Retail Sales Gain In August As Consumers Continue To Spend

A new report from LinkedIn shows a demand for climate-change-related skills that far outpaces supply. If you have green skills, you’re more likely to get a job. A new report from LinkedIn backs that up, finding that the global hiring rate for workers with skills that can directly fight climate change is 54.6% greater than the overall hiring rate.

Reddit screenshots are flooding TikTok and Instagram. It’s giving Reddit some incredible visibility, though bringing users back to its platform may prove more difficult. Millions view Reddit content daily. The issue for Reddit? Many of them are seeing it on other platforms.

"Knockoffs are a plague on small businesses, that costs them time, money and may put them out of business," Mark Cuban wrote in an X post on Wednesday. Kevork Djansezian via Getty Images; Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty ImagesMark Cuban says he's talking to the Harris campaign about combating Chinese knockoffs.

Hundred of pagers detonated on Tuesday in Lebanon in an apparent attack on Hezbollah. AFP via Getty ImagesHundreds of pagers throughout Lebanon were detonated on Tuesday. An attack of this scale likely required months of planning, an arms expert told BI. The attack also shows a lack of oversight of global supply chains, experts said.

Frontier Airlines flight attendants voted to authorize a strike over a business model change they say has resulted in less pay, the Association of Flight Attendants announced Wednesday. The vote was spurred by the Denver-based airline switching to a business model that includes more one-day trips and fewer multi-day trips for flight attendants, union leaders said in a news release. “Frontier flight attendants are struggling to earn a living because of management’s new ‘out-and-back’ model.

Enlarge / Artist's conception of Pocketpair lawyers establishing a defensive position against Nintendo's coming legal onslaught. (credit: Pocketpair) Nintendo and The Pokemon Company announced they have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, the makers of the heavily Pokémon-inspired Palworld. The Tokyo District Court lawsuit seeks an injunction and damages "on the grounds that Palworld infringes multiple patent rights" according to the announcement. "Nintendo will continue to take necessary actions against any infringement of its intellectual property rights including the Nintendo brand itself, to protect the intellectual properties it has worked hard to establish over the years," the company writes. The many surface similarities between Pokémon and Palworld are readily apparent, even though Pocketpair's game adds many new features over Nintendo's (such as, uh, guns).