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This post captures some key content from the OODAcast, including observations from OODA Network Members who were in positions to know what the national security situation was before, during, and after the attacks.
Recently, the United States, South Korea, and Japan convened its third trilateral dialogue focused on countering the cyber threat posed by North Korea (DPRK).
In this age of global polycrisis, safeguarding critical infrastructure has become a top priority for governments, businesses, and security professionals. This post provides a brief Q324 survey of the risks and vulnerabilities faced by essential systems, from energy grids to communication networks and transportation to the water, food, and agriculture sectors. This risk assessment identifies…
In an August 6th newsletter, Project Liberty provided an overview of the recent passage in the U.S. Senate of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0). Find Details here.
In the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency, the reliability of the U.S. financial system resiliency is called into question: here is what you need to know.
Find here a compilation of some seriously well-reported and sourced global documentaries and news reports on the global interconnectedness, virality, and spreadability of right-wing extremism and violence. Germany’s Enemy Within (full documentary) | FRONTLINE Amid accusations that the German far-right party, the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), has provoked violence, which it denies, FRONTLINE investigates…
Last week, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) – launched of a major expansion of the ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker – a comprehensive tool designed to monitor and analyze the global landscape of 64 critical technologies that are essential for national security, economic prosperity, and social stability. Find the details of the major update of…
Recently, the United States government accused Russia of conducting sustained efforts to influence the 2024 election. If true, this is not surprising as election-timed influence operations gained notoriety in 2016 catalyzing the call to protect the election process and maintain their integrity. Russia was on the forefront (although China and Iran pursued their own activities and still do) via…
In our recent Global Situational Awareness and Threat Vector Survey, we endeavored to send out an early warning signal regarding this unique time period – marked by a saturation of information warfare, social engineering, and ransomware activity, arguably propelled by the threat surface that is the information ecosystem driving the U.S. presidential election. Consistent with…
As we stand on the cusp of a new technological era, the race to secure our digital world has never been more urgent. Quantum computers, once the stuff of science fiction, are rapidly becoming a reality. While their potential to revolutionize fields like medicine and finance is immense, so too is their potential to upend…
What are the scenarios for a massive public/private partnership for delivery of essential humanitarian aid and the efficiency of aid distribution in conflict zones such as Gaza? To start, we provide some background in the form of first principles thinking and an overview of the potential stakeholders in this potential public/private partnership, including their capabilities…
One final curated post for the year of the insights and innovations we thought wold be of interest to our members and readership from the annual cybersecurity gatherings in Vegas.
You’ll have to get up early or stay up late, but SpaceX’s historic Polaris Dawn astronaut mission should be a success any day now. You can track the mission’s status here.
CISA’s launched the Shields Ready campaign in late 2023 to complement the Shields Up! campaign, which we have featured many times here at OODA Loop – specifically on long holiday weekends when cyber-attacks are known to increase. Explore the CISA Shields Ready campaign here. And Shields Ready! as we head into day 2 of a…
In this post: a situational awareness and threat vector survey of information warfare, social engineering, and ransomware incidents and activities worldwide as of Friday, August 30, 2024 – including a very recent joint Cybersecurity advisory from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and Department of Health and Human…
The United Nations nuclear watchdog’s Board of Governors has approved a resolution declaring Iran is not complying with its commitment to international nuclear safeguards, diplomatic sources told Al Jazeera, prompting a swift response from Tehran. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Board of Governors resolution passed on Thursday with 19 votes in favour, three against…
The death toll in floods in one of South Africa’s poorest provinces rose to 57 on Thursday as a top official said rescue attempts had been “paralyzed” by a lack of resources. Rescue teams are still working through debris and floodwater to find missing people after heavy rain caused a river to burst its banks…
A Chinese-backed militia is protecting new rare earth mines in eastern Myanmar, according to four people familiar with the matter, as Beijing moves to secure control of the minerals it is wielding as a bargaining chip in its trade war with Washington. China has a near-monopoly over the processing of heavy rare earths into magnets…
More than 200 people were killed on Thursday when an Air India passenger plane bound for London crashed in the city of Ahmedabad, India, G.S. Malik, the city’s police commissioner, said in an interview. There were 242 people on board, and it was unclear if any had survived. The crash is India’s deadliest aviation disaster…
Tesla Inc. sued a former engineer with the company’s highly secretive Optimus program, accusing him of stealing confidential information about the humanoid robot and setting up a rival startup in Silicon Valley.Zhongjie “Jay” Li worked at Tesla between August 2022 and September 2024, according to a complaint filed in a San Francisco Federal Court late…
Microsoft 365 Copilot, the AI tool built into Microsoft Office workplace applications including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams, harbored a critical security flaw that, according to researchers, signals a broader risk of AI agents being hacked. The flaw, revealed today by AI security startup Aim Security and shared exclusively in advance with Fortune, is…
Denmark’s Novo Nordisk is partnering with biotech company Deep Apple Therapeutics in a deal worth up to $812 million to develop drugs for cardiometabolic diseases, including obesity, the California-based company said on Wednesday. Deep Apple discovers drug candidates using its AI-based platform that screens virtual libraries of billions of compounds to cut drug discovery time,…
Gecko Robotics announced on Thursday that it raised $125 million in a Series D funding round, raising the AI and robotics company’s valuation to $1.25 billion. The new round of funding means the Pittsburgh-based company has reached unicorn status, roughly twelve years after it was founded by Jake Loosararian. The company’s previous round of funding,…
Arm Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas said Thursday that US export controls on China threaten to slow overall technological advances and are ultimately bad for consumers and companies, aligning himself with Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang and others looking to ease tensions between Washington and Beijing. “If you narrow access to…
The fast-growing world of quantum computing took a shocking turn this week, as a former industry leader revealed some unexpected news. Over the past few weeks, many quantum computing stocks have performed extremely well, boosted by a few clear catalysts that have generated significant momentum. This list includes companies such as D-Wave Systems and Quantum…
Chinese automaker BYD has made significant strides in humanoid robotics, establishing a dedicated department under Chairman Wang Chuanfu. After recruiting talent last year, the company is ready to transition from R&D to mass production of humanoid robots. Before elevating the humanoid project to a full business unit, BYD assembled a specialized team to outline objectives…
Google is using a new AI model to forecast tropical cyclones and working with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) to test it out. Google DeepMind and Google Research launched a new website today called Weather Lab to share AI weather models that Google is developing. It says its new, experimental AI-based model for forecasting…
Armenia has raised concerns that Azerbaijan is not following a ceasefire agreement. Armenia has raised concerns that Azerbaijan has not followed a ceasefire agreement. Azerbaijani troops have continued to fire weapons accross the line of control. The fire has hit civilian buildings but not no one has been injured. Azerbaijan has said its troops are…
A major opposition leader in Tunisia has been sentenced to jail for two years. A major leader of the Tunisian opposition has been sentenced to jail for two years. She was convicted of critizing the country’s electoral commission. She has been held in jail since 2023 awaiting final sentencing. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tunisia-sentences-prominent-opposition-figure-abir-moussi-two-years-prison-2025-06-12/
A no-confidence vote has been scheduled in the Czech Republic. A no-confidence vote has been scheduled in the Czech Republic after a bitcoin scandal. The opposition has scheduled the vote due to allegations that the current government gave an illegal payment with $45 million to an ex-convict. The government has denied any wrong doing. Read…
No confidence vote fails in the Israeli Knesset. A no confidence vote has failed in the Israeli Knesset. Opposition parties had hoped to remove Netanyahu’s coalition government by forcing an election. However, Netanyahu’s government was able to make a last minute deal over the issue of orthodox conscription. Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-knesset-set-vote-disbanding-first-step-possible-election-2025-06-11/
Cyber attacks targeting journalists have increased greatly in recent years. Cloudfare has released a report that shows that cyber attacks against Journalists have increased greatly in recent years. The group also reported that rights groups and educational organization are also increasingly attacked. They also reported that groups which focused on combating extremism or which reported…
Interpol has taken down an infostealing network. Interpol has conducted an operation which took down a large infostealing network. The agency annouced that 20,000 IPs were taken down and at least 32 people were arrested. They also siezed over 100G of data from 41 servers. The ageny and its partners have begun notifying victims. Read…
Cybersecurity researchers have warned that security cameras are vulnerable to remote hacking. Bitsight has issued a warning that 40,000 security cameras are vulnerable to remote hacking. The camers use HTTP to transmit their live feeds which leaves them exposed to hacking. The company said that these cameras are used by individuals and companies around the…
DanaBot leaks have exposed information about how the network operated. A vulnerability in the DanaBot network allowed researchers to gather data on its operations. The data relevead that the researchers to gather information about users of the network and the tactics it used to conduct operations. The DanaBot network was shutdow in 2025 after a…
1X Technologies has introduced Redwood, an artificial intelligence model designed for its humanoid, NEO. The company said Redwood enables NEO to perform household tasks autonomously. Redwood is intended to allow NEO robot to move, perceive, and interact within home environments. 1X said the AI model was trained on real-world data and is designed to facilitate…
At least 19 explosive blasts rocked southwest Colombia, bringing further terror to a nation still reeling from the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate days earlier. A bomb on a motorcycle detonated Tuesday near a police station in Cali, the nation’s third-biggest city, among other attacks. Police said the violence has left at least four…
Chinese and Malaysian police have seized over 3.8 billion ringgit (US$900 million) of assets – including yachts and property – from a syndicate alleged to have duped millions of people throughout the Asia-Pacific with promises of high-return investments. The Ponzi scheme, which operated mainly in Penang state, is believed to be linked to the MBI…
Hong Kong’s national security police have a new target in their sights: gamers. In a stern warning issued Tuesday, they effectively banned a Taiwanese video game they described as “advocating armed revolution,” saying anyone who downloaded or recommended it would face serious legal charges. The move comes as the authorities continue to tighten control over…
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have said their fighters have seized a strategic zone on the border with Egypt and Libya, as the regular government-aligned army, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), announced its withdrawal from the area. The announcements on Wednesday came a day after SAF accused forces loyal to eastern Libyan commander Khalifa…
Iran’s defence minister has said his country would target US military bases in the region if conflict breaks out with the United States, as President Donald Trump said he was losing confidence that a nuclear deal would be agreed. Washington and Tehran have held five rounds of talks since April as Trump seeks an agreement…
At least 49 people have died in flooding in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province after an extreme cold front brought heavy rain and snow to parts of the country, officials said Wednesday. Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane said police provided the death toll. The dead include six high school students who were washed away when…
Cryptocurrency exchange Bullish has filed for a US initial public offering as the Peter Thiel-backed group seeks to tap surging investor demand for digital assets under the Trump administration. The company confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering in recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the…
Rochester Institute of Technology experts have created a new tool that tests artificial intelligence (AI) to see how much it really knows about cybersecurity. And the AI will be graded. The tool, called CTIBench, is a suite of benchmarking tasks and datasets used to assess large language models (LLMs) in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI). CTI…
Coco Robotics, a startup that operates a fleet of cooler-sized delivery robots on wheels, has raised $80 million in funding from OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and other backers, a sign that automated delivery technology is advancing. The financing, which Coco Robotics plans to announce Wednesday, was led by venture capital firm SNR, with…
We’re in the era of task-specific models. On one hand, we have “normal” models like 3.5 Sonnet and 4o—the ones we talk to like friends, who help us with our writing, and answer our day-to-day queries. On the other, we have gigantic, slow, expensive, IQ-maxxing reasoning models that we go to for deep analysis (they’re…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is growing more bullish about quantum computing — and he expects they’ll start solving real-world problems in the coming years. “Quantum computing is reaching an inflection point,” Jensen declared during his keynote speech at Nvidia’s GTC Paris developer conference Wednesday. Quantum computers are machines that use the laws of quantum mechanics…
Trans-Atlantic tensions are boosting demand in Europe for homegrown artificial-intelligence tools, helping the continent’s most prominent AI developer finance its efforts to keep up with global rivals. European companies and governments increasingly want AI tools that aren’t dependent on American tech behemoths, Arthur Mensch, chief executive of France’s Mistral AI, said in an interview Wednesday.…
The robotics industry has long been plagued by grand promises and underwhelming deliveries. From Boston Dynamics’ viral dancing robots that remain largely confined to research labs, to Tesla’s much-hyped Optimus robot that has yet to prove commercial viability, the gap between demonstration and deployment has remained stubbornly wide. Now, a London-based startup called Humanoid claims…
Meta has agreed to pay $14.8 billion for a 49 percent stake in the artificial intelligence data firm Scale AI in one of the biggest acquisitions the social media giant has made since its 2014 deal to buy WhatsApp, according to a person familiar with the matter. The arrangement with Scale AI, which could be…
The U.N. envoy states she had a meeting with several major figures in Myanmar. A widespread armed struggle against military rule in Myanmar began in February 2021 after generals replaced the elected government. Ceasefires have largely not been observed, and violence did not end after a powerful earthquake in late March devastated parts of the…
Rebel groups set off explosives near police stations in Cali and the neighboring Cauca province. Military and police officials attributed the attacks to a faction led by former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Since the group’s 2016 peace deal with the government, various rebel factions have sought to gain control over abandoned…
IAEA is expected to inspect the reported stockpiles of Iran and report its findings to the UN Security Council. This week, Western nations will press the IAEA’s Board of Governors to formally censure Iran for failing to comply with inspectors. If approved, Iran could face the reinstatement of all U.N. sanctions originally lifted under its…
United Natural Foods has taken some systems offline after detecting unauthorized activity. In a filing with the SEC on Monday, the company disclosed that it had detected unauthorized activity on certain IT systems on June 5. In response, some systems were taken offline, temporarily affecting their ability to process and distribute customer orders. The food…
Texas officials reported a data breach affecting 300,000 crash reports. On May 12, the Texas Department of Transportation detected unauthorized access to its Crash Records Information System, potentially exposing personal details from crash reports. The crash reports may include personal information such as names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, car insurance policy numbers, and other information.…
Security researchers have uncovered critical flaws in Salesforce’s industry-specific CRM solutions. Salesforce research discovered five zero-day vulnerabilities and 15 severe misconfigurations, causing widespread risk. The problems come from the mismatch between the potential security knowledge of the box checker and the complexity of the finished Salesforce CRM solution. More than 25% of its Salesforce customers…
External control of a file name or path allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network. Microsoft released patches for at least 66 security defects across the Windows ecosystem and called urgent attention to a WebDAV remote code execution bug. The bug allows browser-based drive-by downloads if a target clicks on a rigged…
Russia is delivering sophisticated weaponry to sub-Saharan conflict zones. Based on satellite imagery, Russia is transporting tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, and other high-value military equipment via ship convoys to West Africa. The two-year-old Africa Corps, which has links to a covert branch of Russia’s army, is rising at a time when U.S. and European troops…
In a major leap toward the future of computing, researchers have shown that even small-scale quantum processors can outperform classical algorithms in machine learning tasks. The finding offers a glimpse into a faster, greener era within the relatively new research field of Quantum Machine Learning, a space gaining momentum across both academia and industry. The…
Pakistan announced its federal budget for fiscal year 2025-26 on Tuesday, shrinking overall spending by 7% to 17.57 trillion rupees ($62 billion) but raising defence expenditure by a steep 20% following a deadly conflict with old enemy India last month. The government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif presented a budget that allocated 2.55 trillion rupees…
A military fighter jet crashed and burned Tuesday in an area that has seen intense fighting during Myanmar’s civil war, with a rebel group claiming to have shot it down while state-run media reported it suffered a mechanical failure. The aircraft went down midday in the Sagaing region, about 140 kilometers (85 miles) west of…
Apple’s iPhone may not be getting a significant AI upgrade, but it is getting a fresh coat of paint. As are Apple’s other operating systems. At WWDC 2025, the company announced a refreshed user interface called Liquid Glass, which features shiny, reflective, and transparent visual interface elements that give the software a more “glassy” look…
Taipei prosecutors indicted four people on Tuesday suspected of spying for China in a case that reached Taiwan’s presidential office, seeking jail terms of more than 18 years. Democratically-governed Taiwan says it has faced heightened military and political pressure over the past five years or so from Beijing, which views the island as sovereign Chinese…
Iran executed nine people it said were members of the Islamic State, state media reported on Tuesday, after their arrest in early 2018 during clashes in which three members of the Revolutionary Guards were killed. The nine detainees, whose nationalities were not given, were accused of “moharebeh” — an Islamic term meaning waging war against…
The risk of famine in Sudan has extended close to the capital Khartoum, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has warned as the country’s brutal civil war grinds on into its third year. The agency has discovered “severe” levels of hunger in the town of Jabal Awliya, some 40km (25 miles) south of Khartoum, the…
Japan said it observed two Chinese aircraft carriers and supporting warships operating simultaneously near remote Japanese islands in the Pacific Ocean for the first time, a new demonstration of Beijing’s advancing naval capabilities. The aircraft carrier Shandong was seen sailing into the Pacific at the weekend and identified on Monday conducting fighter jet and helicopter…
OpenAI plans to add Alphabet’s Google cloud service to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, three sources told Reuters, marking a surprising collaboration between two prominent competitors in the artificial intelligence sector. The deal, which has been under discussion for a few months, was finalized in May, one of the sources added. It underscores…
Huawei Technologies’ chips are one generation behind those of U.S. peers but the firm is finding ways to improve performance through methods such as cluster computing, Chinese state media quoted CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying on Tuesday. The chipmaker invests 180 billion yuan ($25.07 billion) in research annually and sees promise in compound chips –…
Some of the world’s biggest carmakers are squaring off for a titanic battle over small cars in Europe, as native stalwarts like Volkswagen and Renault fight to maintain their hold on the market against an influx of cheap electric vehicles (EVs) from BYD and its Chinese peers. Last month, BYD, which surpassed Tesla last year…
A team of roboticists at the University of Canberra’s Collaborative Robotics Lab, working with a sociologist colleague from The Australian National University, has found humans interacting with an LLM-enabled humanoid robot had mixed reactions. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, the group describes what they saw as they watched interactions between an…
French AI lab Mistral is getting into the reasoning AI model game. On Tuesday morning, Mistral announced Magistral, its first family of reasoning models. Like other reasoning models — e.g. OpenAI’s o3 and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro — Magistral works through problems step-by-step for improved consistency and reliability across topics such as math and physics.…
Generative AI enterprise search startup Glean announced on Tuesday that it raised $150 million in a Series F financing, pushing up its valuation from investors by billions of dollars in less than a year, to $7.2 billion. The company’s last fundraising in September 2024 valued Glean at $4.6 billion. On Tuesday, Glean was also named…
Mark Zuckerberg, frustrated with Meta Platforms Inc.’s shortfalls in AI, is assembling a team of experts to achieve artificial general intelligence, recruiting from a brain trust of AI researchers and engineers who’ve met with him in recent weeks at his homes in Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto. Zuckerberg has prioritized recruiting for the secretive new…
Cambodia has not withdrawn troops from contested land, but both sides seek a peaceful resolution. Following an armed confrontation the previous week, Cambodia’s Defense Ministry states that the country’s troops have not withdrawn from a disputed patch of land. However, both Cambodia and Thailand’s Defense Ministers state their forces have been withdrawn to where they…
Nairobi police tear-gassed activists during a protest against the death of a blogger in police custody. Albert Ojwang was found dead while in custody at the Central Police Station, with police attributing his death to hitting his head against the cell wall. Ojwang’s death comes almost a year after several figures were killed and abducted…
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