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Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the recent widespread attacks using the SharePoint RCE vulnerability (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-7-22 China

A 0-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint is being exploited in RCE attacks on servers globally; no patch exists and tens of thousands of servers are at risk (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-7-21 Microsoft

Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200+ earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-7-19 Android Google

Analysis: nearly 70 Trump administration officials and nominees held crypto or investments in blockchain or digital-asset firms at the time of their selection (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-7-18 Blockchain Trump Asset

CrowdStrike: Chinese hacking attacks on US targets more than doubled from 2023 to 330+ incidents in 2025; US officials say China has shifted to hacking-for-hire (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-7-17 China

CrowdStrike: Chinese hacking attacks on US targets were up 2x from 2024 to 330+ incidents in 2025; US officials say China has shifted to “hacking-for-hire” (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-7-16 China

Tesla is set to face a Florida federal jury to defend allegations that Autopilot was at fault in a fatal 2019 crash, as it tests autonomous robotaxis in Austin (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-7-14 Tesla

Sources: an impostor used AI to mimic Marco Rubio's voice and writing style and contacted foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-7-9 AI

An interview with X VP of Product Keith Coleman about plans to let developers program AI agents to propose Community Notes notes, the old system, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-7-4 Interview AI

White collar workers are increasingly using AI note-taking apps to assist them during Zoom meetings or fully represent them when they choose not to attend (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-7-3 AI

Jim Chanos, who famously shorted Enron, calls Michael Saylor's bitcoin strategy “financial gibberish”, as Saylor inspires several copycats like Trump Media (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-30 Trump Bitcoin

The US State Department restarts student visa interviews and requires all applicants to make their social media accounts public for vetting by US embassies (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-19

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-12 AI 4Q

Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-8

A comparison of GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 4, and Copilot: Claude won overall, having the most consistent answers and no hallucinations (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-5

ChatGPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 4, and Copilot comparison: Claude was the best overall with the highest consistency and no hallucinations (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-4

Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x+ the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-3 Trump

Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can make chatbots reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-1 AI chatbot

Sources: the White House is finalizing EOs on drones that could end Chinese drone sales in the US, update federal rules on where drones can be flown, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-31 China Drone EOS

Chainalysis: the US government's top 20 crypto holdings are worth ~$20.9B as of May 28, including $20.4B in bitcoin, primarily derived from its seized crypto (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-29 Bitcoin

People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also asking the chatbot to create plans to “glow up” their appearance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-27 chatbot

Grok's tendency to repeat debunked claims raises doubts about Elon Musk's goal of making it a reliable source of information in high-stakes areas like medicine (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-25 Elon Musk

Experts say some Trump officials' plans to amp up cyberattacks against China would risk retaliation the US is increasingly unprepared for amid budget cuts (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-24 Trump China Budget

State lawmakers and AGs from both parties, Democrats, consumer advocates, and others oppose GOP's push to ban state AI regulations for the next 10 years (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-23 AI Ban Democrat Republican

Investigation: for two years, New Orleans police secretly scanned city streets using 200+ facial recognition cameras, seemingly violating a 2022 city ordinance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-22 Facial Recognition

Investigation: New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition tech to scan city streets for two years, in apparent defiance of a 2022 city ordinance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-20 Facial Recognition

Big Tech companies are firing staff who organize protests and rejecting petitions, even as a poor job market discourages worker activism, once ubiquitous in SV (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-17 Job Market

Senate hearing: Sam Altman says that requiring government approval to release AI would be “disastrous” for the US' lead in AI, a reversal from his 2023 comments (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-9 AI Senate

Analysis: ~67,000 new or small-time crypto investors bought the $TRUMP memecoin but 80% of them bought near the coin's peak and saw their holdings nosedive (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-9 Trump

Sources: DOGE plans to build a centralized database with troves of personal information about millions of US residents, sometimes bypassing security protocols (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-8 Database

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