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Acceptance Speech by Audrey Tang

Acceptance Speech by Audrey Tang

Cyber Ambassador of Taiwan Recipient of the World Leader in AI World Society Award Harvard University, Loeb House – 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA April 22, 2025 | 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT Governor Dukakis, Co-Chairs Mr. Tuan and Professor Patterson, distinguished...

NATO and Afghans make progress against the Taliban

  U.S. and other NATO forces, working with an increasingly  well trained and effective Afghan military, are making considerable progress against the Taliban insurgency. The Washington Post reports: "The operations are part of a broader effort by Afghan forces,...

The Manila connection with Bangladesh cyberheist

Downtown Manila. This Reuters report looks at where money stolen by Bangladesh Bank hackers went. Much of the money  disappeared into the Manila's casino industry, where it has been so far  impossible to track. To read the article, please hit this link....

Trump says some NATO allies might not be defended

  Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump says that if he is elected U.S. president,  America will  not necessarily come to the aid of a NATO ally under attack {most likely by Russia}. He said that such aid might depend on   how much  that ally has...

Taiwan knew about Nixon’s ‘secret’ diplomacy with China

Contrary to the long-accepted assertions of  officials who served in the Nixon administration, President Nixon's "secret'' diplomacy to establish ties with Mao Zedong's China was well known to Taiwanese officials as the diplomacy, mostly conducted from the U.S. side...

Finding future criminals through algorithms

This Bloomberg story looks  at how a man trains computers to find future criminals through algorithms. The article says: "Risk scores, generated by algorithms, are an increasingly common factor in sentencing. Computers crunch data—arrests, type of crime committed, and...

IMF cuts growth forecasts after Brexit vote

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union has "thrown a spanner in the works" of its global economic growth forecast. The IMF's 2017 growth forecast  for the U.K. has been slashed  to 1.3 percent...