CISA would like you to today become aware of cybersecurity. Some might argue it has recently been unaware of cybersecurity. Regardless, upon reading this, awareness of cybersecurity washes over you.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026 Kickoff

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Using Google Translate to try to talk with Dutch authorities about the ShinyHunters hack and this is truly the most ridiculous fake language. "Mijn excuses," "de hackersgroep ShinyHunters," can these people can hear themselves??

A spokesperson for ShinyHunters, the prolific cyber extortionists who hacked the FBI's job portal last week, tells me they now won't release any more data from that hack. They also sent this somewhat confusing statement that indicates they maybe think they've bitten off more than they can chew.

Five Eyes is OVER! Special Relationship is FINISHED!

White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models from UK testers until US review

U.K. leaders are calling for a shared set of global principles, even as the White House seeks first access to new models for testing.

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.@williamturton.bsky.social, best known as my former intern, got Susan Collins to say "shame on Pro Publica."

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sounds guilty to me.

In 2024 the former CEO of a defense contractor made a stunning confession to two FBI agents. He alleged that was the ringleader of a massive pay-to-play operation, bribing senators with campaign contributions in exchange for govt contracts. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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All the best, Lorenzo!!! ✊Massively looking forward to the book!!!

Serious props to the reporters on this story (they are not active on Bluesky so I'm not tagging them). We are all genuinely lucky that news illustrating what can go wrong when militaries rely on hallucination-prone LLMs got published before something worse happened.

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Hey Kevin Roose is really glad you're starting to get out of your bubble when it comes to AI

AI CEOs are in awe that their models can, given few constraints, hack autonomously. They're also wracked with a vague fear that their products will soon hack the entire internet. I reported on how it's very curious that they seem utterly disinterested in working with cybersecurity experts on this.

Cybersecurity experts say AI giants are shutting them out of safety plans

Cybersecurity experts told NBC News they were concerned that fundamental issues of cybersecurity weren’t being addressed.

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Remember when people said “I used to think Elon Musk was smart until he started talking about something I had subject matter expertise in”?

Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists

Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.

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thinking about extreme credulity about AI causing the imminent extinction of humanity vs skepticism on climate change a month after 35k+ people died in European heat waves in the hottest summer in recorded history

A very pedantic take, but I can't conceive of any logically possible scenario where AI in the next decade kills us all. Even collapsing civilization as we know it by inventing a pandemic and crashing the financial system and food and medicine supply chain, sure. Mass death. But that's different.

I'm looking forward to this doc, but this kind of conspiracy framing is still bad when criticizing a prominent person on the right. We know Musk spent the most any human being has ever spent getting Trump elected; don't insinuate without evidence he changed votes with satellites or whatever.

Nation’s Smart Toilets Begin Counting Down https://theonion.com/nations-smart-toilets-begin-counting-down/

This is the best piece I have ever read on the impacts of infinite scroll social media on our cognitive function and particularly that of our kids. Whew it is grim. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/o...

Opinion | Why Gen Z Loves Brain Rot (Gift Article)

Maybe consuming meaningless content is the only way to be free online.

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Ah good to see -there is finally an AI slop moderation label; meaning you can block and mute it out of your feed

Tesla has told first responders that they might need to “push” the new Cybercab out of the way in an emergency

You probably know that Penn State is exempt from public records law, so we can't ID who funded the JoePa Experience Room. What you probably don't know is the person who successfully lobbied to keep the school exempt was secretly working for the CIA at the time. www.foiaball.com/p/penn-state...

Help me ID Penn State's anonymous JoePa mausoleum donor

Because the state won't do it for us.

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Ukrainians are increasingly using drones to take their enemies prisoner. Here's our look inside one mission to capture Russian soldiers without the Ukrainian infantry having to fire a single shot: www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

In Ukraine, Russian soldiers are increasingly surrendering to machines

More than 100 Russian soldiers surrendered to drones over the winter, a former Ukrainian official said. NBC News talked to one unit that captured four men without firing a shot.

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A weekend read about how politics is responding to anti-Flock sentiment. In one Tennessee House race, everybody's against them. The Republican introduced a basic bill. The Dem has a much more comprehensive plan. And the independent admitted to police that he shot four cameras with a shotgun.

A shotgun, a wrestler and a House race: Tennessee’s revolt against Flock cameras

One candidate has a bill to strip funding. Another was accused of shooting cameras.

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One of my regular themes is how short US history actually is, just three or four human lifetimes long. Case in point: King Harald V attended FDR’s 1945 inauguration.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.

King Harald V of Norway, whose 35-year reign opened an ancient monarchy to marriages with so-called commoners and to an incendiary association with Jeffrey Epstein, died on Friday. He was 89.

"The surprise visit by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency to Moscow this week was to deliver a warning to Russia not to attack NATO countries, according to people briefed on the visit," reports WSJ. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | CIA Chief’s Surprise Moscow Trip Was to Warn Russia Not to Attack NATO

The warning comes after new U.S. intelligence assessments indicated the Russian president could launch a limited assault.

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NEW: The NSA will resemble a college for a while on Friday, as it hosts a first-of-its-kind reunion for alumni of its most secretive hacking unit, TAO. The will welcome back to campus potentially hundreds of former members of the elite group. therecord.media/nsa-to-host-...

Exclusive: NSA to host a hacker reunion in bid to rebuild secretive unit

The National Security Agency will welcome back to campus potentially hundreds of former members of the elite group known as Tailored Access Operations (TAO) to celebrate the division’s recent rebrandi...

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Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...

The oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrage

XX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail.

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Early in my career a reporter friend told me he makes a point to email people when they write something he really enjoys. It's such an easy way to be decent.

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · last mo.

randomly giving out genuine compliments is such an easy way to make the world a little nicer, i'm always surprised more people haven't figured that out and have a ton of respect for those who have

SCOOP: Republican House candidate Ralph Alvarado is pivoting his message, editing his website to remove Trump mentions and delete a photo of them together. From “America First Fighter” to “Independent Leadership.” Trump won KY06 by 15 pts. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... BEFORE/AFTER

FT scoop: Trump admin last week requested Kyiv not strike Moscow, St Petersburg and nothern regions of Russia with its long range weapons on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday when the US would send a plane carrying a top official to the Russian capital, according to people familiar with the request.