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The Trump Administration’s Executive Order 14306 marks a strategic pivot in U.S. cybersecurity policy, reducing federal cybersecurity responsibilities in favor of private sector autonomy and amending prior Biden and Obama initiatives focused on centralizing cybersecurity governance.
This week’s member only OODA Network Dispatch focuses on context you can use to inform your decision-making in an age of disruptive technology.
In a week packed with nonstop tech, talk, and tactical briefings, the OODA Network Cybersecurity Pool Party offers something rare: a chance to connect in person with the strategists, technologists, investors, and decision-makers shaping the future of cybersecurity, defense, and innovation. On Thursday, August 7, we’re hosting our annual OODA Network Social at Daylight Beach Club at Mandalay Bay,…
The U.S. is accelerating investment in hypersonic weapons to maintain strategic military advantage amid increasing capabilities from Russia and China. These systems offer unique speed and maneuverability, but raise questions about strategic stability, deterrence, and defense infrastructure.
The rapid proliferation of low-cost drones has outpaced U.S. counter-UAS (unmanned aircraft systems) capabilities, creating a critical vulnerability across defense and civilian infrastructure. A recent June OODA Network discussion underscored a stark reality: the United States remains dangerously exposed to low-cost drone threats
As kinetic warfare expanded globally, an OODA Network Member posed the question: “What does this mean now? Does it mean Iran will stop funding and supporting the Houthis?” Recent OODA Network discussions also pondered the type of retaliation to expect from Iranian proxies. The Houthis and Undersea Cable sabotage in the Red Sea and the…
Recent news reporting indicates that Chinese-sponsored cyber espionage threat actors have been conducting operations against Russia in an attempt to collect sensitive military and defense systems since the Ukraine war began. Researchersfrom a Taiwan cybersecurity company these incursions have been occurring since at least May 2022 and have been collecting information related to Russia’s planning such as battlefield…
Recent technology developments from Atlanta-based startup Hermeus have surfaced in many OODA Network internal discussions. Why? Hermeus has achieved a breakthrough in hypersonic aircraft with the successful first flight of its Quarterhorse Mk 1 and the activation of its proprietary test facility, placing it at the forefront of rapid, reusable hypersonic aviation.
Agentic AI systems demand a new kind of red teaming that tests for emergent, goal-driven behavior across complex attack surfaces and operational environments.
IBM has declared an ambitious goal: to build the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2028. If successful, this will be a milestone not just in computation but in geopolitics, cybersecurity, and scientific discovery. At the heart of the initiative is a system capable of 100,000 physical qubits—designed to finally overcome the daunting obstacle…
RAND’s roadmap for AI-driven economic policy confronts the high-stakes trade-offs of growth, inequality, and global competition.
A series of recent drone strikes—from Ukraine to Iran and Israel—confirms that drone swarm warfare is now a globally operational, scalable, and deeply destabilizing capability.
Mark Zuckerberg added another big name to Meta Platforms ’ new “Superintelligence” AI division, hiring a top Apple AI researcher as part of a weekslong recruitment push, according to a person familiar with the hire.Ruoming Pang is the first big name from Apple to jump over to Meta’s Superintelligence Lab, a blow to the iPhone…
Volcanic blasts reaching heights of up to 18 km have grounded flights in the region. Indonesia’s Geology Agency raised Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki to the highest alert level after twin eruptions on Flores island sent ash columns soaring 18 km into the sky and produced pyroclastic avalanches traveling up to 5 km down its flanks.…
Drone siege in Pacot traps residents, dooms century-old landmark. The Grand Hôtel Oloffson was burned to the ground by gangs during an attack that drove out residents and kept journalists from accessing the Pacot neighborhood. Longtime manager Richard Morse, observing from the United States, verified via drone images that the hotel had been consumed in…
Cross-border crews battle Latakia wildfires hindered by ordnance, winds, and drought. Since last week, Latakia province has endured its worst wildfires in years, forcing over 1,120 residents to flee as more than 10,000 hectares of forest and farmland burned. Reinforcements from Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon joined 120 Syrian teams, but initial containment fell through when…
The latest assault on a border town marks the region’s increasing precarity. Boko Haram militants attacked the Malam Fatori community near the Chad border, killing nine residents and injuring four, according to Borno State authorities. Governor Babagana Zulum’s envoy warned villagers against aiding the insurgents and announced plans to strengthen defenses around the town. The…
Ransomware group shutters operations, offers free decryptors amid rebrand to World Leaks. Hunters International, a ransomware-as-a-service group blamed for over 300 attacks since late 2023, announced it is closing its Hunters operation and wiped all victim listings from its leak site. In a farewell statement, the gang offered free decryption software to every affected organization…
An insider-led hack has drained over 540 million reais from PIX. Police in São Paulo arrested C&M employee João Roque for allegedly selling his IT credentials to hackers who diverted more than 540 million reais from the Central Bank’s PIX instant-payment system in one night. Authorities say the breach targeted a single financial institution, at…
Grafana security update fixes four high-severity Chromium flaws. Grafana has released critical patches for its Image Renderer plugin and Synthetic Monitoring Agent to address four high-severity vulnerabilities in the embedded Chromium library, including a zero-day that enabled arbitrary read/write operations. The updates also remediate a second V8 type confusion, an integer overflow, and a Profiler…
Initramfs debug shell flaw lets attackers with physical access bypass Linux Secure Boot. Alexander Moch of ERNW demonstrated that an attacker can trigger the initramfs debug shell on modern Linux systems after multiple password failures, modify the unpacked initramfs to insert malicious hooks, and then repack it without breaking Secure Boot’s signed-kernel guarantees. This attack…
Reports from March 2025 revealed that Neros Technologies, a U.S.-based company, was awarded a contract to supply Archer FPV drones to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A total of 6,000 drones were to be delivered within six months in the framework of the so-called “drone coalition” established at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, aka “Ramstein…
Indonesia’s rumbling Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupted Monday, sending a column of volcanic materials as high as 18 kilometers (11 miles) into the sky and depositing ash on villages. The volcano has been at the highest alert level since last month and no casualties were immediately reported. Indonesia’s Geology Agency recorded an avalanche of searing…
Islamic extremists killed nine people and injured four in Borno state in northeastern Nigeria, authorities said Sunday. The attack was carried out by Boko Haram militants on the Malam Fatori community, Babagana Zulum, the state governor, said. He did not say when the attack happened. The community, very close to the border of Chad, is…
Typhoon Danas brought heavy winds and torrential rains to parts of Taiwan early Monday, killing two people and injuring more than 300 on the island’s densely populated west coast. The typhoon lost intensity and was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved into the Taiwan Strait on a forecast path to China. Danas knocked…
The death count in the building collapse in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi has jumped to 27 as rescuers retrieved more bodies, a spokesperson of the state-owned rescue organization Rescue 1122 said on Sunday. Confirming the death count, Hassaan Ul Haseeb Khan, the operation’s spokesperson, told Xinhua that rescue activities are in the final…
Crew members aboard a Liberian-flagged ship set ablaze by a series of attacks in the Red Sea abandoned the vessel Sunday night as it took on water, marking the first serious assault in the vital corridor for trade after a monthslong campaign by Yemen’s Houthi rebels there. Suspicion for the attack on the Greek-owned bulk…
Seven more Turkish soldiers have died from methane gas poisoning following a cave search operation in northern Iraq, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Monday, bringing the death toll to 12. The soldiers had been searching for the remains of a fellow soldier previously killed by Kurdish militants. The troops were searching a mountain cave when 19…
Police in Kenya have fired live rounds and water cannon at antigovernment protesters in the capital Nairobi on the 35th anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising, injuring several people. Hundreds of people demonstrated in the city on Monday, with some blowing whistles while they marched amid heavy police deployment. People rally each year on July 7…
It’s been a bit over 150 days since the launch of the Chinese LLM DeepSeek R1 shook stock markets and the Western AI world. R1 was the first model to be publicly released that matched OpenAI’s reasoning behavior. However, much of this was overshadowed by the fear that DeepSeek (and China) would commoditize AI models…
Japanese AI lab Sakana AI has introduced a new technique that allows multiple large language models (LLMs) to cooperate on a single task, effectively creating a “dream team” of AI agents. The method, called Multi-LLM AB-MCTS, enables models to perform trial-and-error and combine their unique strengths to solve problems that are too complex for any…
Understanding randomness is crucial in many fields. From computer science and engineering to cryptography and weather forecasting, studying and interpreting randomness helps us simulate real-world phenomena, design algorithms and predict outcomes in uncertain situations. Randomness is also important in quantum computing, but generating it typically involves a large number of operations. However, Thomas Schuster and…
Jamie Dimon is unequivocal about the impact of remote working on training new bankers. “It doesn’t work in our business,” the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase told Stanford’s Graduate School of Business this year. “Younger people [are] left behind.” He has previously spoken of the importance of “the apprenticeship model . . . which is almost impossible to replicate…
CoreWeave Inc. said it has agreed to buy Core Scientific Inc. in an all-stock deal worth about $9 billion that will allow it to expand its artificial intelligence data center capacity. The transaction values Core Scientific’s stock at $20.40 per share, according to a statement from CoreWeave on Monday. That represents a 66% premium over…
DeepMind is reportedly developing a system that gives AI agents an “inner monologue” to help them learn tasks more efficiently. In a recent patent filing, Google’s AI lab outlined a method called “intra-agent speech to facilitate task learning,” where robots observe tasks through images or videos and generate natural language descriptions of what they see.…
Ukrainian Major General Vladyslav Klochkov says Russia is field-testing a deadly new drone that can use AI and thermal vision to think on its own, identifying targets without coordinates and bypassing most air defense systems. According to the senior military figure, inside you will find the Nvidia Jetson Orin, which has enabled the MS001 to…
Nationwide youth-led unrest intensifies over taxes, alleged abuses, and unmet promises. Protests in Nairobi and other cities have reignited public anger over new tax measures, alleged government corruption, and the death of a blogger in police custody, with demonstrators waving “Ruto must go” placards and demanding his resignation by 2027. Authorities responded with roadblocks, forceful…
Reciprocal drone volleys ground flights at major Russian airports and hit civilian areas. Russia and Ukraine each launched hundreds of drones in overnight and early-morning strikes, forcing delays and cancellations at regional airports as travelers sheltered from aerial warnings. Russian Shahed drones and a glide bomb killed four civilians in eastern Ukraine and wounded others…
Man arrested over synagogue arson amid wave of antisemitic attacks in Melbourne. Angelo Loras, 34, was charged with arson, endangering life, property damage, and possessing a controlled weapon after pouring flammable liquid on the front door of the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation during Shabbat services; no worshippers were injured. Police are also probing two other…
Attack on Magic Seas ends Houthi pause, sparks Israeli strikes on Yemeni ports. The crew of the Magic Seas abandoned their vessel after drone boats struck the bulk carrier about 100 kilometers southwest of Hodeidah, causing fire and flooding. Israel later warned of and launched airstrikes on three Houthi-held ports and the Ras al-Khatib power…
SQL injection flaw in Catwatchful stalkerware leaks 62,000 user records Catwatchful, an Android spyware disguised as parental-control software, contained an SQL injection vulnerability that exposed plaintext logins, passwords, and device-tracking data for more than 62,000 accounts, according to researcher Eric Daigle. The breach also revealed the operation’s administrator’s identity, Firebase database address, and linked device…
Hard-coded root credentials create a backdoor in Cisco’s Unified CM software Cisco patched a maximum-severity flaw in Unified Communications Manager and its SME edition after discovering immutable, development-only root credentials that allow unauthenticated remote login and full command execution. A standalone patch file is available now, and the fix will be built into the upcoming…
Misconfigured Azure Blob container spills nearly 26 million resumes, exposing job seekers’ data. Cybernews researchers discovered a misconfigured Microsoft Azure Blob storage container belonging to TalentHook that exposed almost 26 million CV files with full names, home addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, education details, and employment history. The leaked information enables tailored phishing, identity theft,…
Server-side request forgery exploit exposes DarkForums users’ IP addresses. An attacker known as “test55” exploited a server-side request forgery flaw in DarkForums.st—a major English-language cybercrime marketplace for stolen data, hacking tools, and illicit services. The critical flaw scrapes the IP addresses of anyone loading their posts. DarkForums administrators quietly launched a Tor-only onion domain to…
Firestorm Labs will distribute HP’s Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) 3D printing technologies in mobile and field-deployable environments. Securing exclusive distribution rights for this market, Firestorm Labs believes the deal will mark a ‘major leap forward’ in how commercial, humanitarian, and medical sectors respond to ‘urgent, on-the-ground needs.’ Through the partnership, HP’s Multi Jet Fusion technology…
Malaysian authorities have dismantled a network that used social media to spread ideology and raise funds for the Islamic State militant group among Bangladeshi nationals working in the country, its top police official said on Friday. Muslim-majority Malaysia has detained hundreds of people for suspected militant activities after a 2016 attack in the capital Kuala…
Myanmar’s ruling junta said on July 4 that it has already discharged 93 minors from military service, responding to a UN report in June accusing it and its allies of recruiting over 400 children, many in combat roles. In a rare admission published in its mouthpiece newspaper, the junta said it conducted a verification process…
Pakistani security forces killed 30 militants who attempted to enter the country from Afghanistan, the military said Friday. It said the members of the Pakistani Taliban were spotted overnight in the North Waziristan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the troops seized weapons, ammunition and explosives from the militants. The military’s statement did not mention…
Under the mild afternoon sun, 45-year-old Safiruddin sits outside his incomplete brick-walled house in Baiguni village of Kalai Upazila in Bangladesh, nursing a dull ache in his side. In the summer of 2024, he sold his kidney in India for 3.5 lakh taka ($2,900), hoping to lift his family out of poverty and build a…
Mali’s military authorities have granted coup leader Assimi Goita a five-year presidential mandate, renewable “as many times as necessary” and without requiring an election. The country’s transitional parliament approved the move on Thursday, clearing the way for Goita to lead Mali until at least 2030. “This is a major step forward in the rebuilding of…
India on Wednesday expressed deep concern over abduction of three Indian nationals in Mali amid a series of terrorist attacks in various parts of the West African country. A day after the Indians were abducted, New Delhi on Wednesday called upon the Mali government to take all necessary measures to secure their “safe and expeditious”…
President Donald Trump’s administration plans to restrict shipments of AI chips from the likes of Nvidia Corp. to Malaysia and Thailand, part of an effort to crack down on suspected semiconductor smuggling into China.A draft rule from the Commerce Department seeks to prevent China — to which the US has effectively banned sales of Nvidia’s…
When Ukrainian drones struck deep inside Russia last month and damaged strategic bombers once considered untouchable, it sent shock waves through military circles. Operation Spider’s Web was more than a display of technological ingenuity; it challenged longstanding assumptions about modern warfare. An outgunned but nimble force using off-the-shelf drones disrupted a far larger adversary. Speed,…
The European Union’s landmark rules on artificial intelligence will be rolled out according to the legal timeline in the legislation, the European Commission said on Friday, dismissing calls from some companies and countries for a pause. Google owner Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and other U.S. companies as well as European businesses such as Mistral and…
Daniel Gross, the former chief executive officer and co-founder of artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc., is joining Meta Platforms Inc.’s new superintelligence lab focused on AI. Gross will work on AI products for the superintelligence group, according to his spokesperson, Lulu Meservey. Meta just restructured its AI unit and has gone on a major…
Here’s a stylized history of US public stock markets. In the olden days, anyone could raise money for a project by selling stock to the public, and lots of people did, often by making false promises. This crested in the 1920s, as people rushed to buy stocks and borrow money to juice their speculative bets.…
QEDMA, a leading developer of quantum noise resilience solutions, announced today $26 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Glilot Capital Partners through its early growth fund, Glilot+, with new participation from IBM, Korea Investment Partners, and others, alongside existing investors including TPY Capital. QEDMA’s software solution, addresses the critical challenge of…
Ateam of MIT researchers has developed a new imaging technique that could allow quality control robots in warehouses to peer into closed boxes. Using this new technology, robots could peer into a cardboard shipping box and see that the handle of a mug is broken, for example. The new method could revolutionize warehouse quality control…
I’ve worked at the bleeding edge of robotics innovation in the United States for almost my entire professional life. Never before have I seen another country advance so quickly. In the span of the last few years, China has overtaken the U.S. as the leader in the robotics race, especially when it comes to humanoid…
CEOs are no longer dodging the question of whether AI takes jobs. Now they are giving predictions of how deep those cuts could go. “Artificial intelligence is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the U.S.,” Ford Motor Chief Executive Jim Farley said in an interview last week with author Walter Isaacson…
China is looking to invest in Brazil’s forest fund. China is likely to invest in a Brazil led global forest fund. The fund works to protect forest around the world from destruction. The move signals a greater willingness from China to invest in international environment issues. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/china-signals-investment-brazil-led-global-forest-fund-sources-say-2025-07-04/
South Africa’s ruiling party will continue its national dialogue without its coalition partner. South Africa’s ruiling party, the ANC, will continue its national dialogue program with the participation of the DA. The coalition between these two parties has been difficult due to several points of ideological conflict. However, the coalition is expected to continue even…
Palestine Action group loses bid to pause ban. The UK based group Palestine Action has lost its court bid to stop pause its ban. The court decision to not pause the ban means that the group is now label as a terrorist organization and support for it can result in criminal penalities. Parliament voted to…
Moldova is set to vote in parliamentary elections which will have implications for the Country’s EU policy. Moldova is et to hold parliamentary elections later this year. The Country’s President has said theis election will determine the fate of EU membership plans. The country has already approved a national referendum on joining the EU. Read…
Turns out that the digital infrastructure industry is so committed in its desire for future nuclear energy that it’s willing to sign up and pay for technology which doesn’t even commercially exist yet. Google has committed to a 200-MW offtake agreement with nuclear fusion firm Commonwealth Fusion Systems from its first-ever power plant to be…
Taiwan began preparations this week for its annual Han Kuang military exercise in response to what its government describes as escalating military pressure from China. The war games—scheduled to last 10 days and nine nights from July 9—are to be the largest ever across Taiwan proper and its outlying islands, officials said. More than 22,000…
Thailand’s opposition parties said on Thursday that they will hold off on launching a no-confidence vote against suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra pending a court ruling, but they vowed to work together to avoid political deadlock. Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday suspended Paetongtarn from her duties after accepting a petition from 36 senators who accused…
A Myanmar military fighter jet crashed in a combat zone in the country’s east, according to an anti-military resistance organization that claimed to have shot it down. State-run media reported about the disappearance of an aircraft. Maui, the vice commander-in-chief and Secretary No. 2 of the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force, or KNDF, told The Associated…
Rescuers were searching Thursday for 30 people who were missing after a ferry sank and four people died the previous night near Indonesia’s resort island of Bali. As of Thursday afternoon, 31 people had been rescued from the ferry’s 53 passengers and 12 crew members, the National Search and Rescue Agency said in a statement.…
US airstrikes on Iran set back the country’s nuclear programme by one to two years, a Pentagon spokesman said, adding to uncertainty around the status of the country’s facilities after President Donald Trump said they’d been obliterated. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said allies share the US sentiment about the degradation of Iran’s nuclear abilities…
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said a multibillion-dollar mega dam on the Blue Nile, which has caused deep consternation to downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan over its effect on their water supply, is complete and will be officially inaugurated in September. Of that regional concern over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Abiy said…
Swathes of China are on high alert for flash floods and landslides as unrelenting rain triggered deadly disasters and forced evacuations in multiple provinces. The torrential downpours, part of the annual “Plum Rains” season, have swept from the southwest through central China and up to the northeast, prompting red alerts in Sichuan, Gansu and Liaoning…
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