China and the United States have effectively switched places as the overwhelming leader in research in just two decades, ASPI’s latest Critical Technology Tracker results reveal. The latest tracker findings, which can be found in …
China’s leader Xi Jinping has his eye on the transformative forces of artificial intelligence to revolutionise the country’s economy and society in the coming decades. But the disruptive, and potentially unforeseen, consequences of this technology …
The Manhattan Project, a response to Germany’s combination of innovation and military power, unleashed nuclear physics on the world. Its success positioned the United States at the forefront of progress in critical technologies and demonstrated …
The Crowdstrike software outage disrupted airlines, banks, supermarkets and other major services—causing significant inconvenience for millions of people worldwide. It has prompted many to marvel that so many global operations and organisations rely on so …
The recent CrowdStrike outage was not just a technical hiccup; it was a seismic tremor that exposed the brittle foundations on which Australia’s digital economy stands. A faulty security update, a false positive— and suddenly thousands of …