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As SBOMs slowly progress at the federal level and in enterprises, the rise of AI coding assistants is fueling optimistic—and, some experts argue, “kind of insane”—claims about a future with vulnerability-free software.
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The slow rise of SBOMs meets the rapid advance of AI
Despite progress from CISA and global regulators, SBOM adoption in the private sector remains slow as experts debate if AI-driven coding will improve or undermine software security and transparency.

Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
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Oracle Strikes $150 Billion of Data Center Leases in November Quarter
Oracle struck about $150 billion worth of lease commitments on data centers in the three months ending November, it revealed in securities filing late last week, a sign it is preparing for the cloud deals that customers such as OpenAI have struck with Oracle. The filing showed that as of Nov. 30, Oracle had $248 billion of lease commitments “substantially all related to data centers and cloud

Filing: President Trump acquired corporate bonds issued by Netflix and WBD, valued as high as $1M each, in the days after Netflix announced its deal to buy WBD (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Trump Bought Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery Bonds In Days After Megadeal Was Announced
A financial disclosure form released by the White House showed that he acquired at least $500,000 in debt securities from each of the companies.

Kimi Onoda, Japan's new Minister of State for Economic Security, is a 43 year old half-Irish ex-game industry PR femcel with an extensive history of defending her exclusive attraction to anime boys on twitter

Judge Laughs Aloud at #TSA
Court outburst came as agency pursues $48m fine on #SouthwestAirlines for not handling gov mandated Transportation Safety Administration fees on passenger tickets to agency liking.
The $48 Million Fine was demanded of

Judge Laughs at TSA as Southwest Fights $48 Million Fine for Keeping Passenger Fees
A Fifth Circuit judge openly laughed when the TSA argued it isn’t set up to refund millions of passengers—while defending a $48 million penalty against Southwest for allegedly failing to return the same security fees. The case tests whether an airline has to cut cash refunds for government fees when travel credits expire unused.

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White House Confirms Hegseth Authorized Admiral Bradley to Conduct Second Strike on Suspected Drug Boat
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized the second, follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September following a bombshell Washington Post report that claimed he ordered the military to “kill everybody.”

U.S. scales back troops on NATO’s eastern flank
The United States has informed its NATO allies that it will scale back its troop presence along Europe’s eastern border with Ukraine as it focuses on security priorities elsewhere in the world, Romania’s defense ministry said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Army later confirmed the move but denied it was a sign of lessened commitment to NATO.
Depending on operations and exercises, around 80,000-100,000 U.S. troops are usually present…

The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops
"According to the Securities and Exchange Commission filings, his fund, Scion Asset Management, bought $187.6 million in puts on Nvidia and $912 million in puts on Palantir, as CNN reports.
Burry similarly made a long-term $1 billion bet from 2005 onwards against the US mortgage market, anticipating its collapse. His fund rose a whopping 489 percent when the market did subsequently fall apart in 2008."
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The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops
Michael Burry, who shorted the housing market in 2008, has bet over $1 billion that the shares of AI companies Nvidia and Palantir will fall.

We’ve updated the draft GCVE BCP-05 standard to introduce flexible record types, making it easier to extend, enrich, and structure security advisories.
Comments are more than welcome!
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GCVE BCP-05 drafting - Best practices for the "container" format - modified CVE Record Format
Thanks @claudex . This is an excellent point and would also improve the ability to parse GCVE records reliably. Below is a proposal for a record_type field that would serve as a key within each GCVE record. Feel free to comment. @cedric I incorporated the idea concerning the sync of the comment (not sure if the most efficient way). Proposed update to BCP-05 (following the online workshop of 6th December in Belgium) The record_type field defines the semantic category of the content submitted by…

On 31 March 2026, University College London will be hosting a Festschrift Symposium for Professor M. Angela Sasse, to recognise and celebrate her contributions to the field of Computer Science and human-centred security specifically. We are seeking scientific contributions to a volume that will be presented at the event. Submissions will be selected by a committee of her students and colleagues, with accepted papers being made available online following the event.
Submissions are limit…