secrets

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Chinese spies are posing as recruitment agents to trick UK government and military staff into disclosing state secrets, MI5 has warned.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Superior algorithms are held privately, run with institutional capital and protected like trade secrets.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

Walsh treats well-documented, widely accessible historical facts as if they were buried state secrets, weaponizing the baseline historical illiteracy of his audience to construct a narrative of deception.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

One of its secrets: using chips with slight defects that might otherwise be thrown out.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

He was usually the calmest person in the family, mild-mannered, like a Clark Kent without any secrets.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix