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Would Wartime Elections Save Democracy or End It?

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum,...

Average Cyber Insurance Losses Increase Despite Fewer Claims

Chubb reported that growing privacy litigation has contributed to surging cyber claim costs in the US

'NovaCookies' Kit Steals Microsoft 365 Sessions for $320 a Month

The adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing service lowers the barrier to entry for actors to create attacks and steal m...

Rosatom and Egypt discussing more potential units

Egypt's Ministry of Energy and Russia's Rosatom have held talks to review progress on El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant's con...

DR Congo president warns $8.3B funding backlog undermines credibility

Administrative delays and weak project management have been blamed for causing delays in disbursing the funding.

Starlink Narrows the Gap to Under 13,000 as Nigeria’s ISP Market Fragments Further in Q2 2026

Starlink closed the second quarter of 2026 with 98,642 active subscribers in Nigeria, adding 6,651 subscribers since Q4 ...

Beijing looks to cutting-edge technology to revive flagging growth

Several metrics have shown that China’s domestic economy is slowing, potentially to below Beijing’s official growth targ...

Global trade tensions grow with no reprieve in sight

The US is weighing imposing yet more penalties on goods and services from Canada.

Markets eye Nvidia earnings for insight into tech sector

The semiconductor firm faces challenges, ranging from the increased cost of memory chips to customer concentration.

Piero Cipollone: From vision to delivery: building Europe’s tokenised financial market

Exploits and vulnerabilities in Q2 2026

This report covers statistics on vulnerabilities, exploits, and C2 frameworks in Q2 2026. For the first time ever, we ag...

Niger awards Arlit uranium mining permit to state-owned company

Niger's Council of Ministers has awarded a mining permit previously held by Orano to the state-owned company set up earl...

Second EPR site authorised for site preparations

The French government has given EDF the go-ahead to start site preparation work for the second pair of new EPR2 reactors...

Linux Foundation Introduces TRACE Standard for AI Runtime Evidence

This new open standard offers hardware-attested runtime and compliance evidence for AI agents

DDoS Attack Hits Norwegian Government Services

A coordinated DDoS campaign has caused disruption among Norwegian government services

Interpol's Jackal IV Disrupts West African Crime Infrastructure

The international law enforcement operation focused on disrupting crime-as-a-service networks and infrastructure behind ...

Nigeria Looks to Sovereign Cloud for Cyber, National Security

The West African nation launched financing, procurement, and infrastructure policies to boost its sovereign cloud initia...

US issues pause on visa appointments for applicants worldwide

President Donald Trump's administration has ​issued a pause on visa appointments for applicants around the world during ...

From Hormuz to the Caucasus: The New Geography of Energy Security

Every crisis in the Middle East returns the world’s attention to the same stretch of water. When tankers are seized, or ...

Russian checkpoint by North Korea car bridge 65% completed: authorities

Russia is nearing the completion of a border checkpoint next to its newly built road bridge to North Korea, according to...

Foreign AI is unavoidable. Australia’s challenge is in application

When discussions turn to Australia’s artificial intelligence future, the debate quickly becomes one of technological sov...

Israel's Lobby 2.0: What Walt & Mearsheimer didn't anticipate

In March 2006, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced the essay by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "The Israel Lo...

Trump wants to stabilize Libya. Militants have other plans.

A series of crises have roiled Libya over the last month, undermining a U.S.-led initiative to resolve the country’s pro...

America Doesn’t Need More Nuclear Weapons

Expanding the stockpile could weaken deterrence.

The Future of Ukraine’s Drone Democracy

Transforming the military has changed the war—and upended politics.

Starbase, Louisiana: The Largest Private Spaceport in the World

SpaceX has unveiled plans for “Starbase, Louisiana,” described as the largest private spaceport in the… The post Starbas...

Kim Jong Un leads politburo meeting on economy without disclosing details

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a politburo meeting on Tuesday to discuss state-led development projects under t...

Risky Business #850 -- Widespread AI-enabled attacks target Siemens PLCs

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Ollie Whitehouse, the CTO of the UK’s NCSC...

India and Indonesia are developing Sabang as a port, not a base

India’s interest in developing Sabang port in northern Sumatra is often interpreted as a response to China’s expanding m...

Mark Carney’s defiance: Canada shows the world how to respond to Donald Trump’s threats

Canada cannot match the U.S. economically, but it can make Donald Trump’s trade war politically costly as the U.S. heads...

The Overstretch Facing the US Navy

The US is exceeding its own plans for deployment of aircraft carriers, and the knock-on effects, and the strain, should ...

SpaceX Introduces New Louisiana Starbase

SpaceX announced plans today to build a second Starbase, this one on the coast of Louisiana. All Starship launches to da...

The world's busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now

SpaceX aims to launch Starship from Florida by the end of the year. 2027 seems more likely.

Hidden Prompts Trick AI Into False Email Summaries

With some simple HTML that's invisible to users, attackers can manipulate AI-powered email summarizers into producing ma...

Can We Rethink Growth Beyond GDP? A Recent UN Report Believes So

Will national governments show the political commitment needed for a real breakthrough in gauging societal progress beyo...

Russia’s war will not end until Putin accepts Ukrainian independence

Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin is pursuing longstanding Russian imperial objectives in Ukraine and will not stop until ...

ASEAN Needs to Hold Its Line on Myanmar

Thailand’s reception of Min Aung Hlaing complicates ASEAN’s Myanmar approach, but ASEAN must hold its line and maintain ...

The InSight Take: Organized Crime Adopts the Latest Technologies in the Drone-IED Arms Race

The InSight Take: Organized Crime Adopts the Latest Technologies in the Drone-IED Arms Race Organized crime groups acros...

‘West Asia’, not the Middle East: it’s time for Australia to reset its strategic compass

West Asia should stand closer to the centre of Australian strategic thinking, but the language used to describe it too o...

Propulsion is having a moment

In this episode, SpaceNews Mike Gruss interviews Kevin Lausten, CEO of Morpheus Space, at the 2026 Small Satellite Confe...