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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