The departure gates at Changi were quiet on the morning of October 18, but the diplomatic weight of what left Singapore that day was anything but. Prime Minister Lawrence Wong boarded for Doha, embarking on his first official visit to…
What happened? A Singaporean woman met a man on Tinder in early 2021. He told her he was a wealthy pilot from Qatar. She believed him, fell for him, and eventually found herself providing sexual services in Dubai to raise…
On a beach in Oslo, a stranger walks past. He wears what looks like an ordinary pair of sunglasses. He does not raise a phone. He does not point a camera. He simply looks, and in that looking, he records.…
When a search engine returns an answer before a user ever clicks a link, the publishers who produced that answer tend to notice the silence where traffic used to be. That silence is precisely what drove Penske Media Corporation and…
There is something quietly telling about a state dinner where one side fills the room with its most powerful corporate names and the other sends only officials. When Chinese President Xi Jinping sat down with US President Donald Trump at…
A Banquet With One Side of the Table Set The White House state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday carries the full weight of superpower theatre — and a telling asymmetry. While an unmistakable constellation of American technology…
At the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was busy promoting his government’s technology reform agenda when a reporter interrupted the moment with an uncomfortable question: why had Washington just accused Canberra of facilitating…
Residents across the United States are mounting a sustained and increasingly sophisticated campaign against Flock Safety’s automated licence plate reader cameras — devices that photograph passing vehicles, log their location and timestamp, and render that data searchable by law enforcement…
A Fragile Truce, a Looming Summit Trade frictions between the world’s two largest economies are set to dominate global attention next week, as US President Donald Trump prepares to host Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the White House — an…
The consensus is forming, and it is uncomfortable for those who built it: voluntary AI governance has run its course. Britain’s Parliament has long operated on the assumption that a flexible, non-statutory approach to artificial intelligence — a patchwork of…
