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Romania Pays the Cyber Price for Backing Ukraine. Where is the EU?

OPINION – When ransomware groups hit Romania’s national water agency, its largest coal-fired power producer and oil pipeline operator all in recent [...] More

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They're Coming for Our Kids: How Extremists Target Children Online

OPINION — September is National Preparedness Month - when we check our emergency kits, review evacuation routes, and prepare for natural disasters. [...] More

The Country’s First ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Chief: Influence Is the New Battlefield

The Country’s First ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Chief: Influence Is the New Battlefield

WEEKEND INTERVIEW — In an era when foreign adversaries can shape public sentiment with a well-timed meme and a handful of AI-driven accounts, the [...] More

A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, flanked by two F-22 Raptor fighter jets, flies over Washington, D.C., during Independence Day celebrations on July 4, 2025.

Global Intelligence Report for Thursday, January 15, 2026

07:18 America/New_York Thursday, January 15 [...] More

People gather during protest on January 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Demonstrations have been ongoing since December, triggered by soaring inflation and the collapse of the rial, and have expanded into broader demands for political change.

Global Intelligence Report for Wednesday, January 14, 2026

07:24 America/New_York Wednesday, January 14 [...] More

How China Built AI Dominance on Stolen American Silicon

How China Built AI Dominance on Stolen American Silicon

DEEP DIVE — Federal prosecutors in Texas, in December, unsealed charges and related details exposing a sprawling scheme that quietly siphoned some of [...] More

Human Agency in a Technology-Mediated World

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Occasionally, a speech does more than mark a leadership transition or outline institutional priorities. It captures, with [...] More

An MH-6 Little Bird helicopter, piloted by members of the U.S. Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), flies overhead during a capabilities demonstration at Special Operations Forces (SOF) Week at the Tampa Convention Center on May 8, 2024 in Tampa, Florida.

Global Intelligence Report for Wednesday, December 24, 2025

07:20 America/New_York Wednesday, December 24 [...] More

Modeling the Earth with AI is Now a Strategic Intelligence Imperative

EXPERT OPINION / PERSPECTIVE — We are currently witnessing a mobilization of technical ambition reminiscent of the Manhattan Project, a realization [...] More

X’s Location Feature Exposes a Real Problem, but Does Not Fix It

OPINION — A new location transparency feature on X is revealing foreign influence on American discourse just as federal agencies designed to deal [...] More

Members of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) patrol near a Lowe's hardware store in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 3, 2025.

Global Intelligence Report for Monday, December 22, 2025

07:23 America/New_York Monday, December 22 [...] More

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner (both not pictured) at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 2, 2025.

Global Intelligence Report for Thursday, December 4, 2025

07:15 America/New_York Thursday, December 4 [...] More

France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attend a joint press conference at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on December 1, 2025.

Global Intelligence Report for Tuesday, December 2, 2025

07:26 America/New_York Tuesday, December 2 [...] More