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  IMAGE ADRESS Most Texans support improvements to make the state's electricity grid more stable, according to a recent research from a polling firm, after experiencing increased residential energy bills over the summer in response to last year's catastrophic winter power outages. Data for Progress, a progressive research organisation, polled Texas voters in early September and concluded that, among other social and economic issues, immigration and grid reliability were among the top three most important issues. A majority of people across all political affiliations believed state officials did not do enough to shield them from price increases caused by Winter Storm Uri, according to a survey report. Nearly seven out of ten Texans in the survey of about 700 prospective voters reported greater home energy bills now than they did a year ago. Text and online responses were accepted in both English and Spanish for the survey. While increasing energy costs have contributed to a shif...

Hackers delivered two "obscene and racist push alerts" approximately one minute apart, according to a tweet by Fast Company, which added that it has suspended the Apple News stream until the issue was rectified. image source The website of the American business and media journal Fast Company was hacked on Tuesday evening, prompting the company to take the site offline. The notifications were described as being "obscene and bigoted," and they were distributed to Apple customers through the Apple News service. Connecting a news publisher's digital publishing tools to Apple News enables the publisher to send push alerts to Apple customers who have subscribed to the publisher's channel. The news publisher must be utilising the Apple News aggregation app. According to Fast Company, hackers breached the security of those publishing tools. Hackers delivered two "obscene and racist push alerts" approximately one minute apart, according to a tweet from Fast...

 Another airline has decided to stop serving the Tokyo Narita Airport in favour of Haneda. Image address British Airways is streamlining its operations in Tokyo at the moment. The airline company has stated that beginning in March, all of its operations in Tokyo will be moved to Tokyo Haneda International Airport, which is situated significantly closer to the core of the city than Narita International Airport. At the moment, the airline runs two flights each day from London Heathrow (LHR) to Tokyo, with one flight going to Tokyo Haneda (HND) and the other flight going to Tokyo Narita (NRT) (NRT). As was initially reported by GSTP, British Airways (BA) will move all of its operations in Tokyo to HND, which will result in the airline having two daily nonstop flights between London and Haneda beginning on March 28. British Airways has confirmed to TPG that they will be operating a second daily flight into Tokyo Haneda Airport, which is where their partner JAL operates the majority of ...

 Amazon warehouse workers in the United Kingdom have organised a series of spontaneous strike actions after the e-commerce giant's management offered them salary raises ranging from 35p to 50p per hour. Unofficial wildcat strikes are sweeping across Amazon's UK warehouses, with hundreds of workers staging walkouts, sit-ins, and work slowdowns in protest of the e-commerce giant's pitiful wage increases. Image Source: Beginning on 3 August 2022 with Amazon's LCY2 warehouse in Essex, where 700 logistics workers spontaneously walked out after receiving a 35p salary raise offer, Amazon employees have already undertaken walkout actions in at least ten Amazon facilities over similar business offers. Amazon workers had also held wildcat strikes (those performed without the involvement or backing of a union) in Rugeley, Coventry, Swindon, Rugby, Doncaster, Bristol, Dartford, Belvedere, Hemel Hempstead, and Chesterfield at the time of publication, with more predicted in the comin...