The offer was blunt: $25,000 to track and kill a person in the Lithuanian capital who, according to U.S. prosecutors, was “telling lies about Russia”. The alleged approach came last year from
Daniel McKinnon knows better than most that artificial intelligence can change a career. For years, the 40-year-old engineer worked for Meta developing AI systems, initially helping improve speech recognition for the company’s
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A global debate over how to protect children from the risks of social media is gathering pace, but Japan is resisting the blanket age bans being adopted elsewhere. Instead, the country is
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A succession of suicides among personnel working for or closely with US Cyber Command has prompted concern among military leaders and lawmakers, raising fresh questions about the psychological pressures facing one of
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Can a political system be undermined by its own success? That is the argument advanced by proponents of post-liberalism, a broad and internally divided school of thought that has gained increasing attention
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A proposed agreement on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz could mark a turning point not only for one of the world’s most strategically important waterways, but for the wider Middle East.
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The gradual repair of ties between China and India has opened diplomatic and economic channels that were largely closed after the deadly 2020 border clashes. Yet improved government-to-government relations have not translated
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No tankers have loaded at Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export terminal, for at least a week, according to shipping and satellite data providers, indicating that the renewed US naval blockade has
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According to Der Spiegel, the extraordinary rise of Jason Arday, until recently a professor at the University of Cambridge, has become the centre of a scandal extending far beyond one academic career.
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Mexico and Peru have restored diplomatic relations after four years of political confrontation, opening a new chapter between the two Latin American countries despite Mexico’s continued support for former Peruvian president Pedro
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The United States plans to provide $1 billion in security assistance to Colombia’s new government, signalling a major strengthening of ties with President Abelardo De La Espriella as he begins a presidency
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OpenAI has partially halted the internal development of its new artificial intelligence model Astra after preliminary evaluations raised concerns that the system could possess “critical” cyber security capabilities. The US company said
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China’s race to develop next-generation artificial intelligence is entering a new phase as a shortage of high-quality training data emerges as a potentially critical constraint on its technological ambitions. While US restrictions
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Taiwan’s move to dissolve the pro-Beijing Chinese Unification Promotion Party (CUPP) has triggered a political and constitutional controversy over whether security concerns are being used to suppress dissent. The island’s interior ministry
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The race to become the next secretary general of the United Nations has entered its decisive phase at a moment when the organisation faces some of the most difficult challenges in its
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Cyberattacks targeting water systems in dozens of municipalities across at least seven US states have highlighted a growing vulnerability in American critical infrastructure and the expanding use of cyber operations by Iran
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