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Uber is under fire again from drivers over an increase in the service fee charged by the ride-hailing app, in a further example of the controversy surrounding the treatment of workers in the gig economy.
The treatment of workers in the UK’s gig economy has come...
Source is New York Times
In the Great Recession more than a decade ago, big tech companies hit a rough patch just like everyone else. Now they have become unquestioned winners of the pandemic economy.The combined yearly revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft and Facebook is about $1.2 trillion,...
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NASA’s engineers already made history on Monday with the 39-second flight of Ingenuity, a small helicopter, in the thin atmosphere on Mars. On Thursday, they added to their success when the experimental vehicle flew higher, longer and riskier.At 5:30 a.m. Eastern time, according to...
Source is New York Times
Would you like to read a U.S. senator’s book about antitrust law? No? How about two U.S. senators’ books about antitrust law?Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, and Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, recently published books with a combined 825 pages about the...
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LinkedIn has forcefully denied the exposure of data relating to 700 million users of its workplace networking platform – over 90% of its total user base – which has been offered for sale on the dark web, is a data breach, insisting that since the data...
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Cyber security professional membership and skills association (ISC)² is to make one of its most popular Professional Development Institute (PDI) courses, Ransomware: Identify, protect, defend, recover, available for free until the end of July 2021.
Its PDI cyber security courses span more than 40 topics which...
Exactly one year ago today, we suddenly lost our youngest son Aaron.
Some of you know that everything about how I worked, thought, and planned for the future was designed around Aaron's living for a long time. Together with my oldest son Joshua and my daughter-in-law Robin, we built my company SalesPulse so that...
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More than 1,000 different organisations around the world – including many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – remain locked out of critical IT systems over 48 hours after a REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware attack against IT managed service providers (MSPs) orchestrated via a compromise of Kaseya’s VSA endpoint...
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Every business is now a digital business. According to the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), 96% of UK businesses have “some form of digital exposure”, offering cyber criminals more opportunities than ever before.
From the spectacular breaches that attract global attention to the everyday...
Source is New York Times
In 2010, Accenture scored an accounting contract with Facebook. By 2012, that had expanded to include a deal for moderating content, particularly outside the United States.That year, Facebook sent employees to Manila and Warsaw to train Accenture workers to sort through posts, two former...
