Disruptive Technologies

Building the tools to fight botnets

By Elisabeth Eaves | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Ground beef

But will they eat it?

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Synthetic biology, What We’re Reading

Artificial Stupidity

By Thomas Gaulkin | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Doves against blue sky

Facing the central questions of nuclear disarmament

By Aaron Miles | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the newly re-opened US Embassy in Havana in August, 2015. The embassy was largely shuttered following a mysterious attack on US diplomats in 2016.

Microwave weapons may have caused diplomats’ mystery symptoms

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

David Sanger on the perfect weapon

By Elisabeth Eaves | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews, Technology and Security

President Donald Trump poses with service members after signing the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 during a visit to Fort Drum, New York, on August 13, 2018.

Protectionist export controls could be bad for nonproliferation

By Kenshin Cho | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Technology and Security, Voices of Tomorrow

Ventilator blues: Infectious disease expert Tom Inglesby on the next major pandemic

By Lucien Crowder | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

California State Senator Robert Hertzberg. Photo credit: Christopher Michel

The California lawmaker who wants to call a bot a bot

By Elisabeth Eaves | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Interviews, Technology and Security

NotPetya initially disguised itself as ransomware with messages demanding payment. Photo by Jbuket via Creative Commons. itself as ransomware with messages demanding payment.

The worst cyberattack–so far

By Elisabeth Eaves | Cyber Security, What We’re Reading

Artificial intelligence beyond the superpowers

By Perry World House | Artificial Intelligence, Columnists

Ebola screening in Guinea in 2014.

Ebola makes a very convincing case for global cooperation

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, What We’re Reading

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