For many, Microsoft Excel is the epitome of corporate drudgery. Its dreaded #VALUE! error has driven an incalculable number of users to despair. Yet among financial analysts, management consultants and even the odd business journalist, the spreadsheet program, which this month entered its 40th year, is a handy tool for everything from interrogating company financials…
Foreign Secretary David Lammy has urged Iran to take “the off-ramp” and return to the negotiating table. Iran has vowed there will be “everlasting consequences” following US strikes at the weekend, intended to take out the country’s nuclear programme. Lammy said he had told Iran that it would be a “catastrophic mistake” for them to…
Losing in the first round as the No. 2 seed should be considered a failure. But a big-picture approach — and taking into account where Houston was after trading James Harden in 2021 — shows how much the Rockets overachieved this season. The 17-, 20- and 22-win seasons since Harden was traded were replaced with…
Cyber Monitoring Centre says it is treating M&S and Co-op attacks as a single, combined event M&S was hit by a major cyberattack earlier in 2025, Co-op hit weeks after Cost of attacks could hit as high as £440 million, CMC estimates The recent cyberattacks against Marks and Spencer (M&S) and the Co-op supermarket have…
Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group. SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg South Korean billionaire Chey Tae-won’s SK Group has teamed up with Amazon Web Services, the cloud service arm of Amazon, to invest 7 trillion won ($5.1 billion) to build an AI data center in South Korea. The AI data center will be located in the southern Korean…
UnitedHealthcare signage is displayed on an office building in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 19, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Health plans under major U.S. insurers said Monday they have voluntarily agreed to speed up and reduce prior authorizations – a process that is often a major pain point for patients and…
Translated by Nicola Mira Published June 23, 2025 Pitti Uomo’s 108th edition came to an end on a subdued note. The Florentine menswear show had a high turnout on the first two days, but from Thursday visitors were few and far between. The reason was a transport strike scheduled for Friday. That said, on the…
The hype around generative AI (GenAI) is impossible to ignore in most industries, and cybersecurity is no exception. The potential for cybercriminals enhancing their attacks with AI looms large in industry discussions. At the same time, the security world is gripped by the promise of faster, smarter defenses, from AI-powered EDR to co-pilot-enabled SOC teams….
It’s not easy being a customer-service agent—particularly when those customers are so angry with a product that they want to yell at you down the phone. That’s the sort of rage that Sonos, a maker of home-audio systems, encountered in May when it released an app update so full of glitches it caused its share…
Manchester United’s ongoing striker search has led them to a former target in the form of Paris Saint-Germain’s Randal Kolo Muani. In fairness, neither striker’s tenure has fared the way they or their clubs hoped it would prior to their mega-money transfers, leaving both with uncertain futures this summer. The 31-capped Frenchman isn’t short of…
