Shaun Waterman

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Reporter covering cybersecurity and other emerging tech threats for Air&Space Forces Mag and others. Former BBC News, ex-Newsweek, POLITICO escapee, always a Unipresser. English expat in Washington, DC. I'm the daddy now. Likes etc ≠ approval. DM 4 Signal

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When the USAF decided it had to bring Warrant Officers back as a vital link for the service in the digital domain and to confront near peer adversaries, they had to start from scratch. The USAF's prev WO program, ended in 1958, was inherited from the Army. www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-wa...

Air Force Warrant Officers to Be Key Link in Digital War with Chinawww.airandspaceforces.com Air Force officials described the training process for future warrant officers, with a focus on communication, advising, and more.

As the NATO Summit wraps up, the leaders there need to get on the same page abt Russian hybrid attacks against Ukraine's allies in Europe. Right now they're all over the place about how to regard GPS jamming in the Baltic. My story for A&SF Mag www.airandspaceforces.com/russian-gps-... #NATOSummit

Russian Jamming Wreaks Havoc on GPS. Is It Hybrid Warfare?www.airandspaceforces.com Amid its war on Ukraine, Russia is jamming GPS signals around the Baltic Sea, raising questions among NATO allies about gray zone warfare.

At the SATELLITE2024 event this week in DC, International Telecommunication Union SecGen Doreen Bogdan-Martin tasked the industry to end the #DigitalDivide, by connecting the hardest-to-reach, mostly in poor rural areas, and to help w UN devt goals My story www.satellitetoday.com/government-m...

ITU Chief Bogdan-Martin Tasks the Satellite Industry With Expanding Internet Access - Via Satellitewww.satellitetoday.com International Telecommunication Union General Secretary Doreen Bogdan-Martin sought to position her agency as the conscience of the space industry in her

At the SATELLITE2024 conference this week in DC, International Telecommunication Union Chief Doreen Bogdan-Martin tasked the industry to end the #DigitalDivide, by connecting the hardest-to-reach, mostly in poor rural areas, and to help w UN devt goals My story www.satellitetoday.com/government-m...

A bipartisan House committee set up to counter China's superpower ambitions is calling for sanctions on Quectel, a Shanghai-based tech giant mass producing connectivity modules for IoT devices. www.newsweek.com/china-sancti...

Lawmakers to Biden administration: Sanction Chinese internet device companywww.newsweek.com Lawmakers want China's largest maker of internet connectivity devices called cellular modules sanctioned by the U.S. government as a Chinese military supplier.

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Seems very, very bad. plus.thebulwark.com/p/theres-a-s...

Americans reported losing $9B to fraud last year, and the real cost, including unreported losses, could be as high as $137B, according to the FTC. That's about the GDP of Mississippi. Stolen. Every year. Much of it by transnational crime gangs. #pigbutcheringscams www.newsweek.com/elder-fraud-...

As online fraudsters run amok, U.S. response is laggingwww.newsweek.com Other Western countries are using regulation to stop criminals using commercial tools like robocalls. But the U.S. is lagging, leaving Americans exposed.

ICYMI: Runa Sandivk outlines the ways Chinese hackers and #disinformation operatives have attacked civil society critics by stealing their identities. "To fully support high-risk communities, we must focus on securing identities," she says. Amen to that. #china www.glitchcat.xyz/p/how-china-...

How China targets civil society abroadwww.glitchcat.xyz Last month, the U.S. Department of Defense released its annual report on China’s military and its role in China’s broader foreign policy. The 212-page report details developments in the past year,...

RSF investigation into death of @reuters-world-rss.bsky.social reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon finds journalists' car was deliberately targeted by Israeli forces, despite being clearly marked a Press vehicle. If there's another explanation, IDF needs to say rsf.org/s/93912

Vidéo enquête de RSF sur la mort du reporter de Reuters Issam Abdallah au Liban : le véhicule des...rsf.org Reporters sans frontières (RSF) dévoile une reconstitution vidéo de la tragédie qui a entraîné la mort d’un journaliste et blessé plusieurs autres. Les premières conclusions de l’enquête ...

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My friend Johan Floderus has been illegally detained by the Iranian regime for over 500 days. Please support #freejohanfloderus so Johan can come home. www.freejohanfloderus.org

Home | #FreeJohanFloderuswww.freejohanfloderus.org The #FreeJohanFloderus campaign is run by family and friends who miss Johan very much. We will not stop fighting until he is back.

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At the National Press Club, reminders of the sacrifices made by journalists while covering some of the world’s most complex and dangerous stories. And a beautiful memorial honoring the extraordinary life and journalism of the great Bernard Kalb, who left this world earlier this year at age 100.

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