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A sequence of frames from video of the Chinese balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast on February 4, 2023.

Cybersecurity, surveillance, and military retaliation: Why some balloons bust–and others don’t

By Kathryn Hedgecock, Lauren Sukin | Disruptive Technologies

Cow. Credit: Roboiitgrs. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Who hacked the slaughterhouse? When robots and AI take over farms

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

power plant and digital code

Lessons from the cyberattack on India’s largest nuclear power plant

By Alexander Campbell, Vickram Singh | Opinion

Adam Segal: Life in the hacked world order

By Andrew Ivers | Interviews

From bombs to bytes: Can our nuclear history inform our cyber future?

By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. | Technology and Security

Eyes wide shut: The growing threat of cyber attacks on industrial control systems

By Joel F. Brenner | Technology and Security