IBM stated it's ending immigration sponsorships for "a bulk of roles" in its biggest unit.

"IBM Consulting participates in U.S. high-skilled visa programs to location accomplishment shortages," an IBM spokesman stated in a statement. "That involvement has been declining for a figure of years and as accomplishment preparedness and client need have evolved, we have opted to cease visa and green cardstock sponsorship for the bulk of specified roles in IBM Consulting."

The news, which was archetypal reported by Bloomberg, comes as the Trump administration has sought to expert down on tech companies' reliance on abroad workers. In September 2025, President Donald Trump introduced a $100,000 fee on several H-1 B applicants, although that recommendation is tied up in the courts.

Last month, Vice President JD Vance announced that the Trump administration was suspending Microsoft from a national program that companies use to sponsor abroad workers for imperishable residency. Vance stated that the tech business had abused the Permanent Labor Certification process, frequently called PERM.

IBM Consulting is by far the largest component of the tech giant. According to its website, there are complete 150,000 consultants. In its 2025 annual report, IBM reported having 264,300 workforce throughout IBM and its entirely owned subsidiaries.

According to national records, IBM had fair complete 1,600 H-1B petitions approved in financial twelvemonth 2026, compared to complete 2,000 in FY 2025 and nearly 3,000 in FY 2024. The records are for IBM as a whole, definition they solitary wouldn't decide how many IBM Consulting workforce are being sponsored. The figures may additionally not portray new workers, as they can mention to revised or extended applications for existing employees.

Bloomberg reported that workforce affected by the alter can continue operating for IBM exterior the US or depart the business by the end of the year.

Anthropic is betting its tech can assistance corporate lawyers depend small on exterior counsel. Its own way to the community markets offers a reminder that law firms are not going anywhere.

The business expects to expend $41.5 myriad on lawful fees for its inventory market debut, according to paperwork it submitted Tuesday for its initial community offering. It additionally disclosed expenses tied to underwriting and a highway show. Outside advise was among its largest expenses.

That is a hefty sum equal by IPO standards. A Nasdaq analysis of 1,239 market listings from 2016 through 2025 established that companies raising additional than $1 milliard budgeted an average of $4.9 myriad for lawful fees. The fig may be rising as companies remain personal longer and arrive to market as larger, additional complex businesses.

SpaceX's IPO offers one sign of the new scale. Its S-1 filing showed the aerospace elephantine budgeted $25.5 myriad in lawful fees onward of its Nasdaq debut, the largest offering on record.

For the law firms on either flank of the deal, Anthropic's listing is an chance to portion in the windfall. Wilson Sonsini is foremost the offering, during Freshfields is representing the underwriters.

Orrick advised Anthropic on administrator pay and equity matters. Cleary Gottlieb advised the company's Long-Term Benefit Trust on governance issues, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore advised Anthropic's cofounders on governance matters.

A spokesman for Anthropic didn't immediately react to a petition for comment.

Anthropic is not fair staffing up exterior counsel. It's additionally reshuffling its own lawful squad onward of a market debut.

The business promoted Elena Leichty to broad advise at the end of the summer, during Jeffrey Bleich transitioned to a new function as global particular envoy. Brian Israel serves as chief lawful officer.

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By Joe Brockmeier
November 10, 2026

Mike Lothian owns a docking position (or dock) that uses a DisplayLink chipset that had, at smallest in his opinion, subpar achievement on Linux. He decided to try improving the Linux driver, alongside LLM assistance, but ran into one problem that he could not solve—so he asked for help, expecting that Synaptics's developers would contribute a hand. (DisplayLink was acquired by Synaptics in 2022.) Rather than assistance him in improving the driver, however, the Synaptics lawful squad responded alongside patent infringement claims, a demand that he cease unauthorized implementation of DisplayLink technology, and threats of costly lawful penalties. For now, it appears that Linux users of the company's docks volition have to continue to live without characteristic parity alongside other platforms.

Synaptics and Displaylink

The dock that he was trying to assistance is a Dell equipment that connects to a scheme via USB 3 and allows users to nexus multiple monitors and other devices to their computer. It provides its DisplayLink Manager (DLM) application for Linux for the devices via an APT repository for Ubuntu.

The business lone provides DLM application in binary form, and lone for x86-based platforms. The application is proprietary, but the business does keep an open-source, out-of-tree kernel component that is included alongside DLM, the Extensible Virtual Display Interface (EVDI) project. It provides a controller that's compatible alongside Linux DRM and allows users to oversee their docked displays alongside norm tools used for display settings, specified as xrandr or GNOME and KDE Plasma's utilities.

A short article explains why the business has not released origin code for DLM: the software uses a proprietary graphics innovation called DL3 to create a compressed stream of the assorted channels (e.g., USB, DisplayLink video, audio) complete a communication conduit (USB 3 in this case) and decode it again for output to the user's devices.

Unfortunately, the vendor-supplied application did not activity fine for Lothian. I spoke and chatted alongside him via Signal during penning this article; he stated that the controller kept crashing under Linux, so he decided to use his Claude subscription to try to create a new controller and assistance software.

Vino

He posted the first patch series for Vino—his Rust-based DRM/KMS driver—to the kernel's dri-devel catalog as an RFC on June 17. Lothian noted that it was in an incomplete state, and asked for assistance alongside a blocker that he had run into trying to communicate alongside the dock's authority plane. "If you have knowledge of the DisplayLink DL3 control-plane involvement sequence, or ideas for isolating a whole-bus timing/ordering asset a per-channel diff cannot see, help would be extremely welcome." He received feedback from a few developers, including guidance from Danilo Krummrich to rework the controller to use the Rust KMS bindings, but no advice specific to the issue he was trying to solve.

Lothian additionally opened an issue on the EVDI GitHub repository on June 17. It explained the activity he'd done so far, outlined the approach in trying to reverse-engineer the DL3 protocol, provided links to his GitHub repository alongside the Vino code, and asked for clarification on a few issues. There was no answer to his issue.

He additionally reached out to Łukasz Spintzyk of Synaptics immediately by email; his correspondence alongside the business between July 5 and October 7 is available in this PDF compiled by Lothian. He noted that he had established a few bugs in EVDI and opened a pull request (that went unreviewed for multiple months), and additionally asked for aid anywhere he was blocked on Vino. On July 20, he received a reply, not from Spintzyk, but from Michal Lukaszek of Synaptics:

The logic I'm penning is that DisplayLink is not an open standard. The protocol, codec, and another technologies used by DisplayLink devices are proprietary to Synaptics and are protected by a significant portfolio of patents in a figure of jurisdictions, including the UK.

From what you've published, it appears that the VINO project is progressing beyond interoperability activity and toward implementing innovation that we believe is covered by those patents. While many developers understandably concentration on avoiding copyrighted origin code, patent law is different. An independently written or clean-room implementation does not necessarily evade patent infringement if it implements patented inventions.

Lukaszek stated it was entirely imaginable that Lothian was unaware of the "intellectual asset landscape surrounding DisplayLink", so he wanted to create him conscious now fairly than "have the circumstance rotate into additional formal later". Lothian lives in Scotland and has a ".co.uk" email address, which explains why the email made citation to the UK.

Cease and desist

On August 17, Andrew Bateman, an aide broad assembly of intellectual asset for Synaptics, sent a cease-and-desist notice. The letter stated that Lothian had not "substantially responded" to Lukaszek's communication, and had continued with "public statements and additional betterment activities". It included an appendix alongside a catalog of 125 patents that "cover essential aspects of DisplayLink's architecture and operation", but did not define which patents might be infringed by the work.

Synaptics included a catalog of eight demands it expected contiguous compliance with, including ceasing betterment of "any application or other implementation that infringes any Synaptics patent", withdrawing submissions of materials "made to Linux kernel maintainers, mailing lists, code-hosting platforms, bundle maintainers, distributions, or any another individual or organization", and to acknowledge in penning all location "in which the relevant materials have been published, submitted, stored, or distributed". It additionally demanded that he provision Synaptics alongside a signed confirmation, by August 28, that he had complied alongside its demands.

Lothian, instead, posted version three of his Vino activity for the DisplayLink docks to the dri-devel catalog on August 26. He stated that the former two versions had "never lit a panel", but the new activity could authority three generations of DL3 docks without any vendor software. There were no substantive reviews of the place set posted to the list, although there were several automated reviews from Sashiko.

On August 27, Lothian responded to Bateman and asked him to elaborate on the patents that Synaptics idea were being infringed. "A assertion chart mapping the applicable claims to the applicable code would create it much easier for me to comprehend and correctly react to your concerns."

He additionally expressed disturbance concerning Synaptics's stance that his activity was being treated as patent infringement. Synaptics is a associate of the Open Invention Network (OIN), which was created to assistance open-source developers and vendors agreement alongside the threats of costly patent litigation. It holds a large, cross-licensed portfolio that serves to provision patent protection to individuals, open-source projects, and ample vendors alike. Lothian stated that he was now an OIN licensee as well, and he idea that it was expected to "reduce exactly this kind of patent issue about Linux and open source software".

He asked Bateman to explain how Synaptics claims "interact alongside our respective OIN commitments", and expressed a desire to kind things out with Synaptics constructively. "I don't think a community disagreement between Synaptics and an idiosyncratic open origin developer would be particularly helpful for either of us, particularly inside the Linux and open origin communities".

Lothian did not think he could "reasonably provision the signed undertaking" Synaptics had demanded by August 28 without understanding which patent claims it was alleging. He asked for an expansion to the deadline. There was no response from Bateman, so Lothian sent a follow-up email on September 18. He stated he was concerned there was no acknowledgment to his last email, and wondered it was harmless to assume he could continue his work. He had been operating the Vino controller himself for fairly a while, and was enthusiastic to move it upstream without having patent threats hanging complete the work.

Bateman responded the next day and stated that he have to be concerned:

As you earlier requested, we have been documenting your ongoing patent infringement by mapping your Vino controller to particular claims of our DisplayLink patents. I volition provision this assertion mapping records to you inside the next two weeks. I volition additionally be sending to you our petition for significant monetary compensation to recoup the disbursal and attempt required to create specified documentation of your infringing acts. I earlier gave you the chance to halt your infringement, but you decided to shove rear and not heed my warnings, and so now we are escalating as we deem appropriate.

The letter continued to assertion that Lothian would be "single-handedly eviscerating DisplayLink's rivalrous advantage in this crowded market by educating our competitors and another third parties as to how we execute our proprietary technology". He stated that DisplayLink is not a associate of OIN, and none of its innovation is licensable through OIN or any other organization.

Bateman sent a follow-up letter, dated October 5, that included two assertion charts for UK patents: GB2484736B ("Display authority device") and GB2485613B ("Image generation"), the two submitted in 2010 and published in 2012. He reiterated Synaptics's demands from its previous letter, and stated that the deadline was now October 11; nonaccomplishment to comply would outcome in the business seeking "monetary compensation from you in the amount of US$25,000 to recoup the expenses and attempt required to create the attached records of your infringing acts". That amount would be risen by $25,000 all week until the company's demands were complied with.

Lothian responded the next day, by email, to say that he was on vacation, and would not be rear residence until October 13. He asked for an extension of the deadline to come back residence and go through the assertion charts "ideally with someone qualified to assistance me peruse them". Bateman replied that Synaptics would concur to broaden the deadline to October 18, although no further extensions would be granted. He reiterated that "DisplayLink is not a member of OIN" and none of its innovation was licensable through OIN.

OIN to the rescue?

Synaptics is a associate of OIN, and is listed in the community directory. In supplement to joining OIN, Lothian had reached out to the organization to try to solicit its assistance and has been in communication alongside several of the personnel there. OIN indicated that it would appearance into the matter and see if he had any safety as an OIN member. That procedure took longer than Lothian hoped, although OIN did eventually provision its conclusion.

OIN's portfolio covers a broad range of application that matches its Linux System Definition, but it does not shield everything that power be implemented for a Linux system. In particular, its definition specifies that codecs ("a component of a program capable of performing transformations of a video, still image or audio data stream or signal") are not covered unless specifically mentioned in this list of components.

I said briefly to OIN CEO Keith Bergelt on October 23, shortly after OIN personnel informed Lothian of the outcome of their research. Bergelt stated that OIN's decision was that, since codecs are explicitly not covered by OIN's Linux System Definition, its protections did not broaden to Lothian's attempted kernel contributions. OIN had recommended that Lothian attain out to a attorney in the UK, and provided a recommendation.

Status

Unfortunately, that referral did not pan out, Lothian said. He has not stated up entirely, but he has taken downward the GitHub repository to comply alongside Synaptics's demands. For now, he may continue operating on several of components that are not affected by the patent claims, but the activity on Vino volition not be submitted to the kernel. "Vino itself has to remain local until this is sorted out, I just can't oversee to defend myself against Synaptics."

Perhaps amusingly, Lothian told me that person from Synaptics finally replied to the drag petition on October 7. Lothian told me he does not intend to prosecute up on the comments: "You can't endanger to sue me and then say 'can you update your drag request?'"

For the period being, Synaptics has succeeded in shutting downward an attempt to improve the way DisplayLink docks activity alongside Linux. It is an unpleasant reminder that, during much of the current conversations in open-source communities are concerned alongside LLM-driven development, application patents motionless stance problems for free-software developers and users.

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Every so often, person in SEO announces “f*** keywords” or a akin sentiment. It’s not really a “hot take.” Moreover, it’s item that we see period and again.

Sometimes it’s a fair reply to how reluctant several group in the industry are to change. Other times it feels additional akin a meme response, or a flex. A way to display you’ve moved on from old-school SEO without saying much concerning what you do differently, exaggerating a strain between pro/anti keywords without understanding it.

I have several sympathy for the opinion for sure. I’ve worked on too many campaigns anywhere achievement came downward to whether a fistful of keywords went up or down. Once those rankings became THE GOAL, it was uncomplicated to expend additional period explaining two dropped places than asking whether we met the chief endeavor need. More damagingly, in the worst cases we were remaining making decisions fair for promoting keywords, fairly than the endeavor goals they were expected to enable.

I don’t cognize how many group motionless run campaigns that way, and I doubtful small than the “f*** keywords” cry implies. What interests me is how quickly the disagreement goes from “this is a bad way to fairness a campaign” to “why are we thinking concerning keywords at all?”

Which Page Is Catering To What Intent?

Take an example hunt akin [hotels near Heathrow alongside a shuttle]. It’s a decent shorthand for what person wants to cognize before they book. Is there a shuttle to the terminal? Does it run whenever my escape lands? Do I need to reserve a seat? It additionally gives you a clue concerning what tongue you need to use to acquire acknowledgment from the searcher.

If guests are looking for a shuttle, the leaf titled “ground transport solutions” is making them do additional activity than they need to. Again, a fictitious example, but I have misplaced track of how many times in my occupation I’ve seen businesses wanting to mark the ways they define their products/services, NOT how group hunt for them.

In this instance, what is additional crucial is that the first hunt query becomes emblematic of a sequence of questions that need answering, possibly throughout a sequence of pages. Whether we call this a hub and said model, or a satisfied cluster, whatever, we have captured part of the client journey alongside a query and afterward resolute the possible connected queries.

This is anywhere a keyword map (or location map) earns its keep, lengthy following the first investigation is done and the satisfied written and published. Imagine that six months afterward person rewrites a particular location page. The shuttle timetable moves into a broad FAQ and a new transfers leaf goes live. All three changes are totally logical, but taken together, they can depart the location without a apparent location to answer the inquiry the location leaf used to own. Without realizing it, you have sleepwalked into undoing the investigation you have done before.

If you’ve recorded which leaf serves that need, the next satisfied publishing company or SEO has item to go rear to. They can justify that intent/search query is motionless considered, move satisfied responsibility, update the inner links, and justify the redirects are done. The keyword map preserves the reasoning rearward those first decisions and helps you inform the difference between an intentional alter and targeting that drifted complete a few rounds of absolutely sensible edits.

The keywords aren’t the sole truth, nor are they to be treated as an immutable dogma, but throwing them in the “f***it bucket” could be missing item important.

Too chill for keywords now? Great, but how does governance work? How do you justify you’re not wasting the prosperity already spent on research? Yeah, I cognize – that appears tedious, since it can be. And construction a procedure to create certain this isn’t painfully manual IS hard.

But it is value it.

What Will You Actually Track?

You can arrange your activity about topics, and you can use embeddings to assistance collection the tongue – in fact you should! But at several point, you’ll at smallest need to benchmark general visibility, and you motionless have to choose what to category into a hunt box or put in a prompt. You can total your rank/prompt tracking for a satisfied collection – which is needed – but before the aggregation comes selections of idiosyncratic prompts and terms.

Stakeholders need to buy into those prompts/terms/queries that create up that collection OR you 10x the figure of particular tracked elements to totally de-emphasize any idiosyncratic one. Not a bad idea, but you addition your expenses considerably and motionless need to regard the wording, conditions and intents on idiosyncratic pages whenever it comes to making optimizations.

Instead, I’d happily track a few delegate searches for a stated page, anywhere I would additionally desire to see which URL(s) appeared and whether they answered the question. Those observations can inform us whether the leaf is doing several of the activity we intended, whether another leaf is possibly conflicting and anywhere our own satisfied is falling rearward competitors.

“Wait, we motionless use keywords in our data, but we don’t study on the achievement of idiosyncratic keywords anymore!” That is absolutely sensible, but it turns out that maybe, perhaps, the “f*** keywords” stance is additional clickbait than genuine astute thinking – right?

These are SEO basics; I totally understand. Prompt tracking and AI hunt do ultimately de-emphasize the importance of exact keywords in favor of meaning. But regard that embedding content into vectors is so “machines” can comprehend it. Your team, colleagues and stakeholders motionless need the individual type to comprehend how to optimize and tell the narrative of what is/isn’t working.

What Happened Between The Ranking And The Business Outcomes?

All of this helps us comprehend what we’re apparent for, but it doesn’t inform us what happened next – and that is perchance the biggest weakness.

In Search City, I wrote concerning the enticement to lone optimize for the bits of the hunt journey we can see. Rankings were continually among the easier bits to detect – that is why we have had an mighty job replacing them alongside a additional helpful metric, and why the issues hitting immediate trackers are so disruptive to the industry! But now, equal whenever person makes a hunt and sees you for that query/keyword/prompt, the part that links that instant to a click and afterward an crucial endeavor event can be nearly totally disconnected.

Knowing whether we “rank” for a keyword or not is motionless an crucial data point. Fixating on that sole data item is mad – but that goes for any sole data point. We need to use it to build the picture, build a narrative and provision insight.

If I went rear to any of those campaigns I ran anywhere I felt sole conditions were prioritized (to a fault), I’d likely motionless keep several of the identical keywords – as triggering as that may be.

I’d use them to concur which searches mattered the most, decide which pages should assist them and inspect whether those pages motionless do the job. When it came period to fairness the campaign, I’d desire to cognize what happened to the customers/clicks we were trying to win. That was the inquiry the rankings were expected to assistance us answer in the archetypal place, and it is motionless item they can assistance answer today.

More Resources:

• AI Visibility Measurement: What To Track & What To Ignore
• 4 Datasets On AI Visibility: ChatGPT Sends 0.62% Of Google’s Organic Traffic
• How To Define & Report SEO KPIs That Actually Move The C-Suite

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Uber cofounder and ex-CEO Travis Kalanick has shared a guide for combating what he called a "modern-day coup/psyop/struggle session" following Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang became embroiled in scandal.

Kalanick did not name Huang or Nvidia in his X article Monday, but his communication appeared as scrutiny intensified complete Huang's admission that he had an extramarital affair.

At the center of the saga is Alice Huang, whom The New York Times reported final duration was believed by US intellect officials to be acting as a spy for the Chinese government.

In his X post, Kalanick detailed a 12-point catalog of "practical principles to counter" a reputational crisis.

"Own what you did but fiercely oppose accommodating the mob, oppose owning half-truths or actions/behaviors you didn't do," Kalanick wrote as the archetypal regulation on his list.

He followed that with, "The op is not concerning your former actions, it's concerning your enemies and this event as their opportunity."

Kalanick additionally suggested that any fallout may not be as dire as you think, writing, "No matter how bad it gets, nothing is as bad as it seems."

The Uber cofounder's direction included finding the "enemies at the extremely base of the op," cutting off anyone suspected of disloyalty, and construction a squad of "close and loyal patriots" alongside one who can run a "well-resourced war room."

"Your enemies aren't as astute or difficult operating as you," Kalanick wrote in item nine. "Outsmart and outwork them as a way of existence until the op is over."

He additionally urged those facing specified a circumstance to transport on alongside "business as usual," adding, "Continue on alongside optimism and joy in your mundane activity and its mission."

Additionally, Kalanick advised downloading the encrypted messaging app Telegram for "all delicate communications."

At the top of the post, Kalanick stated he had "a small period on my hands this dawn to do several writing" and encouraged followers to "send alongside to person you cognize who may benefit."

Kalanick did not immediately react to a petition for comment concerning whether he may have had Jensen Huang in mind.

Uber investors pressured Kalanick to resign as the ride-hailing company's CEO in 2017 following a sequence of scandals roiled the company.

Meanwhile, Jensen Huang's admission that he was "unfaithful" to his spouse of complete 40 years has prompted Nvidia to initiate an autonomous inquiry into whether he was the "target of a abroad intellect effort."

Nvidia's commission has stated it has confidence in his leadership, although the controversy has raised questions concerning whether he volition remain CEO of the $4.5 trillion AI chipmaker.

My family continually hosted Thanksgiving, which meant cooking our complete meal from scratch, from stuffing to gravy to pie crust. One year, we equal made our own rolls.

But everyone is busier these days, and purchasing specialty ingredients adds up. So whenever I heard concerning Aldi's Thanksgiving market plan that, according to the retailer, includes everything you need for a complete, no-fuss, home-cooked feast for 10 for under $39, I knew I had to try it.

A few weeks before the holiday, I visited Aldi, bought the ingredients, and attempted to create its Turkey Day spread.

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Today, Ableton announced Live 13, which is expected to attain in first 2027 alongside a slew of new features. Most of the changes are apparently insignificant on paper, but whenever combined, they create for the biggest update to the digital audio workstation (DAW) in years.

The characteristic most apt to diagram notice is the supplement of a appropriate stage sequencer. While Ableton’s Push controller had a dedicated stage sequencer, and you could efficiently use the keyboard rotate as one, the desktop app never included one. Ableton didn’t phone this characteristic in either — it’s a mighty sequencer. You can alter velocity, timing, chance, length, and repeats for all stage in the grid. Each track can have its own length, playback rate, and direction, letting you create item complex and evolving.

The supplement of ARA plugin assistance volition additionally apt excite pro producers and vocalists. This method compatible plugins can now be used immediately on audio in the DAW. For example, throw correction and time-stretching tool Melodyne earlier required you to import audio from Ableton into Melodyne, afterward render it rear out to a track in your DAW. Now it can spotless up messy vocal takes immediately in Live’s UI.

Ableton has additionally added a new mixer perspective that lets you see all the loaded devices on a track in a compact vertical view. Here you can drag and autumn them between tracks, or copy and paste them. It additionally makes it much easier to navigate a sprawling 30-track meeting quickly at a glance.

My individual favorite new supplement is Looplet, an experimental looping device alongside four playheads and a ton of options for manipulating your audio. It offers granular processing, filtering, throw and speed control, and all playhead can be routed to idiosyncratic tracks for additional processing. It’s a mighty tool for ambient and soundtrack work.

The complete catalog of new features is sprawling, so current are fair a few additional highlights:

Boeing announced Monday that it volition cut 5% of personnel in its business division, which makes the 737 and another airplanes used by millions of travelers worldwide.

The layoffs stem from Boeing's inability to addition manufacturing as quickly as hoped, definition it is "overstaffed," the division's CEO, Stephanie Pope, stated in an inner memo obtained by Business Insider.

Boeing has been ramping up manufacturing of its most famous aircraft, the 737 Max, as it recovers from a norm and safety emergency sparked by the Alaska Airlines blowout in January 2024.

While it had hoped to create 47 of the 737 Max a duration this year, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg told investors on an earnings call in October that expanding manufacturing was taking longer than expected.

That sent the company's portion cost downward 10.7%. The inventory is 25% lesser so far in 2026.

Boeing volition create the cuts through "a blend of attrition and involuntary layoffs," Pope stated in the memo. Affected personnel volition be told commencement in December.

The business airplanes division, known as BCA, is Boeing's largest business, employing concerning 50,000 people, definition the planned 5% decrease is equal to approximately 2,500 employees.

BCA accounted for 44% of the company's income final fourth but made a $697 myriad loss. Boeing's Defense & Space and Global Services divisions were profitable in that period.

In a declaration released following the cuts were announced, Boeing stated it is operating alongside personnel to "minimize the impact" of the layoffs by "supporting their occupation passage through company-sponsored outplacement services, layoff benefits, and employee aid program support."

Read Pope's complete memo to personnel below:

Team,Over the former two years, we have made important investments in talent, training, and infrastructure throughout BCA to stabilize our endeavor and fortify our basis for the future.In supplement to your difficult activity and dedication, these investments have contributed to meaningful improvements in our improvement including norm and shipment performance, 737-7 and 737-10 certification, and affirmative changes to our culture.While we have made significant progress, we have not yet completely recovered.As shared in our third-quarter earnings, we need to reset the gait of our manufacturing charge ramps to provision our factories and provision sequence partners additional period to accomplish stability. Adjusting our manufacturing schedules and reducing airplane output puts us in an overstaffed position.Unfortunately, that method we need to align our staffing levels to our revised endeavor plan, resulting in a decrease of about 5% through a blend of attrition and involuntary layoffs, alongside notifications commencement in December.I cognize how difficult these actions are and the effect they volition have on all of us, our families, and our communities. We volition never obtain that lightly. We volition do everything we can to minimise the effect by supporting occupation transitions through company-sponsored outplacement services, layoff benefits, and Employee Assistance Program support.Throughout this process, we volition remain true to our Values & Behaviors, including our resolute dedication to safety and norm and our duty to justify that everyone is treated alongside dignity and respect.Thank you for everything you do to assistance all another and our customers. The advancement we have made demonstrates what is imaginable whenever we remain focused, resilient, and committed to one another. By continuing to attention for one another, uphold our standards, and activity together alongside purpose, we volition complete our improvement and build a stronger forthcoming for BCA.Stephanie

Google issued type 1.0 of Modern Web Guidance, which is a liberated accomplishment set that web betterment teams may use as an enhancement to their AI coding tools, in command for those tools to compose code according to current browser features. The skills are in the form of packaged guidelines that the delegate volition appearance at during penning the code. The code generated by the delegate volition additionally be sent to the identical pages that are evaluated for metrics specified as Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Interaction to Next Paint (INP), and accessibility.

Philip Walton, a elder personnel developer relations engineer at Google, announced the publish in a Chrome for Developers post. Version 1.0 adds an audit for existing code, and Firefox and Edge are joining the project. Chrome archetypal released the direction as an early preview at Google I/O in May.

Teams can instal it by operating npx modern-web-guidance@latest instal in a project directory. It’s additionally accessible through the plugin marketplaces of most famous coding agents, according to the post.

What’s New In Version 1.0

Version 1.0’s audit volition go through a project’s HTML, CSS, JavaScript records as fine as its package.json to acknowledge areas anywhere developers are capable to safely update their code, afterward stroll the delegate through the changes. This archetypal repeat of the audit uses fixed inspection to appearance at a constricted figure of code patterns, according to the post.

The article says the archive now targets “hundreds of verified AI cognition gaps” throughout its guides. Additionally, current coding models continue to autumn abbreviated in Google’s tests of accessibility, safety headers, and loading precedence for scripts and images.

According to Google, all of the guides is now reviewed and approved by a domain tech lead. For user-facing characteristic guides there is a dedicated accessibility assessment done by experts who use assistive technologies daily.

A governance document was uploaded to the project’s GitHub repository on Nov. 9 which outlines six owner seats for the project. Two of those seats pertain to Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla all have one, and two are stated to autonomous web phase experts. There is currently one open autonomous place and no place belongs to Apple.

What Google’s Evals Measure

Google’s notice links to a community eval dashboard anywhere coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google run the identical set of tasks all night, alongside and without the guidance. A genuine browser afterward checks the DOM, styles and origin code of all completed app.

When I checked Tuesday morning, guided runs were passing 88% of the automated checks, whereas unguided runs were passing 56%. These figures are based upon all agent’s blended results for nightly runs completed Nov. 8; the range is 199 to 215 tasks per agent. The dashboard provides a constricted assessment (not a complete WCAG audit, it says) of accessibility features specified as assistance for keyboards, focus, and form labels.

Its project prompts don’t citation the guidance, so all delegate has to activity out on its own whenever a guide applies. In most of the latest suites listed, guided runs ran slower and burned additional tokens.

Accessibility adviser Adrian Roselli evaluated the preview in May by giving Antigravity (Google’s AI coding tool) an animated accordion immediate established in the documentation. However, according to Roselli, the output did not comply alongside WCAG and its animation was not functional in Firefox. He additionally established no assurance that agents would be capable to prosecute the guidelines. This was for the preview, not v1.0.

What Early Users Reported

The new guidelines were tested by Japan’s creator platform, note inc. using two coding agents that ran through six person interface (UI) tasks throughout 180 test runs on copy versions of note inc.’s manufacturing code base. As explained in a Chrome blog, the two agents’ scores on 19 browser checks rosy following installing the accomplishment without naming it in prompts, afterward again formerly prompts named it. Agent One went from 60.8% to 76.5% to 94.0%. Similarly, Agent Two had scores of 75.8%, 86.2%, and 90.0% under the identical three test conditions.

One of note’s tasks checked whether the largest depiction in perspective on an part leaf had elevated precedence and wasn’t lazy-loaded. The difference array in the article shows that unguided agents wrote champion depiction code using the two elevated precedence and lazy loading.

The direction is run by MetaMask, as part of an automatic assessment procedure for all drag petition submitted to its open-source browser extension, according to a second Chrome post. Through Oct. 21 (the archetypal five weeks), the bot identified 102 issues throughout 57 characteristic and fix drag requests. The engineers completely resolved 43 of them and partially resolved three of them. Another 16 were either declined or false positives. Twenty of them went unaddressed. The outcome of the another 20 is unknown.

Why This Matters

Modern Web Guidance provides a no-cost method for teams to advance agents penning code to use native browser capabilities and that includes code in existing bequest code bases. Most of the results that have been published are according to evaluation conducted by Google as fine as client evaluation that Google highlighted. Note Inc. tested the two agents using the identical immediate alongside and without telling them to use the guidance; they the two performed improved whenever the immediate did inform them to use the guidance. The squad can additionally tag their prompts to contain the direction and keep site data and manual accessibility evaluation in the review.

Looking Ahead

Google says it plans to develop this procedure of auditing existing code at several point, as fine as performing audits in which the delegate is reasoning concerning the genuine code being audited.

The business suggests pairing the direction alongside Chrome DevTools for agents to authorize the delegate to run its own created code and test it inner of the browser. Preview users can use the command npx modern-web-guidance@latest update.

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Source: Google.

I've never had a issue alongside commitment.

I got wed at 18, and our association is motionless going powerful 23 years later. Ten years ago, I started my own endeavor and never looked back.

When item feels right, I don't discarded period keeping my options open. I go all in. So whenever my husband, Jarrod, got a video-game betterment job in Sweden in 2022, we committed.

We bought a home, enrolled our son in school, registered my business, and started learning the language. We made friends, shopped local, and got Swedish driver's licenses.

Unfortunately, none of that matters much whenever your visa is tied to an employer.

At first, moving to Sweden felt akin a astute scheme — and we adapted fine

To be clear, uprooting our lives to live in another country wasn't a willy-nilly decision.

Before agreeing to the job and the move, we visited Skövde in individual and met alongside multiple founding members of Jarrod's prospective studio. It seemed as well-managed and stable as any equivalent studio can be, and Jarrod was enthusiastic to jump into the function as art director.

Plus, there were multiple another video-game studios in town. Video games can be a fickle business, and this meant there could be another local occupation opportunities if item went sideways.

We additionally checked out the schools and the accommodation market. We ended up purchasing a awesome residence on Billingen Mountain.

It's big adequate for two residence offices, a playroom, and a visitant area for our American family and allies — but alongside a small yard, so the care isn't overwhelming.

The pace equal has an apple tree alongside a sway that's the ideal size for our son, and he stops to perform on it all day whenever he gets residence from school.

As much as we missed our allies and family rear in the US, we spent the next few years settling into a beautiful life in Sweden.

We continued practicing the tongue and construction community — and got extremely acquainted to the affordable childcare and accessible healthcare.

We adapted to the seasons and local quirks, too. I created a sunset coffee regular to last the winter whenever the sun sets shortly following 3 pm And I bought blackout curtains for whenever the sun sets following 10 pm in the summer.

Sweden really became our home; a location we could ideate living in for the lengthy haul.

My husband's job defeat reminded us that the existence we had current was built on susceptible ground

A few years later, whenever Jarrod's studio closed alongside small warning, we were reminded that our existence current was contingent on that job.

As Americans current on a work visa, equal homeownership doesn't aid us the correct to remain in Sweden. And alongside his particular permit, Jarrod was stated three months to discover a comparable stance or depart the country.

Unfortunately, the economics has shifted since we created our contingency plan. A ample percent of local equivalent studios had closed, and none of the remaining ones had art-director positions available.

So, Jarrod's job hunt extended to surrounding cities, akin Gothenburg and Stockholm.

Unfortunately, finding another stance in an already struggling industry has proven harder than we'd anticipated. Plus, hiring a non-citizen feels akin a big ask since of the bureaucratic red strip and expenses that can arrive alongside it.

Thankfully, my endeavor earns adequate to shield our expenses. So equal before Jarrod's job hunt began, I contacted the Swedish Migration Agency agency to let them cognize we are self-sufficient.

Meanwhile, Jarrod began operating alongside multiple erstwhile colleagues to initiate a new equivalent studio, creating their own occupation opportunities in an industry anywhere jobs were disappearing.

However, until the studio can pay him a salary, that activity doesn't meet requirements as occupation for immigration purposes. Ultimately, the agency has asked us to leave, and we have formally appealed that decision.

I began wondering if it was naive of me to think we could build a existence in Sweden — perchance equal entitled.

We'd arrive current legally, paid taxes, learned the language, and bought a property. It was frustrating to awareness akin all of the ways we've unified into the nation complete the former years didn't appear to matter.

We're fighting to stay, but preparing to leave

For now, I'm continuing to run my endeavor in Sweden; my hubby is trying to build his; and we're operating through the petition procedure alongside the assistance of our local attorney to see if we can remain here.

Each period I inspect the mail, I clasp my breath. Best-case scenario: I get notified that our visa has been renewed for two additional years. Worst-case scenario: I discover a notice of denial and a lawful petition that we depart by a certain date. Most apt scenario: our Telia phone bill.

Despite everything, I don't think the instruction current is to live alongside reservations moving forward. Committing small wouldn't have made the final four years any better.

I don't cognize whether we'll get to remain in this nation — but I do cognize that whenever our son gets residence from academy tomorrow, he's going to halt for a sway under our apple tree.

And equal if our period current ends up being temporary, purchasing a residence and assimilating to existence in Sweden has been an unforgettable adventure for all of us.

Do you affection a small highway breeze blasting through the top of your car and ruffling your hair?

Then a Tesla may not be for you. The EV maker's current person models — the Model 3, Model Y, and the soon-to-be-discontinued Cybertruck — recommendation pane roofs that are fixed in place.

During an event of "Jay Leno's Garage" released on Monday, Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla's chief designer, explained why the movable pane rooftop panels formerly offered on the Model S are no longer available.

First, Tesla thinks the novelty wears off on drivers.

"I mean, we're a extremely data-driven company," he said. "We looked at the data and realized that group use the sunroof whenever they perchance archetypal get the car."

Second, nixing the sunroof makes cars easier to build.

Von Holzhausen stated Tesla's old motorized sunroofs were "really complicated" and that Tesla saw the features "in assistance fairly a bit." It was heavy, he added, and required a lot of parts to build.

Manufacturing simplicity is one of Tesla's center strengths. Its cars necessitate fewer parts and fasteners to build than its competitors.

This year, Tesla has taken several striking steps to create conveyance gathering lines equal additional efficient: In April, the business stopped making the Model S and Model X (the second of which CEO Elon Musk formerly called a "Fabergé egg," since of its complex design, including its signature falcon-wing rear doors).

Last week, Musk posted on X that it was winding downward manufacturing of the Cybertruck. On Monday, Musk stated part of that rationale was the "opportunity disbursal of the complexity of Cybertruck."

Leno, during strolling about a 2027 Model Y L alongside a fixed pane roof, compared tilting and beginning sunroofs to a residence hot tub: an breathtaking characteristic owners power use at first, but one that quickly loses its appeal.

"It's just, you know, a lot of parts to build it," von Holzhausen added. "If group aren't using it, why go through the hustle?"

This as-told-to composition is according to a conversation alongside Lexi Larson, the 30-year-old originator of Sunday Cherries, a loungewear brand based in Denver. It has been edited for dimension and clarity.

Before launching my loungewear brand, Sunday Cherries, in first 2024, I worked remotely for a promotion agency. I needed a imaginative outlet, so I started posting TikToks concerning my existence and operating from home.

I was continually curious in video and social media, and I knew social media was a mighty tool I could use to initiate my own project, but I wasn't certain what benevolent of endeavor I wanted to start.

Then I noticed that whenever I wore a cute, cozy outfit in my videos, group would ask anywhere they were from. That gave me the idea to create loungewear that was comfortable but motionless made you awareness put together.

I kept making vlogs, and in first 2024, I discontinue my job to concentration on construction my brand. My archetypal two years were mostly concerning figuring everything out. Thankfully, my followers were alongside for the ride.

I now awareness akin I established my groove. Here are the lessons I've learned alongside the way.

I started the brand alongside $50,000 from my savings

I put it into a distinct endeavor financial institution account, which became the Sunday Cherries account. The brand has been entirely funded from my savings. I've gotten a few offers from investors, but I discontinue my job since I didn't bask having group inform me what to do, and taking on investors felt akin having a chief again.

I was so nervous concerning my archetypal launch. I ordered concerning 300 hoodies and 300 sweatpants, and I idea there was no way I would market them all. That archetypal command disbursal about $24,000, which was a really scary invoice to pay.

I did concerning $35,000 in revenue that day, and everything sold out, which was crazy. It made me awareness akin there was a market for the brand.

I sold out my archetypal initiate by including my audience

Being a content creator helped a lot. I brought my spectators into the procedure by sharing garments samples and asking what colors they liked, which made them awareness invested.

I think my followers enjoyed seeing person so transparent and open concerning the procedure of starting a brand and what it takes. Many brands current a ideal image, and you don't see item rearward the scenes.

I've learned how much inventory to buy

After my archetypal launch, I realized it would be concerning two months before I had additional stock. People would afterward sojourn the website and be unable to buy anything.

That taught me a lot concerning inventory preparedness and forecasting. When I archetypal started, I would command the minimum amount since I didn't cognize what would happen. I've since learned additional concerning what sells on my website and what colors, fabrics, and fits group want. I additionally obtain seasonality into account.

Now, I'm additional assured concerning ordering additional inventory whenever I think item volition do well.

I've learned you can't authority everything that goes wrong

Manufacturing has likely been my biggest learning curve. In the beginning, I spent hours searching and established my manufacturer's website on approximately the third leaf of Google hunt results.

For my archetypal drop, I ordered hoodies that were expected to have a vintage, acid-wash finish. When they arrived, a lot of them were stained alongside bleach. I had to go through all hoodie and dispatch rear the damaged ones. It was extremely time-consuming, but the manufacturer fixed the damaged products.

I've additionally had manufacturing delays. Recently, a pants command was expected to container out, but whenever the manufacturer sent me pictures of the completed products, I noticed the inseams were multiple inches too long. I had to halt the shipping procedure and have them go rear and update the inseam measurements, which pushed the initiate rear by a brace of weeks.

A brace of years ago, item akin that would've really stressed me out. I would've idea the endeavor was complete and that I was going to endure all my money. Now, whenever item akin that comes up, I'm additional apt to think, let's agreement alongside it and move on.

I've learned to outsource

When I started, I rented a 250-square-foot storage area and would go there all day to put inventory on the shelves, group orders, and container them out. It was a full-time job in itself. Eventually, I realized I couldn't activity on item alternatively since I was spending too much period in the warehouse.

In March 2026, I switched to a logistics business that handles receiving inventory, picking and packing orders, and shipping them out. It's saved me a lot of time.

I've never hired anyone as a salaried employee, but I activity alongside multiple freelancers and contractors. I'll discover inspiration pictures of a scheme I desire to create and dispatch them to my tech group designer. She takes my design, creates a CAD model, and compiles the measurements so the manufacturer knows how to create the garment.

I additionally have person locally who helps me alongside content. I concentration on my page, and she helps me alongside filming and editing for the Sunday Cherries pages.

One item I'm glad I did is build an email list

I watched videos concerning how to commencement a business, and one item I kept hearing was that your email list is among the few things you own. On social media, your document could be deleted tomorrow, and you'd endure everything.

Before launching my products, I built my email catalog to concerning 15,000 people. From the extremely beginning, I was posting concerning it and trying to get as many group as I could to sign up.

The biggest instruction I learned: You don't have to cognize everything before you start

I held myself rear for a lengthy period since I felt akin I needed additional experience, but I realized you're never going to awareness 100% prepared, and there's no way to evade all matter or mistake. You fair have to decide, start, and be assured in yourself to keep going.

Some months, I bring in $50,000 to $60,000 in sales, and the next duration it could be zero. It's been extremely up and down.

Thankfully, my social media earnings is adequate to pay my bills, so I'm not taking any prosperity out of the brand yet. I'm reinvesting everything into ordering additional products, improving the website and fit, and creating new products.

Even although he famously formerly sang that prosperity can't buy him love, Paul McCartney can beautiful much buy item alternatively — Forbes officially estimates his net value is now at $1.4 billion.

He joins a small collection of musicians whom Bloomberg or Forbes have estimated to be billionaires, including Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Beyoncé, and Jay-Z. Before Jimmy Buffett's death in September 2023, he was additionally part of this association gratitude to his Margaritaville empire.

Here's how the wealthiest living musicians made their fortunes.

I'm a big fan of New York-style cheesecake — a traditional dessert known for its dense, tangy cream-cheese filling, typically set atop a graham-cracker crust.

However, baking one at residence can effortlessly obtain hours, and a trip to a small bakery isn't continually an option.

So, I picked up four grocery-store versions from Whole Foods, Walmart, Costco, and Trader Joe's to discover out which ones really provision that traditional cheesecake taste. Here's how it went.

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