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Britain’s GCHQ spy chief says Russian soldiers refused to carry out orders in Ukraine

Britain’s GCHQ spy chief says Russian soldiers refused to carry out orders in Ukraine

GUY FAULCONBRIDGE THE head of Britain's GCHQ spy service said on Wednesday that new intelligence showed some Russian soldiers in Ukraine had refused to carry out orders, sabotaged their own equipment and accidentally shot down one of their own aircraft. Russia's February 24 invasion of Ukraine has killed thousands of people, displaced millions and raised fears of a wider confrontation between Russia and the United States. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) chief Jeremy Fleming said President Vladimir Putin had "massively misjudged" the capabilities of Russia's once mighty armed forces while underestimating both the resistance of the Ukrainian people and the resolve…
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‘China could rule world’s technology’

‘China could rule world’s technology’

GUY FAULCONBRIDGE THE West must urgently act to ensure China does not dominate important emerging technologies and gain control of the "global operating system", Britain's top cyber spy said on Friday. In an unusually blunt speech, Jeremy Fleming, director of the GCHQ spy agency, said the West faced a battle for control of technologies such as artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and genetics. "Significant technology leadership is moving East," Fleming said at Imperial College London. "The concern is that China's size and technological weight means that it has the potential to control the global operating system." "We are now facing a…
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