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Bellingcat, aided by satellite imagery service Planet, and CNN, with imagery from Maxar Technologies, both provide evidence that Russia continues to steal grain shipments from Ukraine – rerouting the food shipments through Crimean ports. Since the beginning of the war, Russia has blocked most Ukrainian ports and “maritime opportunities to export food…grain, barley, sunflower and…
Over the last 18 months, we have been tracking a growing community of venture capital firms committed to National Security Investment for American Competitiveness (including Schmidt Futures, America’s Frontier Fund, and Thomas Tull). Marc Andreesen’s VC firm – a16z – describes the same movement as “American Dynamism”. According to the a16z partners – Katherine Boyle and David…
A recent Supreme Court ruling in the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith et. al. case will have broad implications for the generative AI platform architectures pushing the boundaries of copyright infringement and fair-use law. Feature Image Source: Image processing of Warhol’s Prince portrait – along with images of Prince and…
This special report is a guide into some of the darker sides of AI deployments. When fielded incorrectly, AI can do more harm to your business than good. Rogue AI can damage brands, invoke bad decisions and cause your organization to unintentionally fall out of compliance with regulations or potentially even break the law. It…
OODA hosts a monthly video call to help members optimize opportunities and reduce risk to discuss items of common interest to our membership. These highly collaborative sessions are always a great way for our members to meet and interact with each other while talking about topics like global risks, emerging technologies, cybersecurity, and current or…
This weekend, we remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice defending our freedom. In November of last year, OODA Network Member Brian Jenkins spoke to the OODA Network Member membership on the threat posed by domestic political extremism. – which was followed by an OODA Network Q&A Session on Domestic Political Extremism and Violence. We…
The United States remains in a heightened threat environment. Lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and personal grievances continue to pose a persistent and lethal threat to the Homeland. In the coming months, factors that could mobilize individuals to commit violence include their perceptions of the 2024 general election…
Of the industry sectors exploring Blockchain technologies the Financial Services sector (Banking & Capital Markets, Insurance, Investment Management – including Real Estate and Digital Assets/NFTs) seems to have the most activity-based simply on the sheer volume of projects. According to analysts and industry research, interest and investments in blockchain remain strongest in the financial sector.…
Along with Africa and the Arctic, add the growing tensions between the U.S. and China about undersea cable deployment and seabed warfare to your geopolitical tracking, risk awareness, and strategic impacts for your business or organization. Find an overview of the core issues, tensions and What’s Next? here.
A couple of months before the U.S.-led Five Eyes operation disrupted Russia’s sophisticated state-run cyber espionage group Turla’s operations, Moscow submitted its vision for a Convention of the United Nations (UN) on Ensuring International Information Security to the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Security (OEWG). The nine-page proposalfocused on three objectives: 1.) preventing and settling inter-nation state conflicts…
Explore and understand Virtual Singapore through the larger strategic initiatives of which the project is a part and the strategic collaborations across the public and private sectors that are making this virtual city-state a reality.
The 2023 G7 Summit took place this weekend. Dominating the coverage of the summit was a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with the G7 leaders – and a tangible commitment of increased military support for Ukraine by the U.S. and other G7 countries. With its position in the East China Sea, post-war democratic alliance…
Of the many courses of action discussed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman when he testified before Congress earlier this week, the creation of a global body to manage the governance of AI came up several times. The International Atomic Energy Agency and CERN were mentioned as models. For now, the 2023 G7 Summit meeting in…
In a previous post, we dissected NIST’s white paper on Blockchain for Access Control Systems (NIST IR 8403) (1). Both projects offer a great overview of the promise of blockchain technologies at the physical device layer and opportunities for the creative development of an innovative marketplace for novel defensive cybersecurity platforms. We will now take…
The OODA LLC team and members of the OODA Network have participated in or led hundreds of red teams across many divergent disciplines, ranging from strategic and tactical cyber to physical security threats – like infectious diseases or nuclear power plant targeting – to more abstract items like Joint Operating Concepts. We recently looked for…
About a year and a half ago, quantum control startup Quantum Machines and Nvidia announced a deep partnership that would bring together Nvidia’s DGX Quantum computing platform and Quantum Machine’s advanced quantum control hardware. We didn’t hear much about the results of this partnership for a while, but it’s now starting to bear fruit and…
When John Jumper got the call earlier this month from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that he was winning the Nobel Prize, he almost didn’t answer. The director of Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s formidable AI lab, recognized the Swedish area code on his phone and froze, unable to believe what was on the…
Warning of increased orbital warfare risks, the US Space Force head has alarmed about the ‘mind-boggling’ speed of China’s military space deployments. “The number of different categories of space weapons that [China has] created and… the speed with which they’re doing it is very threatening,” said US Space Force chief General Chance Saltzman, as per the…
Physical Intelligence, an artificial intelligence start-up seeking to create brains for a wide variety of robots, plans to announce on Monday that it had raised $400 million in financing from major investors. The round was led by Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s executive chairman, and the venture capital firms Thrive Capital and Lux Capital. Other investors include…
There are concerns about the tensions between North and South Korea due to North Korea’s involvement in the war in Ukraine. The cooperation has raised fears for South Korea that North Korea could receive nuclear technology from Russia in return. In response, South Korea has pledged to respond to North Korea’s involvement, including by potentially…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged its allies to act before North Korean troops reach the battlefield. He suggests a preemptive strike on camps where North Korean troops are being trained, however, Ukraine cannot do it without permission from allies to use Western-made long-range weapons to hit targets deep inside Russia. Ukrainian leaders have repeatedly…
At least three people have been killed in an Israeli air attack in southern Lebanon, and other strikes were reported in the country’s east as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the border region. During this visit, he vowed to push the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah back beyond the Litani River, approximately 30km (18 miles)…
Chinese threat actors are operating at a higher level today than ever before. Their APTs have been improving on their edge attack capabilities focused on identifying and breaching edge devices en masse. This has been possible due to the large quantity of devices in the wild that have Internet-facing portals. Around the middle of 2022,…
Tel Aviv, Israel based Noma Security has emerged from stealth mode with $32 million in Series A funding led by Ballistic Ventures. Noma provides a platform to protect the data and lifecycle of emerging gen-AI applications, which introduces new threats not covered by existing security controls. This is just the part of the new risk…
Top Chinese research institutions linked to the People’s Liberation Army have used Meta’s publicly available Llama model to develop an AI tool for potential military applications, according to three academic papers and analysts. In a June paper reviewed by Reuters, six Chinese researchers from three institutions, including two under the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) leading…
Waymo, Alphabet’s robotic taxi unit, is now providing over 150,000 paid rides per week, up by more than 50% since August as the tech giant seeks to stay ahead of potential rivals in autonomous driving including Elon Musk’s Tesla. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai disclosed the weekly ride figure Tuesday during the company’s third-quarter results call.…
The week after seeing its partner Roche cut and run, UCB has reported the failure of its anti-tau antibody bepranemab to improve cognition and function in people with early Alzheimer’s disease. But UCB looked past the primary endpoint miss and focused on other results that left it “deeply encouraged” by the trial. Roche licensed bepranemab for…
The restart of the nuclear power plant closest to the epicenter of Japan’s devastating 2011 earthquake this week was hailed by the government as a major step toward reviving atomic energy. It’s also been a reminder of the crippling shortage of skilled workers that could slow that comeback. Onagawa didn’t suffer the meltdown seen at…
Satellite services provider GlobalStar today disclosed an expansion of its deal with Apple. Apple will commit an additional $1.1 billion for upfront infrastructure prepayments, to increase the capacity of satellite services. Additionally, Apple will take 20% ownership of GlobalStar, in an equity deal worth about $400 million. The news has sent GlobalStar stock soaring, and it…
The smallest unit of information in a computer is the bit: on or off, 1 or 0. Today, the world’s entire computing power is built on the combination and interconnection of countless ones and zeros. Quantum computers have their own version of the bit: the qubit. It, too, has two basic states. The main difference:…
Polkadot is preparing for its biggest upgrade yet: Polkadot 2.0. The upgrade is expected to roll out in phases throughout 2024 and introduce key features such as Asynchronous Backing, Agile Coretime and Elastic Scaling. Cointelegraph Research’s latest report provides an overview of Polkadot 2.0’s evolution and discusses other key developments for Polkadot, such as its ecosystem…
The smallest unit of information in a computer is the bit: on or off, 1 or 0. Today, the world’s entire computing power is built on the combination and interconnection of countless ones and zeros. Quantum computers have their own version of the bit: the qubit. It, too, has two basic states. The main difference:…
The restart of the nuclear power plant closest to the epicenter of Japan’s devastating 2011 earthquake this week was hailed by the government as a major step toward reviving atomic energy. It’s also been a reminder of the crippling shortage of skilled workers that could slow that comeback. Onagawa didn’t suffer the meltdown seen at…
The week after seeing its partner Roche cut and run, UCB has reported the failure of its anti-tau antibody bepranemab to improve cognition and function in people with early Alzheimer’s disease. But UCB looked past the primary endpoint miss and focused on other results that left it “deeply encouraged” by the trial. Roche licensed bepranemab for…
Waymo, Alphabet’s robotic taxi unit, is now providing over 150,000 paid rides per week, up by more than 50% since August as the tech giant seeks to stay ahead of potential rivals in autonomous driving including Elon Musk’s Tesla. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai disclosed the weekly ride figure Tuesday during the company’s third-quarter results call.…
Top Chinese research institutions linked to the People’s Liberation Army have used Meta’s publicly available Llama model to develop an AI tool for potential military applications, according to three academic papers and analysts. In a June paper reviewed by Reuters, six Chinese researchers from three institutions, including two under the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) leading…
The United Nations has voted to extend the mandate for the UN Peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara. The United Nations Security Council has voted to extend the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara. Algeria boycotted the vote over concerns that the Resolution did not contain strong enough language on human rights protections.…
Mexico has continued shipments of oil to Cuba. Mexico has continued shipments of oil and diesel to Cuba. The shipments of fuel by Mexico have been critical to maintaining the infrastructure in Cuba. Fuel supplies from other nations such as Venezuela and Russia have been discontinued which lead to the current energy crisis. Mexico has…
Rescue efforts are underway after floods have devastated Spain. Widespread flooding has left towns across Spain’s Mediterranean coast destroyed. Initial estimates say that at least 158 people have died in the floods. Rescue operations are still underway across the Mediterranean coast regions. Read more: https://apnews.com/article/flash-floods-spain-valencia-climate-change-30c6ef59ddf27598c691c89d0ba41442
Two former police officers have been sentenced for the murder of Marielle Franco. Two former Brazilian police officers have been sentenced for murder and given the maximum sentence. Many see the sentencing as a step towards justice for the murder of the poplar activist Marielle Franco. Marielle Franco had been a prominent activist and was…
The US has charged a Russian national with developing RedLine. As part of a multinational operation to break up a cyber crime gang, the US has charged a Russian national with developing and managing RedLine. RedLine is an information stealing program used to steal people’s representative information. The US and its partners also announced that…
The Biden Administration is working to complete an executive order on cybersecurity. The Biden Administration is aiming to complete an executive order on cybersecurity by January. Details of the order are not public, but it is likely to focus on generative AI. The order is also likely to focus on improving the federal government’s cloud…
Over 15,000 stolen credentials were found in a database used by hackers. Researchers discovered a database that contained over 15,000 credentials stolen by hackers. The database was used to store data stole by hackers that used tools which automatically search for credentials. The researchers said this campaign was concerning because it targeted credentials used for…
Businesses on Facebook are being targeted in a phishing campaign. Business have been receiving phishing messages on their Facebook accounts from a fake Taiwanese business account. The account has been sending fake PDF files and false copyright claims. Researchers have said that the actor behind the attack is using several techniques to avoid detection by…
The United Nations has voted to extend the mandate for the UN Peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara. The United Nations Security Council has voted to extend the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara. Algeria boycotted the vote over concerns that the Resolution did not contain strong enough language on human rights protections.…
Mexico has continued shipments of oil to Cuba. Mexico has continued shipments of oil and diesel to Cuba. The shipments of fuel by Mexico have been critical to maintaining the infrastructure in Cuba. Fuel supplies from other nations such as Venezuela and Russia have been discontinued which lead to the current energy crisis. Mexico has…
Rescue efforts are underway after floods have devastated Spain. Widespread flooding has left towns across Spain’s Mediterranean coast destroyed. Initial estimates say that at least 158 people have died in the floods. Rescue operations are still underway across the Mediterranean coast regions. Read more: https://apnews.com/article/flash-floods-spain-valencia-climate-change-30c6ef59ddf27598c691c89d0ba41442
Two former police officers have been sentenced for the murder of Marielle Franco. Two former Brazilian police officers have been sentenced for murder and given the maximum sentence. Many see the sentencing as a step towards justice for the murder of the poplar activist Marielle Franco. Marielle Franco had been a prominent activist and was…
The US has charged a Russian national with developing RedLine. As part of a multinational operation to break up a cyber crime gang, the US has charged a Russian national with developing and managing RedLine. RedLine is an information stealing program used to steal people’s representative information. The US and its partners also announced that…
The Biden Administration is working to complete an executive order on cybersecurity. The Biden Administration is aiming to complete an executive order on cybersecurity by January. Details of the order are not public, but it is likely to focus on generative AI. The order is also likely to focus on improving the federal government’s cloud…
Over 15,000 stolen credentials were found in a database used by hackers. Researchers discovered a database that contained over 15,000 credentials stolen by hackers. The database was used to store data stole by hackers that used tools which automatically search for credentials. The researchers said this campaign was concerning because it targeted credentials used for…
Businesses on Facebook are being targeted in a phishing campaign. Business have been receiving phishing messages on their Facebook accounts from a fake Taiwanese business account. The account has been sending fake PDF files and false copyright claims. Researchers have said that the actor behind the attack is using several techniques to avoid detection by…
Generative AI is no longer just an experiment. For many organizations, it’s part of everyday operations. 2024 saw notable progress in organizations’ generative AI adoption, according to Enterprise Strategy Group’s recent survey of over 800 IT and business decision-makers across industries and business sizes. Especially in areas like software development and IT operations, organizations are…
Earlier this year, researchers at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) announced that they had successfully used a classical computer and sophisticated mathematical models to thoroughly outperform a quantum computer on a task that some thought only quantum computers could solve. Now, those researchers have determined why they were able to trounce the…
Researchers from NVIDIA, CMU, UC Berkeley, UT Austin, and UC San Diego presented HOVER, a “versatile neural whole-body controller for humanoid robots.” This multi-mode policy distillation framework allows the robots to move all their limbs with just one model. NVIDIA’s Senior Research Manager and Lead of Embodied AI Jim Fan revealed that the team trained…
Beware: ghosts of biotech’s past. Welcome to Fierce Biotech’s graveyard, a yearly ritual in which we remember the companies that shuttered operations in 2024. We don’t take these closures lightly; each one marks a difficult decision made after funds dry up or a clinical trial misses the mark, and every closure heavily impacts employees and…
The Biden administration this week is hosting a first-of-its-kind international summit about the use of artificial intelligence in the life sciences as governments and private industry increasingly push the boundaries of biotechnology. The convergence of the life sciences and advanced AI could reveal the underpinnings of diseases, help identify new cures or produce more resistant…
Chainlink on Wednesday unveiled Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), designed for developers to create custom applications across multiple blockchains. The new offering was unveiled during Chainlink’s Smartcon, a side event to Hong Kong Fintech Week. On stage, Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov said he hoped history would view CRE as important for bringing traditional finance (TradFi) to…
The European Union has tossed a spanner in the works of chipmaker Nvidia’s proposed acquisition of Tel Aviv-based AI workload management startup Run:ai. The deal, which was announced back in April — with a price-tag of $700 million per our sources — will be reviewed by the bloc after a request by competition regulators in…
Chainlink on Wednesday unveiled Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), designed for developers to create custom applications across multiple blockchains. The new offering was unveiled during Chainlink’s Smartcon, a side event to Hong Kong Fintech Week. On stage, Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov said he hoped history would view CRE as important for bringing traditional finance (TradFi) to…
The Biden administration this week is hosting a first-of-its-kind international summit about the use of artificial intelligence in the life sciences as governments and private industry increasingly push the boundaries of biotechnology. The convergence of the life sciences and advanced AI could reveal the underpinnings of diseases, help identify new cures or produce more resistant…
Beware: ghosts of biotech’s past. Welcome to Fierce Biotech’s graveyard, a yearly ritual in which we remember the companies that shuttered operations in 2024. We don’t take these closures lightly; each one marks a difficult decision made after funds dry up or a clinical trial misses the mark, and every closure heavily impacts employees and…
Researchers from NVIDIA, CMU, UC Berkeley, UT Austin, and UC San Diego presented HOVER, a “versatile neural whole-body controller for humanoid robots.” This multi-mode policy distillation framework allows the robots to move all their limbs with just one model. NVIDIA’s Senior Research Manager and Lead of Embodied AI Jim Fan revealed that the team trained…
Earlier this year, researchers at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) announced that they had successfully used a classical computer and sophisticated mathematical models to thoroughly outperform a quantum computer on a task that some thought only quantum computers could solve. Now, those researchers have determined why they were able to trounce the…
Generative AI is no longer just an experiment. For many organizations, it’s part of everyday operations. 2024 saw notable progress in organizations’ generative AI adoption, according to Enterprise Strategy Group’s recent survey of over 800 IT and business decision-makers across industries and business sizes. Especially in areas like software development and IT operations, organizations are…
North Korea has confirmed the launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The launch was a North Korean missile’s longest flight time yet. This heightens ongoing fears of North Korea’s advanced weapons development. Kim Jong Un was present at the launch site, issuing a warning to his enemies. Kim said that the missile launch…
On Monday, U.S. airstrikes targeted several Syrian Islamic State camps containing senior leaders of the group. The strikes killed up to 35 Islamic State militants. There were no known civilian casualties. The U.S. has warships and air defense systems in the Middle East due to the ongoing conflict in the region. Syria is allied with…
Georgia state prosecutors have started an investigation into allegations of election fraud. The electoral commission requested the investigation as President Salome Zurabishvili is claiming that Russia interfered in the election. The parliamentary elections were won by the governing Georgian Dream party. The European Union has criticized irregularities in the election, and called for an investigation…
New satellite imagery suggests that Israel has struck a major missile plant in Iran. The photographs show multiple sensitive Iranian military sites, one of which is a major missile production facility. The air-defense systems which were struck were protecting critical oil and petrochemical refineries. Israel also fired missile strikes on military bases in Tehran. The…
The LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress contains a high-severity vulnerability that could allow privilege escalation. If an unauthenticated threat actor took advantage of the flaw, they could elevate their privileges and act maliciously. LiteSpeed Cache is a WordPress acceleration plugin that contains optimization features and advanced caching functionality. Over six million WordPress sites have installed…
A recent incident deploying the Play ransomware family has been linked to a North Korean threat group. The group is tracked as Jumpy Pisces and is also commonly known as APT45 and Andariel. This incident marks the first known collaboration between Jumpy Pisces and the Play ransomware network. Jumpy Pisces is a state-sponsored group and…
Microsoft is warning of a new spear-phishing campaign by threat actor Midnight Blizzard. The group is sponsored by the Russian state. The attacks are using RDP files, which is new for this threat group. Microsoft stated that the operation is targeting thousands of users in over 100 organizations in government, defense, academia, and other sectors.…
Lisa Ross is a little techie, a tad nerdy and a bit over analytical. So getting to use artificial intelligence for work couldn’t have been a more tantalizing prize. Ross, who has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and uses they/them pronouns, says they’ve more than doubled their productivity by using AI for almost everything: to create content using…
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has released its official definition of “open” artificial intelligence, setting the stage for a clash with tech giants like Meta — whose models don’t fit the rules. OSI has long set the industry standard for what constitutes open-source software, but AI systems include elements that aren’t covered by conventional licenses, like…
Certain industries create more value and have a greater impact than others. We call these outperformers arenas of competition. They are defined by two characteristics: high growth and high dynamism. Due to their growth, they capture an outsize share of the economy’s overall expansion; in terms of dynamism, market share within them changes hands to…
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