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Facebook owner Meta will chop 10,000 more jobs as tech layoffs worsen

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

MENLO PARK — Facebook owner Meta Platforms said Tuesday it has decided to chop another 10,000 jobs and hold off on filling thousands of open positions in a fresh round of brutal layoffs for the Bay Area’s tech sector.Based on the Bay Area impact of Meta’s prior round of job cuts of 11,000 layoffs, undertaken last November, the tech titan’s local workforce could be facing staffing reductions of thousands more positions.“This will be tough and there’s no way around that,” Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Platform’s chief executive officer and co-founder, said in a web post on Tuesday. “It will mean saying goodbye to talented and passionate colleagues who have been part of our success.”The newly disclosed staffing reductions by the owner of the Facebook app extend what has become a wrenching wave of layoffs for tech and biotech workers in the Bay Area.Since mid-2022, tech and biotech companies have revealed plans to eliminate well over 2...

Analysis: Five SF Giants who have impressed midway through spring training

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — It’s an annual tradition: Every spring, there are breakout players. And every spring, Giants manager Gabe Kapler, along with most of baseball, will remind you that he values spring stats less than a grain of salt. The task at hand, for internal team evaluators and informed observers, is to sort through the noise.With more than half the Cactus League schedule in the books, Alex Cobb looks particularly locked in on the mound, while Michael Conforto has made a big first impression at the plate. But veteran spring performance matters even less, and it’s no secret the sizable roles expected of each player this season.Of more interest are the players who you may or may not have heard of prior to this spring who are making a name for themselves.Tristan Beck, RHPCactus League stats: 4 games (2 GS), 9.2 IP, 3.72 ERA, 10 H, 3 BB, 8 K40-man status: ActiveOutlook: Got the nod in San Francisco’s spring opener, but has been at his best in his past two outings...

Weather causes inbound SFO flight delays, cancellations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Strong winds caused a ground delay for incoming flights at San Francisco International Airport Tuesday morning, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. This is causing some incoming flights to be delayed for about 80 minutes.The ground delay program will meter the flights coming into SFO, similar to metering lights when going on to a bridge, Doug Yakel, a spokesperson for SFO, told KRON4. The program will cause not only flight delays but the potential for flight cancellations, Yakel said. Rain and wind conditions Tuesday morning have reduced the capacity to land aircrafts from the rate seen on a clear day. Bay Area atmospheric river updates: Flood Advisory in effect Yakel added that it's not only the speed of the wind gusts but also the direction those winds are coming from that are contributing to the delays and cancellations."Normally the winds here blow out of the northwest," Yakel said. "Today they're coming out of the southeast. So, in terms ...

8 pounds meth, 2 pounds cocaine seized in Santa Rosa

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KRON) -- Officers with the Santa Rosa Police Department seized eight pounds of suspected methamphetamine, two pounds of suspected cocaine and $8,000 while executing a search warrant for a drug investigation on Monday morning, according to SRPD. Additional suspected drugs packaged for sale were also located, police said.The SRPD Narcotics Team began the investigation into the drug trafficking organization in January. Monday morning, the team executed a search warrant at a home on the 2500 block of Kenton Court in Santa Rosa. Weather causes inbound SFO flight delays, cancellations Officers detained 71-year-old resident Jesus Esquivel Hernandez. During the search, police said they found the eight pounds of suspected meth, two pounds of suspected cocaine, cash and more suspected meth packaged for sale in Hernandez's bedroom.Hernandez was booked into the Sonoma County Jail for possession of a controlled substance for sale and possession of a narcotic for sale.

Tyson to close poultry facilities in Virginia, Arkansas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

Tyson Foods is closing two facilities that employ more than 1,600 people in an effort to streamline its U.S. poultry business.The company said Tuesday it plans to close its processing, broiler and hatching operations in Glen Allen, Virginia, and a plant in Van Buren, Arkansas. Both closures are scheduled for May 12.Tyson said the closures will help it better use all available capacity at remaining plants.The Springdale, Arkansas-based company said it will work with its 692 employees in Glen Allen and its 969 employees in Van Buren to apply for open positions at other plants.Tyson has made other efforts to consolidate its operations in recent months. Last October, the company announced it would relocate 1,000 corporate staff from offices in Illinois and South Dakota to Arkansas.Tyson said operating inefficiencies were partly to blame for its lower-than-expected profit in its fiscal first quarter, which ended Dec. 31. The company said its operating income dropped 68% to $467 million i...

Una réplica de magnitud 4,6 golpea el centro de Turquía

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

(CNN) — Una réplica de magnitud 4,6 golpeó la provincia central turca de Kahramanmaras este martes, más de un mes después de que un terremoto masivo dejara partes de Turquía y Siria destruidas, según mostraron datos del Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés).Kahramanmaras es el epicentro del enorme terremoto de magnitud 7,8 que sacudió Turquía y Siria el 6 de febrero y mató a más de 54.000 personas.Otra réplica de magnitud 4,6 el martes por la mañana golpeó las partes del sur de Afşin, dijo el USGS.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Canadian driver faces murder charges in ramming, 2 killed

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — A 38-year-old Canadian man is facing murder charges after allegedly ramming a pickup truck through pedestrians in an eastern Canada town, killing two men and injuring nine people who were walking alongside a road.Police declined to comment on a possible motive for the attack Monday afternoon in the Quebec province town of Amqui, about 350 kilometers (220 miles) northeast of Quebec City. A senior Canadian official ruled out terrorism.An Amqui resident turned himself in immediately after the ramming and is facing murder charges, police said. He was due in court later Tuesday, provincial police Sgt. Claude Doiron said.An initial investigation suggests the driver swerved from one side of the road to the other to hit victims chosen at random and ranging in age from less than one year to 77, Doiron said.Gérald Charest, 65, and Jean Lafrenière, 73, were killed during the alleged attack. Three of the injured were in critical condition, police said. The injured also include tw...

Hungary to delay vote on NATO membership for Sweden, Finland

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A long-delayed vote in Hungary’s parliament on ratifying the NATO accession bids of Sweden and Finland will likely be postponed again following a proposal from a senior government official. In a letter published Tuesday by Hungarian news website hvg.hu, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen requested that a parliamentary session scheduled to begin on March 20 — during which lawmakers were expected to vote on the two Nordic countries joining the military alliance — be postponed to a week later. Semjen cited Hungary’s ongoing negotiations with the European Union’s executive branch over Budapest’s alleged breaches of the bloc’s rule-of-law requirements as the reason for the delay. The speaker of Hungary’s parliament, himself a member of Semjen’s ruling coalition, must approve the request for a postponement.Hungary remains the only NATO member country — besides Turkey — that hasn’t yet approved the two Nordic countries’ bid...

Zendejas will represent US long-term instead of Mexico

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Alejandro Zendejas says he is committing to the U.S. national team over Mexico.The 25-year-old forward made his U.S. debut in a Jan. 25 exhibition against Serbia but remained eligible to ask FIFA for a one-time switch of affiliation to Mexico.Zendejas started three matches for the U.S. at the 2015 Under-17 World Cup, where he was a teammate of Christian Pulisic and Tyler Adams, then played for Mexico in friendlies against Ecuador in October 2021 and Guatemala last April plus three under-23 matches for El Tri.Mexico was ordered to forfeit all five matches and fined 10,000 Swiss francs ($10,900) by FIFA for using Zendejas while he was affiliated with the U.S.“I am very proud of being Mexican-American. Values from both cultures have made me the person I am today,” Zendejas said in a statement Tuesday. “Making a decision on your international career is very difficult, and I believe in following your heart. Mine tells me that my future lies representing the USA.”Zend...

Could scientist Claudia Sheinbaum be Mexico’s next leader?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:20 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is a year away from electing its next head of state and the potential candidate getting the most attention is an environmental scientist who might become the first female leader of Latin America’s second-largest economy. One poll shows Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum nearly 20 points ahead of her closest rival in their ruling party. A globally recognized scientist, Sheinbaum, 60, shares the leftist ideals of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In an interview with The Associated Press Sheinbaum, like López Obrador, blamed the neoliberal economic policies of past presidents for exacerbating inequities.But the leaders would diverge on their approach.López Obrador has sought to create jobs regardless of their environmental consequences, dedicating resources to propping up Mexico’s state-owned oil company before supporting a few projects by American renewable-energy companies. In contrast, Sheinbaum holds a PhD in engineering, served on the Intergovernme...