Tencent Executive Held by China Over Links to Corruption Case Wall Street Journal
The Australian Defence Department has quietly extended a contract with a Chinese-owned company to continue storing data in its Sydney facilities, despite a push to end the arrangement by 2020.
Key points:
- Global Switch has held sensitive military files for 10 years
- However, there were concerns when a Chinese owned company purchased 49 per cent of the business
- A deal between the Government and Global Switch was expected to end last year
For a decade sensitive military files have been stored by Global Switch, but concerns were raised four years ago when a Chinese consortium bought half of its British parent company.
COLLUSION: Did a Huawei employee ghostwrite this MIT professor’s pro-China op-ed?
Meet the Russian patriots making their presence felt in Australia
WHEN YOU’VE LOST THE BEEB…: BBC News banned in China, one week after CGTN’s license withdrawn in UK.
Crypto’s dirty side: 270 addresses laundered $1.3bn in 2020
New research shows that criminals are using a small group of crypto brokers to launder hundreds of millions of dollars
The Chainalysis study only covered crime that originates on the blockchain ledger that underpins most cryptocurrencies, including scams, cyberheists, ransomware and darknet marketplaces used to buy contraband.
Who Spent Their Last Stimulus Checks? NYT. Are the checks for stimulus? Or relief? If the latter, is it so very bad that the working class might end up with a little money in the bank, for once?
Can human judgment handle avalanches? High Country News
Tom Brady and the vindication of age over youth FT
COVID maths: All the virus in the world would fit in a coke can Reuters
Why Swedish towns are banning masks Fast Company
Dozens of people develop rare blood disorder after taking coronavirus vaccines – reports RT
Covid vaccine: J&J CEO says people may get annual shots for the next several years CNBC
US will not accept World Health Organization findings out of Wuhan without independently verifying South China Morning Post Help me.
CSR, Business Ethics & Human Rights through a Tax Lens: VIRTEU Roundtable Series Continues
Banks that listen to their customers will go places
Loyalty to banks used to be a big thing in the days of yore. But the Banking Royal Commission certainly skewered any reason to remain loyal. And there are options for those looking for an ethical bank that listens to their customers.
The Simpsons Intro Recreated Using Stock Footage
This is one of those posts that’s really easy to understand — it’s the famous intro to The Simpsons recreated using stock footage, just like the title says right up there — but I’ve gotta write something here to take up a little space and time, so I end up just saying the same thing using the same words (intro, Simpsons, recreated, stock, footage) like you’re all 3 years old or something. (Why do we need more than six words to describe this?) Anyway, this video is the introduction to the American television show The Simpsons recreated using only stock video footage. Enjoy.
See also: stock footage intros to Duck Tales and Friends and the stock footage trailer for Koyaanisqatsi.