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‘This is a disaster’: Angry Republicans blame Trump for midterms defeat. ‘The money didn’t work’: Big Tech’s $600mn midterm campaign falls flat
BBC: Most Republicans expected to lose control of the House and were clear-eyed about the challenge of holding onto the Senate in a tough election…
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US Congress welcomes record number of lawmakers of Chinese descent
SCMP: Democrat Richard Pan won a California House race, making it six lawmakers of Chinese descent when the 120th Congress convenes in January…
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 more years in prison
Associated Press: Rights groups have raised concerns over Wong’s case. Dozens of people queued outside the court building to secure a seat in…
Nvidia orders data centre clients to reduce China exposure
Financial Times: The instructions have been communicated verbally and carried out by Nvidia’s sales force and regional teams rather than spelt…
Montenegro, Albania seek NATO support to tackle Russian disinformation
Politico EU: In separate interviews, Montenegrin Defense Minister Dragan Krapović and his Albanian counterpart, Ermal Nufi, said the alliance…
Vance blames Iran war for G.O.P. losses, distancing himself from Trump
New York Times: In Mr. Vance’s social media post, he said many voters who had supported Mr. Trump turned to Democratic candidates on Tuesday…
Republican missteps that laid groundwork for historic midterm rebuke
Washington Post: A campaign that put a distracted President Donald Trump front and center, and a war no one asked for, led the party into a…
MAGA media civil war erupts over who’s to blame for GOP’s thrashing
Washington Post: Their competing explanations — and their efforts to pin responsibility on one another — exposed deep fractures in an online…
Midterms: Democrats seize control of Congress as voters rebuke Trump
New York Times: Democrats seized control of the Senate and were projected to win the House, according to New York Times projections, as voters…
Binance hackers used fake interviews, social media profiles in $6.3bn heist
Financial Times: Crypto exchange’s internal investigation reveals the role of human error in the biggest theft in history…
US has no immediate plan to strike Iran, Trump tells FT
Financial Times: In an interview with the FT on Tuesday, the US president suggested he was content with the state of the stand-off with Iran —…
Germany warns politicians their iPhones may be hacked
Financial Times: Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security issued an urgent notice over the weekend advising government figures that…
North Korean hackers expected to take months to launder stolen Binance billions
Financial Times: Tokens are visible on public blockchains and have been split into small packages in an attempt to stop them being traced,…
Google will turn off search for schools that reject A.I.
New York Times: Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student…
U.S. strikes Iran’s Qeshm Island as Trump talks down war risks
Wall Street Journal: The U.S. attacked Iran’s Qeshm Island on Monday, U.S. officials said, in the latest of a series of limited strikes…
Trump to stop $4 billion in annual funding for Israeli arms purchases
Washington Post: The announcement means an early end to a 2016 pact, set to expire in 2028, in which the U.S. agreed to provide Israel…
Israeli claims of Iranian chemical weapons divide U.S. officials
New York Times: Israel has shared intelligence with the United States asserting that Iran is considering the use of chemical weapons against…
NATO’s new defense plan would mean strikes deep inside Russia
Wall Street Journal: Protecting NATO’s European territory for decades centered on the military equivalent of putting up roadblocks. But after…
Google researchers fighting company to tell world what they know about AI
Washington Post: The non-disparagement agreements signed by employees in Britain block them communicating with the public about the potential…
AFN chief says no one besides Carney, Kinew talked about abolishing Indian Act
The Canadian Press: The Indian Act, which dates from 1876, gives Ottawa sweeping powers over First Nations communities and people, including…
UK meat industry hit by cyber-attack which targeted European supermarket freezers
BBC: The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) says it is aware of “a couple of instances where vulnerable technology had been exploited…
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