Monthly Archives: November 2022

One of biggest the US furniture companies laid off nearly 3,000 workers in overnight emails and texts without severance or benefits right before Thanksgiving

United Furniture Industries/Facebook United Furniture Industries laid off 2,700 employees shortly before midnight on Monday, according to local reports.  Staffers were terminated “without provision of COBRA,” leaving them without health insurance.  One former employee filed a class-action lawsuit against the company claiming it violated the WARN Act.  United Furniture Industries, one of the largest furniture…

One month of Musk’s Twitter and half of the app’s top advertisers have already left the platform

The “internet’s town square” is losing some of its billboards, as half of Twitter’s top advertisers have reportedly pulled out of the social media platform after Elon Musk’s acquisition. According to a report by Media Matters for America, a nonprofit media research organization and “misinformation monitor”, 50 of the top 100 advertisers have fled the…

Patch Google Chrome now to fix this emergency security flaw

Google has released an update for a high-severity zero-day vulnerability, known as CVE-2022-4135, which impacts its Chrome browser.  The search giant said that an exploit for the vulnerability, detected by the French security researcher Clement Lecigne, exists in the wild, meaning users could be at risk. Google said it won’t disclose much information about the…