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Starve, Pray, Die. In an interview, Alex de Waal discusses Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war in Gaza, and its repercussions...

Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation, which is affiliated with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts...

Sustaining the U.S. Edge in Remote Sensing, Launch, and Advanced Technologies for National Security (Kathleen Curlee – CSET)

The U.S. space economy has evolved significantly over the past 70 years. What began in the 1950s as a fully government-supported sector has transformed...

Big Tech in Taiwan. Beyond Semiconductors (Sam Bresnick – CSET)

Several U.S. technology companies have embedded themselves in Taiwan’s economy by building data centers, opening R&D facilities, and contracting with Taiwanese manufacturing partners, even...

China-Based APTs Deploy Fake Dalai Lama Apps to Spy on Tibetan Community (The Hacker News)

The Tibetan community has been targeted by a China-nexus cyber espionage group as part of two campaigns conducted last month ahead of the Dalai...

Europol Arrests XSS Forum Admin in Kyiv After 12-Year Run Operating Cybercrime Marketplace (The Hacker News)

Europol on Monday announced the arrest of the suspected administrator of XSS.is (formerly DaMaGeLaB), a notorious Russian-speaking cybercrime platform. The arrest, which took place in...

The U.S. Cannot Prevent Every AI Biothreat—But It Can Outpace Them (Tal Feldman, Jonathan Feldman – Lawfare)

The next biothreat might start as a line of code. A new class of artificial intelligence (AI) systems—known as protein language models (PLMs)—can design...

Violence in Suweida Reveals Syria’s Volatile Transition Challenge (Serhat Erkmen and Dr Burcu Ozcelik – RUSI)

On 16 July, the Israel Defence Forces launched a series of airstrikes on key sites in Damascus, including the Syrian Ministry of Defence, military...

The 40 ‘Red Hackers’ Who Shaped China’s Cyber Ecosystem (Eugenio Benincasa – RUSI)

Between January and March 2025, the United States indicted or sanctioned individuals and companies linked to Chinese state-sponsored threat actors known as APT27, Red...

Making Sure Damascus Learns the Right Lessons from the Suwayda Clashes (Andrew J. Tabler – Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

Sparked by a Bedouin ambush against a Druze vegetable seller, major armed clashes broke out in Syria’s southern Suwayda province on July 13. Since...

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