DUBAI, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Videos on social media showing Iranian security forces severely beating protesters have gone viral as anger grows at a widening crackdown with arrests of prominent figures from rappers to economists and lawyers aimed at ending seven weeks of unrest.
that missed analyst expectations for revenue at its cloud business, Gadgetinku AWS, which rose 28% to $20.5 billion. AWS, and other cloud service providers, are big customers of chip makers, including Intel and key to their revenue growth.
Protests ignited by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini on Sept.
16 after her arrest for inappropriate attire have shaken Iran’s clerical establishment with people from all layers of society demanding wholesale political change.
Those hot-button topics include ‘the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, US withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of US support to Ukraine,’ according to a draft copy of DHS’s Quadrennial Homeland Security Review cited in the report.
The suit alleges that the Biden administration actively worked with social media companies and encouraged them to censor ‘disfavored’ viewpoints and speakers in violation of the First Amendment rights of those individuals.
‘Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day,’ he said. ‘Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required.’
Like most of its products, Apple almost never offers discounts on its iPhone accessories like its new slim MagSafe charger. But right now, Woot is offering a rare opportunity to grab one of these sleek wireless charging pads for less. Today only, you can snag a MagSafe charging pad for just $29, which
‘One could argue we’re in the business of critical infrastructure, and the most critical infrastructure is our cognitive infrastructure, so building that resilience to misinformation and disinformation, I think, is incredibly important,’ Easterly said at a conference in November 2021.
«Our products weren’t shipping new products like Sapphire Rapids, but as those are now in full production and we’re going to be ramping those aggressively, we’re better positioned going forward than we have,» he told Reuters, adding that it would take several quarters to ramp up.
The world’s richest man arrived at the Baron Investment Conference at the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan in high spirits and laughed about the number of enemies he had in front of New York’s wealthiest investors.
Iranian media published on Wednesday a video of the arrest of famous Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, showing him blindfolded and saying he did not mean what he had said in previous comments critical of the authorities.
Iran’s police issued a communique on Tuesday saying that a special order was issued to examine the details of a video showing police officers beating a citizen, without giving any detail on the video in question.
«The police does not approve of harsh and unconventional treatment, the offending police officers will certainly be dealt with according to the law,» the statement read, according to Tasnim news agency.
On Friday morning, he tweeted angrily: ‘Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said the cut to the fourth quarter outlook reflected economic uncertainty expected to last into next year, and that the company was taking time to ramp up sales into data centers, which dropped 27% in the third quarter.
Intel trimmed its full-year adjusted earnings per share forecast to $1.95 from $2.30. (Reporting by Chavi Mehta in Bengaluru and Jane Lanhee Lee; Editing by Devika Syamnath, David Gregorio and Deepa Babington)
The crisis has hit Iran’s currency.
The U.S. dollar was selling for as much as 342,600 rials on the unofficial market on Wednesday, losing nearly 7% of its value since the protests started, according to Bonbast.com.
He was discussing his vision for Twitter and other companies when fellow billionaire Ron Baron joked how he would live forever, with Musk quipping: ‘If I keep increasing that enemies list it might not be much longer.’
«The amount that we can do with respect to people costs is a minority of our overall cost structure. So driving efficiency in the factory network is way more important to our economics than people cost,» Gelsinger told Reuters, adding that adjustments to flexible workforces can be «quite immediate».
Chipmaker Intel Corp on Thursday cut its full-year profit and revenue forecast and warned it would lay off staff, but a stronger-than-expected performance at its personal computers segment helped send shares higher.
22 that went viral on social media showed a dozen riot police beating a man at night on a street in southern Tehran. One of the officers on a motorbike ran him over then another shot him at close range. Reuters could not verify the authenticity of the footage.
