Diplomacy

News

Inside The State Department’s 24/7 Digital Peace Room

10:00AM May 21, 2011 | Sam Biddle

When an international incident occurs – say, a nuclear meltdown in Japan, revolution in Egypt, a SEAL raid in Pakistan, or something along those lines – the State Department knows every detail possible. How? A buzzing room of plugged-in, insomniac brains. More »

Online

Secretary Of Defence: Let’s Stop Freaking Out Over WikiLeaks, Nobody Trusted Us Anyway

9:20AM December 2, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Secretary of Defence Robert Gates is keeping it really real regarding the WikiLeaks controversy. His take? It doesn’t matter. All the talk of international embarrassment and diplomatic implosion doesn’t change the fact that nobody trusts the US to begin with. More »

Science

WikiLeaks Bombshell Reveals Strange Tech Snooping Schemes

2:40AM November 30, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Today’s not a good morning to wake up as an American diplomat. The weekend’s WikiLeaks disclosure of covert communications has revealed some strange tech plots surrounding world figures – Bluetooth bugs implanted in prisoners. DNA gathering. UN stalking. Weird stuff. More »

Online

The US Government’s Social Media Ninjas

2:20AM July 20, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

With more Twitter followers than any governmental employee besides Barack Obama and John McCain, Jared Cohen and Alec Ross are the US government’s internet gurus. And their boss, Hillary Clinton, has charged them to teach digital diplomacy to the world. More »

Computing

Putin to Dell CEO: ‘We don’t need help. We are not invalids.’

6:10AM January 29, 2009 | Adam Frucci

Michael Dell thought he was extending the olive branch to Russian prime minister Vladamir Putin when he offered IT help. Putin didn’t take too kindly to the offer, to say the least. It all went down at the official opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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