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Compliance Reporting Without Losing the Spreadsheet or the Control

Compliance-reporting teams keep spreadsheets in the loop for a practical reason: a workbook lets domain experts inspect assumptions, formulas, source rows, and intermediate values without reading a line of application code. That transparency is genuinely useful, and it's a big part of why replacing Excel outright so often fails to stick. The trouble starts once that workbook becomes part of a repeatable, audited reporting process — a regulatory filing, an IFRS report, a periodic compliance submi

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S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/S-P-downgrades-Oracle-to-BBB-only-one-notch-above-junk-level-11363472.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909768 Points: 303 # Comments: 302

Boston Dynamics tries using ‘robot dogs’ for deliveries

See Spot carry. | Image: Boston Dynamics Boston Dynamics' robotic quadruped Spot has already found work doing routine factory inspections and patrolling the ruins of Pompeii, but what about deliveries? The company is testing a new conveyor belt accessory that allows Spot to carry packages from a vehicle and autonomously unload them on a customer's doorstep in an effort to reduce a delivery driver's workload. While attempts have already been made to expedite and automate deliveries using whee

LabubaRAT Masquerades as NVIDIA Software to Control Windows Hosts

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Rust-based remote access trojan (RAT) codenamed LabubaRAT that masquerades as NVIDIA software to blend into target environments. "LabubaRAT creates a reusable foothold for hands-on activity," Blackpoint Cyber researchers Sam Decker and Nevan Beal said in an analysis published today. "Once deployed, it can profile the host,

Sony delays its new PS5 fight stick

Sony is delaying the launch of its FlexStrike fight stick controller for PS5 and PC, which had been set to launch on August 6th, to an unspecified date in the future. The company blames the delayed launch on "unexpected production delays." The original planned launch of the FlexStrike would have lined up with the release date of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, a Marvel-themed fighting game developed by Arc System Works that PlayStation is publishing. "We wanted to share an update on the launch tim

Stop switching tools to find answers: Grafana Assistant now works across 30+ data sources

When you're the on-call engineer and something breaks, you can quickly find yourself deep in a series of tools you don't regularly use—switching tabs, copying query results, and manually stitching together a picture of what's happening and why. People are increasingly turning to AI to get around this, but the results can be a mixed bag. For example, many of today's observability, data warehousing, or project management tools come equipped with powerful AI assistants that can help you get answers