Iran and Niger cemented a secret ‘yellow cake’ uranium deal in late April for the delivery of 300 tons of uranium in exchange for drones-and-surface to air missiles.  

Ukraine has launched an internet-based tool to expose propaganda and help counter Russian disinformation, according to Volodymyr Borodiansky, media executive and former Ukrainian Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports. War of Words uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse over 100,000 hours of video content across Russian political talk shows and news content.    The tool, which is updated daily, tracks everything that has been said on Russian TV, Telegram channels, and RuTube, since 2012. This gives users easy access to a vast archive which can be searched by keyword, and filtered by date, media type, source, program, speaker, and more.…

Sir Iain Duncan Smith is a long serving Tory MP and a vocal critic of the Chinese state. He has been sanctioned by China for describing the treatment of the Uyghur population and other mostly-Muslim ethnic groups in the north-western region of Xinjiang as a “genocide”. In this article, which first appeared on his personal website, Sir Iain discusses the threat currently posed by China and asks whether World War Three has already begun.The threat posed by the axis of totalitarian states is the dog that hasn’t barked during the general election. There are fewer than three weeks to go…

It doesn’t have to be exact numbers, but it’s got to reflect the fact that the DA is a 22% party and not a 2% party. And the fact that the ANC is a 40% party and not a 70% party.

A NATO-style form of collective defence is the best protection against cyber security attacks by hostile states and organised crime gangs, experts have warned. Governments and corporations of all sizes risk losing hundreds of millions of dollars in cyber attacks by hackers weaponising artificial intelligence (AI) to penetrate even the most secure computer systems. Cyber security experts are now urging governments and corporations to work together creating a form of collective self-defence where information on hacks are shared to help protect against future attacks. China, Russia, Iran and North Korea have all been accused of mounting complex cyberattacks against the…

Lagos has a vulnerable population, an attack on a church, mosque, market, or bus stop could result in mass casualties.

China could deploy fully autonomous military weapons onto the battlefield within two years, according to a leading weapons expert. Defence analyst Francis Tusa said China was not hindered by the ethical concerns surrounding so-called killer robots and was developing autonomous weapons systems much faster than any other country. He said that the communist country’s huge investment in military technology meant that the People’s Liberation Army was developing AI-based autonomous weapons four to five times faster than potential adversaries. In an interview with National Security News (NSN), Tusa said: “We’re at the start of a race in truly autonomous systems. “I…

There are voices in both the ANC and the DA, according to an analyst who is not far from each other in the negotiations process. 

Israel must win the battle of ideas if it is to defeat Hamas and bring an end to the fighting in Gaza, a former head of the Israeli Intelligence Service has said. Ami Ayalon, who led the Israeli security agency Shin Bet in 1996 said that it was not enough for Israel to destroy Hamas in battle, it must give the Palestinians the opportunity to embrace a two-state solution. The former intelligence chief dismissed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy of completely destroying Hamas. Instead, Ayalon argued: “We must win the battle of ideas if we are to defeat Hamas. “We…

The former US defense secretary, James Mattis, has warned that America will need to strengthen its military forces to counter the  joint threat from Russia and China. Mattis, a former US Marine Corps general, spoke of the growing nexus between the two autocratic regimes, which is now supported by Iran and North Korea, in a speech focussing on “America’s place in a dangerous world”. The 73-year-old general, who also served as the defence secretary in the Trump administration, spoke out at the same time as Russian President Vladimir Putin was meeting with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to sign…

Negotiators who hunkered down to reach an agreement on the Cabinet and roles in Ramaphosa’s government appear to have hit a deadlock.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a blind spot. It fails to recognise disinformation it creates. This means that it has limitations in the fight against disinformation. Experts have found that AI tools can be tricked when attempting to label machine versus human generated content. Paulius Pakutinskas, university professor and board member of Artificial Intelligence Association of Lithuania, said: “Not everything that is created by AI is recognised by AI.” Experts demonstrated the vulnerability of AI content detectors. Two techniques were presented by Aldan Creo, Technology Research Specialist at Accenture, at The European Dialogue on Internet Governance: Pakutinskas also described his experience…