2026-10-26 18:01ANTIFAAntifa: Research DigestThe antifa and antifascist movement worldwide is having a moment that is not centered in the United States. In France, a student movement over underfunded schools has met…2026-10-26 12:17CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News: Research DigestThe headline this week is PHP2Shell: two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language that powers an estimated 70 percent of websites, disclosed on October 2…2026-10-25 18:01CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News: Research DigestOctober 2026's third week was one of those weeks where the cybersecurity news stops being about individual breaches and starts being about the collapse of trust in the in…2026-10-25 03:01WORLD REPORTWorld Report: Research DigestThe world is not standing still while the major conflicts dominate the headlines. France is deploying 70,000 police and military personnel across its cities as hundreds o…2026-10-22 18:00CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News, Research DigestQ3 2026 set a new record for claimed ransomware attacks (2,627, the highest quarter ever recorded), and the story behind that number is a ransomware ecosystem that has ab…2026-10-22 03:00CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News, Research DigestThe cybersecurity story of late 2026 is defined by three converging trends that make the threat landscape materially worse: high-severity vulnerabilities are being exploi…2026-10-21 18:00ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestThe Trump administration's designation of "antifa" as a domestic terrorist organization (an executive order with no legal basis under U.S. law, since there is no process …2026-10-21 03:00WORLD INTELGeopolitical World Intel, Research DigestThe central geopolitical story of October 2026 is the collision between energy security and great-power positioning, and the center of gravity is the Persian Gulf. The U.…2026-10-20 23:15WORLD INTELGeopolitical World Intel, Research DigestThe great-power picture in October 2026 is defined by an accelerating collision between two structural trends: the deepening China-Russia "no-limits" alignment (with Chin…2026-10-20 18:00WORLD INTELGeopolitical World Intel, Research DigestModern Diplomacy (Oct 19, 2026): On October 16, President Trump waived a sweeping slate of Russia energy sanctions days before they were due to take effect, under a law h…2026-10-20 03:00CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News, Research DigestThe Hacker News (September 30, 2026): Police in Spain arrested a 16-year-old suspected of running the KillSec ransomware group, one of three people arrested when police a…
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