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Why South Korea should join the CPTPP (Peter A. Petri and Michael Plummer, Brookings)

With surprising applications from the United Kingdom, China, and Taiwan, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) has moved to the center stage...

20 Brookings Foreign Policy books for 2021 (Ted Reinert and McCall Mintzer, Brookings)

As 2021 draws to a close — the first year of the Biden administration, and second year of the COVID-19 pandemic — there are...

An AI fair lending policy agenda for the federal financial regulators (Michael Akinwumi, John Merrill, Lisa Rice, Kareem Saleh, and Maureen Yap, Brookings)

Algorithms, including artificial intelligence and machine learning models (AI/ML), increasingly dictate many core aspects of everyday life. Whether applying for a job or a...

Haiti needs a new, improved UN mission (Charles T. Call, Brookings)

Haiti has experienced decades of insecurity and political instability, but 2021 has been alarming. The October kidnapping of 17 American and Canadian missionaries and...

CISA adds Zoho, Apache, Qualcomm, Mikrotik flaws to the list of actively exploited issues (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated its catalog of actively exploited vulnerabilities recommending federal agencies to address the flaws in Qualcomm, Mikrotik, Zoho and the...

Russian internet watchdog Roskomnadzor bans six more VPN services (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor tightens the control over the Internet and blocked access to six more VPN services. The latest banned services are Betternet,...

Europol arrested 1800 money mules as part of an anti-money-laundering operation (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Europol has identified 18,351 money mules and arrested 1,803 of them as part of an international anti-money-laundering operation codenamed EMMA 7. The operation is the...

Cybersecurity Risk Lurks in a Common Industrial Operating System (Daniel dos Santos, IndustryWeek)

With an increased focus on critical infrastructure protection, organizations need to pay attention to operational technology vulnerabilities. New research from Forescout Research Labs, dubbed NUCLEUS:13, has...

US Department of Energy Funds Clean Energy Innovations Program (IndustryWeek)

Engineers and scientists with ideas for decarbonizing the manufacturing industry in the United States have expanded access to an entrepreneurship program offering a $100,000 annual stipend...

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