2026-01-27
NEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. — “We don't need the perfect rule,” said DOT's top lawyer. “We want good enough.” — By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
ProPublica
Sources: the US DOT plans to use Gemini to draft federal regulations, cutting the process to just 30 days; the DOT used it to draft a still-unpublished FAA rule
2026-01-26
NEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. — “We don't need the perfect rule,” said DOT's top lawyer. “We want good enough.” — By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
ProPublica
Sources: the US DOT plans to use Gemini to draft federal regulations, cutting the process to just 30 days; the DOT used it to draft a still-unpublished FAA rule
The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations.
2025-08-20
NEW: Microsoft is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking. — Yet a copy of the tech giant's security plan obtained by ProPublica makes no reference to the company's China-based operations.
Bloomberg
Microsoft says it curtailed Chinese companies' access to advance vulnerability notifications via MAPP starting in July, after probing the SharePoint breach
Microsoft Corp. has curtailed Chinese companies' access to advance notifications about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its technology …
NEW: Microsoft is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking. — Yet a copy of the tech giant's security plan obtained by ProPublica makes no reference to the company's China-based operations.
ProPublica
Document: Microsoft's 2025 System Security Plan submitted to the DOD, dated February 28, failed to disclose China-based engineers maintaining DoD cloud systems
The tech giant is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking.
2025-06-28
Chinese forums on Telegram feature ads for “cars” or “fleets” — slang for bank accounts that can be used to collect stolen funds. — One ad offered accounts at PNC, Chase, Citi and Bank of America and boasted of “firsthand” control of the accounts.
ProPublica
An in-depth look at how foreign scammers use US banks to facilitate large-scale transfers of funds stolen from victims of “pig butchering” scams overseas
- Struggling Gatekeepers: In the face of some $44 billion a year in pig-butchering scams conducted by Asian crime syndicates …