London, as a big city, can feel quite heartless at times. But when you see a street musician leave everything he has, including his case with tips, to help a man struggling to walk to the tube station, my faith in humanity is slightly restored. 🙏🏻

Starting now RUSI NextGen screening and discussion of the documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” with Dani Prieto Olga Tokariuk Mariia Zolkina and Daryna Dvornichenko. RUSI

“For U.S. diplomats, however, the effort to build coalitions goes hand-in-hand with continuing attempts to engage adversaries—particularly on thorny issues such as cyberattacks and AI guardrails.” foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/08/bid…

This one’s a big deal - with 🇺🇸and 🇬🇧we’ve just imposed our second cyber crime sanction on the main player behind Lockbit, one of the world’s biggest and most destructive ransomware groups. We’re using all the tools we can to disrupt these heinous crooks foreignminister.gov.au/minister/penny…

More details to follow on this incident but an important point from Ciaran Martin. The semantics we use to describe these incidents and the motivations of the threat actor matter. There are different ‘rules’ when it comes to cyber espionage. All states spy.

Latest piece from our RUSI Responsible Cyber Behaviour series is out! ✨
In this one, we focus on how countries in the Indo-Pacific (🇻🇳🇦🇺🇯🇵🇮🇳) balance the often-thorny rel between state responsibility and the thirst for the dev of cyber capabilities. rusi.org/explore-our-re…

A very interesting article in RUSI by Louise Marie Hurel, Gatra Priyandita, Arindrajit Basu, Bich (Bic) Tran, Vosse and Mike Bareja on how various states in Indo-Pacific region are building up their #cyber capabilities.
rusi.org/explore-our-re…

After weeks of uncertain springtime weather, that first moment when you sit and actually feel the heat of the sun. ✨
Internal self: “Winter? Grey weather? Never heard of it!”

New proposed legislation would require National Vulnerability Database to be more reflective of AI risks, NIST to update or create a new CVE for AI security flaws, and would create and AI sec centre at the NSA. therecord.media/senate-legisla…

DHS establishes AI safety board w big tech CSO and others “the board will advise the department on how best to govern the ways AI is deployed across the 16 critical infra sectors, “from defense to energy to IT, fin services, to food and agriculture, etc”
therecord.media/dhs-artificial…

📢The programme of the 8th GIG-ARTS Conference is out now!

Full programme: gig-arts.eu/conference/gig…

Abstracts of presentations: gig-arts.eu/conference/gig…

Join us at the Hague campus of Leiden University on 3-4 June 2024!