Outback Bowl stans are mourning the absence of Penn State from the Outback Bowl, as well as the absence of Outback itself

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

AML is a fucked-up thing. RIP Tatiana Schlossberg. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Tom Brady likes the leather gloves

I loved putting this one together

Christmas on a Thursday is like a really weird Thanksgiving

Just set my email autoreply to the word DON'T in 72pt bold caps

"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness

(Reuters) - China imported no soybeans from the United States for a third straight month in November, as buyers turned to South American supplies amid fears of a shortfall if the trade war with Washington dragged on. @reuters.com www.producer.com/daily/china-...

A California federal judge on Friday declined to stay an order preventing the NSO Group from using WhatsApp infrastructure to mount spyware attacks therecord.media/judge-rules-...

Researchers said they observed a hacking group attempting to lure senior Russian military officers to download malware using a variety of phishing emails therecord.media/cyber-spies-...

Are you a security researcher or journalist? We want to hear from you — please take this survey! Dissent Doe at DataBreaches.net, and yours truly at this.weekinsecurity.com, are running this survey to explore the state of legal demands and criminal threats in cybersecurity.

The Jake Paul knockout might be Bluesky’s first great sports moment

Barry and Levon voice: $33 a pound for peppermint bark, baby

my LinkedIn Year In Review says "you were never really 'on a roll,' we just said that because it made us feel better"

“You can eat it dry; it tastes that good.” washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7758...

Applications from US researchers to come to Germany have doubled. www.spiegel.de/start/usa-ve...

Pro sports needs more pettiness like this www.wsj.com/sports/baseb...

NEW: President Donald Trump has taken steps to nominate Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, the deputy chief of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, to head the military's Cyber Command and the National Security Agency. ON @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/joshua-rudd-...

New react meme just in time for use in 2026.

30+ in a very Dirk way for him tonight

name your DC band Cracked Rail Season www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/m...

Reinventing the Antifa Terror Threat open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...

The season when you have to walk the dog before sunrise, and any cold, dark object she eats from the sidewalk will forever be shrouded in mystery.

Will "Epcot Michael Jackson" be one of the OpenAI characters

Joe Francescon, announced in August as the NSA's new deputy director, will not be filling the role, sources told Recorded Future News, and the Trump administration has another pick in mind therecord.media/announced-ns...

A new US startup named Operation Bluebird has asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to vacate old Twitter trademarks, claiming that Elon Musk has abandoned them www.reuters.com/technology/u...

Two cities — Eugene, OR + Cambridge, MA — have terminated contracts w/ Flock Safety since Friday bc Flock kept its ALPR cameras recording even after they asked for them to be deactivated. In the fall, officials in Evanston, IL bagged Flock cameras for the same reason therecord.media/flock-safety...

One of our striking research findings from 2025 is a little niche, but critical for digital publishers: Google users who see an AI Overview are *half* as likely as other users to click through to search results. Huge implications for search traffic. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

A cyberattack that forced Aeroflot to ground dozens of flights in July was linked by researchers to an incident at a little-known software developer therecord.media/russia-flags...

Shoutout to Jason Cherkis for his 2025 Whiting Grant. I’ve been hearing about the book for awhile, and it’s going to be great. www.whiting.org/writers/crea...

Rod Carew, 1982 California #Angels #Baseball

New: Security experts working for British intelligence warned on Monday that large language models may never be fully protected from “prompt injection,” a growing type of cyber threat that manipulates AI systems into ignoring their original instructions.

New: Cybersecurity experts say a worrying pattern is emerging. Earlier this year, three separate China-linked hacking groups all attempted to exploit the same SharePoint vulnerabilities at almost the exact same time. There are good reasons to believe it wasn't a coincidence.

Some Russian officials are publicly criticizing the Kremlin's ban of Roblox, saying they've received backlash from millions of young gamers therecord.media/russia-bans-...

comes with a Richard Scarry character

“Thicc Six” is the best sports phrase of the last 20 years

NATO this week held its largest-ever cyberdefense exercise, drilling about 1,300 participants on the types of threats that have disrupted governments and critical infrastructure worldwide therecord.media/nato-holds-l...

The pandemic basically paid for Warner Bros.

Draymond’s jump shot looks like he needs a back rub

Meta to cut up to 30% of metaverse budget, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/48kJ1lB

Edmonton police are the first to trial equipping officers with body cameras that use facial recognition technology therecord.media/canadian-pol...

The news is relentless these days, and yet – or maybe because of that – Americans are following it less closely than they used to. NEW from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

[guy who has checked out ten library blu-rays] yes

Apple “failing to keep up with its rivals” on AI just means less AI being forced into everything everywhere

Thailand bans Sam Altman-founded company Tools for Humanity from paying citizens in crypto for iris scans therecord.media/thailand-wor...

There's been a hiccup for the proposed ballot initiative to freeze rents for two years in D.C. In a legal opinion @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social says the initiative can't go on the ballot because it would unlawfully limit D.C. revenues by freezing rents at properties owned by the city.

me vs. the "cyber monday" emails

South Korea’s largest online retailer, Coupang, apologized on Sunday after confirming the personal details of 33.7 million customer accounts had been compromised. ➡️ Breach equivalent to 65% of 🇰🇷 pop ➡️ Govt held emergency meeting ➡️ Chinese former employee suspected ➡️ Police “tracking them down”