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Current events: AI for payments, more vulns Sep 30, 2025

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What should leaders take from Brickstorm, a 150-year-old company felled by one password, and an easy Microsoft global-admin misstep—plus how agent-to-agent payments could evolve? In this episode of the Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle connect the dots for you. Have a listen, and let us know what you think!

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-brickstorm-malware-used-to-steal-us-orgs-data-for-over-a-year/

https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/how-one-bad-password-ended-158-year-old.html?m=1don't forget to join our LinkedIn Group to connect with fellow Phoenix Casters. If you enjoyed the episode, help us out by leaving one of those coveted 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening!

Links:

https://dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-admin-in-every-entra-id-tenant-with-actor-tokens/

https://colinmcnamara.com/blog/understanding-a2a-ap2-protocols-builder-guide

Future of Comm Part 2 Sep 12, 2025

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Continuing the conversation from Episode 122 with Col Matt Schroer, The Phoenix Cast hosts John, Rich, and Kyle sit down with Glenn Berdela and John Henderson—Commanding Officers of 2d Network Battalion and 8th Communications Battalion—to explore where communications formations are headed next.

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Future of Comm Part 1 Aug 19, 2025

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In this episode of the Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle are joined by special guest Col Matt Schroer - Enterprise and Expeditionary Communications Branch Head, Deputy Commandant for Information (DC I), Information Command, Control, Communications and Computers (IC4). They discuss the future of Marine Corps communications and some of the work being done to move the Marine Corps enterprise forward.

Thunderstruck Aug 11, 2025

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In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle are joined by special guest LtCol Brian Kerg - Commanding Officer of Comm Squadron 38 to discuss the basics of a Communications Squadron, and an upcoming competition that MWCS-38 will be having - Thunderstruck. Have a listen, and let us know what you think!

Links:

ThunderStruck Announcement on LinkedIn: https://rb.gy/19d6y2

ThunderStruck Announcement from ‘Do You Even Comm, Bro?’ on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMVcy-msnoM/?hl=en

MWCS-38 Homepage: https://www.3rdmaw.marines.mil/Units/MACG-38/MWCS-38/

Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-20: Aviation Operations https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/MCWP%203-20%20Formerly%20MCWP%203-2.pdf?ver=2017-10-11-094942-787

MWCS-38 at Project Convergence Capstone 5: https://defensescoop.com/2025/04/14/marines-accomplish-two-communications-firsts-at-armys-project-convergence/

MWCS-38 Developing the Comm-Sensor Integration Team: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/492346/project-convergence-capstone-5-returns-california-expands-indo-pacific-aor

Marine Corps Aviation Learning Management System (MCALMS): https://mcalms.usmc.mil/

Maneuver Chess: Integrating Think and Fight Drills into Military Training: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2024/november/maneuver-chess-integrating-think-and-fight-drills-military

Internal MWCS-38 Super Squad Competition review on LinkedIn :

https://shorturl.at/6c9Gi

MCP Explainer and GPU Hammer Jul 24, 2025

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In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle discuss MCP, and MCP vulnerabilities, and GPU Hammer. Have a listen, and let us know what you think!

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MCP -

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/supercharging-aws-database-development-with-aws-mcp-servers/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=DBA_AWS_for_Data&sc_publisher=LINKEDIN&sc_country=global&sc_geo=GLOBAL&sc_outcome=awareness&sc_category=Amazon%20Q&linkId=835893819

Vulnerabilities -

https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/critical-vulnerability-in-anthropics.html

https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/gpuhammer-new-rowhammer-attack-variant.html

AI 2027 Jun 27, 2025

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In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle discuss AI 2027. Have a listen, and let us know what you think!

Links:

https://ai-2027.com/

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/new-research-shows-openai-s-la-l4Sns0ZRR6K7266VFz6HuA

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Alignment_Problem_Machine_Learning_a/Lh_WDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

https://www.nist.gov/caisi

https://fedscoop.com/trump-administration-rebrands-ai-safety-institute-aisi-caisi/

https://www.amazon.com/Alignment-Problem-Machine-Learning-Values/dp/0393635821

https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1101946598

https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Wave-Technology-Twenty-first-Centurys/dp/0593593952

https://www.amazon.com/Human-Machine-Team-Artificial-Intelligence-Revolutionize/dp/B0948LGS3K

https://www.csis.org/podcasts/ai-policy-podcast

Scary AI May 23, 2025

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In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle are joined by special guest Robert Teller and they talk through some of the scarier sides of AI.

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Quantum Frontiers and Warfighting Apr 18, 2025

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In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle are joined by special guest Capt Dan Choi for the first episode in a series about quantum technologies. Have a listen, and let us know what you think!

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Videos:

-Introducing: Quantum 101 with Katie Mack | Playlist (Perimeter Institute)

-A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics - with Sean Carroll

-Companies, countries battle to develop quantum computers | 60 Minutes

-Majorana 1 Explained: The Path to a Million Qubits

-Understanding Quantum Information & Computation Series Trailer | Playlist (IBM)

-Quantum communication | QuTech Academy

-Secure quantum communication: Safe from hackers

-The Quantum Internet | Stephanie Wehner | TEDxVienna

-Quantum Sensing Explained | SandboxAQ

Books:

-What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

-Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

Papers:

-Quantum Information Processing, Sensing and Communications: Their Myths, Realities and Futures

-Quantum Technology and the Military-Revolution or Hype?

News/Blogs:
-The Quantum Insider

Even More AI News Mar 28, 2025

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In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle talk about AI in the news, and some reflections on what it means.

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Links:

Disney employee article:

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/disney-hack-nullbulge-ai-slack-b2705487.html

Cloudflare AI against AI:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/cloudflare-turns-ai-against-itself-with-endless-maze-of-irrelevant-facts/

Bleeping computer AI training set data article:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nearly-12-000-api-keys-and-passwords-found-in-ai-training-dataset/

Deep Research: Prompting for Garcia Mar 09, 2025

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In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle talk about deep research. They cover what it is, some use cases, and the output of some prompts.

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Kyle’s Deep Research Video: https://youtu.be/mWThivNH75w

Perplexity 1 - Make an AI FitRep Process

PDF Doc: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IuFm58qRvcP2pS_79f6AiDTOX6xjzB3l/view?usp=sharing

Direct Link:https://www.perplexity.ai/search/i-would-like-to-create-an-ai-p-HMg0s3n9TfKijhKSYfhJxg

Perplexity 2 - Use cases for Marines

PDF Doc: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mh3bXy-P76cGqk1b_bqFomGPCbR5t5up/view?usp=sharing

Direct Link: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/i-run-a-podcast-for-cyber-secu-YP.2kJRNSJmGlbPb6DfsXg