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Microsoft To Lay Off Over 9,000 Employees, 2nd Big Job Purge In Months: Report
Microsoft is laying off as many as 4%, or roughly 9,100, of its employees in the largest round of job cuts since 2023, the Seattle Times reported on Wednesday.
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Trump Fires National Security Agency Director Timothy Haugh: Report
US President Donald Trump fired General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, in a national security purge that sources said on Friday included more than a dozen staff at the White House national security council.
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Blue Origin Reschedules New Glenn Rocket Launch After Technical Setback
A technical issue has delayed Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launch, initially planned for January 13, 2025. Ice formation in a purge line of the auxiliary power unit caused the mission to be scrubbed. The reusable first stage of the rocket is set to land on a ship named Jacklyn after liftoff. Blue Origin has rescheduled the launch for January 16, ...
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Iran Begins Purge After Hamas Chief's Assassination In Tehran
In response to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in its capital Tehran, Iran has arrested over two dozen individuals, including high-ranking intelligence officers, military officials, and staff at a military-run guesthouse in the capital.
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Russia Arrests Top General On Corruption Charges: Report
In the latest in the sequence of purges in the country's top offices, the deputy head of the army's general staff, Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin, was arrested on suspicion of large-scale bribe-taking, Al Jazeera reported.
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"Purge The Party": Navjot Sidhu's War Cry Amid Congress' Himachal Crisis
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu this morning launched a strong attack on six party MLAs who cross-voted in Tuesday's Rajya Sabha election - handing the party a defeat in an exercise it should have won with ease - and then seemed to join the BJP.
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"Mother Of Democracy... ": Kapil Sibal On Suspension Of Parliament MPs
Opening out after 78 MPs were suspended from both Houses on Monday, making it the biggest single-day purge in the history of India's Parliament, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal said "mother of democracy has orphaned it".
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In Xi Jinping's China, A "Stalin-Like Purge" Cracks Down On Key Personnel
Hundreds of government personnel in China have vanished under ambiguous circumstances, prompting comparisons to deadly purges overseen by former Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, a report claims.
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China's Defense Minister Sacked Amid Mystery, Was Last Seen On Aug 29
China's Li Shangfu became the nation's shortest-serving defense minister ever, ending months of speculation over his status as President Xi Jinping rolls on with high-profile purges that worry investors.
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Elon Musk Says Some Twitter Accounts May See Followers Drop. Here's Why
Elon Musk on Monday announced that Twitter is canceling accounts that haven't been used for a long time.
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Vladimir Putin Sacks "Butcher Of Mariupol" General Mikhail Mizintsev In Military Purge
President Vladimir Putin has frequently reshuffled top military figures without explanation.
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Twitter Will Finally Remove Legacy Blue Check Marks on April 20, Says Elon Musk
Elon Musk on Tuesday set a deadline for purging legacy blue check-marks from Twitter accounts verified under the company's previous regime. "Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20," tweeted billionaire owner of Twitter, Musk.
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Elon Musk Sets Final Date For Removing Twitter Legacy Blue Checks
Elon Musk on Tuesday set a deadline for purging legacy blue check-marks from Twitter accounts verified under the company's previous regime.
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Twitter Users Balk At Paying $8 A Month For Musk's Blue Check
Twitter Inc.'s new owner, Elon Musk, is purging the social network's free legacy labels as of April 1 and replacing them with a new designation that he says will make the platform more egalitarian and generate much-needed revenue.
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Digi Yatra Data Stored on Passenger Devices and Not in Centralised Storage, Minister Says
Digi Yatra, the biometric boarding system using facial recognition technology (FRT) has no central storage of passengers' Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data, according to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA). The data is stored in the passenger's own phone in the Digi Yatra secure wallet, Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M...
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Microsoft To Lay Off Over 9,000 Employees, 2nd Big Job Purge In Months: Report
Microsoft is laying off as many as 4%, or roughly 9,100, of its employees in the largest round of job cuts since 2023, the Seattle Times reported on Wednesday.
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Trump Fires National Security Agency Director Timothy Haugh: Report
US President Donald Trump fired General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, in a national security purge that sources said on Friday included more than a dozen staff at the White House national security council.
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Blue Origin Reschedules New Glenn Rocket Launch After Technical Setback
A technical issue has delayed Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launch, initially planned for January 13, 2025. Ice formation in a purge line of the auxiliary power unit caused the mission to be scrubbed. The reusable first stage of the rocket is set to land on a ship named Jacklyn after liftoff. Blue Origin has rescheduled the launch for January 16, ...
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Iran Begins Purge After Hamas Chief's Assassination In Tehran
In response to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in its capital Tehran, Iran has arrested over two dozen individuals, including high-ranking intelligence officers, military officials, and staff at a military-run guesthouse in the capital.
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Russia Arrests Top General On Corruption Charges: Report
In the latest in the sequence of purges in the country's top offices, the deputy head of the army's general staff, Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin, was arrested on suspicion of large-scale bribe-taking, Al Jazeera reported.
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"Purge The Party": Navjot Sidhu's War Cry Amid Congress' Himachal Crisis
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu this morning launched a strong attack on six party MLAs who cross-voted in Tuesday's Rajya Sabha election - handing the party a defeat in an exercise it should have won with ease - and then seemed to join the BJP.
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"Mother Of Democracy... ": Kapil Sibal On Suspension Of Parliament MPs
Opening out after 78 MPs were suspended from both Houses on Monday, making it the biggest single-day purge in the history of India's Parliament, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal said "mother of democracy has orphaned it".
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In Xi Jinping's China, A "Stalin-Like Purge" Cracks Down On Key Personnel
Hundreds of government personnel in China have vanished under ambiguous circumstances, prompting comparisons to deadly purges overseen by former Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, a report claims.
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China's Defense Minister Sacked Amid Mystery, Was Last Seen On Aug 29
China's Li Shangfu became the nation's shortest-serving defense minister ever, ending months of speculation over his status as President Xi Jinping rolls on with high-profile purges that worry investors.
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Elon Musk Says Some Twitter Accounts May See Followers Drop. Here's Why
Elon Musk on Monday announced that Twitter is canceling accounts that haven't been used for a long time.
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Vladimir Putin Sacks "Butcher Of Mariupol" General Mikhail Mizintsev In Military Purge
President Vladimir Putin has frequently reshuffled top military figures without explanation.
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Twitter Will Finally Remove Legacy Blue Check Marks on April 20, Says Elon Musk
Elon Musk on Tuesday set a deadline for purging legacy blue check-marks from Twitter accounts verified under the company's previous regime. "Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20," tweeted billionaire owner of Twitter, Musk.
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Elon Musk Sets Final Date For Removing Twitter Legacy Blue Checks
Elon Musk on Tuesday set a deadline for purging legacy blue check-marks from Twitter accounts verified under the company's previous regime.
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Twitter Users Balk At Paying $8 A Month For Musk's Blue Check
Twitter Inc.'s new owner, Elon Musk, is purging the social network's free legacy labels as of April 1 and replacing them with a new designation that he says will make the platform more egalitarian and generate much-needed revenue.
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Digi Yatra Data Stored on Passenger Devices and Not in Centralised Storage, Minister Says
Digi Yatra, the biometric boarding system using facial recognition technology (FRT) has no central storage of passengers' Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data, according to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA). The data is stored in the passenger's own phone in the Digi Yatra secure wallet, Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M...
