New: AI is driving new records in software vulnerabilities but prophecies of a so-called "bugpocalypse" haven't come to pass www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI Finding Twice as Many Cyber Flaws in 2026 as It Did in 2025

The number of software security flaws discovered in popular technology products in 2026 is on pace to roughly double the tally of vulnerabilities that surfaced in 2025, an explosion driven by increasi...

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what is doordash doing here

New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit...

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By the time the season starts the Knicks are gonna be like #6 on the title favorite betting odds

I still don't fully understand cyber company code names. If you're tracking a Russian group that you name explicitly as Russian, why do you need a cryptonym that means Russia? Isn't this just an extra layer of obfuscation? Only thing I can make out is that coming up with code names is kick ass fun

Blog history question: Nowadays, it seems like all the cool weather blogs/accounts do weather ratings. The 1st time I remember seeing this was in The Awl, Choire Sicha would post a pic of the sky in ny and rate it and then write some unhinged prose. Was this a thing before Choire's weather reviews?

this is one of the most insane security incidents I can recall

Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi.risky.biz · 2w ago

OpenAI takes credit for the Hugging Face breach last week The company says that some of its models, including a pre-release one, escaped their testing sandboxes during a test evaluation and then... just hacked Hugging Face's package repo 🤣 openai.com/index/huggin...

The Trump administration sought the phone records of several New York Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter’s mother — in its effort to unmask the confidential sources. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...

In the interest of helping well-meaning lay folks understand: It's a company that hacks iPhones part of their business. Magnet in particular does it as part of a suite of investigative software. This sort of product is how, for example, police break into locked iPhones.

Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3w ago

what is an “iPhone hacking firm”

New: A Canadian cybersecurity firm accused a former contractor of sharing trade secrets about a previously unknown flaw used to hack iPhones with a rival firm Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

IPhone Hacking Firm Sues Ex-Worker Over Alleged Theft of Secrets

Magnet Forensics Inc., a Canadian cybersecurity firm, accused a former contractor of sharing trade secrets about a previously unknown flaw used to hack iPhones with a rival firm.

bloomberg.com

SCOOP: DOJ sets a case quota for all line prosecutors, requiring at least 25 open matters. Trump DOJ leaders are monitoring stats to find low performers. Spox says this'll push out unproductive AUSAs, with "patriotic AUSAs taking their place." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

DOJ Sets Case Quotas for Line Prosecutors in Push to Boost Stats

Justice Department leaders have started requiring all prosecutors to maintain at least 25 open cases, tightening the Trump administration’s grip on operational decisions previously left to US attorney...

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Hugely embarrassing failure here, and great story by @ddimolfetta.bsky.social. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

DHS network intrusion was twice ruled a false positive before breach confirmed

Suspicious activity on the Homeland Security Information Network, which is being used to support World Cup games around the U.S., was first detected around mid-to-late May.

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This is a very good write up of a very crazy situation that is worth extrapolating as this kind of technology proliferates

Joel Feder@joelfeder.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Thank God our kids weren’t with us. I’m not sure if I would’ve been able to react as calmly." Just published the absolute craziest story of my entire career. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...

I know he's divisive, but the We Rate Dogs guy has been cooking recently.

I have no desire to be in a book club but I do want to be in a longform journalism club where we just discuss banger articles. First up would be www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Did a Climber Leave His Girlfriend to Die at the Top of a Mountain?

An Austrian court pieces together the mysterious circumstances of a couple’s disastrous hike.

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if free throws = penalty kicks, question for soccer fans: is there anyone who is the equivalent of mitch robinson? ie a really significant player on a championship squad who cannot get a PK goal except by sheer luck

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · last mo.

I was about to post a very American complaint about soccer matches being decided on PKs by saying, “Imagine if tied basketball games were decided by a free-throw contest.” Then I remembered how close basketball games usually do in fact end.

You rely on critical infrastructure maintained by your state and local governments. My new story explains why those governments may now be struggling to protect that infrastructure from hackers.

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 2mo ago

New: Since the Trump administration eliminated funding for the MS-ISAC, the state and local cyber defense group has lost roughly 70% of its membership, forcing it it to cut staff and raising questions about the future of its vital services. My story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ms-isac...

At this point I'm really just inventing new ways to rewatch last night

Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · 2mo ago

play-by-play calls of last night’s winning basket from across Europe

Has anyone on this website mentioned the Knicks game yet

I've never been more desperate for a post-game press conference than this Wemby presser

I'm posting a bit less on social media these days but to make up for it I'm shouting GO KNICKS at anyone on the street who looks up for it so it all balances out

ok, this place has the juice

2026 election news: Intelligence agencies are no longer providing the classified threat briefings that gave state election officials insight into foreign and domestic efforts to disrupt voting or influence results, along with guidance on how to counter them www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

US Stops Sharing Crucial Election Threat Data With State Officials

Classified briefings and some cybersecurity services have ceased.

bloomberg.com

For as long as I've been in security, one major problem is that smart security people have a problem understanding that non-security people mostly will not sacrifice usability even if they are high value targets. The inability to think and talk about this is a huge weakness across the field

This is a good investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...

How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency

nytimes.com

Just to keep today's partial restoration of Iranian internet connectivity in perspective, please take a look at this overall timeline. Iran has a long way to go to get back to pre-Jan-8 levels of traffic volumes. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌

Doug Madory@eldomador.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Seeing the first signs of a possible internet restoration in Iran at 12:01 UTC today. While a few networks spiked in traffic, most are still down. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌

Israeli security forces made a list of thousands of militants who participated in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. One by one, they are being tracked down, captured and killed. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Inside Israel’s High-Tech Campaign to Kill or Capture Every Oct. 7 Attacker

One by one, militants who videotaped their exploits that day have been identified and killed, in a measure of Israel’s surveillance acumen and desire for retribution.

wsj.com

New: Anticipated AI executive order could give NSA a key role, potentially tasking the spy agency for classified testing of models offered by AI labs under a voluntary framework. EO expected this week, but details are fluid. w/ @notamazonalexa.bsky.social www.nextgov.com/artificial-i...

Anticipated executive order could give NSA a role in voluntary AI model testing

The order, which is expected this week, comes as the Trump administration grapples with the national security implications of advanced cyber-focused AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos.

nextgov.com

Cavaliers led 93-71 with 7:52 left in regulation Jalen Brunson outscored the Cavaliers by himself 17-11 for the rest of the game from there, including overtime

That was obviously the best playoff comeback I've ever seen. What the hell just happened

Fred Katz@fredkatz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

That was the exact way a comeback should happen from an entertainment perspective. Both teams had two timeouts left. No stoppages for reviews. Just play after play, the ball kept rolling.