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. Why you should be more concerned about internet shutdowns (MIT Technology Review)
2. Australia’s move to share defence technology with US fans concerns over weapons’ ultimate use (The Guardian)
3. China has become a laboratory for the regulation of digital technology (The Economist)
4. A.I. Can Now Write Its Own Computer Code. That’s Good News for Humans (The New York Times)
5. Facebook’s Smart Glasses Can Take Calls and Photos, Lack AR (Bloomberg)
6. UK suggests removing human review of AI decisions in data protection laws (The Economist)
7. Project Maven: Amazon & Microsoft Score $50 Million Pentagon Surveillance Contracts As Google Quit (Forbes)
8. TikTok reportedly overtakes YouTube in US average watch time (The Verge)
9. UAE to establish 500 national technology companies (Gulf News)

Sone light reading- The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore