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...“The result is that Russian security partners initially gain a sovereign capability . . ....
...They organise themselves in social networks, in environments marked by hate speech.”...
...Anduril’s first big win, when it was just a few months old, was a contract with the Trump administration to supply AI-powered surveillance towers along the Mexican border....
...Zhao Hai, dean of the National Institute for Global Strategy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences government think-tank, added there was a serious lack of trust....
...In 1987, faced with growing evidence of the links between fossil fuels and global warming, Dennis Bakke, then chief executive of Applied Energy Services, started thinking about how to minimise the environmental...
...“We find an abandoned asset, we go in and take this enterprise under our security control, do a full inventory,” he said....
...China’s 380mn itinerant migrant workers are “periphery”, she says, which means they are the first to be laid off when companies are hit by downturns, a problem exacerbated by unequal access to social security...
...We surprised the first year with the Social Security reform. We surprised a second year when we dropped it less....
...He described himself as a “fiscal conservative with a social conscience”, which would put him in the majority with most Americans, but worried most that America had lost its “sense of shame” as a society...
...We need to keep an eye on home surveillance The US is almost on a par with China for security-camera penetration per person, according to pre-pandemic research by IHS Markit....
...“There were threats to my digital and personal security,” says Fowler, who adds she now has four police crime reports to her name....
...(FT) Greensill files for administration Greensill Capital has filed for administration, warning it is in “severe financial distress”, unable to repay a $140m loan to Credit Suisse and hit by “defaults”...
...The younger generations’ social media platform of choice has narrowly escaped a ban by the previous US administration (though not completely), and it’s helping facilitate a style renaissance as young entrepreneurs...
...Russia is seeking to manufacture its Sputnik V vaccine in Italy to meet a surge in overseas contracts....
...(FT) What else we’re reading Joe Biden’s chance to end middle class stagnation Once every generation or so, America’s social contract changes....
...Separately, Department of Justice attorneys said in a court filing that they had begun to review whether TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, was a threat to national security as the Trump administration...
...Russia’s Sputnik V jab has shown 91.6 per cent efficacy against symptomatic Covid-19 in clinical trials, a Lancet peer review confirmed....
...believed his Supreme Court picks could reshape the court and pave the way for the reversal of Roe v Wade, which effectively legalised abortion....
...The onus is now on Donald Trump’s administration to use this “breathing space” wisely. It could take steps to improve the bankruptcy system....
...A strong retail performance is building hopes for a V-shaped economic recovery but exporters are still suffering, she writes....
...Social media postings from the US embassy show that Mr Grenell was on a trade mission to the US when the Auschwitz commemoration took place and was attending the Munich Security Conference on Dresden’s day...
...(FT) Munich Security Conference kicks off The annual event is regarded as the Davos for the world’s security and foreign policy elite....
...That letter estimated that if the 800,000 Daca recipients lost their ability to work, the US economy would lose $460bn of GDP and the federal government nearly $25bn in Social Security and Medicare tax contributions...
...In a widely circulated report on Chinese social media, Zhang Anyuan, chief economist at Citic Securities, criticised analysts who have projected that first-quarter growth might only fall to 4 or 5 per cent...
...The social mingling resulting from any short-term economic reopening would probably come at the price of a second contagious outburst....
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