Fredrik Stenbeck
Klarhet där teknik, resiliens och verklighet möts.
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Regeringen har beslutat om en ny molnpolicy för att bättre stärka säkerheten, minska beroenden och ge bättre kontroll över data. Låter toppen. Dock är inte policyn i sig publicerad än, så jag blir nog en post när den är publicerad.
Kan inte låta bli att ibland tänka tillbaka på att Storbritannien och Frankrike var en dag från att invadera Sverige under 2:a världskriget. Plannen var att den 10 April 1940 gå in i Sverige för att dels stoppa leveranserna av järnmalm till Tyskland samt sätta stopp för tyska trupptransporter genom Sverige. Tanken var även att anfalla Tyskland norrifrån. Nu gick Tyskland in i Danmark den 9 april och planerna gick om intet, tack och lov.
Singapore saknar naturtillgångar och har istället använt finanssektorn, tech och data som substitut. Nu har Singapore identifierat att de kan fungera som neutral mark i AI-kampen mellan USA och Kina. Reuters skriver intressant om det.
Palantir provocerar världen igen. De har nu publicerat en 22 punkts lista som är minst sagt kontroversiell. Listan skall sammanfatta Alex Karps (CEO / grundare av Palantir) bok "The Technological Republic". Listan släpptes 18 April, men boken släpptes för ett bra tas sen (2025). Har provokation blivit en PR-strategi?
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Fler rapporter →EU response to hybrid threats
European Parliamentary Research Service
Hybrid threats against the EU have increased significantly in both frequency and sophistication, creating complex challenges for European security, democratic institutions and societal resilience. Malicious state and non-state actors combine political, economic, cyber, information and military tools to exploit vulnerabilities, undermine public trust and destabilise societies, while remaining below the threshold of armed conflict. The EU and its Member States have gradually transformed their understanding of hybrid threats into concrete policies, operational capabilities and coordinated response mechanisms. The EU approach combines preventive, protective and reactive measures, including intelligence cooperation, protection of critical infrastructure, sanctions regimes, resilience building and strategic communication. Recent incidents involving cyber-attacks, disinformation campaigns and EU airspace violations have further accelerated the development of EU-level instruments designed to detect, deter and respond to these malign activities. As security challenges increasingly overlap across civilian and military domains, the EU and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) aim to ensure complementarity between the EU's regulatory and civilian tools and NATO's defence and military capabilities through improving coordination and enhancing situational awareness. The European Parliament emphasises that hybrid threats, mainly from Russia, China and Belarus, represent an escalating security challenge for the EU, and calls for a comprehensive EU response, stronger EU–NATO coordination, enhanced resilience and civil preparedness, targeted countermeasures, and closer cooperation with partner countries.
Wide Awake in a World of Disorder
FOI
Geopolitical turbulence: 2026 stands out not as a year of certainty, but one in which volatility itself has become the new normal. Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has entered its fifth year, underscoring the persistence of instabil- ity in Europe’s security environment. Developments ranging from the Greenland crisis to the war in Iran have contributed to increasingly strained transatlantic re- lations. The war in Iran has intensified global concerns over supply-chain security and energy prices, highlighting the deep interconnections between regional crises and the broader international order. At the same time, technological develop- ments in areas such as agentic AI; autonomy, including in robotics; and increased interconnectivity are profoundly affecting our societies, the world economy, and the nature of warfare.
EU:s väg mot ett starkt psykologiskt försvar
Myndigheten för Psykologiskt Försvar / MPF
Otillbörlig informationspåverkan har blivit en allt viktigare säkerhets och demokratifråga inom EU. Samtidigt är området komplext, med många aktörer, regelverk och parallella initiativ. Hittills har det saknats en samlad svensk överblick över EU arbete på området. Rapporten EU väg mot ett starkt psykologiskt försvar beskriver hur EU arbete mot otillbörlig informationspåverkan har utvecklats sedan 2015, från tidiga insatser mot desinformation till dagens bredare arbete med FIMI, digital reglering, demokratisk motståndskraft och säkerhetspolitik.
The Digital Leviathan: Prediction, Politics and Police Power in POL-INTEL
IT University of Copenhagen
In this digital era, police forces across the globe are turning to cutting-edge data analytics for the purpose of enacting more efficient police power through predicting and pre-empting crime. In Denmark, allegedly one of the most digitalized countries in the world, the police have turned to the American firm Palantir Technologies to produce a platform named POL-INTEL to integrate, analyze and visualize mass amounts of data from different data bases. For the Danish national police, this platform was heralded as a “super weapon” with predictive policing capacities that would represent a “quantum leap” into the future of law enforcement. For critics, POL-INTEL has been branded a tool of mass surveillance. With this background in mind, this thesis asks two questions: How is police power imagined and enacted in the digital era? And how is governance over the police materialized in relation to data-driven policing?
A world of Palantir: Ontological politics in the Danish police’s POL-INTEL
IT University of Copenhagen
When Palantir Technologies customized the Gotham platform into POL-INTEL, a data integration and analysis platform purchased and used by the Danish police, it also enforced a new ontology that simultaneously shaped the police organization and policing practices. In this context, the concept of ontology should be understood in a twofold, albeit interconnected, way: it stands for its usual philosophical burden, but also refers to a centralized concept repository. In Computer Science, ontology refers to the basic concepts for how data is structured. Based on a series of interviews with Palantir engineers and police-officer users of POL-INTEL, this paper investigates what kind of politics, concepts, and bias in the form of data are inserted, processed and materialized in and by POL-INTEL’s ontology. We argue that POL-INTEL’s ontology is inherently political, as it is articulated by an assemblage of data, ideological positions, and economic concerns that are translated into the Danish context. POL-INTEL as a vector of platformization of police work also implies ideological choices with important consequences for the organizational life and accountability of law enforcement, establishing new distributions of skills between the platform and police officers.
AI-Assisted Analysis of War-Related Content on Grey Zone Domains
Psychological Defence Research Institute / Lunds Universitet
Imagine that you are a Russian intelligence operative tasked with spreading pro-Russian, anti-Ukrainian content to international audiences. After almost four years of war, there is plentiful graphic footage that can be spun to show cruelty, bravery, cowardice or incompetence. Your challenge is not finding content but disseminating it. Western platforms like YouTube or Twitter (X) automatically remove or label gory footage. To varying degrees, ‘friendlier’ platforms like VK and Telegram offer a place for sharing war-related propaganda content, but not to mainstream EU audiences. There is, however, another option.
Malign foreign interference and information influence on video game platforms
Myndigheten för Psykologiskt Försvar / MPF
Omkring tre miljarder människor i världen spelar dataspel. Även om det är populärt i alla åldrar utgör ungdomar den grupp som spelar mest. I spelen förmedlas budskap och bilder på olika sätt, och skulle kunna utgöra en arena för otillbörlig informationspåverkan.
Denying Bucha
Psychological Defence Research Institute / Lunds Universitet
The Kremlin’s influence tactics in the aftermath of the 2022 Bucha atrocity.
Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats
EU
The 4th EEAS Annual Report on FIMI Threats builds on the methodology of the Response Framework to FIMI threats, on the FIMI Toolbox and on the FIMI Deterrence Playbook as a framework to make FIMI activity more costly and less sustainable for perpetrators.
Secretary General’s Annual Report 2025
Nato
Allied defence spending and production must rise rapidly, our armed forces must have what they need to keep us safe, and Ukraine must have what it needs to defend itself - now. Our governments, parliaments, and our citizens have to be in this together. So that we can continue to protect peace, freedom, and prosperity.