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Pakistan’s defense minister says latest clashes with Taliban mean ‘open war.’ What’s happening?

(Sophia Saifi, Masoud Popalzai and Rhea Mogul - CNN) Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting again, trading deadly shelling and mortar fire across their rugged...

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic’s red lines in Pentagon fight

(Maria Curi, Dave Lawler - Axios) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a memo to staff that he will draw the same red lines...

Iran stored highly enriched uranium at underground site, IAEA report says

(Al Arabiya/Reuters) Some of Iran’s most highly enriched uranium, close to weapons grade, was stored in an underground area of its nuclear site in...

Cyber (In)Security and Surveillance (27 February 2026)

North Korea's APT37 Expands Toolkit to Breach Air-Gapped Networks (Kevin Poireault - Infosecurity Magazine) A cyber espionage group linked to North Korea has been observed...

Pentagon’s first kamikaze drone unit ready for Iran strikes

(Al Arabiya) The Pentagon’s first kamikaze drone unit is ready to participate if President Donald Trump decides to launch strikes on Iran, according to...

Cyber (In)Security and Surveillance (26 February 2026)

Ransomware payments dropped in 2025 as attack numbers reached record levels: Chainalysis (Jonathan Greig - The Record) The number of ransomware victims paying up to...

Big Tech’s Moment of Truth on AI Safety

(Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat - Just Security) The Pentagon has given leading AI company Anthropic until Feb. 27 to abandon its AI safety limits or...

How to Prevent the U.N. Global Counterterrorism Strategy Negotiations from Blowing Up

(Jordan Street, CJ (Caleb) Pine - Just Security) The U.N. General Assembly is due to adopt its ninth update of its Global Counter-terrorism Strategy...

Resilience under fire: how US’s WWII airfield upgrades back Taiwan

(Rowan Allport - ASPI The Strategist) In World War II, the United States built a western Pacific airfield here, another there, and more elsewhere,...

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