Closures continue to hit the retail and restaurant industry due to rising costs, declining demand, shifting consumer habits and online shopping.
Category: 17 March 2026
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
The global employment landscape continues to undergo profound disruption as companies adapt to economic pressure, technological transformation, and shifting consumer behavior.
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BULLSHIT HAS ITS OWN SOUND: NETANYAHU TO IRANIANS: FREEDOM IS NEAR
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Iranians on Saturday that the moment when they can seize their freedom is quickly approaching and that they should take it.
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IRAN WARNS U.S. ABOUT RISK OF A FALSE FLAG ORCHESTRATED BY ‘EPSTEIN’S NETWORK’
Ali Larijani, the top security official in Iran, posted on X Sunday that there could be a looming false flag attack – similar to Sept. 11, 2001 – that would be orchestrated by Jeffery Epstein’s “network” so Iran can be blamed.
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AI IS A NEW WEAPON IN THE PROPAGANDA WAR
In the early days of the Iran war, the X account of the Tehran Times newspaper showed a satellite video said to document damage to a U.S. radar installation in Bahrain from and Iranian drone attack. Analysis proved it was a manipulated image of a site in Qatar.
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AI IS NEWSPAPERS’ NEW BEST FRIEND
Newspapers have been a disappearing medium during this century, but some publishers have found a new lease on life thanks to AI.
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WILL AI’S LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS GIVE WAY TO “WORLD MODELS?”
Generative AI’s large language models (LLMs) work by matching patterns to predict the next word in a sentence or the most likely response to a question.
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LIGHT-POWERED AI CHIP RUNS COOLER, FASTER ON LESS ENERGY
A new design of photonic, or light-powered, AI chip can perform an individual AI operation in trillionths of a second using light that needs less electricity and runs cooler than conventional chips, according to its developers at the University of Sydney.
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TOP TREND 2026: DOT-COM BUST 2.0
On 4 March, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s new $30-billion investment in OpenAI “might be the last time” until Sam Altman’s business issues stock.
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TRUE OR FALSE: TRUMP SAYS ‘MANY COUNTRIES’ WILL AGREE TO SEND WARSHIPS TO STRAIT OF HORMUZ
Once again, bullshit has its own sound. President Donald Trump announced Sunday that “many countries” will agree to send their naval ships to the Strait of Hormuz to help open the key waterway that has been essentially closed by Iran since the start of the war.