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Finance institutions’ climate stress testing will grow

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INTERNATIONAL

Although there is agreement on baseline scenarios, modelling presents a huge challenge due to the unprecedentedly lengthy timescales, and there is a risk of significant divergence…

Consensus and trust are key for leaders amid COVID-19

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Research indicates that compared with male heads of state, female leaders more often insist on consensus-building, investment in social services and empathetic communication…

GPT-3 AI language tool calls for cautious optimism

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It required arguably the single largest computational effort for a machine learning model to date, and is it capable of producing text at times indistinguishable from the work of…

UK focus on Russian Twitter activity will increase

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RUSSIA/UK

Studies of Russian Twitter activity during the Brexit vote.

Russia and China lead on offensive cyber skills

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Although public 'naming and shaming' has become a common practice since the 2017 WannaCry malware attack, damaging cyber campaigns show no signs of decreasing.

ECB sovereign QE could support inflation trends

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EURO-AREA

The programme expands existing purchases of asset-backed securities and covered bonds with large-scale buying of bonds issued by euro-area governments, agencies and European…

Cyber threat intelligence is useful but has pitfalls

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INTERNATIONAL

Multiple actors seek to do harm online for a variety of reasons -- from financial to political motivations. This is creating a new industry: cyber threat intelligence (CTI).

COVID-19 boosts prospects for health IoT

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INT

Health IoT devices are also useful for collecting patient data, which, at scale, could help medical researchers better understand the virus. However, cybersecurity risks are high…

Russian private militaries are contentious but useful

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RUSSIA

Russian private military companies.

Job markets are less globalised than assumed

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INTERNATIONAL

Labour market globalisation.