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.

RESIST: ‘Ceuta Doesn’t Surrender’: Locals Rise Up, Fight State-Sanctioned Muslim Invasion.

ICYMI: The Horrible Truth About the World’s Worst Vegetable.

SHOOTING NEWS: Not That You Needed Another Reason to Love Dolly Parton, But… “A .38 pistol. I have a permit for it in Nashville. I just carry it for protection. I feel safer when I’ve got it. I just don’t like the idea of knowin’ I’m totally helpless. I’m always scared in a big city and New York was totally foreign to us.”

OH MY: Police Raid Ilhan Omar’s Son’s Home, Arrest Roommate With 10 Convictions.

HMM: Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to its operations. “Boston Scientific said the cyberattack has affected its ability to ship and process orders, but has not said whether the disruption extends to customers with medical devices and implants.”

‘MURICA:

Guess which country is not a signatory to the Paris Declaration of 1856 that banned privateers!

You only get one guess. https://t.co/Ia6sM28Mrc

— Demiurgent🥃🖤 (@tr0g) August 26, 2026

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): More on privateers here.

ISN’T THAT KIND OF WHERE HE STARTED? A Desperate El-Sayed Campaign Is Now Tapping the Old Soviet Propaganda Playbook.

LAYERS OF EDITORS AND FACT-CHECKERS:

CNN forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for using photo of Vegas impersonator in covering icon's death https://t.co/L6M20jULjY pic.twitter.com/QwYd0ulhCC

— New York Post (@nypost) August 27, 2026

THEN DON’T VOTE (D): Majority of voters concerned with rise of socialism, communism.

LET’S DO THIS:

Prize courts? For real, prize courts? https://t.co/fJF1raUVm0 pic.twitter.com/BZ4iRGIpjC

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) August 27, 2026

“Legally uncertain,” really? Congress granting letters of marque are authorized by the Constitution, and sea prizes go back centuries further.

FOR ONCE, IT ISN’T ABOUT JOE BIDEN: The Horrible Truth About the World’s Worst Vegetable.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Is ‘How to Rob a Bank’ Really ‘Hasan Piker: The Movie?’

Luigi Mangione stands accused of killing a healthcare CEO by shooting him from behind. The murder stained the nation’s soul, in part, because so many Americans rallied behind the alleged assassin.

They even made a musical about him.

Now, Hollywood is doing more than evoking that horrific crime. It’s tapping into a DSA-style assault on capitalism via “How to Rob a Bank.”

Hollywood seems determined not to learn.

CRUEL BUT FAIR:

HILARIOUS 😂

Woman MOCKS Lindsay Clancy supporters with extreme accuracy‼️

This is the funniest most spot on 🎯 video you will see all day.

Mockery is the most effective way to battle back against the insanity. pic.twitter.com/ac4RmvP76p

— Cinema Shogun (@CinemaShogun) August 26, 2026

VICTORIA TAFT: Portland Antifa, HAMAS, and the IRGC Have Some Unsavory Friends in Common. “Rose City Antifa and its fellow travelers and hangers-on, for years, have attempted to create a hacking collective in Portland to infiltrate local tech companies and hijack those companies that do national security-level work. It’s unclear if they succeeded, but the news from the State Department about working with the Italy-based hackers’ collective shows that the group cobbled together the technological superstructure to allow these anti-Western anarchists to operate and organize while remaining undetected.”

MONORAIL! Austin Seeking Another Rail Boondoggle?

You might remember Austin’s light rail boondoggle, which is now scaled back, behind schedule, and very possibly illegal. (For the current status on that project, see here.)

Now more Austin elites, in the form of the Travis County Commissioner’s Court (an organization so far in the shadow of the Austin City Council that I didn’t previously have a tag for them) has funded the study of a high speed rail line between Austin and San Antonio, the price tag for which would be a staggering $13.5 Billion.

Get your act together, Austin — this is piker-level grifting. California is spending 10 times that much on a rail line that doesn’t even connect the two big cities it’s supposed to connect.

LOOKS LIKE A GOOD READ:

"To be published soon—and banned [by the academic left] in a classroom near you!" @mboudry's defense of…liberalism. https://t.co/sbPn7a0Z3V

— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) August 27, 2026

20 CANADIANS WERE MURDERED IN THOSE TERRORIST ATTACKS: Canadian Broadcasting Instructs Staff Not to Refer to the 9/11 Attacks As ‘Terrorism.’

HEALTH: FDA approves breakthrough drug to treat advanced pancreatic cancer. “A late-stage clinical trial with 500 patients showed that the median overall survival nearly doubled to more than 13 months versus a median survival of about 6.7 months for those being treated with standard chemotherapy.”

MAKE GIVING AMERICAN KIDS STARTER JOBS GREAT AGAIN:

They clubs used to hire college and high school kids.

They don't need to have foreigners to operate. It is a choice. https://t.co/ElIAuXBp00

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) August 27, 2026

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Race Hustlers Redux: How Low Can the Grievance Grifters Go?

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Viral video of huge homeless encampment near UC Berkeley prompts alarm.

A viral video taken by a parent recently dropping her son off at UC Berkeley prompted alarm by revealing large camping tents, trash, sleeping bags, garbage, tarps, dirty mattresses, bikes and other debris piled up in heaps and spilling out into the street for several blocks.

“I just dropped my son off at @UCBerkeley housing and as we were approaching we saw this behind his apartments,” parent Lyanne Melendez posted on social media Aug. 19.

The video, which has racked up more than 3.5 million views, depicts a long-standing homeless encampment at Eighth and Harrison streets in the city of Berkeley. While city officials and residents have battled for years to clean it up, the video prompted a new wave of headlines.

It sits directly outside of the UC Berkeley University Village, which houses roughly 3,500 residents, including more than 700 residents under the age of 18, according to a UC Berkeley housing website.

Berkeley city officials have tried to shut down the encampment but have been blocked by homeless rights advocates in court.

Sure, Berkeley was crazy when I lived in the Bay Area — but it was at least clean.

That was three decades ago, however, and even then the decline felt baked-in.

YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’VE GOT ‘TIL IT’S TAKEN AWAY BY BAD GOVERNANCE:

"Abundance" had to become a slogan and an aspiration in Blue States because it is merely the reality of governance in Red States such that it requires no name.

Armand's tweet neatly summarizes why it will remain that way: a vast army of donor and state-funded rent-seekers who… https://t.co/Ck0cGbqwKm

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 26, 2026

GOING WELL BEYOND THE USUAL “FORD TOUGH”: US Army Tests Self-Driving Ford Truck With Drone-Killing Turret. “Weighing about 23 kilograms (50 pounds), the turret can reportedly engage fast-moving targets as small as 7 inches (18 centimeters) that are as far out as 100 meters (328 feet).”

THIS IS REAL CHANGE:

Trump's actions against NGOs, gutting of USAID, sanctions on ICC, leaving 66 world organizations, pulling back Civil Rights rulings & DEI regulations, firing federal workers, pursuing election integrity and clearing out fraud all damage the power of the foreign and domestic left. pic.twitter.com/MNicp2tM8D

— Prowler (@derzum_) August 26, 2026

UPDATE: Sorry, embed was missing before. Fixed now!