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South-east Asia drives commercialisation of fake news

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SOUTH-EAST ASIA

Disinformation is being used in a variety of contexts -- from political and business competition to a broad spectrum of ethnic and religious rivalries. Moreover, foreign…

Cybersecurity of US firms is improving but unevenly

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UNITED STATES

Partly due to this pressure, in 2021, global spending on cybersecurity surpassed USD150bn for the first time. This year, regulatory pressure and government warnings have…

Digital authoritarianism in Africa is evolving

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AFRICA

However, the same digital technologies have provided illiberal governments with powerful means of controlling citizens and stifling dissent, making repression more pervasive and…

Industrial IoT security lags behind innovation and use

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INTERNATIONAL

This is blurring boundaries between traditional operational remits and is making it difficult to understand and mitigate risk, at both organisational and systemic levels.

US corporate duty of care faces reappraisal

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UNITED STATES

With the advent of President Joe Biden's administration, the country's experience with COVID-19 is becoming part of a new debate over whether healthcare should be a public good…

Saudi-Emirati relations will be tense

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SAUDI ARABIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Current animosities are driven by competing economic plans and ambitions for regional leadership. Encouraged by a changing geopolitical environment, strong finances and solid…

Russia postpones vaccination targets as Delta strikes

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RUSSIA

A third wave of COVID-19 began to accelerate in June after two earlier waves between March 2020 and March 2021. The third wave is attributable to relaxations of restrictions at…

AI use will become central to corporate recruitment

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INT

Using AIs can expand the candidate pool and increase diversity, automate the screening of applicants, making hiring quicker and thus cheaper, and provide companies with more…

Saudi Aramco signals fresh momentum behind IPO plans

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SAUDI ARABIA

Reports last month that Aramco had selected Lazard for a contract to work as adviser on the IPO breathed new life into a deal that has been marking time since mid-2018…