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DoorDash said it would pay $131.5m ⁠to settle a ​New York City government investigation that found the food delivery company underpaid or waited too long to pay workers.Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the settlement the city’s largest ⁠labor enforcement action. It advances the city’s longstanding effort to hold food delivery companies to a 2023 law intended to improve pay for delivery workers.The accord also came nearly ⁠eight months after the city’s department of consumer and worker protection accused DoorDash and rival Uber Eats of engineering “design tricks” ​to deprive workers of more than $550m in tips.DoorDash ‌will provide nearly $115m of…

New elements make some pointed revisions, however, stipulating that no non-NATO nation can open a base on the island or mine for critical minerals or rare earths without the agreement of the three signatories. Trump has often spoken about Chinese and Russian military activities around Greenland, claiming earlier this year that, “if you take a look outside of Greenland right now, there are Russian destroyers. There are Chinese destroyers … there are Russian submarines all over the place. We’re not going to have Russia or China occupy Greenland, and that’s what they’re going to do if we don’t.” NATO officials…

By putting the European Union at the heart of how he would fund his tax cut, the Lib Dems couldn’t be drawing a starker contrast with the Brexit-backing Reform UK and a Conservative Party also committed to cutting welfare.But the plan is speculative. The Lib Dems insist a deal with the EU could be negotiated within a year if the party was in government after the next election.Plenty of economic experts, including the official budget forecaster the OBR, believe the UK’s economy could grow if the UK was in the Single Market.But as recent political history teaches us, negotiating a…

In May, Apple agreed to pay out $250 million as part of a class action lawsuit over claims the company overhyped its Apple Intelligence tools, specifically the long-delayed Siri AI overhaul.Although the revamped Siri AI voice assistant is now available for owners of newer iPhones via iOS 27, you may still be eligible to claim cash back for past purchases. This settlement covers customers in the US who made their purchases from June 10, 2024 to March 29, 2025, and bought certain iPhone 15 or iPhone 16 models from Apple. If you qualify, you might receive up to $95 for…

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its new Claude 5.5 family. The team states it performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work. It also costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads at default settings. On Anthropic’s own benchmarks, it leads in agentic coding, computer use, and knowledge work. Is it deployable? Yes, as a managed API model. Anthropic has not released weights, so self-hosting is not an option. Developers can call claude-opus-5-5 on the Claude Platform, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Zero data retention is…

Enterprise eCommerce platform BigCommerce fell victim to a supply chain attack that led to customer data theft. BigCommerce is a SaaS provider that enables merchants to build and manage online stores. It hosts the stores, provides backend tools, and handles server security. Late last week, the company started notifying merchants that customer data was stolen after hackers compromised a BigCommerce application key held by Ribon, a storefront and shopping experience optimization app developed by Fastr-owned Be A Part Of. The hackers used the key between September 13 and September 17 to access customer data, including names, email addresses, phone numbers,…

Bitcoin (BTC) fluctuated around $86,000 on Tuesday as crude-oil prices hit their lowest levels in nearly three weeks.Key points:Bitcoin consolidated at around $86,000 after hitting fresh 33-week highs on Monday.US president Donald Trump told the UN that a deal to end the war with Iran could come after November’s midterm elections.WTI crude oil dropped to near $89 per barrel, its lowest level since Nov. 4 before reversing toward $92.Bitcoin tests strength of $86,000 support as oil drops under $90Data from TradingView showed the volatility of BTC/USD cooling after Bitcoin hit $87,350 the day prior, its highest level since Jan. 29.BTC/USD…

A rare observation of a humpback whale mother remaining beside her dead calf is offering researchers a closer look at how these animals may respond to loss. The encounter, documented by researchers from Griffith University and Sea World Foundation, raises the possibility that humpback whale mothers may experience grief when a calf dies. In 2025, a female humpback whale was observed off the southern Gold Coast with an escort whale after apparently giving birth to a deceased calf. The mother stayed near the calf for several hours and may have remained with it for days. [See link to video below…

A recent study documented 98 northern pygmy slow lorises living in the wild in Guangxi, China, roughly doubling the country’s known population of the endangered species.The species was previously thought to live almost exclusively in Vietnam and Laos.The northern pygmy slow loris was only identified as a separate species in 2023; physically, it’s plumper, fuzzier, and has a flatter nose than the southern species.Like all lorises, northern pygmy lorises are threatened by habitat loss and hunting for the wildlife trade and for use in traditional medicine.See All Key Ideas Plump, fuzzy and venomous, with wide eyes, a button…

The number of food recalls reported by the federal government have decreased in recent years.Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported 1,500 food recalls, according to federal data. That was one of the lowest totals over the past decade, and this year is on track to be even lower — through mid-September, the FDA has reported about 950 recalls.While the figures are down, individual outbreaks can be severe, and the Trump administration’s staffing and oversight cuts may worsen the situation. This year, thousands of people fell sick after eating lettuce tainted with cyclospora, a parasite that causes violent…