The European Union’s (EU) AI Act (AIA) aspires to establish the first comprehensive regulatory scheme for artificial intelligence, but its impact will not stop at the EU’s borders. In fact, some EU policymakers believe it is a critical goal of the AIA to set a...
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...
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...
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...
(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. 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...
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...
51 U.S. mid- to high-level diplomats have signed an internal memo critical of U.S. policy in Syria. They call for military strikes against President/Dictator Bashar Assad's government to stop its persistent violations of a civil war ceasefire. The memo calls...