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Fanatics founder and CEO Michael Rubin at his office in New York.The Washington Post | Getty ImagesSports merchandise giant Fanatics is firing back against sportsbook giant DraftKings in an ongoing legal fight over Fanatics' hiring of a top DraftKings executive.In a legal brief filed late Thursday in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, Fanatics accuses DraftKings of distorting reality and character assassination of its former senior vice president of business development, Michael Hermalyn.In February, Hermalyn accepted…

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One of the scientists who was fired from Canada's top infectious disease laboratory "intentionally" shared scientific information with China — potentially putting people's health in jeopardy — says an assessment by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).  The intelligence assessment was released late Wednesday afternoon by the federal government, along with hundreds of other documents about the mysterious dismissal of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng.The scientists and their students worked in the…

Tags on chips and a global registry of their locations can reduce the risks of AI espionage by hostile nations, experts say. The proposals were made in a new report on AI safety, which calls for a stronger regulation of hardware. Three Cambridge University institutes co-led the study paper, alongside OpenAI and the GovAI research community. They fear that governments are overlooking the dangers of compute, which could trigger disasters. Without tighter protections, they warn that AI could…

In a blink or you’ll miss it moment at the end of the January 2024 PlayStation State of Play stream, Hideo Kojima confirmed that he was working on a new “stealth espionage” game, due after Death Stranding 2. I know! All the Physint details we can muster Sony isolated the announcement with the brief view below from their YouTube channel, and most of it just involves talking about the reveal. We did get a bit of PR that we can glean some additional information from, even though it’s slim pickings. Kojima Productions has…

Hideo Kojima has announced a return to the stealth genre with a brand new IP. The title was announced at the end of Playstation’s January State of Play, and is still several years away from release, with development not starting fully until after Death Stranding 2: On The Beach releases in 2025. It is currently codenamed ‘Physint’, with no indication as to what the final title will be. “It will be a brand new, original IP, a next-generation action-espionage game,” Kojima explained in the reveal. “Preparations are…

Image Source : FILE Indian government faces cyber threat as hackers launch espionage campaign for secret documents Researchers have uncovered a highly sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign -called 'Operation RusticWeb'. This operation acts as a threat actor for targeting various personnel within the Indian government to steal confidential documents. As per the new…

Leo Docherty, a Foreign Office minister working under David Cameron, has told parliament that the Russian federal security service, FSB, was using 'cyber-interference' to target politically connected people. He said: 'They have been targeting high-profile individuals and entities with a clear intent: using information they obtain to meddle in British politics'…

At the heart of espionage and fiction is the art of deception. Spies as well as writers love to be flies on the wall, observing people, collecting information, working out plots, and uncovering motives. These overlaps between the language of spycraft and the language of authorship are a testament to how both lines of work use deception in service of a greater truth. If fiction is a deception, then espionage fiction by nature is doubly so. Spy novels are premised on performance, imposture, misdirection and chicanery.…

Khufiya, the upcoming spy-thriller from Vishal Bhardwaj, finally gets a trailer. After almost a year of teasers with characters staring off into the distance, Netflix's latest footage for its Tabu-led (Drishyam) film goes into detail about its espionage mission involving a mole within India's R&AW offices, selling sensitive data to the enemy. Much of the plot revolves around hard-nosed agent Krishna Mehra (played by Tabu), forced to juggle her dual identity as a spy and a lover to track down the suspect. Bhardwaj…