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• Travel blogger Nicole Sunderland has visited every US state, with repeat trips to some favorites.
• On her blog, she spotlights luxurious hotels and cruises but also loves exploring locally in the US.
• Nevada, Arizona, and Virginia are among her favorite states.

Nicole Sunderland first caught the travel bug over two decades ago when she sold magazines door to door around the country.

In 2004, she found a job ad in a newspaper that read, "Looking for fun in the sun?" with a phone number.

"I was like, 'This is so me, whatever it is,'" Sunderland told Business Insider.

The next day, she called the number, and the day after, she was on a Greyhound bus from Orlando to Islip, New York, with a new job as a traveling sales representative that helped kick-start her travel adventures.

"That was kind of my introduction into both sales and traveling the US and really getting to see how people live and operate all over the country," said Sunderland.

Today, she is a travel blogger with a million Instagram followers who has not only traveled to every US state — some of which she's been to multiple times — but also toured around the world widely.

Although most of her recent work spotlights opulent hotels, cruise stays, and international luxury travel experiences, she periodically revisits her favorite states to explore new spots.

"My goal is to visit at least five places in the US that I have not been to before because I want to continue exploring more of the US," Sunderland told BI in an interview last year.

Here are five states she's been to that she hopes to revisit.

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• Billionaires and CEOs are arriving in Idaho for the annual Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference.
• Dozens of private jets landed at the small-town airport on Tuesday morning.
• The summit is considered a billionaire summer camp because of the wheeling and dealing that takes place behind lodge doors.

Private jets have begun buzzing above the cattle and potato farms of Sun Valley, Idaho, for the annual Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference.

For more than four decades, the Tuesday after July 4 has marked the kickoff of the annual summit, which has become known as billionaire summer camp. What started out as a media-focused conference for a few dozen guests has since expanded to include hundreds from all corners of the business world.

Between 160 and 190 aircraft — more than double the number of an average Tuesday — typically arrive at the Sun Valley Friedman Memorial Airport, shuttling CEOs and billionaires in from places like Aspen, Colorado, and Bozeman, Montana.

"That day — the entire week, for that matter, based on holiday travel, tourism season being in full swing, and the conference — makes it the busiest week of the year here in the Wood River Valley," Tim Burke, the director of the airport, told Business Insider over email.

This morning, after dozens of private jets touched down, the FAA said the airport was experiencing delays. The planes included one owned by investment firm Invemed Securities, likely carrying its founder, billionaire Ken Langone, a regular attendee of the conference.

Numerous other heavy hitters may be taking a page out of Apple CEO Tim Cook's book and opting for a charter plane to avoid jet-tracking websites. Over the past 24 hours, dozens of planes linked to private plane operators like NetJets and Flexjet have arrived at the Sun Valley airport.

Other guests expected to arrive include Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google chief Sundar Pichai, and Disney top brass Bob Iger, Variety reported. Some regular attendees including Oprah Winfrey and Warren Buffett, who announced his retirement plans in May, are reportedly not expected to attend this year.

The conference, which is entirely off-the-record and has a relaxed atmosphere, has become known for the dealmaking that takes place during power lunches behind lodge doors and rounds of golf. It's where the seeds for Disney's acquisition of ABC were planted, and it was pivotal in Comcast buying NBC Universal.

This year, AI talent wars, the state of the energy and defense industries, and Disney's succession plan will likely be among the most talked-about topics.

The current political climate, including tariffs and the Big Beautiful Bill, could also inspire plenty of discussion, especially with the politicians in attendance. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore are reportedly on the guest list.

The event is organized by the boutique investment firm Allen & Company. Guests stay at the Sun Valley Lodge, where rooms run upward of $500 a night during peak summer months.

While there are several panels, there are many unstructured hours during which the masters of the universe can trade their sports coats in for activewear and play tennis, stroll through the woods, or hang out at local coffee shops.

Flight records say the aircraft, registered to Travis Buchanan of Sanford, departed Merritt Island, Florida, around 11 a.m. Monday.

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A persistent hacking crew of young men and teenagers is back with a vengeance, wielding a two-year-old playbook to knock U.S. corporate systems offline.

Why it matters: Scattered Spider hasn't had to evolve much to remain effective — a sign of how little corporate cybersecurity defenses have improved.

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• The group's tactics, including help desk impersonation and SIM swapping, continue to wreak havoc across critical industries.

Driving the news: Over the past month, Scattered Spider has been on a hacking spree that's disrupted operations at retailers, grocery chains, insurance providers, and airlines across the U.S., the U.K. and Canada.

• Their reach may also now extend into Australia, where Qantas is investigating a cyberattack on one of its call centers — a hallmark tactic of Scattered Spider.

The big picture: Unlike most ransomware gangs, Scattered Spider isn't a monolithic, state-sponsored machine. It's a loose collective, largely made up of teenagers and young men who emerged from online gaming communities like Roblox and Minecraft.

• "Scattered Spider includes more people in Western countries than other ransomware groups," Cynthia Kaiser, senior vice president of Halcyon's Ransomware Research Center and a former top FBI cyber official, told Axios.
• But while originally rooted in English-speaking countries, it's evolved into a more global operation, she said.

Breaking it down: The group operates like a business, with a leadership structure, junior associates and temporary roles. Some members' sole job is to call help desks and reset employee passwords.

• Adam Meyers, SVP of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, told Axios the group's origin lies in a toxic subset of gaming culture, where online harassment evolved into SIM swapping and eventually ransomware.
• Scattered Spider's core includes about four leaders, but its operations are interwoven with members of the broader online community "The Com," which has ties to cybercrime and real-world violence, experts said.

How it works: The group's primary tactic remains voice-based phishing where they call a company's overseas help desk, impersonate an employee, and reset their single sign-on passwords.

• They then use SIM swapping to intercept multifactor-authentication codes.
• In recent incidents, the group has escalated attacks by targeting ESXi hypervisors — systems that power a company's servers and digital operations but often fly under the radar of traditional security tools. Once inside, they deploy ransomware and cripple the server environment.
• "They're ninjas with identity," Meyers said. "They know how to avoid modern security tools ... and they're incredibly fast — in some cases, there's less than 24 hours between gaining access to deploying ransomware."
• Meyers added that his team has identified seven unique voices calling help desks in recent months.

Flashback: Scattered Spider first made headlines in 2023 with attacks on Las Vegas casinos, including MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment. Two years later, their methods remain largely unchanged.

• "It's largely the same, frankly," Meyers said. "Once they figure out one organization that they can successfully get into, then they go, 'We're here, who are their peers, who are their competitors, who else is there that we can perhaps go after?'"

Threat level: Scattered Spider is now collaborating with Russian ransomware gangs, including those behind Play, Akira and DragonForce, Kaiser said.

Between the lines: Despite the group's Western presence, law enforcement faces obstacles in tracking them down.

• Many members are minors, which gives them different legal protections, Meyers said. And if they have any mental health conditions, officials in some countries where the group operates are limited in how long they can hold them and what charges they can pursue.
• For instance, when authorities arrested members of the Lapsus$ hacking gang — another group involving juvenile offenders — prosecutors struggled to proceed against a 17-year-old despite clear evidence of major corporate breaches.
• Kaiser noted that identifying every member of Scattered Spider is difficult due to the group's sprawling, decentralized nature.

The intrigue: Still, U.S. officials have made more arrests tied to Scattered Spider than to Russian ransomware crews. In November, five men were charged in connection with the group.

The bottom line: Experts urge U.S. companies to implement strict ID verification protocols at IT help desks and to upgrade outdated MFA methods like SMS and voice codes.

• They should also closely monitor how much network access is granted to third-party vendors.

• Employees aren't feeling great about their jobs these days.
• Worker sentiment dropped to its lowest level in at least nine years, Glassdoor said.
• The decline is driven by a weakening job market and anxiety over the economy, it added.

The vibes in the workplace haven't been this bad in years.

That's according to the latest reading of Glassdoor's Employee Confidence Index, which showed that 43.6% of workers had a positive outlook for their employer over the next six months, down from 44.4% of US workers who felt that way in May.

That reading reflects the worst employees have felt about their work since Glassdoor began conducting the survey in 2016, the firm said in a report on Monday.

Employee sentiment is also lower than it was in 2020, when COVID-19 slammed the world economy and spiked the unemployment rate in the US to a peak of 14.8%.

Employee confidence dropped the most in the last month among white-collar industries, the firm said in its report.

Employees in the legal sector reported the biggest year-over-year decline in sentiment, with the percentage of workers who said they had a positive six-month outlook dropping to 52.6%, down 11.2 percentage points compared to levels last year.

Employees in the energy, mining, and utilities industry and the government and public administration industry saw the second-largest year-over-year decline, with sentiment dropping 7.5 percentage points compared to the same month in 2024.

Here are the five industries where workers were the most pessimistic, according to Glassdoor's survey:

• Restaurants and food service: 35.6%
• Government and public administration: 36.1%
• Arts, entertainment, and recreation: 39.1%
• Pharmaceutical and biotechnology: 39.3%
• Manufacturing: 39.8%

The decline in sentiment has hit its lowest recorded level for two straight months. According to Daniel Zhao, the lead economist of Glassdoor, it reflects the "steady cooling" of the job market and growing anxiety over the economy.

"While the labor market hasn't collapsed, workers are clearly feeling the strain," Zhao said in a note, pointing in particular to mid-level workers. "As confidence erodes, the risk of turnover rises, particularly in white-collar industries still grappling with sluggish hiring and restructuring."

The job market has sent mixed signals over the last several months.

While the unemployment rate remained near historic lows and the economy added more jobs than expected in June, the private sector lost 33,000 jobs, according to the payroll processor ADP.

Claims for continued unemployment have climbed steadily higher over the last year. In the week ending June 14, continuing claims hovered around 1.9 million, the highest number since 2021.

• Comcast is getting rid of most of its cable TV channels. So is Warner Bros. Discovery.
• Now Disney and Hearst, who co-own the A&E cable TV group, are looking to do the same.
• Cable TV networks are declining, but they still generate profits, for now. The trick is figuring out what to do with them.

Do you watch shows on Lifetime, A&E, or the History channels?

No? OK. But would you like to own those channels?

That's the question Disney and Hearst, who co-own the A&E Global Media cable conglomerate, are asking potential buyers right now: They've hired a bank to shop the properties, according to people familiar with the companies.

And by doing so, A&E is now the third big media company to publicly put a "for sale" sign on cable networks in the last year. In December, Comcast announced that it was going to put most of its cable channels into a spinoff company, and in June, Warner Brothers Discover announced a similar split.

All of them are trying to dump cable for the same reasons: While cable TV networks are often still profitable businesses, they are aging and declining because their audiences are also aging and declining.

Reps for Disney and A&E declined to comment; I haven't heard back from Hearst yet. Variety first reported the news.

For the record: Just because A&E's owners have put it up for sale doesn't mean it will sell. And there could be lots of different permutations for a transaction. Maybe the A&E channels get rolled into another group of channels, like Versant — the name that Comcast has picked for its spin-off to be. Maybe a private equity firm will want some or all of the channels.

But it's certainly not surprising to see another big media company decide it wants out of cable TV. Disney CEO Bob Iger had already mused about hiving off some of his TV assets before walking that back. Now he's kind of doing it, after all.

If you wanted to, you could argue that Paramount owner Shari Redstone is also part of the trend, since she's dumping the entirety of her company, which used to be a cable heavyweight. (She's so eager to get out that she's willing to pay Donald Trump $16 million in the process.)

Fun footnote — back in 2016, A&E thought one answer to cable's shrinking, aging audience problem would be Vice Media, and did a deal with the then-buzzy digital media company to turn one of its channels into a Vice-branded network.

The theory: Young viewers who didn't watch TV but loved Vice would somehow become cable TV owners and start watching Vice on TV.

That didn't work, but the channel still exists. Any offers?

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