GOP senators press Biden administration on TikTok security concerns
A group of Senate Republicans led by Sens. Roger Wicker (Miss.) and Tom Cotton (Ark.) is pressing the Biden administration over what it sees as a failure to take seriously the national security concerns posed by TikTok, a popular video-hosting service. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the lawmakers said the administration has failed to enforce an August 2020 order by former President Trump directing ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to divest its American assets and destroy any data it acquired through TikTok. “The Biden administration h
Read MoreEquilibrium/Sustainability — Wolf relatives breeding themselves into climate 'trap'
Scientists have identified the first predators ever seen changing their reproductive strategy due to climate change: Distant relatives of the wolf, called African wild dogs. But their shift in reproduction — giving birth in cooler, winter temperatures — may actually be backfiring, as their young pups struggle to contend with the heat of worsening summers, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “It is an unfortunate
Read MoreEnergy & Environment — Experts question effectiveness of gas tax break
Getty Experts don’t have high hopes for a potential gas tax holiday’s benefit to consumers. Also, the Group of Seven is in talks for a Russian oil price cap, and the Biden administrationis taking new action on illegal fishing.
Read MoreUkrainians warn — and Russians boast — of eerily familiar famine blackmail
“All our hope is in the famine,” RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan recently explained, at the Saint Petersburg Economic Exchange. “The famine will start now, and they [the West] will lift the sanctions and be friends with us because they realize it is necessary.” Although she is one of the Kremlin’s most reliable propagandists, Simonyan’s words cannot be dismissed as empty vindictiveness. She uttered these statements while sitting next to Russian Presi
Read MoreHillicon Valley — Traffickers target Ukrainian refugees online
iStock The same social media groups and communication apps connecting Ukrainian refugees with shelter and information are being leveraged by bad actors to exploit and traffic women fleeing the country. Experts say companies can do more to push back.
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