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Safe passage in the stars: The next Bretton Woods

On Earth, control of the seas and thus of trade helped create the current financial system dominated by the US dollar. A...

How the World Got Owned Episode 1: The 1980s

In this special documentary episode, Patrick Gray and Amberleigh Jack take a historical dive into hacking in the 1980s. ...

The War Room newsletter: Inside the mission that snatched Maduro

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, digs into the details

The Isaacman era begins at NASA

Jared Isaacman became NASA administrator last month, ending a convoluted confirmation process that lasted just over a ye...

Innovative, affordable, and expedited

One of big challenges facing Isaacman is how to speed up a human return to the Moon, or at least keep it from falling fu...

Houston deserves a Space Shuttle, but not like this

A provision in last year's budget reconciliation bill effectively directed the transfer of the Space Shuttle Discovery f...

The Irish Taoiseach's visit to China in 14 years could be a 'touchstone' for China-EU relations: expert

ROK president arrives in Beijing with 200 business delegates, hails full restoration of bilateral ties 'the greatest achievement'

Patriotism tests loom for big business

Economic nationalism makes it harder for multinationals to navigate the world

A half-planet-size gap in global governance is about to get plugged

A new treaty offers hope of curbing the destruction of the oceans

The War Room newsletter: Mega edition—you ask, I answer

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, answers your questions in the final edition of 2025

This month in security with Tony Anscombe – December 2025 edition

As 2025 draws to a close, Tony looks back at the cybersecurity stories that stood out both in December and across the wh...

China imposes countermeasures against 20 US companies, 10 senior executives in response to US arms sales to Taiwan

The quest to chart the sea

This map reveals what scientists care about—and what armed forces don’t want to share

The Artemis Accords at five

This fall marked five years since eight countries, including the United States, announced that they were signing the new...

State-owned enterprises and commercial space in China

The Chinese space ecosystem now includes many startups that emulate American entrepreneurial space companies. Owen Chban...

Revisiting CVE-2025-50165: A critical flaw in Windows Imaging Component

A comprehensive analysis and assessment of a critical severity vulnerability with low likelihood of mass exploitation

Russia-China ties crucial for global stability: Putin at annual conference

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