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Germany said for the first time that Russian sabotage against its own armed forces, not just infrastructure or border countries, is now a 'significant' threat, though no specific incident, agency, or timeline was given. Separately, researchers using AI found long-hidden flaws in PHP, the code running much of the web, which Amazon says attackers already exploited before any public warning. A related analysis argues these events, plus moves in Britain, the US, South Korea, China, and Pakistan, show Cold War-era defense planning being reshaped for multiple rival powers at once.
Today's coverage turns on one theme: deterrence and defense systems built for a single Cold War adversary are being tested and retooled for a more crowded field of rivals and threats.
Security
AI-assisted research uncovered long-hidden flaws in PHP, the language behind a huge share of the world's websites, and Amazon says attackers were already exploiting them before the public warning went out, prompting a global check-your-exposure scramble (more).
Germany and NATO deterrence
Germany rated the threat of Russian sabotage against the Bundeswehr itself as 'significant' for the first time, a move Kyiv Post calls a 'red line crossed'; no incidents, authority or timeframe have been named yet, leaving open whether other NATO states follow with similar warnings (more).
A Nunissum analysis argues this week's separate defense stories from Britain, Washington, Seoul, Beijing and Islamabad are really one story: a deterrence architecture built around one Cold War rival is being adjusted, country by country, for a world of several rival powers, with no institution checking whether the pieces still fit together (more).
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