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Your AI Isn’t My AI: The Quiet Splintering Ahead

One of the most consequential geopolitical and technological races underway is the competition to shape the future of large language models. For a [...] More

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America Is Digitally Fragile — and Our Adversaries Know It

America has entered a moment in which it is fundamentally more vulnerable than at any point in modern history. For the first time, the systems that [...] More

Defending the Homeland: Pentagon Shifts Strategy on Drone Threats

“This memorandum consolidates approximately ten separate outdated memoranda that were inadequate to address the current, complex unmanned aircraft [...] More

Human Agency in a Technology-Mediated World

Occasionally, a speech does more than mark a leadership transition or outline institutional priorities. It captures, with unusual clarity, the nature [...] More

2025: 10 Events That Changed the World

2025: 10 Events That Changed the World

SPECIAL REPORT — In a turbulent year, one of the biggest national security stories came in the form of a document.The administration’s National [...] More

Q&A: Interpol’s Cybercrime Chief on How AI is Driving Borderless Cyber Threats

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — Anthropic’s announcement that Chinese state-sponsored hackers used its Claude AI technology for a largely automated cyberattack [...] More

Ransomware: Protecting Yourself from Cyber Extortion

Former GCHQ Chief: Cybersecurity, AI, and the New Age of Multilateral Defense

EXPERT INTERVIEW — The last few months have seen a series of major cyber incidents which have frozen airports, crippled companies, compromised [...] More

A New Frontline: How Digital Identity Fraud Redefines National Security Threats

A New Frontline: How Digital Identity Fraud Redefines National Security Threats

DEEP DIVE — From stolen military credentials to AI-generated personas seamlessly breaching critical infrastructure, digital identity fraud is rapidly [...] More

AI-Powered Adversaries Require AI-Driven Defenses

The use of artificial intelligence by adversaries has been the subject of exhaustive speculation. No one doubts that the technology will be abused by [...] More

The Hidden National Security Risk in Smart Cities

It is worryingly easy to get hold of personal and sensitive data on American military and intelligence personnel. Earlier this year investigative [...] More

A Deniable Attack with Strategic Precision: Why the Red Hat Breach Looks More Like Statecraft Than Mere Crime

The timing was no coincidence.As the U.S. federal government ground to a halt at 12:01 a.m. EDT on October 1, 2025, a cybercriminal group calling [...] More

National Cyber Defenses at Risk as Key Programs Expire Amid Government Shutdown

Ransomware attacks conducted by criminals are persistently hitting airports, schools, and 911 dispatch centers, while foreign adversaries probe our [...] More

Telecom Bust Near the UN Reveals New National Security Vulnerability

Telecom Bust Near the UN Reveals New National Security Vulnerability

DEEP DIVE — When Secret Service agents swept into an inconspicuous building near the United Nations General Assembly late last month, they weren’t [...] More