During the hot summer months, there’s hardly anything better than chomping down on some sweet fruits to keep yourself cool. But now, one particular frozen blueberry product is suspected of sending people to the hospital, and multiple government agencies are warning consumers to steer clear of it due to E. coli fears. Here’s what you need to know about the frozen blueberry recall. What’s happened? On July 6, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a notice of a voluntary recall initiated three days earlier by Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur S.A. of San Carlos, Chile. The recall involved…
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When Saturday Night Live launched in the U.K. earlier this year, the show wanted a logo that looked distinctly British. To design it, the creative agency Stink Studios looked to the streets of London for inspiration. The SNL UK mark is dynamic, and made from hundreds of photos of the letters S, N, and L that members of the Stink Studios team took of British signs in London and beyond. Letters were snapped from bus stops, sandwich shops, pubs, and other public places, and then vectorized (converted from a pixel-based image into a sharper, vector-based image) so they could be used…
Millions of student loan borrowers will soon need to exit their current repayment program as the Biden-era Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan officially comes to an end. As a result of President Donald Trump’s 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act, student loan repayment plans are changing, requiring borrowers to take action. Borrowers enrolled in the the SAVE Plan have been notified this month that they have less than 90 days to choose another repayment plan. According to CNBC, SAVE borrowers have slowly started to transition out of the plan. Last year, around 7.7 million people were enrolled in…
As Fourth of July barbecues buzzed with breathless chatter about this year’s maximally absorbing World Cup, little did anyone know President Trump and FIFA were about to stage a master class in public corruption. The next day, FIFA took the unprecedented step of reversing a controversial one-game suspension for a U.S. player, after Trump personally lobbied the organization’s president, Gianni Infantino, on his behalf. This is why we can’t have nice things. It was as if Trump heard about U.S. citizens coming together to enjoy some politics-free fun amid a brutal heatwave and a chaotic start to summer, and felt…
Over the course of my career, I’ve built teams and transformed organizations through four major technological disruptions: web, social, mobile, and streaming. Each wave arrived with the same promise and the same trap: Move fast, deploy broadly, figure out the ROI later. I navigated each of those disruptions inside HBO, one of the most beloved and high-profile cultural brands in the world. Bold in its DNA. Deeply risk-averse when it came to exposing that brand. Rooted in decades of success and a long-standing way of doing things. That tension taught me something that is more relevant than ever: In a…
There is a line in almost every graduation speech: The future is yours. This year, it lands differently. For many graduates, the future does not feel like a clear horizon. It feels unclear, unstable, and harder to predict than in years past. That uncertainty surfaced at commencement ceremonies this spring where students had mixed and largely skeptical reactions to how AI opportunities were presented to them from their speakers. Graduates are closely watching generative AI reshape writing, analysis, design, and other forms of early-career work in real time. So, when they hear broad promises about innovation and opportunity, many hear…
The United States has crossed a milestone that Washington has spent decades pretending would never arrive. Federal debt held by the public has now exceeded 100% of GDP for the first time since the aftermath of the Second World War. According to the latest government data, debt held by the public reached approximately $31.27 trillion while the nation’s annual economic output totaled roughly $31.22 trillion, pushing the debt-to-GDP ratio to 100.2%. The Congressional Budget Office now projects debt held by the public will average 101% of GDP this year and continue climbing to 120% by 2036 if current law remains…
Starting this September, Target will start tracking store and warehouse employees’ unexcused absences and lateness with a points system, according to a report by Business Insider. Employees will receive a quarter of a point for being more than eight minutes late to work, one point for missing a shift without their manager’s approval, and three points for not showing up without telling their manager. The points expire every year. If employees hit three points, they will be required to check in with their manager. And if an employee reaches the 12-point threshold, they’ll be fired.After Target’s CEO Michael Fiddelke took the…
Canada has officially selected Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) as the preferred builder for a new fleet of 12 submarines. The program is expected to cost roughly C$60 billion, making it one of the largest military procurements in Canadian history. Prime Minister Mark Carney is making the announcement just before the NATO summit, where member states are once again pledging even higher military spending. This is not simply about replacing aging submarines. It is another step in the global rearmament that I have warned was inevitable once governments abandoned diplomacy in favor of perpetual confrontation. Canada’s existing Victoria-class submarines are…
The NBA recently posted that its 2026 playoffs are “delivering their highest viewership through the Conference Semifinals in 29 years, with an average of 4.5 million viewers per game across ABC, ESPN, NBC/Peacock and Amazon Prime Video.” That is designed to sound impressive. Then you realize the viral video of a fan eating spaghetti directly behind legendary NBA commentator Mike Breen gained an estimated 20–50 million aggregate views and hundreds of thousands of likes across platforms within 24–48 hours. This snapshot underscores just how much the rules of content are evolving. It’s no longer about watching an event, movie, or…