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Binaries fractures – individuals and institutions presented with a choice between different polarities instead of being able to align along a median – is a theme from the OODA Almanac 2023. Decentralized versus centralized systems is the high-level, umbrella “binary fracture” you can put over all the geopolitical and technological arenas we explore here at…
We have been prioritizing research and analysis of the security implications of ChatGPT in the last few weeks and were shifting gears to a survey of all the activity and platforms available in the LLM marketplace relative to ChatGPT – picking up where we left off in our December 2022 post The Past, Present, and…
The vulnerability – CVE-2023-28432 – affects a tool used for machine learning, analytics, and other processes and functions. Once patched. the expanded capabilities are available only after a stint on the OpenAI waiting list.
Recent reporting reveals that ties between Russia and Iran have tightened to the point where Russia is now Iran’s chief military patron. This is extremely worrisome, especially for Washington that has seen the war in Ukraine push its traditional rivals closer together. This military relationship has been categorized as unprecedented, with Tehran delivering military supplies like ammunition and drones,…
In late April, cryptocurrency exchanges alleged to provide services to criminal organizations were taken down by the FBI and Ukrainian law enforcement. Details of the seizure follow as provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Michigan, and as reported by The Record.
Recently Joe Felter, Pete Newell, and Steve Blank published what they called “An organizational road map for Pentagon to deter China, win in Ukraine” which doubles down on the premise that an Office of Strategic Capital and the existing Defense Innovation Unit would solve several of the U.S. Department of Defense’s agility and adaptability challenges. …
The Saudis and the Chinese have already piled on, but recently Brazil’s Lula and France’s Macron stated their countries intent to forge partnerships to move away from the continued centralization of the dollar in the global financial system. Industry leaders from various global industry sector have weighed in on this growing De-Dollarization movement. Various points…
And while there is a natural resources element to the current instability and violence in Sudan, it is only as the central plot point in one of the seven narratives emanating from Sudan that provide a clear fact-based and evidentiary context to better understand the severity of the following significant global power shifts, risks, and…
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…
Chris is a Senior Advisor at OODA LLC and an OODA Network Member. In this series of OODA interviews, we talk about how she came to be a part of OODA. In subsequent conversations in this series, we will talk about Chris’ vast experience within the DoD, especially with procurement, operations, and specific programs like…
In mid-March 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin, accusing him of committing war crimes in Ukraine. Among the charges levied included the deportation of children, rapes, mass killings, and widespread torture. Notably, the charges cited include the purposeful bombing of a civilian maternity hospital and a theater in March 2022. According to its mandate, the…
CISA concludes its presentations at the RSA Conference today with an extension of the discussion initiated on Monday with a panel today, Thursday, April 26th: Learn how public-private partnerships have evolved over the past few years into operational collaboration and what that looks like to each of the leading U.S. Government agencies in this space.…
In the months ahead, we will be introducing a research area known as “Swarm Dynamics”, which grows out of discussions at OODAcon 2022. Specifically, OODA John Robb positions “The Swarm” as a feature of his The Long Night framework – both as a panelist and in previous OODAcast conversations with OODA CEO Matt Devost. Swarm…
So OODA Loop backend filtering and vetting through the OODA Network expertise, we provide this recently released CSA White Paper on cybersecurity and ChatGPT as a contribution to the conversation that is undoubtedly going on at this year’s RSAC 2023. Following the analysis of the CSA White Paper, we include a review of the ChatGPT…
The Center for American Progress is on the U.S. regional and local innovation beat – with brilliant work on the future of the American Community College System and the Chips Act which explores many of the characteristics of globalization transformed.
Agents and agentic workflows are the latest buzzwords in the generative AI ecosystem. But like any emerging technology, the terminology and definition of agents is diverse and often confusing for developers. To help demystify agents, in this article we offer a comprehensive resource for developers who are already familiar with the fundamentals of large language…
If there is a silver lining in the experiences of the last 12 months, it may turn out to be the “Great Decoupling” that pivots the world of blockchain away from financial engineering and towards an acceleration of enterprise adoption of Ethereum and more compelling business applications that truly create value. The decoupling that is…
Scientists have built the smallest quantum computer in the world. It is the size of a desktop PC and can work at room temperature. The machine is powered by just one photon, or light particle, embedded in a ring-shaped optical fiber, the scientists wrote in a study published Sept. 3 in the journal Physical Review…
Chinese companies are aggressively developing autonomous vehicles. In August, China announced that it had issued 16,000 test licenses for driverless cars and opened up about 20,000 miles of roads nationwide for autonomous vehicle testing. But Chinese autonomous vehicle companies have also quietly been testing their technology on U.S. streets. Baidu, Didi, WeRide, Pony.ai and AutoX all have…
It’s different this time. How many times have we heard that? It usually turns out to be wishful thinking. This time, the generative-AI bubble may really be different than the dot-com bubble — just not in a good way. The number of generative AI users is growing faster than the number of internet users in the…
In 2005, there was no inkling of the artificial intelligence boom that would come years later. But directors at Intel, whose chips served as electronic brains in most computers, faced a decision that might have altered how that transformative technology evolved. Paul Otellini, Intel’s chief executive at the time, presented the board with a startling idea:…
On Wednesday, Xi Jinping of China and Narendra Modi of India met for the first time in over five years. This comes just two days after China and India reached a deal on the patrol of their shared border, signaling a possible thaw between the two powers. The leaders highlighted their want for a more…
On Wednesday, attackers set off explosives and opened first at TUSAS, an aerospace and defense company in Ankara, Turkey’s capital. TUSAS designs and manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles, civilian and military aircraft, and other systems. Turkey is blaming the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a terrorist organization, for the attack. The attack killed five people and wounded…
On Wednesday, the Group of 7 nations announced that it has finalized its plans to give Ukraine a $50 billion loan. The money will come from Russia’s frozen central bank assets. This is an unprecedented move by Western nations to make Russia pay for the damage it is causing in Ukraine. A coalition has never…
On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III confirmed that North Korean troops were present in Russia. Austin stated that this a serious escalation and will have consequences for Europe and Asia. He did not detail the number of troops currently present or the number expected to arrive. Additionally, Austin believes that this…
With less than two weeks until the 2024 U.S. election, Russian threat actors are pushing across enormous amounts of fake news. Named Operation Overload, this fake news push is an attempt by the Russian state to influence the U.S. election. In the attacks, the actors create fake news sites, make false fact-checking resources, and use…
Lazarus Group, a North Korean threat actor, is exploiting a Chrome zero-day in a new campaign. In the campaign, the actor is using a realistic game site and AI-generated content to attack cryptocurrency investors. Additionally, they have multiple accounts on X, trying to trick influential cryptocurrency figures to promote their malware-infected game site. Kaspersky researchers…
Multiple popular mobile apps, some of which have millions of downloads, are exposing hardcoded and unencrypted credentials to cloud services. This could allow anyone with access to the app’s source code to extract credentials and exploit cloud infrastructure. These popular apps include credentials for either Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Blog Storage. Threat…
Threat actors are attempting to disguise the Golang ransomware as the infamous Lockbit ransomware to intimidate their victims. These actors are using the Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration feature in the attacks to exfiltrate victim data. After accessing a target user’s machine, the attacker encrypts the user’s files and then changes the victim’s wallpaper. The wallpaper…
Perhaps the one and only thing that could potentially derail NVIDIA’s ability to continue raking money in hand over fist in the AI era would be a design flaw that impacts chip yields. That’s exactly what NVIDIA has been contending with in regards to its Blackwell GB200 silicon. However, NVIDIA’s chief financial officer Colette Kress…
Aptos Orbital in Palo Alto, Calif. has launched a new platform it says is designed to improve satellite intelligence and communication. The company’s terminal, a low size, weight, and power (SWaP) device, integrates radiation-hardened processing, connectivity, and cloud services. According to Aptos, the technology enables satellites to run artificial intelligence (AI) and send real-time intelligence…
Merck & Co. is putting down $30 million upfront to buy Yale spinout Modifi Biosciences, a deal that includes a preclinical asset designed to take on the tough-to-treat brain cancer glioblastoma (GBM). “We pitched to venture capitalists and the light switch would just go off when we talked about GBM,” Ranjit Bindra, M.D., Ph.D., Modifi co-founder…
In the last few years, we have witnessed two emerging technologies: IoT and Blockchain gaining significant attention due to their potential of transforming various industries. The integration of these two technologies helps in developing secure and scalable IoT networks that can streamline data exchange between devices, systems, and stakeholders. The IoT data becomes highly secure…
Sotheby’s later this month hopes to make the auction house’s first ever sale of an artwork made by a humanoid robot. Ai-Da, a humanoid robot artist, is contributing “AI God,” a portrait of Alain Turing, the mathematician and computer scientist considered to be the progenitor of modern computing, to what Sotheby’s calls a “digital art…
From Hackers are using AI open source repository, Hugging Face to upload malicious files that steal information: Hugging Face, the a massive online repository for AI models, has hosted thousands of files containing hidden code that can poison data and steal information, including the tokens used to pay AI and cloud operators, according to security…
Topological materials possess unusual properties due to their wavefunction—the physical law that guides electrons—being knotted or twisted. At the interface where topological material meets the surrounding space, the wavefunction must unwind. This sudden transition causes the electrons at the material’s edge to behave differently from those in the bulk. Such a discrepancy results in what…
On the last day of his life, Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and texted his closest friend: a lifelike A.I. chatbot named after Daenerys Targaryen, a character from “Game of Thrones.” “I miss you, baby sister,” he wrote. “I miss you too, sweet brother,” the chatbot replied. Sewell, a 14-year-old ninth grader from…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting a three-day summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, and he welcomed global leaders on Tuesday. Russia is hoping to turn this summit into a rallying call against the Western liberal order. The event is also a way for Russia to demonstrate that U.S.-led efforts to isolate the…
On Tuesday, China announced that it was going to hold live-fire military drills in the Taiwan Strait. These drills come just a week after China held record-setting military exercises, aiming to show a potential blockade of Taiwan. The drills were expected to take place around China’s Niushan Island, which is the closest point between mainland…
South Korea is pledging to take steps to counter Russia and North Korea’s military cooperation. North Korea is continuing to deny that it has sent troops to Ukraine in support of Russia. This is despite claims that North Korea has sent 1,500 soldiers to fight alongside Moscow’s forces. On Tuesday, South Korean officials stated that…
This week, India and China reached a border deal on how their shared Himalayan border will be monitored. Four years ago, soldiers from both sides were killed in a deadly skirmish. This agreement brings hope that hostilities between the two countries will ease. India and China have been locked in intense talks for weeks, ultimately…
Google has discovered a high-severity vulnerability in Samsung devices, tracked as CVE-2024-44068. Samsung had just released a security update earlier this month. The vulnerability can cause memory access to not fully shut off after a process concludes. This can allow remote access and privilege escalation. Google warned that the vulnerability has been exploited in the…
The Bumblebee malware loader was taken down by law enforcement in May 2024, but may now be resurfacing. Operation Endgame, the takedown, was a series of asset freezes, infrastructure shut downs, and revealing suspects’ identities. Bumblebee was primarily used for payload delivery, but disappeared after the operation was enacted. However, Netskope, a cybersecurity firm, is…
Cybercriminals are increasingly using the Latrodectus malware. According to a Forcepoint analysis, recent campaigns are targeting the financial, automotive, and healthcare sectors. Latrodectus is also known as BlackWidow, and was first detected in October 2023. It is believed that a threat actor known as LunarSpider developed the downloader. It is typically delivered through email phishing…
In a new campaign, malicious actors are using fake browser updates to infect sites with malware. They are using WordPress plug-ins to deliver the malware, infecting websites with info stealing payloads. To access these sites, they are using stolen credentials to log in. A new variant of the malware is being disguised as a fake…
Once thought of as distinct trends in technology—artificial intelligence and blockchain—are rapidly converging. These diverse sub-sectors include everything from decentralized energy and decentralized physical infrastructure networks to model fine-tuning and computation infrastructure. Some skeptics might balk at startups that advertise their use of AI and blockchain, the two biggest buzzwords in business today, believing that…
The Department of Energy announced on Tuesday that it will spend $428 million to expand battery manufacturing and recycling facilities in places that have suffered power plant and coal mine closures. The award money will go toward 14 projects in 15 different communities in states that include Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Texas. The department said…
Even with most of its autonomous vehicle fleet on ice, Cruise is still bleeding cash. The robotaxi company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors lost $435 million in the third quarter of 2024, GM reported this morning. That’s an improvement from the $791 million lost in the third quarter of 2023. It’s…
The Defense Department wants to bring Silicon Valley’s top talent deeper into the folds of the military by offering technology executives positions as part-time military officers. The department is considering asking chief technology officers and other senior tech professionals to take up high-ranking positions in the reserves. The tech reservists would be periodically summoned to help…
Nvidia quietly unveiled a new artificial intelligence model on Tuesday that outperforms offerings from industry leaders OpenAI and Anthropic, marking a significant shift in the company’s AI strategy and potentially reshaping the competitive landscape of the field. The model, named Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct, appeared on the popular AI platform Hugging Face without fanfare, quickly drawing attention for…
Chinese autonomous driving firm Horizon Robotics has priced its shares at the top of its range to raise HK$5.4 billion ($696 million) according to a term sheet seen by Reuters, making it the biggest Hong Kong initial public offering this year. The company sold 1.355 billion shares in a price range of HK$3.73 to HK$3.99…
GE HealthCare on Monday announced a new artificial intelligence application it said will save time for doctors who diagnose and treat cancer. CareIntellect for Oncology, as the tool is called, will help oncologists get up to speed on a patient’s history and disease progression by quickly showing them the data they need, the company said.…
The US and Philippines agree to the long term deployment of a medium range missile system. Following joint exercises in April, the US has agreed to deploy the Typhoon Missile System indefinitely to the Philippines. The Typhoon Missile System is a medium range platform that is capable of firing the Standard Missile 6 and the…
South Africa has ordered Taiwan to relocate its unofficial embassy. The South African Foreign Ministry has instructed Taiwan to relocate its offices from the administrative capital. The move by South Africa comes as the BRICKS summit is coming up, and as China has been stepping up its efforts to weakening Taiwan’s international support. Taiwan has…
The Internet Archive has been hacked again. The Internet Archive’s support email has been hacked. An unknown individual sent a message through the system warning that thousands of user’s communications with the information email are compromised. The Internet Archive is still in the process of restoring its systems after a cyberattack shutdown the service earlier…
Cisco has confirmed that its files were breached by an unauthorized user. After denying earlier reports of a data breach, Cisco has confirmed that several files were access by an unauthorized user. Cisco has said that the sites that the hacker used to breach its systems were shutdown. An individual known as IntelBroker claimed to…
The Department of Justice has proposed new rules on the transfer of bulk data to foreign countries. The Department of Justice has proposed new rules restricting the amount of data that can be exported to foreign entities. The rules are part of a long standing push to restrict US adversaries from gaining access to the…
Nidec Precision has confirmed that a data breach has exposed over 50,000 files. Nidec Precision has confirmed that a data breach in August exposed over 50,000 files. The company disclosed that procurement policies and internal correspondence had been stolen. The company became aware of the breach after demands for payment were made by the attackers.…
Since it was founded nearly two decades ago, 23andMe has grown into one of the largest biotechnology companies in the world. Millions of people have used its simple genetic testing service, which involves ordering a saliva test, spitting into a tube, and sending it back to the company for a detailed DNA analysis. But now the…
Microsoft will allow its customers to build autonomous artificial intelligence agents from next month, in its latest push to tap the booming technology amid growing investor scrutiny of its hefty AI investments. The company is positioning autonomous agents – programs that need little human intervention unlike chatbots – as “apps for an AI-driven world” that…
Leading artificial intelligence companies that are racing to develop the cutting-edge technology are tackling a very human challenge: how to give AI models a personality. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have developed teams focused on improving “model behaviour”, an emerging field that shapes AI systems’ responses and characteristics, impacting how their chatbots come across to users.…
The newest technological creation from Google is the exascale supercomputer. It is set to completely alter the current outlook of computing space due to its almost incomprehensible computing speed of one trillion operations per second. This remarkable achievement, however, is shadowed by a critical dilemma: how will these systems be ‘powered’? The current energy generation…
The US Army is testing a $10 million laser weapon system fitted on its Stryker combat vehicle, which can destroy a drone for just $3 beam. Leonardo DRS and BlueHalo announced the successful live-fire demonstration of a new Counter Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) Directed Energy (DE) Stryker designed to defeat Group 1-3 UAS with multiple…
Scientists think that the performance of quantum computers could be improved by using hypothesized phases of matter known as non-Abelian states, which have the potential to encode information in an error-resistant way. But realizing a material that could host such states typically requires a powerful magnetic field, which would hinder device integration. Now three teams…
Artificial-intelligence search company Perplexity has begun fundraising talks in which it is looking to more than double its valuation to $8 billion or more, as startups try to ride the coattails of OpenAI’s recent big investment. Perplexity has raised three rounds of funding in the past year—an unusually fast pace even by the standards of…
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin made an unannounced visit to Kyiv to strengthen support for the war effort as Ukrainian forces continue to lose ground and allies stop short of fully endorsing Ukraine’s latest plan to end the conflict. Mr. Austin is set to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and top Ukrainian military leaders to…
Ukraine has struck a manufacturer of military explosives deep inside Russian territory, as well as storage infrastructure at a military airfield. Kyiv’s General Staff said in a post on Telegram the Sverdlov factory had been making chemical components for artillery ammunition and aerial bombs. Kyiv has often said its air attacks target infrastructure key to…
Defense Secretary, Lloyd J. Austin said he would “like to see Israel scale back some of the strikes it’s taking, especially in and around Beirut” as casualties grow. The White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, affirmed on Wednesday that the Biden administration had told Israel that it opposed “near-daily strikes” in “densely populated areas of…
Hezbollah’s banking arm, Al-Qard al-Hasan, also operating as an alternative bank for Lebanese, was targeted around Beirut by the Israeli military with an intent to disrupt Hezbollah’s day-to-day operations, undermine its support in Lebanese communities, and hamper its ability to rebuild. The financial association was placed under US sanctions in 2007. It operates as a…
Israel organizations have been targeted by attackers trying to deliver wiper malware to employees. The attackers send phishing emails impersonating cybersecurity company ESET, warning that hackers have tried to compromise the target’s device. Since the start of the Israel-Gaza conflict, Israeli companies have frequently been targeted with wiper malware. Read more: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/10/18/israel-wiper-eset/
A North Korean threat actor was caught exploiting an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability in a supply chain attack. The attack allows remote attackers to execute code on target systems that use Edge in Internet Explorer Mode. Because any program that uses IE-based WebView to render web content for displaying ads would be vulnerable to this…
Cyprus said it has successfully thwarted a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aimed at blocking access to the government’s central online portal. This attack affected government portal gov.cy for only a few minutes. It has not been said who was behind the attacks or what the motive could have been. Read more: https://www.securityweek.com/cyprus-thwarted-a-digital-attack-against-the-governments-main-online-portal/
The World Foundation has introduced World Chain, a new blockchain network that claims to focus on verified human users instead of bots. With 15 million verified participants already, the project aims to tackle blockchain issues like congestion and costly transaction fees. In a statement shared with Bitcoin.com News, the World Foundation describes World Chain as…
The rise of generative AI (GenAI) felt like a watershed moment for enterprises looking to drive exponential growth with its transformative potential. However, this enthusiasm may be tempered by a host of challenges and risks stemming from scaling GenAI. As the technology subsists on data, customer trust and their confidential information are at stake—and enterprises…
Even during this tense election year, bipartisan coalitions are taking steps to enhance national security, protect American-owned intellectual property and secure the country’s supply chain by lessening the nation’s dependence on biotechnology companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party. In September, the House passed the BIOSECURE Act, with significant support from both parties. The bill prohibits…
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