US Treasury Seeking Access to Anthropic’s Mythos to Find Flaws The US Treasury Department’s technology team is seeking to gain access to Anthropic PBC’s Mythos AI model so it can begin hunting for vulnerabilities, according to a person familiar with the situation...

The US government schizophrenia is amazing - the Department of Defense (aka Department of War) claims Anthropic is a supply chain risk, while another part of the US Goverment (US Treasury) wants access to Anthropic's Mythos to find #cybersecurity vulnerabilities. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

$150/hour until the vendor has extracted the knowledge they want, and then that compensation evaporates.

Being fair, PBS did have a significant segment on the Trump & the Pope topic tonight before the political commentary by Tamara Keith and Jasmine Wright. While not perfect (who is?), NPR/PBS do good work.

Tamara Keith and Jasmine Wright on Trump's feud with Pope Leo NPR’s Tamara Keith and Jasmine Wright of NOTUS join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including Congressman Swalwell's resignation, the race for California governor, the feud between Pr...

That is a lot better than the PBS Newshour where Tamara Keith tonight gave a sympathetic shrug to the Trump Jesus post, "He [Trump] is just a sucker for A.I. images that show him doing something awesome." www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Tamara Keith and Jasmine Wright on Trump's feud with Pope Leo NPR’s Tamara Keith and Jasmine Wright of NOTUS join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including Congressman Swalwell's resignation, the race for California governor, the feud between President Trump and Pope Leo, Trump losing some support from religious Americans and how high gas prices could impact the midterms.

Tamara Keith on the @pbsnews.org Newshour this evening does an amazing job of sane-washing Trump's "Jesus" post on Truth Social. A sympathetic, "He is a sucker for A.I. images that show him doing something awesome." A shrug without comment on judgement or mental state. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here

he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor

and still, they threw him out

and you know what? they did it by voting

don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro

My weekly cybersecurity news fix from the inimitable @zackwhittaker.com .

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

A must read article if you have an interest in #cybersecurity, Anthropic, or Project Glasswing.

Anthropic says its most powerful AI cyber model is too dangerous to release publicly — so it built Project Glasswing Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a $100 million AI cybersecurity initiative using its unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model to find and patch zero-day vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure before attackers can exploit them.

An exceptionally good writeup from @michaelnunez.bsky.social @venturebeat.com on @anthropic.com Project Glasswing announced today. venturebeat.com/technology/a...

Russian espionage group APT28 compromised MikroTik and TP-Link routers to redirect traffic for certain authentication operations to AitM phishing kits

This botnet was taken down today by the FBI, DOJ, Lumen, and Microsoft

www.lumen.com/blog-and-new...

Data Center Tech Lobbyists Fearmonger in Attempt to Retroactively Roll Back Right to Repair Law Cisco, IBM, and major lobbying groups are trying to exempt "critical infrastructure" from an existing Colorado law.

Cisco, IBM, and major lobbying groups are trying to exempt "critical infrastructure" from an existing Colorado law.

Schedule | LF Events April 2-3, 2026 | New York, NY IMPORTANT NOTE: Timing of sessions and room locations are subject to change. View the MCP Dev Summit North America schedule & directory.

If your looking at #cybersecurity for MCP servers, the Linux Foundation MCP Summit website (event that happened in NYC last week) has a wealth of presentation information - events.linuxfoundation.org/mcp-dev-summ...

Convicted spyware maker Bryan Fleming avoids jail at sentencing | TechCrunch The pcTattletale founder escapes a custodial sentence following the first successful prosecution of a spyware maker in the U.S. for over a decade.

NEW, by me: Bryan Fleming, founder of spyware maker pcTattletale, has avoided a jail term after earlier pleading guilty to federal charges of making, selling, and advertising spyware for unlawful purposes.

Fleming is the first spyware maker convicted in the U.S. in over a decade.

Gas is $10 a gallon at a Big Sur station. The owner explains why his prices can't go higher Gorda by the Sea, a mini-mart and gas station in a remote hamlet in Big Sur is charging $9.99 a gallon for gasoline, but its owner says he's not trying to price gouge drivers. Gas prices are increasing so quickly, he said, it might actually put him out of business.

Gas is $10 a gallon at a Big Sur station. The owner explains why his prices can't go higher

A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’ TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.

From the department of shoddy encryption (courtesy of @josephcox.bsky.social at @404media.co ): www.404media.co/a-secure-cha...

Tech giant Oracle reportedly blindsides thousands with emailed layoffs Oracle, a major tech company formerly headquartered in the Bay Area, is cutting jobs.

I feel for all of the Oracle employees now on the street. Ouch. The process described in the article was a mass email to those affected by the layoff - what a heartless company. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

My practical mind: this creates the opportunity to sell a tool to clean the nooks and crannies that the cap cover creates.

The tragic irony of the last few years is that, had the USG given Ukraine only a fraction of the weapons that they have expended against Iran in a few weeks (Patriots, Tomahawks, etc), Ukraine would have won, oil prices would not be skyrocketing and the US would be more secure.

Fact-Checking the Debate Over the Republican Voting Bill

Fact checking fraud claims: Heritage Foundation documented 1,620 cases of voter fraud from 1982-2025, including 100 cases of noncitizens voting. That's about 0.000008% of more than 1.3 billion votes cast in presidential elections in that time. Linda Qiu www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Spargel!

Nice composition in that photo. Well done!

AppViewX Acquires Eos, Expands Leadership in AI and Machine Identity Security - AppViewX Archit Lohokare appointed Chief Executive Officer New York, NY – March 19, 2026 – AppViewX, a leading machine identity management provider, today announced it has acquired Eos, an AI-native Identity C...

Significant news in identity security/ #IAM w AppViewX buying Eos for its AI agent identity security technology, and also having the Eos CEO take the helm at AppViewX. You seldom see the acquired startup founder/CEO move into the CEO seat of the acquiring company. www.appviewx.com/news/appview...

Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web - Bluesky In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto. Since our Series A, we've grown from 13 million to over 43 million global users.

Last April, we raised $100M in Series B funding. This round gives us the ability to scale our team to meet the rapid growth of Bluesky and the AT Protocol. Read more: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Remember the Marines in Beirut?

California’s lowest snowpack since 2015 means water storage is below normal. Reservoir levels are above normal but the paltry snowpack (which normally accounts for ~30% of water storage in CA) is putting the Sierra Nevada millions of acre-feet short of normal

Source: cw3e.ucsd.edu/water_storag...

Arda Guler and the 68-metre 'golazo' that sent the Bernabeu wild

This is a truly astounding golazo. A reminder to keepers everywhere of the value of staying on your line. www.nytimes.com/athletic/711...

"Theoretical capability and observed usage by occupational category" a chart by Anthropic, showing that (in theory I guess) management, biz and finance, computers and math, architecture and engineering life & social sciences, the law, arts and media, sales and office & admin could all be using AI a lot but somehow aren't

I find this chart by Anthropic about theoretical vs. actual AI usage, from @pbump.com's latest newsletter, very funny, and I think it's worth explaining why, and also please push back on any of this if you disagree, as I may write about it in the future.

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Alysa Liu caps Olympic stardom tour with a big party where it all began, in Oakland (Gift Article) Born and raised in Oakland, with Chinese heritage, the U.S. Olympic figure skating champion embraced it all at a rally Thursday in the city.

A beautiful tribute to Oakland and Alysa Liu. Living in the SF Bay Area, I gotta bask in some of the glow - www.nytimes.com/athletic/711...