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President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States could purchase Argentinian beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers.“We would buy some beef from Argentina,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One during a flight from Florida to Washington. “If we do that, that will bring our beef prices down.”Trump promised earlier this week to address the issue as part of his efforts to keep inflation in check.U.S. beef prices have been stubbornly high for a variety of reasons, including drought and reduced imports from Mexico due to a flesh-eating pest in cattle herds there.Trump has been working to help Argentina bolster its collapsing currency with a $20 billion credit swap line and additional financing from sovereign funds and the private sector ahead of midterm elections for his close ally, President Javier Milei. Christopher Megerian, Associated Press
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A popular frozen food producer has recalled nearly 92,000 pounds of breakfast burrito and breakfast wrap products that contain eggs due to a risk of contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The ready-to-eat burritos and wraps were recalled after the producer, M.C.I. Foods, discovered a positive Listeria result while doing routine testing on scrambled eggs from external suppliers, according to a recall notice posted by the U.S. Department of Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The recall impacts multiple brands supplied by M.C.I. Foods, including some that contain branding from the popular Minions animated franchise. The California-based company reported its findings to the FSIS, which published the notice on Saturday, October 18. Fortunately, no illnesses have been linked to the consumption of the affected products to date. Heres what you need to know: Which products are being recalled? The individually packaged and bulk-packed frozen breakfast burritos and wraps were produced between September 17 and October 14, 2025. Affected products have establishment numbers EST. 1162A or P-5890A inside the USDA mark of inspection. These products were shipped to food service institutions nationwide, including schools. The FSIS notice notes that the Los Cabos, El Más Fino, and Midamar brand products are included in the USDAs National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs. Below are the specific product details for impacted products. El Mas Fino: Egg, Ham, and Cheese Breakfast Burrito El Mas Fino: Egg, Sausage, and Cheese Breakfast Burrito Los Cabos: Sausage, Egg & 3 Cheese Breakfast Burrito Los Cabos: Egg, Cheese, Potato & Cooked Sausage Crumbles (Made with Turkey) Breakfast Wrap Los Cabos: Egg, Cheese & Cooked Sausage Crumbles (Made with Turkey) Breakfast Wrap Los Cabos: Cheese, Cooked Sausage Crumbles (Made with Turkey) & Egg Breakfast Wrap Midamar: Egg, Cheese & Beef with Sausage Seasoning Breakfast Wrap You can find a full list of product and lot codes on the FSIS website. Note that some of the products have Minions branding on the packaging. You can also find images of the product labels on the FSIS website. What if I have this product? Foods service institutions are instructed to throw away the recalled products. The FSIS is concerned that the recalled products may still be in refrigerators or freezers at these institutions, the notice states. Institutions are being urged to avoid serving the affected products. Recalled products should be thrown out. Where was this product sold? The recall notice doesnt include a list of locations where the products were distributed. However, it notes that they were shipped to food service institutions nationwide, including schools. Fast Company has reached out to M.C.I. Foods for a list of distribution locations. We will update this story if we receive a response. If you have questions about the recall, you can contact M.C.I. Foods at 888-345-5364. What is Listeria? Listeria infection is an illness caused by bacteria that can spread through contaminated food. According to the Mayo Clinic, healthy people rarely become seriously ill from Listeria infection. But the disease can be fatal for unborn babies, newborns, and those with weakened immune systems. Pregnant women, adults 65 and older, and people with weakened immune systems are more at risk for infection.
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U.K. banks and government tech systems going down. University students in Australia struggling to complete their coursework. Homes across Europe losing access to their Ring doorbells. While you were sleeping, large parts of the Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based internet went offline around the world. According to the AWS outage monitor, the problem stemmed from a misconfiguration of Domain Name System (DNS) resolution within the company’s cloud infrastructure. The problem was remedied within three hours of being encounteredby people unable to log onto Roblox or search the web with Perplexity. But the outage highlights just how much the web’s day-to-day functionality relies on the the existence of too few companies. AWS controls around a third of the market; Microsoft, through its Azure cloud service, and Google hold around another third. They are some of a handful of companies that dominate the marketand do so because of their ordinary success and smooth running of cloud infrastructure services. That success, some argue, has translated to overly concentrated control by a small number of companies of key bits of the webs infrastructure, which was always meant to be distributed and with many points of failure. The main reason for this issue is that all these big companies have relied on just one serviceAWSwithout planning for redundancy, says Nishanth Sastry, director of research at the University of Surreys department of computer science. It means that in the rare event of an outage from those key infrastructure providers, we see catastrophic consequences across different sectors, from gaming to government. Once again, we are experiencing how the concentration in the computing industry, in this case in cloud computing, can crash major parts of our internet, all at once, says Corinne Cath-Speth, an expert on cloud computing and head of digital at human rights organization ARTICLE 19. The infrastructure underpinning democratic discourse, independent journalism, and secure communications cannot be dependent on a handful of companies. Even those that do have multiple eggs in multiple metaphorical baskets were affected. Signal, the secure messaging app which rents cloud infrastructure from AWS, Google and Microsoft Azure, faced outages because of AWSs issues. Amazon did not immediately respond to Fast Companys request for comment. That urgency needs to go to the top of governments, nevermind businesses, reckons Amandine LePape, chief operating officer and cofounder of Element, which provides secure communications to governments. Centralized systems may offer convenience and scale, but they also create single points of failure, she says. True resilience comes from decentralisation and self-hosting. That needs to be considered for the futuresimilar outages of AWS have occurred in 2020, 2021, and 2023because its likely to happen again. Governments and other organizations must rethink their infrastructure strategies now, says LePape, or risk being next in line when the cloud goes dark, especially when it comes to their communications.
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