Flyers calling your own office an “Employee Data Extraction Factory” don’t usually show up on toilet paper dispensers. At Meta, they did, roughly a week before the company began notifying around 8,000 employees caught in a 10% workforce reduction. Reuters reported that the pamphlets, photographed inside Meta’s U.S. offices, protested the company’s new mouse-tracking software,…
Baby boomers are not stepping away from technology. They are using artificial intelligence to redesign what life after work looks like. For decades, retirement was marketed as a period of withdrawal. The image was familiar: golf courses, cruises, hobbies, and finally disconnecting after a lifetime of work. But a growing number of baby boomers are…
Ice cream prices at scoop shops have risen more than 35% since 2019, Bloomberg Businessweek reported June 15, the product of what the piece called a “perfect storm” — pandemic-era supply disruption, tariffs, and social-media-driven premiumization all compounding at once. Ingredient costs have surged alongside it: egg prices alone rose roughly 600% between 2020 and…
The Justice Department signed off on a $111 billion merger. The harder fight over who actually controls it is just getting started. The Justice Department approved Paramount Skydance’s proposed $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on June 12, concluding its antitrust investigation found the deal “is not likely to result in harm to competition…
This summer is on track to be the worst for teen employment since the federal government started counting in 1948 — and the explanation isn’t a shortage of jobs. It’s a shift in what counts as worth doing. The Wall Street Journal reported this summer is projected to be the weakest for teen employment since…
A discovery order in late May means Workday now has to hand over the data behind its own bias claims. A federal judge ordered Workday on May 29 to turn over AI bias-testing data and applicant records as part of discovery in Mobley v. Workday, the closely watched class action alleging the company’s hiring algorithms…
Jack Dorsey published a manifesto this week calling for management layers to disappear entirely. The data shows that’s already underway. Block co-founder Jack Dorsey published a management manifesto on June 17 calling for “a different kind of company,” one where an AI-powered “intelligence layer” coordinates work in place of middle managers, while individual experts make…
China’s economy grew 5% in the first quarter. The government’s own analysts are warning the number doesn’t tell the whole story. China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported 5.0% year-over-year GDP growth for the first quarter of 2026, beating forecasts of 4.8% and accelerating from 4.5% in the previous quarter — a result state media described…
The platform 79 percent of young users once loved is becoming unrecognizable—and what they’re nostalgic for reveals who really owns the creator economy. BYLINE | SSC News Desk Earlier this year, a wave of young users began flooding TikTok’s For You Pages with a simple, mournful question. They called it “the great meme reset of…
Representation and access both depend on platform priorities — and priorities change. For much of the streaming era, companies sold audiences a vision of abundance. More stories. More voices. More access. Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and others positioned themselves as alternatives to Hollywood’s old gatekeepers. Algorithms would surface overlooked creators. Libraries would be endless. Representation would…