Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- DOD awards $1B contract to Peraton to counter misinformation (FedScoop)
- Russian Hypersonic Technology Expert Accused of High Treason (Militray.com)
- CCTV watchdog criticises Hikvision Uyghur response (BBC News)
- The UN climate report pins hopes on carbon removal technologies that barely exist (MIT Technology Review)
- Militaries plunder science fiction for technology ideas, ignore the genre’s social commentary (The Conversation)
- Is technology making us immoral? (VOX)
- Galileo Project: scientists to search for signs of extraterrestrial technology (The Guardian)
- Virtual Reality Is the Rich White Kid of Technology (WIRED)
- Israel begins investigation into NSO Group spyware abuse (MIT Technology Review)
- Spyware: Rights experts push for surveillance technology moratorium (UN News)
Some light reading- Hitchcock, by Francois Truffaut