August 28, 2026

CYBERSECURITY: ‘We have a limited window’: 116 companies, entities sign on to major AI cyber defense push.

Sophisticated AI models, capable of orchestrating agentic attacks in minutes, have upended the cyber industry in recent months, cementing the need for better security tools to combat mounting AI threats.

Open-source AI platform Hugging Face, which signed the letter, was recently at the center of a breach orchestrated by rogue OpenAI agents. The hack rattled the cyber and tech sector, raising questions over accelerating AI development.

Amid this backdrop, cybersecurity companies have skyrocketed in value as businesses recognize the security need and have managed to brush off earlier disruption concerns that rattled the broader software sector this year.

And sometimes they escape and attack without prompting.

Posted at 7:36 am by Stephen Green

A REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN AD IN THE MAKING:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

SHIP OF FOOLS:

Classical reference in headline:

But, to tell the truth, I’d never met any Old Leftists. I expected them to be admirable and nasty, like Lillian Hellman, or brilliant, mysterious, denying everything, like Alger Hiss, or —best of all—hard-bitten and cynical but still willing to battle oppression, like Rick in Casablanca. I did not expect them to be the pack of thirty fussing geriatrics I met at Kennedy Airport, misplacing their hand luggage, losing their way to the ladies’ room, barking at the airline personnel, and asking two hundred times which gate we’d have to be at in three and a half hours.

They were leftists all right. In between palsies of fretting, they’d tell you how wonderful the Soviet Union was: pensions were huge, housing was cheap, and they practically paid you to get medical care. Believe me, you haven’t been bored until you’ve been buttonholed by a seventy-year-old woman who holds forth all afternoon on the perfidies of American foreign policy and shows you pictures of her grandchildren. These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

“Progressivism” — where time stands still.

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

August 27, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Hang on baby, Friday’s coming.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: For Midterms, Democrats Will Make an Extreme Effort to Sound Like Normal People.

If you’re walking around a city like Seattle or Portland, you’ve got to watch where you step. If you’re not careful, you might step on an “unhoused person,” who may be a “Criminal justice-impacted individual,” who could become violent due to a “substance abuse disorder.”

It’s worse if it’s a “birthing person.”

If you watch a congressional hearing, these terms are bandied about as if they’re normal language that all Americans use in their daily lives. I imagine overhearing a conversation at Starbucks or Whole Foods would sound similarly disconnected from reality.

After a decade of trying to strong-arm Americans into accepting terms like “Latinx” and “intersectionality,” some Democrats have decided that their nomenclature needs a new coat of paint. As 2028 looms in the background, some contenders, real and would-be, are trying to lead the charge to renormalize the Democratic Party.

“Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has been the most vocal about the need for Democrats to ‘talk like a normal human being,’ as he’s put it in speeches and interviews,” reports Axios. “Sometimes these terms make it feel like we’re talking down to people, like we’re talking at them, instead of to them,” he said.

When even Van Jones notices how crazy the lefty lexicon has gotten over the past decade, and how off-putting it feels to those not in the cult, it may be too difficult to temporarily reel the smugness back in: ‘I’ve Never Met A LatinX:’ CNN’s Van Jones Tears Into Left-Wing Rhetoric.

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

GOODER AND HARDER, LA: Los Angeles Socialist Nithya Raman Brags About Getting Crosswalk Done, There’s Just ONE Big Problem.

Fresh paint (that took almost a year to finally apply) on crumbling infrastructure is the perfect metaphor for L.A. in the 21st century.

UPDATE: “Councilmember Ramam [sic] will almost certainly lose the mayoral race and fade into obscurity, but with this post, she has achieved Online Immortality, and for that, we should all be grateful.”

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll