Ravi Nayyar

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Critical Software + Critical Infrastructure Law | PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney | Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute | Associate Fellow at the Social Cyber Institute | Blogging at A Techno-Legal Update | Cricket, #Bloods, Bharatiyata | #StillRomancingWithLife
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Show threadRavi Nayyar16h ago
UGH.
Show threadRavi Nayyar21h ago

The latest Quad FMs joint statement is certainly more elbows-out on hard security topics (not purely public goods) than pre-2025 statements (building on the firm wording of the January 2025 one): https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/penny-wong/media-release/joint-statement-quad-foreign-ministers-meeting-washington

Some bits that caught me eye, especially the signalling and efforts on critical minerals + countering interference with 'Quad interests'.

Ravi Nayyar21h ago
From a fascinating ABC feature on the distribution networks for Australia's fresh produce: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-29/food-supply-chain-freight-costs-farmers-and-remote-communities/105382150
Ravi Nayyar1d ago
A great piece on the rise of Indian manufacturing, focusing on the growing production of iPhones by Foxconn in Karnataka state: https://archive.md/MyoLm
Ravi Nayyar1d ago
WOWEE: https://www.nacc.gov.au/case-study-operation-kingscliff
Ravi Nayyar2d ago

From an excellent report I look forward to reading: https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/working-papers/2025/2025-08

Indeed, it can be argued that prudential regulation is the closest thing we're gonna get to a statutory vendor liability regime (eg through regulation of 'critical third parties' and the like).

Ravi Nayyar2d ago
The UK's list of 'frontier technologies' (CETs): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-and-technologies-sector-plan
Ravi Nayyar2d ago
From an excellent piece by Tilla Hoja, James Corera and Dr John Coyne: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/silent-risk-to-net-zero-commitment-climate-policy-meets-national-security/
Ravi Nayyar2d ago
From an excellent speech on bank supervision by the Fed's Vice Chair for Supervision: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bowman20250606a.htm
Show threadRavi Nayyar4d ago
Sure, ancient tech stacks is a thing in a lot of industrial processes and indeed in medical equipment, but WOW.
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