The Secure World Foundation published its Global Counterspace Capabilities 2026 report in April, and the cyber chapter deserves more attention than it will probably get. For nine years, SWF has produced one of the best open source assessments of how states are developing the tools to disrupt, deny, degrade, or
There is a particular kind of announcement that lands quietly, even when it shouldn't. Anthropic's release of Claude Mythos Preview on 7 April was one of those. No product launch, no livestream: a controlled disclosure to a handful of vetted companies, a 240-page system card, and
When I started researching Swarm, I didn't plan to make a podcast. A couple of years in, it started to feel like the perfect format to help tell the story as well. Some of this material works better when you hear it. The actual beep of Sputnik. Engineers
On 7 April 2026, Anthropic published a 240-page system card for a model called Claude Mythos and, in the same breath, announced that it would not make the model generally available. The reason is not that it failed. The reason is that it was too good at finding and exploiting
March 2026 | San Francisco RSA Conference 2026 is in full swing in San Francisco, and the Moscone Center is doing what it does every year: pulling in tens of thousands of security professionals, vendors, analysts, and policymakers from across the globe. The conversations inside are in full flow. The keynotes
At a moment when great power competition has returned as the organising logic of international security, when artificial intelligence is reshaping how militaries decide and act, and when the political systems of the West are under pressures their architects did not anticipate, it is worth returning to a book that
Most tools that track grey zone and hybrid conflict stop at the edge of the atmosphere. They cover maritime harassment, proxy operations, cyber intrusions, electronic warfare on the ground. Some do it well. But the moment a conflict extends into orbital space, the picture goes dark. Satellite proximity operations, space-based
Ambiguity. That's the weapon of choice in orbit right now. Not missiles, not kinetic kill vehicles, not the explosive ASAT tests that generate headlines and debris fields. The real contest for space superiority is being fought with manoeuvres that could be maintenance or could be rehearsals for attack,
Offence. That’s the word that defines what the White House released on 6 March 2026. Not resilience, not defence, not cooperation. Offence. It was also released quietly, with remarkably little fanfare, while Washington’s attention was fixed elsewhere: the expanding US-Israel conflict with Iran, which by then had already
If Day 1 at Mobile World Congress confirmed that space is being woven into the fabric of mobile networks, Day 2 showed something harder to headline but arguably more important: the ecosystem around that shift is broader, more layered, and accelerating faster than most public commentary acknowledges. This is no
Mobile World Congress 2026 kicked off this week, and walking the halls on the first day, it was clear that a pattern had quickly emerged. Satellite connectivity is no longer being marketed as a niche solution for remote villages or maritime users. It is being embedded into the core architecture
Thirty-seven years. That’s how long Ali Khamenei held the Islamic Republic together, through sanctions, proxy wars, nuclear brinkmanship, and wave after wave of popular uprising. He survived an assassination attempt that cost him the use of his right arm. He survived Saddam. He survived the Green Movement, the Mahsa