The deal exacerbates the threat to Australia without committing the United States to containing China.

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Another Trump presidency, another FBI director firing

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.

Under extraordinary pressures and uncertainties, the process was not likely to deliver what many expected or hoped for.

Will the Senate even get to vote on Trump’s bizarre national security nominees?

A review of  “Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter” and “Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History.”

The National Security Memo on AI carries grave risk of entrenching power within a few AI companies and steering AI development toward militaristic ends.

Who we are, what we do, and why we’re asking for your support.

Thanks to U.S. government requirements for tapping capabilities in phone switches, the Chinese have likely compromised wiretap orders.

The Defense Department faces inherent First Amendment limitations in its efforts to counter extremism within its ranks.

Trump will have to convince companies like Apple and Oracle that he can protect them from the law.