'... supports the translation of open-source science and engineering-focused research products into safe and sustainable ecosystems that address national and societal challenges.

'... simulation consisted of online campaigns aimed at sowing discord and confusing ... In addition to the blackout, participants also tested two other scenarios: how authorities would communicate in case of a major flood and if hackers hijacked their banking system.

'... said the attacker first obtained the user ID and password used by a third-party IT services contractor. 'A misconfigured firewall allowed the attacker to bypass the need to present “an additional digital security certificate” to access its systems, using those credentials.

'... at least 13 fake consulting company websites ... advertised generic “consulting” jobs and included statements indicating their purpose was to recruit current or former U.S. government and U.S. military employees to provide expertise to unspecified clients.

'... intermittent renewables are expected to account for nearly 48% of global generation by 2040 – up from just 2% of the share in 2010. Meanwhile, traditional power sources are expected to fall from 67% of global generation in 2010 to 29% by 2040.

'While Microsoft quickly rolled out Claude Fable 5 to its GitHub Copilot and Foundry customers, I’m told the model isn’t available in the model picker that Microsoft employees use for internal versions of GitHub Copilot.

'[Within 180 days of the new BOD's issuance] Remediate each vulnerability as quickly as possible and no later than the timelines set forth in Table 1: Remediation Timelines'. [See the first three rows.] The other stuff in the BOD's pretty decent too: www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

'More than 11.1 million devices were infected with infostealers in 2025, reports Flashpoint. More than 3.3 billion credentials, browser artifacts, session information and other forms of identity are now circulating in illicit marketplaces.

'He said German defense leaders had been talking with Airbus about feasible options “for months,” because the end of the FCAS program had been expected.

'... officials have been seeking a formula allowing Macron to relinquish the core fighter without having to declare the whole project dead.

Single window for cyber guidance from the boffins at the ACSC. www.cyber.gov.au/about-us/vie...

'In early February, President Donald Trump inked an executive order calling for national production interests to be taken into greater account ... creating a new list of platforms to push ... prioritizing arms sales for countries who invest more in their own defense spending.

'This year, we’re already slowing down recruitment because not only are we recruiting better, but we’re retaining people better.

'A compromise at a small supplier can jeopardize a warfighter making a real time decision, and I don’t think that’s acceptable for any one of us in this room. That should make us all very uncomfortable, that that small of a compromise can impact a war fighter out at the edge.

Good stuff from the DoD: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

This looks utterly spectacular. And it's awesome that the trailer at least has a character voice track in Tamil, evoking the setting of the game. Of course, graphic violence and gore warning, folks. youtu.be/CuR16jMhdkQ

'... allows dairy companies, which previously had to wait two to three days to receive routine laboratory test results back, to now carry out the tests on site in just three minutes. 'We engineer proteins, ... biosensors, they can measure things very, very accurately ...

‘That choice was made after interviews and “engagements” with multiple agencies revealed no signs of radicalisation, sources close to the investigation say.

Love what the lads have done with this one. youtu.be/Gf7Lf4kiZ-A

'... shall form an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse, in voluntary collaboration with the AI industry and operators of critical infrastructure, that coordinates and deconflicts scanning for software vulnerabilities, discovers and validates such vulnerabilities, ...

'The Open Source Strategy ... will scale up open source alternatives in priority areas such as cloud, AI, internet technologies, cybersecurity and semiconductors. It will also promote a stronger open source ecosystem by ... supporting open source start-ups ...

'This is my first time before a parliamentary committee since taking the role of ASIC Chair on Monday. [Go well, Sarah Court!] 'We currently have 14 proceedings in the Federal Court against 26 defendants relating to these issues [First Guardian].

'Here we show that ... [AI] agents enable a fundamentally new threat: a worm that generates tailored attack strategies to each target it encounters. The worm parasitically uses compromised machines to run open-weight [LLMs] ... to sustain its reasoning, or extend its reach ...

'... private sector took voluntary action to interrupt millions of social media, email, and internet access accounts used by transnational organized crime actors in Southeast Asia ...

'Our model forecasts how the fire is evolving and can help update emergency exit displays to direct people toward the safest exit. '[Traditional] algorithms depend ... on current ... conditions and do not consider the cumulative hazards that evacuees can face along the route.

'In Washington, most AUKUS experts say they always expected Australia’s Virginia-class submarines to be in service rather than brand-new. 'A new [Virginia-class] boat “might have sounded good, but the [US] industry is just not there to do it”.

Mate, come on.

'MPs have blamed guidance, published by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) in 2025, for the actions of officers who arrested Nowak.

'Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell met with Mr Greer on the sidelines of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) meeting in Paris overnight, where Mr Farrell told him the tariffs were "unjustified".

'Head of Cyber Operations and Strategic J6 Major General Warren Gould hosted his Japanese counterpart, Director General C4 Systems Department Major General Akitsugu Kimura, during a recent visit to Australia.

'At SOCOM’s request, the rifle features a swappable barrel, allowing operators to change between firing 7.62mm and 6.5mm Creedmoor cartridges.

'Developed by MITRE with support from the National Science Foundation, Caldera’s transition to the Apache Software Foundation ... 'Caldera is an open-source cybersecurity platform for automated adversary emulation ...' Good stuff. www.mitre.org/news-insight...

'[Iranian] MOIS’s expansion of its Handala brand includes a newly identified threat actor persona, Handala Popular Resistance Front (HPRF), which claims to be a network of physical threat actors associated with Handala Hack Team.

'The recent malicious cyber activity observed ... —which the U.S. government has not yet attributed to a nation-state or threat actor group—involves cyber threat actors compromising internet-exposed ATG systems and subsequently modifying them through command execution'.

'Starting Thursday, the European Parliament will replace Google with the French search engine as the default search tool on in-house computers ... 'The European Commission will on Wednesday unveil its long-awaited tech sovereignty package ...

'A notification from the Health Department stated: "AstraZeneca has chosen to remove the medicine from the PBS for commercial reasons."

'In the wake of the Nowak case, British police chiefs said they would review guidelines which were drawn up in response to well-documented incidents of racism in policing, which had advised officers to treat ethnicities differently.

'The DRACO rocket motor is the largest and most advanced rocket motor designed and built in Australia. 'The rocket motor was fired at Defence's Woomera test range in February, but footage of the test-firing has only been released now.

'Regulator ASIC on Friday told the parliamentary committee into financial services it was investigating registered company auditors who handled the whistleblower's complaint at KPMG.

'The new undersea route will run from the north of [Tasmania] ... and plug into SUBCO’s new transcontinental cable linking Perth and Sydney via Adelaide and Melbourne across the south of the continent, SMAP.

'Google will secure inter-city dark fiber capacity on Telstra’s new ... Aura Network. 'Telstra will access Google’s Pacific Connect and Australia Connect initiatives to use subsea fiber pairs on the Tabua, Proa, and Bulikula subsea cable systems ...

'References to “reputation” in these interagency documents could be misused as a basis to restrict individuals’ and legal businesses’ access to financial services ...

'One of the first couple systems that were jailbroken was really ... our [C2] platform, and the ability to actually tie in a lot of the counter-UAS ...

'Analysis from Securitas Risk Intelligence shows activist activity [in the UK] has accelerated sharply over the past year. The pattern is shifting from external protest towards sustained multi-front campaigns.

Pleased to share my first news commentary as a Fellow for the Social Cyber Institute. I look at ASIC's May open letter to its regulated population on tackling cyber risks from AI. I welcome that letter as a sign of regulatory sanity amid a lot of hand-waving on AI.

'Between 2005 and 2024, Chinese firms received, on average, three to eight times more government support than firms in OECD countries, depending on the region.

'... agreed to continue aircraft deployment from each other’s territories to build operational familiarity. [Cocos Islands and ANIslands, anyone?]

'It also says a national intelligence council will be created within the Cabinet. The body will be chaired by the prime minister and comprise Cabinet ministers with relevant portfolios, including the chief cabinet secretary and the foreign minister.

'... just days after EU institutions reached an agreement on the details of a new EU-U.S. trade deal. '... an earlier decision in the U.S. to grant similar frequencies to a U.S. operator while a “European operator, who was interested to have access there, was denied".

'ASIC’s strong enforcement outcomes, increasing complexity of matters, and government savings measures have significantly eroded the cash balance of this [Enforcement] special account, designed to provide capacity for significant matters.