Russia has notified Turkey, Ukraine and the UN that it will not renew a deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea. Ukrainian wheat production plays a significant role in global …
Context and Lessons on The Deindustrialization of Germany
A recent article in Politico, “Rust belt on the Rhine”, lays out many of the monumental challenges the German economy and society face in the future: The article does not mention the educational …
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NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA)
In the months before the recent 2023 NATO Summit in Lithuania, the NATO's Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) opened its European regional office at the Imperial College …
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Does NATO Need Its Own Cyber Command?
Given the proximity of the conflict to neighboring NATO member states, it is unsurprising that the cyberwar between Russia and Ukraine has extended beyond the borders of the two countries, as state …
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Deep Tech is, by its Very Nature, Speculative Design: The Varda Space Drug Factory (Currently Manufacturing Ritonavir in Low Earth Orbit)
This project is fully operational, but had to start as a rigorous speculative design process – more sci-fi than real world. Until it wasn't. It is representative of the kind of project that will …
The Ukrainian National Cybersecurity Coordination Center on the “First World Cyber War”
The National Cybersecurity Coordination Center (NCCC) is an organization housed within the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and, based on the USAID logo on the front page of some of …
Ripple Labs Wins A Landmark SEC Ruling and Blackrock is Bullish on Cryptocurrency-based Investment Vehicles
AI has crushed cryptocurrency in the recent technology hype cycle, garnering VC and mainstream media attention fast on the heels FTX Sam Bankman-Fried debacle which tarnished the entire …
OODA Salon: Examine The Future of Intelligence and Security
Tuesday 18 July at 4pm Eastern four very experienced national security and intelligence professionals joined in a discussion of the future of intelligence and security informed by last week's INSA and …
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China’s Gallium and Germanium-based Countermeasures in the Global Chip Supply Chain War
As we highlighted during the G7 Summit in Japan in May 2023, Japan plans to challenge China with rare earth metal extraction from seabed by 2024. Geography and geopolitics matter when it comes to …
“We Have No Moat”: Tracking the Exponential Growth of Open Source LLM Performance (Latency and Throughout)
Like the Unix, Solaris, Irix, AIX Open Source operating systems that became the Linux-led open source operating system and the broader open source software movement (over a 30 to 40 year time period) …