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- Canada needs to bolster its national security apparatus. That’s not a compelling reason to launch a new agency, which would be a disruptive, time consuming, and costly machinery change.
- feature: Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI
- Thoughts on our geographic constraints
- Staffers warn DOT's use of Gemini to draft rules could cause injuries and deaths.
- Even well-known services with millions of users are exposing sensitive data.
- Why does everyone feel overwhelmed by information? Why does it feel impossible to trust what passes through our streams? We tend to blame individual publications, specific platforms, or b…
- The national intelligence watchdog says Canada’s cyberspy agency violated a law that forbids it from focusing on Canadians when it analyzed information from an electronic device.
- Thoughts on US-China Competition
- The normalization of a useful enabling capability
- Thank you, Larry.It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you at this turning point for Canada and for the world.Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story, and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints.
- The U.K. government’s latest attempt to access encrypted cloud backups could allow adversarial actors to gain access to sensitive data.
- An insider’s guide to a virtually unknown secretariat in the Privy Council Office that can seem like one of the remoter regions of the deep state.
- : They’re not the most sophisticated, but even simple attacks can lead to costly consequences
- More than a decade after Aaron Swartz’s death, the United States is still living inside the contradiction that destroyed him. Swartz believed that knowledge, especially publicly funded knowledge, should be freely accessible. Acting on that, he downloaded thousands of academic articles from the JSTOR archive with the intention of making them publicly available. For this, the federal government charged him with a felony and threatened decades in prison. After two years of prosecutorial pressure, Swartz died by suicide on Jan. 11, 2013. The still-unresolved questions raised by his case have resurfaced in today’s debates over artificial intelligence, copyright and the ultimate […]
- Poland's power system faced its largest cyberattack in years in the last week of December that also followed a different pattern, the country's energy minister said on Tuesday.
- A highly notable use of Chinese fishing boats to create what could – in future conflicts – serve as a blockade or to confuse warships’ radar, command and control, or mission targeting systems.
- That it is built to target containerized cloud environments is certainly notable.
- FBI searches home and devices of reporter who has over 1,100 government contacts.
- Last March — which feels like a hundred years ago now — I wrote a post titled "Be careful what you post on social media: They are listening," in which I looked at how the Immigration and Customs Enforcement branch of Homeland Security had become a kind of secret police force, and was starting to monitor people's social-media posts, looking for evidence of what the Trump administration loves to refer to as "antifa terrorism," otherwise known as expressing your thoughts on a variety of topics (oth
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