Новости за 06.06.2025

Used car prices ticked down slightly last month in spite of uncertainty around tariffs, but buying a new old whip still costs more than it used to. 

A Japanese company trying to land a spacecraft on the moon Friday said that the unmanned lander is believed to have crashed into the lunar surface.

The list of Rite Aid store closures continues to grow.

As the drugstore chain prepares to sell off its remaining assets in the wake of filing for bankruptcy a second time, the total number of locations marked for closure in court documents as of this week is at least 497 nationwide.

The chain will eventually sell or shutter all of its 1,277 pharmacies as it winds down operations. According to a court filing on Thursday, the latest list includes 25 additional locations in Ohio, California, Oregon, and Washington state. Читать дальше...

The recent travails of WordPress have caused consternation among the web community that relies on the platform, which powers more than four in ten websites online today. Now, a coalition of prominent WordPress contributors and the Linux Foundation is unveiling a federated update and plugin-distribution network aimed at eliminating what they describe as a critical “supply chain security” vulnerability at the core of the world’s most widely used website system.

Before you install that window AC unit to beat the summer heat, it’s worth taking a closer look: Yesterday, the appliance manufacturer Midea, who makes units for a number of brands including Frigidaire and Insignia, recalled more than 1.7 million AC units due to the risk of mold exposure.

Featuring Kate Charles, Chief Strategy Officer and Laurie Lam, Chief Brand Officer, E.l.f. Beauty

Featuring Marc Lore, Founder and CEO of Wonder 
Moderated by Stephanie Mehta, CEO and Chief Content Officer, Mansueto Ventures

The Intuit Dome opened last year in Los Angeles, setting a new standard for arenas with a number of staggering features including 86,000 square feet of training facilities, 300 charging stations for electric vehicles, underground suites, and a double-sided display board that stretches almost a full acre. Gillian Zucker, CEO of Halo Sports and Entertainment, takes you behind the scenes of the Intuit Dome, highlighting her mission to make everyone feel like VIP.

Featuring François Nguyen, Chief Design and Experience Officer, SharkNinja.

Featuring Priyanka Jain, Cofounder and CEO, Evvy and Katie Sturino, Founder, Megababe
Moderated by Yasmin Gagne, Staff Editor, Fast Company

Featuring Pete Docter, Chief Creative Officer, Pixar
Moderated by Brendan Vaughan, Editor-in-Chief, Fast Company

Olympic gold-medalist and alpine skiing legend Lindsey Vonn is no stranger to going downhill—but she’s soon going to be focused on making investors’ wealth climb.

Inside a Walmart store in New Jersey, a worker puts the finishing touches on a cake with an edible ink Sponge Bob on top. A colleague creates a buttercream rosette border for a different cake, while another coworker frosts a tier of what will be a triple-deck dessert.

It’s graduation season, the busiest time of year for the 6,200 employees the nation’s largest retailer trained to hand-decorate cakes per customers’ orders. The cakes themselves come, pre-made, frozen and in a variety of shapes and sizes... Читать дальше...

Popular athletic apparel brand Lululemon Athletica is seeing its share price crash today. As of this writing, the stock (Nasdaq: LULU) is down nearly 20% in early-morning trading. The company’s dramatic share price fall comes a day after it announced its first-quarter results for fiscal 2025, and issued a tariff-related warning about its profit forecasts. Here’s what you need to know.

A federal judge late Thursday temporarily blocked a proclamation by President Donald Trump that banned foreign students from entering the U.S. to attend Harvard University.

Trump’s proclamation, issued Wednesday, was the latest attempt by his administration to prevent the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college from enrolling a quarter of its students, who accounts for much of Harvard’s research and scholarship.

Harvard filed a legal challenge the next day, asking for a judge to block... Читать дальше...

Craft retail chain The Michaels Companies said on Thursday that it has acquired the beloved fabrics retailer Joann, which recently winded down operations and closed all of its stores after a second bankruptcy.

As LGBTQ+ job seekers navigate a landscape marked by layoffs, economic uncertainty, and a shifting political climate, one question rises to the top: How can I know if a company is genuinely inclusive before I accept this job offer? While many companies show support for LGBTQ+ employees during Pride Month, the true measure of inclusivity is how a company fosters belonging 365 days a year. And the reality is that while some companies may appear inclusive on the surface, the level of genuine inclusion... Читать дальше...

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About $22 billion of SpaceX’s government contracts are at risk and multiple U.S. space programs could face dramatic changes in the fallout from Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s explosive feud on Thursday.

Amazon famously started as an online bookstore. In the three decades since, it has disrupted how people buy, read, and review books through steps like undercutting local bookstore prices, launching the Kindle, and buying the book-review platform Goodreads. 

Legend has it that Talking Heads played their first-ever show on June 5, 1975, in New York City, opening for the Ramones at CBGB on the Bowery. Now, 50 years later, stickers, wheatpaste posters, T-shirts, subway buskers, radio takeovers, an airplane banner, and billboards popped up along the Bowery, all with a variation of a single line: “Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa.”

The most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world finally turned on each other.

U.S. President Donald Trump often says the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics are among the events he is most excited about in his second term.

Yet there is significant uncertainty regarding visa policies for foreign visitors planning trips to the U.S. for the two biggest events in sports.

Trump’s latest travel ban on citizens from 12 countries added new questions about the impact on the World Cup and the Summer Olympics, which depend on hosts opening their doors to the world. Читать дальше...

The self-driving car service Waymo has been active in San Francisco for 20 months and has already captured 27% of the city’s rideshare market, according to new research compiled by Mary Meeker’s Bond venture capital firm. That rapid progress suggests the mainstreaming of self-driving car service could happen faster than once thought.

“The truth is, I cannot explain exactly where your 1,216 image files went or when they disappeared. I apologize for not being more careful about investigating the root cause before taking any action. The bottom line is that your image files are missing, and I cannot restore them.”