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India. Lessons from India: Moving beyond just optics for a ‘just’ e-mobility transition (Sarthak Shukla, ORF)

The race to transition towards an electrified transportation scenario is gathering steam globally. With the much-anticipated autumn’s climate change event of COP 26 in...

Japan. Suga Steps Down: What Next For Japan? (Shashank Mattoo, ORF)

A little more than a year after he stepped out of the shadows of Japanese politics and into the Prime Minister’s office, Yoshihide Suga has...

India. How Indian youth view the tech competition (Samyak Rai Leekha, ORF)

Since its independence in 1947, India has proudly followed the democratic tradition. This was advanced at the declaration of the modern Indian Republic in...

Eastern Mediterranean/France/Germany. Conflicts in the EastMed: From Germany’s and France’s Conflicting Strategies to a Dual Approach (Laura Lale Kabis-Kechrid, IFRI)

Over the past years, the Eastern Mediterranean has become centerstage of an increasingly internationalized and militarized conflict driven by different albeit interlinked issues and...

Australia/India. Realising an ‘early harvest’ for Australia–India trade (Dipen Rughani and Natasha Jha Bhaskar, East Asia Forum)

Former Australian prime minister and Special Trade Envoy Tony Abbott’s recent visit to India has brought the long-suspended Free Trade agreement (FTA) — officially known...

Journalism/Digital Era. In the Digital Era, Journalism Should Be Considered a Public Good (Victor Pickard, CIGI)

Front pages on a news stand in London/REUTERS As nations around the globe grapple with a precipitous decline in financial support for journalism, new policies...

Artificial Intelligence/Small Data. Small Data’s Big AI Potential (Husanjot ChahalHelen Toner Ilya Rahkovsky, CSET)

Conventional wisdom suggests that cutting-edge artificial intelligence is dependent on large volumes of data. An overemphasis on “big data” ignores the existence—and underestimates the...

Cybersecurity. FIN7 group leverages Windows 11 Alpha-Themed docs to drop Javascript payloads (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

FIN7 cybercrime gang used weaponized Windows 11 Alpha-themed Word documents to drop malicious payloads, including a JavaScript backdoor FIN7 group leverages WIN 11 Alpha-Themed docs...

Cybersecurity. Source code for the Babuk is available on a hacking forum (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

The complete source code for the Babuk ransomware is available for sale on a Russian-speaking hacking forum Source code for the Babuk is available on...

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