Israel Continues to Pound Southern Lebanon, But Reportedly Reduces Deployment of Ground Troops

Forest Majeure: Finland Orders Google To Halt Work At Two Data Centers Less Than A Month After €13BN Splash The data center delay contagion has officially gone global. Just hours after we laid out how Oracle's 1.3GW Wisconsin campus became the next domino to slip after the indefinite delay of the company's New Mexico-based, Project Jupiter, and on the same day Google locked up 3.6GW of Constellation's nuclear output in PJM, Finland's Supervisory Agency (LVV) ordered a halt to construction work at two planned Google data centers, in Muhos and Kajaani,...

Cracker Barrel Dumps CEO After Woke Logo Fiasco Shares of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store have yet to fully recover from outgoing CEO Julie Masino's brief "woke" rebranding effort last year. The family-dining chain quickly restored its iconic "Old Country Store" logo and nostalgic aesthetic. Still, the failed overhaul now appears to have cost Masino her job after exposing a serious failure of brand stewardship. The Cracker Barrel controversy began on Aug. 18, 2025, when the company published a simplified logo that removed the "Old Timer" and barrel, sparking an...

Staffers have begun returning to US diplomatic facilities across the Middle East. US embassies in the region have been at a minimal operational level for several months due to the ongoing war against Iran.  On Tuesday, the New York Times reported obtaining an internal State Department memo that ordered the return of some diplomatic officers […]