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The U.S. government has issued an executive order (EO) to establish the nation’s leadership in digital financial technology, signaling significant regulatory and strategic changes for the cryptocurrency sector.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) dominated the tech landscape during the past year integrating into business with companies seeking to improve their operations, work more efficiently, automate wherever possible, and generally enhance their operations
Generative AI is revolutionizing the innovation process by enhancing human creativity, accelerating product development, and driving strategic advantage.
A recent analysis by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), entitled The AI Maturity Matrix: Which Economies Are Ready for AI? highlights that while many organizations are making strides in AI adoption, most are still far from achieving true AI maturity, leading to significant risks to economic stability, job markets, and geopolitical power dynamics.
OODA Loop research and Network conversations throughout 2024 revealed the evolving responsibilities and strategic imperatives of boards of directors in cybersecurity governance.
In this OODAcon 2024 session, geostrategist and author Thomas Barnett provided a deep dive into the evolving geopolitical landscape based on his latest book, America’s New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse.
Scenario planning is an essential strategic tool that enables organizations to anticipate, prepare for, and navigate future risks and opportunities. By employing structured methodologies and leveraging advanced technologies, scenario planning fosters resilience and innovation across industries.
In this session at OODAcon 2024. Molly Just Behr, leader of the CHIPS Coordination Cell (C3) at the Department of Defense (DoD), explored the U.S. strategies and programs designed to mitigate supply chain risks, strengthen national security, and ensure technological superiority in a competitive global environment.
According to recent reporting, in the dwindling time left in office, the Biden Administration is racing to put out a cybersecurity Executive Order (EO) focusing on the recent spate of alleged China intrusions against U.S. organizations. Among the directives in the undated draft of the report seen by one news outlet the government intends to mandate “strong…
In this OODAcon 2024 session, Jason Healey of Columbia University and Dor Sarig of Pillar Security shed light on the transformative power of AI in cybersecurity in an era of escalating cyber risks.
I believe I have found a useful analogy that can help explain the new approach of Thermodynamic Computing: Surfing. The surfer harnessing the thermodynamic power of the ocean to surf.
Disruptive technologies like AI, quantum computing, biotechnology, and clean energy are revolutionizing industries, unlocking abundance, and solving systemic challenges once thought insurmountable.
The OODA Loop 2024 Year-End Reviews consolidate insights on federal policies, geopolitical risks, technological advancements, and cybersecurity trends to prepare decision-makers for the challenges and opportunities of 2025.
Russia’s recent strides in artificial intelligence development signal an intensification of a new kind of arms race—one where algorithms and neural networks become tools of coercion, disruption, and control
This OODAcon 2024 panel explored how convergence across domains such as AI, biotechnology, space/aerospace, and energy can help identify and accelerate technological advancements.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the technology giant has won approval from the Trump administration to sell its advanced H20 computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence to China — a reversal of administration policy. The news came in a company blog post late Monday. Huang also spoke about the coup on China’s state-run CGTN…
Israel strikes tanks amid deadly Druze-Bedouin clashes in southern Syria. Israeli forces bombed military tanks poised to enter Sweida after clashes broke out between Druze militias and Sunni Bedouin clans that also drew in Syrian security troops. Government statements report over 30 civilians killed and nearly 100 wounded, while a U.K.-based war monitor recorded about…
Earthquake off the Panama coast causes no damage. A preliminary 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck off Panama’s Pacific coast on Monday, centered about 130 miles south of Punta Burica at a depth of 10 kilometres in Chiriquí province near the Costa Rica border. The tremor was felt across western Panama at midday but produced no injuries,…
Cambodia to activate conscription amid Thai border tensions. Prime Minister Hun Manet announced that Cambodia will begin enforcing its 2006 conscription law in 2026 after years of dormancy, citing recent armed clashes with Thailand as the driving force. Young Cambodians aged 18 to 30 of both sexes will be required to serve up to 24…
Imports rebound modestly as Southeast Asian and European markets pick up slack. China’s exports rose 5.8 percent year-on-year in June after companies and consumers rushed orders ahead of an August US tariff deadline, with imports also rebounding to grow 1.1 percent. Shipments to the United States still fell by 16 percent but the decline eased…
Kigen eSIM vulnerability lets attackers clone and spy on billions of profiles. Security Exploration researchers in Poland have exploited a GSMA test-profile gap and an insufficient bytecode verification in Kigen’s eUICC Java Card VM to extract decryption keys and eSIM profiles. This flaw permits cloning, spoofing, and over-the-air or physical interception of subscriber credentials from…
Rezayat Group data surfaces on Everest ransomware leak site. Hackers claiming affiliation with the Everest cartel posted screenshots of what they say are 10 GB of exfiltrated Rezayat documents, including client contracts and technical drawings. Cybernews analysts warn that exposed agreements and schematics could undermine customer trust and pave the way for tailored supply-chain attacks,…
Global task force dismantles Microsoft tech-support scam. India’s CBI joined forces with the UK’s NCA, the US’s FBI, and Microsoft to shut down a Noida call center that impersonated Microsoft support, targeting over 100 UK and US customers with spoofed calls and fake pop-up alerts. Victims paid fees for bogus “software solutions,” losing at least…
Unsecured End-of-Train radio protocol enables remote brake manipulation. CISA disclosed that CVE-2025-1727 affects the radio link between End-of-Train and Head-of-Train devices, which lacks authentication and encryption and can be spoofed with inexpensive software-defined radios to inject unauthorized brake commands. Researchers first reported the flaw over a decade ago, but the rail industry only agreed in…
“The home is coming,” Brett Adcock, the founder of robotics company Figure AI, says. “The home is like single-digit years away” from being a place where humanoid robots can do “useful work,” he said this week on Around the Prompt, a tech podcast. That is, first and foremost, thanks to advances in hardware, which have…
An earthquake of 6.8 magnitude struck the Tanimbar Islands chain in southeastern Indonesia on Monday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. No tsunami threat has been issued so far after the earthquake struck at a depth of 10km (6.21 miles), GFZ said. Tremors were felt in several small towns in eastern Indonesia, the…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa placed police minister Senzo Mchunu on immediate leave of absence on Sunday, following accusations by a top police official that he had colluded with a criminal syndicate and interfered in high-profile investigations. Mchunu denied the allegations by Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, police commissioner of KwaZulu-Natal province, at a media briefing last Sunday.…
Rebels affiliated with the Islamic State group killed 66 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said Saturday. Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which has ties to IS, killed civilians in the area of Irumu in the east of the country bordering Uganda. The attack comes as eastern Congo may see…
Australia launched missiles from its M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as HIMARS, on Monday during live-fire exercises at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area, a 4,500 square kilometer (1,700 square mile) Outback expanse in Queensland state. The HIMARS launchers were recently bought from the United States. “Today was the first time the Australian Army…
North Korea has continued to supply millions of artillery shells and other munitions to Russia since the start of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, according to military data submitted to a South Korean lawmaker. Pyongyang is believed to have shipped more than 28,000 containers loaded with artillery shells and other munitions to Russia, South Korea’s Defense…
Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of a Kenyan mask vendor killed by police, as opposition leaders demanded the resignation of President William Ruto over comments he made sanctioning the use of violence in recent protests. The funeral of 22-year-old Boniface Kariuki, shot at point-blank range by an officer in riot gear during a…
The number of scam centers in eastern Myanmar is expanding at a rapid pace. Even after a large-scale crackdown in February, construction has continued — underscoring that criminal hubs have not been eradicated. Nikkei analyzed satellite imagery and eyewitness testimony to reveal the scale and persistence of the crisis. A man from South Asia who…
Rumors indicate Amazon is reportedly considering an additional investment in AI firm Anthropic, which would bring its total stake to over $8 billion, according to Reuters. This would cement Amazon as the company’s largest investor and signal that it remains more interested in profiting from the explosive growth of the AI industry than directly competing…
On a patch of dirt in the vast wilderness in Alaska, a long-range drone roared like a lawn mower as it shot into the sky. It scanned the ground for a target it had been programmed to recognize, and then dived, attempting to destroy it by crashing into it. But it missed, landing about 80…
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company is building several massive data centers to power its artificial intelligence efforts with the first one expected to come online next year.“We’re calling the first one Prometheus and it’s coming online in ‘26,” Zuckerberg said in a post on his social platform Threads on…
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., a global medical technology leader, and Monogram Technologies Inc., an orthopedic robotics company, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for Zimmer Biomet to acquire all outstanding shares of stock of Monogram for an upfront payment of $4.04 per share in cash, corresponding to an equity value of approximately…
The latest Chinese generative artificial intelligence model to take on OpenAI’s ChatGPT is offering coding capabilities — at a lower price. Alibaba-backed startup Moonshot released on late Friday night its Kimi K2 model: a low-cost, open source large language model — the two factors that underpinned China-based DeepSeek’s industry disruption in January. Open-source technology provides…
Bitcoin breached $120,000 for the first time, with investor enthusiasm showing few signs of dimming as the US House of Representatives prepares to consider key industry legislation during its “Crypto Week” starting Monday. The cryptocurrency bellwether rose as much 3.4% to $123,205 before giving up some gains to trade around $121,600 as of 9:19 a.m.…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has downplayed Washington’s concerns that the Chinese military will use advanced U.S. AI tech to improve its capabilities. Mr. Huang said in an interview with CNN that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will avoid American tech the same way that the U.S.’s armed forces avoid Chinese products. This announcement comes on…
Macron unveils a multi-billion-dollar boost to defense amid mounting global threats. French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will increase its military spending by €6.5 billion over the next two years, aiming to reach €64 billion annually by 2027. This level doubles the country’s military budget since he took office in 2017. He justified the…
Missile strike destroys US communications radome at Al Udeid Air Base. Satellite images confirm that Iran’s June 23 ballistic missile strike on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar wiped out a geodesic dome protecting a multimillion-dollar secure communications terminal. The rest of the base remained largely intact and operational after advance warning allowed US and…
Latakia wildfires contained after ten days of intense firefighting. Syrian civil defense and emergency management officials announced on Sunday that wildfires that raged through the mountains of coastal Latakia province for ten days have been brought under control. Reinforcements from Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Qatar, and Iraq joined Syrian ground crews and aircraft to open firebreaks,…
Ramaphosa suspends police minister amid syndicate collusion probe. President Cyril Ramaphosa placed Police Minister Senzo Mchunu on immediate leave and established a judicial commission to investigate allegations that he and Deputy Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya colluded with criminal syndicates and disrupted politically sensitive investigations. The action followed claims by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi that the…
Hybrid Echo Chamber and Crescendo attack defeats Grok-4’s guardrails. NeuralTrust researchers used context-poisoning from the Echo Chamber method alongside the multi-turn Crescendo technique to trick xAI’s freshly released Grok-4 into revealing a Molotov cocktail recipe just two days after its launch. Testing on other prohibited topics showed the combined jailbreak achieved success rates of 67…
EU issues voluntary code of practice for general-purpose AI ahead of AI Act rollout. The European Commission has published a nine-page code to guide companies on meeting transparency, copyright, and safety obligations under the AI Act’s general-purpose AI provisions. Those rules take effect on August 2, with enforcement deferred for at least a year and…
Fourteen suspects have been put in custody after a cross-border probe into an HMRC phishing scam. Authorities in Romania and the United Kingdom arrested 14 suspects after an HMRC-led investigation uncovered a phishing operation that siphoned £47 million by exploiting over 100,000 Government Gateway accounts. More than 100 Romanian police officers joined HMRC investigators in…
Eighteen popular browser extensions turn Trojan, compromising 2.3 million users. Koi Security researchers have uncovered that eighteen once-harmless Chrome and Edge extensions were silently updated to include spying modules and command-and-control backdoors, infecting over 2.3 million users in a campaign dubbed RedDirection. Each extension continued to perform its advertised task while secretly capturing every visited…
The partners are Covertix, Heimore, Exabeam, LogRhythm, Osirium, PlainID, SecureAuth, Thycotic and Wallix. The Identity+ Alliance program provides standards and tools to ease the integration of IT and security products with SailPoint’s IAM platform IdentityIQ. These additional partners broaden the technology categories in the Identity+ Alliance ecosystem, which now include: adaptive authentication, data management, enterprise…
The United States’ approval of Malaysia’s purchase of dozens of fighter jets is set to bolster the Southeast Asian country’s air capabilities – especially in the South China Sea – as part of a strategy to “quietly” build deterrence while also preserving cordial ties with China. Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) chief General Tan Sri…
An airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar ‘s central Sagaing region killed at least 23 people who were taking shelter in the compound, separate sources said Friday. The overnight aerial attack on the monastery in Lin Ta Lu village, in Sagaing region’s Sagaing township, injured about 30 other people, of which 10 were in…
Iran’s security services have threatened the life of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi after her native country’s war with Israel, the Norwegian Nobel Committee and activists said Friday. Mohammadi said that the threats have come through both her lawyer and other indirect channels as she’s kept up public statements about the Islamic Republic’s theocracy,…
A police-owned AS355 helicopter crashed near the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Jetty in Gelang Patah on Thursday morning. There were no fatalities. The aircraft crashed while the officers were performing a ceremonial flypast as part of the Mitsatom 2025 exercises (Multilateral Nuclear Security Detection Exercise) involving Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Per reports, tenders…
Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan abducted and killed nine people after stopping two passenger buses on a highway Thursday night, officials said. The overnight attacks occurred in the Zhob and Loralai districts of Balochistan province as the buses traveled from the provincial capital, Quetta, to Punjab province, district administrator Saadat Husain said Friday. The attackers fled…
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun the first steps towards disarmament, closing a chapter on a four-decade armed campaign against the Turkish state in a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people. A small ceremony was held on Friday in Sulaimaniyah in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, where 20 to 30 PKK fighters were…
The cybersecurity industry’s giving Chicken Little a run for his money. Companies have been quick to proclaim that AI will fundamentally change the security landscape, which means every new capability added to a large language model (LLM) can be made into a “the sky is falling” moment, with the latest example being the development of…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching an AI agent marketplace next week and Anthropic is one of its partners, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The AWS agent marketplace launch will take place at the AWS Summit in New York City on July 15, two people familiar with the development told TechCrunch. AWS and Anthropic did not…
Sooner or later, quantum computers will be able to break through today’s encryption, and when that happens, critical industries such as defense, critical infrastructure, telecommunications, and others, will be at risk of nation-state attackers with enough resources to use the advanced tech for nefarious purposes such as espionage or data theft, research has warned. In…
Intel is spinning out its artificial intelligence robotics and biometric venture as more companies bet big on automation tools. The new company, known as RealSense, was announced Friday and comes alongside a $50 million Series A funding round that includes MediaTek Innovation Fund and Intel Capital, the chipmaker’s venture arm that it is also spinning…
The buzz about AI coding tools is unrelenting. To listen to the reports, startups are launching with tiny engineering teams, non-programmers are “vibe-coding” entire apps, and the job market for entry-level programmers is crashing. But according to a METR experiment conducted in the spring of 2025, there’s at least one cohort that AI tools still…
Harmonic AI, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by Robinhood Markets Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vlad Tenev, has raised $100 million in funding to tackle a problem that has sometimes confounded AI models: math. The Series B funding round was led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures and Paradigm. The deal values…
Recruit Holdings, the Japanese parent of Indeed and Glassdoor, will reduce headcount by around 1,300 across the two job sites amid a shift in focus toward artificial intelligence, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Thursday. The cuts — representing about 6% of the HR technology segment workforce — are mostly in the U.S.…
Bitcoin extended its rally on Friday, rising to new records overnight after bitcoin ETFs saw their biggest day of inflows of the year. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 3% at $117,297.10, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it rose as high as $118,872.85. Ether rose nearly 6% at $2,976.90. Earlier, it…
Kenya’s President has appointed new officials to the elections commission. Kenya’s President has appointed new officials to lead the elections commission. The move comes amid widespread anti-government protests. The President had also previously suspended several members of the commission after they declined to certify his reelection. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenyan-president-approves-new-officials-head-elections-body-2025-07-11/
Germany’s governing coalition has postponed a vote on three judicial nominees. Germany’s governing coalition has postponed a vote on three constitutional court nominees. The postponement has disrupted the coalition has the social democrats have accused the Christian democrats of harming the judiciary. The Christian Democrats have accused one of the nominees of plagiarism. Read more:…
The UN has found no links between Syria and Al Qaeda. A UN investigation has found no links between the new Syrian government and Al Qaeda. The UN investigators were also examining compliance with international sanctions and did not find any significant breaches. It is likely that the UN will move to reduce sanctions on…
Argentina has approved changes to its pension system. Argentina’s Congress has approved a large increase in pension spending. President Milei has vocally opposed the measure and has threatened to veto it. The president has said that its adoption would weaken the fiscal position of the state. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-congress-passes-pension-boost-despite-milei-opposition-2025-07-10/
Luis Vuitton has confirmed that it was the victim of a cyber attack. Luis Vuitton has confirmed that it has been the victim of another cyber attack. The company has said that it is notifying affected customers. This is the third cyber attack against the company this year with two other regional divisions already being…
Thirteen Romanians have been arrested for phishing the UK’s Tax Service. UK and Romanian police have arrested thirteen individuals for their involvement in a phishing attack against the UK Tax Service. The attack exposed the data of over 100,000 tax payers. One British citizen was also arrested in the UK in connection to the attack.…
The UK has arrested four people for their alleged involvement in several cyber attacks. UK police have arrested four individuals for their alleged involvement in a series of cyber attacks. The attacks were carried out against major retail companies. Experts believe that these arrests will likely lead to the dissolution of the Scattered Spider group.…
Researchers have demonstrated that the Rowhammer attack is effective against Nvidia GPUs. A group of researchers has found that the RowHammer attack is effective against Nvidia GPUs. The attack would allow hostile actors to also severely degrade the capabilities of machine learning models. The researchers showed that a single bit flip could drop a models…
The Netherlands Ministry of Defence has acquired of eight V-BAT uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) from deep-tech firm Shield AI for the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN) and Marine Corps. The procurement aims to strengthen maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations. This acquisition, which is part of a larger initiative to enhance the naval forces, was…
Tayyip Erdogan’s main political opponents have faced an unprecedented crackdown that has seen more than 500 detained in just nine months, according to a Reuters review of a sprawling investigation that has accelerated dramatically in recent days. Turkey’s president says the probe tackles what he calls a corrupt network that is like “an octopus whose…
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was back in a solitary jail cell on Thursday with basic food and a khaki prison uniform after prosecutors secured a new detention warrant over his bid to impose martial law last year. The Seoul Central District Court’s decision to approve the warrant bolstered the special counsel investigation…
Hong Kong police announced on Thursday that they arrested four people linked to a Taiwan-based group under a Beijing-imposed national security law, accusing them of conspiracy to commit subversion. Steve Li, Chief Superintendent of the National Security Department, said the arrests on Wednesday involved four men between 15 and 47 years old. They face up…
Saudi Arabia put two Ethiopians to death Thursday, pushing this year’s number of foreigners executed past 100 — a spike in capital punishment that human rights groups have strongly condemned. The pair were executed on drug charges, the interior ministry said, bringing AFP’s tally of foreigners put to death since the beginning of the year…
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