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The Intelligence from The Economist

File-sharing: America’s huge intelligence leak

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

Global News, Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A trove of once-secret documents is proving an embarrassment to both America and its allies, and a danger to Ukraine’s planned counter-offensive. The tech industry is shedding workers at a striking pace; we ask where all those laid-off experts are going. And more evidence that suggests pet ownership reduces childhood allergies.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the EY Health Sciences and Wellness Experience Podcast series. A series dedicated

0:08.6

to exploring the trends that are reshaping the industry.

0:12.6

No one is completely blowing up their existing supply chain and rebalancing it. It's fairly

0:17.1

globally distributed on an end-to-end basis already and they're really assessing is there

0:21.3

a risk to the existing supply chain. Join us to examine and embrace the age of health

0:27.2

experience.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host Jason Palmer.

0:41.8

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

0:48.0

Between last year's layoffs of tech workers and this year's plans to let more go, a quarter

0:56.5

of a million people will be out of a job. So where are they all going and how might that

1:02.4

change the tech industry?

1:06.1

And the hygiene hypothesis suggests that pet ownership is good for babies in immune systems,

1:11.8

a helpful mixing of microbes that makes them more resistant. We examine a new study

1:17.0

that shows which pets seem to make the most difference.

1:28.1

But first, a suspected leak of highly classified Pentagon documents is starting to cause real

1:41.4

havoc for America and its allies. The material seems to provide crucial details about Ukraine's

1:47.8

war effort and exposes the methods and the targets of spying, including spying on those

1:53.8

very same allies.

2:02.0

Anything that undermines the security, the stability and the prosperity of the Indo-Pacific region

2:10.2

in which we live is of interest to Australia.

2:15.2

Plenty of countries are doing damage control and American officials are clearly rattled.

2:20.6

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin pledged that the source will be found and brought to justice.

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