In an extraordinary move, Louisiana-based Fibrebond rewarded loyalty over ownership when over 550 employees with no company shares received a combined $240 million after its $1.7 billion sale to Eaton. CEO Graham Walker allocated 15 percent of proceeds to…

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With grim prognosis hanging overhead, doctors and scientists at universities and institutions across the U.S. worked tirelessly to develop the world’s first custom gene-editing therapy to save the life of a newborn.

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Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984

Richard Stallman quotes from the documentary
Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
1985

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Rainbow Six Siege appears to have been hacked as global server outages hit all platforms, with players reporting billions of credits, dev skins, and random bans while Ubisoft calls it a server incident.