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…
Emergency powers in the EU’s Digital Services Act risk destroying important evidence for future courts and historians. In modern conflicts, the first casualty is not truth but visibility. Platforms decide which images…
The allocation of regulatory authority over AI between states and the federal government is a complex problem that can’t be resolved in a single stroke. Last week, congressional Republicans launched a last-minute…
What happens if Trump deploys cyber forces in the U.S.? Cyber operations may already be coming for Antifa. The rest of us, and especially Big Tech, will be caught in the middle.…
Portable genetic sequencers used around the world to sequence DNA have critical, previously unreported security vulnerabilities that could reveal or alter genetic information without detection, according to a new study. Researchers from…
Study shows short-term increase in student trust for generative AI programming tools; long-term trust still unclear. Researchers weigh in on what this means for computer science educators. How much do undergraduate computer…
Ukraine’s offensive cyber strategy demonstrates that Western governments need to adopt a “responsibly irresponsible” warfighting approach. On March 4, one day after President Trump announced the temporary suspension of U.S. military aid…
