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The White House has announced its strategy for achieving global leadership in artificial intelligence. Microsoft has issued a warning about increasing ransomware attacks stemming from SharePoint server vulnerabilities. A phishing campaign is targeting the U.S. Department of Education's grant application portal to steal credentials. The FBI alerts the public to "The Com," a cybercriminal group involved in ransomware and swatting incidents. SonicWall is urging administrators to apply patches for a critical remote code execution vulnerability. Several popular NPM packages have been compromised through a new supply chain attack. Joe Carrigan from the Hacking Humans podcast discusses point-of-sale terminal vulnerabilities exploited by scammers. Japanese police have released a free tool for decrypting files encrypted by Phobos ransomware. An AI coding tool has accidentally deleted a developer’s entire database. Readers are encouraged to participate in the CyberWire's annual audience survey.