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3 weeks ago | 
ft.com | Misha Glenny
For some patients, last June’s ransomware attack targeting Synnovis, a company that provides blood testing and transfusions to the NHS,...
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3 weeks ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Misha Glenny |Robert Muggah
Security Science and Technology United States The image of the billionaire CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, OpenAI, TikTok, and X flanking U.S. President Donald Trump at his inauguration in January sent a clear signal to the world: Technology is going to play a central role in the new administration’s disruption of the global order. To be sure, there have long been tensions between Washington and other countries over Big Tech—including on taxes, data privacy, copyright issues, and...
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1 month ago | 
ft.com | Misha Glenny
Imagine a 16-year-old boy with a largely conventional American upbringing.
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2 months ago | 
eurozine.com | Oana Filip |Misha Glenny
Groundwater supplies 65 % of the drinking water used in the EU. Europe has a great average performance when it comes to water infrastructures, and much of the continent is geographically lucky to have access to this resource. But it’s not universal, and things have been breaking down in recent years as climate change shows its effects and the South, the East and even Central Europe are gradually drying up.
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2 months ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Misha Glenny
Elon Musk with his son and Donald Trump in the White House, Washington DC, February 11, 2025 | © Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
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Mar 14, 2025 | 
europeanvoices.eu | Misha Glenny
The world is dividing into three spheres of influence, but with a crucial difference: Today’s power struggles are driven by digital monopolies, tech wars, and trade barriers rather than ideology. Main image • Misha Glenny is a British journalist, author, and academic, currently serving as Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. • Nathan Murrell Commentators often invoke George Orwell’s 1984 to warn us all against encroaching totalitarianism.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
smallwarsjournal.com | Robert Muggah |Misha Glenny
Dr. Robert Muggah, Ph.D., one of our El Centro Fellows, had this to say on LinkedIn about his new piece:Organized crime, one of the world’s oldest professions, is entering a new golden age. In our latest long read with Foreign Policy, we explore the breathtaking sophistication, speed, and scale of today’s criminal networks. Globalization accelerated the spread of organized crime, but digital transformation is taking it to the next level.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
realcleardefense.com | Robert Muggah |Misha Glenny
The Coming Golden Age of Crime Artificial intelligence and other technologies are turbocharging cartels, mafias, and other illicit networks. Read Full Article »
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Robert Muggah |Misha Glenny
On a gray afternoon in November 2021, Metropolitan Police officers pulled over a vehicle on a highway north of London, acting on a tip about a suspected drug deal. In the car, they found 250,000 pounds in cash, according to the investigators involved. A sweep of the driver’s home turned up a dollar-counting machine and another 24,500 pounds. This was a significant coup for law enforcement, but the story turned out to be much bigger.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
eurozine.com | Misha Glenny
Surprise correlations between distinct texts are like chemistry. They spark transformations of thought. When reading Agri Ismaïl’s personally informed writing for Glänta on warfare in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, I was compelled to revisit Anthony Downey’s academic text for Springerin on algorithmic-based weapons. I had remembered several shared references between the two but wasn’t expecting so many common impressions.
