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Chinese FM strongly condemns $11b US arms sales to Taiwan; DPP authorities 'thanking' Washington slammed by island netizens

LongNosedGoblin tries to sniff out governmental affairs in Southeast Asia and Japan

ESET researchers discovered a China-aligned APT group, LongNosedGoblin, which uses Group Policy to deploy cyberespionage...

Risky Business #819 -- Venezuela (credibly?!) blames USA for wiper attack

In the final show of 2025, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: React2Shell a...

How to survive abandonment by America

Allies are planning for a lonelier, harsher world: a report from South Korea

ESET Threat Report H2 2025

A view of the H2 2025 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and r...

SpaceX, orbital data centers, and the journey to Mars

After years of saying the company was not planning an initial public offering of stock, SpaceX now appears to be moving ...

"Sovereign capacity" of private and public space programs

Countries are increasingly seeing the strategic value of space capabilities. Alexander Wallace Watson examines the ways ...

Black Hat Europe 2025: Was that device designed to be on the internet at all?

Behind the polished exterior of many modern buildings sit outdated systems with vulnerabilities waiting to be found

Black Hat Europe 2025: Reputation matters – even in the ransomware economy

Being seen as reliable is good for ‘business’ and ransomware groups care about 'brand reputation' just as much as their ...

Inside the fight for MAGA’s foreign policy

Donald Trump’s court squabbles over the future of American power

Risky Business #818 -- React2Shell is a fun one

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: There’s a CVSS 10/10...

What’s worse for innovation: MAGA or Mao?

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping share a dangerous nostalgia

NASA Goddard and the dawn of international cooperation in space

NASA cooperated with other nations on space science missions from the agency's earliest days. Trevor Williams examines t...

The long arm of a European space law

The European Commission released earlier this year a draft of a space law for the European Union intended to harmonize r...

Beyond launch: How in-space propulsion markets will determine winners in the $1 trillion space economy

Launch has long been seen as the bottleneck for a growing space economy, but it is not the only factor. Malik Farkhadov ...

In defense of Mark Kelly

Mark Kelly, a former astronaut who is now a US senator, has been the target of a potential court martial over comments h...

The American fixation on white Afrikaners in South Africa stretches back nearly a century

Political scientist Carolyn Holmes speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of American interest in S...

Western armed forces have struggled to fill their ranks to deter Russia

More sensible recruiting policies could help

Chinese Embassy in UK urges London to recognize reality, adopt correct mindset following Starmer's China-related remarks

Risky Business #817 -- Less carnage than your usual Thanksgiving

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. It’s a quiet week with Thanksgi...

China, Russia conduct strategic alignment on issues related to Japan

Trumpworld thinks Europe has betrayed the West

Centrist governments across the continent rightly sense a trap

MuddyWater: Snakes by the riverbank

MuddyWater targets critical infrastructure in Israel and Egypt, relying on custom malware, improved tactics, and a predi...

2025 Understanding China Conference opens in Guangzhou, spotlighting 15th Five-Year Plan and China's global initiatives

A big win for European space

The member states of the European Space Agency met in Germany last week to decide on agency funding levels for the next ...

Burning Falcon: the death of a Russian laser ASAT plane

Last week, Ukrainian drones and missiles struck a Russian air base. Among the planes destroyed there, Dwayne Day discuss...

Mapping the dark side of the world (part 3): Replacing ARGON, the SAMOS E-4, and mapping the Moon

In the conclusion of his examination of satellite mapping programs in the early Cold War, Dwayne Day examines revised ca...

Our best energy and efforts

Delays in the development of SpaceX's Starship have promoted calls for potential changes in NASA's Artemis lunar landing...

Chandrayaan-3 successfully undertakes lunar flybys

Two years after carrying out its prime mission of delivering a lander to the Moon, part of India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecr...

Practitioner's Insights: Large-scale Chinese-built wind power projects in S.Africa turn stable, abundant electricity supply for locals from luxury into reality

Civic groups in Taiwan protest Lai's arms push, oppose being dragged toward battlefield

This month in security with Tony Anscombe – November 2025 edition

Data exposure by top AI companies, the Akira ransomware haul, Operation Endgame against major malware families, and more...

Risky Business #816 -- Copilot Actions for Windows is extremely dicey

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Salesforce partner G...

The wrong sort of peace leads to the next war

Donald Trump’s approach to peacemaking ignores crucial lessons from history

John Bolton thinks America is past “peak Trump”

Donald Trump’s former national security adviser speaks to The Economist

Influencers in the crosshairs: How cybercriminals are targeting content creators

Social media influencers can provide reach and trust for scams and malware distribution. Robust account protection is ke...

Revisiting the Wolf Amendment after 15 years

It's been nearly 15 years since Congress passed legislation with a provision sharply restricting bilateral cooperation b...

Mapping the dark side of the world (part 2): supplementing, and supplanting, the ARGON geodetic satellite program

In the early 1960s the US flew several satellite mapping missions, with mixed success. Dwayne Day describes how an alter...

Space is the front line and not the final frontier: The United States should prioritize developing proactive norms of space warfare

Space is increasingly seen as a domain of warfare alongside air, land, and sea. Magdalena Bogacz argues that means the U...

How AI is making spacecraft propulsion more efficient

A desire to go further and faster in space is driving interest in advanced propulsion technologies, such as nuclear syst...