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A family photo of Edward Hall (left) and Ted Hall, provided to author Dave Lindorff by Sheila Hall, daughter of Ed Hall. The photographer is likely Ed's wife, Edith (deceased).

A tale of two suspects: ‘Oppenheimer’ versus ‘A Compassionate Spy’

By Hugh Gusterson | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Security camera at the Swiss National Museum

Existential espionage: How intelligence gathering can protect humanity

By Rumtin Sepasspour | Disruptive Technologies

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

Fake faces generated by the StyleGAN algorithm developed by Tero Karras, Samuli Laine, and Timo Aila at NVIDIA via Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West. CC-BY-NC 4.0.

University bullshit experts: Fake face software signals a new era of AI-based BS

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Ronald Deibert: Tracking the emerging arms race in cyberspace

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