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Analysis of AI, semiconductors, cyber operations, software systems, and digital infrastructure as instruments of strategic competition.

The Wires Beneath the Waves: How Submarine Cables Became the Pacific's Contested Terrain

The Wires Beneath the Waves: How Submarine Cables Became the Pacific's Contested Terrain

Taiwan experiences seven to eight cable breaks annually, most linked to China. The pattern reveals how submarine cables have transformed from neutral infrastructure into strategic terrain where great powers contest the physical substrate of the digital world.

The Fragile Thread: Australia's Pacific Communications in a Taiwan Crisis

The Fragile Thread: Australia's Pacific Communications in a Taiwan Crisis

Ninety-seven percent of Pacific data flows through cables China could sever in hours. Australia's island partnerships depend on infrastructure designed for peacetime efficiency, not wartime resilience. The window to build redundancy is closing faster than procurement timelines assume.

The Signals That Drowned Themselves

The Signals That Drowned Themselves

The Address That Wouldn't Die

The Address That Wouldn't Die

The Architecture of Borrowed Trust

The Architecture of Borrowed Trust

The Great Unbundling: Academic Publishing and the Battle for Knowledge in the AI Era

The Great Unbundling: Academic Publishing and the Battle for Knowledge in the AI Era

The Regulatory Chimera: How Cannabis Rescheduling Will Transform Pharmaceutical Research

The Regulatory Chimera: How Cannabis Rescheduling Will Transform Pharmaceutical Research

The move from Schedule I to Schedule III promises to unleash cannabis research, but pharmaceutical companies face a deeper challenge: a plant that resists the very methods the industry uses to prove medicines work.

The Six-Character Skeleton Key

The Six-Character Skeleton Key

A booking code designed in the 1960s still guards the travel identities of billions. The Amadeus vulnerability exposed what the aviation industry has long avoided admitting: its reservation systems were built for a world without hackers, and patching cannot fix architectural assumptions.

The Quiet Rebellion: What ACM's Open Access Shift Reveals About Academic Publishing's Unraveling

The Quiet Rebellion: What ACM's Open Access Shift Reveals About Academic Publishing's Unraveling

The Association for Computing Machinery will make all publications freely accessible by 2026. The decision exposes how concentrated market power created its own opposition—and how the economics of scholarly communication are being rewritten by the institutions that once funded their own...

The Chokepoint Doctrine

The Chokepoint Doctrine

The Apprentice Paradox: Why Tech Leaders Refuse to Replace Junior Developers

The Apprentice Paradox: Why Tech Leaders Refuse to Replace Junior Developers

Tech leaders are resisting AI replacement of junior developers despite proven automation capabilities. The reason reveals a structural truth about how organisations actually produce knowledge—and why eliminating entry-level roles would destroy the pipeline that creates senior talent.

The $1.5 Trillion Bet on a Future That May Never Arrive

The $1.5 Trillion Bet on a Future That May Never Arrive

Tesla's market valuation embeds hundreds of billions in robotaxi expectations. The gap between what markets believe and what technology can deliver reveals how investors process radical uncertainty—and why they may be wrong.