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In this report we capture context on the shift in ICC intentions regarding investigating and prosecuting cyber war crimes. Recent reporting reveals that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will now investigate and prosecute cyber war crimes in the same way it does kinetic and physical war crimes. The ICC’s lead prosecutor Karim Khan authored an article that though acknowledged that…
This post examines AI and Human diplomacy and building trust, cooperation, deception, and strategic reasoning into natural language AI systems.
This post seeks to inform your understanding of the cyber landscape from the perspective of the realities of the world as it is vice as we would like it to be. International efforts to grapple with the complexities of hostile cyber activities continue to languish in the United Nations. Whether it be trying to codify cyber norms of…
“Tracking, unpacking and governing the complex field of global AI governance law and policy has quickly become a top tier strategic issue for organizations.” The IAPP and OECD provide tracking resources for your organization to leverage into your AI strategy.
What if blockchain moves away from a store of value to a store of information as a priority- all the while facing the exponential growth of bitcoin storage requirements? Ordinal inscriptions present this challenge for the bitcoin ecosystem. Unintended consequence aside, bitcoin boosters and evangelist soldier on with the launch of The Open Ordinals Institute.…
Researchers from the the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) recently mapped “the gain- and loss-of-function global research landscape.” We contextualize the CSET findings relative to the biosafety levels in U.S. biomedical laboratories. A looming question: do other countries have the adequate commitment to health security and biosafety measures in their high risk pathogen…
While the Chinese press may push the narrative that the U.S. wants to return to the structures of the binary fractures of the cold war, the CPC is turning its innovative powers to a new construct they call “discourse power” – which includes formal, global operations (tethered directly to Beijing) used to influence the global…
It is bad form to try to explain any security framework to leaders who do not see a reason to care about it. This post provides some reasons why non technical business executives should care about the new NIST cybersecurity framework and recommendations for what they should know.
The August OODA Network Monthly call was held on Friday, August 18, 2023. This discussion is an extension of the initial read out from the monthly meeting: What do We Need to Track About China?
This review of U.S. National Intelligence Strategy and observations on PRC reaction to it leads to insights that can inform corporate strategic planning not found anywhere else.
The convergence of machine learning, deep learning and genomics, especially in the area of AI-powered genomic health prediction, while remarkably promising will also present remarkably challenging unintended consequences. A recent report suggests areas which need to be explored – starting now – as “the issues posed by the…technologies become harder to predict, more complex and…
Can trust and safety in the modern Internet be improved? This post reviews conclusions from the Digital Forensics Research Lab (DFRLab) that can lead to improvements in trust and safety at scale.
Following are two noteworthy developments in the future of drone warfare. One, the expansion of drone warfare capabilities by the Department of Defense “at scale”. The other: a troubling drone presence in the northern frontier region of Mexico.
This report provides an overview of some major climate crisis related events worth tracking as an indicator of what may be the new reality in this age of polycrisis. We do not provide solutions but do mention mental frameworks important for leaders to master in finding solutions. For this post, we focus on tactical, real-time…
This guide captures key concepts and the status of major quantum computing research initiatives in a way meant to serve the needs of operational decision-makers. Our goal: inform you about the near future so you can make the right changes to your strategy today.
Artificial intelligence often gets criticized because it makes up information that appears to be factual, known as hallucinations. The plausible fakes have roiled not only chatbot sessions but lawsuits and medical records. For a time last year, a patently false claim from a new Google chatbot helped drive down the company’s market value by an…
xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. Investors gave a minimum of $77,593, per the filing (97 participated, but the document doesn’t reveal their identities). xAI later announced (confirming some earlier reporting) that Andreessen Horowitz , Blackrock, Fidelity, Kingdom Holdings,…
Honda and Nissan have agreed to attempt to merge to form the 3rd largest automaker in the world. Honda and Nissan have announced that they intend to merge their companies. Mistubshi Motors has also agreed to join the merger talks. The companies plan to finalize the merger by 2026. The merger would create the 3rd…
El Salvador’s Congress has voted to allow mineral mining. El Salvador’s Congress has passed a bill to allow for mineral mining. This bill ends a seven year ban on mineral mining within the country. President Nayib Bukele is expected to sign bill as he has previously expressed support for the measure. There was has been…
Iran’s government has restored access to WhatsApp and Google Play. Iran’s Telecommunications Minister has announced that WhastsApp and Google Play access has been restored. The decision was made by the Supreme Council of Cyber Space in a meeting attended by reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian. The Telecommunication Minister’s announcement indicated that additional bans could be lifted.…
A US Citizen has been sentenced to a 15 year jail term on charges of espionage. A Russian born US Citizen has been sentenced to a 15 year jail term on charges of espionage. He was was already serving a prison term related to bribery charges. The details of the charges have not been made…
McMurry University in Abilene, Texas has suffered a data breach. McMurry University in Abilene, Texas has announced that a data breach has exposed the information of 18,000 individuals. The University became aware of suspicious activity on its network over the summer, but the investigation into that activity took five months. Universities have increasingly become the…
Albania has formally banned TikTok after several rounds of talks. The decision was made in response to several violent incidents in the country. The government made the decision after speaking to hundreds of parents, teaches, and other stakeholders. Albania is the first nation in Europe to enact a ban on TikTok. Read more: https://cybernews.com/news/european-nation-bans-tiktok/
US and Japanese authorities have announced that a North Korean group has stole over $300 million in crypto currencies. The crypto currency was stolen from the Japanese-based exchange DMM Bitcoin. The exchange chosen to shutdown operations following this hack. Authorities believe that the group Hidden Kobra was responsible for the hack. Read more: https://cybernews.com/crypto/north-korean-hackers-steal-308m-crypto-posing-linkedin-recruiter/
The American Addiction Centers has been the victim of a data breach. The Tennessee based American Addiction Centers has disclosed that it was the victim of a data breach in November. The data breach affected approximately 422,000 people. Rhysida ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the breach. Read more: https://www.securityweek.com/american-addiction-centers-data-breach-impacts-422000-people/
Two United States navy pilots have been shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident, says the US military. Yemen’s Houthi fighters later on Sunday claimed they had “targeted” the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman a day earlier in an operation that led to “shooting down an F-18 aircraft”. The…
The Philippines has announced plans to buy the United States’ Typhon missile system, triggering China to warn of an impending “arms race” in the Asia Pacific region. Philippine military chief Lieutenant-General Roy Galido said on Monday that the country would acquire the mid-range missile system “for the interest of protecting our sovereignty”. “It is an…
Although Iran has one of the biggest supplies of natural gas and crude oil in the world, it is in a full-blown energy crisis that can be attributed to years of sanctions, mismanagement, aging infrastructure, wasteful consumption, and targeted attacks by Israel. While Iran has been struggling with issues with its infrastructure for years, the…
Ascension Health is notifying roughly 5.6 million individuals that their personal, medical, and payment information was compromised in a ransomware attack in May 2024. The incident occurred on May 8 and resulted in service disruptions that prompted hospitals around the country to revert to downtime procedures and divert emergency medical services. The potentially compromised information,…
We developed an adversarial machine learning (ML) algorithm that uses large language models (LLMs) to generate novel variants of malicious JavaScript code at scale. We have used the results to improve our detection of malicious JavaScript code in the wild by 10%. Recently, advancements in the code understanding capabilities of LLMs have raised concerns about…
It was winner-takes-all in biotech investing in 2024. Larger funds attracted an outsize share of the available investment cash. While many companies struggled, dozens raised at least $100mn. Much of the excitement was generated by red-hot sectors. In late April San Francisco-based artificial intelligence drug discovery start-up Xaira announced it had raised $1bn in one…
Artificial intelligence (AI), throughout 2024, became an increasingly permanent component of many business processes. Particularly across the back office and finance and treasury departments, where critical operating functions like accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) have long been plagued by manually driven inefficiencies, errors and delays, the question for firms of all sizes is…
The Biden administration on Monday initiated a trade investigation into China’s production of older types of computer chips that are integral for cars, dishwashers, telecom networks and military weaponry. The probe could ultimately result in tariffs or other measures to block Chinese chips from entering U.S. markets, though the decision of which, if any approach…
Bitcoin’s rally faces a risk that isn’t on the radar of most crypto investors: quantum computing. The nascent technology, which drew attention this month after Google claimed a breakthrough with its new Willow quantum-computing chip, could one day enable hackers to break the encryption that keeps bitcoin secure. Such a hack could torpedo bitcoin’s price,…
Investors on the hunt for real-world applications of artificial intelligence may want to consider humanoid robots, which some analysts predict could begin replacing human workers at scale by the end of the decade. “Breakthroughs in generative AI are bringing 3D perception, control, skill planning and intelligence to robots,” Rev Lebaredian, Nvidia’s vice president of omniverse…
OpenAI’s new artificial-intelligence project is behind schedule and running up huge bills. It isn’t clear when—or if—it’ll work. There may not be enough data in the world to make it smart enough. The project, officially called GPT-5 and code-named Orion, has been in the works for more than 18 months and is intended to be…
As the future of warfare pivots towards artificial intelligence, Ukraine is sitting on a valuable resource: millions of hours of footage from drones which can be used to train AI models to make decisions on the battlefield. AI has been deployed by both sides on the battlefield during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to identify targets,…
SEALSQ Corp announced the integration of its post-quantum cryptographic chips on WISeSat satellites, marking a significant advancement in securing satellite communications against quantum computing threats. The partnership combines SEALSQ’s semiconductor expertise with WISeSat’s satellite IoT connectivity solutions. Currently, 17 WISeSat satellites equipped with SEALSQ’s chips have been launched via SpaceX, with plans for hundreds more…
The U.S. Department of Commerce has recently asked Nvidia to look into how the company’s products ended up in China over the past year, The Information reported on Thursday, citing a person close to the department. The chip giant has asked big distributors such as Super Micro Computer and Dell Technologies to conduct spot checks…
London-based AI bioprocess simulation software startup New Wave Biotech has raised €1.2 million in its latest funding round through a mix of equity and grant funding to expand its existing team and explore new markets and customers. Investors include EIT Food (supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology) and Innovate UK (part of…
Italy’s data protection agency said on Friday it fined ChatGPT maker OpenAI 15 million euros ($15.58 million) after closing an investigation into use of personal data by the generative artificial intelligence application. The fine comes after the authority found OpenAI processed users’ personal data to “train ChatGPT without having an adequate legal basis and violated…
On Thursday, a large group of university and private industry researchers unveiled Genesis, a new open source computer simulation system that lets robots practice tasks in simulated reality 430,000 times faster than in the real world. Researchers can also use an AI agent to generate 3D physics simulations from text prompts. The accelerated simulation means…
Google is planning to add a new “AI Mode” to its search engine, according to a report from The Information. The company will reportedly display an option to switch to AI Mode from the top of the results page, allowing you to access an interface similar to its Gemini AI chatbot. The new AI Mode…
Israel has conducted strikes against Houthi controlled territory in Yemen. Israeli announced that its air force conducted a series strikes against Houthi controlled territory in Yemen. These strikes targeted the power grid and port infrastructure. Israel warned that further strikes would be conducted if the Houthi’s continued to pose a threat against Israel. These strikes…
A Venezuelan opposition member has left the Argentine Embassy in Venezuela. A member of the Venezuelan opposition has left the Argentine Embassy in Venezuela after living their for 9 months. The opposition member was part of a group of people that sought shelter in the embassy following the government of Nicholas Maduro seeking their arrest.…
China has put increased pressure on Macao to diversify its economy. After swearing in the new leader of Macao, Chinese President Xi urged the city to diversify its economy. The city and other neighboring governments have begun working together to jointly plan economic development. Macao has begun to focus on medicine, finance, tech, exhibitions and…
The Bank of England has kept interest rates stable as inflation rises. The Bank of England has decided to keep interest rates stable as new data shows inflation increasing to 2.6%. The decision was based on continued uncertainty caused by the UK government’s budget and the election of Donald Trump in the United States. It…
Russia has carried out a large scale cyberattack on Ukraine’s state registries. Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister has reported that Russia has carried out a cyberattack against the state registries. The attack forced the country to suspend several government services. The registries contained the personal information of Ukrainian citizens. The government said it will take steps…
A new phishing scam features google calendar invites as a new method of stealing information. Researchers have identified a new type of phishing scam that involves malicious actors using fake google calendar invites. The fake calendar invites are able to evade many of the built in protection systems. They also appear as being sent from…
A hacker has released several files stolen from Cisco. The hacker, IntelBroker, has released 2.9 gigabytes of data stolen from Cisco. The data was stolen from Cisco after it was incorrectly added to a publicly facing database. The hacker has claimed that this is only a small portion of the data they are in possession…
CISA has warned senior government officials to avoid regular calls and texts. CISA has warned senior US government officials to avoid using standard calls and texts. The agency is advising individuals to use end to end encryption going forward due to the scale of the telecoms breach continues. The breach of telecoms providers continues to…
Banking giant Deutsche Bank is building out a layer-2 rollup network on Ethereum with ZKsync technology developed by Matter Labs. Bloomberg reported the project Wednesday, and a representative for Matter Labs confirmed the story. The chain will be “a public and permissioned L2,” Omar Azhar, the head of business development at Matter Labs, told CoinDesk…
Tesla Inc. is in early discussions with the city of Austin about its autonomous vehicle technology it hopes to roll out on Texas roads as early as next year. Emails acquired by Bloomberg through public records requests show a Tesla employee has been communicating with the city of Austin’s autonomous vehicle task force since at…
Nuclear fusion—which creates energy by fusing atoms instead of splitting them as with the fission which powers current commercial reactors—is often seen as a promise 10 years or longer from coming true. Recent experimental successes are encouraging, if still on a relatively small scale. The commonwealth of Virginia apparently is no skeptic on fusion, however,…
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has reanimated excitement over quantum computing with an announcement about how its new chip, Willow, trounced a classical computer to solve a mathematical equation much faster. More important, Google said it had crossed a crucial threshold on the way to an error-free quantum computer, the holy grail of the technology. The tech…
Immunoglobin A nephropathy (IgAN), also known as Berger’s disease, is a rare autoimmune disease of the kidneys that can, over 10 to 20 years, progress to end-stage renal disease. Clarivate forecasts the IgAN therapy market will grow at a CAGR of 26% to $4.2 billion in 2033, largely fueled by the emergence of novel therapies…
Congress approved $3 billion Wednesday for a long-languishing project to cull Chinese equipment from networks nationwide over fears they are vulnerable to cyberattacks, underscoring the risk Beijing-sponsored hackers pose to phone and internet networks. The new funding comes as the Commerce Department reviews whether to ban routers made by the Chinese-owned company TP-Link, which account…
Apple is reportedly seeking ways to add AI to its smartphones sold in ChatGPT-less China. The iPhone maker is in discussions with two Chinese tech giants — Tencent and TikTok parent ByteDance — about integrating their artificial intelligence (AI) models into its products, Reuters reported Thursday (Dec. 19), citing three sources familiar with the matter.…
Iran is facing major disruptions across the country as key services are impacted. Tens of millions of Iranians are being affected by power cuts, fuel shortages, and partial shutdowns. Authorities are shutting down these services in response to an exacerbating energy and currency crisis with the increasing tensions in the region. Many government offices, schools,…
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has been informed that Russia has used North Korean missiles in Ukraine. Researchers brought forward irrefutable proof to the UNSC of this. Remnants of four North Korean missiles were recovered from Ukraine in July and August, one of which was produced in 2024. This is the first public evidence…
Russian authorities have arrested a suspect in the murder of General Igor Kirillov, a top Russian general who was killed in a bombing in Moscow. An Uzbekistan national is suspected of having committed the attack. Kirillov’s assistant, Ilya Polikarpov, was killed in the blast as well. The suspect is 29 years old, and said that…
The C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, arrived in Qatar on Wednesday for cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas. The pace of the peace talks has picked up recently, as the wars in Lebanon and Syria have weakened Hamas’s allies. Additionally, the Trump administration’s upcoming return to office has put additional pressure on the negotiations. Burns…
Juniper Networks is warning of a Mirai botnet which is targeting their session smart routers (SSR). Routers using default passwords are being targeted in the botnet infection campaign. The impacted systems were being used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against other systems. Juniper is advising customers to follow best practices and update default passwords. …
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to secure their cloud environments. They have issued a binding operational directive (BOD 25-01) which will mandate federal civilian agencies to improve their cybersecurity. The directive establishes three deadlines for the agencies in 2025. CISA’s guidance can additionally be applied to other organizations who…
Meta Platforms has been fined 251 million euros, equivalent to around $263 million for a 2018 data breach. The breach impacted millions of users. This is the latest financial hit on Meta as the company has recently received other fines for breaking privacy laws. According to the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), around 29 million…
Phishing attackers are now using Google Calendar invites with the aim of stealing user credentials. The attackers are spoofing invites for the popular Google scheduling app, allowing them to bypass email protections. The campaign uses modified “sender” headings to make the emails appear as though they are being sent directly via Google Calendar from a…
In this engaging session, Matt Devost hosted Dara Ladjevardian, founder and CEO of Delphi, to discuss the transformative potential of persona-based large language models (LLMs). Dara shared the origin story behind Delphi, inspired by the desire to preserve and interact with the wisdom of his late grandfather. This personal experience led him to develop AI-powered…
With Novo Nordisk’s name already synonymous with treatments for diabetes and obesity, the Danish drugmaker has been making a concerted push to bolster its pipeline beyond GLP-1 stalwarts Ozempic and Wegovy, branching out into other cardiometabolic conditions like metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Now, as part of that development odyssey, the…
“It’s simple. Chinese professionals who specialize in AI, if given the chance, definitely [prefer to] come to the U.S. to work for top companies,” Ming Chang, who works on AI and machine learning-related products for Meta in San Francisco, told Rest of World. But intensifying U.S.-China tech competition and fears of Chinese industrial espionage have…
Her approach is to draw on customer feedback from dozens of pilot programmes, to understand the problems that might emerge and make the experience of using AI more engaging. Recent improvements include a real time system for detecting instances where an AI model is ‘hallucinating’ or generating fictional outputs. Here, Bird tells the FT’s technology…
Inyanga Marine Energy Group has presented the design blueprint for its 20 MW HydroWing tidal energy technology, set for deployment at Morlais site in Wales. The tidal energy array will incorporate the Tocardo T3 turbine, rated at 600kW, for the first time, with each of the 20 HydroWing units to be powered by two T3…
Nvidia said Tuesday that it was introducing a $249 version of its Jetson computer for artificial-intelligence applications, half the price of its predecessor, to attract more hobbyists and small companies. The Jetson computers are essentially portable brains, mostly designed to allow developers of robots, industrial automation and other hardware to run sophisticated AI computations directly…
Israel’s first domestically built quantum computer, utilizing advanced superconducting technology, is now operational. The 20-qubit quantum computer was developed under the leadership of the Israel Innovation Authority, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Hebrew University, and the university’s technology transfer company, Yissum. This collaboration established a superconductor-based quantum computer infrastructure alongside a robust development and integration environment.…
Chip giant Advanced Micro Devices and hedge fund LuminArx Capital Management raised $333 million for a growth financing round for cloud startup Vultr, a sign of the hot demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure. West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Vultr said it is now valued at $3.5 billion and plans to use the financing to acquire more…
The U.S. government has confirmed that recent sightings of mysterious drones do not pose a threat to national security or public safety. The government’s statement comes in response to over 5,000 reported drone sightings over the past few weeks, which have raised concern across the country. The sightings have sparked concern for a U.S. government…
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