How Vulnerable Is the German Judiciary? Over the past 18 months, we have studied what would happen if authoritarian populists gained control over state power in the Eastern German state of Thuringia. We travelled across the entire Federal Republic to better understand this question and bring our scenarios to public attention. In our more than … Read more
New World Development (NWD) on Thursday priced its latest Hong Kong residential project at a substantial discount, as the embattled developer scrambles to generate cash to whittle down HK$123.7 billion (US$15.9 billion) in debt. The company, controlled by the family of tycoon Henry Cheng Kar-shun, priced the first 88 units in State Pavilia – the … Read more
Video of the Stargate announcement conference at the White House. Despite optimism from the companies involved, as CNN reports, past presidential investment announcements have yielded mixed results. In 2017, Trump and Foxconn unveiled plans for a $10 billion Wisconsin electronics factory promising 13,000 jobs. The project later scaled back to a $672 million investment with … Read more
During the 2016 Brexit referendum, the Leave campaign frequently accused the Remain side of excessive negativity and scaremongering. Simona Dianová and Monika Brusenbauch Meislová examine what a dataset of public speeches can tell us about the realities of “Project Fear”. The 2016 Brexit referendum stands out in British political history as a campaign fraught with … Read more
Jan 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Android Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a now-patched security flaw impacting Monkey’s Audio (APE) decoder on Samsung smartphones that could lead to code execution. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-49415 (CVSS score: 8.1), affects Samsung devices running Android versions 12, 13, and 14. “Out-of-bounds write in libsaped.so prior to SMR Dec-2024 … Read more
