The nation’s largest HR group is set to face a jury this week over allegations that it mishandled a job applicant’s request for a disability accommodation. The trial comes after the Society for Human Resource Management, or SHRM, was hit by a jury with an $11.5 million verdict last year in an unrelated race discrimination
Russia has launched the largest attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure since the spring, primarily targeting Kyiv and the surrounding region, Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi has said. At least five people were killed in overnight attacks across the country, including a child in the Kyiv region, Koretskyi said. The strikes also impacted people’s power supplies,
I decided to hit the pavement at Salesforce’s gigantic Dreamforce conference to ask tech-minded people about AI’s catastrophic risk. Turns out, it’s not all AI gloom and doom — that’s only if you’re looking online. Last week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced he was resigning from the company, saying that AI labs are “gambling with
Abbott Laboratories will pay $385 million to resolve claims tied to an investigation of contamination at a baby formula factory in Sturgis, Michigan, the largest in the country, which led to the supply shortages in 2022. Problems at the facility prompted a lawsuit by the Justice Department and recall of powdered infant formula at the
The largest outbreak of an intestinal infection that spread across several US states and affected more than 12,000 people has ended, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Friday. Two people have died and 570 were hospitalised in recent months in relation to the outbreak of cyclospora, a microscopic parasite that can
When a rocket launches a payload into orbit, the overwhelming majority of its weight at launch is just fuel. After decades of space travel, a company called Longshot Space hopes to unlock a more efficient way to launch satellites into orbit. The plan: Shoot satellites into space with the world’s biggest gun. To accomplish this,
