Boston Global Forum (BGF) announced the Rebuilding Ukraine Program in the conference honoring President Zelensky and all Ukrainian people as 2022 BGF World Leader for Peace and Security. BGF and Michael Dukakis Institute honored Ukraine by “Remaking Ukraine – Toward...
As computing systems become more actively involved in societally essential areas such as healthcare, education, and government, it is crucial to accurately forecast and comprehend these interventions’ causal repercussions. Traditional machine learning algorithms based...
Hackers, presumably directed by the Chinese government, have attacked the Web site of Vietnam's two biggest airports and its national airline, Vietnam Airlines, with pro-Chinese messages about China's attempts to take control of most of the South China Sea. The...
Google will point Web searches toward anti-radicalization Web sites after a study shows more clearly than before the role of the search engine, rather than social media, in drawing people to extremist material on the Web. The study is one of the first to...
Bloomberg reported July 27 that experts had warned the Democratic National Committee last fall that its computer network was open to attacks by state-sponsored and other hackers but it didn’t follow the cyberexperts' security advice. The revelation is...
Bloomberg reports that cybersecurity "is the biggest concern for companies evaluating risk in the nascent self-driving vehicle industry, according to a survey conducted by Munich Re.'' The reinsurer found that "55 percent of corporate risk managers surveyed...
Emperor Akihito. The Japanese government has begun work to revise the law governing the imperial family system to permit an emperor to abdicate. Emperor Akihito wants to abdicate, government sources have said. He has been treated for prostate cancer and heart...
Paul Barrett writes in Bloomberg: "A lawsuit filed against Facebook Inc. on behalf of terrorism victims in Israel illustrates some of the complications of going to court to remedy violent radicalism.'' "Lawyers for the victims sued Facebook in Manhattan federal...