A former Boeing employee known for raising concerns about the firm’s production standards has been found dead in the US. John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017. In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company. Boeing said it … Read more
John Barnett, a former quality control engineer at Boeing who—just last week—testified against the company as part of a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit, has been found dead, the BBC reports. The M3 MacBook Airs are as Good as Ever, and That’s the Problem Barnett, 62, who previously worked for Boeing for three decades and retired from … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Gao Yaojie, a doctor exiled from China under pressure from authorities after she exposed an AIDS epidemic in the 1990s, died at her home in New York on Sunday, little more than a week before her 96th birthday. Gao, a retired gynecologist, gained international acclaim when she … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave A senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection official Thursday filed a whistleblower complaint with Congress alleging his supervisors failed to adequately monitor the agency’s medical service contractor for staffing shortages, unsafe care and other problems before the May death of an 8-year-old girl in U.S. custody. Attorneys … Read more
Hi there, lovelies, and welcome to Week in Evaluate (WiR), TechCrunch’s common e-newsletter that recaps the week in tech. For a lot of people, this workweek was a day shorter, due to the Juneteenth observance on Monday. However lots occurred. We’ve obtained protection on the OceanGate tragedy, and we’ve continued to intently observe the Reddit … Read more