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Space Launch Delta 45 partners with Florida National Guard to strengthen hazmat response

The multiday training strengthened interagency coordination, refined joint chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, ...

The War Room newsletter: Do generals make good politicians?

Anshel Pfeffer, our Israel correspondent, examines why so few of the country’s former generals succeed in politics

Researchers Uncover RovoBlast Vulnerability in Atlassian AI Assistant

Atlassian fixed a flaw letting one crafted link make its Rovo AI assistant exfiltrate company data

WordPress Plugins Compromised Without a Single File Change

Poisoned JSON feed let attackers backdoor WordPress sites without changing any plugin files

Duration of power outages in Puerto Rico not caused by major events increased 19% in 2025

In 2025, customers in Puerto Rico experienced an average of 36 hours of power interruptions that were not caused by majo...

The Houthis’ External and Internal Crises Converge: Can a Tactical Solution Fix a Strategic Problem?

As they fire dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles against Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemeni government-controlled ...

Power up: How EU-Africa cooperation can drive Europe’s battery recycling future

Europeans are making little progress in their efforts to source critical raw materials from recycling. They should estab...

America, North Korea, and the Search for Peace

The South Korean Buddhist monk, the Venerable Pomnyun Sunimin, in his book “What is Happiness?” introduces us to his phi...

International lunar consultations: future-looking developments at the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

The UN's Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Space established an "action team" in 2024 to study how to coordinate lunar a...

Decisions without deciders: authority at machine speed in the space enterprise

Space activities increasingly rely on automation and AI to make decisions faster than humans. Bharath Gopalaswamy and Da...

Who will believe the space logs in 2040? Space governance and the quantum audit problem

Satellite activities are extensively logged, providing an audit trail for tracking down problems or determining blame. B...

Seeing through the storm: SAR imagery's evolution beyond defense applications

Synthetic aperture radar imagery had long been considered primarily a tool for defense applications. Kateryna Sergieieva...

“Ghostjacking” Exploits AI Agents’ Trusted Access to Evade Firewall Controls

Tenet reported that half of Fortune 500 companies are vulnerable to the Ghostjacking technique, which involves tricking ...

Anti-corruption sanctions: Preparing for the time after Trump

Anti-corruption sanctions—and even the prospect of them—under the next US administration will be crucial to chances of p...

IT threat evolution in Q2 2026. Non-mobile statistics

The report presents key trends and statistics on malware that targeted personal computers running Windows and macOS, as ...

Go-Based macOS Malware Steals Crypto and Secrets

A macOS malware variant has been detected stealing crypto, passwords and more

Unification Minister walks back push to call North Korea by its official name

Public discussion should precede any move by the South Korean government to refer to North Korea by its official name, D...

US Sanctions Iranian $6bn Crypto “Exchange” Shelbit

TRM Labs explains that sanctioned Iranian firm Shelbit was a fake crypto exchange

US-ROK drills to counter North Korean threats shaped by lessons from Ukraine war

South Korea and the U.S. will hold their annual Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) exercise from Aug. 17 to 27, with this year’s...

Why Military Cooperation in the Indian Ocean Still Falls Short

The United States has bluntly signaled a deprioritization of the Indian Ocean at a peculiar time. The reversion of U.S. ...

Why Conflict Gold Sanctions Fail

In April 2026, over a month after the United States launched its attack on Iran, leading to thousands of reprisal strike...

Crypto exchange sues North Korean government and hackers over $1.5B heist

One of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges has moved to sue the North Korean regime and state-sponsored cybercr...

To Lam comes to Australia, wanting to keep Vietnam’s options open

Vietnam’s Communist Party chief and president, To Lam, has arrived for his first state visit to Australia since becoming...

Russia to deploy up to 50K North Korean soldiers to fight Ukraine: Zelensky

Russia is gearing up to deploy as many as 50,000 North Korean soldiers against Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelen...

Australia must not be distracted as China ramps up in the South China Sea

The global pressures of 2026 have created no shortage of distractions. An increasingly interventionist US administration...

Ensuring Offshore Infrastructure Protection Keeps Pace with Growth

Offshore energy infrastructure is being built at pace, led by offshore wind and electrical interconnectors, but the secu...

Northern Australia needs systems thinking, not more standalone projects

For decades, northern Australia has been discussed as a frontier for economic development. More recently, it has become ...

The real Thucydides trap is inside Western tech

The following is a speech delivered by ASPI executive director Justin Bassi at the Australian Defence Science, Technolog...

Inside the Fake Copyright Racket Silencing News Outlets

Journalists and civil society are being silenced by accusations of copyright infringement, says Alberto Fittarelli in a ...

Battery storage capacity averaged 70% growth over the last three years

Utility-scale battery storage capacity in the United States increased significantly during the last three years, with an...

Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet

Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation. Learn how new g...

Schiess confirmed as new Chief of Space Operations

The Senate confirmed Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess to succeed Gen. Chance Saltzman as the new CSO.

Healthcare and Victim Support Charities Affected by Beacon Cyber Incident

Beacon has informed around 1500 customer charities that its CRM databases were accessed and likely exfiltrated by an una...

Google Links Redact Extortion Group to BlackFile Rebrand

BlackFile has rebranded as Redact after an alleged affiliate hijack, with Google linking the group to ongoing vishing an...

Ransomware Surges in July After Q2 Lull

Finance, technology and healthcare sectors were particularly heavily targeted in July, according to Comparitech

ECB publishes consolidated banking data for end-March 2026

How Can U.S. Special Operations Forces Help Defeat China on Taiwan?

It is conceivable that in one blistering campaign, the People’s Republic of China could invade, occupy, and forcibly ann...

The drone age demands a new theory of military protection

Military protection has never existed simply to keep soldiers alive or platforms intact. Its enduring purpose has always...

Latin America’s new imaginaries

Mark Leonard welcomes Adriana Abdenur and Jorge Castañeda to discuss how China is reshaping the political imagination of...

A to-do list for Australia’s new chief of the defence force

Australia has a new chief of the defence force, Admiral Mark Hammond, and here are three issues he should take on as he ...