Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs (www.theverge.com)
23andMe's business is basically worthless. Its CEO now wants to buy it. (www.businessinsider.com)
White-sounding names get called back for jobs more than Black ones, a new study finds (www.npr.org)
Yes, this mostly replicates previous studies, with one major difference: they name the bad companies this time.
Right-wingers pledge to boycott The North Face because it supports LGBTQ+ youth (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Biden says U.S. economy is world's best. Trump calls it a 'cesspool.' Data is clear. (www.cnbc.com)
Meet the ‘subprime auto king’ who arranged Trump’s $175 million bond (thehill.com)
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)
Best Buy offers to screen LGBTQ nonprofit donations after conservative pressure, filing shows (www.cnbc.com)
Stellantis uses ‘mandatory remote work day’ to cut 400 white-collar jobs (fortune.com)
End of era as Toshiba delists from Tokyo stock exchange after 74 years (www.theguardian.com)
Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. (open.substack.com)
Due to war, UK’s Pret A Manger sandwich and coffee chain scraps planned Israel entry (www.msn.com)
British coffee and sandwich chain Pret A Manger canceled a franchise agreement with Israeli partners to open its first branch in the country due to the ongoing war with the Hamas terror group....
FDA approves Moderna’s RSV vaccine, its second licensed product (www.statnews.com)
Walmart is under criticism for selling Pride merchandise. But the company is not backing down. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Does the US have a planned economy? You might be surprised (theconversation.com)
The carbon offsets used by many major corporations are "likely junk" (www.motherjones.com)
Walgreens lowering prices on over 1,300 products, including snacks, gummy vitamins, Squishmallows, more (www.usatoday.com)
Dems Urge DOJ to Prosecute Big Oil Price Fixing That 'Harmed Virtually Every American' (www.commondreams.org)
Ken Paxton Has Used Consumer Protection Law to Target These Organizations (www.propublica.org)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly worried about an OpenAI deal with Apple (www.businessinsider.com)
Bay Area carmaker Lucid lays off hundreds of workers after raising $1 billion (www.sfgate.com)
Industry Braces for PFAS Lawsuits That Could 'Dwarf' Those of Asbestos, Tobacco (www.commondreams.org)
Nvidia Could Pass Apple as World's Second-Most Valuable Company (gizmodo.com)
Disney No Longer Has to Worry About [anti-woke activist investor] Billionaire Nelson Peltz (gizmodo.com)
Mods, lmk if the editorializing of the headling is too much