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Machine Learning

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Money, Markets, and Machine Learning: Unpacking the Risks of Adversarial AI
The consequences of ignoring the problem of adversarial attacks in algorithmic trading are potentially catastrophic. In a world increasingly reliant on machine learning models, the financial sector needs to shift from being reactive to proactive to ensure the security and integrity of our financial system.
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Aug 31, 2023
The Hill
Joshua Steier, Sai Prathyush Katragadda

Russia

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The Wagner Revolt, Housing in L.A., Cyberstalking: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the Wagner Group's power play against Russian leadership, how Truth Decay affects national security, why the U.S. legal system is underprepared to handle cyberstalking cases, and more.
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Jun 30, 2023
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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RAND Commentary Highlights of 2021
Vaccine rollouts, an attack on the U.S. Capitol, massive ransomware attacks, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, record numbers of job openings and people quitting, and more. RAND researchers weighed in on all these topics and more.
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Dec 21, 2021
Prison Reform

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Defunding Prisons, Preventing Cyberattacks, Promoting COVID-19 Vaccinations: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on defunding prisons, how to deter ransomware attacks, overcoming barriers to COVID-19 vaccination, and more.
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Aug 13, 2021
Cybercrime

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How the United States Can Deter Ransomware Attacks
To rein in ransomware attacks, the United States needs to upend the risk-reward ratio for hackers and for the countries that harbor or support them. Such a strategy would make networks harder to breach, hit back harder against hackers, and claw back gains from those who succeed.
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Aug 9, 2021
Los Angeles Times
Jonathan W. Welburn @jwwelburn, Quentin E. Hodgson @QHodgson
Energy Security

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Is DarkSide Really Sorry? Is It Even DarkSide?
The U.S. military relies heavily on commercial energy assets, making the implications of events like the Colonial Pipeline outage more serious than just higher prices at the gas pump. The origins and severity of an attack dictate what the United States might do in response.
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May 19, 2021
Defense One
Anu Narayanan, Jonathan W. Welburn @jwwelburn
Racial Equity

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L.A.'s High Unemployment, RAND's New Research Center, Twitter: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on unemployment in the Los Angeles area, the new RAND Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy, food consumption in the UK, and more.
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Aug 14, 2020
Cybersecurity

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Insider Threat at Twitter Is a Risk to Everyone
Three young hackers were charged in the hijacking of dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts. Their tactics point out how vulnerabilities at tech platforms can pose a risk to national security.
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Aug 7, 2020
The RAND Blog
Douglas Yeung @DouglasCYeung, Ryan Andrew Brown
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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The Postal Service, Election Security, Reducing Child Deaths: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the role of the U.S. Postal Service, preparing for the presidential election, reducing child deaths in Nigeria, and more.
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Jun 26, 2020
Emerging Technologies

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Best RAND Videos of 2019
At RAND, we examine complex issues in dozens of policy areas. And when our researchers aren't busy coming up with solutions to some of the world's biggest problems, sometimes they step in front of the camera to highlight their findings. Here are our top videos of 2019.
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Dec 20, 2019
Domestic Terrorism

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White Supremacist Terrorism, Wildfires, the Dark Web: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on violent white supremacy, power outages to prevent wildfires, how to catch criminals on the dark web, and more.
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Nov 1, 2019
Autonomous Vehicles

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Who's Responsible When Your Car Gets Hacked?
Cars are becoming “fast, heavy artificial intelligences on wheels,” a RAND report cautions, and that means they're becoming vulnerable. Potentially billions of dollars ride on the question of who has the legal responsibility to keep hackers from grabbing the wheel or cutting the brakes.
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Oct 23, 2019
Cybersecurity

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Data Breaches, Correctional Security, Fentanyl: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on how consumers respond to data breaches, new security challenges facing correctional institutions, how fentanyl is changing the opioid crisis, and more.
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Aug 2, 2019
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Fighting and Winning the Undeclared Cyber War
Russia has executed deliberate intrusions into U.S. critical infrastructure since at least 2011. These systems have included government entities, commercial facilities, water resource plants, and aviation institutions. What actions or policies can the U.S. execute to improve security?
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Jun 24, 2019
Inside Sources
Isaac R. Porche III
Cybersecurity

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Developing an Objective, Repeatable Scoring System for a Vulnerability Equities Process
If governments seek to create an objective framework for decision making about whether or when to disclose software vulnerabilities, what might that look like? What questions should be included, how should they influence the outcome and how can one interpret the results?
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Feb 5, 2019
Lawfare
Sasha Romanosky
Crime and Violence Prevention

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Terrorists, Policing, Cyberattacks: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on terrorism recruitment trends, helping police find the right strategies, who should investigate cyberattacks, and more.
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Dec 21, 2018

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

What Climate-Related Conflict Could Mean for U.S. Central Command

National Identity and the Origins of the War in Ukraine

Can NATO Supercharge Military Greening?

Book Review: 'Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat' by Sarah Percy

Preventing Domestic Violent Extremism: Insights from RAND Research

The Policy Currents Podcast

Developing Strategies for Summer Learning

Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Work Outcomes in the UK

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

Cybercrime

Money, Markets, and Machine Learning: Unpacking the Risks of Adversarial AI

The Wagner Revolt, Housing in L.A., Cyberstalking: RAND Weekly Recap

RAND Commentary Highlights of 2021

Defunding Prisons, Preventing Cyberattacks, Promoting COVID-19 Vaccinations: RAND Weekly Recap

How the United States Can Deter Ransomware Attacks

Is DarkSide Really Sorry? Is It Even DarkSide?

L.A.'s High Unemployment, RAND's New Research Center, Twitter: RAND Weekly Recap

Insider Threat at Twitter Is a Risk to Everyone

The Postal Service, Election Security, Reducing Child Deaths: RAND Weekly Recap

Best RAND Videos of 2019

White Supremacist Terrorism, Wildfires, the Dark Web: RAND Weekly Recap

Who's Responsible When Your Car Gets Hacked?

Data Breaches, Correctional Security, Fentanyl: RAND Weekly Recap

Fighting and Winning the Undeclared Cyber War

Developing an Objective, Repeatable Scoring System for a Vulnerability Equities Process

Terrorists, Policing, Cyberattacks: RAND Weekly Recap

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