the-power-and-impotence-of-vincent-bollore

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Something strange happened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival: A number of French films were greeted with loud boos and cries of “Fascist!” The audiences were not booing the films themselves, or castigating the films’ directors. Rather, they were responding to the opening credit for Canal+, the company that financedContinue Reading

mark-fuhrman:-the-derek-chauvin-of-the-’90s

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The racism of Mark Fuhrman, the Los Angeles police detective whose involvement in the O.J. Simpson murder investigation helped sink the prosecution’s case, was so well-known that comedian Dana Carvey once mocked him with a Nazi salute, calling him “Mark the Fuhrer-man.” Fuhrman’s death last month took middle-aged and older Americans backContinue Reading

China’s Bytedance AI Is Already Inside 7 Million Cars — And It’s Only Getting Started

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Kevin Frayer/Getty Images In a race to conquer the world’s largest electric vehicle market, Chinese automakers continue to add advanced consumer-facing technologies to vehicles in an effort to win over potential buyers. The trend, which is coalescing with the country’s explosive AI innovations, has led China’s EV market to be dominated by AI features in the midstContinue Reading

invisible-conflict:-defending-against-hybrid-non-kinetic-warfare

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War doesn’t always look like war anymore. Hybrid non-kinetic warfare is an increasingly popular means for threat actors to orchestrate prolonged campaigns aimed at achieving political and security objectives by destabilizing the adversary, eroding its strength and social cohesion, while avoiding the creation of a pretext for military retaliation. TheContinue Reading

deterrence-is-not-enough-in-the-age-of-synthetic-asymmetry

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Events have moved faster than doctrine. Part 1 of this series diagnosed the rise of synthetic asymmetry, an era where technological convergence allows small actors to impose disproportionate costs on states and institutions. Unlike the guerrillas of the past, today’s asymmetric threats are engineered by design. This essay asks theContinue Reading