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Meta Used AI To Lay Off Workers With Medical Conditions: Lawsuit
Meta Used AI To Lay Off Workers With Medical Conditions: Lawsuit
Twenty-six Meta employees have sued the company, alleging that AI-assisted systems used in its layoff process unfairly disadvantaged workers with disabilities, medical conditions, pregnancies, or family-care responsibilities.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court in Oakland, California. The employees, who are proceeding anonymously, claim Meta considered factors such as productivity scores and employees' use of AI tools when deciding which jobs to eliminate. According to the complaint, this approach penalized workers whose medical leave or caregiving obligations reduced their...
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Aug 27, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Global Youth Unemployment And Inactivity Inch Up Again
Global Youth Unemployment And Inactivity Inch Up Again
For two years in a row, global unemployment and inactivity among youths aged 15 to 24 has inched up again across world regions.
As seen in data by the International Labor Organization, the coronavirus pandemic caused these rates to go up in 2020, but the situation improved again gradually, in 2022 and 2023 falling below pre-pandemic levels.
But, as Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, since then, rates have been on a slow upswing once more, reaching 12.4 percent of youths in the labor force who are unemployed and...
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Jun 8, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Researchers Identify World's Largest Scorpion That Roamed Earth 415 Million Years Ago
Researchers Identify World's Largest Scorpion That Roamed Earth 415 Million Years Ago
Authored by Maria Mocerino via Interesting Engineering,
The University of Manchester has discovered that the world's largest scorpion, which lived 415 million years ago, was hiding in the museum's collection for 150 years.
Since the 1870s, researchers have debated the identity of the strange fossil remains lurking in the Manchester archives. They possessed tiny fragments recovered from sites in England and Wales that puzzled them, but they could not piece them together. Was it a large woodlouse-crustacean?
Life reconstruction of Praearcturus...
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Feb 21, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Trump Admin Mandates English-Only Tests For Truckers Seeking Commercial Driver's Licenses
Trump Admin Mandates English-Only Tests For Truckers Seeking Commercial Driver's Licenses
Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The federal crackdown on unqualified truckers kicked into a higher gear Friday when the nation’s transportation chief announced that tests for commercial driver’s licenses must be given only in English.
A truck drives through the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif., on Nov. 14, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revealed the latest policy with a goal of ensuring that truck drivers understand English well enough to read road signs...
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