7+ hour, 19+ min ago   (355+ words) ASPI has now expanded its globally recognised China Defence Universities Tracker to include Hong Kong and Macau. In doing so, it finds that several universities in these two special administrative regions (SARs) now work closely with Chinese defence and space…...

14+ hour, 45+ min ago   (272+ words) In 1942, scientists working on what became the Manhattan Project confronted a disturbing possibility: could an atomic explosion become hot enough to ignite a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in the atmosphere? They took the question seriously and did the physics. Hans Bethe,…...

1+ day, 15+ min ago   (362+ words) If there’s one thing we hope attendees take away from ASPI’s Sydney Dialogue AI Masterclass, it’s to reflect on whether we’re prepared for artificial intelligence that is smarter than us. That, after all, is what people at the frontier anticipate…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (482+ words) The argument in Washington over the past few months over the past few months has been about whether to ban Chinese AI models or restrict them. What has been less examined is what Beijing intends to do with the open-weight…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (354+ words) Militaries rarely lose because they lack courage; they lose because they misread a moment. They lose because they categorise a disruptive technology as an incremental one, and by the time they see the error, the strategic advantage has already been…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (615+ words) It’s no secret that data centres need a large amount of power and water. What is less discussed is the security needed to ensure those supplies and other support services keep flowing to the data centres. Yet they’re under constant…...

5+ day, 15+ min ago   (161+ words) AI is changing how states operationalise their cyber capabilities. In North Korea’s case, it’s transforming the country into a bigger cyber power by helping Pyongyang expand what it already does: generate revenue, obtain trusted access and collect intelligence at extraordinary…...

6+ day, 14+ min ago   (676+ words) Casual observers of Venezuelan politics might have assumed that the US capture and removal of former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in January would guarantee the dismantling of his authoritarian regime and a rupture with Beijing. After all, Donald Trump declared…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (574+ words) The Royal Australian Air Force could increase pilot training capacity, reduce costs and make more efficient use of resources by using high-performance turboprop aircraft alongside jet trainers in the fighter training pipeline. The RAAF’s present ability to deliver pilots is…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (502+ words) Southeast Asia has quietly become the world’s largest manufacturing hub for financial fraud, and it’s no longer a distant problem for Australians. The scam economy operating out of Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and the Philippines is already reaching into Australian bank…...