Checkpoint

A Wartburg 353 and Trabant cars parked beside the Berlin Wall while a queue of East German people wait to cross to the West after the Wall fell and travel restrictions were lifted, Berlin, December 1989. Credit: Steve Eason / Hulton Archive via Getty Images No matter what side you…

An American spy satellite deployed during the Cold War has exploded above our planet without warning — and, so far, scientists can't explain why. The debris cloud from this sudden fragmentation, which experts are still trying to measure, could pose a very "real threat" to other spacecraft in a highly…

Espionage existed long before the Cold War, but the decades-long standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union transformed it into a contest of cryptanalysis, surveillance, deception, and increasingly sophisticated technology. The operations from this period have inspired countless books and movies… or at least the operations we know…

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called on the U.S. to be a leader in regulating the growth of artificial intelligence but warned that getting countries to agree on a global framework could be “more difficult” than Cold War-era negotiations to limit nuclear weapons. “This is more difficult than…

Earlier this month, the Trump administration released a politically charged clone of Tetris called Build the Wall. The Tetris Company (TTC), which owns the rights to the iconic video game, swiftly responded with a thinly veiled legal threat, writing on X: “We take copyright infringement very seriously.” Four days later,…

The US and China open a Cold War-style AI hotline as Britain tells staff to use less AI. See how close the race is. The post US and China Open Cold War-Style AI Hotline appeared first on BeInCrypto...Read More

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters on September 22, 2026 in New York City. UN chief Antonio Guterres called on AI superpowers to start a dialogue on the fast-moving future of technology akin to US-Soviet engagement…

Three days before Christmas 1976, Edward Nevin III was standing on a BART platform, newspaper in hand, waiting for his train into the city. Amid front page stories detailing a hijacking attempt at SFO and the “computer threat” to the Postal Service, Nevin’s eye was caught by another headline: “Army Tested…

On Sunday, the right-wing Alternative for Germany party, known as the AfD, won nearly forty-four per cent of the vote in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The AfD beat the second-place finisher, the center-right Christian Democratic Union, by more than twenty-five points, and gave itself the chance to govern…

Logo text John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein were looking forward to filming a pivotal scene in Mayday when they got some bad news. To re-create a Soviet-era May Day parade, the duo had enlisted 1,000 extras and 1,000 crewmembers. Their costume designer, Debra McGuire, created 1,000 period-accurate military uniforms,…