"The Trump Administration's new national cyber strategy .. may portend transformative changes in the government contracting space to help departments and agencies respond to adversarial activity in the cyber domain." www.lexology.com/library/deta...
“During the quarter, Oracle announced plans to raise $45 billion to $50 billion in the fiscal year to expand its cloud infrastructure capacity.” www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/o...
“The company filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Trump administration, urging a federal court to temporarily block the Pentagon’s designation of the A.I. company as a supply chain risk.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/b... @nytimes.com
“Several partners from large law firms have defected to AI firms so far in 2026.” www.law.com/2026/03/10/a...
“Not only will gen and agentic AI force legal professionals to change how they work, but it will also change how they measure and think about value and ROI.” www.law.com/corpcounsel/...
“Anthropic .. frontier AI lab .. greatest emphasis on safety .. leading the race to create ever more powerful versions of a technology that many of its own staff believe could usher in a terrifying parade of horribles .. nuclear war to human extinction.” time.com/article/2026...
“Several damaging tornadoes and grapefruit-size hail struck Illinois and Indiana late Tuesday. On Wednesday, the risk will shift east.” www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
The Strait of Hormuz is a potential minefield—literally. I joined Laura Coates on @cnn.com last night to discuss why Iran’s 5,000-mine stockpile poses a 'hellscape' risk to the global economy and why a mission to secure enriched uranium would be a massive roll of the dice. youtu.be/f7I2O49S8iM
“Meta was advised by Dutch firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek” www.law.com/corpcounsel/...
“The career Special Operations commander will take control of the nation’s largest spy agency and the military’s offensive cyber organization.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“They should teach kids to have agency over the technology, not just how to use it.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
“The White House is preparing an executive order targeting the AI startup, even as its earlier actions against the company face a major test in court.” www.wired.com/story/trump-... @wired.com
-Supply chain attacks at Kubernetes-el and Xygeni
-Cyberattack on Colombia's election agency
-Microsoft tests Entra passkey support
-Microsoft to tag Teams bots
-Windows Hotpatch to be enabled by default in May
-UK announces Online Crime Centre
-Finland releases national security report
-Gen. Joshua Rudd confirmed as next CyberCom and NSA head
-US to establish new inter-agency cyber cell
-UK to launch Online Crime Centre in April
-Coruna exploit kit traced back to L3Harris
-New Salesforce hacking campaign
Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...
Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS536/
“Australia should use electricity from coal, gas and uranium, not renewables, to power artificial intelligence and advanced robotics, and wield its vast land resources to attract data centre investment, opposition industry spokesman Andrew Hastie says.” www.afr.com/politics/fed...
David DiMolfetta and Alexandra Kelley:
“The agency moved its chatbot to operate on OpenAI’s GPT 4.1, internal document shows.” www.nextgov.com/acquisition/...
... but if it doesn't hear anything back by 12pm ET tomorrow (3/11), it will treat that as a denial and seek some sort of expeditious relief from the DC Circuit.
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Judge Lin also asked about what was going on with the other case before the DC Circuit. Mongon explained that that one, relating to a sanction invoked under 41 USC 4713, requires channeling to that court on an administrative record. Anthropic has sought a stay from the Dept of War [Defense] ...
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Atty Mongon (for Antrhopic) said he would agree to a later date if DOJ would agree not take further steps but DOJ atty James Harlow said he was "not prepared to offer any commitment on that issue." ...
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said that a fintech company cut a contract from $10M to $5M and that universities & business-to-business companies have switched providers. Said govt is affirmatively reaching out to their customers & urging them to stop working with Anthropic. They fear an executive order may target them ...
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Atty Michael Mongan (WilmerHale) for Anthropic said they feared invocation of the Defense Production Act to "commandeer our technology" and threats of criminal consequences. Said that more than 100 enterprise customers had already expressed doubts about continuing using them ...
/2
The status conference in the Anthropic case in ND Calif just ended. Judge Rita Lin set a preliminary injunction hearing for 3/24 at 1:30pm PT. DOJ wanted later, but would not commit to not taking additional onerous actions against Anthropic before then ...
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🌡️🔥 Record warmth across the DC–Balt region today!
New record highs set at all 3 major reporting sites:
📍 Reagan National (DC): 84
📍 Dulles: 85
📍 BWI: 85
That’s the warmest weather since late Sept — and temps more typical of early June than early March! 😲
Did it feel like summer to you today?
“AI-enabled economic espionage .. distinct national-security priority, not folded into generic cybercrime or AI ethics debates .. AI supply chains .. training data, model architectures & cloud dependencies .. integrated .. into critical infrastructure ..” www.aspistrategist.org.au/economic-esp...
The Strait of Hormuz Could Close: Admiral Stavridis Warns What Comes Next in the Iran War
Admiral James Stavridis youtu.be/0MQmdo1F2LY
“ ‘We are seeing a large uptick in litigation — data breach litigation, class action litigation — following a ransomware event, which is not what we used to see. Ransomware events were primarily first-party coverage-driven events ..” www.businessinsurance.com/ai-ransomwar... @businessinsider.com
"The State Department frames #DataSovereignty and innovation as opposing forces. Modern encryption proves we can have both." cyberscoop.com/us-state-dep... @cyberscoop.bsky.social
"The U.S. Department of Defense's designation of Anthropic's AI model Claude as a national security supply-chain risk could have broad implications for companies." iapp.org/news/a/thoug... @iapp.bsky.social
" .. NIST AI 800-4: Challenges to the #Monitoring of #Deployed #AI Systems .. identify monitoring categories & detail challenges (gaps, barriers & open questions) to inform & spur future research in the field." www.nist.gov/news-events/...
"Blaming chatbots, they are joining an earlier push for better protections by parents who say social media contributed to their children’s deaths." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/t...
