Rwit 

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Hootsuite has slashed its workforce by ~30%, according to TechCrunch. The social media marketing firm has about 1,400 employees according to a Globe and Mail report from June which would indicate that nearly 400 workers have been cut. The company is focusing on strategies to drive efficiency, growth and financial sustainability, the company's CEO Tom Keiser told TechCrunch in a statement. ,Also Read: Snapchat setting stage to lay off employees,The surprising layoffs come in the wake of the company's logo rebranding and its brand new mascot Owly. Back in 2014, the company was rumoured to have been worth nearly $1 billion. But 2019 data from Pitchbook shows that the company was likely to be valued at ~$750 million. That was also the year that Hootsuit laid off 10% of its workers. According to Pitchbook, the social media marketing company has managed to raise $300 million in funding from various backers including Accel, the Palo Alto-based venture capital firm and Fidelity Ventures. ,Also Read: Life after Roe v Wade: Meta hands over teen's abortion data in Nebraska,Hootsuit is the latest Silicon Valley company to bring its employees to the proverbial chopping block. Most tech companies have been clamping down on their expenses as consumer behaviour has changed in the face of the receding COVID-19 pandemic. Companies like Meta, Amazon, Shopify and Google are either implementing hiring freezes or terminating employment with dozens of workers. ,Tesla for example, has decided to cut 10% of its salaried employees by the end of the year. Amazon cut 100,000 of its employees. Shopify terminated 1,000 workers. ,By a Crunchbase estimate, 22,000 employees in the tech industry have already been axed, with more likely in the coming months, after all, there are still 6 months left this in this year. ,Also Read: A step towards 1984: UK planning facial scans to surveil convicted migrants,Venture capital firms have adopted a different mindset as well as they provide reduced valuations and less funding. Which overall might turn into a good thing down the line.

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<ul>
  <li>Hootsuite is laying off 30% or roughly 400 employees</li>
  <li>The company last laid off 10% of its workers in 2019</li>
  <li>Other tech companies like Amazon, Shopify, SoundCloud have also announced job cuts</li>
</ul>

Opoyi Central

Hootsuite latest to be hit by layoffs amid Silicon Valley's recession fears

Hootsuite

TechNews

Google

Technology

Amazon

Business

Santa Monica, CA, USA

The incoming US recession has claimed another casualty as Snapchat lines up its plans to lay off an unknown amount of employees, according to tech news website The Verge. ,The news was inevitable. Thanks to Apple's Ask App Not to Track feature, businesses like Google, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat are finding it harder to effectively use targeted advertising, which is also being reflected in their finances. Also Read: Meta's latest chatbot becomes anti-Semitic, develops Trump's rhetoric,In addition, Snapchat hasn't been doing so well in the last few years. The image sharing company has been burning cash ever since it was founded and has only recorded a profit in one quarter since the company went public in 2017. This year's second quarter financial results weren't promising either and the forecast for the third is looking grim as Snapchat's share prices keep plummeting. ,The amount of people being cut hasn't been made clear yet, but significant cuts are likely to be on the way for the company's 6000 employees. The last time the app made such cuts was in 2018 when the company made some unpopular changes to its user interface and experience, causing power users like Kylie Jenner to publicly make their distaste for the app known. Also Read: Life after Roe v Wade: Meta hands over teen's abortion data in Nebraska,Thanks to her tweet about the redesign, Snapchat lost a fifth of its valuation in just a day, forcing the company to lay off just over 120 employees as it struggled desparately to regain that lost value. Despite that, the company boasts 347 million daily active users, beating the likes of Twitter, which is currently embroiled in a legal battle with Tesla's co-founder Elon Musk. Despite the declining ad revenue, Snapchat has been attempting to diversify into other markets with their release of the $280 selfie drone Pixy and the Spectacles, which records video through a mounted camera on the glasses. Both have been met with a lukewarm response. ,Snapchat is the latest in a long line of companies that have announced cutbacks, layoffs and reduced hiring targets as Silicon Valley worries about rising inflation, investor apprehension

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<ul>
  <li>Snapchat last laid off employees in 2018 after its disastrous app redesign</li>
  <li>Its other hardware ventures, Spectacles and Pixy released to mediocre reviews</li>
  <li>Snapchat joins a long list of tech companies that are laying off employees to prep for recession</li>
</ul>

Snapchat setting stage to lay off employees

Apple

KylieJenner

Twitter

Tesla

ElonMusk

Science

Montpelier, VT, USA

Liam Madden is a former United States Marine, a veteran of the Iraq War, and most recently an American politician. He is running for election to the US House of Representatives to represent Vermont's At-Large Congressional District. For the primaries, he ran under the Republican banner. Madden won the Republican candidacy during the August 9, 2022 primaries and will be facing Democratic candidate Becca Balint in the midterm elections that are on November 8, 2022. ,Also Read: US primaries: Vermont's US Senate race sees Peter Welch vs Gerald Malloy,Born in Riverhead, New York, Madden's family soon moved to one of Vermont's most affluent towns, Stowe until they moved to Bellow Falls later in his childhood. When the September 11, 2001 attacks happened, destroying the World Trade Center, Madden was a high school senior. In 2002, he joined the the US Marine Corps and went on to serve until 2007, having been deployed in various countries. He served in Iraq for seven months. Shortly before his exit from the armed forces, he began to write an article called the Appeal for Redress, which was aimed at lobbying Congressional representatives to withdraw the US army from Iraq. ,While ending his service, the Marine Corps investigated him for being part of a political protest in uniform and threatened to change his discharge status. However, the case was eventually dropped. After coming back, Madden served as the Chair of the board of directors of an organisation called Iraq Veterans Against the War. ,Between 2007 and 2012, he spent his time at Northwestern University and focused on environmental policy and science; economics; and history. Following his undergraduate degree, Madden went on to work at a solar energy company in 2020. ,Some of the platforms that Madden will be running on is introducing competition in the healthcare industry, direct more public funding towards medical research, being pro gun laws and simultaneously being pro-Second Amendment.

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<ul>
  <li>Liam Madden won the Republican primary for Vermont's At-Large Congressional District</li>
  <li>He is a veteran of the Iraq War&nbsp;</li>
  <li>He served in the US Marine Corps from 2002 to 2007</li>
</ul>

Who is Liam Madden?

2022USmidterms

RepublicanParty

Vermont

republican

Iraq

American

NewYork

World

Hartford, CT, USA

The days to the midterm elections on November 8, 2022 are inching closer as the primaries are winding down. Both Republicans and Democrats are gearing up for what are likely to be two and a half month long gritty campaigns as the parties vie for majority in Congress. Predominantly a Blue state, the Republican party is likely to want to turn things their way, however difficult that might prove to be. To defeat the incumbent Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal, the Grand Old Party has three candidates battling it out for a chance to replace him: Leora Levy, Themis Klarides and Peter Lumaj. The nomination was expected to go to Klarides who has been seen as a moderate, given her support for abortion rights. She was the first woman House leader for the Republicans in Connecticut. ,Leora Levy won out instead, just a day after former US President Donald Trump endorsed his candidacy. Republican voters seem to have cut ties with Klarides who had rejected Trump's rhetoric, which has cost her dearly. Both Levy and Lumaj appropriated the former president's, attacking Klarides for being pro-abortion. ,Levy had won 50.6% of the votes, Klarides 40% and Lamaj 9.5% at the last updated count. ,t’s really exciting. This is just chapter one. We’ve got the longer chapter ahead. ... This has been an amazing experience for me. ... My sister and I escaped communist Cuba. ... This is our story, and our journey was tragedy and sacrifice. But it was hope at the end. And we found hope here in America. My American Dream is I am a candidate here for the U.S. Senate, Levy said while giving her victory speech. ,As far as the race for the secretary of state goes, Democrat nominee Stephanie Thomas steamrolled her fellow candidate Maritza Bond, winning 75.8% of the Democrat votes. On the Republican side, Dominic Rapin won the nomination, with 58.7% of the votes, to Terrie Wood's 41.3%. Blumenthal is likely to face a tough fight in the upcoming midterm elections. Despite being in his second term, his approval ratings have fallen below 50% and things are unlikely to get better from here on out.

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<ul>
  <li>Leora Levy is a Cuban-American businesswoman</li>
  <li>She has been endorsed by the former US President Donald Trump</li>
  <li>She wil go up against Richard Blumenthal in the midterm elections</li>
</ul>

US primaries: Election denying Leora Levy wins GOP nod in Connecticut

Connecticut

Republicans

Democrats

Congress

DonaldTrump

Cuba

America

India

Richard Blumenthal is an American politician, lawyer and current senior United States senator for Connecticut since 2011. He is a registered Democrat and is up for re-election in the November 8, 2022 midterms. Him and Chris Murphy are currently Connecticut's senators. Born on February 13, 1946, in Brooklyn New York to a Jewish immigrant family, Blumenthal attended Harvard College from 1963 to 1967, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree. After graduating he was selected for the Fiske Fellowship which allowed him to study at Cambridge for a year. Upon his return, Blumenthal attended the Yale Law School, graduating with his Juris Doctor degree in 1973. Also Read: US primaries: Which Democrats and Republicans won in Connecticut,His career in politics began in 1977, after being appointed the United States attorney for the District of Connecticut, a position he held on to until 1981. In 1984, he was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives and served in the public office for three years before winning a special election in 1987 to become a representative in the Connecticut Senate. ,In 1990, he won his election bid for the Attorney General of Connecticut's office. He would continue to be re-elected to the AG's office in 1994,1998, 2002, and 2006. Such was his popularity that many in the Democratic Party considered him to be a top candidate for a gubernatorial run (running for Governor). ,Also Read: US primaries: Election denying Leora Levy wins GOP nod in Connecticut,Throughout his career Blumenthal involved himself in investigating issues in Connecticut like sexual assault via MySpace contacts in 2006. Similarly, he had voiced his opposition to a proposal that telecommunications firms be provided immunity if they cooperate with the federal government's terrorist surveillance programme in 2007. Blumenthal is also an avid supporter of fighting climate change and had even released a statement saying that disputing climate change helps no one and that Dithering will be disastrous. He is one of the richest senators in the US Senate, with a net worth of $100 million. He has been married to his wife Cynthia Malin since 1982. His son, Matt Blumenthal was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 2018.

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<ul>
  <li>Richard Blumenthal has worked as the Attorney General of Connecticut from 1990 till he was elected as senator in 2010</li>
  <li>In 2007, he was opposed to providing telecom companies immunity for helping in terrorist surveillance&nbsp;</li>
  <li>He has been married to Cynthia Malkin since 1982&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

Who is Richard Blumenthal?

UnitedStates

Brooklyn

After Leora Levy's stunning upset of GOP-backed Themis Klarides, for the nomination to run for the US Senate seat, the midterm elections on November 8, 2022 are set to become even more interesting. Also Read: US primaries: Election denying Leora Levy wins GOP nod in Connecticut,Klarides' nomination was all but a given and would have likely been popular amongst some of the Independent voters in Connecticut which has been a blue state since 1972. Her moderate policies, including her support of abortion rights have likely made her a pariah within her own party, particularly to those who have been backed by former US President Donald Trump. ,In fact, Levy's win comes off the back of her using Trump's rhetoric in denying the 2020 presidential elections as well as attacking Klarides for her stance on abortion. Also Read: US primaries: Swing state Wisconsin sets up key midterm races,Dominic Rapini and Terrie Wood ran as the GOP's candidates for the Connecticut secretary of state seat. Rapini edged out her opponent in the two-way battle, winning 58.3% of the votes at the last updated count, with Wood sitting with 41.7%. ,On the Democrat side, Stephanie Thomas and Maritza Bond locked horns for the secretary of state seat. With 73% of the votes counted so far, and Thomas having 75.8% of them to Bond's 24.2%, the race has been a blitz. ,Thomas will face off against Rapini during the elections in November. On the one hand Rapini has run her platform based on introducing stricter voting laws by introducing photo ID, whereas Thomas has focused on expanding voting access with more early voting and absentee ballots. ,Speaking to voters after winning the nomination, Thomas said that she wanted to reach out to independent voters as well as Republican voters who were looking for an alternative to conspiracy theories and the sowing of misinformation. The secretary of state office has become a heavily contested public office, considering it oversees elections a key point of contention ever since the attempts at overturning the last presidential elections.

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<ul>
  <li>Stephanie Thomas and Maritza Bond were the Democrat candidates for the secretary of state seat&nbsp;</li>
  <li>Dominic Rapini and Terrie Wood ran for the secretary of state seat under the GOP banner</li>
  <li>The secretary of state is a highly contested office after the fracas that was the 2020 presidential elections</li>
</ul>

US primaries: Which Democrats and Republicans won in Connecticut

Trump

Saint Paul, MN, USA

Kim Crockett is an American politician and attorney who was on the ballot for the Republican primary, running for the Minnesota secretary of state. ,Minnesota went to polls for the primary on August 9, 2022. Crockett went up against fellow Republican, Erik van Mechelen whom she handily beat with 63.3% of the votes, to his 36.7%. ,With her win at the Republican primary for secretary of state, Crockett is the latest in a long line of Republicans who denied the results of the 2020 presidential elections. She is now on track to take one of the highest offices in the state. ,During the midterm elections on November 8, 2022, Crockett will go up against the Democrat nominee Steve Simon. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she attended the University of Minnesota for her bachelor's degree in 1984 after which she attended the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School for his Juris Doctor degree. ,She worked as an attorney for 20 years while also working in policy advocacy. In 2019, she shifted gears completely, working with the Election Integrity Network which according to her website, is a national coalition formed to protect the legal vote of every American citizen. Crockett thinks that the state needs to go back to in-person voting and efforts should be made to revert the chaotic, insecure absentee balloting system”. During the pandemic, 58% of Minnesotan voters used the absentee system, according to the Minnesota Reformer. ,According to her website, Crockett is in favour of what she calls common sense reforms to protect voters by introducing photo IDs, post-election audits, ballot security of absentee ballots, amongst others. In addition, she has stated that she is against the expansion of Ranked-Choice Voting saying that it is an overly complicated voting scheme that creates chaos and dilutes the power of voters.

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<ul>
  <li>Kim Crockett is an attorney, policy advocate and now a politician with the Republican party</li>
  <li>She had previously denied the results of the 2020 presidential elections</li>
  <li>Crockett will go up against Democrat nominee Steve Simon for the secretary of State for Minnesota</li>
</ul>

Who is Kim Crockett?

Minnesota

Minneapolis

Norfolk, NE, USA

A 17-year-old girl was arrested and prosecuted for alleged abortion crimes after a detective in Norfolk, Nebraska subpoenaed Meta for her information, according to the Lincoln Journal Star. The investigation began in late April this year after the detective received a tip that the accused had miscarried and her mother helped her bury the body. The tip alleged that a juvenile female had prematurely given birth to a stillborn child. ,Following this information, the detective obtained her medical records to find that the girl was 23 week pregnant. When he confronted the mother and her daughter, the 17-year-old revealed that she had miscarried in the shower, according to the Lincoln Journal Star. The two put the stillborn child's body in a plastic bag and buried it on someone's property. ,According to the Lincoln Journal Star, the mother and her daughter were charged with removing, concealing or abandoning a dead human body and for concealing the death of another person; and false reporting. However, the investigation wasn't complete, because the detective served Facebook a search warrant, reasoning that he needed the evidence from the company to determine whether the baby was stillborn or asphyxiated. He found that the two had communicated about aborting the baby. Also Read: Why Silicon Valley has been silent on Roe v. Wade,Using the information they found from Facebook, the detective obtained another search warrant for their home, where 13 laptops and phones, including 24 GB of data including web histories, messages and images extracted from their mobile devices. ,It is worth pointing out that the 17-year-old may have allegedly aborted at 28 weeks. Nebraska has a 20-week limit on abortion, after which abortions can only be done if there is serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function. The state's stance on abortion has also not been changed since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Additionally, the case had begun before the reversal of the ruling. ,Also Read: How Silicon Valley responded to Roe v Wade overturning,The historic ruling which granted abortion seekers federal protection was overturned on June 24, 2022, with many states having 'trigger' laws in place to immediately make the procedure illegal. ,Silicon Valley on the other hand was largely quiet as companies released non-committal statements saying they'd fun healthcare out of state for employees while also ensuring they would be able to take leave. ,On the other hand, companies in the Valley fretted over having to hand over user data but that is most likely to be a smokescreen from them. For three years until 2020, Amazon partially complied with 75% of data requests made of them. Also Read: Roe v Wade: Silicon Valley braces for pregnancy data requests,On the other hand, companies like Google have said that they will be taking steps to automatically delete any mention of abortion related activities. Then again, most companies in Silicon Valley had not outright said that they will refuse to comply with data requests. Seems like Meta is in the latter camp.

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<ul>
  <li>Nebraska has a 20-week limit on abortion after which it is banned&nbsp;</li>
  <li>Meta handed over all user data to the detective investigating the case</li>
  <li>Nebraska's abortion laws haven't changed since Roe v. Wade was overturned</li>
</ul>

Life after Roe v Wade: Meta hands over teen's abortion data in Nebraska

RoeVsWade

Nebraska

Meta's AI chatbot, BlenderBot3 seems to have gone the way many other publicly released chatbots do, anti-Semitic conspiracy and spouting theories about the 2020 election. Chatbots are artificial intelligence softwares that learn by constantly having conversations with real users. This isn't the first time something like this has happened. In 2016, Microsoft's Tay chatbot had to be taken offline just 48 hours after going online after it picked up racist, misogynist rhetoric while interacting with Twitter users. ,BlenderBot3 released on Friday, August 5, 2022 for US users. Meta gave users the ability to provide the chatbot with feedback if it provided answers incorrectly or inaccurately. According to a Bloomberg report, the chatbot has a feature that lets it trawl the Internet for topics to have conversations about. Which went as well as could be expected. Also Read: Meta top brass to be deposed on Cambridge Analytica scandal,Social media quickly became rife with examples of BlenderBot3's responses, ranging from hilarious to downright offensive. Most amusingly, the chatbot described Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg as creepy and maipulative, according to an Insider report. Oddly enough, the AI looks to have found enough information about people talking about theories about Zuckerberg being an alien or a lizard person, a conversation that happens whenever he makes announcements. ,While speaking to a Wall Street Journal reporter, BlenderBot3 repeated the same thing that many supporters of the GOP asserted during the 2020 US presidential elections, that Donald Trump was still president and would continue to be. ,However, Meta has acknowledged these issues with the chatbot saying that it is still in development and is an experiment. According to Meta's latest blog, BlenderBot3 has improved by 31% on conversational tasks and was being factually incorrect 47% less often. Similarly, the company said in its statement that 0.16% of its chatbot's responses were insulting or offensive. Also Read: Six of the biggest layoffs in Tech, so far,In the same breath, Meta has acknowledged that BlenderBot3 was certainly not at a human level and that it is occasionally incorrect, inconsistent and off-topic.

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<ul>
  <li>BlenderBot3 is the latest version of the BlenderBot chatbot made by Meta</li>
  <li>The chatbot was live from August 5, 2022 before service was paused audit its services</li>
  <li>In 2016, Microsoft's Tay had to be taken offline after interacting with racist and misogynistic content from Twitter users</li>
</ul>

Meta's latest chatbot becomes anti-Semitic, develops Trump's rhetoric

Microsoft

MarkZuckerberg

Following an outage that affected thousands of users across the globe search engine giant Google is back up, according to Downdetector. ,At the peak of the outage, over 30,000 reports came in from Google users in the United States alone. In Japan, nearly 9,500 users reported outages, so did users in Canada and Australia. ,When the disruption occurred, Internet dwellers took to social media to make memes about what to do after the world's most popular search engine stopped working. ,Outages while rare, are almost unheard of from Google's signature product which has become well-known for its reliability and . Website failures usually come from back-end web infrastructure from services like Amazon Web Services or Cloudflare. ,In a separate incident in Iowa, an electrical fire at a data center in Council Bluffs left three Google electricians severely injured, according to a report from SFGATE. ,While one person was airlifted by medical helicopter to the Nebraska Medical Center the other two were transported by ambulance. The three were conscious and breathing while being transported according to the Council Bluffs police. ,A Google spokesperson told SFGATE the company was aware of the arc flash (electric explosion) that occured at its Council Bluffs data center. The company said that the health of all of its workers was their absolute top priority and that they will be investigating the situation. Alphabet's most prized unit has 23 large data centers across the world with most of them being located in US. The Council Bluffs location happens to be one of Google's largest data centers in the world. In June this year, Cloudflare went down for over an hour affecting Internet traffic at 19 of its data centers. nfortunately for them, those centres were also hubs of global Internet traffic and handled a significant chunk of information flow. Surprisingly, the centres only comprise 4% of their total network but their downtime affected 50% of requests,

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<ul>
  <li>Google went down for approximately half an hour</li>
  <li>The search engine giant usually does not experience such outages in service</li>
  <li>Earlier this year, Cloudflare suffered an outage severely affecting several websites</li>
</ul>

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