AFP Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar says his dismissal was motivated by political and personal considerations The stand-off between Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency, Ronen Bar, has further intensified, with each man accusing the other of lies or inaccuracies in sworn depositions. Netanyahu announced the…
Co-founder & CEO of Rippling Parker Conrad speaks onstage during the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco on Oct. 20, 2022 Kimberly White | TechCrunc | Getty Images Human resources software startup Rippling sued competitor Deel in federal district court on Monday, claiming that “Deel cultivated a spy” to orchestrate a trade-secret theft. The employee…
Germany’s foreign intelligence service believed there was a 80-90% chance that coronavirus accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab, German media say. Two German newspapers say they have uncovered details of an assessment carried out by spy agency BND in 2020 but never published. The intelligence service had indications that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had…
North Korea has sent more soldiers to Russia and re-deployed others to the frontline in the western Kursk region, according to South Korea’s intelligence agency. It said the exact number of extra troops sent was unknown, but military officials quoted in South Korean media have said they believed it was at least 1,000. Neither Moscow…
