The shutdown at Ningbo-Zhoushan is raising fears that ports around the world will soon face the same kind of outbreaks and Covid restrictions that slowed the flows of everything from perishable food to electronics last year as the pandemic took hold. Infections are threatening to spread at docks just as the world’s shipping system is already struggling to handle unprecedented demand with economies reopening and manufacturing picking up.

Global sizzling: July was hottest month in 142 years, NOAA says

Aug 13, 2021

In this case first place is the worst place to be, NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said in a press release. This new record adds to the disturbing and disruptive path that climate change has set for the globe.”

This is climate change,” said Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann. It is an exclamation mark on a summer of unprecedented heat, drought, wildfires and flooding.

Sex scandal in Alibaba sparks #MeToo moment in China

Aug 12, 2021

“An Alibaba executive raped his female employee, but the company has taken no action!” she screamed, handing out the leaflets to stunned colleagues until security guards forcibly removed her. “No one is taking responsibility!”

The allegations she printed on those pages, and in a lengthy post over the weekend that went viral on China’s tightly controlled internet, are now reverberating across the upper echelons of Alibaba and in C-suites across much of the country.

Accenture says ransomware attack had no impact, withholds comment on data

Aug 12, 2021

Accenture said in a statement Wednesday that it had “identified irregular activity in one of our environments” and ” immediately contained the matter and isolated the affected servers.” It did not specify when the incident occurred — or acknowledge that it was ransomware. But the description of its response was consistent with ransomware.

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