Plot the key jurisdictions where hackers find the warmest welcome and you would likely come up with the usual suspects: Russia, China, Israel and so on. But one name sits a little incongruously on the list: Brazil. How is it that this state with no state-sponsored ‘hacker armies’, and not a major player in the […]
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Would you trust an AI to offer you a job? A Russian company is offering AI software to interview and recommend candidates for employment, at a much faster and more efficient rate than humans could ever hope to match. ‘Vera’ can perform all aspects of the recruiter’s job and is currently used by hundreds of
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While the British rush to get Irish passports, the rest of the world rush to get British ones. The wealthiest of the elite – those who can immediately invest two million pounds into the economy – are given ‘golden visas’ which entitle them to an immediate 40 month period of UK residency despite a purported
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Whether you are singing le football rentre a la maison or nogomet se vraca kuci, or the original under your breath: however many years of hurt your country may have, football will be going somewhere. Whether ‘home’ or not, rather depends on your geography. But while variations on that theme will have been heard throughout
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The time is running out and Turkey is now prepared to face the presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday 24th June. Millions of voters have been bombarded with all sort of (fake/real) news. In the past debates had been raised regarding the impact fake news had on elections in other countries, such as in the
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Picture the scene. A particular table at a particular casino, strangely not part of the action. A gentleman comes to the table and plays one single game of baccarat. The stake – ten million dollars. He loses, pays his debt and leaves without a word. But while this may sound like the stuff of spy
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‘Unexpectedly’ Nicolas Maduro won another six-year term as President of Venezuela in the recent elections. The country has now reached its lowest point since Chavez’s departure. The 55-year-old leftist will have a lot to work on, even though it was his policy of extensive corruption and remissness of economic stability that led his ship to
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Could Britain be about to take suspected Russian dirty money seriously? First was the introduction of Unexplained Wealth Orders, allowing for greater exploration into the vast amounts of money certain individuals brought to the UK. Now, Roman Abramovich is leading the line of oligarchs facing visa renewal issues. It appears that the Chelsea owner will
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In 1940, a nondescript organisation operated out of the Rockefeller building in New York. It may have been officially dealing with British passports, but in reality The British Security Coordination was designed and set up with the express intention of promoting the British war effort, spreading anti-Nazi propaganda across the States and hopefully convince America
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A row is brewing between the UK government and overseas territories over the age-old bugbear of offshore companies. By the end of the decade, Parliament intends to ensure that records of public ownership are freely available in jurisdictions such as the Caymans, the Virgin Islands and Bermuda – or it will ‘compel’ them to be
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