Friday Brief for 11 February 2022

News Corp. gets hacked; Defense contractors struggle with cybersecurity standards; and Skydio wins Army's drone contract

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Yesterday, I responded to this essay in the New York Times. You can read it by clicking the “card” below.

Restraint advocates, and particularly those on the “new right,” speak eloquently of a United States awash in freedom and resources, but never explain how they intend to rid us of the inescapable foreign commitments and actions necessary to secure this domestic prosperity and tranquility.

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The Old—and Incoherent—Foreign Policy of the New Right
Last week, “national conservatives” Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen, and Gladden Pappin published a guest essay in the New York Times titled “Hawks Are Standing in the Way of a New Republican Party.” I have read this art…
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7 months ago · 27 likes · 14 comments · Klon Kitchen

News Corp. Hit by Cyberattack

What’s New: The American media and publishing company, News Corp., disclosed that it has been breached by suspected China-based hackers, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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