The United States has been working to codify the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative that focuses on six strategic pillars: improving AI innovation, advancing trustworthy AI, creating new education and training opportunities through AI, improving existing...
Statement of Boston Global Forum on Russia and Ukraine
Boston, 02/20/2022 We, the Boston Global Forum (BGF), an organization dedicated to promoting a more peaceful world through its World Leader for Peace and Security Award (its recipients have been Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chancellor Angela Merkel, UN Secretary-General...
Firm calls Europe a leader in cybersecurity enforcement
An ABI Research press release says: "Europe is emerging as a global leader in national cybersecurity enforcement. The European Union (EU) and countries connected to the Council of Europe and the European Economic Area, including Norway and Switzerland, have...
NATO members very weak on defending themselves from Russian cyberattacks
The New York Times reports that "there is a widespread recognition that the Western alliance has yet to develop a strategy'' to counter Russia’s increasingly aggressive actions against NATO members in cyberspace. "While there are frequent conferences and...
‘Anonymous’ launches more hack attacks on ISIS
The Guardian reports that "'Anonymous' has launched another wave of hacking attacks against Islamic State (ISIS), taking over social-media accounts associated with the group and giving them an LGBT-flavored makeover.'' "The loose hacking collective, which grew...
Clinton campaign: No sign that hackers got into its computers
(June 21st, 2016) Bloomberg News reported on June 17 that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign said, in Bloomberg's paraphrase, that "there’s no sign that hackers have broken into its computer systems, but it’s well aware that Russian cyber operatives may be...
U.S. emphasizes it will keep Black Sea military presence
U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said that the United States will maintain its military presence in the Black Sea despite, in Reuters's words, "a Russian warning that a U.S. destroyer patrolling there undermined regional security.'' The USS Porter entered the...
America’s ‘gun-control terror gap’
The Guardian looks at the "gun-control terror gap'' in the United States, which the news organization defines as "the notion of a legislative hole whereby U.S. citizens can purchase deadly firearms even if they are under investigation for suspected terrorist...