Nostr notes by Eric Geller

Trump's AI task force promises to protect America from new ...

2026-11-02T17:02:56Z

Trump's AI task force promises to protect America from new security threats and design early warning-protocols for incidents. But it seems to be ignoring the agency with the most expertise on those issues.

My new story about CISA being MIA: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-wh...

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I worry that the increasing absurdity of these incidents will ...

2026-10-10T13:30:14Z

I worry that the increasing absurdity of these incidents will distract from the serious problems behind them. But man, do these sentences start sounding like Futuristic Mad Libs at a certain point. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

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Happening now at Black Hat: OpenAI employees are discussing how ...

2026-08-05T20:24:27Z

Happening now at Black Hat: OpenAI employees are discussing how the Hugging Face hack happened. They're showing excerpts from messages that their AI agents sent each other on an impromptu message board that the agents created to discuss evaluation task solving.

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Anthropic reveals its own rogue-model incidents: Due to human ...

2026-07-31T15:00:18Z

Anthropic reveals its own rogue-model incidents: Due to human error in configuring a test environment, three Claude models hacked outside organizations during CTF exercises. Two proceeded despite realizing they were on the internet. www.anthropic.com/news/investi...

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"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country ...

2026-07-30T17:00:04Z

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

US government map of Africa mi...

Remarkable story here: Iran seems to have used a well-known ...

2026-07-14T15:35:19Z

Remarkable story here: Iran seems to have used a well-known vulnerability in cell networks to track U.S. military forces during the war. www.ft.com/content/4435...

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Anthropic just released a new model, Fable 5, that shares ...

2026-06-09T17:22:27Z

Anthropic just released a new model, Fable 5, that shares Mythos's capabilities but has safeguards to prevent their abuse. A new version of Mythos is also available through Project Glasswing. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

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Breaking: President Trump has signed his AI security executive ...

2026-06-02T16:28:18Z

Breaking: President Trump has signed his AI security executive order: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

It's virtually the same as the draft he scrapped earlier, except the voluntary government review of AI models would be up to 30 days before release, not up to 90.

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2026-05-20T11:54:43Z

Pretty sure the NSTAC is dead now!

New: The U.S. telecom industry has launched a second ISAC to ...

2026-05-19T15:31:31Z

New: The U.S. telecom industry has launched a second ISAC to facilitate private discussions among companies about sensitive cybersecurity issues. I talked to the new ISAC's executive director and T-Mobile's CSO about why the industry felt it needed this. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/telecom...

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You've probably heard about Anthropic's Mythos, but did ...

2026-05-18T20:30:32Z

You've probably heard about Anthropic's Mythos, but did you know open-source AI tools have been doing the same thing for the past year?

I wrote about these bug-finding systems and why they might be better than Mythos for critical infrastructure firms.

www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ai-vuln...

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NIST's AI security center is partnering with Google, ...

2026-05-05T18:00:07Z

NIST's AI security center is partnering with Google, Microsoft, and xAI to evaluate their new AI models before deployment: www.nist.gov/news-events/...

"To date, CAISI has completed more than 40 such evaluations, including on state-of-the-art models that remain unreleased."

CAISI Signs Agreements Regardi...

"In fact, the only topics that were less popular than AI in ...

2026-03-10T16:30:15Z

"In fact, the only topics that were less popular than AI in the NBC News survey were the Democratic Party and Iran." www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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Breaking: The White House has released President Trump's ...

2026-03-06T21:07:35Z

Breaking: The White House has released President Trump's long-awaited national cyber strategy: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

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"In his keynote, Benioff thanked international employees for ...

2026-02-10T23:00:17Z

"In his keynote, Benioff thanked international employees for traveling to the United States for the meeting, and asked them to stand. Benioff then said that ICE agents were in the building to keep tabs on them." www.404media.co/marc-benioff...

Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Wa...

"A cloak-and-dagger mystery reminiscent of a John le Carré ...

2026-02-02T14:57:45Z

"A cloak-and-dagger mystery reminiscent of a John le Carré novel is swirling around the complaint, which is said to be locked in a safe. Disclosure of its contents could cause 'grave damage to national security,' one official said." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Exclusive | Classified Whistle...

I was chasing this story but @jsaks.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy beat ...

2025-12-22T14:42:57Z

I was chasing this story but @jsaks.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy beat me to it: CISA has retaliated against career employees after the agency's acting director failed a polygraph test. Another embarrassing crisis at the struggling agency. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

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Gotta say, I think Marcus makes an interesting point. ...

2025-12-15T19:21:26Z

Gotta say, I think Marcus makes an interesting point.

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Breaking: The FCC has voted 2-1 along party lines to eliminate ...

2025-11-20T16:20:22Z

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 lobbed for the change. Democrats said it would invite another Salt Typhoon.

Story coming shortly.

Scoop: CISA plans to embark on a hiring spree and change some ...

2025-11-17T21:30:28Z

Scoop: CISA plans to embark on a hiring spree and change some workforce policies in an effort to rebuild its depleted ranks ahead of a possible conflict with China, according to a memo from its acting director that I obtained.

www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-hi...

CISA, eyeing China, plans hiri...

"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative ...

2025-11-10T20:34:53Z

"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight GOP senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Spending Bill Would Pave Way f...

China is reportedly behind the newly disclosed hack of the ...

2025-11-07T15:09:29Z

China is reportedly behind the newly disclosed hack of the Congressional Budget Office, and it may still have access to some CBO systems: www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

Congressional Budget Office ha...

The Python Software Foundation is forfeiting a $1.5 million NSF ...

2025-10-29T20:37:34Z

The Python Software Foundation is forfeiting a $1.5 million NSF grant because it came with Trump administration anti-DEI strings that would have affected PSF's entire portfolio. The grant would have helped fix flaws in major coding languages. cyberscoop.com/python-softw...

Open-source security group pul...

"On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the ...

2025-06-06T14:30:30Z

"On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demonstrations at its booth at AI+ Expo. The conference...is free and open to the public, including journalists." www.wired.com/story/palant...

Palantir Is Going on Defense

DOJ indicts 48-year-old Russian national Rustam Rafailevich ...

2025-05-22T20:30:19Z

DOJ indicts 48-year-old Russian national Rustam Rafailevich Gallyamov for allegedly leading the group that created and deployed the Qakbot malware, which assembled a botnet used to deploy various ransomware. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leade...

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👀 "Buried [in the GOP budget], Section 43201(c) describes ...

2025-05-21T19:00:21Z

👀 "Buried [in the GOP budget], Section 43201(c) describes a 10-year moratorium on state-level enforcement of 'any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems.'" www.theregister.com/2025/05/20/t...

Trump's budget bill would kill...