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submitted 16 hours ago • 31 comments

As many predicted, Apple is now pulling support for its advanced iCloud security feature in the UK rather than comply with this government demand to weaken encryption www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Live now, doing a fresh play through of Baldur’s Gate 3. Come hang! twitch.tv/BrainFungi

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"Blatantly illegal": @haroldfeld.bsky.social breaks down Trump's new executive order that tries to wrest power from Congress by making independent US agencies (like the FTC, FCC, SEC and, to some extent, the Fed) answerable to him. Catch the clip here: www.twitch.tv/videos/23856...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Going live NOW to talk about this likely illegal executive order — with a special guest appearance from @haroldfeld.bsky.social, one of the top experts on administrative law and the FCC, a key agency that will be affected by this EO. Watch: twitch.tv/BrainFungi

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I'm so old that I remember Republicans erupting in outrage after Obama said the FCC should write Title II-based net-neutrality regulations.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

With this EO, Trump is explicitly seizing control of agencies meant to operate free from presidential interference, such as the FCC, FTC, FEC and financial regulators. Now any new regulations must go through the White House. Monumental change here. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

It’s true. Last year I did some reporting around AI and cybersecurity. Email scammers are widely adopting genAI to make fewer spelling and grammatical mistakes, sound more authentic, etc. More people are going to fall for it.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Hahahahaha sob

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The best part about this is being able to search your own post history

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

A few days late to this but CFPB now has a tip line (on X, of course) for people to complain if agency employees are still doing their jobs. HuffPost confirmed it was legit.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Live now — swing by if you’re looking to hang out over your morning coffee!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Going live in 30 minutes — playing as the conquistadors in Civ 7, followed by some Tarkov or Helldivers in the afternoon: twitch.tv/BrainFungi

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I was pleased to attend a State Dinner, hosted by Pres. Macron, for participants of the AI Action Summit. It was an honor to be invited to deliver remarks at Elysee Palace on Three Fallacies in how we think about AI, now published @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/three-fallac...

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

Happy Valentine’s Day breakfast for dinner!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

CFPB — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, aka the federal agency that's increasingly scrutinized fintech, data brokers and digital payments — just fired about 20 of its technologists, per @laurenfeiner.bsky.social www.theverge.com/policy/61293...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Live now! twitch.tv/BrainFungi

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The BrainFungi Twitch stream is back! Going live in about 30 minutes. Catch the latest highlight here, on a potentially monumental shift for independent federal regulators: www.twitch.tv/videos/23809...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The DOGE website is reportedly hosted on non-government servers, not secured against database attacks and can be easily defaced, 404 reports www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 9 days ago • 144 comments

A lot going on but if you haven't read up on the UK's alarming push to weaken Apple's iCloud security, please do, starting with @joemenn.bsky.social's original story and @matthewdgreen.bsky.social's explainer. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/12/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

SCOOP: DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency Workers are getting pulled into last-minute meetings offering them one last chance to accept The Fork before termination. More here: www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

A huge, huge deal — with this argument, Trump could try to purge the FTC, FCC, all the multi-member independent agencies that protect consumers and provide oversight and stability to private markets

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Musk now joining Vance’s federal judiciary pile-on with a follower poll suggesting judges be purged for holding the executive branch accountable.

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

Snow day = kiddo is home from school = no Twitch stream during the day today! Might try to hop on tonight instead? If not, then Friday. Until then, here's me and Travis LeBlanc yesterday at #SOTN2025 📷: Internet Education Foundation

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

This kicks off just over an hour from now! If you’re at SOTN today, come say hi.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The moment you realize you are an Old

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Live now for some more Civ 7 gameplay: twitch.tv/BrainFungi And you can catch up on last night's stream here below:

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Some exciting news: Next Tuesday, I'm interviewing Travis LeBlanc onstage at State of the Net in Washington, DC. It'll be Travis' first public appearance since Trump fired him and two others last week from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, purging a key US watchdog. Register here:

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Last year I moderated an IMF/World Bank/OECD conference on AI in global development. So much of it was “how do we use AI to improve govt data reporting and access?” Now we have to worry if AI will ingest manipulated US data, be part of privatized data collection or be abused by govt statisticians

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

“You take a clam and it is completely helpless. The only thing you can do is to take care of it. It brings out the emotions of affection.” 🥹

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The economy, public health, transportation, even your weather report — so much of it depends on trustworthy government statistics. Now, @alexjamesfitz.com breaks down the coming crisis for public data:

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Surprise evening stream! Live now for Civ 7 advance access: twitch.tv/BrainFungi

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Some exciting news: Next Tuesday, I'm interviewing Travis LeBlanc onstage at State of the Net in Washington, DC. It'll be Travis' first public appearance since Trump fired him and two others last week from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, purging a key US watchdog. Register here:

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Court orders Musk out of the Treasury computer payment systems until it can sort out whether the DOGE is a legal government entity.

submitted 16 days ago • 329 comments

WaPo reports DOGE staffers now have admin access to “highly restricted government records on millions of federal employees“ and can now “install and modify software on government-supplied equipment and, according to two OPM officials, to alter internal documentation of their own activities.”

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

So we’re doing this whole song and dance again. The Whac-a-mole continues www.wsj.com/tech/ai/lawm...

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments