How Oracle's massive Stargate deal with OpenAI has pushed Oracle to the center of the AI boom, turning its market cap into a barometer on AI sentiment
In the AI boom, no tech giant has gone all-in like Oracle. … Bluesky: Patrick Howell O'Neill / @patrickhowelloneill.com : I'm a simple ma who finds Oracle to be kind of a baffling ...
Sources: the US DHS has reassigned hundreds of CISA workers into jobs that support deportations, including at ICE, and said it would dismiss anyone who refused
“It seems like it's in an effort to get them to quit instead of firing them,” a US official told me. — I'm off for the rest of the week (timing!) but I'll have a story on this sh...
US jobseekers describe a hellish job market, with young people using ChatGPT to write their applications, HR using AI to read them, and few people getting hired
Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.
China accuses the US of exploiting an old Microsoft Exchange flaw to control a key Chinese defense company's servers for nearly a year and steal military data
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Sources: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak in its early alert system for cybersecurity companies let Chinese hackers exploit SharePoint flaws
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The SharePoint hacks increase pressure on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, which the company calls an ambitious effort expected to take years to complete
Three months ago, Microsoft Corp. issued a progress report on what it described as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history.
The SharePoint hacks increase pressure on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, which the company calls an ambitious effort expected to take years to complete
Three months ago, Microsoft Corp. issued a progress report on what it described as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history.
Miaan Group: a number of Iranians received spyware threat alerts from Apple in H1 2025 in the months prior to the Iran-Israel war, the first such cases in Iran
More than a dozen Iranians' mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior to the country's war with Israel, according to new research.
How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic self-taught tech enthusiasts, became an integral part of China's cyberespionage apparatus
A new report traces the history of the early wave of Chinese hackers who became the backbone of the state's espionage apparatus. Bluesky: @patrickhowelloneill.com . Mastodon: @kimz...
Atlantic Council: US cyber power is hampered by an inefficient supply chain for zero days, with too few providers and “levels of middlemen” driving up costs
Atlantic Council research says market for zero days is bloated, leaving the US behind rivals such as China. — The Cyber Angle Bluesky: @patrickhowelloneill.com Bluesky: Patrick H...
Civitai is banning “real-person likeness content” on its site, citing new laws and the loss of its payment processor, after problems with nonconsensual porn
Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that 404 Media has repeatedly shown is being used … Bluesky: @jasonkoebler , @patrickhowelloneill.com , and @...
Threads now lets users add up to five links to their profile bios and rolls out analytics tools to track clicks on profile links and links shared in posts
https://techcrunch.com/... #Fediverse Threads @threads : New podcast? Upcoming livestream? Newsletter drop? We're rolling out another way to help your community discover ~every...
Threads now lets creators add up to five links to their profile bios and rolls out analytics tools to track clicks on profile links and links shared in posts
Instagram Threads is taking on Linktree and other “link-in-bio” solutions by introducing a way for creators to use their Threads profile …
How ChatGPT and other AI tools enable systemic cheating in college, unravelling the entire academic project; one student says “the ceiling has been blown off”
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. — Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University's campus …
The cybersecurity industry is quiet after Trump canceled SentinelOne's security clearances on April 9 for hiring Chris Krebs; SentinelOne says it will cooperate
The cybersecurity industry has gone mostly quiet after President Donald Trump took action against one of its prominent members.
President Trump directs the DOJ to investigate former CISA Director Chris Krebs, who Trump fired for contradicting Trump's baseless 2020 election fraud claims
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday night directing the Justice Department to investigate former top …
Sources: Russia is using bitcoin, ether, and stablecoins such as Tether in its oil trade with China and India to skirt Western sanctions
Russia is using cryptocurrencies in its oil trade with China and India to skirt Western sanctions, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
How the hackers behind the $1.5B Bybit crypto heist used UI manipulation of employee devices and social engineering to gain control of ETH multisig cold wallets
The cryptocurrency industry and those responsible for securing it are still in shock following Friday's heist, likely by North Korea …
Experts say Donald Trump and others pushing for stronger US cyber offense must clarify if escalation is a proper response to recent Chinese cyber breaches
cyberscoop.com/aggressive-c... X: Eric Geller / @ericgeller : Tale as old as time: “Advocates for increased offensive measures need to clarify what precisely they want to do, exper...
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning. — Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …