Mark Lacy

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away

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Risk of AI bioweapons laid bare by flaw in security software, scientists warn Researchers find vulnerability in screening that guards access to dangerous genetic material

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Zelensky says a destructive drone arms race looms – but dystopia isn’t inevitable The new age of drones and AI may be terrifying, but there are reasons for thinking the dystopian possibilities of future war will be contained.

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Zelensky says a destructive drone arms race looms – but dystopia isn’t inevitable The new age of drones and AI may be terrifying, but there are reasons for thinking the dystopian possibilities of future war will be contained.

The new age of drones and AI may be terrifying, but there are reasons for thinking the dystopian possibilities of future war will be contained.

Drone attacks leave Denmark exposed - and searching for response In an era of hybrid warfare, there is a sense of embarrassment that Denmark's critical infrastructure has become vulnerable.

Europe is in a moment of runaway geopoliticization. There are clear dangers in this, from misattribution to empowering private attention enterpreneurs to feel they can become geopolitical actors.

Hybrid warfare is a dangerously loose concept.

Yet not completely wrong...

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The Promises and Pitfalls of AI in Wargaming AI offers significant potential to enhance predictive and training functions in wargaming, but harnessing it will require investment in significant human capabilities in the loop

AI offers significant potential to enhance predictive and training functions in wargaming, but harnessing it will require investment in significant human capabilities in the loop, writes Robert Tollast.

Japan set to make subsea cables a national security issue with support for new fleet Subsidies planned for country’s leading undersea cable provider to buy ships as demand grows for more data links to power AI

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AI-controlled drone swarms set to transform combat on battlefield The latest iteration of flying robot warfare, unmanned weapons co-ordinate to overwhelm enemy defences

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Denial Won’t Do: Europe Needs a Punishment-Based Conventional Counterstrike Strategy Explosions over Kyiv and other Ukrainian population centers are daily reminders that Russia’s missiles can reach deep and strike hard. Beyond the

Europe won’t deter Russia with a shield that can’t hold.

What’s the Deal with U.F.O.s? Scientists consider whether we’ve been visited by aliens or their technology.

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After reading those chapters I can’t wait to continue reading…and it’s so vivid and funny it might make an enjoyable transreal Netflix rom com about grief and aging….but let’s see where the story goes….looking forward to October…

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"Revisiting the ‘darker side’ of democratic peace: Morgenthau, reflexivity, and the role of scholars in times of deception " by Haro L. Karkour is now available #OpenAccess!

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Lasers, hypersonic missiles and the ‘nuclear triad’: China flexes its military muscle Xi Jinping presided over a parade showcasing the latest weaponry in Beijing’s arsenal

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How AI models can optimise for malice Researchers have discovered an alarming new phenomenon they are calling ‘emergent misalignment’

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Military Gaming to Stay Ahead, But Not the Kind You Think Over nearly 40 years in uniform, I saw war shift from the massed battles we braced for in the Cold War, to pinpoint strikes on terrorists, and now to a

Rivals are already using gaming to train for war. Is America keeping pace?

Ursula von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS interference Officials suspect jamming operation forced jet carrying European Commission president to land in Bulgaria using paper maps

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Spectacular Drone Strikes and the Future Sanctuary of the U.S. Homeland - War on the Rocks How vulnerable is the continental United States to drone attack? Could a wily adversary cause vast destruction of military assets on U.S. soil at a

For centuries, oceans shielded the continental United States. New drone tactics suggest that sanctuary may be eroding.

Golden Dome’s Gamble: Can Industry Move Fast Enough to Matter? - War on the Rocks In 2019, China's military showcased a hypersonic ballistic missile reportedly capable of breaching existing anti-missile shields. The question facing U.S.

The science works. The real test is whether U.S. factories can keep up.

Inside Russia’s Shadow Military Sustaining the War - War on the Rocks “The Nevsky Battalion is accepting volunteers.” This recruitment ad appeared on Russian social media in summer 2025 and is hardly a one-off. Swap out

Who’s really carrying the fight for Russia in Ukraine?

I think a bundle option with an art print of the cover/other art you created alongside the book could be popular…

The race to stop mirror organisms If created, these versions of the building blocks of life could lead to environmental and ecological disaster

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Is Warfare Becoming More Performative? - War on the Rocks In the span of three weeks this June, the world witnessed three extraordinary military operations: Ukraine’s decimation of Russia’s strategic bomber

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A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to researchers who studied it following its crash landing. cnn.it/4fEibXC

A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.

Interesting article by Paul Bloom in NEW YORKER. Is AI about to "solve" loneliness? Loneliness is bigger for oldsters than for the young. Like when your friends and family are dead, and you don't have a job, and you have trouble going out. Talk to ChatGPT? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Afghanistan data leak will haunt British politics for years Both this government and the last are implicated in a cover-up that will cost the UK billions

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What is llm? How does the new AI work? Where are we going? Conversation with my dead friend John Walker. From before he died. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2023/12...

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

Billionaires driving warming more than all of commercial Heathrow. How consistent with their destructive data farms and pipelines, megayachts and fake "intelligence." A plague on billionaires.