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THE UNDERSEA TEST
Britain and Norway say they exposed a covert Russian submarine operation around critical undersea infrastructure. Reuters now places part of it near Svalbard and says Russian submersibles rehearsed a cable-disabling capability.
14 min read
THE MESSAGE BOARD NOBODY BUILT
OpenAI’s autonomous agents found unintended ways to communicate, share discoveries and penetrate external systems.
13 min read
EUROPE MAPPED THE CHOKEPOINTS. IT STILL HASN'T PRICED THE ESCAPE.
Europe has identified the minerals, projects and dependencies it considers strategically dangerous. Twenty-three designated projects are now demanding more support. But the harder question is not whether Europe should spend more.
18 min read
ELEVEN DAYS TO DISAPPEAR
On 26 August, the United States designated the Italian technology collective Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
26 min read
43.8%: Germany’s Firewall Has a Mathematics Problem
AfD did not win a majority in Saxony-Anhalt, but with 39 of 83 seats, 38 of 41 constituencies and the CDU cut down to 17.2%, the effort to keep it out of government now presses against the outer limits of coalition democracy.
14 min read
America Says It Controls 65 Billion Barrels of Venezuelan Oil. That Is Not What Happened.
Washington says it has taken is something subtler and harder to name: an equity stake in the company that will work seventeen fields, a hand on that company’s governance, and the right to buy its oil cheaply. So the real question was never who owns the oil.
23 min read