Lee's speech is better than his Foreign Affairs article. lnkd.in/gV_uYSi

As some of you may recall, I believe in putting up the best candidates. With this understanding, I would prefer to see Susan Rice as Biden's running mate. Stanford undergrad, Truman scholar, Rhodes scholar, completed her master's a…lnkd.in/gA_t79w lnkd.in/gCP3YxJ

A 4-minute interview. Talks about cyber. Regardless of what one thinks of Bolton -- and let's give him some credit, he's probably better educated than you are (whoever "you" is) -- he's right on this point: We need more offensive…lnkd.in/gpM9Wt3 lnkd.in/gc755CM

Life in Hong Kong. Today. lnkd.in/gvH4kSq

Happy birthday! God bless America! America the Beautiful, sung by Ray Charles. lnkd.in/gBFRe-x

A short video on DARPA's new FETT (Finding Exploits to Thwart Tampering) Bug Bounty. lnkd.in/gksmviz

Yesterday. Hearing on “Defending Against Future Cyberattacks: Evaluating the Cyberspace Solarium Commission Recommendations,” Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation (Committee on Homeland Security…lnkd.in/gUf-key lnkd.in/g9zkWVA

Let's be honest, we all know that the FT, the Financial Times, is the best newspaper in the world. The only problem: It's way too expensive! It's sad to experience the intellectual death of the New York Times. A country with the size and wealth of Americ…lnkd.in/gfRAFSV

A must read authored by Kenneth Geers, a great guy, true scholar, and experienced cyber warrior. lnkd.in/gAgaACu

ICYMI. "Understanding when and how states may lawfully deploy countermeasures is critical for states operating in the cyber arena—not only to understand their own options when injured but also to anticipate the responses that thei…lnkd.in/g5xwAG3 lnkd.in/gHz4W6P

This is EXACTLY what the NSF should be doing and the areas given priority--artificial intelligence, quantum information science, and computationally intensive research--are probably the best choices. Not all research areas are created equal. lnkd.in/gUea_eR

ICYMI. lnkd.in/gAZ3_vT (PDF, 6 pp.) lnkd.in/gGXmVmy

And just imagine that I thought these were all observations from CIA's China Desk. Sounds like something I heard at an Aspen Forum a couple/few years back--said by some Asia regional head at Langley. lnkd.in/gTUrQ8E lnkd.in/gzT_5bF

The most important book to read right now. Not just a "must read," but a "read right now." Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific by Hoover's Michael Auslin. Amazon dropped the price of the Kindle version to only USD 6.99, a 77% di…lnkd.in/g-u3GE7

Paper: From Brute Force to Brain Power: How Stanford's s1 Surpasses DeepSeek-R1 Stanford's s1 introduces a streamlined, data-efficient method that surpasses previous open-source and open-weights reasoning models-most notably DeepSeek-R1. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…