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Jerome Powell speaks during a press conference after an interest rate decision.
Jerome Powell, a particularly mild-mannered speaker, slammed recent attempts to intimidate his department.
  • Fed Chair Jerome Powell is facing a DOJ investigation over office renovations.
  • Powell's video response sparked a wave of meme-filled jokes online.
  • President Donald Trump has repeatedly targeted the Fed's independence.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
  • Meta unveils new Checkpoint performance program with higher bonuses for top employees.
  • The updated system introduces four performance ratings and rewards exceptional impact at Meta.
  • Changes take effect in 2026 and aim to simplify reviews and boost high-performance culture.

Meta is overhauling how it grades workers and rewarding top performers with up


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A UK employment tribunal rejected a request from fired Rockstar Games employees to receive interim pay while waiting for a full hearing about their dismissal, according to Bloomberg and IGN. After Rockstar fired 34 employees last year - 31 from the UK and three from Canada - the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) accused the company of "union busting." Rockstar claims that



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Just weeks after raising the price of its RAM modules, Framework has announced that it's also increasing the price of its desktop PC in response to the global memory shortage. The Framework Desktop with 32GB of RAM and an AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 chip now starts at $1,139, instead of $1,099.

"We held off on it for as long as we could, but we had to update our Framework Desktop pricing today



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Trump said he'll impose a tariff of 25% on countries that do business with Iran.
  • President Donald Trump said he's imposing a 25% tariff against countries that "do business" with Iran.
  • Details about how the tariff would be implemented were not immediately clear.
  • Iran is currently experiencing mass protests against its government.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he'll


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Meta's Reality Labs team is expected to lose around 10 percent of its staff, with layoffs concentrated on the division's metaverse employees, as reported by The New York Times. The layoffs are apparently a side effect of Meta's AI ambitions, which are pulling focus away from its virtual reality division.

According to the Times, Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, called a


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