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…
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The convention, which just opened for signature, is substantively similar to the Budapest Convention, but it is procedurally different, and that may make all the difference. Over the weekend, the UN Cybercrime Convention opened…
The AI race isn’t only about chips or tariffs. It’s also about who writes the technical standards shaping the world’s systems. A ship docks at the Port of Los Angeles. Cranes begin…
Persistent penetration of domestic networks makes coordinated defenses and robust deterrence essential to preventing cyber conflict. In a multiyear campaign called Salt Typhoon, threat actors from the People’s Republic of China (PRC)…
