Global Frequency - 27 April 2025
Crypto casinos, AI as normal technology, and cyber attacks on the rise.
Tech moves so fast, the word "agentic" is not even in my spellcheck dictionary. This week on the Global Frequency...
AI as normal technology is an interesting counter to the aspirations and fears of AGI. (Read More)
Addressing one of AI's biggest bottlenecks with new optical data transfer approaches. (Read More)
Bots now generate more traffic than humans. (Read More)
Crypto casinos generated $81b in revenue in 2024. (Read More)
El Salvador and Nvidia partner on sovereign AI initiative. (Read More)
Marks and Spencer suffers cyber attack that impacts operations. (Read More)
Agentic warfare is here. (Read More)
South Korea Telecom suffers cyber attack. (Read More)
Cyberwarfare poses significant threat to Joint forces. (Read More)
Dutch intelligence reports on Russian cyber attacks. (Read More)
Original report in Dutch (Google translate is your friend). (Read More)
Rare earth minerals aren't that rare and that is bad news for China. (Read More)
Are EU privacy fines just a regulatory tariff? I'm increasingly in that camp. (Read More)
Complaints about ransomware in critical infrastructure up 9% according to FBI. (Read More)
More insights in the full IC3 annual report. (Read More)
AI is a national priority. (Read More)
How the war in Gaza is driving Israel's AI experiments. (Read More)
Inside Interpol's innovation lab. (Read More)
North Korea is setting up shell companies to facilitate cyber attacks. (Read More)
Potential for class action lawsuits as health insurance sites leak PII to Google via analytics data. (Read More)
Yale New Haven hospital breach impacts 5m patients. (Read More)
Fact or Fiction:
"Poisonfeather" by Matthew FitzSimmons is my second foray into the world of hacker turned investigator Gibson Vaughn and is strong and enjoyable enough that I will commit to the rest of the series. Convinced to try and hunt down the hidden shadow wealth of a jailed investment banker, Vaughn encounters cartels and Chinese spies at a dangerous intersection of espionage and financial crime. It is a fun read and what other books have the protagonist stealing a Stingray from US law enforcement to snoop on unauthorized cell phone traffic from a federal jail? (Amazon Link)
Quote of the Week:
“I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment." - Joan Didion