The popularity of TikTok, a Chinese-owned short-form video-sharing app, has prompted concerns among American politicians and proposals to ban the platform. While data exfiltration concerns are hard to allay, the costs of banning TikTok far outweigh any national security benefits. TikTok isn’t a particularly unique or valuable source of American data, but it is a … Read more
KEVIN CORTNEY Kevin Courtney Our late-day neighborhood strolls are usually the quiet things. We love flowers, cats, quirky house paint jobs. But not this Tuesday. As we turned from Partrick Road into Morningside Drive, the shattering sound of metal crashing into metal engulfed us. If this were Ukraine, you would assume a drone strike. Something … Read more
If you had told me several months ago, right after Elon Musk bought Twitter and Ron DeSantis celebrated a landslide re-election victory, that DeSantis would launch his presidential campaign in conversation with Musk, I would have thought, intriguing: The right-wing billionaire whose rockets and cars stand out in an economy dominated by apps and financial … Read more