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China’s strategy for global dominance has gone digital, embedding itself in the systems we depend on and exploiting vulnerabilities to undermine U.S. national security.
Quantum technologies are showing great potential in computing, networking, and cybersecurity, creating profound opportunities and challenges – while demanding urgent preparation for a quantum-powered future.
The Department of Defense’s 2024 Annual Report to Congress on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China offers a comprehensive analysis of China’s evolving military capabilities, strategy, and its implications for global security
The National Quantum Initiative (NQI) Supplement to the President’s FY 2025 Budget is designed to underscore the federal government’s commitment to advancing quantum information science (QIS) to bolster economic prosperity and national security.
In what has become a seminal annual event at OODAcon, (find the full OODAcon 2024 agenda here), the OODAcon 2024 Annual Global Threat Brief is Johnny Sawyer and Jen Hoar in an interview format discussing the global threat environment.
Google’s Willow chip breakthrough underscores growing concerns about the vulnerability of Bitcoin and blockchain systems to quantum computing,
Recent reporting indicates that there is growing support among cyber policy professionals to elevate the role and authority of the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), a position whose roles and responsibilities have come in conflict in the past with the equally prominent Deputy National Security Advisor (DNSA) in charge of cyber and emerging technology at…
In this OODAcon 2024 presentation by Guillaume “Gil” Verdon – Gil created a movement called Effective Accelerationism (e/acc), – Gil delivered a hefty dose of fact-filled optimism as he painted an intensely positive view of current and future innovation.
Emerging technologies hold the key to tackling global challenges like national security threats and supply chain vulnerabilities, but emerging strategic tools are vital to align innovation with real-world priorities.
In an OODAcon 2024 conversation, OODA CEO Matt Devost and Dara Ladjevardian, CEO of Delphi, explored the cutting-edge realm of persona-based AI, focusing on how digital clones can amplify human productivity and interaction.
A new audit from the DOE inspector general titled, “Progress Is Needed to Support the Department of Energy’s Integration of Artificial Intelligence Into Intelligence Activities”, highlights significant gaps and challenges in DOE efforts to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for intelligence operations.
In this OODAcon 2024 session, Dr. James N. Miller, a former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and Will Hurd, a former Member of Congress and cybersecurity executive, conducted a net assessment of the global landscape.
The United States appears to be engaged in a new way to address China’s rampant cyber espionage – legislation.
The following is a summary of the vital takeaways from Dr. Amr Awadallah’s presentation at OODAcon 2024. Amr is the founder and CEO of Vectara – and delved into the current status of AI innovation on the stage at OODAcon 2024.
The emergence of cryptocurrency may reshape the global political economy, with the U.S. increasingly at the forefront of leveraging and accelerating its potential.
Forty-two people have been killed in four communities in central Nigeria in attacks blamed on itinerant herders, in the latest wave of violence that continues to upend life in the rural region. Reuters reports quote a local official, Victor Omnin, the chair of the Gwer West local government area in Benue state, as saying 10…
One day before President Donald Trump signed sweeping executive orders last week to streamline licensing for nuclear reactors and handling radioactive waste, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission official testified before Wyoming lawmakers highlighting the commission’s autonomy, independence and strong focus on safety. “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent federal agency led by five Senate-confirmed commissioners.…
A car ploughed into a crowd of Liverpool fans during a parade celebrating their side’s Premier League soccer title on Monday, hospitalising 27 people, with two seriously injured, but police said they did not believe the incident was terrorism-related. Police said they had arrested a “53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area,” whom they…
Iran has unveiled a new fleet of combat drones with capabilities for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), signaling a leap in warfare capabilities amid growing tensions with the United States, its state media reported. Newsweek has reached out to the Pentagon and Iran’s foreign ministry for comments. These drones, built for multiple military roles, highlight…
A little after 8:00 pm on May 8, red flares streaked through the night sky over the northern Indian city of Jammu as its air-defence systems opened fire on drones from neighbouring Pakistan. The Indian and Pakistani militaries have deployed high-end fighter jets, conventional missiles and artillery during decades of clashes, but the four days…
Authorities in India’s southern Kerala state have issued an alert after a ship carrying oil and hazardous cargo leaked and sank off the state’s coast in the Arabian Sea. The spill occurred in a Liberian-flagged vessel that capsized near Kochi city on Sunday. The coastal stretch is rich in biodiversity and is also an important…
At least five people have died and six more people are missing after a large explosion rocked a chemical plant in eastern China on Tuesday, according to local authorities. The blast spewed a towering plume of gray and orange smoke into the sky, damaged windows in nearby buildings and prompted a rescue operation. The incident…
Salesforce has acquired cloud data management firm Informatica in an $8 billion equity deal, marking a major move in its push to strengthen its AI and data infrastructure capabilities. The announcement, made Tuesday, comes about a year after early rumors of the acquisition sent both companies’ stock prices sliding. At the time, Informatica denied it…
A week after one of America’s largest self-driving truck companies promised the U.S. government it would stop sharing sensitive technology with Chinese partners, TuSimple transferred a trove of data to a Beijing-owned firm. “They want a lot of details,” Xiaoling Han, a U.S.-based TuSimple Holdings employee, said to a colleague. A leading Chinese commercial-truck manufacturer,…
Circle Internet Group, the firm behind stablecoin USDC, has filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, the firm said on Tuesday. Circle is offering 24 million of its class A shares, out of which 9.6 million is being offered by the firm, while 14.4 million shares are being offered by…
A new research paper by Google Quantum AI researcher Craig Gidney shows that breaking widely used RSA encryption may require 20 times fewer quantum resources than previously believed. The finding did not specifically mention bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, but took aim at the encryption methods that form the technical backbone used to secure crypto wallets…
With its clamp-shaped hands and legs that bend backwards, one of the latest humanoid robots tried to move a can from a supermarket shelf into a shopping basket in front of attendees at a Silicon Valley tech conference. “I missed 🙁,” the machine, made by Agility Robotics, told onlookers via an app before succeeding a…
Meta is restructuring its AI teams to speed up the rollout of new products and features, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Meta faces stiff competition in the AI race, including from OpenAI and Google as well as Chinese rivals such as TikTok parent ByteDance. In an internal memo sent Tuesday and seen by Axios,…
Today, I’m talking with Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. We recorded this conversation in person after the Google I/O developer conference last week in what’s becoming a bit of a Decoder tradition. This is the third year that we’ve done Decoder after I/O, and this one felt really different. Google is in a very…
Saronic Technologies announced the expansion of its international operations, strengthening its presence in Australia and launching its business in the United Kingdom. This increasing engagement represents the next phase of Saronic’s growth and commitment to delivering autonomous maritime capabilities to allied government and commercial customers. Saronic has enhanced its global presence with the promotion of…
Southern China has been battered by heavy rainfall over the past week, triggering landslides and flash floods, especially in Guangdong and Guangxi. As of Saturday 24 May, at least four people had died and 17 were missing, adding to a toll of seven deaths from other recent events. More than 400 emergency personnel have been…
At least 427 Rohingya, Myanmar’s Muslim minority, may have perished at sea in two shipwrecks on May 9 and 10, the United Nations said, in what would be another deadly incident for the persecuted group. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees(UNHCR) said in a statement on Friday that – if confirmed – the two incidents…
North Korean authorities have detained four officials over the recent failed launch of a naval destroyer, an incident that leader Kim Jong Un said was caused by criminal negligence, state media said. It’s rare for North Korea to publicly impose severe punishments against officials over botched weapons tests or military displays. The weekend arrests of…
On the surface, it was a routine closed-door meeting between Bangladesh’s interim leader and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and the chiefs of the country’s three armed forces, to discuss law and order. But the May 20 meeting came amid what multiple officials familiar with the internal workings of the government described to Al Jazeera as…
China has increased its ability to launch a sudden attack on Taiwan with faster-paced air and operations, new artillery systems and more alert amphibious and air assault units, according to Taiwanese and US officials and experts. One senior Taiwanese military official said Chinese air force and missile units that would play a role in a…
A new front for drone warfare has opened a two-hour flight south of Miami. Haiti’s besieged government is using drones strapped with explosives to strike gangs that have turned the nation’s capital into a hellscape.The government is relying on lightweight drones carrying rudimentary bombs to reach beyond the 10th of Port-au-Prince it controls. But the…
Artificial intelligence is a deep and convoluted world. The scientists who work in this field often rely on jargon and lingo to explain what they’re working on. As a result, we frequently have to use those technical terms in our coverage of the artificial intelligence industry. That’s why we thought it would be helpful to…
With rising global cancer rates necessitating new forms of diagnosis and treatment, Hong Kong-based biotech startup Phase Scientific International announced Tuesday it raised $34 million in a Series A funding round led by Asian asset management firm Value Partners Group. Under a private equity fund of Value Partners, which was cofounded by billionaire Cheah Cheng…
Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. I enjoyed digging through the prompts, since they act as a sort of unofficial manual for how best to use these tools. Here…
Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave Quantum on Tuesday announced the general availability of its sixth-generation quantum computer, the Advantage2. The company said the Advantage2 offers orders-of-magnitude greater performance compared to its prior system, expanding the tasks the company can accomplish in optimization problems. The machine even achieves the long-sought goal of quantum “supremacy,” says the company,…
OpenAI has established a legal entity in South Korea, seeking to propel further adoption of its artificial intelligence technologies. The ChatGPT-maker plans to open an office in Seoul in coming months and is hiring staff to support partnerships with companies and policymakers, it said in a release Monday. South Korea has the largest number of…
Humanoid robots from start-up Unitree Robotics showed off their fighting form at a unique kickboxing competition held in Hangzhou on Sunday, weeks after Beijing hosted the world’s first half-marathon where these machines raced alongside humans. Organised by state-owned China Media Group and broadcast live by China Central Television (CCTV), the competition saw four Unitree G1…
A group of AI researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, in Israel, has found that despite efforts by large language model (LLM) makers, most commonly available chatbots are still easily tricked into generating harmful and sometimes illegal information. In their paper posted on the arXiv preprint server, Michael Fire, Yitzhak Elbazis, Adi Wasenstein,…
A new study shows that quantum error correction can help real quantum computers run chemistry algorithms, marking a step toward scalable quantum applications. In the study, researchers at Quantinuum announce they have successfully demonstrated the first end-to-end quantum chemistry computation using quantum error correction (QEC), according to a paper posted recently on arXiv. The experiment…
On a windswept pier in Subic Bay, once the site of the United States’ largest overseas naval installation, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr stood before a newly minted guided-missile frigate and declared that his country would “not surrender anything” in defence of its maritime sovereignty. The commissioning of two naval vessels – including the 3,200-tonne…
The Trump administration is weighing a withdrawal of thousands of American troops from South Korea, according to defense officials familiar with the discussions, a move that could stir new anxiety among allies worried about the White House commitment to Asia. An option being developed by the Pentagon is to pull out roughly 4,500 troops and…
The Senate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has voted overwhelmingly in favour of lifting the immunity of ex-President Joseph Kabila. In a secret ballot on Thursday night, the parliament voted by 88 votes to five to make Kabila liable for prosecution. The former head of state has been accused of treason for…
The body of a man was found in a car trapped in floodwaters in Australia’s southeast on Friday, raising the death toll to four, after three days of incessant rain cut off entire towns, swept away livestock and destroyed homes. Police said the man was found near Coffs Harbour, around 550 km (342 miles) north…
The storm clouds for China were gathering when leader Xi Jinping convened the country’s top scientists at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in May 2018. The U.S. was beginning to clamp down on selling technology to China, with more restrictions on the way. China must not be forced to beg others for…
When an idealistic movement led by students toppled the increasingly autocratic government of Sheikh Hasina last August, millions of Bangladeshis celebrated the imminent revival of democracy. Almost nine months on, an appointed interim government is frustrating everyone who wanted to vote in new leaders right away. Now its celebrated leader, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate…
The contest in Silicon Valley to dominate artificial intelligence is playing out on a new court: superstar researchers. While the scramble to attract top talent and keep them happy has always been a hallmark of the tech industry, since ChatGPT launched in late 2022, recruiting has escalated to professional athlete levels, a dozen people who…
A group of big banks and other financial institutions are stepping up their efforts to tokenise global stock and bond markets by using solana, the blockchain best known for hosting the memecoins of Donald and Melania Trump. R3, a UK software group that has been developing blockchains for some of these big institutions, on Thursday…
Genmab has shared the first data on rinatabart sesutecan (Rina-S) in advanced endometrial cancer. The biotech reported a 50% unconfirmed response rate, beating the expectations of William Blair analysts to boost confidence in the program ahead of its move into phase 3. Rina-S is a FRα-directed ADC that Genmab picked up last year in its…
Quantum computers could crack a common data encryption technique once they have a million qubits, or quantum bits. While this is still well beyond the capabilities of existing quantum computers, this new estimate is 20 times lower than previously thought, suggesting the day encryption is cracked is closer than we think. The widely used RSA…
China’s UBTech Robotics Corp. is planning to unveil a $20,000 humanoid robot that can serve as a household companion this year, seeking to expand beyond factories. The company sees “home companion” robots as a bright spot in China partly because of the growing need for elderly care, Chief Brand Officer Michael Tam told Bloomberg News…
Apple Inc. is aiming to release smart glasses at the end of next year as part of a push into AI-enhanced gadgets, but it has shelved plans for a smartwatch that can analyze its surroundings with a built-in camera.Company engineers are ramping up work on the glasses — a rival to Meta Platforms Inc.’s popular…
Anthropic, the Amazon-backed OpenAI rival, on Thursday launched its most powerful group of artificial intelligence models yet: Claude 4. The company said the two models, called Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, are defining a “new standard” when it comes to AI agents and “can analyze thousands of data sources, execute long-running tasks, write…
Iraq and China have signed a deal concerning the expansion of the Tuba oilfield. Iraq and China’s Geo-Jade have signed a to expand the Tuba oilfield. Geo-Jade plans to invest over $800 million in the region. The deal is expected to increase production by 100,000 barrels per day. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/iraq-chinas-geo-jade-sign-deal-tuba-oilfield-expansion-2025-05-23/
A Venezuelan opposition leader has been arrested. A major Venezuelan opposition leader has been arrested. Government officials reguarly investigate and arrest opposition figures. This arrest was carried out days before parliamentary elections are scheduled to being. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-opposition-leader-guanipa-under-arrest-interior-minister-2025-05-23/
Nigeria has signed an agreement with to open lithium processing plants backed by China. Nigeria has signed agreements to open two lithium processing plants with the backing of Chinese companies. The plants are expected to unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in mineral wealth. The agreements were signed as part of a set of recommendations…
North Macedonia aims to persue talks with Bulgaria. North Macedonia has said they want to persue talks with Bulgaria at an upcoming NATO summit. North Macedonia’s EU membership has been held up by Bulgaria over disputes related to recognition of minority groups in North Macedonia. North Macedonia has asked NATO and EU officials to moderate…
The leader of the Qakbot gang has been indicted by the United States. The leader of the Russian Qakbot gang has been indicted in the US. The Qakbot malware has been used in various forms since 2008 and the US has alleged that the current leader of the group helped develop the original version. The…
European authorities have disrupted the DanaBot botnet. European authorities have announced that they have taken action to disrupt the DanaBot Botnet. They have arrested 16 suspects and taken down 300 servers used by the Botnet. The United States also took part in the operation and said that the Botnet had compromised over 300,000 devices. Read…
Researchers found Chinese linked hackers exploited a Cityworks zero-day exploit to attack governments. Researchers have discovered that Chinese linked hackers have exploited a Cityworks zero-day exploit to attack local governments in the United States. The Researchers said that the attacks used the exploit to deploy malware and infiltrate sensitive systems.
Chinese hackers have exploited vulnerabilities in Ivanti. Researchers have found that Chinese hackers have been exploiting several vulnerabilities in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile. The attacks were focused on gaining access to critical systems related to government operations. Updates have been deployed to patch most of the vulnerabilities. Read more: https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-spies-exploit-ivanti-vulnerabilities-against-critical-sectors/
China and the Philippines traded accusations on Thursday following a confrontation between two of their vessels in contested waters of the South China Sea, the latest incident in a long-running maritime standoff in the strategic waterway. The Philippines’ fisheries bureau said the lives of a civilian crew were put at risk when the Chinese Coast…
Twenty-one people have been trapped after torrential rain triggered landslides in China’s southwestern Guizhou province on Thursday, with the military deployed to assist in rescue efforts. One landslide struck Qingyang village trapping 19 people from eight different households, state broadcaster CCTV reported citing preliminary reports. A further two were trapped in nearby Changshi township, the…
MFE Inspection Solutions, the leading provider of advanced inspection tools, has been granted a broad BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) waiver by the FAA to operate the Skydio X10 and Dock for X10. Skydio’s Regulatory Services team secured the waiver in partnership with MFE. MFE’s new waiver is expansive, allowing it to fly drone…
Sri Lanka’s long-standing policy of non-alignment is facing renewed scrutiny, as deepening ties with India strain its neutrality amid rising tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad. Analysts say Colombo’s recent tilt towards India in the security realm – most notably through a formal defence pact – risks unsettling its delicate balancing act, particularly as it…
North Korea has placed a cover over a destroyer that suffered damage in a botched launch attempt, with the vessel now appearing to be on its side and partially submerged, satellite imagery indicates. The 5,000-ton Choe Hyon-class destroyer — one of the North Korea’s largest warships — was a key part of the state’s naval…
The British government has finalised a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after a court-ordered injunction briefly delayed the signing, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said. Speaking to reporters on Thursday afternoon, Starmer said the deal is “absolutely vital for our defence and intelligence, and therefore, for the safety and security of…
Foreign investors could once barely imagine that China would invade neighbouring Taiwan, but with Donald Trump as president of the United States, many view it as a tail-risk scenario they must prepare for, although they cannot find ways to do so. The democratically-governed island has long been a point of contention in U.S.-China relations, which…
Qatar plans to pour $1 billion over the next decade into quantum computing, one of the biggest government sponsorships of the technology. A joint venture between US quantum computing company Quantinuum and privately held Qatari investment firm Al Rabban Capital is spearheading the effort to boost adoption in Qatar and the Gulf. The government’s investment…
Google this week announced a series of impressive AI updates at its IO developer conference, including improved video generation, expanded AI Mode in search, and an advanced reasoning architecture called Deep Think. But the news came as the AI industry reckons with questions about how much better these models can get, and whether there is…
Heavy industry remains one of the last frontiers of automation. In an age of digital transformation, many of society’s foundational industries – shipbuilding, construction, offshore energy – remain predominantly analogue. These sectors form the physical backbone of our economies, yet their production methods are often manual, slow and difficult to scale or decarbonize. This presents…
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