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Dear friends, It’s been quite a week. A shooting at Brown University, leaving two dead and many others injured, quickly turned into a days-long manhunt. It resolved with an apparent suicide but was also soon linked to the murder of a former classmate and MIT professor, leaving more questions than answers. The world was treated…
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As a teenager, I was capable of hacking into critical municipal infrastructure. I wasn’t an elite operator, but I knew where the vulnerabilities were and how to get around systems that weren’t even protected in the first place. From default passwords to open ports, attackers don’t need to be brilliant when defenders leave doors open. This approach is exactly how Iranian-linked hackers locked…
The New Pragmatism Reshaping Syria, and the Risks Ahead
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa didn’t take office through an election. He took it after a dominant military victory. His forces swept into Damascus last winter, ending Bashar al-Assad‘s decades-long rule and installing a transitional government with himself at the top. But for all the baggage he brings with him, as a former rebel commander, a…
US Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce transgender military ban
The US Supreme Court temporarily allowed President Donald Trump to enforce his ban on transgender people serving in the military while legal challenges to the policy move forward. Shortly after taking office in January, Trump signed a pair of executive orders that enabled the Pentagon to implement the ban. But a lower federal court blocked…
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German military satellite plan raises alarm in EU
German military satellite plan raises alarm in EU Germany’s plans for a €10 billion military satellite network, independent of the European IRIS² project, are worrying some EU lawmakers about fragmentation and duplication of costs. Germany plans 100 satellites in low-orbit orbit for military use only, while IRIS² aims for 290 satellites by 2029 for a…
