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Read More »Trump denies writing birthday message to Epstein described in Wall Street Journal report
The controversy over U.S. President Donald Trump’s handling of records from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation entered a new dimension on Thursday, as his administration struggles to make good on its promises to release details on the sex-trafficking case involving a one-time friend of the now-president. Trump promised a lawsuit after …
Read More »Call inquiry into Canada’s COVID-19 response, medical journal urges – National
A new series published in the BMJ medical journal is calling for an independent inquiry into Canada’s COVID-19 response. Experts from 13 organizations across Canada, including doctors, nurses, researchers, law and humanitarian specialists, along with Jocalyn Clark, a Canadian who is the BMJ’s international editor, wrote the seven articles published …
Read More »Q&A with Cory Hrncirik, Microsoft's Modern Finance project lead, on flattening the company's finance head count with AI and data lakes, using Excel, and more (Nina Trentmann/Wall Street Journal)
Nina Trentmann / Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Cory Hrncirik, Microsoft’s Modern Finance project lead, on flattening the company’s finance head count with AI and data lakes, using Excel, and more — The new tools help automate tasks. But ‘we love Excel,’ says Cory Hrncirik, who leads Microsoft’s Modern Finance …
Read More »Bezos' biggest legacy could be "Bezosism", using surveillance, algorithms, and data to supercharge old management systems and squeeze performance out of workers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Bezos’ biggest legacy could be “Bezosism”, using surveillance, algorithms, and data to supercharge old management systems and squeeze performance out of workers — The e-commerce giant has supercharged systems of management invented a century ago with surveillance, algorithms and data, leading to a new …
Read More »Leaked memo: ByteDance says its annual revenue in 2020 grew 111% YoY to $34.3B compared to 2019, while gross profit rose 93% YoY to $19B (Liza Lin/Wall Street Journal)
Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: Leaked memo: ByteDance says its annual revenue in 2020 grew 111% YoY to $34.3B compared to 2019, while gross profit rose 93% YoY to $19B — ByteDance’s gross profit rose 93% to $19 billion last year, according to a memo to staff — ByteDance …
Read More »FTC: consumers have reported losing nearly $82M to crypto scams during Q4 2020 and Q1 2021, up more than 10x YoY (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: FTC: consumers have reported losing nearly $82M to crypto scams during Q4 2020 and Q1 2021, up more than 10x YoY — FTC says consumers have reported losing more than $80 million to crypto-investment scams since October — Scams are running rampant in the …
Read More »Accellion's file transfer software hack, which affected Jones Day, also impacted New Zealand's central bank, 1M unemployment benefits applicants in WA, and more (David Uberti/Wall Street Journal)
David Uberti / Wall Street Journal: Accellion’s file transfer software hack, which affected Jones Day, also impacted New Zealand’s central bank, 1M unemployment benefits applicants in WA, and more — Like the SolarWinds breach, the incident highlights supply-chain vulnerabilities — The hack of software provider Accellion USA LLC … News …
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