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USA – Fixing financial data to assess systemic risk (Greg Feldberg, Brookings)

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USA – The heath care workforce needs higher wages and better opportunities (Jane McDermott and Annelies Goger, Brookings)

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AUTOMATION – Digital transformation, innovation and growth is accelerated by automation (Vala Afshar, ZD Net)

The company of the future will be a new type of symbiotic organization of autonomous technology and autonomous humans, working effectively together, accelerating the flow of value, as and when needed, to our customers and all other stakeholders in the ecosystem. Your next company is designed like a Tesla. The power of automation and autonomy will […]

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MACHINE LEARNING/DATA – Monte Carlo launches Data Observability Platform, aims to solve for bad data (Larry Dignan, ZD Net)

Monte Carlo wants to do for data what application performance management did for enterprise software uptime. The startup launched the Monte Carlo Data Observability Platform, which aims prevent bad data pipelines. Monte Carlo CEO Barr Moses likened data as the new software for companies. “What New Relic does for microservices, Monte Carlo will do for […]

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AFGHANISTAN – Afghan gov’t, Taliban announce breakthrough deal in peace talks (Al Jazeera)

Afghan government and Taliban representatives said they have reached a preliminary deal to press on with peace talks, their first written agreement in 19 years of war. The agreement on Wednesday lays out the way forward for further discussion but is considered a breakthrough because it will allow negotiators to move on to more substantive […]

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RUSSIA/ARMENIA/NAGORNO KARABAKH – Putin hails Armenian PM’s ‘courage’ in signing Karabakh deal (Al Jazeera)

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hailed Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s “courage” in agreeing to a peace deal over Nagorno-Karabakh that triggered a backlash against the leader at home. Armenia signed a Russian-brokered accord with Azerbaijan on November 9 after six weeks of heavy fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. KEEP READING The […]

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PAKISTAN – Pakistan’s new regulations aim to ‘silence the internet’ (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

As journalist Bilal Farooqi was led to a dark cell in a police station in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, a dirty towel hooded over his head, he prepared for a long night ahead. “I had been thinking, as soon as I had been brought to the police station, the first thing in my […]

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ETHIOPIA/UN – Ethiopia gives UN ‘unimpeded’ access to Tigray to deliver aid (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia and the United Nations have reached an agreement to channel desperately needed humanitarian aid to a northern region where a month of war has killed, wounded and uprooted large numbers of people. The pact, announced by UN officials on Wednesday, will allow aid workers “unimpeded” access to government-controlled areas of Tigray, where federal troops […]

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NIGERIA – Nigeria police rescue 10 people after ‘baby factory’ raid (Al Jazeera)

Police in Nigeria have rescued 10 people, including four children, four pregnant women and two other women from an illegal maternity home, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The operation was carried out at the so-called “baby factory” in the Mowe area of the southwestern Ogun state on Tuesday. KEEP READING Survivors of Nigeria’s ‘baby factories’ […]

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CYBER – Criminals to Favor Ransomware and BEC Over Breaches in 2021 (OODA)

Cyber-criminals will likely shift their focus from personal data collection to phishing and ransomware in 2021, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). Rather than targeting large companies and attempting to breach their networks to steal sensitive data, likely to sell on dark web forums, threat actors will increasingly perform phishing and ransomware attacks. […]

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CYBER – Android Messenger App Still Leaking Photos, Videos (OODA)

A bug in the GO SMS Pro app for Andriod users has affected millions of users as underground forums begin to actively share images and data stolen from the app’s servers. The app has been downloaded 100 million times and contains a high-level flaw that allows an attacker to access private voicemails, videos, and photos […]

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CYBER – FBI warns of email forwarding rules being abused in recent hacks (OODA)

The US FBI released a Private Industry Notification (PIN) last week claiming that cybercriminals are exploiting email forwarding rules to maintain anonymity and hide their presence on hacked email accounts. The PIN was made public yesterday and contains valuable information about how the technique is being actively used in recent business email compromise (BEC) attacks […]