SIGGRAPH 2024 featured a rare joint public appearance of NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the 51st annual conference on Monday, July 29th. This fireside …
The July 2024 OODA Network Monthly Meeting: A Real-time Discussion of the Crowdstrike Global IT Outage
The July 2024 OODA Network Monthly Meeting - held on Friday, July 19, 2024 –featured a robust discussion of the recent CrowdStrike Incident and Global IT Outage. The meeting discussed CrowdStrike's …
NORAD Intercepts Russian and PRC Jet Fighters in Joint Operation over Alaska
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) "detected, tracked, and intercepted two Russian TU-95 and two PRC H-6 military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone …
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This Week, The Future of AI and “Accelerated Compute” is in the Mountain West of the USA
Welcome to SIGGRAPH 2024 - The Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH) - the premier annual conference and exhibition …
The FTC, DOJ, UK, and EU Antitrust Enforcers Weigh in on Fair Market Competition Across the Global AI Ecosystem
Pulling the thread on our 2024 "stake in the ground" analysis of government regulation (or overregulation?) of AI, and the introduction of the concept of the “decontrol” of AI, the release this month …
The Venezuelan Election Results Should be on Your Strategic Radar
Why? According to the WP, "More than 7 million Venezuelans — about a quarter of the population — have already fled Maduro’s authoritarian rule in the past decade. Of those who remain, more than 1 in …
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Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab Shuts Down US Operations; Gifts Six Months of Access to U.S. Users
After the Biden administration announced plans to bar sales of the company in the U.S., Kaspersky Lab will gradually wind down its U.S. operations. Details here. Kaspersky Leaving US Following …
Blockchain-based Credentials and the Expanded Threat Vector of Quantum Computing
The convergence of quantum computing and blockchain-based credentials presents significant opportunities and challenges. By proactively addressing the expanded threat vector and implementing robust …
The Crowdstrike/Microsoft Global IT Outage Debacle: Ongoing Impacts and Recent Updates
In an update of our initial post (assessing the early onset of the Global IT outage) on Friday, 7/19/24 at 10 AM, included here is CISA's formal response on Friday at1 p.m. EST (with updates from …
“This is Not a Security Incident or Cyberattack”: Microsoft and Crowdstrike Scramble to Patch ‘Largest IT Outage in History’
At approximately 3 AM EST, reports started crossing the transom of a global IT outage impacting a broad range of industries, causing airlines, banks, media broadcasters, and shipping lines to shut …