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Chinese Threat Requires a Broader Spying Mission, C.I.A. Deputy Director Says

China’s economic competition with the United States makes Chinese companies a legitimate target, the agency’s deputy director, Michael Ellis, said at a conference.

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Tourists walking out of the Forbidden City in Beijing last week. Michael Ellis, the deputy C.I.A. director, said that China “poses a fundamentally different kind of threat to us because the competition is economic.”
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A Hacking Tool Built With A.I. Can Breach Phones Without a Click

An attack discovered by A.I. researchers could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.

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Researchers at Calif, a security company, recently built a hacking tool in a little more than a week that could run roughshod across WeChat, the popular messaging platform.
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A More Confident Iran Emerges After Six Months of War With the U.S.

New intelligence reports have assessed that Iran now has a far better understanding of its capabilities and the limits of U.S. power.

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A crowd mourning Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the start of the war. U.S. intelligence reports, some current and former officials said, suggest that any agreement to fully end the war will be hard to reach.
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Trump Boasts of Declassifying Secrets, but Withholds Key Election Files From Public

Even as the White House claims to be focused on transparency, it has ignored a congressional requirement to disclose a report on foreign meddling in the 2024 election.

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A polling location in New York during the 2024 election.
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