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Congress—Not the Pentagon or Anthropic—Should Set Military AI Rules The Pentagon's threat to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk" over its AI use restrictions is extreme—but the deeper problem is that the rules for military AI are being set through ad hoc hagglin...

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Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen ...

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4Chan knew about Jeffrey Epstein's death 38 minutes before the rest of the world. The FBI tried to figure out how. The Epstein files address a long-running side plot of Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 death while in jail on sex-trafficking charges.

Great pull from the Epstein files. FBI tried to figure out who on 4chan had scooped all news outlets on Epstein's death, but the trail went cold when they couldn't find who had that IP address.

Jack Dorsey just halved the size of Block's employee base — and he says your company is next | TechCrunch Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes.

Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes.

FAA closes airspace in Fort Hancock, Texas after reported use of anti-drone laser The Federal Aviation Administration barred flights on Thursday in an area around Fort Hancock, Texas, after congressional aides told Reuters a military laser-based anti-drone system was believed to ha...

“…a military laser-based anti-drone system was believed to have accidentally shot down a U.S. government drone.”
www.reuters.com/business/aer...

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SANS Stormcast Friday, February 27th, 2026: Finding Singal (@sans_edu intern); Google API Keys and Gemini; AirSnitch Breaking Client Isolation
https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9828

53, because DNS is the coolest protocol and underpins the entire Internet. DNS is simple at first glance, but it's a complex protocol/system that always has something new to learn about.

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The reason we stopped pirating en masse is because they gave us cheap and convenient options to stream things.

With all the mergers and price increases...why on earth wouldn't they expect us to pirate again???

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Fake Fedex Email Delivers Donuts! https://isc.sans.edu/diary/32754

Memory Price Hikes Will Kill Off Budget PCs and Smartphones, Analyst Warns An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Ballooning memory prices are forecast to kill off entry-level PCs, leading to a decline in global shipments this year -- and a similar effect is going to hit smartphones. Analyst biz Gartner is projecting a drop in PC shipments of more than 10 p...

Memory Price Hikes Will Kill Off Budget PCs and Smartphones, Analyst Warns

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/27/008259/memory-price-hikes-will-kill-off-budget-pcs-and-smartphones-analyst-warns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

South Korea opens the door to let Google Maps operate fully | TechCrunch After years of appeals, Google has finally won approval to export high-precision geographic information out of South Korea and provide proper Google Maps services in the country, including walking and real-time driving directions.

After years of appeals, Google has finally won approval to export high-precision geographic information out of South Korea and provide proper Google Maps services in the country, including walking and real-time driving directions.

Russian Land Deals Near Military Sites Put Finland on Defensive The Finnish government is studying some of the hundreds of properties that have been bought near critical infrastructure and sensitive sites for signs of possible Russian infiltration.

Security for Sale
For decades, Finland allowed investors from Russia to buy real estate. Russians quietly amassed thousands of properties on NATO’s eastern flank, some close to military bases and critical infrastructure.
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New Select Committee Investigation Uncovers China’s Space Operations in Latin America Today, the Select Committee on China released a new investigation uncovering how China is using infrastructure in Latin America to advance its space capabilities and intelligence collection.

China is using Latin America as a launchpad for military space operations. What looks like civilian cooperation is actually part of a PLA-linked global network tracking satellites and monitoring adversaries.
The Select Committee on the CCP
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Gottumukkala out, Andersen in as acting CISA director Madhu Gottumukkala steps down as acting director of CISA, replaced by Nick Andersen. The move follows criticism of agency performance and leadership shifts at DHS.

Finally. This guy was an incompetant, unqualified 🤡

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Wyden blocks Rudd confirmation to lead Cyber Command, NSA Rudd “does not have the background that would allow him to immediately step into” the role of leading Cyber Command, Wyden wrote in a letter that was included in the Congressional Record on Wednesday.

@wyden.senate.gov this week pledged to block a vote confirming Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd as the new head of both U.S. Cyber Command & the National Security Agency, citing his lack of digital warfare & intelligence experience.

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A publication (Videogamer) laid off their journalists who do video game reviews, started faking the reviews with AI agents pretending to be real people, got called out, and then banned from Metacritic and Opencritic entirely thus destroying their own revenue.

Well done, dipshit execs.

Scoop: CISA CIO Bob Costello is being pushed out, per three people familiar with the matter, ending a standoff between Costello and CISA's beleaguered acting director, who tried and failed to get him reassigned last month.

Two sources said Costello is being reassigned to FEMA.

Silent subversion and resistance, if I ever saw one

New York sues Valve for promoting illegal gambling via game loot boxes New York Attorney General Letitia James sued video game developer and publisher Valve Corporation for using game loot boxes to facilitate illegal gambling activities among children and teenagers.

New York Attorney General Letitia James sued video game developer and publisher Valve Corporation for using game loot boxes to facilitate illegal gambling activities among children and teenagers.

Across party lines and industry, the verdict is the same: CISA is in trouble One year into the second Trump administration, CISA faces a 33% loss in personnel and shuttered divisions. Experts warn of "decimated" capabilities and a leadership vacuum as the agency struggles to m...

The agency lost a third of its people in a year. Now industry and lawmakers on both sides say it's unprepared for a potential crisis. via @timstarks.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/cisa-personn...

Five Eyes allies warn hackers are actively exploiting Cisco SD-WAN flaws The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive warning of a “cyber threat actor’s ongoing exploitation of Cisco SD-WAN systems,” describing the activity...

Several top cybersecurity agencies issued emergency guidance warning of ongoing exploitation of Cisco SD-WAN vulnerabilities therecord.media/five-eyes-wa...

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Across party lines and industry, the verdict is the same: CISA is in trouble One year into the second Trump administration, CISA faces a 33% loss in personnel and shuttered divisions. Experts warn of "decimated" capabilities and a leadership vacuum as the agency struggles to m...

'precisely where you do need a strong...federal security function. We already have a national shortage of #cybersecurity experts...you can’t just replicate that expertise 50 times over'-Errol Weiss, Health-ISAC. Amen. From @timstarks.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/cisa-personn... @gate15.bsky.social

Exclusive | Spy Agency Blocks Congress From Seeing Gabbard Whistleblower Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s office rejected Democratic efforts to see all the underlying material about a foreign conversation that discussed Jared Kushner.

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...

Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files “None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one official said of the plans, which upend long-standing restrictions meant to protect Americans’ privacy.

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

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Huge win for Hannah Natanson and the Washington Post today: the judge ruled that the government cannot search the devices they seized from her. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Open-source flight tracking shows sustained #US #ISR, tanker, and strike aircraft positioned across Europe / #MiddleEast for days — not routine transit. Persistent forward staging put #Iran well within operational reach. No strikes confirmed, but readiness levels appear elevated.

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, February 25th, 2026: Open Redirects; setHTML in Firefox; telnetd issues
https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9824