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Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about Anthropic rolling out its latest models only to have them effectively banned by the US government within days. Although the administration’s process for assessing new models is, ahem, amorphous, Anthropic is doing itself no favours by dismissing its concerns. The company needs to show some emotional intelligence and learn how to manage upwards.

They also discuss Section 702 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act collection. The law authorising it has lapsed amidst political shenanigans, but it looks like collection can continue until next year. Plenty of time for kicking of political footballs!

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66 members of the Silver Fox cybercrime group arrested in China, the EU will help Ukraine in the event of a major cyberattack, MS-ISAC loses 70% of its members after a DHS funding cut, and S-BOMs are still not widely adopted.



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Risky Bulletin: China arrests Silver Fox cybercrime group suspects

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how NATO is set up to deter conventional conflict, and how that approach is fundamentally unsuited for ongoing, everyday cyber operations that are intended to confound adversaries.

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Almost 2,000 Arch Linux packages have been infected with malware in a supply chain attack, FISA surveillance powers expire for the first time since 2008, the FBI takes down a Chinese phishing service, and a major supply chain attack hits the WordPress ecosystem.



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Risky Bulletin: Arch Linux supply chain attack spreads to 1,900+ AUR packages

In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Brandon Dixon, co-founder and CTO of Ent AI, about the company’s innovative use of local LLMs to track user behavior on the endpoint, and add context to suspicious events to detect or prevent malicious activity.



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