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Is ‘frugal innovation’ Africa’s ticket to green development? (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

Laurie Goering Taking simple local solutions to larger scale could drive climate-smart development and jobs on a continent that needs them https://news.trust.org/item/20210414191733-vd5uz/?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20210415&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily

Japan – Japanese regulator bans restart at nuclear plant over safety breaches (The Guardian)

Justin McCurry Fukushima plant operator Tepco suffers blow to plans to resume at its only operable atomic facility https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/14/japanese-regulator-bans-restart-tepco-nuclear-plant-over-safety-breaches?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20210415&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily

For the second time in a week, a Google Chromium zero-day released online (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini For the second time in a week, a Chromium zero-day remote code execution exploit code has been released on Twitter, multiple browsers impacted https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/116844/hacking/google-chromium-zero.html

WhatsApp flaws could have allowed hackers to remotely hack mobile devices (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini WhatsApp addressed two security vulnerabilities in its app for Android that could have been exploited to remotely hack the victim’s device https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/116833/hacking/whatsapp-flaws-remote-hack.html

FireEye: 650 new threat groups were tracked in 2020 (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini FireEye published its M-Trend 2021 report based on the data collected during the investigation, 650 new threat groups were tracked in 2020 https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/116813/cyber-crime/fireeye-report-650-new-threat-groups.html

FBI silently removed web shells planted on Microsoft Exchange servers in the US (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini FBI log into web shells that hackers installed on Microsoft Exchange email servers across the US and removed the malicious code used by threat...

How the DoD’s future war-fighting needs are shaping cloud vendors’ products (Defense News)

Andrew Eversden The U.S. Defense Department’s expectation that future wars will be fought across dispersed, disconnected environments is driving changes to its cloud needs. Industry...

Biden nominates longtime expert as nuclear warhead chief (Defense News)

Aaron Mehta Jill Hruby, an engineer with decades of nuclear experience, has been selected by President Joe Biden to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration. https://www.defensenews.com/smr/nuclear-arsenal/2021/04/14/biden-nominates-longtime-expert-as-nuclear-warhead-chief/

China aims to weaponize space, says intel community report (Defense News)

Joe Gould China is working to weaponize space with an array of capabilities intended to target U.S. and allied satellites as part of its ambitious plans to...

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