Monday’s Must Read List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. DOD awards $1B contract to Peraton to counter misinformation (FedScoop)
2. Russian Hypersonic Technology Expert Accused of High Treason (Militray.com)
3. CCTV watchdog criticises Hikvision Uyghur response (BBC News)
4. The UN climate report pins hopes on carbon removal technologies that barely exist (MIT Technology Review)
5. Militaries plunder science fiction for technology ideas, ignore the genre’s social commentary (The Conversation)
6. Is technology making us immoral? (VOX)
7. Galileo Project: scientists to search for signs of extraterrestrial technology (The Guardian)
8. Virtual Reality Is the Rich White Kid of Technology (WIRED)
9. Israel begins investigation into NSO Group spyware abuse (MIT Technology Review)
10. Spyware: Rights experts push for surveillance technology moratorium (UN News)

Some light reading- Hitchcock, by Francois Truffaut