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The move stems from a Trump executive order as the administration continues to pursue cyber-enabled fraud and other crimes. The post Rubio restricts visas for sextortionists, cyber scammers appeared first on CyberScoop .

The president issued an EO this week on “Securing America’s Defense Supply Chains and Ensuring Domestic Acquisition of Critical Materials." The post Trump authorizes use of AI for defense supply chain mapping appeared first on DefenseScoop .

In 2024, Max Bergmann wrote, “NATO Missed a Chance to Transform Itself,” where he argued NATO’s leadership needs to facilitate a strong European pillar of the alliance through structural reforms in European institutions. Two years later, we asked Max to revisit his arguments.Image: The White House via Wikimedia CommonsIn 2024, you argued NATO’s own leadership should facilitate a European pillar. Two years later, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told the European Parliament that anyone who think

The next leap in lethality will depend less on advanced weapons alone and more on software-driven munitions that can adapt, scale and earn commanders’ trust. The post How adaptive weapons and trusted autonomy are reshaping the future of fires appeared first on DefenseScoop .

The Russia-linked Laundry Bear group has compromised more than 10 Western organizations through malicious emails that can trigger an exploit when they are viewed or previewed.

As Breaking Defense wraps up our time in Farnborough, here are some of our favorite photos.

Individuals connected to transnational cyber-scam operations face U.S. visa restrictions under a new policy announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The fund is interested in emerging technologies, the general manager of Lockheed Martin’s venture arm told Breaking Defense, including quantum computing and sensing, autonomy, and advanced manufacturing technologies.

Civilian infrastructure is not targetable merely because it is economically significant or politically useful to strike, but only when it offers a definite military advantage. The post When Civilian Infrastructure Becomes a Lawful Target appeared first on Just Security .

BETA’s MV250 will use a hybrid-electric propulsion system developed in partnership with GE Aerospace and an autonomy stack supplied by Sikorsky for a wide range of military missions, according to company executives.

US scrutiny of Chinese technology has expanded to a new frontier, as lawmakers in Washington advance defence legislation prohibiting the military from deploying Chinese-made humanoid robots. The US House of Representatives has passed the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), an annual military policy bill that incorporates provisions restricting the use of foreign autonomous systems over national security and data privacy concerns. Under Section 163 of the draft bill, the Pentagon would be.

What GAO Found The Office of Isotope Research and Development and Production (IRP), within the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science, produced, sold, and distributed 265 isotopes during fiscal years 2020 through 2025. Many of these isotopes are critical to medical diagnosis and treatment, national security, industrial processes and manufacturing, and quantum science. IRP made over 7,700 isotope shipments, most of which were for medical purposes. Department of Energy Isotope Production F

New paper: “ Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: End-to-End Encryption and the Third Round of the ‘Going Dark’ Debate “: Abstract : This Article updates and expands on 2012 research on encryption and globalization, analyzing what the authors call “Round 3” of the Going Dark Debate: the current controversies over end-to-end encryption (E2EE). Governments around the world have proposed, and in some cases enacted, laws limiting E2EE for law enforcement and national security purposes. This

The government spent the past two decades learning what private sector partners have always known: cyber resilience requires everyone in the room. ANCHOR-CI is proof that the lessons may finally stick. The post ANCHOR-CI could fix 20 years of broken government-industry collaboration appeared first on CyberScoop .

This article is republished with permission from  Laser Wars , a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. The threat of low-cost weaponized drones may grow more urgent by the day, but the United States’  nascent laser dome  is slowly but surely expanding to meet it. In a new request for information (RFI)  published  on July 20, the U.S. Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center stated that it is “interested” in high-energy lase

Editor’s note: This is the fifth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, and winners will be selected by a reader vote undertaken through our newsletter later this summer. Prior installments can be found at the Arsenal of Innovation page.Have you ever wondered how the United States transitioned fr

Responding quickly and effectively to hybrid warfare attacks against U.S. allies and partners is a growing challenge for policymakers. When an aggressor designs an attack to deliberately obscure their ...

Insurgency-related conflicts often start without warning and can last over a decade, making the pre-crisis and early crisis phases crucial for U.S. policymakers seeking to prevent national security ...

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang today visited the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, to commission an NVIDIA DGX GB300 system — bringing one of the world’s most powerful AI platforms fully online for the students, researchers and faculty at the U.S. military’s flagship graduate university. “Our nation depends on our men and women […]

IntroductionImages from crime scenes often show partially concealed weapons due to obstructions such as hands and clothing, as well as surveillance camera limitations, which affect the efficacy of traditional detection methods. This work proposes an explainable forensic pipeline for occluded weapons detection, segmentation, and reconstruction.MethodsThe proposed framework integrates RT-DETR-L, a transformer-based weapon detection model; MobileSAM for zero-shot segmentation of visible weapon regi

The Monterey, Calif-based naval command will use the powerful Nvidia DGX GB300 AI supercomputer to train students in how and when to employ such technologies.

Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post. The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo , a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief , alongside the national ACLU, its Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia affiliates, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). We argued that electronic device searches at the border should require a warrant based on probable cause, but at minimum, regardless of wheth

Breaking Defense brings you the latest from Day 3 at Farnborough.

The nearly party line vote moves the unusually contentious measure forward after it earlier stalled in both chambers of Congress.

A 10-year renewal of the cybersecurity information-sharing law known as CISA 2015 passed as part of the House's fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill.

The incident is unique because it was "driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system," according to Hugging Face.

While distillation attacks by foreign governments and companies have real national security implications, questions around who ultimately owns the data in AI systems are fraught. The post White House accuses Chinese company of distilling Anthropic’s Fable appeared first on CyberScoop .

Director Yoshihiko Ito shares insight about the importance of maintaining the series' key strengths when prototyping new ideas.

Also, a new interpretability method for illuminating LLMs’ internal reasoning steps, and a study on LLM persuasion abilities

[Sponsored] Capabilities, cost and autonomy are top of mind concerns for developing effective unmanned aircraft.

From evolving threat vectors such as AI to the challenge of boardroom education, cyber security leaders face a mounting array of pressures.

Google ne veut pas se laisser distancer par Anthropic et OpenAI sur le terrain des modèles IA spécialisés dans la cybersécurité. Avec Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, le géant du web se jette à son tour dans la chasse aux failles de sécurité – un modèle sous contrôle, comme chez les rivaux. Google a levé le […]

The incident, identified on 15 July, “has affected certain information technology systems and operations,” says the company.

OpenAI said Tuesday that one of its artificial intelligence systems hacked into another AI company’s servers on its own during internal testing, in what the ChatGPT maker described as an “unprecedented cyber incident.” “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement. “We are sharing...

Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours. Here’s today’s news: IRAN WAR The U.S. military carried out its 11th consecutive night of strikes on Iran, with the latest wave lasting about 75 minutes overnight, according to the U.S. […] The post Early Edition: July 22, 2026 appeared first on Just Security .

It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.

What GAO Found The Individual Longitudinal Exposure Record (ILER) is a web application that links service members’ and veterans’ military toxic exposures and related information from Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) databases. DOD and VA intend ILER to be a multi-purpose tool to support clinicians in providing diagnoses and treatment decisions, researchers in conducting health surveillance and epidemiological research, and Veterans Benefit Administration (VBA)