Archive for June, 2021
U.S. Waives FBI Checks on Caregivers at New Migrant Facilities, Alarming Child Welfare Experts
June 1st, 2021Something is very wrong here. Via: AP: The Biden administration is not requiring FBI fingerprint background checks of caregivers at its rapidly expanding network of emergency sites to hold thousands of immigrant teenagers, alarming child welfare experts who say the waiver compromises safety. … These emergency sites don’t have to be licensed by state authorities […]
ALL JBS BEEF PLANTS IN U.S. SHUT AFTER CYBERATTACK, UNION SAYS
June 1st, 2021Update: “JBS Moves to Reopen ‘Vast Majority’ of Plants After Cyberattack” Two hours after Bloomberg reported that all JBS plants in the U.S. were shut, they are now saying that operations will resume Wednesay. Via: Bloomberg: JBS SA, the largest meat producer globally, has made “significant progress” to resolve the cyberattack that impacted its global […]
Amazon Rolls Out Portable Panic Booth For Warehouse Employees To Collect Themselves
June 1st, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: Known simply as the “ZenBooth,” the new apparatus, according to a video released by the company on Wednesday, is an “interactive kiosk where you can navigate through a library of mental health and mindful practices to recharge that internal battery.”
World’s Biggest Meat Supplier Under Cyber Attack
June 1st, 2021Via: Bloomberg: The world’s biggest meat supplier has become the latest casualty of a cybersecurity attack, posing a fresh threat to global food security already rattled by the Covid-19 pandemic. JBS SA shut its North American and Australian computer networks after an organized assault on Sunday on some of its servers, the company said by […]
China Announces Three-Child Limit
June 1st, 2021Via: Guardian: China has announced that couples will be permitted to have up to three children in a major policy shift from the existing two-child limit, after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world’s most populous country. “To actively respond to the ageing of the population … a couple can have […]
