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Missing from the 2019 Missile Defense Review: Cybersecurity

By Lauren Borja | Analysis, Cyber Security

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photo by FFCU CC BY-SA 2.0.

Former Israeli spies get involved in US elections as information warriors

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

A British soldier participating in a NATO exercise. LCpl Craig Williams/(UK Ministry of Defense) via Wikimedia Commons. OGL

NATO researchers used social media to learn details of a military exercise and manipulate troops. It wasn’t very hard to do.

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Trump orders some sort of vague action in the AI arms race

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Credit: Matt Field. Based in part on photo by Morio CC SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

China is rapidly developing its military AI capabilities

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Credit: Matt Field. Based in part on a photo by Rico Shen CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is your robot up to it? DARPA wants machines that can explain how conditions affect their own performance

By | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Credit: World Economic Forum / swiss-image.ch / Valeriano DiDomenico CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

A new voice chimes in on regulating facial recognition and big-tech

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

A nurse prepares a measles vaccine. Cases of the disease increased by 30 percent globally from 2016 to 2017. (Photo credit: Pete Lewis / Department for International Development)

From Africa to America, lack of public trust makes disease outbreaks worse

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity, Columnists

The Syrian city of Aleppo depicted in the midst of a still ongoing civil war. Credit: British Foreign and Commonwealth Office / Basma CC BY-ND 2.0

Rare interview with captured scientist raises alarm over Islamic State chemical weapons program

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

During a visit to the Kennedy Space Center last month, Vice President Mike Pence said the administration is working with Congress to turn the US Space Command into a Space Force—the nation’s sixth branch of the armed forces. Credit: NASA/Twitter

Trump’s Space Force is a strategic mistake

By Gregory Niguidula | Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow

A Huawei executive is at the center of a diplomatic firestorm after being arrested in Canada. Credit: Brücke-Osteuropa via Wikimedia Commons.

Unlike Trump, US lawmakers aren’t going easy on Chinese telecoms

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Making sense of the 2018 National Biodefense Strategy

By Rachel Bartholomew, Kristin Omberg | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion