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An Alabama congressman thinks it wise to create a fifth armed service focused on space. One of the four existing services thinks that’s an awful idea. Somehow, both sides seem wrong.

Cyber-tools meant to target criminals is used on journalists and human rights lawyers.

When artificial intelligence and human intelligence interact, the result is often a double dose of dumb.

One hopes that President Trump will not want to show off his “great” nuclear weapons as much as he wanted to share his “great intel.”

The failure of the chemical weapons ban in Syria is not a strike against a proposed global ban on autonomous weapons. Bans derive their strength from morality, not practicality.

Today, private citizens often know more about cyber threats than governments—and will happily sell their zero-day vulnerabilities to the highest bidder. This opens the remarkable possibility that defenders may be able to “drain the swamp” by buying up cyber threats on the open market. 

The digital revolution has changed the way the world works, and connects, and plays. It is also quickly challenging the ability of open societies to monitor and regulate the downside of electronic interconnection, as two accomplished magazine reports show this week.

A new paper argues that companies like Google and Facebook could outpace militaries when it comes to the science of artificial intelligence.

The United States has a new best friend, India, and that friend would like the White House to stabilize the subcontinent by putting more pressure on Pakistan to deescalate tensions.