Le premier ministre est notamment menacé d’une motion de censure, depuis la présentation à la mi-juillet d’orientations budgétaires prévoyant près de 44 milliards d’euros d’économies l’an prochain.

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Face à un projet de réorganisation jugé «néfaste», les syndicats appellent à un arrêt illimité de travail, qui pourrait perturber la matinale de France Inter et plusieurs antennes du groupe public.

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Bluesky has blocked access to its service in Mississippi rather than comply with a new state law requiring age verification for all social media users. TechCrunch reports: In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn't have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law's broad scope and privacy implications. Mississippi's HB 1126 requires platforms to introduce age verification for all users before they can access social networks like Bluesky. On Thursday, U.S. Supreme Court justices decided to block an emergency appeal that would have prevented the law from going into effect as the legal challenges it faces played out in the courts. As a result, Bluesky had to decide what it would do about compliance. Instead of requiring age verification before users could access age-restricted content, this law requires age verification of all users. That means Bluesky would have to verify every user's age and obtain parental consent for anyone under 18. The company notes that the potential penalties for noncompliance are hefty, too -- up to $10,000 per user. Bluesky also stresses that the law goes beyond child safety, as intended, and would create "significant barriers that limit free speech and disproportionately harm smaller platforms and emerging technologies." To comply, Bluesky would have to collect and store sensitive information from all its users, in addition to the detailed tracking of minors. This is different from how it's expected to comply with other age verification laws, like the U.K.'s Online Safety Act (OSA), which only requires age checks for certain content and features. Mississippi's law blocks anyone from using the site unless they provide their personal and sensitive information. The company notes that its decision only applies to the Bluesky app built on the AT Protocol. Other apps may approach the decision differently.

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Si la CGT n’exclut pas de participer à cette mobilisation citoyenne, la numéro un de la centrale de Montreuil appelle à inscrire la protestation contre le gouvernement «dans la durée».

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Les mesures d’économies annoncées en juillet par François Bayrou ont agacé de nombreuses professions qui veulent se mobiliser à la rentrée. La période sera aussi marquée par le mouvement de blocage du 10 septembre, venu des réseaux sociaux.

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La CGT et FO, notamment, réuniront leurs instances internes pour décider des actions qu’elles mèneront, alors que plusieurs fédérations syndicales rejoignent l’appel à «tout bloquer» le 10 septembre.

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LinkedIn's engagement-driven algorithm systematically elevates shallow, meaningless content over substantive professional discourse, according to a new analysis that highlights how major platforms prioritize user retention metrics over content quality. Entrepreneur and product executive Elliot Smith describes encountering a "seemingly endless stream of posts that are over fluffed, over produced and ultimately say nothing" that he categorizes as "toxic mediocrity." Smith argues the platform's reward system creates a destructive cycle where "comments, likes and other engagement" signal user activity to LinkedIn's algorithm, which then promotes similar vapid content. "LinkedIn wants you on LinkedIn," Smith writes, noting the Microsoft-owned platform correlates engagement with ad clicks and premium conversions. Smith recommends professionals focus on substantive work rather than platform gaming, arguing "nothing you post there is going to change your career."

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À quelques jours de la rentrée scolaire, le syndicat dénonce la situation dans laquelle se trouvent les salariés d’une filiale du papetier en liquidation judiciaire.

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La pratique du transport sanitaire s’est envolée depuis quelques années, malgré une réforme de la prise en charge des frais de transport de patients.

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Alors que des collectifs appellent à bloquer la France, les organisations syndicales restent pour le moment en retrait, redoutant un mouvement incontrôlable comme les « gilets jaunes ».

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Prospect magazine, in a recent piece: "LinkedIn doesn't know me anymore," someone complained to me recently. "What do you mean?" I asked. She explained that the platform has replaced the old "recommended jobs" section, which used to show her quite useful job openings based on her previous searches and CV, with an AI search engine that asks you to describe your ideal job in freeform text. The results it brings up aren't nearly as relevant. This is just one of many ways in which the professionals' social media platform, which has embraced artificial intelligence with ferocious zeal, is being gradually "enshittified," to borrow tech writer Cory Doctorow's phrase. Each new embrace of AI tools promises to make hiring, job searching, networking and even posting a bit easier or more fruitful. Instead, AI seems to have made the user's experience more alienating, and to have helped foster a genre of LinkedIn-speak which bears all the hallmarks of the worst AI writing on the internet. Let's start with my opening example -- which, to be fair, is in beta testing mode and can be switched off. Instead of the AI assistant being like an intuitive digital servant, pulling up the best jobs based on your ruminations, users are confronted with a new and annoying task: crafting prompts for the AI. But the non-AI search bar worked perfectly well as it was. Then there is the AI writing assistant, which is available to users who pay for the platform's $40 per month premium service to help them craft their posts. LinkedIn's CEO Ryan Roslansky recently admitted that users aren't using the tool as much as he anticipated. It seems that sounding like a human being to your colleagues and clients is put at, well, a premium. And then there are the ways in which users are deploying outputs from external AI chatbots on the platform, something with which LinkedIn is struggling to cope. According to the New York Times, the number of job applications submitted via the platform increased by 45 per cent in the year to June, now clocking in at an average of 11,000 per minute.

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Le président de l’Union qui représente les patrons de TPE-PME dénonce une mesure qui représenterait une «charge supplémentaire» pour les entreprises, sans plus-value évidente.

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Une vaste mobilisation contre la baisse des remises sur les génériques a été lancée par les syndicats de la profession, qui craignent la fermeture d’un établissement sur trois en France.

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Meta's Threads has surpassed 400 million monthly active users, adding 50 million in the last quarter and closing the gap with rival X in mobile daily usage. "As of a few weeks ago [there are] more than 400 million people active on Threads every month," said Instagram head Adam Mosseri. "It's been quite the ride over the last two years. This started as a zany idea to compete with Twitter, and has evolved into a meaningful platform that fosters the open exchange of perspectives. I'm grateful to all of you for making this place what it is today. There's so much work to do from our side, more to come." TechCrunch reports: X, meanwhile, has north of 600 million monthly active users, according to previous statements made by its former CEO, Linda Yaccarino. Recent data from market intelligence provider Similarweb showed that Threads is nearing X's daily app users on mobile devices. In June 2025, Threads' mobile app for iOS and Android saw 115.1 million daily active users, marking a 127.8% increase compared to the previous year. On the other hand, X reached 132 million daily active users, reflecting a 15.2% year-over-year decline. However, Similarweb found that X's worldwide daily web visits are well ahead of Threads, as the [...] social network saw 145.8 million average daily web visits worldwide in June, while Threads had just 6.9 million.

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Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, so it's going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. From a report: The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or profiles; instead, it will only be able to index the Reddit.com homepage, which effectively means Internet Archive will only be able to archive insights into which news headlines and posts were most popular on a given day. "Internet Archive provides a service to the open web, but we've been made aware of instances where AI companies violate platform policies, including ours, and scrape data from the Wayback Machine," spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.

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Accusés de prescrire trop facilement des arrêts maladie, les généralistes ne cachent plus leur ras-le-bol. Tous admettent avoir été piégés par des patients, mais ils dénoncent une stigmatisation politique, dans un système à bout de souffle.

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DÉCRYPTAGE - En réformant le système d’allocation chômage et en supprimant deux jours fériés, le gouvernement espère augmenter la production nationale et faire des économies.

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Dans un document d’orientation adressé aux partenaires sociaux, l’exécutif confirme envisager de supprimer le caractère férié du lundi de Pâques et du 8 mai, ajoutant toutefois que le choix des deux jours concernés peut encore être «discuté».

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INFOGRAPHIES – Le taux de chômage, au sens du Bureau international du travail (BIT), s’élève à 7,5% pour le deuxième trimestre de l’année 2025.

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