Marie Lamensch
@marielamensch.bsky.social
Intl' affairs, human rights, global security, digital authoritarianism and emerging technologies expert/consultant. CIGI, Chaire Raoul Dandurand, and founder of upcoming Montreal Institute for Global Security.
The Pentagon says it used Grok in strikes on Iran Its AI chief said it helped fire over 2,000 munitions. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Musk’s AI, Grok, was used in strikes in Iran, reveals Pentagon
A model derived from Grok, the 'Grok Gov Model,' is being used in a US military AI-assisted targeting program, according to the Pentagon.
lemonde.fr
Chinese regulators are dramatically intensifying tech enforcement www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
‘Not a crackdown’: China regulators eye neutral enforcement in shift from 2021
Increased scrutiny of tech giants and finance firms seen as end to the era of administrative restraint as officials move to curb monopolies and price wars.
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German cybersecurity journalist Marc Hofer uncovered an unsecured prototype Chinese policing dashboard titled Dynamic Control Platform for Overseas Personnel. www.smh.com.au/world/asia/t...
The mysterious database that tracks foreigners’ every move
The discovery of an unsecured Chinese policing dashboard shows how authorities track people of interest.
smh.com.au
‘It is pretty hard to make the argument this is driven by foreign influence when you are dealing with people in sometimes very small communities showing up at town hall meetings angry about things directly affecting them.’ www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Amid data center protests, a billionaire and the Trump administration see a foreign plot
Claims by a billionaire TV star and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that China and overseas propaganda drive American protests against data centers are based on scant evidence.
washingtonpost.com
Military strikes on water facilities in Iran may constitute a war crime, experts say www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Military strikes on water facilities in Iran may constitute a war crime, experts say
Strikes on Bemani damaged key water reservoir for 20,000 people living in area amid a historic drought in the country
theguardian.com
Tiny Drones in Ukraine Are Destroying Tanks An inside look at Ukraine’s burgeoning drone revolution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMnG...
Tiny Drones in Ukraine Are Destroying Tanks | GZERO World
YouTube video by GZERO Media
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La projection de films gays à l’Institut français de Pékin victime des pressions des autorités chinoises
La projection de films gays à l’Institut français de Pékin victime des pressions des autorités chinoises
Malgré un accord réciproque assurant une liberté de programmation au sein des instituts culturels, des agents de police chinois se sont rendus en personne sur place pour intimider des employés afin d’obtenir l’annulation des séances.
lemonde.fr
Everything is this title tells you everything about Musk and Robinson. Tommy Robinson meets Elon Musk’s father in Moscow www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Tommy Robinson meets Elon Musk’s father in Moscow
Activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, shared video of his meeting with Errol Musk
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Another interesting recent report, this time on disinformation in political advertising in the UK from Reform Political Advertising reformpoliticaladvertising.org/wp-content/u...
I do not think that people should be on a website owned by this man
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 3mo agoFascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
"Xinjiang atrocities: New reporting by the Financial Times maps the extensive network of prisons and detention facilities in Xinjiang, revealing the continued mass incarceration of Uyghurs." www.ft.com/content/119d...
How China is breaking apart a people and its culture
The campaign of repression against the Uyghurs has entered a new phase
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AI is no longer just a tool of military innovation; it is becoming a defining factor in geopolitical power, with major implications for international security, civilian protection and democratic oversight. Here is my new article for CIGI www.cigionline.org/articles/ai-...
AI at War: What the Ongoing Conflicts Reveal About Power, Technology and Ethics
As AI reshapes modern warfare, the gap between capability and governance grows more dangerous by the day.
cigionline.org
The only thing Trump is good at is corruption. finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...
Trump traded over $50 million in 'Magnificent 7' stocks last quarter, loading up on Apple and Google and selling Tesla
President Trump made 94 different trades of 'Magnificent 7' stocks in the first quarter of 2026, a new ethics disclosure shows, executing millions of dollars in transactions even as he was meeting wit...
finance.yahoo.com
As much as the Strait of Hormuz has impacted the global economy, “these hiccups are nothing compared to the effects of a serious disruption to the flow of chips from Taiwan.” substack.com/redirect/2ec...
Taiwan’s chips power the global economy. China holds the leverage
Big Tech’s reliance on TSMC makes the China-Taiwan dispute the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoint, says writer Eyck Freymann ahead of this week’s Xi-Trump meeting in Beijing.
substack.com
“It’s a simple proposition: Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...
Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
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« Putin knows he can’t live up to the mythology he created, and everyone else can see that too. » www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Putin’s War Comes Home to Moscow
He can no longer hide the consequences from the Russian public.
theatlantic.com
AI’s next phase plays into TSMC’s hands www.wsj.com/tech/ais-nex...
Not frightening at all... ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App
A DHS official and another person who attended a recent conference described the plans to 404 Media.
404media.co
Why the EU sees Chinese solar tech as a major security risk. Europe‘s reliance on Chinese green tech creates compounding economic and national security vulnerabilities www.dw.com/en/why-the-e...
Why the EU sees Chinese solar tech as a major security risk
Europe's solar boom is powered by Chinese technology. But experts warn Chinese-made tech could threaten the continent's safety and even create blackouts. Now, Brussels is aiming to reduce its dependen...
dw.com
Of course China has hit out at the government of Eswatini for hosting a visit from Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te. apnews.com/article/taiw...
Taiwan's president says state visits are 'basic right' after trip he says Beijing tried to block
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said state visits are a basic right of governments after returning from a three-day trip to Eswatini that Taiwan's government says China tried to block.
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China dominates transformative technologies market in Africa. Huawei has built around 70% of the continent’s 4G networks www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
🟡 Semafor Africa: Power problems | Semafor
In this edition: Kenya’s stalled data center, a DRC-Zambia power link, and Bobi Wine’s literary influences.
semafor.com
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat www.wired.com/story/super-...
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.
wired.com
Some European countries have been developing a new drone doctrine built on Ukraine’s battlefield experience and Taiwan’s high-tech components thediplomat.com/2026/04/chin...
China’s Sanctions Hit Europe’s Emerging Drone Doctrine
Several European countries have been quietly developing a new drone doctrine built on both Ukraine’s battlefield experience and Taiwan’s high-tech components. China is trying to sever that link.
thediplomat.com
Worrying news if true. #RightsCon, world’s largest human rights gathering, cancelled due to alleged Chinese pressure. It was so sudden and last minute that the allegations could indeed be true. safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/worl...
World’s largest human rights gathering cancelled due to alleged Chinese pressure
RightsCon 2026, the worlds largest annual gathering of human rights and democracy activists has been cancelled at the very last minute, allegedly due to pressure from the Chinese government. The gathe...
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Beijing is learning a lot from Iran’s Hormuz Strait closure and how it could apply Tehran’s methods to a future conflict with the U.S. over Taiwan. thediplomat.com/2026/04/watc...
Watching Iran, China Hopes to Learn New Tricks for the Taiwan Strait
Beijing is learning a lot from Iran’s Hormuz Strait closure and how it could apply Tehran’s methods to a future conflict with the U.S. over Taiwan.
thediplomat.com
La Russie suspectée d’avoir mené une campagne d’hameçonnage sur Signal contre la classe politique allemande www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
Allemagne | Une importante cyberattaque touche la classe politique
L’ampleur « extrêmement préoccupante » du piratage de la messagerie Signal remet en question la sécurité des communications au sein du Parlement allemand, a dit vendredi à l’AFP un responsable parleme...
lapresse.ca
À Hong Kong, un journaliste français expulsé et menacé par les services chinois www.intelligenceonline.fr/asie-pacifiq...
Chine/France/Hong Kong • À Hong Kong, un journaliste français expulsé et menacé par les services chinois
Antoine Védeilhé, prix Albert-Londres 2024, a été arrêté à son arrivée à Hong Kong et expulsé en novembre 2025. Il est depuis visé par une violente campagne d'intimidation. France télévisions, qui
intelligenceonline.fr
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
