| | | | | | | Presented By JPMorgan Chase | | | | Axios AM | | By Mike Allen ·Mar 22, 2022 | | Good Tuesday morning. Smart Brevity™ count: 1,192 words ... 4½ mins. Edited by Justin Green. | | | | | | 1 big thing: Russia's digital back door |  | | | Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios | | | | News outlets are finding creative ways to get around Kremlin efforts to block independent reporting inside Russia, Axios' Sara Fischer writes. - Tech workarounds range from carbon-copy websites to encryption tools and anonymous browsers.
Why it matters: While old-school circumvention methods like short-wave radio are being reintroduced, journalists trying to break through Russia's iron curtain for media are finding sophisticated digital techniques are more effective and efficient. The U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have been mirroring websites for news sites being censored — making exact copies of them at new internet addresses. Reality check: The Kremlin can block a mirrored domain once it's discovered, forcing news outlets to constantly shift to new domains. - Encrypted messaging channels, including Telegram or Whatsapp, are often used by outlets to communicate with their audiences to let them know which domains are active.
State of the art: News organizations are using encrypted channels to communicate with individual Russians on the ground who may provide photos and videos to Western outlets to verify and report on. - News sites and social networks are also beginning to establish their own Tor networks, which encrypt internet traffic and reroute it through thousands of servers around the world, making it virtually impossible to track.
- Twitter last week announced its own Tor service that helps Russians access its site despite government efforts to block it.
The backdrop: Russians are desperate for accurate information. - Use of virtual private networks, or VPNs, which enable users to hide their locations to evade location-based restrictions, has skyrocketed.
- Top10VPN.com, which tracks search volume data, saw the demand increase for VPN services peak at 2,692% above normal on March 14, after Russia announced it would ban Instagram.
Share this story. |     | | | | | | 2. ⚖️ Judge Jackson pledges independence | | Photo: Kent Nishimura/L.A. Times via Getty Images Above, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson — with her husband, Patrick Jackson, on her right — turns to their daughter, Leila Jackson. The folder holds the judge's 12-min. opening statement, in which she said: I decide cases from a neutral posture. I evaluate the facts, and I interpret and apply the law to the facts of the case before me, without fear or favor, consistent with my judicial oath. What Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson sees. Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Pool via AP "Now, in preparing for these hearings, you may have read some of my more than 570 written decisions, and noticed that my opinions tend to be on the long side," she added. - "That is because I also believe in transparency: that people should know precisely what I think and the basis for my decision."
Senators begin questioning her at 9 a.m. ET today — the second of four days of hearings. | | | | | | | | 3. Rise of roboplanes |  | | | Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios | | | | The job of an airplane pilot may one day involve "flying" multiple aircraft at once without ever leaving the ground, Axios transportation correspondent Joann Muller writes. - Why it matters: Over the next decade or two, autonomous aircraft will become ubiquitous, taking on industrial jobs that are too difficult for humans and shuttling cargo among logistics hubs.
Depending on public acceptance, these roboplanes could also be ferrying passengers across cities. - The market for self-flying aircraft is expected to grow 25% per year between now and 2040, according to new research by the Aerospace Industries Association and Avascent, an aviation consultancy.
- That includes everything from vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (VTOLs) — which rise like a helicopter and fly like a plane — all the way up to larger cargo and passenger planes.
Dozens of startups have raised money — $7 billion so far — via private investors or public SPAC deals to advance their autonomous flight endeavors. - The researchers project that as many as 100,000 jobs will be created to support autonomous aviation by 2040 — in engineering, software, operations and logistics.
Avascent's Jay Carmel, a co-author of the report, tells Axios: "When we say fully autonomous, it's not as if these planes will have no humans involved." - "The human is going to be much more of an observer, in a management state."
Here's how it's likely to play out: At first, autonomous aircraft will be used for industrial jobs that AIA calls "dull, dirty and dangerous" — fighting forest fires, inspecting infrastructure, surveying crops. - Cargo applications — like delivering goods to warehouses and stores — will come next.
- Passenger air taxis will come later, "most likely not arriving at scale until at least well into the next decade," says AIA.
Share this story. | | | | | | | | A message from JPMorgan Chase | | JPMorgan Chase helps to advance climate action with solar farm | | |  | | | | JPMorgan Chase works to advance long-term solutions that address climate change and contribute to sustainable development. An example: The firm has turned the parking lot at its McCoy Center in Ohio into a giant solar farm, with plans to extend the project to other U.S. offices. Learn more. | | | | | | 4. 📷 1,000 words | | .Photo: Alexey Furman/Getty Images In Lviv, Ukraine, emergency-services workers cover statues on the opera house yesterday to protect against Russian attack. .Photo: Alexey Furman/Getty Images | | | | | | | | 5. First-person dispatch for the ages: "20 days in Mariupol" | | AP videographer Mstyslav Chernov reads news on his phone in Volnovakha, Ukraine, three days before the invasion started. Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Mstyslav Chernov, a video journalist for AP, gives this stunning account of living through the siege of the strategic southern port city of Mariupol, still raging unabated this morning: MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in. - We were the only international journalists left in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, and we had been documenting its siege by Russian troops for more than two weeks.
- We were reporting inside the hospital when gunmen began stalking the corridors. Surgeons gave us white scrubs to wear as camouflage.
Suddenly at dawn, a dozen soldiers burst in: "Where are the journalists, for f---'s sake?" - I looked at their armbands, blue for Ukraine, and tried to calculate the odds that they were Russians in disguise. I stepped forward to identify myself. "We're here to get you out," they said.
The walls of the surgery shook from artillery and machine gun fire outside, and it seemed safer to stay inside. But the Ukrainian soldiers were under orders to take us with them. | | | | | | | | 6. Biden implores CEOs to harden against "coming" cyberattack | | Business Roundtable CEO Josh Bolten introduces President Biden yesterday. Photo: Leigh Vogel/Pool/Sipa USA via Reuters President Biden warned top CEOs yesterday that "based on evolving intelligence, Russia may be planning a cyberattack against us." - "[T]he magnitude of Russia's cyber capacity is fairly consequential, and it's coming," he told the Business Roundtable, gathered in D.C.
- "[I]t's a patriotic obligation for you to invest as much as you can in making sure ... you have built up your technological capacity to deal ... with cyberattacks."
Biden confirmed Russia used a hypersonic missile in Ukraine: "[T]hey've just launched ... their hypersonic missile, because it's the only thing that they can get through with absolute certainty." - "[I]t's almost impossible to stop it. There's a reason they're using it."
| | | | | | | | 7. 🗞️ Exclusive: Don Jr. launches news app | | Don Jr. and Trump alumni are launching a news aggregation app, MxM News, Axios Media Trends author Sara Fischer scoops. - MxM ("minute by minute") is being curated by around eight staffers. There isn't a plan to create content or hire journalists.
The founders are Don Jr. and Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich. - Telegraph Creative, whose CEO is former Trump administration official Cliff Sims, is an equity partner and developed the app.
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