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How cheap, simple building materials can protect strike drones from lasers

As armed forces and their suppliers work on costly lasers to knock down cheap drones, the drone makers can easily reach ...

The Tension Between Collectivism and Individualism in Ukraine

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum,...

Japan launches second US military payload to monitor space above Indo-Pacific

The data from the hosted payloads on QZS-7 and its predecessor QZS-6 will feed into the US Space Surveillance Network op...

Open-Source Intel Makes U.S. Troops an Easier Target for Iran

Iran is reading American service members’ social media feeds to deadly effect. The fact is that not all intelligence mus...

The oil shock is sorting Latin America. The dividing line is institutions, not barrels.

Latin American countries that have been resilient amid the oil shock show how the region as a whole can reset its energy...

Analysis: The two largest reservoirs in the US have hit record-low levels

The second-largest reservoir in the US reached a record-low water height on Saturday – just days after the country’s lar...

UNISOC Modem Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution via Video Calls

UNISOC modem flaw enabled kernel-level code execution through video calls

Waterborne shipments from the U.S. Gulf Coast increased in April and May

Waterborne shipments of crude oil and petroleum products from the U.S. Gulf Coast (PADD 3) to the West Coast (PADD 5) mo...

Inside Iran’s New Wartime Leadership

Tehran’s new power brokersA wave of assassinations rebuilt Iran’s leadership from the top down, leaving a severely wound...

WordPress Plugin Flaw Exposes 40,000 Sites to Admin Takeover

Critical User Profile Builder flaw let unauthenticated attackers access administrator accounts

Buzzkill: How to defend Europe against drones

Drone warfare in Europe is no longer tomorrow’s problem. The continent is under attack by drones today, and the threat i...

Space Force brings 5 companies on-board Space Data Network

The new awards are aimed at demonstrating the ability of multiple satellite networks to connect to the Space Force’s eme...

Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts

Emissions from land-use change – including deforestation, loss of peatland and forest degradation – have been falling ov...

Wishing for rockets

The demand for launch services is higher than ever, but the supply of rockets today is very constrained. Jeff Foust repo...

Two futures on the Moon

The race to return humans to the Moon pits not just two countries but two political philosophies. Alexander William Salt...

Colonizing Antarctica and other anti-space fables

One argument that critics of space settlement make is that it would be far easier to settle Antarctica. Milan Cirkovic o...

ETSI Proposes 17 Cybersecurity Standards to Support Cyber Resilience Act

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute has launched an approval process for standards vendors will have to ...

Philip R. Lane: The rise in defence spending and the euro area economy

SafePal Data Breach Hits Tens of Thousands of Customers

Nearly 40,000 customers of hardware wallet provider SafePal have been impacted by a data breach

How QR-code phishing can slip past corporate security measures

Quishing has become a popular alternative to traditional phishing. Here’s how businesses can close the gap.

South Korean troops fire warning shots at North’s forces crossing border

South Korean troops recently fired warning shots at North Korean soldiers crossing the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) o...

What Have We Learned from the 9/11 Wars? Not Nearly Enough

Editor’s Note: The following article draws on themes from the author’s forthcoming book titled US Counterterrorism Opera...

Infostealers Harvest 1.7 Billion Credentials in Six Months

Flashpoint data reveals infostealers were responsible for taking 1.7 billion credentials in the first half of 2026

Beyond Mogami: seven priorities for the Japanese defence minister’s visit to Australia

The meeting in Canberra tomorrow between the defence ministers of Australia and Japan, Richard Marles and Shinjiro Koizu...

Worth a try: the US will authorise some companies for cyber counterattacks

The United States has had enough in cyberspace. The White House has now created a program under which American companies...

Trump praises relationship with Kim Jong Un, reduces military drills with Seoul

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Washington would substantially reduce its military exercises with Sout...

Starmer, Burnham and Foreign Aid: A Troubling Inheritance

The contraction of UK aid, and its knock-on implications for security, pose big questions and lessons for Starmer’s succ...

When intelligence archives become political evidence

Taiwan’s been opening its intelligence archives – with lamentable results. The opening of the records, which began in Fe...

When the Pacific way is silence: Tuvalu, consensus and courage

A nuclear-capable Chinese missile landed near Tuvalu's EEZ, yet Pacific Islands Forum ministers could not agree on a joi...

On Liberation Day, North Korea blasts fireworks as South Korea calls to end war

North Korea marked the 81st anniversary of liberation from Japanese colonial rule with a massive fireworks display and y...

Legislative Elections (2026)

Elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) are scheduled to take place on 28 November 2026 in the West Bank...

Kim Jong Un plays up Soviet war sacrifice ahead of Liberation Day

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un played up the sacrifice of Soviet soldiers who fought Japanese forces in Korea as a corn...

Researchers Confirm ExfilSquad’s Access to Sensitive Data Across 13 Organizations

Researchers have verified that ExfilSquad possesses sensitive data stolen from at least 13 victims after the extortion g...

Q&A: What does China’s 15th five-year plan for coal mean for climate action?

China has published a new five-year plan for coal, the latest in a slew of important policy documents for the… The post ...

How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it

Cloudflare Gateway identifies MCP requests using protocol-level heuristics. Security teams can use that signal to find s...

New Mirai-Based Linux Botnet ‘Evooo1Bot’ Turns Victims Into Proxies

Evooo1Bot is a newly observed botnet based on the Mirai framework but equipped with advanced features, turning edge devi...

The Dollar's Next Battlefield Isn't a Country. It's Code.

Money is moving onto new rails, built in code instead of wires and vaults, and that shift is quietly reshaping a tool th...

It is in the U.S. interest to Support Democratic Legitimacy in Venezuela

The Trump administration’s response to the catastrophic earthquakes that hit Venezuela seven weeks ago was impressive: t...

Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out

It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data fro...

I lived through the first Taliban girls’ school ban — watching it happen again is heartbreaking

The author was banned from school by the Taliban as a girl in 1996. Years after the Taliban returned to power in 2021, s...