Come for the cyber, stay for the water sounds and learning scary lingo like "water hammers."

Jenna McLaughlin@jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · 5d ago

In light of the news out of Minnesota, resurfacing my reporting from Cavendish, Vermont where I toured a small water/wastewater treatment facility and talked about the threat posed by nation state cyber actors to critical infrastructure. www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

In light of the news out of Minnesota, resurfacing my reporting from Cavendish, Vermont where I toured a small water/wastewater treatment facility and talked about the threat posed by nation state cyber actors to critical infrastructure. www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

Flushable wipes and Iran: Water treatment facility adds cyberattacks to worry list

Water treatment workers are grappling with how to protect against a new threat: hackers burrowing into the system and wreaking havoc.

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Back today from the all-consuming world of bringing up a tiny human. I'm sure I didn't miss much. Reach out to catch me up!

I’ve been with NPR for 13 years, and I’ve seen a lot of change in the news biz. The causes of these changes are interconnected and complex. Technology, pandemics, politics and economics have all played a role. I’m not going to try and untangle all that. But what I will say is this: NPR is special.

I’d like a personal apology from the Washington Spirit for making me stay up for that final with an infant who will inevitably wake up shortly

Apologies to anyone who has emailed my NPR account and gotten a blank automatic reply. Turns out, I am not an Outlook expert... I'm on maternity leave and back in the summer. Replies should be fixed now.

What a time to be alive and starting maternity leave…will be doing my best to Get Offline til this summer. Hang in there, fellow newsfolk.

NPR fights Trump's executive order against public media The case isn't getting much attention. But it pits the press's right not to face government retaliation over coverage against the president's assertion of vast executive powers My story: www.npr.org/2025/12/05/g...

NPR battles Trump executive order in court

NPR was in court for a pivotal hearing arguing that the Trump administration had broken the law with its treatment of public media.

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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Wow. U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled Lindsey Halligan's appointment unlawful and the prosecutions against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey therefore invalid. Both indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

Big news on the corporate accountability (or lack thereof) front: The SEC just dropped its case against SolarWinds and its former CISO for allegedly defrauding investors about the company's cybersecurity posture prior to its major hack. www.sec.gov/enforcement-...

you don't have to embarrass our guest by asking if he had someone killed and hacked to pieces

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

In normaler times, this is front page, above the fold, all caps behavior by an American president

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

For no reason at all this morning I feel the need to re-share my piece with Miranda Nazzaro from last week about how we are all overly dependent on a small handful of internet providers: cyberscoop.com/with-each-cl...

With each cloud outage, calls for government action grow louder

Public interest groups want the feds to investigate the systemic risk from market consolidation, while tech and security experts worry about single points of failure.

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CPB revives $36 million NPR deal killed after Trump’s pressure www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...

CPB agrees to revive a $36 million deal with NPR killed after Trump's pressure

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.

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what a time to be alive and in multiple media group chats

A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.

Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone

A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.

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people who have been claiming for years that journalists just make everything up are always amazed at how much there is in place to stop journalists making anything up

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“Standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She asks ‘What’s the point of standards?’

Short-term renewal of cyber information sharing law appears in bill to end shutdown On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/cisa-2015-in...

Short-term renewal of cyber information sharing law appears in bill to end shutdown

An expired 2015 law that gives companies liability protection when they share cyberthreat information with the federal government would be renewed through January 30 under Senate legislation to end th...

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JUST IN: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will not run for re-election, ending her historic tenure in Congress

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection

A shrewd political strategist, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi has had an unprecedented career in Congress. First elected in a special election in 1987, Pelosi went on to become one of the most effective leaders of the Democratic party.

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I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.

“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.” Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.

"Ultimately, America has capability, it just needs to remove the chaos that surrounds it. The challenge before policymakers is not to invent new talent or technology, but to create the legal, institutional, and market infrastructure that enables growth," authors conclude.

Jenna McLaughlin@jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Interesting paper out of Dartmouth about private sector's role in U.S. offensive cyber landscape. Recommends a national offensive cyber strategy and a pilot program for private sector access to "low-risk" targets like crypto scammers and ransomware operators: sergeybratus.gitlab.io/papers/Dartm...

Interesting paper out of Dartmouth about private sector's role in U.S. offensive cyber landscape. Recommends a national offensive cyber strategy and a pilot program for private sector access to "low-risk" targets like crypto scammers and ransomware operators: sergeybratus.gitlab.io/papers/Dartm...

New: The recent layoffs in CISA's Stakeholder Engagement Division have virtually shuttered SED, eliminating teams focused on critical infrastructure support, nationwide partnerships, and international coordination. My story with details cuts and impacts: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-st...

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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it is impossible to understate the influence susan had on this network & the work that we do every day. truly one of the nicest people around; always encouraged people to be themselves; one of a kind.

news from the network: npr founding mother susan stamberg has died, aged 87

NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.

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