman, Altman, he's Organizations: Service, Google, Stanford's, Capitol, Business Locations: that's

☆ One year on, the Israel-Hamas war has taken an unprecedented toll on journalists
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Hadas Gold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Multiple news organizations and free press groups have accused the Israeli military of deliberately targeting journalists. “One year in, Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza has exacted an unprecedented and horrific toll on Palestinian journalists and the region’s media landscape,” CPJ said. Four Israeli journalists were killed in the October 7 attacks, and others barely survived. The raw footage is also subject to Israeli military censorship. CNN’s Clarissa Ward is one of the only foreign journalists to have entered the strip without the Israeli military, when she embedded with a United Arab Emirates field hospital crew.

Persons: Israel’s, ” CPJ, ”, Tania Kraemer, Clarissa Ward, they’ve, ” Al Jazeera, CNN he’s, “, Deborah Turness, Janine Zacharia, ‘ You’ve, ” Zacharia, William Lafi Youmans, George Washington, Youmans, ” Youmans, that’s Organizations: CNN, Journalists, Protect Journalists, “, Foreign Press Association, Deutsche Welle, Union of Journalists, United, United Arab Emirates, Court, West Bank, Israeli Journalists Union, Associated Press, BBC, West Bank “, Stanford University’s Department of Communications, The Washington Post, Reuters, George Washington University’s School of Media, Public Affairs, European Union Locations: Israel, Gaza, Jerusalem, Egypt, United Arab, American, Israeli, Palestinian, “, United States

“I have had two spectacular Notre Dame law clerks. The traditional elite law schools dominate Supreme Court clerkships, with many justices hiring clerks from the same law schools they themselves attended and maintaining close links with faculty members. Barrett, who graduated from Notre Dame Law School, is the only member of the current court not to have a law degree from Harvard or Yale. Within that context, Notre Dame is scrapping with other law schools for the remaining clerkships and has performed well. Another conservative-aligned law school that is making inroads is George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School in Virginia, which has also placed some graduates in Supreme Court clerkships.

Persons: Annie Ortega, Barrett, “, Joshua Mannery, ”, Aliza Shatzman, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Kari Lorentson, Elizabeth Totzke, Christian Burset, Patrick Reidy, Neil Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, “ It’s, ” Kavanaugh, ” Nicole Garnett, Clarence Thomas, Barrett’s, Nicole Garnett, Patrick F, Evan Cobb, clerkships, George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Organizations: Federalist Society, Notre Dame Law School, Catholic, Notre Dame, Notre, University of Notre Dame, NBC, U.S . News, Harvard, Yale, University of Chicago, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, School, Supreme Locations: Texas, clerkships, U.S, Stanford, Columbia, Virginia

☆ Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says we should go all in on building AI data centers because 'we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-06 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AI models require enormous data centers that threaten goals to reduce carbon emissions. Schmidt said "we are never going to meet" the goals anyway, suggesting we let AI solve the problem. AdvertisementFormer Google CEO Eric Schmidt says it's time for us to fully invest in AI infrastructure because climate goals are too lofty to reach anyway. The AI boom has spurred a wave of spending on data centers, which provide the computational power needed to train and run AI models. But the surge in development comes at a price, as data centers consume huge amounts of natural resources.

Persons: Eric Schmidt, Schmidt, —, Biden, Schmidt's, Schmidt —, it's, we're Organizations: Service, McKinsey, Washington DC, National Security, Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University Locations: Washington, Ukraine

☆ Paul Simon is ‘optimistic’ about returning to live performance after partially losing hearing
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Legendary singer Paul Simon has said he is “optimistic” about being able to return to performing live after losing most of his hearing in his left ear. So everything became more difficult.”Even before he announced the loss of his hearing, Simon toured for the last time in 2018, after which he said he was ending his touring career. “I never said I was going to retire,” Simon said in his latest interview. It was very interesting and really quite pleasurable for a long time – until my hearing loss threw me off.”Simon recently played alongside two guitarists at a fundraiser for the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss, his longest performance in five years. “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon,” which premiered in March in the United States, is set for release in UK cinemas on October 13, Simon’s 83rd birthday.

Persons: Paul Simon, ” Simon, Simon, Garfunkel, “, we’d, Alex Gibney, ”, Simon’s Organizations: CNN, Guardian, The Times, Stanford Initiative Locations: United States

☆ AI coding tools mean there are no more junior software developers
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Helen Li | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot have transformed software development and productivity. AdvertisementBefore he graduated from university, Jacob Jackson founded the AI coding assistant TabNine in 2018. In the past two years, there has been a boom in AI coding assistants. The spike in ChatGPT usage and AI coding assistants has shifted how software developers do their jobs. AdvertisementAI assistants can empower codersMost generative AI coding assistants focus on auto-completion, meaning that the tool suggests code as the programmer types.

Persons: —, Jacob Jackson, TabNine, Jackson, Claude, Nikolas Gauvreau, Dan Boneh, Kevin Baragona, Baragona, Gauvreau, he's, David Malan, Malan Organizations: Software, Service, Microsoft, Accenture, Developers, Stanford University, Harvard University, Activision Blizzard Locations: OpenAI, Canada, Brazil, Germany, India

☆ Amazon's RTO push is an outlier — the tech world remains all-in on hybrid work
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Despite return-to-office mandates at Amazon and Dell, the tech world still appears to favor hybrid work. Experts say hybrid work boosts recruitment and retention and could be crucial amid tech talent wars. But while it may seem like workers are losing the battle for remote work, research suggests that hybrid work is still the norm in the tech industry. While some large companies, such as Nvidia, have remained holdouts, most Big Tech companies have had hybrid policies of various degrees. So as long as productivity stays up, I think hybrid work is here to stay in the tech world."

Persons: —, Peter Cappelli, Nicholas Bloom, Bloom, Noam Shazeer, Cevat Aksoy, Aksoy, John Rossman, — it's Organizations: Amazon, Dell, Flex, Service, Wharton Business School, Big Tech, Stanford, Google, King's College London, Nvidia, Microsoft Locations: mull

☆ OpenAI's chairman says AI is in a bubble — but one that could be wildly lucrative
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The AI bubble, Taylor said, will be similar to the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s. AdvertisementThe buzz surrounding AI may echo the exuberance and excesses of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor said in a podcast that aired on Wednesday. "I think the AI bubble will rhyme with the dot-com bubble and I believe with the benefit of hindsight, most of the excess of the dot-com bubble might have been justified," Taylor added. Most of today's leading tech companies like Amazon and Google, Taylor said, were started during the dot-com bubble. Advertisement"A huge percentage of the gains in the stock market over the past 30 years have more or less been these digital companies created in the dot-com bubble," Taylor said.

Persons: Bret Taylor, Sam Altman's, Taylor, Harry Stebbings, —, Sam Altman, Mark Twain, Stebbings, Elon Musk, Goldman Sachs, Jim Covello, hasn't, We’ve, Elon, Musk Organizations: OpenAI's, Service, Google, Business Insider, Stanford, Facebook, Elon Locations: OpenAI, Silicon Valley

☆ For Nvidia, spatial AI and the ‘omniverse’ entering physical world may be the next big thing
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Rachel Curry | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"All of it is very important, but the things we take for granted around us in the physical world are actually far more important." Spatial AI allows models to understand and interact with the physical world in ways previously limited to human cognition, and Nvidia is not the only one building on it. It's a spatial intelligence company building "large world models" to understand, interact with, and build on the three-dimensional world around us. AI for robotics, not just humanoid robotsIn contemplating the ultimate use of artificial intelligence, Nvidia concluded that robotics is the answer. Physical world will be changed by AI within yearsMany companies that focus on robotics and spatial intelligence are homing in on the world of manufacturing.

Persons: ChatGPT, Lebaredian, Fei, Fei Li, Andreessen Horowitz, Jensen Huang, Agustin Huerta, Globant's Huerta, Huerta Organizations: Nvidia, Stanford, Labs, Apple, North America, Franklin, Marshall College, International Locations: New Orleans, San Francisco, North, Globant, London

☆ The US economy teeters after it's hit by a triple threat: Middle East escalation, port closures, and Hurricane Helene
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A dockworkers strike begins. Back in the States, a dockworkers strike could upend an economy finally on the mend. Tuesday morning marked the start of a dockworkers strike that will shutter dozens of US ports that handle about half of all US ocean imports. The Iranian attack was largely thwarted, and the dockworkers strike could be short-lived. That's thanks in part to strong demand in China.

Persons: —, JD Vance, Tim Walz, BI's Brent D, Griffiths, Amir Cohen, Hurricane Helene, it's, Tyler, Paul Podolsky, Kate Capital, Samantha Lee Musk, Jenny Chang, Rodriguez Hey Airbnb, Gen Z, somethings, Critics —, Amazon's, Nicholas Bloom, Eric Adams, Dan DeFrancesco, Jordan Parker Erb, Hallam Bullock, Milan Sehmbi, Amanda Yen Organizations: Business, Service, Midwest Nice, REUTERS, US Navy, Bank of America, Northwestern Energy, Bridgewater Associates, Samantha Lee Musk &, mojo, DOJ, Google, BI, Amazon, Stanford, New York City Locations: Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, States, Bridgewater, China, Yale, New York, London

☆ Everyone's talking about RTO. Here's why a leading expert thinks remote work is 'here to stay.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Nora Redmond | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon's RTO order has people questioning the future of remote work. Employees respondong to his surveys ranked the right to work from home equal to an 8% pay increase. AdvertisementThe pandemic-prompted right to remote work may be in trouble — Amazon hit headlines last month when it ordered all corporate employees back to the office five days a week from January. But Nick Bloom, a leading expert in remote work, said working from home was "here to stay" as he shared the latest developments in his 20-year research. Bloom concluded his presentation by saying remote work was "here to stay," citing big steps in technology that facilitate it, such as video calls and virtual reality.

Persons: Nick Bloom, —, Amazon's, Bloom Organizations: Service, Stanford University Locations: WFH, COVID

California is banning legacy admissions at private colleges and universities, ensuring that some of the country’s most selective schools will not favor applicants with familial or monetary connections to the schools. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed AB 1780 into law, prohibiting legacy and donor preferences in admissions at private, nonprofit institutions. Schools including Stanford University, the University of Southern California and Santa Clara University will now join the California State University system and other public institutions in the state that have long-banned legacy preferences. This is about making sure we’re leveling the playing field.”The law will affect schools with among the highest rates of legacy admissions — Stanford, USC and Santa Clara. In 2022, legacy admissions accounted for about 14 percent of Stanford and USC’s enrollment and about 13 percent at Santa Clara, according to Ting’s statement.

Persons: Gavin Newsom, ” Newsom, Phil Ting, “, ” Ting, they’ve, —, ”, Louis Organizations: Gov, Monday, Stanford University, University of Southern, Santa Clara University, California State University, University of North, Harvard, San, San Francisco Democrat, Hollywood, NBC News, — Stanford, USC, Stanford, ” Santa Clara, Amherst College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Washington University Locations: California, University of Southern California, University of North Carolina, San Francisco, Santa Clara, ” Santa, St

☆ The future of Obamacare hangs on a few seats in Congress. Here's what could happen next
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

"I'm not running to terminate the ACA," former President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in March. That is, unless he could "come up with a plan that's going to cost our people, our population, less money and be better health care than Obamacare." Around 60% of Americans hold a favorable opinion of the 2010 health care law, a recent KFF poll found. The Harris campaign released a report on Monday that paints a dire picture of health care under a hypothetical Trump administration. The average ACA plan deductible, or amount a person must spend before their coverage kicks in, was over $3,000 in 2024, with some plan deductibles exceeding $7,000, KFF found.

Persons: Charles Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Chip Somodevilla, Donald Trump, Trump, Barack Obama's, Cynthia Cox, Cox, they'll, Harris, it's, Joseph Costello, " Costello, Joe Raedle, Deductibles, KFF, Sabrina Corlette, Georgetown University's, Mark Duggan, Wayne, Jodi Cooperman, they're Organizations: Affordable, U.S, Capitol, Senate, Obamacare, American, ACA, Cox, Leading Insurance Agency, Democratic, Center, Health, Georgetown, Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public, Stanford University, Republicans, Congressional, Office, KFF Locations: Washington ,, KFF, Miami , Florida, Texas , Wyoming, Florida

☆ Amazon's RTO mandate is a 'backdoor layoff' strategy, future of work expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Amazon's return-to-office mandate is a move to cut head count, says Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom. AdvertisementAmazon's strict return-to-office push is an attempt to reduce head count, according to Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom. Amazon's strict stance on full-time office work is still somewhat of an anomaly within the tech industry. Cost-cutting moveIn the memo announcing the RTO policy, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy hinted at plans to reduce managers. "They clearly thought about this long and hard and presumably calculated it was more cost-effective to run a head count reduction via an RTO than active layoffs.

Persons: Amazon's, Nicholas Bloom, Bloom, —, Fortune, OpenAI, Andy Jassy, Jassy Organizations: Stanford, Google, Microsoft, Service, Amazon, Flex, Meta, Business Locations: Germany

But Iran’s 2020 election interference efforts stand apart from what have become well-recognized interference patterns, according to an indictment from the Justice Department, Treasury Department sanctions, researchers and media reporting, and comments from current and former U.S. officials. That gave them access to Election Night Reporting (ENR) systems, which provide live updates on unofficial results on Election Day. Fake Proud Boys campaignIn the most bizarre and elaborate foreign influence campaign of 2020, Iranian hackers allegedly staged an entirely fictional cyber-enabled fraud and harassment campaign, according to a detailed 2021 Justice Department indictment. The Iranian hackers did successfully steal some voter data from Alaska’s Online Voter Registration System, but otherwise none of it was true. The hackers tried to post it to various platforms online but it gained little traction.

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☆ Legacy students no longer have an advantage at Stanford and other private California colleges
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

California is the second state to ban the practice at private colleges. Legacy preference has been under scrutiny since the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action. AdvertisementStudents can no longer use their legacy connections to help them get accepted to prestigious California schools like Stanford. The announcement makes California the second state after Maryland to ban legacy preference in admissions at private universities. Related storiesHowever, some colleges have taken proactive steps over the past decade to ban legacy preference in their admissions practices.

Persons: Gavin Newsom, —, Newsom, Ethan Poskanzer, Michael Roth, Gabrielle Star, isn't, Phil Ting Organizations: Service, Stanford, Gov, University of Southern, University of Colorado, Wesleyan University, CNN, Pomona College, University of California Locations: California, University of Southern California, Maryland, Boulder, Illinois, Virginia

☆ Elon Musk once described his past immigration status as a ‘gray area’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +32 min

So we just rented the office, and slept in the office, and showered at the YMCA,” Elon Musk recalled, drawing laughs from the crowd. “When they did fund us,” Kimbal Musk recalled, “they realized that we were illegal immigrants.”“Well…” Elon Musk interjected. Video of the remarks shows Elon Musk laughing as he jumped in with a different interpretation: “I’d say it was a gray area.”He didn’t elaborate, and it’s unclear what Elon Musk meant by that characterization. Elon Musk, wearing a black Stetson hat, livestreams while visiting the US-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on September 28, 2023. Then-President Donald Trump greets Elon Musk before a policy and strategy forum with executives at the White House in February 2017.

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