Kevin Collier

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Maybe they should have thought about that before laying me off in 2019.

Might have to turn in my journo card for this one, but it rubs me wrong for Reuters to reveal Banksy's identity.

Could not cosign this more strongly. Putting $100 on your team on vacation in a janky casino or dog track is a great American experience; a world of addictives app putting every other American man under 25 into deep, lifelong debt is bad.

Lost in translation: How Russia’s new elite hit squad was compromised by an idiotic lapse in tradecraft Center 795, which emerged after the start of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine and comprises elite units from the GRU and FSB, was established as a top-secret and fully autonomous entity designed to ...

Lost in translation: How Russia’s new elite hit squad was compromised by an idiotic lapse in tradecraft

@christogrozev.bsky.social, @dobrokhotov.bsky.social and @michaeldweiss.bsky.social detail how hubris and Google Translate exposed Russia's most secretive assassination unit, Center 795.

Here's DHS's statement on CISA's behalf on the apparent Iran hack on medical tech company Stryker. In addition to the now normal but still weird partisan jabs in these statements, I can definitely assure you CISA does not launch investigations into all cyber incidents. They're barely staffed!

Def, we go every few months.

You just wait

Not safe enough to ride it to come visit me though apparently??

We have a book about all the different train lines and he gets a kick out of reading it while we ride. The few times we've ridden it when there weren't any seats, somebody has given us one every time.

I take my toddler on the NYC subway all the time. He loves riding the train and looking out the window.

Also was that rubicon not crossed when Russia did the same thing to us in Afghanistan?

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

Outdated intel likely led to deadly U.S. strike on Iranian elementary school, sources say The munition could have hit the school because old intelligence showed it to be a military target, according to four sources familiar with a U.S. military probe's preliminary findings.

NEW: Outdated intelligence likely led to a deadly U.S. strike on an Iranian elementary school that killed more than 170 people, sources say.

Almost every company of a certain size employs people to send emails like this and I would reckon there are more people who do this for a living than actual journalists.

It's very clear ABC has a LE or adjacent source and they're gonna publish any of these hastily written fusion center reports that relate to Iran.

This story has the same bylines! Published two days ago. There's reporting value when you get these docs but their worries are often not realistic.

Iran may be activating sleeper cells outside the country, alert says The U.S. has intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as “an operational trigger” for “sleeper assets."

It's very clear ABC has a LE or adjacent source and they're gonna publish any of these hastily written fusion center reports that relate to Iran.

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U.S. military is using AI to help plan Iran air attacks, sources say, as lawmakers call for oversight Anthropic’s Claude AI systems have become a crucial tool for the military despite the company’s clashes with the Defense Department.

As the U.S. military expands its use of AI tools to pinpoint targets for airstrikes in Iran, members of Congress are calling for guardrails and greater oversight of the technology’s use in war.

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show The hack occurred after a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York Field Office was inadvertently left vulnerable by a special agent.

Excellent reporting here by @raphae.li about a hacker who breached an FBI server, apparently without knowing it was the FBI, and accessed the Epstein files. The hacker allegedly threatened to report the server's owner TO THE FBI bc of disgust over CSAM on the server, www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

On Feb-4, @Starlink disabled terminals in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine that weren't on Ukrainian Ministry of Defense's approved list.

We saw a 75% drop in Starlink traffic to Ukraine as a result. 🤯
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Scams could now cost Americans $119 billion a year, study finds The estimate builds on numbers from the FBI, which are widely believed to capture only a small fraction of the money lost to scams.

New: In a pretty straightforward calculation I'm surprised I hadn't seen done before, researchers at @consumerfed.bsky.social looked at how much people report in the scam losses to FBI + the most reliable study on how underreported scams go, and calculated we're losing $119 billion a year at least.

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

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.

Yes, though there's grey area to that. The major threat intel shops don't have to publish their findings, and it doesn't make their claims untrue or without value if their main goal is to show off how good they are at uncovering MSS in customer networks.

It's very weird that journalists know in other contexts that when interviewing someone making a claim, you have to also ask "and how do you know that?" And yet the cyber, in its mystery, that can go out the window.

No one has uncovered Iran setting the stage for a huge infrastructure cyberattack (unlike China). Also they basically don't have internet in Iran right now and would have to do almost anything through Starlinks, and also their main military cyber center was reportedly destroyed a few days ago.

Absolutely no one with significant visibility into IRGC hacking operations onto ICS systems is saying a massive infrastructure attack seems feasible right now, and therefore it's not reasonable to say Iran might turn off your lights.

A key component of cyber media-savvy is asking: Does the person making a claim have the visibility to know this? And that should fall on the reporter, not the audience. Like Microsoft sees cybers because they run Windows, Google because everybody uses them, US agencies because they're everywhere.

I would say more smelly than stinky.

Device ignited at Gracie Mansion protest was an improvised explosive, NYPD says Two men were taken into custody after one of two devices was ignited during an anti-Islam demonstration and a counterprotest outside the mayor's residence.

BREAKING: A device ignited outside Zohran Mamdani's mayoral residence yesterday during an anti-Islam protest and counterprotest was confirmed to be an improvised explosive, New York City police say.

And that I would not want that job over being a US senator and I struggle to imagine how anyone would.