the question of our age is "can a critical mass of the electorate learn from events and stimuli and change their preferences or are we stuck in a thermostatic enshitification ratchet"

While tech leaders think about how to strategically deploy AI tools to support human intelligence needs, rank and filers express concerns about their livelihoods. via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/national-geo...

People hear what they want to hear. The American people were ready to hear that the gop by 2011 was different and not Bush, and that with war and economics, you can trust them this time. Arguably the main, or maybe only, reason that was overcame was because the Dems had Obama

The increase is being driven by powerful privacy laws in states like California, new interstate partnerships and a renewed focus on the privacy impacts of AI and automation. via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/privacy-comp...

Lot of folks don't realize that Hinckley has been rehabilitated and free for years. Maybe a bit weird but the 1980s were a long time ago, he spent 30 years in psychiatric care and is no longer considered a danger to anyone. The dude plays music now and sells pictures of cats online.

NEW: Talked to Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia this morning about Mythos: "The jury is still out on how effective it’ll be against real-world conditions, meaning a network that’s guarded by human defenders that has alerting and things like that.” cyberscoop.com/anthropic-my...

For decades, a special type of no-skill hacker has wreaked havoc on the internet, running scripts they found online to deface websites and spread viruses. Now, powerful AI tools could give hacking skills to everyone on the planet. Read more from @yaelwrites.com: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

A ruling could come this summer in Chatrie v. United States, which could have bigger ramifications about the scope of government surveillance. via @timstarks.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/supreme-cour...

Rep. Delia Ramirez takes over as top House cybersecurity Dem cyberscoop.com/delia-ramire...

Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.

Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

On its best day, the WHCA is an elite event for people who have duties to the public that should put them in opposition to one another to kick back, relax, and remind themselves that they all believe being part of the elite is more important than fulfilling any of those duties.

I like how she pretends as if she's been retained by him. Like, you don't actually have to make up a bullshit defense for every illegal and unethical behavior because you're a lawyer. That's not actually required if you're not representing the guilty party.

Last night’s incident was closer on the spectrum to the Clinton era “assassination attempt” when a guy opened fire on the White House with an AK-47 from the public sidewalk than it was to Butler, where the president was actually in danger. It was just a Hail Mary at the first line of security.

An America destroyed by madness was on full display after the chaos of an assassination attempt at the WCHA dinner, in a nation so numb to gun violence and so drunk on corruption that Trump and journalists wanted to party on Gunfire of the Vanities: My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

“[CDT's Eric Null] indicated that the Secure Data Act falls short, calling it full of ‘easily exploitable loopholes’ that let companies ‘hide behind cookie banners and lengthy terms of service rather than establishing meaningful privacy protections.’”

Gonna be funny to revisit this time period in like a year when Mythos and all equivalent models are likely open source or have open source equivalents.

As Twitter became X, use frequency has become strongly correlated with dislike of Democrats. The more you hate Democrats, the more you post and visit X.

A funny thing about my career is that I got my print journalism degree at the same time print journalism was dying and then followed it up with a public policy master's degree right before policy became more or less irrelevant to U.S. governing.

impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

"Just making you aware that US President Trump has begun posting" goes out over the BBG macro squawk and with that the madness kicks off for another day.

Just another satisfying day in the life of a journalist: watching that story you spent a week putting together get 1/10th the traffic of that 500-word daily you banged out in a few hours.

Just a reminder that Tucker wrote text messages during the after the 2020 election saying he "passionately" hated Trump, calling him a disaster while expressing relief about not having to carry water for him anymore. In Jan. 2021. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

This from trade guru Richard Baldwin on Trump's trade war conduct is great. And helps explain why in fact he is not remaking the world economic order or anything else. He's just going to leave a huge mess behind. www.linkedin.com/pulse/trumps...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

But broadly, I think the problem here in the reasoning is the IC's essentially fictional distinction between "collection" and "analysis". The IC basically takes the position that a 4A event occurs at collection time, (but is reasonable bc Keith), but doesn't occur at all when querying the database

Gonna be thinking about this paragraph for a bit:

Dr. Cerina Fairfax is remembered as a mentor and community leader as officials call attention to the broader impact of domestic gun violence toward Black women

trying to post through it rn

Jeffrey Clark (the former DOJ official nearly made acting AG to help Trump overturn the 2020 election) is currently melting down over on the other site in response to John Eastman getting disbarred, insisting there should be no consequences bc "reasonable minds" can disagree on 2020 election.

Column by Philip Kennicott: An AI-generated image of President Trump as a saintly figure sparked outrage for its blasphemous implications and desperation. Its swift removal from Truth Social revealed the instability in his relationship with supporters. https://wapo.st/3OtNcEe

This isn’t the occasion to debate its contents. But the TL:DR summary is that Mythos is really good at hacking but it’s a case of prepare, don’t panic. that’s a really useful dose of realism (not least because of the argument that it served anthropic’s commercial interests to hype up mythos) 11/

They conducted a full test of its hacking prowess They evaluated its capabilities against current cyber defences And they published the whole evaluation in just over ONE week It is the only independent evaluation of this powerful new AI tool yet undertaken anywhere in the world 10/

NEW: Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

For cyber policy followers, Swalwell’s exit means that the House Homeland cybersecurity subcommittee will lose its leading Democrat. He has served as ranking member of the cyber panel since early 2023. x.com/repswalwell/...

The department is looking to create a “menu of priority AI export packages that the U.S. Government will promote to allies and partners around the world.” via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/commerce-ai-...

Experts say advancements in hardware, mathematics and growing fear of Chinese scientific breakthroughs are pushing Google and others to call for speedier migration. via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/quantum-comp...

Seeing a lot of shocked reactions to this in the quotes and it's funny how it's just people outing themselves for how deeply propagandized they are via the War On Terror lol. Just US state department lines about Islam and Iranians they that deeply hold in their hearts not matching to reality.

Being a completely faithless actor is expensive. So many off-ramps involve promises, like a promise not to attack Iran in the future. If Iran can't trust us, its only recourse is to inflict as much pain as possible on the entire world in the hopes that we'll learn from natural consequences.

It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.

It is crazymaking to listen to the right claim Orban's loss means he was never an authoritarian when people in Hungary feared that opposing him would immiserate their families www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

Already annoyed about the coming books full of anonymous senior officials telling every ugly behind-the-scenes detail about the effort to hide Trump’s dementia like it is some fucking revelation when it seems like most of the planet already knows and legacy media are the ones not saying it.

Certain writers (*cough* NYT Opinion *cough*) overread the durability of illiberal nationalism and scoffed at pro-democracy appeals, but they only listened to each other, never allowing alternate opinions into their elite bubble. That left them unable to grasp everything from Hungary to Minneapolis.

OpenAI rotated its notarization cert for its macOS apps following the Axios supply chain attack, and after finding a vulnerable Axios library in its dev env openai.com/index/axios-...

NEW: There is real appetite among House members in both parties to expel Swalwell, Gonzales, Cherfilus-McCormick and Mills in one go and be done with it, @axios.com has found. "We want a full house cleaning," said one Democrat. "Get the garbage out of here." www.axios.com/2026/04/12/s...