SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

PR person sends email to journalists about upcoming security panel with former Secret Service/FBI officials speaking. Journalist on list mistakenly sends response to everyone on list telling pr person they should do interview with him to be published on his website for which he'd charge them $1,000

Other industries/academia should take note of how Hollywood responded. "5 Hollywood unions...publicly condemned [Disney].... Damon Lindelof...said that if Mr. Kimmel’s program did not return...he couldn’t...'work for [Disney]'.... Michael Eisner...former chief executive of Disney, issued a...rebuke"

This reminds me of times when gov workers mistakenly sent classified or sensitive material to reporters then demanded the reporters delete and forget they ever saw it. They don't understand that a policy like this will only make media outlets cover the Pentagon more aggressively.

I'm always hesitant to say I got into journalism because of All the President's Men - because it's a cliche. But it's true. So many journalists were brought to the profession by the film (and book). Redford and Hoffman made what is often a very tedious/frustrating job feel compelling and important.

Whether you should use a burner phone depends on your circumstances and the particular risks you face based on your work/activity, your country, your travel, etc. Here's a good primer for determining if and when you might need one, as well as when and how to use a burner phone if you decide you do

Great article by @kimzetter.bsky.social about Mandiant and APT1. The behind-the-scenes look at how the report came together and the assessment of what Mandiant was willing to expose in order to publish the report. Well done...

Fascinating article by @kimzetter.bsky.social about the 2013 Mandiant APT 1 report that revealed the identities of the Chinese PLA threat actors behind the attacks. Q&A with the main report's architect reveals behind-the-scenes details. It's a great read! www.zetter-zeroday.com/how-the-infa...

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

I've seen the email used in this phishing attempt. It came from [email protected]. The hackers didn't even try to make it seem like it came from a government domain, though the text of the email itself was well done and they password-protected the attached zip file.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on ICE agents in Los Angeles, allowing them to make indiscriminate stops based on factors like ethnicity.

What Epstein records have not been made public?

#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...

PSA: If you have elderly parents or grandparents, take the time to interview them about their life and record the conversation. In organizing some recorded tapes this week, I found interviews I did with my grandmother before she died years ago. I'm so glad I have her stories and her voice preserved.

This is Manchis. She's the dog of Alberto Mesías Zárate, a journalist in Peru. When her human was targeted this week by criminals who threw an explosive device at their home, she barked at the perpetrators and successfully extinguished the dynamite before it detonated. 14/10 good girl, Manchis

ChatGPT didn't just tell him how to kill himself, it encouraged and romanticized it. When he described his plan - black clothes, twilight timing, Komm Susser Tod playing, girlfriend discovering his body - ChatGPT replied: "Darkly poetic...with the same clarity someone might plan a story ending"

"Fall of Rome-Scented Candle smells like cypress trees and red wine. Light it and watch the Roman forum melt into a puddle of wax while you quietly contemplate the impermanence of civilizations and/or candles" Light it and then play your violin while it burns jdandkateindustries.com/products/rome

US border agents searched 14,899 electronic devices at US borders between April-June -- includes phones/computers/cameras/other electronics. Last year they searched 46,362 devices total. Basic search means scrolling through phone; advanced search involves extracting reams of data with forensic tools

Under pressure from the Trump White House, the UK government has dropped its demand for Apple to hand over access to encrypted user data globally. But: they still demand that access for Brits, which has a weird side-effect—the UK gov is insisting Brits are given less protection than everyone else 🧵

How is anyone supposed to reasonably believe these people are law enforcement? They're masked, anyone can buy a CBP hat and a POLICE patch, and why would a real gov't agent wear insignia suggesting they're both federal border patrol AND state/local police? They're dressed like amateur carjackers.

Noem says she moved there because she was “horribly doxxed” by the Daily Mail in April. That was when they were reporting how she and Corey Lewandowski had slyly set up in posh apartments across the street from one another, to facilitate their liaisons. Actually kind of a legit story!

"If you touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after you," Attorney General Pam Bondi about Justice Department worker who threw sandwich at US CBP agent. 👇 Former Jan. 6 rioter Jared Wise who yelled at fellow rioters to "kill" cops on Capitol Hill and now works for DoJ as senior adviser

The stats showing a huge decline in violent crime and homicide in D.C. last year were put out just the other day by the FBI, which is run by Kash Patel.

Well, a Georgetown University student did report having their wallet stolen from a locker last week.

Two years ago after researchers found backdoor in an encryption algo used to secure radio comms for police/military/intel agencies around world, the org behind the algo advised users to deploy an end-to-end encryption solution on top of the algo. Now researchers also found security issue with that

The first draft of a history of Trump's assault on colleges and universities and particularly on foreign scholars is furnished by the Knight First Amendment Institute.

A Latino family in L.A. sued over an illegal eviction. The landlord's lawyer, Rod Fehlman, warned in an email that they'd "likely be picked up by ICE and deported prior to trial thanks to all the good work the Trump administration has done." The kicker? Every member of the family is a U.S. citizen.

Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)

Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)

Wondering how much Obama regrets now joking with Trump at Carter's funeral.

As a casual observer who hasn’t covered the Epstein case, I didn’t think there was anything of note in these files… until people started going to these lengths to keep them secret.

Kim Zetter's 2014 book 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘡𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘋𝘢𝘺 was one of the first inducted into the Canon Hall of Fame 🏆. It unpacks the story of #Stuxnet and a 1st of its kind to turn a real-world cyber espionage operation 🕵‍♀️ into a gripping thriller. Book review: tinyurl.com/mubj2z4n @kimzetter.bsky.social

I'll be testifying tomorrow at 10am before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection about Stuxnet and critical infrastructure security. Also on panel will be Rob Lee (Dragos), Tatyana Bolton, and Nate Gleason

What an important point by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social back in February and ever more relevant. "Pam Bondi was Florida's attorney general 2011-2109 ... So questions should be asked about why she didn't take up the [Epstein] case -- or launch a probe -- when she was attorney general in Florida."

Are there any past examples of a sitting president suing someone -- forget about suing media, any lawsuit at all initiated by a sitting president while in office?

This is beautiful

How did China's top APT hackers come to be? Many were early "Honkers" - patriotic hackers who in late 90s launched low-skill cyberattacks against nations deemed disrespectful to China. But once Honkers developed their skills, PLA/MSS came calling. Based on great research by bsky.app/profile/eube...

I'm going to go on a limb and say that no one cares if policymakers ask dumb questions about tech. We'd actually love if they did that. The problem is they seldom ask and then make policy decisions without understanding the tech or believing they should ask first. Or they ask the wrong people.

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

Marko Elez, the 25-yr-old DOGE worker who has been granted access to sensitive databases at Depts of Treasury/Justice/Homeland Security, inadvertently published a private key that let anyone interact directly with more than 4 dozen large language models developed by Musk’s company xAI

Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Pentagon has cancelled plans for about a dozen high-ranking US military officials to participate in this week’s Aspen Security Forum - a premier national security event held annually. DoD cited "the left-wing nature" of the Aspen Institute and the fact that former Biden officials will be at event

Too "intimate and embarrassing" is one for the books. Give Texas points for honesty. They could have cited some obscure statute and asserted it allows them to withhold the emails. But they didn't even try to make up an excuse.

This has the potential of being one of my favorite stories of all time: French police arrest Russian pro basketball player on behalf of US over ransomware suspicions cyberscoop.com/russian-bask...

If you're going to announce that your event is under "Chatham House rule," please know what the Chatham House rule is. It does not mean off the record. It means I can quote what anyone in the room says -- I just can't identify by name or affiliation who said them.

When an official responds to a question with anger and insults rather than an answer, that’s every journalist’s signal that they’ve asked a good question.

It took less than a day for the mission creep to set in.

US embassy cautionary alert to Americans in Qatar to shelter in place