The Edge | 08/21/18
The Edge is a daily round up of the most important, or at least the most interesting, reads in technology policy.
The Cyber
Matthew Masterson, a senior cybersecurity adviser at DHS, which hosted the exercise, said that “there has never been an exercise of this scope and scale” in his ten-plus years working on elections.
Election exercise pairs states with intelligence community in unprecedented opportunity
We’re concerned that these and other attempts pose security threats to a broadening array of groups connected with both American political parties in the run-up to the 2018 elections. That’s why today we are expanding Microsoft’s Defending Democracy Program with a new initiative called Microsoft AccountGuard. This initiative will provide state-of-the-art cybersecurity protection at no extra cost to all candidates and campaign offices at the federal, state and local level, as well as think tanks and political organizations we now believe are under attack.
Microsoft taking new steps against broadening threats to democracy
Governance
The simple but ingenious system Taiwan uses to crowdsource its laws
Blockchain
A Dissenting Voice on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
AI
Ban Killer Robots to Protect Fundamental Moral and Legal Principles
Space
NASA supports SpaceX plan to fuel rockets with astronauts on board
Defense Tech
DARPA launches a subterranean challenge
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