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Workers are down in the dumps about a lack of career growth opportunities and emptying offices as companies slash staffers to make way for AI, all while being put under constant pressure to do more with less.  Scared of speaking out and putting their neck on the line in a dire job climate, staff are silently but massively disengaging with …

It’s been a terrible year for restaurants. But one major chain is bucking the industry’s sour trend.  Chili’s, the Dallas-based Tex-Mex brand famous for baby back ribs and frozen margaritas, just posted a 24 percent jump in sales — serving millions more customers than last year.  That’s on top of a big increase in 2023, meaning the chain’s sales have …

As long as there have been games, there have been crackers breaking their copy protections. “Digital Rights Management” or DRM, is a phrase for copy protection coined near the end of the 1990s, and subverted shortly thereafter. But how? [Nathan Baggs] show us what it took to be a cracker in the year 2000, as the first step to get …

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kevin Ford, a 56-year-old retiree who lives in Las Vegas. It’s been edited for length and clarity. I was in a middle management position. In the beginning, I loved it. I think that’s what happens with a lot of these people who are quietly cracking: They love it at first, but …

Kevin would hyperfixate on bad memories. Masiel would snack. Sara would cry on her way to work. “Quiet cracking” describes the silent struggle of feeling dissatisfied at work and unable to leave. Frank Giampietro, EY’s chief well-being officer, told Business Insider that these employees “feel stuck where they are.” Unhappy workers can stay because they need the paycheck or because …

If quiet quitting was the poster child of workplace issues over the past few years, it’s not anymore. Now, a new problem employers have to watch out for is “quiet cracking,” says Frank Giampietro, EY Americas’ chief well-being officer. What is quiet cracking? Quiet cracking is when workers “show up, they do their job, but they struggle in silence while …

UnitedHealth Group Inc. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. US stocks were on pace to snap a three-day winning streak Thursday, driven by declines in technology, energy and retailers as traders assessed a slew of mixed economic figures. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg © 2025 Bloomberg Finance LP …

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First fault rupture ever filmed: M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar – YouTube Watch On A first-of-its-kind video showing the ground cracking during a major earthquake is even more remarkable than previously thought. It not only captures a ground motion never caught on video before but also shows the crack curving as it moves. This curvy movement has been …

CNN  —  President Donald Trump will host congressional leaders and families affected by the fentanyl epidemic on Wednesday for a signing ceremony on bipartisan legislation that would strengthen prison sentences for fentanyl traffickers, White House officials tell CNN. The Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which recently passed both the Senate and the House with bipartisan support, represents a …