Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.
Former senior FBI officials said they could think of “no precedent for the top US intelligence official interacting directly with FBI agents on a politically charged case like this.” www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/p...
“Anticipation had built throughout the day Friday among election officials of both parties that someone from the Trump administration would explain what the administration was doing in Fulton County. No explanation came.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/p...
New —> On the eve of 2024 election, US Cyber Command hacked & degraded Russian companies spewing anti-Ukraine propaganda at US voters. Multiple US cyber ops against Russia, Iran then. But other USG agencies to counter foreign influence on elections have since been gutted www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/p...
The US has deported about a dozen Iranians in the first known deportation flight since Tehran's large-scale, violent crackdown on protesters: www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/p...
CIA moves to establish permanent presence in Venezuela, my colleagues report. “State plants the flag but CIA is really the influence."https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/politics/cia-venezuela-foothold
From the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy: “The Department will prioritize bolstering cyber defenses for U.S. military and certain civilian targets. DoW will also develop other options to deter or degrade cyber threats to the U.S. Homeland.” media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/23/...
Exclusive: A cyberattack targeting Poland's energy infrastructure in December used wiper malware that would have erased grid computers and rendered them inoperable had it not been thwarted, a researcher at @ESET told me. The researcher calls the attack "unprecedented" for Poland and "substantial"
A review of dozens of videos shows how ICE agents are using facial recognition software in the field, including the Mobile Fortify app: www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/u...
Sources: US officials are telling multiple agencies, including FBI, to pull pple from attending the RSA conference after Jen Easterly, who led CISA under Biden, was named RSAC CEO: www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
In an undercover op, the Pentagon paid 8 figures for a device with Russian components that fits in a backpack and produces pulsed radio waves. Some investigators think the device holds clues to the cause of Havana Syndrome, my colleagues report: www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/p...
The aunt of one American reportedly detained in Venezuela tells CNN that she is considering traveling from New Jersey to DC to get info on her nephew's case: “I think it’s unfair that he’s being held as a token for whatever our government is doing [in Venezuela]": www.cnn.com/2026/01/01/p...
US charges and extradites 33-year-old Ukrainian woman for her alleged role in pro-Russia hacking group that caused spillage at a Texas water plant and an ammonia leak at a meat processing plant in LA. www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/p...
North Korean operatives have created a convincing (but fake) job-application platform out of whole cloth, targeting applicants of major AI firms like Anthropic: www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...
"Videos verified by CNN also support witness reports about the deadly toll of the post-election crackdown [in #Tanzania], showing morgues overflowing with scores of bodies." www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/a...
Important reporting from colleagues Brianna Keilar, @halbritz.bsky.social, @ikhurshudyan.bsky.social: A Navy officer who was set to become the 1st woman in a Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy SEALs had her appointment abruptly canceled w/ little explanation. www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
"In dozens of interviews in villages on Venezuela’s breathtaking northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had indeed been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists or leaders of a cartel or gang." apnews.com/article/trum...
Two men who previously worked for ransomware-recovery firms have been indicted in Florida and accused of using the ALPHV/Black Cat ransomware to hack multiple US firms, and then trying to extort them for millions: www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...
The CIA hacked and disrupted a computer network used by Venezuela’s security service in Trump’s 1st term, one of a series of covert actions US agencies took or considered taking as Trump increased pressure on Maduro: www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...
Russian strikes plunge parts of Kyiv into darkness and kill a 7-year-old boy in Zaporizhzhia, according to Ukrainian officials: www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/e...
Suspected Chinese state actors used ChatGPT to help write proposals to conduct mass-surveillance of Uyghurs and to scan social media for taboo content, OpenAI finds www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/p...
UK authorities have arrested a man in his 40s in West Sussex in connection with the cyberattack that caused flight cancellations at Heathrow and other airports in Europe: www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/uk-arre...
