A casual peace sign in a selfie has become China’s latest online privacy concern after experts warned that the popular pose could expose users’ fingerprints. In a mainland workplace reality show aired in April, financial expert Li Chang used a celebrity selfie to show how clearly visible fingers in a photograph could put personal biometric data at risk. Li said fingerprints could potentially be ex...
A casual peace sign in a selfie has become China’s latest online privacy concern after experts warned that the popular pose could expose users’ fingerprints. In a mainland workplace reality show aired in April, financial expert Li Chang used a celebrity selfie to show how clearly visible fingers in a photograph could put personal biometric data at risk. Li said fingerprints could potentially be extracted from selfies taken within 1.5 metres if the fingers faced the camera directly. Even at a...
Trump Congratulates Incoming Iraqi Leader, Who Moves To Disarm Pro-Iran Militias Via The Cradle A committee comprising three senior Iraqi figures is close to finalizing an "executive plan" to disarm factions within the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) that enjoy support from Iran , Asharq Al-Awsat reported on 8 May. Development of the plan, which will be presented to US officials in the next few ...
Trump Congratulates Incoming Iraqi Leader, Who Moves To Disarm Pro-Iran Militias Via The Cradle A committee comprising three senior Iraqi figures is close to finalizing an "executive plan" to disarm factions within the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) that enjoy support from Iran , Asharq Al-Awsat reported on 8 May. Development of the plan, which will be presented to US officials in the next few days, comes amid expected changes to the leadership of key security agencies under the incoming government of Ali al-Zaidi . Trump congratulates Iraq PM nominee Ali al-Zaidi, eyes stronger ties Zaidi was nominated by the Shia-majority Coordination Framework (CF) political bloc on April 27 as the consensus candidate to succeed Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani . According to sources speaking to the Saudi newspaper, the three-member committee includes Zaidi, Sudani, and the leader of the Badr Organization, Hadi al-Amiri. Washington has intensified pressure on Iraq's ruling Shia political parties to disarm the anti-terrorist militias and prevent their representatives from participating in the new government. The sources revealed that the committee has held secret negotiations with leaders of the factions, providing their leaders with "ideas on how to disarm and integrate fighters." Sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Badr Organization leader Amiri, who enjoys close relations with Iran, "was supposed to help build trust with the factions and persuade them to engage with the state." However, some meetings "did not proceed calmly" due to the request to disarm . A spokesperson for one faction within the PMF said that Kataib Hezbollah, Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, and Harakat al-Nujaba rejected handing over their weapons to any party whatsoever . The spokesperson, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the three factions were "prepared to pay any price resulting from their refusal to disarm." The PMF were created in 2014 with support from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard C...
Russian president damns western support that has allowed Ukraine to hold out and asks for talks with Gerhard Schröder in remarks after diminished Victory Day parade Vladimir Putin has said he thinks the Ukraine war is winding down – remarks that came a few hours after he had vowed to defeat Ukraine at Moscow’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years. “I think that the matter is coming to an e...
Russian president damns western support that has allowed Ukraine to hold out and asks for talks with Gerhard Schröder in remarks after diminished Victory Day parade Vladimir Putin has said he thinks the Ukraine war is winding down – remarks that came a few hours after he had vowed to defeat Ukraine at Moscow’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years. “I think that the matter is coming to an end,” Putin told reporters of the Russia-Ukraine war, Europe’s deadliest conflict since the second world war. He said he would be willing to negotiate new security arrangements for Europe, and that his preferred negotiating partner would be Germany’s former chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Continue reading...
bombermoon/iStock via Getty Images Top solar companies, banks, and insurers have stopped doing business with at least a half dozen recently built U.S. solar panel factories because of restrictions on Chinese-linked businesses attached to tax credits by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Reuters reported this week, citing industry executives and internal documents. The law, which blocks manufacturing ...
bombermoon/iStock via Getty Images Top solar companies, banks, and insurers have stopped doing business with at least a half dozen recently built U.S. solar panel factories because of restrictions on Chinese-linked businesses attached to tax credits by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Reuters reported this week, citing industry executives and internal documents. The law, which blocks manufacturing credits from going to factories that are tied to China, is meant to address Chinese dominance in the supply chain and help with reshoring production, but it also threatens to slow the deployment of solar energy, according to the report . "It's holding up financings of desperately needed solar and storage projects," Keith Martin, an attorney at Norton Rose Fulbright, told Reuters. Top U.S. residential solar installer Sunrun ( RUN ) reportedly is among the companies now avoiding Chinese suppliers. Banks including Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and Goldman Sachs are said to have scaled back tax-equity financing for some solar projects due to concerns that interpretations by the Trump administration could retroactively invalidate tax credits. The Solar Energy Manufacturers for America Coalition, a trade group representing non-Chinese companies with U.S. factories such as First Solar ( FSLR ) and Hanwha's Qcells, has urged the Treasury Department to take a tough stance. Chinese-linked factories account for ~40% of U.S. manufacturing capacity, according to Reuters, and "very few Chinese manufacturers are actually decoupling themselves from their U.S. factories entirely," according to Wood Mackenzie . China's JinkoSolar ( JKS ), which operates a factory in Florida, and the Chinese parent company of Boviet Solar, which makes panels in North Carolina, have said they are looking for outside investors. ETFs: ( TAN ), ( ICLN ) ( QCLN ), ( PBW ), ( PBD ), ( ACES ), ( CNRG ), ( ERTH ), ( SMOG ) More on solar and clean energy TAN: Sell Ahead Of The OBBBA Cliff ICLN: Recent Catalysts Aren't En...