NYTIMES (Steven Lee Myers) - Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda
The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Are phishing scams now considered old school?
Douglas Rushkoff, author and documentarian, says AI products are more advanced than the old-school phishing scams.
NYTIMES (David E. Sanger and Dustin Volz) - Spies, Sanctions, Cyberattacks: China and the U.S. Clash Behind the Scenes
After months of avoiding confrontation, the Trump administration has taken recent steps to call out China on Iran, artificial intelligence and spying.
AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears
As the U.S. and China barrel ahead in their quest for AI supremacy , their race could come at the expense of global cybersecurity. Why it matters: The U.S. and China both have an interest in preventing each other from weaponizing AI tools against them or letting rogue systems into the wild. - But it remains to be seen whether they can hold a productive dialogue around AI security norms or trust the other to abide by them. Driving the news: President Trump is expected to discuss AI guardrails with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, U.S. officials told reporters Sunday. - "We want to take this opportunity with the leaders meeting to open up a conversation and see if we should establish a channel of communication on AI…
NYTIMES (Timothy D. Haugh) - I Ran the N.S.A. This Is How to Defeat China’s Hacker Army.
Beijing has hacked America, but we have all the tools we need to fight back.
AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - U.S. accuses China of "industrial-scale" campaigns to steal AI secrets
The Trump administration on Thursday accused China-backed actors of running "deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns" to distill and copy American frontier AI models . Why it matters: The accusation pushes the U.S.-China AI rivalry into more confrontational territory — and could complicate President Trump's upcoming visit to Beijing. Driving the news: Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, sent a memo Thursday to federal agency heads accusing mostly China-based actors of using proxy accounts to evade detection and jailbreak models to "expose proprietary information" and "extract capabilities from American AI models." - Distillation attacks involve querying proprietary models, like…
SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - Tech elites invest in doomsday bunkers and remote islands as anti-AI anger grows
AI tech lords are prepping for a massive public backlash to their agenda.
By Kei Pritsker OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tried to calm the public after someone tried to firebomb his house. But in secret he and other tech CEOs are preparing for a scenario where AI collapses society. The Grayzone's Kei Pritzker explains why so many tech elites are investing massive sums in hidden bunkers.Open
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Gulf nations still on alert after ceasefire deal and proxy attacks | JWL Full Episode 4/7
On 'Jesse Weber Live', the U.S. and Iran reach a 2-week ceasefire, but Israel and the gulf nations are still on alert. We have live team coverage from Israel and Qatar to the White House as missiles are intercepted in the skies over Tel Aviv and Doha. Plus, growing concern here in the U.S. With the threat of terror or proxy attacks and cyberattacks. Jesse talks with retired marine intel officer Hal Kempfer. Plus a bombshell in the Sandra Birchmore case dealing with DNA evidence and it's sparking outrage online. All that and more on 'Jesse Weber Live.'
AXIOS (Mike Allen) - Behind the Curtain: Sam's superintelligence New Deal
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing something no tech titan has ever done: He's publishing a detailed blueprint for how government should tax, regulate and redistribute the wealth from the very technology he's racing to build and spread. Why it matters: Altman told us in a half-hour interview that AI superintelligence is so close, so mind-bending, so disruptive that America needs a new social contract — on the scale of the Progressive Era in the early 1900s, and the New Deal during the Great Depression . The big picture: The threats of inaction or slow action are grave, Altman warns — widespread job loss, cyberattacks, social upheaval, machines man can't control. The two most immediate threats, he said, are cyberattacks and biological…
DAILYCALLER (Derek VanBuskirk) - Randy Fine Claims Iranian Hackers Targeted Him With Fake Newsmax Interview Phishing Scheme
'I was clearly targeted'