The Trump administration EO on AI tried to strike the balance between responsible use, security and mutual benefit, all with an eye toward not making it regulatory in nature, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said Tuesday. More by @timstarks.bsky.social: cyberscoop.com/trump-ai-exe...

KOSA and other bills passed unanimously thru Senate committee today. Check it our story from Monday for background. Cruz said that while big fights remain with House on differing versions of KOSA, he feels v. confident it will pass the Senate. cyberscoop.com/senate-kids-...

Senate set to debate package of bills on privacy, AI and kids safety

The Senate Commerce Committee is marking up new tech bills, including the Kids Online Safety Act, to mandate a duty of care and protect minors online.

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Center for Democracy & Technology@cdt.org · 3h ago

Today, the Senate Commerce Committee marked up several children's online safety bills, advancing bills including KOSA and the CHATBOT Act.

Kind of fascinated with learning who the second choice of McMorrow voters would have been. Four times larger than the margin of difference between El-Sayed and Stevens:

AI chatbots are avoiding some of the obvious errors that plagued earlier models, but they still fall short giving voters the full picture compared to state and local sources. Read more by @derekbjohnson.bsky.social: cyberscoop.com/ai-chatbots-...

Then @mattkapko.com has an exclusive look at how Oligo Security uncovered evidence of TeamPCP's long operational history, including multiple previous attacks it traced to the same attacker infrastructure and tools. cyberscoop.com/teampcp-long...

Open-source software’s archenemy TeamPCP goes back further than anyone thought

Oligo Security uncovered evidence of a long operational history, including multiple previous attacks it traced to the same attacker infrastructure and tools.

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Fresh off a big primary night, @derekbjohnson.bsky.social looks at how AI is getting better at election facts, but voters shouldn’t rely on it cyberscoop.com/ai-chatbots-...

AI is getting better at election facts, but voters shouldn’t rely on it

As voters turn to AI chatbots for the 2026 midterm elections, new research shows that while factual errors have dropped, incomplete answers remain a key risk.

cyberscoop.com

When littles threaten to run away from home, you gotta let em try.

Chinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵

There are a lot of people who were capable of being open-minded when Arabs and Muslims were simply the *subject* of US policy but whose response to those communities having an active role in American politics on par with other ethnic and faith groups has been to totally lose their shit.

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'ts hard to escape the impression that a certain faction of the Democratic Party just straight up does not believe that Arabs specifically -- and perhaps Muslims generally -- have a place as active players in American politics

Is this good?

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2d ago

more than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I've said this before, but companies like Anthropic can try to "Win the AI Race" TM or they can be more careful/thoughtful about the technology they're building, but it is quite literally impossible to do both. They've already decided the goal is industry dominance, not safe or benign AI.

Brody@brody-n77.bsky.social · 2d ago

Anthropic and OpenAI pretty clearly and very publicly sold out "the mission" long ago, not sure why this would subsequently surprise Amodei. I've heard it direct from the mouth of OAI employees that they're there solely for the money and with a finger pressed firmly in each ear.

However this shakes out, the administration already made plans to “just do it anyway” even if the “fund” doesn’t technically exist zeteo.com/p/trump-doj-...

‘Just Do It Anyway’: Inside Trump’s Plans to Pay His Allies, Slush Fund or Not

Here’s how Team Trump is planning to sneak through his most shamelessly corrupt move yet.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Lord

The problem with What Should We Have Done About COVID discourse is that it’s all Monday morning quarterbacking with the much better information we have now compared to then, and is about what we should have done now that we know instead of how we should have acted with imperfect information then

Another example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...

In Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Trump’s Wrath

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, blamed shoddy construction, contradicting President Trump’s pet theory. Mr. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her.

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The Claude Accent has the mouthfeel of those Rubbermaid non-slip bathtub flowers. Such a weird set of unintentionally campy aesthetic choices, ultimately a bit sad

kottke.org@kottke.org · last wk.

Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet lag of the self”: “a sense of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame”. [spacedaily.com]

Every left of center person needs to internalize the fact that most legacy outlets are now captured by fascist billionaires. These institutions are coasting off their previous goodwill and will reporting. But they are now propaganda outlets whose primary goal is to aid the Republican Party.

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Me checking in on all the AI news from my vacation.

I cannot stop saying “that’s the RULE. That’s the GOAL now” and it’s becoming a plague upon my house m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZRy...

Weekend Update: Tucker Carlson on Liberal Politics and the 2026 Met Gala - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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anthropic is like "oh so openai's model gained unauthorized access to one organization, well OURS gained unauthorized access to THREE which is TWO more than theirs so"

New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button

Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.

404media.co

From @colinwood.me at @statescoop.bsky.social: A cyberattack of undetermined origin disrupted water treatment plants in at least 30 communities in Minnesota, according to the state's technology bureau. statescoop.com/coordinated-...

Coordinated cyberattack disrupts water utilities in 30+ Minnesota communities | StateScoop

A cyberattack of undetermined origin disrupted water treatment plants in at least 30 communities in Minnesota, according to the state's technology bureau.

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every fucking time (Der Spiegel broke this, we had a coordinated follow-up ready to go, of course the NYT doesn't credit any earlier reporting because it never does - foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/16/c...)

we need good, educated haters now more than ever

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.

Welcome to Hater Week, a week of stories examining what it means to be a hater (and a lover), where we'll vent about some of our biggest pet peeves in games and life, and give others space to do the same. aftermath.site/aftermath-site...

also reminded of the ongoing Vichy Twitter addicts who come on here every couple of months to give a purple faced tirade against the entire userbase because some of us were annoyed at a bad article they or their friend wrote

Brazil has denied visas to two senior State Department officials that the Trump administration planned to dispatch on a mission to cast doubt on the fairness and integrity of the country’s electoral system before Brazil’s presidential election this fall.

Brazil denies visas to U.S. officials who aimed to impugn electoral system

The U.S. delegation had planned to visit the Brazilian capital and cast doubt on the integrity of the voting system before a presidential election this fall, officials said.

washingtonpost.com

Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death

Yeah, sometimes it's very obvious that with the bulwark actually wants is for Democrats to win and then just govern like neocon Republicans (which is what they are, what a coincidence).