Our Blockchain Future
Blockchain technology has excited corporations, entrepreneurs, and governments with its promise of improved efficiency and security for a wide range of economic, social, and even political applications.
Society,Cyberspace,China
Redcore: Nationalistic Marketing in China and its Backlash
A Chinese start-up claimed to have developed an original web browser Redcore totally on its own and thus to have broken the US monopoly in this area. However, some Chinese engineers found that the browser was actually heavily based on Google’s Chrome browser
Economy,Cyberspace,China
New Technologies to Boost China’s Smart Cities Project
Economy,Society,Cyberspace
How is Art like Bitcoin?
Cyberspace
Economy,Cyberspace,China
Why are Chinese Internet Users Paying for Digital Content?
China’s knowledge sharing platforms have gained popularity recently as celebrities and professionals have started to turn their knowledge into cash and make money from news and digital content.
Cyberspace
Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, and National Security
Some in the intelligence community and private sector solutions providers are advocating artificial intelligence as a solution to resolving cyber security vulnerabilities. Artificial intelligence can greatly improve human capabilities in cyber security.
Security,Cyberspace,East Asia
An Electronic and Cyber Warfare Doctrine to Contain North Korea’s Provocations
Through a strategic doctrine of electronic and cyber warfare containment, it would be possible for certain strategically significant actors to contain North Korea, while other strategically significant actors simultaneously work toward a peaceful resolution to the issue.
Society,Cyberspace
Technology Disruption: Policy Implications for Stakeholders
Technologies are developing very quickly. Many of them have the potential to disrupt the way we live. Policy makers and ordinary individuals both must prepare to manage the disruptions that come with technological development.
Security,Cyberspace
The Global Ransomware Outbreak and the Challenge for Cybersovereignty
Among the victims were Renault and Federal Express, UK hospitals, Chinese universities, Russia’s Ministry of Interior, and Spanish telecommunications and energy companies. The efforts of countries like China to impose law and order on the internet are likely to see an urgent boost.
Cyberspace
The French Presidential Election and the Long War on Fake News
Fake news was a prominent problem in the recent French presidential election campaign. In the days before the first round of the election, researchers from Oxford University found that fake news comprised up to “one-quarter of the political links shared on Twitter in France.”
Security,Cyberspace,Hotspots
Do US Actions in the South China Sea Violate International Law?
The US flies hundreds of ISR missions every year to collect communications between the target country’s command-and-control centers and radar and weapons systems. The initial deployment of the Carl Vinson strike force was to the South China Sea. Are these probes and the deployment a violation of the UN Charter?
Society,Cyberspace
How Is Social Media Shaping Our Perspectives?
Among all internet tools, social media is one of the most powerful platforms that shape our perceptions of ourselves, others, and the world. With increasing internet penetration, what seems to be a virtual world to the older generation is in fact indispensable to the younger generations.
