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Source: 19-year-old Edward Coristine and Kyle Schutt, both DOGE engineers, are now on staff at the CISA; Coristine was briefly an intern for Neuralink (www.wired.com)
2025-2-20

Signal updates its apps to add phishing protections after Google warned Russia-linked hackers are using fake QR codes to target Ukrainian soldiers (www.wired.com)
2025-2-19 Russia Google Ukraine

In a breakthrough, University of Oxford scientists sent the first quantum algorithm wirelessly between two separate quantum processors via particle entanglement (www.wired.com)
2025-2-19 Algorithm Quantum

Romance scams may rise as isolation grows and generative AI helps scammers scale; FBI says US victims lost ~$4.5B to such scams over the past decade (www.wired.com)
2025-2-16 AI FBI

A profile of Watch Duty creator John Clarke Mills, who wants the fire-tracking app to become a one-stop shop for information during any disaster (www.wired.com)
2025-2-15

Memo: CISA halts election security work and reviews related activities conducted since 2017, to comply with Trump's January 20 EO on “ending federal censorship” (www.wired.com)
2025-2-15 Trump

DOGE's Tom Krause, the US Treasury's new Fiscal Assistant Secretary, is still the CEO of Cloud Software Group; critics say it may be a conflict of interest (www.wired.com)
2025-2-15

Recorded Future: Salt Typhoon breached five more telcos and ISPs worldwide, including two US telcos, and 12+ universities in Dec-Jan by exploiting Cisco routers (www.wired.com)
2025-2-13 Cisco

Microsoft details BadPilot, an “initial access” team within the Russian hacking group Sandworm that targeted the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia in 2024 (www.wired.com)
2025-2-13 Russia Australia Microsoft Canada

In the past few weeks, the Trump administration replaced the CIOs of the OMB, OPM, and Department of Energy with Elon Musk- and Peter Thiel-aligned executives (www.wired.com)
2025-2-13 Trump Energy Elon Musk

Q&A with Binance CEO Richard Teng on Changpeng Zhao remaining the exchange's biggest shareholder, evolving Binance, external oversight, finding an HQ, and more (www.wired.com)
2025-2-12

A letter to US senator Ron Wyden shows data broker Datastream, which was selling US military location data, got the data from Lithuanian adtech company Eskimi (www.wired.com)
2025-2-12

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US, filed in 2020 against the legal AI startup Ross Intelligence (www.wired.com)
2025-2-12 Startup AI Intelligence

Sources: Altman told staff OpenAI's board has not gotten an official offer from Musk and other investors, and if it happens, the board plans to reject the “bid” (www.wired.com)
2025-2-12

Inside Binance compliance boss and ex-IRS agent Tigran Gambaryan's imprisonment in Nigeria, relayed via texts from a secret phone, over money laundering charges (www.wired.com)
2025-2-11 Nigeria

Filing: Kash Patel, Trump's nominee to head FBI, was allotted Shein shares of $1M to $5M in exchange for consulting services; he has no plans to divest them (www.wired.com)
2025-2-8 Trump FBI

Sources: DOGE is pushing rapidly to develop GSAi, a custom generative AI chatbot for the US GSA to boost productivity, analyze procurement data, and more (www.wired.com)
2025-2-7 AI chatbot

A look at Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's arrest in Paris and its aftermath; a source says more than half of Telegram's $1B revenue in 2024 came from its ad platform (www.wired.com)
2025-2-5 Paris

The USPS halts all inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong, after President Trump ended the “de minimis” exemption, sending the e-commerce industry into chaos (www.wired.com)
2025-2-5 Trump China Hong Kong

An investigation into 300+ cyberattacks against US K-12 schools since 2020 shows how schools can withhold crucial details from affected students and parents (www.wired.com)
2025-2-4

Sources: Marko Elez, a 25-year-old Elon Musk-linked engineer, has admin privileges over Treasury Department code that controls Social Security payments and more (www.wired.com)
2025-2-4 Elon Musk

Sources: Thomas Shedd, GSA's new Technology Transformation Services director and a Musk ally, told GSA workers the agency will pursue an “AI-first strategy” (www.wired.com)
2025-2-4 AI

Six engineers, all apparently between 19 and 24 years and linked to Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, are helping Musk gain control of federal infrastructure with DOGE (www.wired.com)
2025-2-3 Elon Musk

Researchers: DeepSeek's R1 failed to detect or block any of the 50 malicious prompts that were tested; Adversa: R1 is vulnerable to many jailbreaking tactics (www.wired.com)
2025-2-1

Sources: OpenAI plans to release o3-mini today with o1-level reasoning and 4o-level speed, as the company's staff is galvanized by DeepSeek's success (www.wired.com)
2025-2-1

Wiz: DeepSeek left one of its critical databases exposed, leaking more than 1M records including system logs, user prompt submissions, and users' API keys (www.wired.com)
2025-1-30

Sources: the highest ranks of the US Office of Personnel Management now include former employees of Elon Musk's companies, including xAI and the Boring Company (www.wired.com)
2025-1-29 Elon Musk

Hands-on with DeepSeek's chatbot: free access to powerful R1 model, but suffers from rampant hallucinations and lacks some ChatGPT tools like the memory feature (www.wired.com)
2025-1-28 chatbot

DeepSeek's privacy policy shows broad data collection practices and says user data, along with all the conversations and prompts, is stored on servers in China (www.wired.com)
2025-1-28 China

DeepSeek, which started as a deep-learning research branch of Chinese quant hedge fund High-Flyer, is now giving US AI giants a run for their money (www.wired.com)
2025-1-26 China AI

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