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Cyber Incident Disrupts Student Services at UT San Antonio

UT San Antonio has taken IT systems offline following a cyber incident, disrupting student registration and tuition paym...

No location · Aug 18, 2026
South Korea considers mandatory military service for North Korean defectors

South Korea’s agency responsible for military conscription is exploring the idea of requiring male North Korean defector...

No location · Aug 18, 2026
Cold comfort: What China can teach Europe about adaptation

Europe is learning to adapt to a hotter climate. It should take the same approach to economic dependencies: manage the c...

No location · Aug 18, 2026
Three-quarters of Ransomware Attacks Target Mid-Market Firms

Black Kite finds mid-market is the sweet spot for ransomware as manufacturers are most likely to be hit

No location · Aug 18, 2026
RAND Outlines Layered Defense Strategy to Mitigate AI-Enabled Bioweapon Risk

No single safeguard can prevent an actor from using artificial intelligence to help build a biological weapon, but nine ...

No location · Aug 18, 2026
AI and the Risks of Tearing Down an Old System

Operation Epic Fury made clear that AI is now at the heart of American warfighting. Central Command used Claude through ...

No location · Aug 18, 2026
Inside Brazil’s 3D-Printed Gun Supply Chain

On June 26, 2026, the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro, through its specialized firearms, ammunition, and explosives unit,...

No location · Aug 18, 2026
North Korea-China trade continues to slip as imports fall for third month

North Korea’s trade with China dipped at the start of the second half of the year as its imports continued falling for a...

No location · Aug 18, 2026
Russia to unveil monument for North Korean soldiers in fall: defense chief

Russia will unveil a monument for North Korean soldiers who fought against Ukrainian forces in Kursk in the fall, Moscow...

No location · Aug 18, 2026
With Colby’s tour, the US makes a pragmatic pitch to Southeast Asia

The Pentagon’s top policy official, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby, used his first Southeast Asian...

No location · Aug 18, 2026
Koizumi’s in Australia again. Japan is becoming less quasi, more ally

The signals are getting clear enough: Japan is becoming an ally of Australia. The latest indication is that Japanese Def...

No location · Aug 18, 2026
Trump says Kim Jong Un responded ‘positively’ to downsized military drill talk

President Donald Trump said Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un responded positively to his praise of their rela...

No location · Aug 18, 2026
Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic Security is Not Just Indivisible, it Merges

Conflicts are connecting in Europe and the Middle East, but could Asia be next?

No location · Aug 17, 2026
How cheap, simple building materials can protect strike drones from lasers

As armed forces and their suppliers work on costly lasers to knock down cheap drones, the drone makers can easily reach ...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
The Tension Between Collectivism and Individualism in Ukraine

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

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Japan launches second US military payload to monitor space above Indo-Pacific

The data from the hosted payloads on QZS-7 and its predecessor QZS-6 will feed into the US Space Surveillance Network op...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Open-Source Intel Makes U.S. Troops an Easier Target for Iran

Iran is reading American service members’ social media feeds to deadly effect. The fact is that not all intelligence mus...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
The oil shock is sorting Latin America. The dividing line is institutions, not barrels.

Latin American countries that have been resilient amid the oil shock show how the region as a whole can reset its energy...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Analysis: The two largest reservoirs in the US have hit record-low levels

The second-largest reservoir in the US reached a record-low water height on Saturday – just days after the country’s lar...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
UNISOC Modem Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution via Video Calls

UNISOC modem flaw enabled kernel-level code execution through video calls

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Waterborne shipments from the U.S. Gulf Coast increased in April and May

Waterborne shipments of crude oil and petroleum products from the U.S. Gulf Coast (PADD 3) to the West Coast (PADD 5) mo...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Inside Iran’s New Wartime Leadership

Tehran’s new power brokersA wave of assassinations rebuilt Iran’s leadership from the top down, leaving a severely wound...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
WordPress Plugin Flaw Exposes 40,000 Sites to Admin Takeover

Critical User Profile Builder flaw let unauthenticated attackers access administrator accounts

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Buzzkill: How to defend Europe against drones

Drone warfare in Europe is no longer tomorrow’s problem. The continent is under attack by drones today, and the threat i...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Space Force brings 5 companies on-board Space Data Network

The new awards are aimed at demonstrating the ability of multiple satellite networks to connect to the Space Force’s eme...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts

Emissions from land-use change – including deforestation, loss of peatland and forest degradation – have been falling ov...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Wishing for rockets

The demand for launch services is higher than ever, but the supply of rockets today is very constrained. Jeff Foust repo...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Two futures on the Moon

The race to return humans to the Moon pits not just two countries but two political philosophies. Alexander William Salt...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Colonizing Antarctica and other anti-space fables

One argument that critics of space settlement make is that it would be far easier to settle Antarctica. Milan Cirkovic o...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
ETSI Proposes 17 Cybersecurity Standards to Support Cyber Resilience Act

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute has launched an approval process for standards vendors will have to ...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
SafePal Data Breach Hits Tens of Thousands of Customers

Nearly 40,000 customers of hardware wallet provider SafePal have been impacted by a data breach

No location · Aug 17, 2026
How QR-code phishing can slip past corporate security measures

Quishing has become a popular alternative to traditional phishing. Here’s how businesses can close the gap.

No location · Aug 17, 2026
South Korean troops fire warning shots at North’s forces crossing border

South Korean troops recently fired warning shots at North Korean soldiers crossing the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) o...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
What Have We Learned from the 9/11 Wars? Not Nearly Enough

Editor’s Note: The following article draws on themes from the author’s forthcoming book titled US Counterterrorism Opera...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Infostealers Harvest 1.7 Billion Credentials in Six Months

Flashpoint data reveals infostealers were responsible for taking 1.7 billion credentials in the first half of 2026

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Beyond Mogami: seven priorities for the Japanese defence minister’s visit to Australia

The meeting in Canberra tomorrow between the defence ministers of Australia and Japan, Richard Marles and Shinjiro Koizu...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Worth a try: the US will authorise some companies for cyber counterattacks

The United States has had enough in cyberspace. The White House has now created a program under which American companies...

No location · Aug 17, 2026
Trump praises relationship with Kim Jong Un, reduces military drills with Seoul

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Washington would substantially reduce its military exercises with Sout...

No location · Aug 16, 2026
Starmer, Burnham and Foreign Aid: A Troubling Inheritance

The contraction of UK aid, and its knock-on implications for security, pose big questions and lessons for Starmer’s succ...

No location · Aug 16, 2026

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