It is now widely agreed that the contest for leadership in frontier scientific and technological progress is one of the foremost elements — if not the centerpiece — of the U.S.-China rivalry.…
The U.K. government’s latest attempt to access encrypted cloud backups could allow adversarial actors to gain access to sensitive data. About a year ago, the world learned of extensive intrusions into U.S. telecommunications networks,…
China is exporting its AI governance model; democracies must act now or risk letting others define the future of speech. “China is going to win the AI race,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned…
On Dec. 3, the White House backed away from sanctioning China’s spy agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), that carried out one of the most extensive hacking campaigns in U.S. history against critical infrastructure. The…
The country’s anticipated cyber strategy will need to sharpen its focus while better implementing its provisions. Later this year, the U.K. is expected to announce its new cybersecurity strategy. Every iteration of…
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The proposed digital omnibus package would make changes to the AI Act and GDPR in addition to other data-related measures. Over the past decade, the European Union has assembled an edifice of…
The Wassenaar export controls offer insights into the regulation of commercial spyware, making them instructive for current initiatives. Author’s Note: This article is based on a white paper entitled “Managing Commercial Spyware Through…
A review of Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All” (Little, Brown and Company, 2025). On April 1, 2022, in what…
A new paper from the Germany-based think tank Interface has attempted to define the threshold at which peacetime state cyber operations become irresponsible. The author thinks that more concrete definitions of responsible behavior would…
International humanitarian law is not a switch that can be flipped when inconvenient, not even in offensive cyber operations. On Nov. 3, Lawfare published a thought-provoking piece by Stefan Soesanto and Wiktoria Gajos advancing the argument…
