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On Oct. 21, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announced that there may be between five million and 19 million tons of lithium deposits in the “Smackover Formation” in southern Arkansas. The USGS report said that if the lithium is “commercially recoverable,” this amount would meet the projected global demand
Log4Shell: Burgeoning Zero-day Exploit may not be Completely Patched
A cross-platform vulnerability was first reported around Thanksgiving in Apache Log4j, which according...
Weibo Fined for not Carrying Out Enough Censorship
China’s Twitter equivalent microblogging platform Weibo has been fined by the Chinese regime. The Cyberspace...
Chinese Tech Giant Huawei Linked to Surveillance Operations and Intelligence Gathering: Report
An analysis by the Washington Post finds that Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei may have played...
IMF Ran a Financial System Cyberattack Simulation the Same Day as Apache Log4j Exploit Exposed
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) organized and conducted a cyberattack training simulation targeting...
TikTok Empoyees: China Controls Company’s US Operations
In June this year, U.S. President, Joe Biden, signed an executive order revoking former President Donald...
Facebook Says Fact Checks Might Not Actually Be Factual
Facebook has long been accused of censoring content through third-party fact-checkers. Such fact-checkers...
Biden Administration Rejects Calls to Ban Killer Robots While UN Urges Action
As human rights activists, backed by dozens of countries, call for an outright ban on the use of lethal...
5 Major Tech Issues to Challenge China in 2022
As the year 2022 approaches, Beijing has to overcome several fundamental issues facing its technology...
US Using Export Control Tools to Sanction Chinese Company SenseTime Group
On Dec. 10, the White House released a “Joint Statement on the Export Controls and Human Rights ...