I avoid republishing fear mongering news or leave readers feeling helpless. Well, today’s recap may come off that way. As someone who reads “doom” all day every day, I’ve shifted my perspective from “what can I do?” to “how does this fit in my world?”
Jason Clinton, Anthropic’s chief information security officer wrote on X for organizations to collaborate and help each other “not for ai, for the basics.”
That’s what I’m doing right now. Going back our basic mission.
Today’s recap shakes my trust in not just media distribution, but software too.
How can I protect my audience and business?
News Recap
A hack vulnerability that affects 70% of the internet was discovered — Ask your web dev about it. NSA.gov1, BBC2, Bleeping Computer3
Brazilian President Flávio Bolsonaro tried to rig an election. Lost the election. Fled to Florida. Semafor1, AP News2
Disinformation videos, likely from Russia, malign Texan, U.S. and global elections. AP News1,Semafor2,BBC3, The Guardian4
Texas backlog of 500,000 voter registrations from a software glitch. Austin Chronicle1,Texas Tribune2
P.S.
I just read Please Let the Internet Die OpEd by reporter Miles Klee that summarizes tech, social media and internet moves from the past few years.
