In 2005, cell phones were banned for the first time during the conclave, the process by which the Catholic Church elects its new pope. Twenty years later, after the death of Pope Francis, the election process is underway again. Authorities have two priorities: to protect the integrity of those attendingContinue Reading
Just three months into the Trump administration’s promised crackdown on immigration to the United States, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement now has a $30 million contract with Palantir to build a “near-real time” surveillance platform called ImmigrationOS that would track information about people self-deporting (electing to leave the US). Meanwhile, theContinue Reading
Last month, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio announced partnerships with Starlink to provide satellite-facilitated internet connectivity in India, probably speeding the conclusion of Starlink’s five-year journey to enter the Indian market. The internet service provider (ISP) space in India is already hyper-consolidated, with Airtel and Jio accounting for 81 percentContinue Reading
Best MicroSD Cards Photograph: Amazon Many security cameras support local storage, enabling you to record videos on the camera or a linked hub. A few hubs have built-in storage, and some provide slots for hard drives, but most rely on microSD cards. Here are some details on what to lookContinue Reading
On April 14, the defense website IHS Janes reported that Russia is seeking permission from Indonesia to station several long range aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) at the Manuhua Air Force Base on Biak island in the Indonesian province of West Papua. The news broke just as Russia’sContinue Reading
Since February of this year, the activities of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) around Taiwan appear to have intensified. First, from February 1 to March 31, the PLA conducted up to eight “joint combat readiness patrols.” On April 1 and 2, the PLA conducted military exercises around Taiwan for twoContinue Reading
The recent spate of high-profile attacks, including the Jaffer Express’ hijacking in March, by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), points to its evolution from a group of guerrillas operating in the mountains to an urban guerrilla movement. One of the deadliest Baloch insurgent groups, the BLA has not only improvedContinue Reading
A survey from last November found that 34.7 percent of Taiwanese believed that being pro-United States would provoke China to invade Taiwan. Although the number decreased by 6.5 points from 2023, these figures are alarming. They show that many Taiwanese people are misreading the conditions under which China would launchContinue Reading
Chinese researchers have unveiled a new deep-sea tool capable of cutting through the world’s most secure subsea cables − and it has many in the West feeling a little jittery. The development, first revealed in February 2025 in the Chinese-language journal Mechanical Engineering, was touted as a tool for civilianContinue Reading
In an eleventh-hour scramble before a key contract was set to expire on Tuesday night, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency renewed its funding for the longtime software-vulnerability-tracking project known as the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Program. Managed by the nonprofit research-and-development group MITRE, the CVE Program isContinue Reading
