@joemenn
Washington Post reporter covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
Time to exploit has collapsed. Agents can reverse engineer vulnerability announcements and patches to develop exploits in minutes. They also automate find novel vulnerabilities and exploiting them. Patching is no longer sufficient, if it ever was.
Just the executive chairman of defense tech company Anduril trying to buy Wired, cool cool cool.
Just the executive chairman of defense tech company Anduril trying to buy Wired, cool cool cool.
Especially amazing given that Trump completely “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities just eight months ago.
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
Insecure surveillance cameras are a national security vulnerability. research.checkpoint.com/2026/interpl...
From last night.
Important context: Nakasone is on OpenAI’s board.
Asked repeatedly to give a grade to the Trump administration’s response to disinformation so far, Nakasone repeatedly demurs.
Nakasone says he is most concerned about AI-enhanced disinformation impacting elections.
Nakasone says the rift with private AI needs to be resolved and that real Congressional oversight is needed.
Gen. Paul Nakasone, ex NSA chief, says at an event that he was distressed by the rift between the Pentagon and Anthropic, including the unprecedented ban on contractors using Anthropic on security grounds: “This is not a supply-chain issue.”
People who complain that Bluesky is too preachy and screechy should check out Mastodon.
In fairness, he did better talking about the drapes, which I bet weren’t even on the prompter.
1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:
Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.
Its a horrifying escalation.
You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.
And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.
KUWAIT ARMY - كا • الجيش الكويتي @KuwaitArmyGHQ O ... O Translated from Arabic Show original • Statement No. 7 The spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense stated that several U.S. military aircraft crashed this morning, confirming the complete safety of their crews. He explained that the relevant authorities immediately initiated search and rescue procedures, whereby the crews were evacuated and transferred to the hospital to check on their health status and provide the necessary medical care, noting that their condition is stable. The official spokesperson added that direct coordination was conducted with the friendly U.S. forces regarding the circumstances of the incident, and joint technical measures were taken. He affirmed that the concerned authorities are following up on the investigations to determine the causes of the incident, calling for information to be obtained from its official sources.
“Several” US aircraft crashed this morning in Kuwait, according to Kuwait, AP and Reuters.
I was told there was a joke going-away template that was accidentally used for the real edition.
When newsroom salaries and ink barrels get too expensive.
Great job Bari
WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Can I choose two?
I forgot the link rutherford.house.gov/media/press-... incredible stuff from the stupidest timeline
NEW -> Coordinated US–Israel strikes on Iran are spotlighting how Washington integrates offensive cyber into military operations — and whether federal agencies are ready for retaliation at home:
www.defenseone.com/threats/2026...
So let’s think about this.
A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands.
The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it
I haven’t had time to post because everything I blink there is a news development in the Anthropic V. Pentagon story. Today, the Defense Department took the unprecedented step of declaring Anthropic a supply chain risk for not capitulating to their demands:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...
I don’t see the problem, this works for Inspector Clouseau