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‘Desert Dexter’ Hot Button Facebook Ads Tag Mideast Victims (Nate Nelson, Dark Reading)

Hundreds of people across the Middle East and North Africa have been infected with malware after clicking on links in politically charged Facebook advertisements....

Trump nominates Sean Plankey to run top US cyber agency (Suzanne Smalley, The Record)

Sean Plankey, who served in cybersecurity roles in the first Trump administration, has been officially nominated to run the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...

Democracy’s Weakest Link: Foreign Money and Political Influence (Tom Keatinge, Eliza Lockhart – RUSI)

(Tom Keatinge, Eliza Lockhart - RUSI) Like the proverbial frog in boiling water, malign finance can insidiously corrode democratic institutions and processes until the...

Germany moves to the right, but left gets a second win (Andrew G. Bonnell, Australian Institute of International Affairs)

The results of the German federal elections held on 28 February 2025 were quickly clear to everyone; now the traditionally major parties of the...

Syria’s de facto leader faces home truths (Philip Eliason, The Interpreter)

It was only a matter of time until the Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) gunmen of Syria’s post-Assad interim government resorted to violence against non-Sunni...

Why Australia–India maritime ties matter (Nidhi Priya – The Interpreter)

The maritime relationship between Australia and India has developed considerably over recent years, but it has yet to reach its full potential. As both...

Geospatial-intelligence agency aims for more AI resources in 2025 (Courtney Albon, Defense News)

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is making a concerted effort to accelerate its artificial intelligence efforts over the next year, creating new AI leadership roles...

The United States Must Avoid AI’s Chernobyl Moment (Janet Egan, Cole Salvador – Just Security)

In January, U.S President Donald Trump tasked his advisors to develop by July 2025 an AI Action Plan, a roadmap intended to “sustain and...

How Saudi Arabia and the US might reset the Middle East (Lina Khatib, Chatham House)

A new order is emerging in the Middle East. For decades, Iran wielded influence across the region by cultivating a network of proxies that...

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