BREAKING: MI5 espionage alert says UK academics are being targeted by China's spy agency. British researchers have worked on AI, cybersecurity, and covert communications projects funded by the The China General Technology Research Institute. This institute has "very strong ties" to the Chinese Ministry of State Security espionage. "MI5 has identified that the primary purpose of CGTRI is to ​fund academic research that directly improves MSS technical capability for espionage." Via Reuters.