Kind of fascinated with learning who the second choice of McMorrow voters would have been. Four times larger than the margin of difference between El-Sayed and Stevens:

Me checking in on all the AI news from my vacation.

CEIR's @beckerdavidj.bsky.social on this point in a press call with reporters: "I predict almost all...are actually citizens and actually states would be breaking federal law by removing them from the voter list...because of the shoddy methodology, data techniques" used to match voters.

IMO: Suing someone already facing criminal charges bc they used YOUR product to create CSAM is 100% reputation damage control. Especially when they're one out of likely millions and other lawsuits accuse xAI of withholding details to law enforcement in other cases. cyberscoop.com/deepfake-csa...

This quote from Arizona SoS Adrian Fontes is striking. There's a lot of talk about how the federal government has pulled back its support to states on elections. Less discussed is whether states would even WANT it given DOJ threats to prosecute election officials.

When you're doing a great job representing your employer's brand on social media:

Georgia counted ballots for their primaries this May using both machines and hand counting methods. Then they did an audit comparing discrepancies between the two. 100% of the 23 errors were found to be mistakes by the hand counting side. From Secretary of State's office:

Interacted with NYT reporter on LinkedIn complaining BlueSky was the most nasty, hostile place. I asked what happened and noted 3-4 main things I find objectionable about say, X (which I noticed he posts on regularly). His responded that people wrote mean things about one of his stories. 🤷

Not bad but I gotta step up my game.

Yeah Anthropic has said this is a real possibility for Fable, at least in the early days. cyberscoop.com/anthropic-cl...

Pretty incredible kicker for this story about Irish politicians grappling with an Elon Musk-led pogrom in Ireland on X: www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

And decades of industry consolidation and mergers in the U.S. have resulted in legacy systems, networks and equipment, creating exactly the kind attack surface that would allow Salt Typhoon unlimited entry points to networks. cyberscoop.com/salt-typhoon...

Good scoop here from @alexmartin.bsky.social on UK watering down proposed telecom rules meant to respond to Salt Typhoon. Both the US and the UK have now done this, and the underlying reason behind both decisions is the same: therecord.media/uk-weakens-t...

Good story on the current state of play for the AI exec order. It also highlights something I noted when the EO was canceled: AI companies already voluntarily share their frontier models with US and UK agencies before release. But EO would have given gov testers more freedom to poke and prod.

Interesting to monitor the sudden shift in engagement/exposure for CyberScoop's content on TikTok leading up to (first image) and then right after (second) we wrote a story and shot a video about Tina Peters' commutation: www.tiktok.com/@cyberscoopn...

Oh wow but also they did a lot of notation as well:

LoL at the DNC 2024 autopsy report having this disclaimer printed in bold red letters at the top of every single page: democrats.org/wp-content/u...

Yes. The most incredible thing about the calls for mercy around Peters is that precisely none of them are coming from her Mesa County neighbors, officials and others who know her personally. There's a reason for that! cyberscoop.com/tina-peters-...

Gonna be thinking about this paragraph for a bit:

Jeffrey Clark (the former DOJ official nearly made acting AG to help Trump overturn the 2020 election) is currently melting down over on the other site in response to John Eastman getting disbarred, insisting there should be no consequences bc "reasonable minds" can disagree on 2020 election.

The list of Senior Administration Officials scheduled to read books to children at the First Lady's Easter event. Big ups to Michael Kratsios for being the only male member who wasn't too tough and rugged to say yes.

I have an alternative headline for you, Mr. New York Times. How about "This Reporter Spends the Equivalent of a Bougie $34 Dollar Burger 44 Times Every Single Month, Per Kid. Should He Have to Buy That Many Burgers Just To Have a Family?"

Yeah, I am open to arguments from both optimists and pessimists, but until AI companies are forced to legally stand behind the reliability and efficacy of their product - LIKE IN ANY WAY - I am going to maintain a certain level of skepticism. You can't have it both ways.

It's clear the people who got us here weren't disciples of the Wise Master, Anton Chigurh:

Man, I love this answer from Louis Theroux: www.wired.com/story/louis-...

In January, a day after the FBI raid of Fulton County, Georgia's election office, I asked Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes if he was concerned the government would take similar actions in Arizona. Here's how Fontes, who was Maricopa County recorder in 2020 (and LOST reelection) replied:

Actually some of the reports submitted by the Chinese law enforcement agency do mention the use of local Chinese AI models, including DeepSeek and Qwen. It seems like every threat actor is using multiple LLMs for their operations.

Here's a bit more from DARPA in that 2024 piece about the accuracy challenges for AI detection tools over time:

This quote from elections expert David Becker gets at something that I think is important. You are going to hear "potential noncitizen" a lot over the next 9 months. It's a near meaningless term, untrue in 99% of cases, but will be the primary justification for throwing people off voter rolls.

TFW when you're trying to do your pre-match angry face but you're worried the actual President of the United States might be watching, get mad and decide to drone strike the arena.