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Regulation is liberation: the case for wider Australian space laws
48+ min ago (275+ words) Australia currently has only one piece of specialised space legislation – one that establishes a licensing and permitting regime for launches and returns. A House of Representatives standing committee report has noted that this ‘fails to capture the full life of…...
The autonomous arms race in the Russia???Ukraine war
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (504+ words) For Ukraine, success depends on using asymmetric means wherever possible to defend itself, preserve the lives of its soldiers and maximise the costs imposed on Russia. Now, robot versus robot battles are common. However, Russia has adapted as well. It…...
Spreading AI widely is right. Spreading it recklessly is a gamble
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (678+ words) American gun rights advocates are fond of saying that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, meaning more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens will make society safer....
Legacy technology is a national security threat hiding in plain sight
1+ week, 3+ day ago (223+ words) The problem with legacy technology is not that organisations do not know the risks. It is that no mechanism forces a decision. Ownership is distributed across operators, boards, procurement teams, regulators and ministers until responsibility effectively disappears and unsupported systems…...
Send the data centres north
2+ week, 1+ day ago (186+ words) Northern Australia, with its energy resources, land, proximity to Indo-Pacific markets and rising strategic weight, is where a meaningful share of it should be located. What Australia lacks is a national siting strategy to make that happen. Australia is a…...
Some Chinese AI will go closed-source, but not all
2+ week, 2+ day ago (200+ words) A debate is raging among close observers of Chinese AI: will it stay open-source, or will it close off? The most likely answer is that there’ll be a bit of both. President Xi Jinping seemed to answer the question last…...
Chinese models are on track to win the agentic AI price war
2+ week, 3+ day ago (272+ words) Chinese AI labs have stunned the world, again. In the space of about a month, Chinese AI start-up labs Z.ai and Moonshot have each launched a model that is nearly as intelligent as competitors from OpenAI and Anthropic but far…...
Someone is showing a lot of underwater interest in Indonesia’s straits
2+ week, 3+ day ago (350+ words) Indonesian fishers recovered three curious unidentified underwater objects from the country’s waters in April. First, on 6 April, fishers found a 3.7-metre, torpedo-shaped device north of Gili Trawangan in the Lombok Strait. It bore the logo of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation....
ASPI Defence Conference tackles Australia’s space security risks
3+ week, 2+ day ago (185+ words) Australia has a vast land area and [is a] very promising candidate for a launch site. On the other hand, Japan has good capability for the rocket manufacturing and launching operation. By combining our capability and strength, we can improve…...
Job ads show DeepSeek aims for an AI agent with cybersecurity capabilities
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (259+ words) New job postings from DeepSeek show the Chinese AI lab plans to build an agentic model that can find vulnerabilities in code. These details, buried in a hiring round, show DeepSeek’s new strategy following the attention garnered by a US…...