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Rob Wright
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Security news director at Informa TechTarget's Dark Reading, patron saint of TT's "Bagel Wednesday." Formerly of SearchSecurity, Tom's Hardware, CRN, and a whole lot more. Signal: rwrightTT.20
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Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal

The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly…
Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly reporting that Donald Trump "blocked states from passing AI laws" with an executive order. Except, that's not how any of this works, and anyone who stayed awake during middle school social studies should know better.
www.techdirt.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I honestly don't know what the fuck we're doing here. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon pulls AI recap from Fallout TV show after it made several mistakes
The errors included getting dialogue wrong and incorrectly claiming a scene was set 100 years earlier than it was.
www.bbc.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Exactly why the Ellisons are completely unfit to own Warner and CNN — even with all their wealth, what a bunch of acquiescent stooges. They are uninterested in making journalism better or a better business, but happy to make it better for Trump.
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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One of the changes that OpenAI has made to make ChatGPT safer is a "take a break" nudge. There's something quite interesting about the design here. Which thing does it make you want to click?
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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For the last few months, we've been talking to current and former employees of OpenAI to understand what went wrong with ChatGPT this year and how the company is fixing it. Here's the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Big news on the corporate accountability (or lack thereof) front: The SEC just dropped its case against SolarWinds and its former CISO for allegedly defrauding investors about the company's cybersecurity posture prior to its major hack. www.sec.gov/enforcement-...
SEC.gov | SolarWinds Corp. and Timothy G. Brown
www.sec.gov
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Breaking: The FCC has voted 2-1 along party lines to eliminate cybersecurity requirements for telecom companies that the commission adopted at the end of the Biden administration.

Telecoms had lobbied for the change. Democrats said it would invite another Salt Typhoon.

Story coming shortly.
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Another Fortinet zero-day vulnerability under exploitation. And more questions about silent patching and disclosure practices. www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
Fortinet Woes Continue With Another WAF Zero-Day Flaw
A second zero-day vulnerability in Fortinet's web application firewall (WAF) line has raised more questions about the vendor's disclosure practices.
www.darkreading.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Good for Google. It's great to see the company taking action against Lighthouse and the Smishing Triad. That said...why didn't they go a step further and pressure Telegram to take down all the channels hosting this stuff? And if they did try, why not say it? www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...
Google Looks to Dim 'Lighthouse' Phishing Kit
The phishing-as-a-service kit, run by a group known as the "Smishing Triad," has powered massive amounts of unpaid tolls and package tracking texts.
www.darkreading.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris

60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, but let’s start with the recursively meta nonsense. 60 Minutes edited out a segment where Donald Trump tells them to edit out a segment in which he brags about getting CBS to pay him because of them editing out part of an answer by Kamala Harris, and he notes that CBS clearly did the wrong thing in editing Harris in the same fucking sentence he tells them to edit out what he’s saying.
www.techdirt.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Fear the "SessionReaper" -- exploitation activity is ramping up for CVE-2025-54236, a critical flaw in Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento).
www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
Fear the 'SessionReaper': Adobe Bug Under Attack
CVE-2025-54236 is a critical flaw in Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento) that allows attackers to remotely take over sessions on the e-commerce platform.
www.darkreading.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Techno-optimists in 2023: AI will soon cure major diseases, and those who impede its progress are basically murderers.
Techno-optimists in 2025: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Fembots!
October 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
In the wake of Medusa ransomware attacks on CVE-2025-10035, Fortra yesterday confirmed the maximum-severity GoAnywhere vulnerability was exploited as a zero day. But there are still some big unanswered questions about the flaw. www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
Medusa Ransomware Exploits Fortra GoAnywhere Bug
Researchers say exploitation of CVE-2025-10035 requires a private key, and it's unclear how Storm-1175 threat actors pulled this off.
www.darkreading.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Red Hat says their GitLab instance was breached, not their GitHub repos. www.darkreading.com/application-...
Red Hat Investigates Breach of Private GitLab Repos
A threat actor claimed 28,000 private repositories had been compromised, and the company said it had "initiated necessary remediation steps."
www.darkreading.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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CISA will furlough 65% of its staff if the government shuts down on Wednesday, keeping about 890 people to handle mission-critical cybersecurity protection work. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-go...

As in other agencies, employees there are worried about potential RIFs of furloughed staff.
September 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
For the second time in as many months, Infoblox has published research tying commercial adtech companies directly to malicious activity. This time, it's PropellerAds, Adtech Holding, and an operation tracked as "Vane Viper." www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
'Vane Viper' Threat Group Tied to PropellerAds
Researchers say the commercial adtech platform and several other companies form the infrastructure of a massive cybercrime operation.
www.darkreading.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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When Trump took office, the FCC was creating a security label for IoT devices. Now it's probing the company it picked to lead the program over ties to China. I wrote about how this could affect the program's rollout, vendor participation, and customer trust. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-cyb...
September 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...
What the Columbia Settlement Really Means
knightcolumbia.org
August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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ICYMI last night: The Senate confirmed Sean Cairncross to be Trump's national cyber director, handing the reins of a relatively new office to a political operative with scant cyber experience. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/sean-ca...
Senate confirms Trump’s national cyber director nominee
Sean Cairncross, a political veteran without significant cybersecurity experience, could turn the relatively new White House office into a major player in the administration
www.cybersecuritydive.com
August 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM