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China's Private-Sector Botnets Are Worth Disrupting
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare. -
Lawfare Daily: Mike Schmidt Talks CHIPS and U.S. Industrial Policy
In this episode of the Security Economics podcast series Mike Schmidt discusses the CHIPS Act. -
Open-Weight Diplomacy: How China’s AI Models Are Rerunning the Digital Silk Road
China's “free” AI models are rerunning Huawei’s telecom playbook: Give the weights away, sell the stack around it, own the dependency. -
Rational Security: The "Whale of a Tale" Edition
Scott Anderson, Molly Roberts, Eric Columbus, and Renée DiResta to talked through the week’s big domestic news stories. -
Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 4
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation surrounding the Trump administration. -
The ‘Covered List’: A Fraud Claimed ‘National Security’
A tool built to block Huawei and Hikvision now bans drones, routers, and solar inverters—undermining the security it was meant to protect. -
Lawfare Daily: Peter Salib on the Legal and Policy Ramifications of the OpenAI-Hugging Face Postmortems
What does the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident mean for the broader AI evaluation ecosystem? -
AIs as Modern Genies
With AI we have built genies. Old stories told us how this goes. -
Search Warrants for Election Materials Get Their Day in Court
The California Supreme Court has a chance to emphasize that the criminal justice system isn’t built to “double-check” election results. -
Persistent Engagement and the Illusion of Cyber Equilibrium
Strategies built to disrupt cyber adversaries may impose costs but are unlikely to lead to long-term stability. -
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 1
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The Supreme Court’s Ballroom Non-Decision
The Court avoided the merits of Trump’s ballroom fight by leaning on aesthetic standing—and left the doctrine murkier than before. -
Governance by Shakedown
How the administration converts legal pretexts into coercive leverage—and why the tactic works even when courts say no. -
White House Unveils Program to Authorize Private-Sector Cyber Surveillance and Disruption Operations
The Aug. 12 presidential memorandum directing the creation of a private-sector hacking program raises novel questions for participants. -
Scaling Laws: Building AI Assurance Ecosystem
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Lawfare Daily: How Terrorist Groups are Using Artificial Intelligence
Discussing the risk of catastrophic AI-enabled terrorism. -
Lawfare Live: Supreme Court Allows White House Ballroom Construction to Continue
Watch the live discussion at 11am ET on September 1. -
White House Releases Executive Order Declaring a National Emergency Regarding the Electrical Grid
The order authorizes the secretary of energy to prohibit transactions with foreign entities deemed to be national security risks. -
The “GEC Files” Don’t Show a Censorship Operation
The State Department promised proof of a vast censorship scheme. The documents Sarah Rogers released show something else entirely. -
The First Amendment Problems With Meta’s $17 Billion Deal
Meta's settlement includes some social media speech restrictions that states can't directly impose.
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Zombie Formalism in Luxembourg
A CJEU ruling on driving-app data and online pornography quietly guts the EU's Section 230 equivalent—and the court owes Europe an explanation it hasn't given. -
Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 18
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Rational Security: The “Worlds Colliding” Edition
Scott Anderson, Kevin Frazier, Roger Parloff, and Ariane Tabatabai talked through the week’s big national security news stories.
