NEW: Our play-by-play on how Anthropic’s negotiations with the Pentagon fell apart, (and how Open AI swooped in). With @julianbarnes.bsky.social @cademetz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...

Sources say Israel hacked the popular Iranian prayer app BadeSaba to urge defections, resistance www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Exclusive: A classified report found that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem created "significant" risks with a policy allowing passengers to keep their shoes on at airport security

Two thoughts: 1. If you don’t live in or haven’t visited SF in the last few years, I cannot underscore enough enough how big/prominent the AI sector has become to local economy. 2. The Anthropic/DOD battle has the *potential* to cause the greatest DC-Silicon Valley rift since the Snowden fallout.

The Trump administration is loosening restrictions on the sharing of law enforcement information with the CIA and other intelligence agencies, officials said, overriding controls that have been in place for decades to protect the privacy of U.S. citizens www.propublica.org/article/trum...

News: The Trump administration told Congress it won’t share the classified underlying intelligence—a conversation two foreigners had about Jared Kushner—that led to a whistleblower complaint against U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard, citing claims of executive privilege. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Three Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax—prompted Anthropic's Claude more than 16 million times, siphoning information from its system to train and improve their own products, Anthropic said in a blog post Monday. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

The story of Anton Koh provides a rare window into the tactics of Kim Jong Un’s digital warriors, who have faked their way into remote IT jobs to generate cash for the North Korean regime www.wsj.com/world/asia/a...

New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found. The government keeps doing it nonetheless. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

“.. The allegations in the conversation about Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, would be significant if verified, according to other U.S. officials familiar with its contents.” @wsj.com #SonInLawWatch www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Breaking WSJ: The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

New: Whistleblower complaint based in part on NSA intercept of a phone call btwn foreigners discussing a person close to Trump. The call was at least in part about issues related to Iran, sources said. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

In a statement, CIA calls @wyden.senate.gov's letter referring to deep concerns he has about unspecified CIA activities a "badge of honor."

New: The Trump admin has disclosed to select lawmakers a classified whistleblower complaint against spy chief Tulsi Gabbard, but significant portions were redacted due to claims of executive privilege, according to people familiar with the matter www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

".. Disclosure of its contents could cause 'grave damage to national security,' one official said. It also .. raises potential claims of executive privilege that may involve the White House, officials said." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

NEWS: A whistleblower complaint filed 8 months ago alleges wrongdoing about Tulsi Gabbard but has been stalled within her own agency from reaching Congress. The complaint is extremely classified, may involve "executive privilege" and is currently locked in a safe, sources say.

New: Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is leading an administration-wide effort to probe the 2020 election for fraud and regularly briefing Trump and top White House officials on her progress. Officials are discussing EOs on voting ahead of midterms. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

President Trump has complained to aides repeatedly in recent weeks about Attorney General Pam Bondi, describing her as weak and an ineffective enforcer of his agenda, administration officials and other people familiar with his complaints said. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

News: A recent classified CIA assessment concluded Maduro loyalists were more likely to maintain near-term stability than opposition figures if Maduro was removed from power. Trump was briefed on the findings, which motivated posture against Machado. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

At 10:46 Friday night, “Operation Absolute Resolve” was a go. Inside the months of secretive planning that brought an end to Maduro’s rule. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

CIA Team in Venezuela Since August Tracked Maduro’s Whereabouts Before Capture www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Slowly but surely, workers are surrendering some of the WFH freedom that once eased them into and out of the weekend. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

New: China’s historic Salt Typhoon hack targeted >80 countries, reaching across globe to a far greater extent than initially understood + let spies to surveil global movements of U.S. citizens. “It should really set off alarm bells for all Americans,” FBI cyber chief says www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

“They are too big to keep failing like this." Inside Microsoft's faulty patch that opened the door to another Chinese cyber espionage operation. www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

North Korean IT workers are bound by a few defining characteristics: total devotion to Dear Leader Kim Jong Un, a penchant for stealing cryptocurrency and an obsession with Minions, the cuddly yellow agents of evil from “Despicable Me.” www.wsj.com/lifestyle/no...

How a North Korean scammer stole hundreds of thousands from a crypto startup www.wsj.com/business/he-...

Before launching its attack last week, Israel provided the U.S. with intel saying Iran was conducting renewed research useful for a nuclear weapon, including on an explosive triggering system. U.S. officials weren’t convinced it pointed to a decision to build a bomb. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Some personal news: www.linkedin.com/posts/dustin...

News: The Washington Post has suffered a cyber intrusion that compromised the emails of at least several reporters at the paper, including those on the national security and economic policy teams, according to people familiar with the matter.

I wrote a story with @dustinvolz.bsky.social about a woman in Phoenix who turned her life around by operating a North Korean laptop farm. www.wsj.com/business/nor...

News: @thekrebscycle.bsky.social, a target of Trump's wrath last week, is resigning from SentinelOne to focus fully on fighting back against against the White House's campaign to punish dissent. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Chinese police issued wanted notices for three people they said engaged in cyberattacks against China on behalf of the U.S. National Security Agency, a rare step by Beijing as hostilities between the superpowers escalate. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

A closely watched survey showed consumer sentiment souring to one of the lowest levels in a decade. Respondents said they were braced for prices to surge 6.7% in the year ahead, a level of pessimism about costs last seen in the inflation-wracked early 1980s. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Speaking this morning at Vanderbilt, Rep. Mark Green, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, compares Chinese infrastructure hacks to Russia placing a satchel charge next to a cell tower that could blow up at anytime. Also reiterates telco hacks remain ongoing.

A Wall Street Journal analysis of daily financial statements issued by the Treasury Department found government spending since the inauguration is $154 billion more than in the same period in 2024 during the administration of former President Joe Biden. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This is an extraordinary story/admission „The Chinese delegation linked years of intrusions into computer networks at U.S. ports, water utilities, airports and other targets, to increasing U.S. policy support for Taiwan“ www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

👀 China reportedly acknowledged to outgoing Biden officials in December that it was responsible for the Volt Typhoon critical infrastructure intrusions, linking them to "increasing U.S. policy support for Taiwan." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

NEW: China privately gave tacit acknowledgement of big hacks of US infrastructure. People present at meeting interpreted #China as linking the hacking to US backing of Taiwan. Interesting signaling going on. Story by @dustinvolz.bsky.social www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Sources: Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that China was behind Volt Typhoon hacks, linking them to escalating US support for Taiwan (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Chinese officials acknowledged in a December meeting with Biden officials in Geneva that Beijing was behind the Volt Typhoon intrusions into U.S. critical infrastructure citing increasing U.S. policy support for Taiwan as an excuse www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

“Wang’s comments came after the U.S. stressed that China didn’t appear to understand how dangerous prepositioning in civilian critical infrastructure was, and how much the U.S. would view it as an act of war, the former U.S. official said.”

Scoop: In a secret summit in Geneva last December, Chinese officials tacitly acknowledged being responsible for the Volt Typhoon intrusions on U.S. critical infrastructure systems and linked the attacks to U.S. support for Taiwan. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Sen. Wyden puts hold on Sean Plankey to lead CISA, citing “cover up” over unreleased agency report on telecom sector vulnerabilities: www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

"The buildup of stuff is a uniquely American phenomenon. Roughly 80% of the world’s self-storage facilities are located in the U.S." www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

During the presidential transition, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer—who has called 9/11 an "inside job"—unsuccessfully sought contracts to vet incoming administration officials, according to people familiar with the matter. But now, Loomer's the one calling the shots. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

The Trump administration said Friday that Medicare and Medicaid won’t expand coverage of popular anti-obesity drugs, rejecting a proposal issued late last year by the Biden administration. www.wsj.com/health/healt...