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NY Region

Migrant Crisis Complicates Democrats’ Bid to Regain George Santos’s Seat

February 8, 2024|Categories: NY Region|

The party has turned to a moderate veteran, Tom Suozzi, to restore its tarnished brand. [+]

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In New York, Biden Courts Big-Money Donors and Attacks a ‘Dangerous’ Trump

February 8, 2024|Categories: NY Region|

In drawing rooms and ballrooms of the elite in Manhattan, any enthusiasm for a second [+]

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Business

Vice’s New Owners Prepare to Slash What’s Left of Its Work Force

February 22, 2024|Comments Off on Vice’s New Owners Prepare to Slash What’s Left of Its Work Force

Vice Media, which emerged from bankruptcy last year, is planning to cut hundreds of its more than 900 employees, according to people familiar with the matter. ​Read More Layoffs and Job Reductions, News and News Media, [+]

China’s Hacker Network: What to Know About the I-Soon Document Leak

February 22, 2024|Comments Off on China’s Hacker Network: What to Know About the I-Soon Document Leak

Documents leaked on a public website show that China is hiring private hackers to obtain sensitive information from foreign companies and governments. ​Read More Cyberwarfare and Defense, International Relations, Classified Information and State Secrets, Espionage and [+]

Fertility Clinic Errors Collide With a Redefinition of ‘Personhood’

February 22, 2024|Comments Off on Fertility Clinic Errors Collide With a Redefinition of ‘Personhood’

The clinics are routinely sued by patients for errors that destroy embryos, as happened in Alabama. An effort to define them legally as “unborn children” has raised the stakes. ​Read More your-feed-science, Suits and Litigation (Civil), [+]

New Freighters Could Ease Red Sea Cargo Disruptions

February 22, 2024|Comments Off on New Freighters Could Ease Red Sea Cargo Disruptions

Analysts and shipping executives say they expect costs to fall later this year as companies receive vessels they ordered two to three years ago. ​Read More Supply Chain, Ships and Shipping, Freight (Cargo), International Trade and [+]

Niklaus Wirth, Visionary Software Architect, Dies at 89

February 22, 2024|Comments Off on Niklaus Wirth, Visionary Software Architect, Dies at 89

Pascal, the programming language he created in the early days of personal computing, offered a simpler alternative to other languages in use at the time. ​Read More Wirth, Niklaus (1934-2024), Deaths (Obituaries), Computers and the Internet, [+]

Nvidia and an AI ‘Tipping Point’ Ignites a Market Rally

February 22, 2024|Comments Off on Nvidia and an AI ‘Tipping Point’ Ignites a Market Rally

Amid blowout earnings, the chipmaker Nvidia predicted the start of a “10-year cycle” of growth fueled by artificial intelligence. ​Read More internal-storyline-no, Artificial Intelligence, Stocks and Bonds, NVIDIA Corporation, ASML Holding NV, Google Inc, OpenAI Labs, [+]

Economy

Biden and McCarthy Reach No Consensus on Debt Ceiling as Possible Default Looms

By |May 11, 2023|Categories: Economy|

In their first meeting in three months, the president and House speaker remained at loggerheads [+]

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Financial Stability Experts at the Fed Turn a Wary Eye on Commercial Real Estate

By |May 11, 2023|Categories: Economy|

A financial stability report from the Federal Reserve flagged concerns tied to rising interest rates, [+]

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Yellen Calls Invoking 14th Amendment to Raise Debt Limit ‘Legally Questionable’

By |May 11, 2023|Categories: Economy|

The Treasury secretary warned that a default would lead to a “very substantial downturn.”

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