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Technology & National Security
After Decades of Surveillance, Muslims Struggle with How Much to Share OnlineThirteen years ago, Mosaab Sadeia accompanied his father to a mosque in Staten Island. He remembers it was during the winter, after the last Isha prayer when his father went t...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
TikTok a Year After Trump’s Ban: No Change, but New ThreatsSaturday will mark a year since Donald Trump said he would ban the wildly popular and annoyingly addictive short-video app TikTok from millions of US smartphones, citing threa...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
FBI China spy probe faces backlash as case against professor ends in mistrialAn FBI agent’s admission he baselessly targeted a Chinese Canadian researcher in an economic espionage probe is driving calls for a federal investigation into the Justice Depa...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
China's on a mission to dominate space internetChina is ramping up plans for government-sponsored satellites to beam internet from space, taking on U.S. rivals like SpaceX and Amazon in the race to own the next frontier of...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
Army Trains AI to Identify Faces in the DarkFacial recognition has already come a long way since U.S. Special Operations Forces used the technology to help identify Osama bin Laden after killing the Al-Qaeda leader in h...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
Could Your Electric Vehicle Be Sabotaged?Just as the United States and its companies are pushing to electrify transportation, the nascent industry faces a new threat: In an apparent new form of brinkmanship, leading ...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
TikTok ‘not a great look’ for lawmakers, security experts sayDespite official warnings for nearly a year about the security risks of the Chinese-owned TikTok video-sharing app, several politicians who might be ideal targets for Beijing’...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
Commerce has questions to answer on data access and national securityA teenager in Oklahoma uploads a video of herself mimicking the latest dance craze to an app on her phone. Is that a national security risk? Should the government ban the app?...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
Keeping Close WatchAlarmed by reports of cyberattacks and the growing threat China poses to national security, the United States Congress passed a law in 2018 that would ban any facility operate...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China Thinks It Has Found a Way To Surpass the U.S. Military Through AI, Experts WarnChina is trying to “leapfrog” U.S. superpower strength through increased use of military artificial intelligence. The U.S. and China have increased development of artificial ...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
Ex-Google Boss Says Artificial Intelligence Will Be Key to U.S. National SecurityThe former top executive of Google described artificial intelligence as a linchpin in global power struggles and warned the U.S. could fall behind rivals like China unless it ...
By Ainikki Riikonen & Michael Horowitz
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Technology & National Security
5G: COVID Gives US A 2nd Chance Vs. HuaweiBritain’s decision to ban Huawei from its 5G network marks a potential tipping point in the global battle over 5G, say the authors of a new study from the Center for a New Ame...
By Martijn Rasser & Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
Algorithmic Warfare: Hackers Take Advantage of Mass TeleworkingAdversaries are likely to exploit the widespread movement toward teleworking by government workers and federal contractors during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts warn. Essye M...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
What’s the best way for the Pentagon to invest in artificial intelligence?The Department of Defense is poised to spend nearly $1 billion on artificial intelligence in the next year. The Pentagon’s proposed budget for fiscal 2020 includes some $927 m...
By Ainikki Riikonen