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Published 13 May 2021
A pro al-Qaeda digital propaganda group has released digital articles which call on Americans to engage in lone-wolf terror attacks against fellow Americans. Because American counterterrorism pressure has severely degraded its capabilities, Al Qaeda appears to believe its best hope of achieving a terrorist attack against the West is to inspire domestic extremists.
On April 14, 2021, both Al Qaeda and the pro-Al Qaeda propaganda outlet Jaysh Al-Malahim Al-Electroni (Electronic Battle Army) released magazines that include articles about the cultural strife in America and the West more broadly. The articles touched on the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection, the racial justice protests in summer 2020, and the deepening of American political divisions. Both articles portray the West as declining and divided.
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During US President Joe Biden’s ‘Earth Day’Climate Summit, climate security was high on the agenda of politicians and celebrities. Over 40 world leaders gathered for the two-day summit to reaffirm and extend their efforts to combat climate change. While several of the speakers stressed the importance of recognizing climate risks as a legitimate threat to global security, on Day Two a dedicated panel chaired by US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin III, focused on it.
Climate Change, according to US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines, “must be at the core of a country’’ national security and foreign policy,” at the White House-hosted Leaders’ Summit on Climate on April 22. Climate change, according to Haines, “needs to be completely incorporated into every area of our research in order for us to be able to not only track the challenge but also objectively think about the implications of climate change on apparently unre
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The future grid is full of data. That worries cyber experts Source: By Christian Vasquez, E&E News reporter • Posted: Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Security experts warn that clean energy developers and nation-backed hackers are often interested in the same types of granular grid data. Regulators, utilities and renewable energy companies are debating whether to make such information public. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News(illustration);Internet Archive Book Images/Flickr(drafting sketch); MaxPixel(turbines and transmission lines); Freepik (cyber)
The demand for public grid data to spur renewable energy development has raised a thorny question: Can utilities and regulators shield sensitive information from hackers while speeding up the transition to clean power?