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A new body of reports reveals how Beijing’s state-backed networks are embedding control across semiconductors, software, and infrastructure, transforming commercial interdependence into strategic dominance.
The global race to secure rare earths has moved beneath the waves. Undersea nodule mining near Palau and along the U.S. coastline could become a strategic counterweight to China’s control over critical minerals—if environmental and regulatory barriers can be managed.
This integrated assessment explores how geoeconomic transformations are unfolding across the Americas, the Northern Frontier of Mexico, the Arctic, and Africa, drawing from recent OODA Loop analyses.
How Statecraft, Finance, and Technology Are Reshaping Global Power in the Era of Polycrisis.
The upcoming OODAcon 2025 session “Securing Internet First Principles; Access, Privacy, and Expression in the Age of Disruptive Technology”—a fireside chat with SnowStorm CEO Serene—arrives at a critical inflection point for global digital governance.
For over half a century, the Office of Net Assessment (ONA) served as the Pentagon’s internal think tank for long-term competition, strategic foresight, and technological offset. Its founder, Andrew W. Marshall, known as “Yoda,” designed it to peer decades ahead, comparing U.S. military and technological trajectories against those of potential adversaries.
Law Firms Are Prime Targets for APT When the suspected nation state hackers came for Williams & Connolly, they didn’t do it with a crowbar and a ransom note. They slipped through an unpatched crease in the digital plaster, a zero-day exploit, gaining access into a “small number” of attorney email accounts. The incident appears…
The National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) 22025 report, mandated by Congress and delivered to the White House and DoD, calls for urgent modernization of U.S. bio-innovation governance to counter China’s accelerating state-driven biotech expansion
Biological Smoke Detectors for the Digital Age: A Better Future of AI and Bio Security In recent years, I’ve observed a concerning trend in discussions about artificial intelligence and biotechnology: the rise of “doomers” who paint apocalyptic scenarios about these technologies. While I acknowledge these technologies present real risks, as someone who served as a…
In a bold escalation of private-sector engagement with national security, JPMorgan Chase has announced a $1.5 trillion “Security and Resiliency Initiative” aimed at strengthening the U.S. industrial base, critical infrastructure, and technological competitiveness.
Operate, Don’t Wait: The Quantum Mission Test I spent over 20 years in clandestine work. In all that time, not a single operation was risk-free. Risk is in the DNA. The decisive question was always the same: after we mitigated all possible risk with tradecraft, did the expected gain justify the risk? That isn’t recklessness;…
IBM and Anthropic are pushing forward a new standard for enterprise-grade AI with the Model Content Protocol (MCP), an emerging framework for securely connecting AI agents with enterprise data and applications.
China has dramatically expanded its export controls on rare earth minerals, further tightening its grip on materials critical for defense, technology, and semiconductor industries. China’s Ministry of Commerce issued the new restrictions on 9 October 2025. The new restrictions add five more rare earth elements to the controlled list, meaning China now restricts the export…
The accelerating use of drones by Mexican and transnational cartels signals a dangerous shift: illicit groups are scaling drone warfare from tactical innovation to a global architecture of power.
North Korea’s missile tests involved a new system seeking to strenghten its nuclear war deterrent. On Wednesday, North Korea conducted a missile test. One day later, the Korean Central News Agency reported that these missiles included a new hypersonic system, and that this was meant to strengthen North Korea’s nuclear war deterrent. They also reported…
57 South Korean nationals were arrested in Cambodia on Wednesday. On Thursday, Cambodian police said they arrested 57 South Korean nationals based on allegations of their involvement in online scams. The arrests happened during a police raid of a building near the capital, Phnom Penh. Accompanying the raid was a group of South Korean lawmakers…
A state of emergency is called in Peru as police are patrolling the streets. On Wednesday, the first day of the state of emergency, residents of Peru’s capital saw increased police and military presence. This is following the election of President José Jerí, who is attempting to reduce crime. This state of emergency waives several…
Two buses and two other vehicles crashed on Wednesday, killing at least 46 people. According to police, two bus drivers going in opposite directions attempted to overtake other vehicles and crashed into each other near the town of Kiryandongo. The police originally gave a death toll of 63, but then revised their statement saying that…
On Wednesday, Verizon published its 2025 Mobile Security Index. The Mobile Security Index is a report based on a survey of nearly 800 professionals involved in mobile security. They found that 85% of organizations have been seeing an increase in mobile device attacks. Only 17% of organizations have been using specific security controls against AI-assisted…
A flaw in Adobe Commerce can be exploited, putting many sites at risk. The patch, originally created in September, leaked one week before the hotfix was released. The flaw has been described as an improper input validation issue leading to security feature bypass. Active exploitation of this flaw has begun, with about 250 attacks observed…
A vulnerability in the Rust library could allow attackers to steal archive entries. The security defect is described as a desynchronization issue that occurs during the processing of nested TAR files with a specific mismatch between PAX and ustar headers. The bug could lead to remote code execution. According to Edera, the company that reported…
Jewett-Cameron says hackers stole sensitive information and are demanding a ransom. In a filing on Tuesday, Jewett-Cameron revealed that it detected an intrusion into its IT environment on October 15. The attack has led to disruptions, leaving the company unable to access some business applications. The company believes that the intrusion has been contained and…
Google DeepMind—Google’s artificial intelligence development subsidiary—recently announced a new partnership with fusion start-up Commonwealth Fusion Systems. The goal of this collaboration is to leverage AI to both advance plasma simulation and discover novel control strategies, ultimately accelerating CFS’s timeline to deliver commercial fusion to the grid. Google has a vested interest in CFS’s timeline to…
An unidentified gunman fatally shot an opposition Sri Lankan politician at his office Wednesday, making him the first politician killed in a spate of shootings that have gripped the island nation in recent months. Lasantha Wickramasekara, the head of the council of the coastal town of Weligama, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) south of the…
North Korea performed its first ballistic missile tests in five months Wednesday, days before U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders are expected to meet in South Korea. South Korea’s military said it detected multiple short-range ballistic missiles that were launched from an area south of Pyongyang and flew about 350 kilometers (220 miles) toward…
Thailand’s recently removed prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra resigned Wednesday as leader of the party founded by her father, ex-premier Thaksin, signalling the potential end of the family’s decades-long political dynasty. Paetongtarn, 39, served less than a year as prime minister before being sacked by a court in August over an ethics breach related to her…
Taiwan reported its first cases of African swine fever on Wednesday and culled at least 195 pigs from the affected farm. Authorities also ordered a ban on the movement and slaughter of pigs across the island. The Ministry of Agriculture said that samples from dead pigs from a farm in the coastal city of Taichung…
At least 46 people were killed when four vehicles crashed on a highway in western Uganda in one of the worst motor accidents in the East African country in recent years. Police initially gave the death toll as 63 in a statement sent to reporters, but later revised it to 46, saying in another statement…
At least 40 migrants from sub-Saharan African countries have died after their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia on Wednesday, in one of the deadliest maritime tragedies in the region this year, an official said. The boat, carrying about 70 migrants, sank near the coastal city of Mahdia, the official added. Tunisia has become…
China has launched a raft of new questionnaires for US semiconductor businesses in an effort to discover data on the companies’ activities in China, and particularly how their prices, income, and profits differ between native US sales and those in Asian territories, like China, via Bloomberg. Although no companies have been named specifically, the wording…
Building on our previous disclosure of the Perplexity Comet vulnerability, we’ve continued our security research across the agentic browser landscape. What we’ve found confirms our initial concerns: indirect prompt injection is not an isolated issue, but a systemic challenge facing the entire category of AI-powered browsers. This post examines additional attack vectors we’ve identified and…
A thousand days. That’s how long the United States has to get serious about emerging biological threats spurred by advances in biotechnology and AI, or so argues Drew Endy, a Stanford University professor of bioengineering and one of the country’s leading experts in synthetic biology. Endy co-authored a Hoover Institution report released earlier this month…
A San Francisco-based startup is developing humanoid robots designed specifically for combat, breaking ranks with major robotics companies that have pledged not to weaponize their technology. NewsNation got an exclusive look at Phantom MK-1, a 5-foot-9-inch, 175-pound humanoid robot created by Foundation capable of carrying up to 44 pounds.The company is actively seeking contracts with…
Last year OpenAI hired Chrome engineer Darin Fisher, which sparked speculation they might have their own browser in the pipeline. Today it arrived. ChatGPT Atlas is a Mac-only web browser with a variety of ChatGPT-enabled features. You can bring up a chat panel next to a web page, which will automatically be populated with the…
General Motors is targeting a suite of new software initiatives for its vehicles over the next three years, including an in-vehicle artificial intelligence assistant from Google and a driver-assistance system that can largely control the vehicle without human interaction or monitoring. GM said the conversational Google Gemini AI will begin launching in its vehicles next…
Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path for useful applications of quantum technology within five years. The “Quantum Echoes” algorithm, detailed in a paper published Wednesday in the science journal Nature, is verifiable,…
Meta will lay off roughly 600 employees within its artificial intelligence unit as the company looks to reduce layers and operate more nimbly, a spokesperson confirmed to CNBC on Wednesday. The company announced the cuts in a memo from its Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who was hired in June as part of Meta’s $14.3…
North Korea performed a ballistic missile test on Wednesday, shooting east. On Wednesday, North Korea performed its first ballistic missile test in 5 months. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff report that the missile was launched in an eastward direction and that it landed in the water. This is just days before South Korea is…
Torrential rains in Mexico damaged a pipeline, causing an oil spill. Torrential rains in Mexico that caused the deaths of 76 people from October 6th through October 10th also damaged a pipeline. This lead to a 5-mile oil spill along the Pantepec River. The Pantepec River supplies water for many communities, including the city of…
Tropical Storm Melissa formed on Tuesday in the Caribbean. On Tuesday, Topical Storm Melissa formed in the Caribbean Sea. Forecasters warn that the storm could hit Haiti and Jamaica later this week. Melissa was 310 miles south-southwest of Haiti as of Tuesday evening, and was heading west at 15 mph. Officials are warning that Haiti…
At least 20 protesters were arrested following the presidential election on October 12th. Last week, opposition candidate, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, claimed victory over Paul Biya, the current president. Biya’s party rejected this declaration. The final official results are expected to be announced by the constitutional council by October 26th. Following the election, protests broke out…
A threat actor has been targeting organizations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This campain has been dubbed “PassiveNeuron” and has ongoing for at least two years. Three implants used in the campaign over the past two years have been identified, those being Neursite (a custom C++ modular backdoor), NeuralExecutor (a custom .NET implant), and…
Vulnerabilities have been found in Apple, Kentico, and Microsoft. On Monday, CISA added a Microsoft SMB Client vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) list. Bugs in Kentico were also added to the list. These bugs were reported to allow hackers to control administrative objects. Additionally on Monday, CISA warned of an Apple code execusion…
Malware dubbed GlassWorm is being used to target supply chains. Dubbed GlassWorm, this malware was designed to steal information from its victims through NPM, GitHub, and Git credentials. Additionally, it was designed to drain funds from 49 cryptocurrency extensions. Koi Security states that what makes GlassWorm stand out is its use of Unicode variation selectors.…
Recent vulnerability in WatchGuard Firebox leaves over 73,000 devices at risk. Recently, a vulnerability was discovered in WatchGuard Firebox which leaves over 73,000 devices at risk. This, like other firewalls, is meant to protect the network, however a bug in certain Fireware OS versions puts users at risk. According to WatchTowr, the bug can be…
Global quantum computing leader Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) has strengthened its strategic leadership by appointing Colin Bell, former CEO of HSBC Bank plc and HSBC Europe, to its board of directors. The appointment reinforces OQC’s position across finance, defence, and critical national infrastructure sectors. His distinguished career includes senior executive positions at HSBC and UBS,…
A drone attack has hit an area near the international airport in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, a day before it was set to resume domestic flights for the first time since war broke out in 2023. Residents of the city reported hearing explosions in several districts early on Tuesday morning. Social media images – yet to…
Demonstrations for the release of a separatist leader in Nigeria’s capital city turned violent on Monday as police fired tear gas and arrested dozens of protesters, as well as a journalist with French news agency Agence France-Presse, or AFP, who was released shortly afterwards. Witnesses and journalists also reported hearing gunshots amid pockets of clashes…
A tropical storm lashed the northern and central Philippines over the weekend, killing seven people after forcing more than 22,000 people to evacuate from flood- and landslide-prone villages. Tropical Storm Fengshen blew away from the main northern Philippine region of Luzon into the South China Sea late Sunday. It currently has sustained winds of up…
Myanmar’s military has shut down a major online scam operation near the border with Thailand, detaining more than 2,000 people and seizing dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals, state media reported Monday. Myanmar is notorious for hosting cyberscam operations responsible for bilking people all over the world. These usually involve gaining victims’ confidence online with…
Rebels occupying Twangiza Mining’s gold concession in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have looted at least 500 kilograms of bullion since May, the company told Reuters, accusing some of its own employees of aiding the theft. At current prices, the looted gold is worth around $70 million. The mine is located in South Kivu…
Five other teenagers, who survived the shooting, have been rushed to hospital. The incident happened in Croesus Street around on Tuesday afternoon. Gauteng Police spokesperson Brenda Muridili said no arrests have been made. “It is reported that the six, aged between 13 and 19 years, were shot at by three suspects believed to be from…
Taiwan has for the first time formally outlined the circumstances under which its troops can shoot down incoming drones. The move is part of a broader effort by the island’s defence ministry to codify its rules of engagement and strengthen its ability to respond to mounting military pressure from mainland China.The new procedures, disclosed in…
Anthropic on Monday announced Claude for Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers to use the company’s artificial intelligence technology in the advancement of scientific discovery. Claude for Life Sciences is built around Anthropic’s existing AI models, but supports new connections with other scientific tools that are commonly used in labs during research and development.…
Chinese AI company Deepseek has built an OCR system that compresses image-based text documents for language models, aiming to let AI handle much longer contexts without running into memory limits. The main idea is that processing text as an image can use less compute than working with the digital text itself. According to Deepseek’s technical…
Muon Space has announced a partnership with Starlink to establish an “industry-first [of] persistent optical connectivity in orbit.” In an email to Tom’s Hardware, the company revealed that the agreement marks the start of a new era where satellites function less like isolated machines and more like live, Internet-connected platforms in orbit. Traditional communications satellites…
Over the past two decades, no company has done more to shape the American workplace than Amazon. In its ascent to become the nation’s second-largest employer, it has hired hundreds of thousands of warehouse workers, built an army of contract drivers and pioneered using technology to hire, monitor and manage employees. Now, interviews and a…
OpenAI has more than 100 ex-investment bankers helping train its artificial intelligence on how to build financial models as it looks to replace the hours of grunt work performed by junior bankers across the industry. The group, which includes former employees of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., are part…
Tether, the world’s largest issuer of USD-pegged stablecoins, said its user base has hit 500 million for the first time. “USDT reached officially 500 million users,” CEO Paolo Ardoino said in a post to X. “Likely the biggest financial inclusion achievement in history.” Total supply for Tether’s USDT stablecoin is at nearly $182 billion, according…
Unitree Robotics has teased a new humanoid model in a short video on its social media channels, its most humanlike model to date. In the video, the H2 model performed a series of dexterous dance moves – including perfectly executed pirouettes and arabesques – and sported a strikingly human face modelled in silver with well-defined…
The spotlight materials for quantum computers are usually the photogenic ones — the golden chandeliers of superconducting circuits, the shimmering chips cooled to near absolute zero, or the trapped ions dancing in vacuum chambers. But the spotlight has now shifted with China’s new export restrictions on rare-earth minerals — and the United States’ swift reaction…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new currency of global power, and China is amassing it at scale. In 2017, China declared its ambition to become the world’s leading AI power by 2030 and has pumped in billions, spurring domestic innovation. Between the state and the private sector, the country is projected to spend nearly $100…
A new road connecting the Baltic states and Poland has opended. A new section of the Via Baltica highway has opened, linking Poland with Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, enhancing military and civilian mobility in the region. The road is seen as strategically important amid rising tensions with Russia, especially following its invasion of Ukraine. NATO…
Nigerian police and clashed with protesters. Nigerian police fired tear gas and arrested 26 people during protests demanding the release of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu and the independence of Biafra. Protesters claim police killed eight people, but authorities deny the deaths and say only non-lethal force was used to disperse crowds who allegedly threw petrol…
Japan is set to elect its first female prime minister. Japan’s parliament is set to elect Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister, following a coalition deal between her Liberal Democratic Party and the right-wing Japan Innovation Party. Takaichi, an ultraconservative and protégé of Shinzo Abe, is known for her nationalist views, opposition…
The Houthis have released some UN staff. Houthi rebels in Yemen released five detained Yemeni U.N. staff members and allowed 15 international staff to move freely within the U.N. compound in Sanaa after holding them over the weekend. U.N. spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric confirmed that Houthi security forces had left the compound, following a pattern of…
A Cameroonian-flagged ship caught fire off the coast of Yemen on Saturday. The Falcon, a Cameroonian-flagged ship caught fire off the coast of Yemen on Saturday, leaving 1 mariner missing and another potentially still on board. The ship, which caught fire approximately 210 kilometers East of Aden, is at risk of exploding as it contains…
Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa term likely to be extended 2 years. ZANU-PF, the party which has been in power since 1980, adopted a resolution at their annual conference directing the government to make the necessary amendments to extend Mnangagwa’s term. Following Zimbabwe’s Constitution, Mnangagwa is set to step down after two five-year terms in 2028. President…
Afghanistan and Pakistan entered a ceasefire on Sunday. After a month of increased violence between the two countries, Afganistan and Pakistan agreed to enter a ceasefire on Sunday. This agreement was mediated by Qatar and Turkey, and will go into effect immediately. Zabihullah Mujahid, the chief spokesman of the Taliban government, gave a positive response…
Rodrigo Paz won Bolivia’s presidential election on Sunday. Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator, won Bolivia’s presidential election on Sunday with 54% of the vote. Paz and his popular running mate, Edman Lara, gained support from rural and working-class voters who were unhappy with the Movement Towards Socialism party. Paz plans to end Bolivia’s fixed exchange…
Last month hackers stole confidential, proprietary, and personal information from Prosper. Prosper disclosed a data breach last month, stating that hackers stole confidential, proprietary, and personal information. According to the company, hackers queried its database to extract the information, but did not access user accounts. Have I Been Pwned has added the stolen information to…
Sotheby’s disclosed a data breach that it discovered on July 24th. On July 24th, Sotheby’s discovered that hackers had stolen sensitive data including information such as name, SSN, and financial account data. The affected people, the number of which is currently unknown, have been offered 12 months of free credit monitoring services from Sotheby’s. It…
China accuses the U.S. National Security Agency of a cyberattack. On Sunday, the Ministry of State Security made a WeChat post accusing the U.S. National Security Agency of stealing information from the National Time Service Center’s staff in 2022. The post also alleged that the U.S. National Security Agency used cyberattack weapons to infiltrate the…
United States foreign adversaries are using AI to improve cyberattacks. The United States is a common target for cyberattacks, according to Microsoft. The company has found increased use of AI in cyberattacks from the U.S.’s foreign adversaries in the past few months. AI can be used to improve cyberattacks through channels such as translating phishing…
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