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OODAcon 2025’s Annual Global Threat Brief opened with an unflinching warning: the most dangerous disruptions reshaping the world are no longer confined to distant adversaries or geopolitical flashpoints—they are unfolding inside the systems we rely ...
Serene’s music is celebrated for its passionate interpretations and technical mastery, spanning a vast repertoire from Bach to contemporary composers. In this post, a real treat: Serene's recent performance at OODAcon 2025.
Hacker-turned-concert pianist Serene makes the case that the fight for internet freedom is no longer just a technical challenge - it’s a cultural, political, and human one. Archived video an expanded analysis of her OODAcon ...
In a world where adversaries move at machine speed, Jennifer Ewbank’s OODAcon 2025 session delivered a blunt warning: acceleration is now a strategic imperative. Find archived video of the presentation and a summary analysis here. ...
AI’s diffusion is now inseparable from its compute infrastructure. 2025 marks the year when nations and hyperscalers began measuring, monetizing, and governing “AI compute” as a strategic asset, linking sovereign cloud capacity, public-private infrastructure build-outs, ...
At OODAcon 2025, hardware transparency took center stage as Allan Friedman introduced the Hardware Bill of Materials (HBOM) as the next critical pillar of national resilience. The archived video and an expanded summary of ...
Quantum is no longer a distant promise - it is becoming a participatory practice. In a conversation at OODAcon 2025, Bob Gourley and Mark Carney showed how DEFCON’s Quantum Village is redefining quantum readiness. ...
We kick off our annual series of expanded session summaries (including video) from OODAcon 2025 where the conference day began - on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 - with the keynote presentation from Matt Devost, CEO ...
Researchers at Harvard and MIT have achieved a breakthrough in continuous quantum computing, operating a 3,000-qubit neutral-atom system for over two hours without loss of coherence — a feat that marks the transition from pulsed, ...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how U.S. capital and derivatives markets operate — from trading algorithms and risk models to regulatory surveillance — raising new systemic, cybersecurity, and accountability challenges that Congress and regulators must ...
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