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COP30 ends with a whimper

The climate conference acknowledged that more climate action is needed, then failed to provide it

Chinese premier arrives in Johannesburg for 1st G20 summit in Africa

Erik Prince, America’s most notorious mercenary, spies opportunity in chaos

The return of the Blackwater founder is a sign of the times

How Chinese underground banks became the world’s biggest money-launderers

They connect rich Chinese, drug cartels and North Korean hackers—without anyone meeting

GT investigates: From political opportunist to militarist advocate: An expose of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's radical path

Risky Business #815 -- Anthropic's AI APT report is a big deal

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Anthropic says a Chi...

GT investigates: How Japan's PM revives bellicism mindset, perpetuates 'victim narrative' pushed by right-wing forces since WWI

The loneliness of America’s model ally

Donald Trump has no desire to play global cop. That is tough on Denmark, a loyal sheriff’s deputy

Mapping the dark side of the world (part 1): The KH-5 ARGON geodetic satellite

As important as high-resolution satellite imagery in the early Space Age was development of wide-area imagery needed for...

DARPA's real lunar opportunity: Build the operating system, not the outpost

DARPA has supported studies on lunar development recently, including establishing lunar infrastructure. Michael Stennick...

China’s creepiest export surge

Countries are queuing to buy the tools and techniques of the CCP’s security state

Risky Business #814 -- It's a bad time to be a scam compound operator

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The KK Park scam com...

Beijing insiders’ plan to play Donald Trump

They see America’s president as a golden opportunity for China

Risky Business #813 -- FFmpeg has a point

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: We love some good vu...

China places a Hong Kong-sized bet on Western decline

The territory aims to prove that a non-free society can be a global financial hub

The War Room newsletter: Did a Russian weapon spook Trump?

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, talks missile protection—in Yorkshire

What will it cost to make Vladimir Putin stop?

Europe must offer Ukraine a big enough financial package to deter the Kremlin

Risky Business #812 -- Alleged Trenchant exploit mole is ex-ASD

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: L3Harris Trenchant b...

Donald Trump’s trade power is vast, but self-defeating

The view from Canada, as Trumpian threats fly

China is backing Russia’s war to keep America distracted, says Kaja Kallas

China’s rulers want to show it is in their people’s interests to keep America focused on Europe, according to the EU’s f...

Risky Business #811 -- F5 is the tip of the crap software iceberg

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: China has been rumma...

Brussels feels like a city preparing for war

Europe readies itself to survive in a world of hostile strongmen

Wide World of Cyber: A deep dive on the F5 hack

In this edition of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray talks to Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about the F5 incide...

The War Room newsletter: Three lessons from a spy scandal

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, looks at an espionage fiasco in Britain

The icy cold war America is busy losing

Its weakest flank isn’t Greenland, but around Alaska

Risky Business #810 -- Data extortion attacks have a silver lining

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: FBI intervenes in Sc...

China tries shock-and-awe on Donald Trump

Xi Jinping’s bet that dramatic escalation is the way to win a trade war

Europe struggles to put homeland defence first

Years of expeditionary operations leave it vulnerable if America abandons the continent

The Economist today newsletter: What happens when migrants stop coming?

We are witnessing a turning point in migration, writes Adam Roberts, our digital editor

Risky Business #809 -- Hackers try to pay a journalist for access to the BBC

On this week’s show Patrick Gray is on holiday so Amberleigh Jack and Adam Boileau hijack the studio to discuss the week...

Can the West survive an age of brinkmanship?

It is time to relearn the cold-war arts of escalation management

The flashing red threat from Russia’s dark fleet

NATO navies struggle to contain a new danger on the seas

The War Room newsletter: The best tanks of all time

In a bonus edition of our defence newsletter, Richard Cockett examines an icon from the battlefield

Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration

Europe’s big, invisible wall is slowing boat crossings by migrants

Risky Business #808 -- Insane megabug in Entra left all tenants exposed

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and special guest Rob Joyce discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Secret Se...

A made-in-China plan for world domination

Donald Trump is failing to stop China’s rise as a manufacturing superpower

The War Room newsletter: Why Trump wants a Taliban air base back

The president’s neo-imperial worldview has something to do with it, according to Shashank Joshi, our defence editor

The UN’s grim future 

Going rogue, decay or Trumpification

Risky Business #807 -- Shai-Hulud npm worm wreaks old-school havoc

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Shai-Hulud worm prop...

Cold war deterrence doesn’t work any more

Why the West is finding it so hard to deter China and Russia