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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.
Over the last 2 decades cyber attacks have shifted from the theoretical to reality. This report provides insights from real world activities that can inform strategists and policymakers seeking to mitigate risks from nation state cyber attacks.
This post provides highlights from two recent WSJ articles relevant to ongoing rulemaking at the SEC regarding new regulations which will apply to the VC and PE world.
A collaborative group of security researchers with Web3 expertise has produced a 12 question guide to the basics of Web3 security. This report captures those 12 questions and provides context around their optimal use.
The United States Space Force activated the 75th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron (ISRS) on Aug. 11 at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado.
While the U.S., Japan and South Korea are convening at Camp David – the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) commence a summit of their own today in South Africa – including a state visit by Chinese leader Xi Jinping “which also includes a summit with leaders of the BRICS emerging economies. The trip…
The ODNI’s Counterintelligence Center (the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and the FBI and USAF have issued a joint bulletin designed to raise awareness of threats to the U.S. space industry. This bulletin conveys important information that should be read and acted upon by any in the U.S. space industry. The government is doing…
Up for renewal this month, members of Congress would like to see the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement (STA) expire this year. Since its inception in 1979 and renewal every five years through 2018, the STA has fueled “one of the most productive scientific collaborations of the 21st century” . Renewal of the STA in…
Jen Easterly, Director Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Victor Zhora, Deputy Chairman and Chief Digital Transformation Officer of the Ukrainian State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection, appeared together on the Black Hat USA 2023 stage and released the following statement (an excerpt of which can be found here).
As things stall in the United Nations on all things cyber, the United States has been actively engaged in strengthening cyber cooperation with key individual states, as well as regional blocs, in an effort to share information, collaborate, and address state and nonstate actor threats. From a law enforcement perspective, these joint activities have proven effective…
Last week, “the Department of Defense (DoD) announced the establishment of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) task force, an initiative that reflects the DoD’s commitment to harnessing the power of artificial intelligence in a responsible and strategic manner. Led by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), Task Force Lima will assess, synchronize, and…
The announcement of Task Force Lima was scheduled as part of the CDAO’s presence at DEFCON31 last week in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Craig Martell, chief digital and AI officer at the U.S. Defense Department (DoD), took the stage last Friday at DEFCON31 to introduce the con attendees to Task Force Lima – and share…
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly continued what now seems to be a prolonged messaging campaign: a stark “Black Swan/Gray Rhino” warning of the inevitably of crippling cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructure.
On Tuesday, the Israeli military said that it struck sites in southern Syria. The strikes came just hours after the new Syrian leadership had demanded for Israel’s withdrawal from Syrian territory that it had seized after the fall of the Assad regime. The Israeli military said that the attacks were targeted at headquarters and sites…
Officials have announced that the U.S. and Ukraine have agreed to a minerals deal. As part of the agreement, Ukraine will turn over the revenue from some of its mineral resources to the U.S. The deal comes after an intense pressure campaign from President Trump. While the final terms of the deal are unknown, Ukrainian…
Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has stated that Iran will not engage in direct talks with the U.S. on its nuclear program. The announcement comes just a day after the U.S. enacted new sanctions against Iran’s oil industry, which is the country’s main source of income. Trump has restored his maximum pressure campaign on Iran,…
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced an increase in British defense spending. The prime minister is scheduled to meet with President Trump on Thursday. Starmer said that he will increase British spending on defense to 2.5 percent of the country’s GDP by 2027. With the announcement, Britain hopes to send a powerful message about…
A new report released on Tuesday highlights a surge in cyberattacks against industrial organizations in 2024. Last year, attacks on industrial organizations increased by 87%, and the number of ransomware groups impacting the operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) space rose by 60%. The increase is a reflection of larger ongoing geopolitical conflicts, leading…
China-based threat actor Silver Fox has been using the disguise of a legitimate healthcare app to deliver a backdoor to unsuspecting users. It is unknown if the malicious actor is backed by the Chinese government. The attacker has been disguising the malware as the Philips DICOM viewer, a healthcare app. Researchers are unsure if Silver…
Texas-based DISA Global Solutions, a company providing employment screening services for over 55,000 organizations, has suffered a data breach. The breach occurred after a cyber incident, and the personal and financial information of over 3.3 million individuals has been compromised. The breach was discovered back in 2024, but the files accessed by the attacker were…
I have been experimenting with the first of a new generation AI models, Claude 3.7 and Grok 3, for the last few days. Grok 3 is the first model that we know trained with an order of magnitude more computing power of GPT-4, and Claude includes new coding and reasoning capabilities, so they are not…
Quantum Machines, an Israeli quantum computing startup, raised $170 million in a Series C round, bringing total funding to date to $280 million. The raise, the fifth-largest ever for a quantum computing company according to data provider PitchBook Data, comes amid growing excitement for quantum computing in the wake of hardware advancements announced by Microsoft…
Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence chip due to booming demand for DeepSeek’s low-cost AI models, six people familiar with the matter said. The surge in orders, which is being reported for the first time by Reuters, underlines Nvidia’s dominance of the market and could help alleviate concerns that DeepSeek…
Health-care software vendor Athenahealth on Tuesday said it will offer Abridge’s artificial intelligence scribing tool to its network of more than 160,000 clinicians. Athenahealth has developed an electronic health record, revenue cycle management tools and patient engagement tools for ambulatory care providers, which include outpatient facilities like independent practices. The company introduced a solution called…
Chinese robotics startup EngineAI claims its PM01 is the first humanoid robot to successfully perform a frontflip. The Shenzhen-based startup shared footage of the robot completing the stunt, receiving applause from onlookers. The video ends with PM01 walking through the Shenzhen Tourist Information Center, with Engine AI stating that the robot is evolving daily. Launched…
In terms of timing, it doesn’t get much better than this. On 20 January 2025, with the world focused on Donald Trump’s inauguration, China’s DeepSeek quietly launched its low-cost, open-source, high-performance large language model, called R1. The capabilities of DeepSeek are reported to rival or even surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, and at a fraction of the…
The Chinese startup triggered a $1 trillion-plus sell-off in global equities markets last month with a cut-price AI reasoning model that outperformed many Western competitors. Now, the Hangzhou-based firm is accelerating the launch of the successor to January’s R1 model, according to three people familiar with the company. Deepseek had planned to release R2 in…
On Monday, President Trump and President Emmanuel Macron met for the first time since last month’s inauguration. The two officials put on a show of friendship, but signs of the growing divide between the U.S. and Europe over the Russia-Ukraine war were apparent. While Trump declined to call Putin a dictator, Macron stated that “the…
Taiwanese authorities have detained a Chinese-crewed chip following the severing of an undersea communications cable near the island. Investigators believe the cargo ship may have been behind the damage. This is the latest incident in a series of cable severings which have provoked theories of Russia and China using cable sabotage as a method of…
China’s leader Xi Jinping had a video call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday during which the two countries reaffirmed their friendship. The move is an apparent rebuff to recent ideas that the Trump administration would divide Russia and China. Xi said that China and Russia were “true friends who have been through thick…
The U.S. and Ukraine are nearing a deal that will give the U.S. a share of Ukraine’s natural resource revenues. President Trump and a Ukrainian government official announced the updates on the agreement on Monday, following Trump’s intense campaign for Ukraine to strike a deal. Trump said that he believes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky may…
OpenAI has released a report describing its recent banning of ChatGPT accounts used by Chinese groups for espionage. The threat intelligence report highlights two operations. During the first operation, ChatGPT accounts were used to edit and debug code that searched for conversation on Chinese social and political topics on social media. The second operation involved…
Security researchers are alerting to DeepSeeks sending of information back to a third party. A South Korean data protection agency reported that the AI tool is sending data to China’s ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok. The announcement was made just a day after South Korea suspended DeepSeek downloads in the country last week. The…
Australia has now banned Russia’s Kaspersky software, citing national security concerns. Australia’s Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs, Stephanie Foster, said that she had determined the government’s use of Kaspersky products to pose “an unacceptable security risk to Australian government, networks, and data.” The government’s new directive prohibits entities from installing the company’s products…
A botnet has been discovered to have compromised over 130,000 devices. The botnet is launching coordinated password-spraying attacks against Microsoft 365 accounts. Security researchers are looking at possible connections to Chinese affiliated threat actors, as they have found evidence of infrastructure linked to China. While password spraying is a well-known technique, this campaign is a…
Database company MongoDB Inc. said it’s acquiring Voyage AI for $220 million in a cash-and-stock deal to fast-track its ability to help its customers build artificial intelligence-powered applications. Through the deal, New York-based MongoDB aims to integrate Voyage’s retrieval tools for higher-quality AI outputs with real-time operational data for businesses, allowing its customers to develop…
Since the development of the electronic calculator in the 1960s, the field of computing has seen tremendous breakthroughs. In the field of information processing, the last several years have been particularly revolutionary. Technology has made what were previously considered science fiction dreams a reality. Our enabling equipment has become smaller and more versatile, and classical…
Chinese state-owned data centres flush with artificial intelligence chips are tapping the expertise of technology groups to help bolster their multibillion-dollar investments as part of a nationwide effort to increase adoption of the fast-developing technology. Local governments have enlisted Merit Interactive and start-ups Infinigence AI and SiliconFlow to develop technology for the surge of AI…
When ChatGPT, Gemini and its other generative AI cohorts burst onto the scene a little over two years ago, talk about large language models — artificial intelligence models trained on large volumes of datasets to understand and generate human-like texts and visuals — dominated the technology scene. For years, the AI race was defined by…
The dream of having robots do household chores inched a little closer to reality last week. Figure, an OpenAI-backed robotics artificial intelligence (AI) startup, showed off humanoid robots that can understand voice commands and can grab objects they had never seen before. In a Figure video, a guy holding a bag of groceries starts unloading…
On February 21st 2025, approximately $1.46 billion in cryptoassets were stolen from Bybit, a Dubai-based exchange. Initial reports suggest that malware was used to trick the exchange into approving transactions that sent the funds to the thief. This is by the far the largest crypto heist of all time, dwarfing the $611 million stolen from…
Days after Apple’s chief executive met with President Trump, the company said on Monday that it planned to spend $500 billion and hire 20,000 people in the United States over the next four years and open a factory in Texas to make the machines that power the company’s push into artificial intelligence. “We are bullish…
Israel said it is temporarily withholding the release of any Palestinian prisoners until Hamas stops staging “ceremonies that humiliate our hostages,” throwing into question the future of the Gaza cease-fire. On Saturday. Hamas handed over six hostages in ceremonies, where the men were forced to wave on stage before crowds. Hamas also released a video…
The dispute over the minerals proposal is part of mounting disagreements between the U.S. and its allies about how best to end the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the administration should offer a better deal on mineral rights, saying the current U.S. offer demanded ruinous financial contributions from Ukraine. He called for…
Israel says it is expanding its military offensive across the occupied West Bank and preparing for troops to remain in some refugee camps “for the next year”. For more than a month, Israeli forces have been raiding Palestinian homes and using bulldozers to destroy critical infrastructure. The Israeli army said tanks have been deployed in…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has offered to give up his position in exchange for peace and membership in NATO. Zelenskyy made the offer in a news conference in Kyiv on Sunday as the rift widens between himself and the new government in the United States, led by President Donald Trump. Last week, Trump called Zelenskyy…
The US Justice Department last week announced charges against a man accused of buying credentials from the Genesis Market cybercrime marketplace, as well as using and selling those credentials. The suspect purchased roughly 2,500 stolen login credentials from Genesis Market. The man has been charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, possession of unauthorized access…
Hundreds of freelance software developers have been targeted and infected with North Korean malware over the past year. The victims were targeted with fake job opportunities as part of a widespread campaign tracked as DeceptiveDevelopment. As part of the attacks, ongoing since early 2024, the threat actors relied on fake personas and copied profiles to…
When David Bennet received a new heart in January 2022, there was something very unusual about the organ being transplanted into his body – instead of coming from a human donor, it was actually a genetically modified pig heart. Marking a major breakthrough, it was the first time that a genetically engineered pig heart had…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s chief executive officer said the pursuit of artificial general intelligence is now the company’s “primary objective.” “Our first and foremost goal is to pursue AGI,” Eddie Wu told investors on a call after the company reported results that surpassed analyst estimates. “We aim to continue to develop models that extend the…
Twenty five years ago computer programmers were racing to fix the millennium bug amidst fears that it would cause banking systems to crash and planes to fall out of the sky. Much to everyone’s relief the impact turned out to be minimal. Today, some fear there is a new critical threat to the world’s digital…
On Wednesday, Microsoft Research introduced Magma, an integrated AI foundation model that combines visual and language processing to control software interfaces and robotic systems. If the results hold up outside of Microsoft’s internal testing, it could mark a meaningful step forward for an all-purpose multimodal AI that can operate interactively in both real and digital…
Chinese AI sensation DeepSeek plans to release key codes and data to the public starting next week, an unusual step to share more of its core technology than rivals such as OpenAI have done. The 20-month-old startup, which surprised Silicon Valley with the sophistication of its AI models last month, plans to make its code…
Imagine you’re a machine superintelligence that wants a body to move around in. Would you choose a human form?Probably not. Biologists have no settled theory on how our bipedalism evolved, but — like everything else in biology — it’s a kludge rather than an optimal design. Moving and balancing on two limbs is an impressive…
OpenAI said on Friday that it had uncovered evidence that a Chinese security operation had built an artificial intelligence-powered surveillance tool to gather real-time reports about anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries. The company’s researchers said they had identified this new campaign, which they called Peer Review, because someone working on the…
The UN Secretary General has proposed that the UN assume responsibility for funding an on-going mission in Haiti. At a meeting of Caribbean leaders, the UN Secretary General has proposed that the UN assume responsibility for funding an on-going multination policing mission in Haiti. The funds would come from an existing trust fund. The proposal…
Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy party has begun the process of disbanding. The Democratic Party of Hong Kong has begun the process of disbanding. The leadership of the party voted to explore the process of disbanding. To formally disband would require a vote of the full membership of the party. The party has faced an increasingly…
Israel has not been able to confirm the identity of a body released by Hamas. As part of the on going ceasefire, Hamas released the bodies of several hostages to Israel. However, Israel has not been able to identify one of the bodies that was released. Israel and the US have accused Hamas of violating…
Large protests have continued in Serbia as people rally for an end to corruption. Protests have continued across Serbia as people continue to rally for an end to corruption. Protests have been on going for weeks after the collapse of a canopy at a train station killed 15 people. Protesters have faced opposition from groups…
NioCorp has disclosed that it lost $500,000 after a cybersecurity breach. American based mining company, NioCorp, has disclosed that it discovered that $500,000 were stolen after an email breach. They found that an attacker leverage an email system to submit fake invoices. The company is working with law enforcement to further investigate the breach. Read…
Digital lending company Vivifi has exposed the personal data of millions of users. Researchers have found that the digital lending company Vivifi has exposed the personal data of millions of users. They found that the personal data of users was stored on a misconfigured AWS server. The researchers have contacted the company and an investigation…
Europol is warning parents to be vigilant as online groups prey on children. Europol has issued a warning that online groups are increasingly targeting children. They have warned that children as young as 8 have been targeted. They also noted that groups are targeting vulnerable communities such as the LGBTQ community. Read more: https://cybernews.com/cybercrime/europol-urges-vigilance-as-sinister-online-cults-prey-on-children/
Michelangelo once said that “genius is eternal patience.” But it is rare to find many companies today that think much beyond the next quarter, let alone keep plugging away for 20 years at a speculative science project that may never work. That used to be the job of universities. Excitement therefore amps up when a…
Recalls in the food and beverage industry due to contamination incidents can be catastrophic for a company. Not only do companies have to pay fines and damages, but the impacts on the brand’s reputation can be long-lasting. That’s why Spore.Bio, a Paris-based deeptech startup, is trying to reinvent microbiology testing to get ahead of the…
Nvidia has unveiled a new AI platform for teaching people how to use American Sign Language to help bridge communication gaps. The Signs platform is creating a validated dataset for sign language learners and developers of ASL-based AI applications. It so happens that American Sign Language is the third most prevalent language in the United…
California-based DZYNE Technologies has introduced a new counter-drone solution, the Dronebuster Detect, Track, Identify, Mitigate (DTIM) Kit, during the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) held in the UAE. This compact and portable system addresses the growing need for effective counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS) in modern military operations. With conflicts increasingly highlighting the importance of…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is creating a new unit within its agency aimed at protecting investors from bad actors in crypto and artificial intelligence. The agency announced the new unit on Thursday, calling it the Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit, or CETU, according to a statement. CETU will replace the Crypto Assets and…
Scientists today released what they say is the biggest-ever artificial-intelligence (AI) model for biology. The model — which was trained on 128,000 genomes spanning the tree of life, from humans to single-celled bacteria and archaea — can write whole chromosomes and small genomes from scratch. It can also make sense of existing DNA, including hard-to-interpret…
Less than a year after introducing its artificial intelligence capabilities, Apple is bringing the feature to its most affordable iPhone. On Wednesday, the company unveiled an iPhone that will cost $599 and feature an A.I. system it calls Apple Intelligence. The device brings A.I. features like notification summaries and writing recommendations in English to the…
The era of “agentic” artificial intelligence has arrived, and businesses can no longer afford to overlook its transformative potential. AI agents operate independently, making decisions and taking actions based on their programming. Gartner predicts that by 2028, 15% of day-to-day business decisions will be made completely autonomously by AI agents. However, as these systems become…
I reported in November that Microsoft was about to start a bigger effort to bring AI features to Xbox, and today, the company is unveiling what it’s calling a breakthrough in AI for gaming. Microsoft’s new Muse AI model could help Xbox developers create parts of games in the future, and the company says it’s…
After years of development, Apple has unveiled what it calls C1, its first-ever in-house cellular modem. Apple’s latest silicon replaces Qualcomm modem chips previously required for 5G connectivity in the iPhone. The first Apple product to use the new C1 chip is the iPhone 16e, Apple’s latest entry-level model that replaces the iPhone SE line.…
Microsoft believes it has made a key breakthrough in quantum computing, unlocking the potential for quantum computers to solve industrial-scale problems. The software giant has spent 17 years working on a research project to create a new material and architecture for quantum computing, and it’s unveiling the Majorana 1 processor, Microsoft’s first quantum processor based…
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