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B(l)ind the Sacrifice
Get PDFThis is a review of the short film, B(l)ind the Sacrifice (2025), directed by Nakhane
2025 Sundance Film Festival Introduction
Get PDFIntroduction to our coverage of the 2025 Sundance Film Festiva
Defining the Logic and Risk of Terrorist UAS Attacks in the United States
No full textIn support of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the interdisciplinary project team conducted a one-year study to characterize the logic and emerging trends in terrorist use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The project team completed three rapid review reports which focus on key dimensions of the issue. Following the completion of these reports, the team hosted an in-person subject matter expert focus group meeting in spring 2025. The interagency workshop brought together counterterrorism and counter-UAS partners from federal and state law enforcement as well as the intelligence community. This report identifies five core findings – i.e., high level analytical conclusions suggested from the completed research activities
Deepfakes and Fraud: Real-World Examples of AI Misuse
No full textIn early 2024, criminals used deepfake technology to carry out high-level fraud. Arup Incident: 25.6 million to fraudsters across multiple transactions. WPP Attempt: Fraud Thwarted In another case, scammers tried to fool employees at WPP, a global communications firm, by creating a fake WhatsApp account and setting up a Microsoft Teams meeting using voice cloning and edited YouTube footage of a senior executive. The attempt failed thanks to employee suspicion
Event-Related Threats in the United States: Analysis of Plots and Incidents from 1970–2024
No full textIn an analysis of 42 plots against public event venues in the U.S. (1970–2024), NCITE researchers understand how completed attacks against events compare to failed or foiled attempts. NCITE researchers compiled open-source cases, coded venue/event, incident, and attacker features, and derived findings using data analysis methods alongside behavioral indicators from the Terrorism Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP‑18). The study finds that larger and outdoor events are frequent targets; weapons vary more with event size, with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) concentrated at outdoor venues; most plots aim to strike during events; and leakage (communications that reveal intent) is common in foiled cases. Overall, findings underscore the value of proactive venue security and community reporting to reduce harm at mass gatherings
The Secular Eschatology of Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood
No full textThis article considers the ending of Quentin Tarantino\u27s 2019 film Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood in light of Christian eschatology. I argue that Tarantino gives us an image of a temporal, partial eschatological moment, which relates to and interacts with a scriptural, Christian perspective on hope and the universal human longing for things to be other than what they are
Review Article: Monetary Power and National Security. A 10th Anniversary Review of Paul R. Viotti’s The Dollar and National Security: The Monetary Component of Hard Power (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014)
No full textIn this ten-year retrospective, Ricardo A. Crespo reassesses Paul R. Viotti’s The Dollar and National Security (2014) as a foundational text bridging the fields of monetary policy and national security. Viotti’s central thesis—that military power ultimately depends on a stable and privileged monetary foundation—has only grown more relevant amid today’s weaponization of finance and the geopolitics of sanctions. Crespo highlights Viotti’s argument that sustaining the U.S. dollar’s global dominance requires cooperative security and international consensus, noting how historical parallels—from the sterling gold standard to Bretton Woods—illustrate the fragility of monetary hegemony under fiscal mismanagement or political fragmentation. The review situates Viotti’s work within the post-Ukraine invasion context, emphasizing the rise of financial coercion, cyber threats to monetary systems, and hybrid warfare targeting fiscal stability. While Crespo critiques the book’s limited treatment of money as a coercive instrument, he concludes that Viotti’s analysis remains prescient and vital for understanding the entanglement of currency, power, and strategy in 21st-century conflict
ANTHEM 2.0: Automated Reasoning for Answer Set Programming
No full textANTHEM 2.0 is a tool to aid in the verification of logic programs written in an expressive fragment of CLINGO ’s input language named MINI-GRINGO, which includes arithmetic operations and simple choice rules but not aggregates. It can translate logic programs into formula representations in the logic of here-and-there and analyze properties of logic programs such as tightness. Most importantly, ANTHEM 2.0 can support program verification by invoking first-order theorem provers to confirm that a program adheres to a first-order specification or to establish strong and external equivalence of programs. This paper serves as an overview of the system’s capabilities. We demonstrate how to use ANTHEM 2.0 effectively and interpret its results
Beast in the Cage: A Fine-grained and Object-oriented Permission System to Confine JavaScript Operations on the Web
No full textJavaScript plays a crucial role on web. However, the inclusion of unknown, vulnerable, and malicious scripts on websites and in browser extensions and the use of browsers\u27 developer tools often lead to undesired web content manipulations and data acquisitions. To restrict JavaScript operations on web content and data, we introduce a fine-grained, mandatory access control-based, and object-oriented permission system to browsers. With our system, web developers can define policies for sensitive web elements on their web pages to allow or deny scripts\u27 operations on web content and data within browsers. The system substantially thwarts many web threats and attacks, and offers benefits to personal data governance. We developed a tool for automatic policy generation and demonstrated the usability and compatibility of the system in a three-month study. Our system is a reasonable and practical solution, bolstering the security and trustworthiness on the internet