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When Policy and War Collapse Into One: Fighting in the Sixth Domain

We may soon face conflict with nation-states in a new model of warfare—one not defined by geography, but instead defined...

US 10-year Treasury yields top 5% as energy outlook darkens

The 10-year US Treasury yield topped 5% Monday for the first time since 2023 as the widening Middle East conflict pushed...

Britain’s Defence Industrial Strategy Has a University-Shaped Gap

The 2025 Defence Industrial Strategy casts universities as suppliers of graduates and research. To deliver it, they must...

Germany says AI slowdown 'not viable' for Europe

As American tech leaders and policymakers debate the existential risks of AI and the necessity of regulating frontier de...

AI slowdown calls prompt chip selloff

Global AI stocks fell Monday after top AI leaders endorsed slowing down the development of frontier models.

Ukraine signals openness to pausing strikes on Russian energy targets

Kyiv contradicted US President Donald Trump’s claim Monday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to pause strikes against e...

Houthis, Yemen Fighting Continues, Saudi Arabia Faces Pipeline Challenges

Fighting between the Houthis and Yemen’s National Government continued over the weekend after the Iranian-backed rebel g...

Djibouti Becomes Eighth African Nation to Sign the Artemis Accords

The Republic of Djibouti has become the eighth African country to sign the Artemis Accords, joining a growing coalition ...

Saudi Arabia eyes more tanker transits through Strait of Hormuz

The kingdom is looking to boost oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz after drone attacks took out a key pipeline b...

Trump dismisses calls for AI guardrails

Trump said the only guardrails AI needs is a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT.”

Don’t count on Trump and Xi to slow down AI. Don’t count them out either.

Concerns about catastrophic risks to humanity have put artificial intelligence at the top of the agenda for the leaders’...

Why Some of Southeast Asia’s Digital Banks are Starting to Scale

Can these institutions threaten the entrenched conventional mega-banks that dominate the region’s financial landscape?

Building Trust in AI Is Critical to the Frontier’s Future

Voluntary AI lab commitments are a start, but genuine security and safety will require enforceable standards and indepen...

'Sandworm' Chains Cisco Vulnerabilities to Deploy Cyclops Blink

The notorious Russian threat group is spreading an upgraded version of the botnet malware, which the FBI disrupted in 20...

Thales Alenia Space Wins Contract to Build NigComSat-2A

Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has been awarded a contract by the state...

Rocket Lab is seeing red about NASA's decision on a Mars spacecraft

"NASA’s award decision appears to be inconsistent with the eligibility criteria."

Meink: U.S. Has Orbiting Space Control Weapons

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink revealed today that the United States has orbiting space control weapons. Speaking at the...

Maximum Severity GitLab Flaw Puts Supply Chains at Risk

CVE-2026-85706 is a path traversal vulnerability with a 10 out of 10 CVSS score, affecting both GitLab Community Edition...

China’s military research absorbs HK, Macau. Track the links with ASPI’s updated China Defence Universities Tracker

The tendency to treat universities in Hong Kong and Macau as somehow separated from the mainstream of Chinese research i...

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Sept. 14, 2026

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throug...

Reading the Kremlin’s Mind: Ukrainian Writers Attempt to Understand Putin

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum,...

Banking scandal rocks Brazil’s politics and the country’s presidential election in October

After ten months of investigation, the Banco Master case points to banker Daniel Vorcaro managing to take the country’s ...

Brick by BRICS: Where countries in conflict seek common ground

As developing and emerging-market countries met for their annual summit in India, they and other alliances are looking t...

Ukraine Wants Specifics From Partners on Halting Strikes, Zelensky Says

U.S. President Donald Trump said earlier that Ukraine and Russia had agreed not to hit each other's energy targets.

Ship 42 wraps chopsticks tests, Flight 14 moves to NET Sept. 22

SpaceX has completed multi-day catch-related testing with unflown Ship 42 at Pad 2, then rolled… The post Ship 42 wraps ...

How Germany’s far-right AfD is courting the voters it promises to deport

The AfD won Saxony-Anhalt without migrant voters, but it cannot ignore them in Berlin.

Sept. 23: What Comes Next for On-Orbit Servicing?

Join us for conversations about the tech, policies and business models required to build a functioning in-orbit logistic...

North Korea Tests Missiles, Attack Drones on Island in Sea of Japan

North Korea fired short-range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and attack drones at an island in the Sea of Japan on ...

Russian Convoy Resupplies Syrian Coastal Facilities for First Time Since Moscow-Damascus Deal

The operation offers an early indication that Moscow is continuing to resupply facilities at Tartus port and the Khmeimi...

Anthropic CEO: Time to Shift From Improving to Controlling AI

Dario Amodei says it's time to slow the pace of frontier AI improvements so that security and risk prevention efforts ca...

Using AI for Weapons Development

Last week, Anthropic released a long and detailed document describing current misuses of their Claude models. I’m still ...

Indiana to get its first power-producing nuclear reactor

A commercially owned and operated micromodular reactor is to be installed at Naval Weapons Station Crane, becoming the U...

Space’s growing billion-dollar club

Download our new mapping of every private space company valued at $1 billion or more. The post Space’s growing billion-d...

Christine Lagarde: A new age of capital: growth, sovereignty and AI

China Postponed Its Chang’e 7 Lunar Mission. What Does That Mean for Its Space Program?

The lack of explanation – or a new launch date – suggests critical challenges, not just bad weather.

Special Episode: Will the Houthis Shut Down the Bab al-Mandab Strait?

Special Episode: Will the Houthis Shut Down the Bab al-Mandab Strait? hschaub Mon, 09/14/2026 - 17:03 Latest Updates Afr...

Malicious Twitch Extension Exposes 31,000 Users' OAuth Tokens

Socket has discovered a Twitch browser extension forwarding users' OAuth tokens to a Russian bot service

Groundwork begins for demonstration Hualong One 2.0 units

Site levelling and excavation work for the second phase of the Jinqimen nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang Province...

US military has ‘on-orbit’ space weapons, Air Force Secretary reveals

Experts said the acknowledgment may lead to overt action by China, Russia.

Kremlin-Linked Businessman Helped Pay for Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding – ProPublica

The payments reportedly included around $100,000 to rent a private island and $70,000 for a fireworks display.