ORLANDO, Fla. — A former worker hacked servers at Walt Disney World after being fired in order to manipulate computer menus by changing prices, adding profanities and altering notifications to wrongly declare some items as safe for people with allergies, according to a federal criminal complaint. The former employee was arrested last week following an … Read more
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Boeing overcharged the Air Force nearly $1 million for spare parts on C-17 cargo planes, including an 8,000% markup for simple lavatory soap dispensers, according to the Pentagon’s inspector general. The Defense Department’s auditor reviewed prices paid for 46 spare parts on the C-17 from 2018 to 2022 and found … Read more
Some people who took a new schizophrenia drug for a year improved with only a few side effects, but many dropped out of the research, the company announced Thursday. The results underscore the difficulties in treating schizophrenia, a severe mental illness that can cause people to hear voices, feel paranoid and withdraw from others. High … Read more
Getty Images The cost of UK government borrowing has risen to its highest level for more than a year in the wake of Wednesday’s Budget. The interest rate – the so-called yield – the government has to pay lenders when it borrows money from them over a 10-year period, climbed above 4.5% on Thursday before … Read more
Baxter, a medical equipment supplier that produces 60% of the intravenous solutions at US hospitals, said Thursday it has slowly begun to recover from a hurricane-induced shutdown last month that has sparked shortages at medical facilities nationwide. US hospitals in recent weeks have been forced to delay surgeries and even give patients Gatorade or water … Read more
Getty Images Chancellor Rachel Reeves always knew she was going to spend many days explaining her Budget. The reaction of those paying the bills for this near-record increase in taxes was always going to be harsh. For the chancellor, her political pain for now is a price worth paying. The Budget is about the long … Read more
Chili’s Bar & Grill said it has bounced back from business struggles earlier this year by introducing new, lower-priced menu items that compete directly with fast-food restaurants. The 49-year-old, Dallas-based restaurant chain — known for its baby back ribs and sizzling fajita platters — on Wednesday reported a whopping 14% increase in same-store revenues and … Read more
Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie is negotiating to sell a minority stake in the team to a family that owns a technology firm, according to a report. Susan Y. Kim, the executive chair of Arizona-based Amkor Technology, is in talks with Lurie on buying a piece of the team in a deal that would value … Read more
Uber Technologies pointed to a further slowdown in its mainstay app-based taxi business as it forecast fourth-quarter gross bookings below Wall Street estimates, sending its shares down 11% by Thursday afternoon. Bookings growth, a key measure of ridership for online taxi operators, slowed to a more than one-year low in the third quarter and also … Read more
NBC-parent Comcast is exploring spinning of its struggling cable networks business, including left-leaning MSNBC, President Mike Cavanagh said Thursday. Cavanagh revealed during the third-quarters earnings call that the media giant is mulling the creation of a “new, well-capitalized company owned by our shareholders and comprised of our our strong portfolio of cable networks.” The cable … Read more