These days, everyone uses AI to make up numbers left, right and center. Two decades ago, you needed a foreign government to do that for you.

Malware archeology never stops digging up new and interesting artifacts.

quantum computing is to encryption algorithms as AI is to nation-state obfuscated malware

Exclusive: Fast16 malware has raised questions about what it was designed to do. Researchers at Symantec finally confirm it was subverting software used to simulate nuclear weapons explosions. Nuclear experts also tell me Iran was the likely target and explain how it impacted nuclear weapons tests

NEW: Google is rolling out a new feature for Android called Intrusion Logging, designed specifically to help researchers investigate attacks done with spyware and forensic tools. Amnesty says this is “a fundamental shift in the amount and quality of forensic data available on Android devices.”

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

Hm. Academics need to publish their work and get it distributed. But Elsevier, a giant in academic publishing, *requires* academics to sign over copyright to their papers to publish them. Now Elsevier is suing AI firms to get big payoff for work that Elsevier should never get to own in first place

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐉𝐔𝐋𝐈𝐄 𝐊 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍 On winning the Museum of Political Corruption's 2026 Nellie Bly Award AND a Pulitzer! Well-deserved honors for your impactful and courageous reporting. @jkbjournalist.bsky.social #NellieBlyAward2026 #MuseumofPoliticalCorruption

Trenchant exec, Peter Williams, who stole zero-day exploits from his employer and sold them to a Russian buyer (known to sell exploits to the Russian government) has been ordered to pay $10 million in restitution to his former employer www.zetter-zeroday.com/trenchant-ex...

Every single sentence of this article is more insane than the last, but the standout was this: "When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing."

Shut down by US regulators in 2022, Polymarket moved to Panama. Except ...

🎉🏆 Such awesome news. Even more awesome because @yaelwrites.com is a freelancer who brought the story to AP and worked with them on the reporting for three years.

I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.

"Three providers account for 63 percent of the market share of data centers: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The United Kingdom already has deemed data centers as a standalone critical infrastructure sector."

NEW: A Russian hacker who broke into and damaged critical oil and gas infrastructure facilities in the US, Ukraine and other countries was arrested and pleaded guilty to charges that carry up to 27 years in prison. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What happens when amateur hackers have the tools to iterate through exploits at machine speed? I wrote about the neu script kiddies, what happens after Mythos, and how companies can prepare. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia.... with insight from @k8em0.bsky.social Dan Guido, Joshua Saxe, & Tim Becker.

Journalist covering cybersecurity/national security. Wrote book on Stuxnet - Countdown to Zero Day. Longtime WIRED staffer now writing independently: WIRED, NY Times, Politico, Washington Post, Guardian and zetter-zeroday.com Send tips: Signal: KimZ.42 Keybase: kimzet Email: [email protected]

I read all the amicus briefs in United States v. Chatrie, the Supreme Court geofence case, so you don’t have to. An expert agrees this is the best one: open.substack.com/pub/granick/...

Some snickered when TMZ announced they were sending a team to DC to cover politics. But sometimes you need people asking the questions that establishment reporters won't ask.

Mystery around a cyberattack against Venezuela's state-run oil company last December deepens with the discovery this week of a "highly destructive" wiper that may have been used in the attack. Previous reports indicated the December attack involved ransomware, but the wiper rewrites that narrative

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein? KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

And one of my five is out! Trump continues his habit of forcing out only his female Cabinet secretaries. bsky.app/profile/notu...

"An underrated 21st century skill is knowing what level of digital friendship you should have with somebody. Getting that Instagram request and being able to say, 'no, LinkedIn mutuals is right for us.'"

Washington can only pay attention to a scandal or two at a time, which means in the Trump age there are all sorts of should-be-big-deal scandals that don’t get the oxygen or media focus that they should. I'll bet you've missed at least three of these: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-trump...

Interesting backstory on how Anthropic discovered the power of Mythos to find vulnerabilities and decided, therefore, to control its release www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Jim Dolan is a full-blown media and tech oligarch these days -- from his private deep state to his MAGA ties. But Dolan's connections to Trump go back further than most; he got married in Mar-a-Lago in 2002. It's his security forces that are now spying on so many New Yorkers.

Drilling-and-draining thievery appears to be increasingly common as the war with Iran has pushed gasoline prices to their highest level in four years, and as older — and less-destructive — methods of stealing fuel have gotten harder to pull off.

This is the massive turnout for last night’s “anti regime” concert in Heroes Square, Budapest, ahead of tomorrow’s crucial Hungarian elections. Tens of thousands chanted “Russians go home”. #Orban

New: France said it plans to move its government computers currently running Windows to the open-source software Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S. tech. Comes at a time of growing instability and unpredictability on the part of the Trump administration and weaponization of sanctions, etc.

“when you change the internet settings in a router like they did, it propagates to all the devices in your house. All those devices now, once they’re connected to that Wi-Fi, are [going to] the malicious IP addresses [the GRU is] then routing their traffic through” cyberscoop.com/fbi-operatio...

As corrections go, "Solidly in my fuck-it era" as opposed to "solidly in my fucking era" is a doozy. But Brene Brown is pretty badass, so I can see how this would not have seemed out of place to the Financial Times writer who misheard it.

We (@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social and @seandnaylor.bsky.social) are thrilled to be announced as finalists for a 2026 Deadline Club award: www.deadlineclub.org/2026-awards-.... Our entry, "Investigative Reporting on the CIA," included three articles, links to which follow:

My Kindle is apparently so old I never received an email from Amazon

Former Trenchant exec who stole exploits from his employer and sold them to a Russian broker says he was suffering depression & money troubles when he decided to sell the exploits. New info also reveals the nature of the work he did for an Australian intel agency before joining Trenchant. My story:

Lonely teens are making "friends" with role-playing chatbots. Some just use them as a game or entertainment, but others use them to explore "devious acts" and have erotic interactions with them. Some get attached to these alter egos. Parents are clueless. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/t...

They're not actually "reporters" if AI is doing the writing for them. Maybe call them content generators instead. www.wired.com/story/tech-r...

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

Google has finally expanded on what its new disruptive cyber unit will do - it doesn't involve hacking back, as some had wondered. It's defensive-only in nature and involves, in part, doing what Microsoft has been doing for years - using court orders to take down threat actor infrastructure.

Trump deploys ICE agents to assist TSA at US airports reut.rs/4rJ3nvf

New, by me: A cyberattack on a vehicle breathalyzer company called Intoxalock has left drivers across the United States stranded and unable to start their cars.

Criminals using #OSINT to hunt down and kill other criminals www.occrp.org/en/project/b...

🧵 by @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social:

Courts generally weigh public interest in having depositions released against the deposed's interest in not being publicly embarrassed over what they said under oath. Public interest is high in this case. Interested in hearing from legal experts what chance they think gov has in getting these sealed

Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns over Iran war. x.com/joekent16jan...

Gamblers on Polymarket threatened Israeli journalist if he didn't change a report about a missile that bypassed interceptors and struck an open area outside Jerusalem. Also, an Israeli reservist and civilian were indicted for using classified info to make bets before Israel bombed Iran last June

EXCLUSIVE: The number of searches about Americans conducted by the FBI in a controversial foreign intelligence database rose by roughly 35 percent in 2025, according to a letter by a senior agency official obtained by Recorded Future News. therecord.media/new-data-sho...

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

I asked President Trump about the FBI reportedly seizing election records in Arizona. He said they must have done that because it was a “rigged” election. I pointed out to him that his own AG said there was not measurable voter fraud to overturn that election. Then he called me a rotten reporter.