Cyber Security

Who Made this Radioactive Saharan Dust Cloud?

Welcome back to the Abstract!  This week, we’re serving up some much-needed good news about global biodiversity! Well, it’s more…

6 months ago

Behind the Blog: Boom, Bust, and Big Ideas

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of…

6 months ago

Sellers of Anom, the FBI’s Secret Backdoored Phone, Plead Guilty

A group of men who sold Anom devices, the encrypted phone secretly backdoored by the FBI which led to the…

6 months ago

Here’s the Video for Our Fifth FOIA Forum: Federal Records

The FOIA Forum is a livestreamed event for paying subscribers where we talk about how to file public records requests…

6 months ago

‘Everything I Say Leaks,’ Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio

At an all hands meeting inside Meta Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg did not address Meta’s $25 million settlement with Donald Trump…

6 months ago

Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

Datasets aggregated on data.gov, the largest repository of U.S. government open data on the internet, are being deleted, according to…

6 months ago

Trump Admin Deletes Video Explaining Grammatical Concept of Pronouns in War Against DEI

In 2015, a federal worker named Katherine Spivey gave colleagues a presentation about how to “write plainly,” so that the…

6 months ago

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

A declassified World War II-era CIA guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books…

6 months ago

Anthropic CEO Says Limiting China’s Access to AI Chips Is ‘Existentially Important’

Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI company Anthropic, has responded to the current hysteria in his industry and the…

6 months ago

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

The narrative that OpenAI, Microsoft, and freshly minted White House “AI czar” David Sacks are now pushing to explain why…

6 months ago