The Iran War is Shattering the Global Oil Order

Meta To Lay Off Hundreds Of Workers Today As AI Pivot Accelerates Meta Platforms is laying off a few hundred employees today as its workforce restructuring continues, following years of terrible metaverse bets and overhiring during the Covid era. Reports of another round of layoffs surfaced earlier this month, and just last week, Meta shut down Horizon Worlds, its virtual reality social network for Quest headsets. The Information reports that a few hundred employees will be let go today as part of the company's effort to reposition itself in the AI...

Mali Govt Says Al-Qaeda Extremists In Region Receive Training, Drones From Ukraine Via The Cradle The Malian government announced on Thursday that militant groups with links to Al-Qaeda carrying out terror attacks in the country were trained and armed by Ukrainian specialists. Fousseynou Ouattara, Vice President of the Defense Commission of Mali's Transitional Council, said authorities identified militants who received training in Ukraine to carry out operations using kamikaze drones produced by Kiev. "These young people are known, we have now added them to our lists, and we have their names," Ouattara said. Illustrative file...

Iran Escalating With Drone Attack On Bahrain, Yet Another Hit On Foreign Vessel In Hormuz Strait A lot of escalation has ensued in the last 48 hours, after starting Thursday Tehran struck a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz, after which by end of Friday US CENTCOM confirmed a series of fresh attacks on Iranian missile and drone storage sites as well as coastal radar installations, reportedly on Sirik Island located near the Strait of Hormuz. Referring to Thursday's attack on a vessel off Oman, the Pentagon called it a "powerful response...