Cory Doctorow's new book, Enshittification, argues major platforms follow a three-stage slide: generous to users, then to business customers, before squeezing both with degraded feeds, what he calls junk fees, and distorted search. He cites Facebook's ad-targeted feeds and Amazon's alleged cloning of sellers' products and higher-cost search results; Amazon...
Coca-Cola beat Wall Street estimates, posting adjusted EPS of 82 cents on $12.41 billion in revenue, yet said demand remains soft. Third-quarter net income rose to $3.7 billion, and net sales increased 5% as organic revenue grew 6%. Unit case volume edged up 1% but was flat in Latin and...
Delhi woke to a toxic haze after Diwali as fireworks flouted court limits on “green” crackers and timing. The city’s Air Quality Index hit 360 on Tuesday—“very poor”—with some areas measuring about 24 times the WHO’s 24-hour PM2.5 guideline. Low winds, stubble burning and vehicular emissions compounded the smog. Reporters...
Christopher Moynihan, a Capitol rioter pardoned nine months ago, was arrested Sunday for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Prosecutors say Moynihan texted plans to “eliminate” Jeffries ahead of the Democrat’s Monday speech at the Economic Club of New York. He is charged with making a terroristic...
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy entered Paris’s La Santé prison to begin a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy tied to Libyan funding of his 2007 campaign, becoming the first modern French ex-leader to be jailed. He left home hand-in-hand with his wife and posted that “an innocent man” was being...
Bernardo Bravo, president of the Apatzingan Valley Citrus Producers Association, was found dead in his vehicle on a road in Michoacan on Monday, state prosecutors said. In interviews as recently as this month, he had publicly denounced extortion by organized crime, warning that demands had become untenable and left producers...
Bolivia’s president-elect Rodrigo Paz, the country’s first conservative leader in two decades, tempered celebration with hard realities after his surprise runoff win with 54.5% of the vote. He vowed to rebuild ties with Washington — welcomed by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio — attract investment, and ease fuel shortages...
In a dramatic reset, Nottingham Forest appointed Sean Dyche on a contract to summer 2027 after sacking Ange Postecoglou just 17 minutes after a 3-0 loss to Chelsea, ending his 39-day reign—the club and Premier League’s shortest for a permanent manager. Forest sit in the relegation zone and want Dyche...
An American Airlines flight operated by SkyWest made an emergency return to Omaha on Monday after pilots lost contact with the cabin crew and began banging on the locked cockpit door, alarming passengers. Flight 6569 departed for Los Angeles at 7:23 p.m. ET but landed back at Eppley Airfield 36...
After boos for Shohei Ohtani marked a low point, the Dodgers return to Toronto for World Series Game 1 against a Blue Jays team reborn. Toronto went from worst to first, edged the Mariners 4-3 in a Game 7 classic, and claimed its first AL pennant in 32 years. The...
