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Joe Raedle/Getty Images Approximately 800,000 federal government employees have gone without pay since the third government shutdown of the year went into effect just after midnight on December 22. A portion of these workers are employed as contractors, which means their payments come from a third party. If the government is not working with that […]
Enlarge (credit: Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images) Grindr—the gay hookup app that has over 3.6 million daily active users globally—has been reportedly transmitting its users’ HIV status (of those who include it) with two mobile app contractors. On Monday, Bryce Case, the company’s top security official, responded to public outcry over the issue by saying […]
TSGT Joe Coleman MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Kremlin spokesman said on Wednesday he could not rule out that there were Russian civilians in Syria, but that they had no connection to the Russian armed forces. Associates of Russian military contractors fighting alongside government forces in Syria have said there were large-scale casualties among the contractors […]
Millions of Americans now do jobs for companies that have replaced employees with outside workers who get lower pay and skimpy perks. Their work lives often feel like a series of tiny slights that reinforce their second-class status, bruise their self-worth and keep a real career out of reach. WSJ.com: What’s News US
Thousands of files containing personal data on former military, intelligence and government workers have allegedly been exposed to public view for months in a massive security lapse allowed by a US-based recruitment firm. Some 9,400 sensitive files were found unsecured on a misconfigured public-facing Amazon cloud server. They allegedly contained personal information on former military and […]
(Reuters) — iPhone chip supplier Qualcomm faces a fresh set of antitrust allegations from a group of four companies that assemble the iPhone and other products on behalf of Apple. Foxconn parent Hon Hai Precision Industry, Wistron Corp, Compal Electronics, and Pegatron Corp alleged that Qualcomm violated two sections of the Sherman Act, a U.S. […]
Reuters/Rick Wilking (Reuters) – iPhone chip supplier Qualcomm Inc faces a fresh set of antitrust allegations from a group of four companies that assemble the iPhone and other products on behalf of Apple Inc. Foxconn parent Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, Wistron Corp, Compal Electronics Inc and Pegatron Corp alleged that Qualcomm violated two sections of […]
Published time: 22 Jun, 2017 17:24 Several CIA contractors were forced to stop working for the agency after they were busted for stealing more than $ 3,000 worth of snacks from vending machines through an elaborate scheme, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed. The thefts involved unplugging cables which connected each machine to an electronic […]
AP President Trump will sign a resolution Monday afternoon undoing a key part of former President Barack Obama’s labor agenda, a rule that effectively blacklisted federal contractors that were convicted of or simply charged with violating federal worker protection laws. The rule will be undone through the Congressional Review Act, a rarely used procedure to […]
The fat acceptance movement aims to encourage overweight people to be happy with their bodies, even if they are a large size, but Steve Miller – a weight loss guru – has slammed this way of thinking. The health expert says that those who embrace the new trend of “coming out” as fat are simply […]
