National Security

Security Roundup
Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed
Plus: A judge rules cell tower dumps unconstitutional, water utility hacks spread to a dozen states, a phishing email opens a missile-parts supplier’s inbox, and a ransomware boss gets 16 years.
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra








Burn Notice
The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Patched Up
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
Lily Hay Newman

Check, Mate
The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner, May Bulman, and Gabriel Geiger


Spec Ops
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra


Move Fast, Fix Things
CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to AI Threats
Lily Hay Newman



Security Roundup
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
Andy Greenberg, Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Maddy Varner


X-Files
The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens
Maddy Varner and Dell Cameron

Known Knowns
The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
Dell Cameron

